Close Calls: 12 Breathtakingly Creative Garage Doors
A garage door's main function is keeping what's inside safe from prying eyes but these creative garage doors keep all eyes focused on the outside. Sometimes great garage doors ...
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Chalk it Up to Illusion: Hyperrealistic 3D Sidewalk Murals
Polar bears, orcas, lions and puppies stick their heads out of holes in the pavement so convincingly, you feel like you could actually pet them. What was once no more than a dull expanse of concrete ...
Subtle Street Art: 27 Easy-to-Overlook Urban Enhancements
Just knowing that these tiny urban art installations exist - ranging from tiny figures dangling from ATM machines to utility boxes painted to look like miniature skyscrapers - might just inspire ...
Urban Camo: Body Paint Blends Humans into City Backdrops
Human figures blend into iconic New York City scenes, from the Brooklyn Bridge to the Guggenheim Museum, in artist Trina Merry's tromp l'eoil urban camouflage works. Each subject is carefully ...
Fake Facades: Transformative Murals Make Cities Vibrant
You might think you see a stone turret, a bunch of celebrities hanging out on a balcony, construction in progress or a man precariously dangling from a clock, but what you're actually looking at is ...
Liu Bolin is Back: ‘Invisible Man’ Artist (Dis)Appears Again
The master of urban camouflage has returned, this time exhibiting his latest photographic wonders at the Galerie Paris-Beijing - as always, without the aid of Photoshop or any other post-editing ...
Urban Landscapes Transformed: 23 Stunning Urban Murals
Alleyways and city streets are often criss crossed with urban art, though it usually takes the form of paint out of a can. Thankfully this is not always the case, as urban property owners team up ...
Captured Live: ‘Trapped People’ Street Art Project
How would you react if you were walking down the street and happened to notice a pair of hands or a face pressed up against a ventilation grate on a wall? Getting over the initial shock of fear ...
Open and Shut: 38 Trend-bending Custom iPad Cases
As Apple's iPads have boomed in popularity, so has their been a wave of bland mass-produced accessories following in its wake. The artists out there have seen this ugly, cheap, material, and come ...
Painting the Town: 13 Unbelievable Urban Mural Projects
Far removed from the small-time taggers that can't resist any unmarked urban surface, muralists and street artists bring gallery-worthy art to the streets where they can be enjoyed by all. ...
