16 of the Most Creative & Weird Hotel Rooms in the World
Ever wonder what it would be like to live upside-down, sleep like a vampire or break out of prison? More and more hotels are breaking out of the tradition of cookie-cutter rooms and are ...
Author: Kurt Kohlstedt
WebUrbanist was founded in 2007 by Kurt Kohlstedt, who currently writes and edits articles and episodes at 99% Invisible and can be found on Twitter @KurtKohlstedtPhiladelphia City Hall: Tallest Masonry Building in the World
Did you know that brick or stone-clad buildings you see today almost invariably hide a steel support structure that does the actual work? Before steel was used to create rigid frames, buildings ...
Shop, Drop & Art: 7 Surrealist Urban Shopdropping Projects
[above: put this back in your next mass-mailed business reply envelope!] If the comments on this article are any indicator, Shopdropping is controversial to say the least. Still, whether they ...
Flat Pack: 20 Creative Furniture Designs for Cramped Living
(Check out our complete collection of Unusual, Creative and Transforming Furniture.) [Above: flat pack book case design by Jeremy Grove] Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: ...
7 Geeky Graffiti Art Projects: Physical Hyperlinking & More
(Above Wikipedia Graffiti from Flickr via Snarfd) What makes great graffiti into geek graffiti? It can be the approach, using nifty computer equipment to generate graffiti (for example). It ...
7 Abandoned Wonders of America: Mills to Military Islands
Imagine entire islands and vast building complexes eerily abandoned virtually in your own back yard. This seemingly far-fetched scenario might be more real than you realize. Complexes of more ...
Brad Downey Projects: 7 Surreal Street Art Installations
"It would be so nice if something made sense for a change," exclaimed Alice. While his work may seem as amazing and fantastical as something straight out of Alice's Wonderland, Brad Downey's ...
5 Unusually Green Vehicles: Stackable to Wireframe Cars
(Check out our complete collection of Green Art, Design and Technology.) As demand for environmental alternatives grows, some green-thinking automotive designers have gone above and beyond simple ...
Creative Sculpture: 3 Carving Art Out of Ordinary Objects
(Check out our complete collection of Extraordinary Art from Ordinary Objects.) Paintings normally require canvas and most theater takes a stage, but carvings can come out of almost any material - ...
Shopdropping aka Droplifting: Guide to Reverse Shoplifting
(Check out our complete collection of Subversive Marketing and Culture Jamming.) Shopdropping was probably the last kind of giving on most people's minds as they shopped during the holiday season. ...
