Knit Wit: 17 Fantastically Weird Fiber Art Creations
Imagine your grandmother presenting you with a knitted facehugger, dwarven helm or a life-sized boyfriend pillow for your birthday instead of a scratchy wool scarf. The world of knits goes far ...
Author: SA Rogers
S.A. Rogers is a veteran print and web author covering architecture, design, art and more. With years of experience writing for WebUrbanist, hers is one of the core voices that defines the site. She has an uncanny knack for discovering and sharing hidden built environments, including abandoned places, world wonders, monumental mysteries and other urban secrets, some of which are hidden in plain sight.Magic Circle: Laser-Cut Paper Sculptures Inspired by Nature
An artist known for spending untold hours painstakingly hand-cutting tiny paper sculptures inspired by diatoms, bacteria, viruses, coral and other natural structures has augmented his process ...
Work Perks: These 13 Offices Are Way More Fun Than Yours
Maybe you wouldn't grumble about going back to work on Mondays if your office had putting greens and slides, meetings were held in tree houses, and you could work from ski lift pods or ball pits. ...
Impossible Landscapes: Distorted Scenes Disrupt Reality
The laws of physics no longer apply as landscapes bend and flip, air and water blend together so that porpoises swim through the sky, surfers catch waves of clouds and the moon grows to many ...
Star Wars x Starchitects: Lightsabers Meet Modern Design
How would Zaha Hadid’s signature brand of futuristic bio-inspired architecture translate to the design of a lightsaber if she were a Jedi? The project ‘Design x Saber’ mashes up the iconic ...
Luminous Illusions: 14 Interactive Spaces Made of Light
Step into three-dimensional blueprints made of light, gaze at flickering ghost ships and walk beneath artificial aurora borealis with this stunning set of interactive illuminated installations. ...
Gadget Gifts: 15 Slick Smartphone Add-Ons & Accessories
We may as well admit that our smartphones have become permanent extensions of our hands, and accessorize them as such. While these indispensable palm-sized gadgets can already do everything from ...
Sea Organ: Concrete Jetty Makes Music with Crashing Waves
The ocean already makes music of its own, but in one Croatian town, its natural sounds are enhanced with the help of an interactive jetty-turned-instrument called ‘Sea Organ.’ Created by ...
Arc Kit: Design and Build Your Own Miniature Architecture
A kit that combines the precision and detail of computer modeling with the physicality of Legos makes it possible to design and build any architectural structures you can dream up. With ...
Unknown NYC: 12 Hidden Sights in America’s Cultural Hub
The hordes of tourists glomming onto New York City's most famous sights likely won't notice the wild acid-green parakeets of Brooklyn, the strange bricked-up prison window on the side of the NYPD ...
