Modern Markings: 42 Bold Black & White Tattoo Designs
Modern tattoos are less about sailors, pin-ups and 'MOM' and more about bold black lines, complex geometry, architecture, esoteric imagery, glitches and even blacking out entire body parts to ...
Category: Drawing & Digital
Expect new twists on old traditions as new tools and unique techniques allow artists to draw, paint and illustrate in radically different ways. From coffee-cup pen artists to people who paint whole rooms with colored markers, here are some seriously innovative creatives. The digital age has put on dramatic new spin on the the world of art, from three-dimensional realism to fresh forms of abstraction. Here you will find some of the most creative and innovative forms of computer-generated expression and futuristic artistic representation.
Remixing Architecture: Building Collages Capture Spirit of Cities & Countries
Combining photographs or everyday vernacular designs, artist Anastasia Savinova aims to illustrate patterns in built environments across major European cities as well as rural ...
Art in the Shadows: Everyday Objects Cast Unexpected Shapes Onto Paper
Has doodling ever been more creative than this? While most people wouldn’t give a second’s thought to the shape an everyday object’s shadow casts upon adjacent surfaces, artist Vincent Bal ...
Sprawl Trilogy Redesign: Fractal City Covers for Classic Gibson Novels
Three classic cyberbunk books and a short story collection, all by William Gibson, are getting an apt makeover in the form of architectural covers featuring beautifully abstracted (if dystopian) ...
Datascrapers: Infographic Skylines Overlay Income Inequality on City Grids
Somewhere between data visualization and civic artwork, these info-driven diagrams reveal wealth disparities in the centers of America's second and third largest cities. Herwig Scherabon's ...
Monsters of New York: Creepy Critters Cuddle Strangers on City Subways
NYC subways are strange, dark and oft-overcrowded places where many people retreat into themselves and avoiding engagement, at least until these unusual (and invisible) creatures come ...
Just a Reflector: Upside-Down Mural Looks Right in the Water Below
Designed to look right-side-up when reflected off the water below, this series wall murals features a series of nautical themes, including depictions of swimmers, rowers and swans. While the ...
Real Scale Revealed: Digital Mashups Show Off Oversized Wonders
When you see the Burj Khalifa photoshopped into New York City’s skyline, glimpse a B-2 bomber on an NFL football field or spot the largest scorpion that ever lived creeping up next to a cat, ...
Seeing Space in New Ways: 13 Creative Maps & Navigational Guides
With the advancement of technology, the ways in which we perceive information have become increasingly visual, interactive and all around multi-dimensional - so why shouldn't maps evolve to ...
Blow-Up Party: Inflatable Black Plastic Dance Club & Bar
Deliberately dark and pipe-like to recreate the feel of being in a secret subterranean space, this inflatable nightclub and bar by Bureau A comes complete with blow-up benches, tables and a DJ ...
