Why should office buildings be sprawling gray complexes in uninspired shapes, filled with depressing gray cubicles in which workers sit and long for a glimpse of nature? For a space so integral ...
One is used to seeing hubcaps lying forlornly on the side of the road, leaning against a telephone pole in the hopes of being recovered by their rightful owner. It's comforting to know that these ...
Humans love to anthropomorphize robots, and whether we make them gigantic and towering, or small and decorative, there's an appeal to their futuristic styling and human-esque forms. Many artists ...
You might think web designers would strive for the most cutting-edge, up-to-the-moment look possible considering the 21st-century nature of the medium. But websites don't all have to be sleek and ...
The Carbuncle Cup is an annual award bestowed by Building Design magazine upon the ugliest building in the UK over the past 12 months. Since 2006 the dubious distinction of winning the Carbuncle ...
Don't we all have big dreams when we buy a lottery ticket? Even if we don't truly believe it will be the big winner that will change our lives, we hold out some amount of hope that we'll get ...
For most of us, the value of a book is in its text. But book artists like Jacqueline Rush Lee see much more than just words on a page – to them, books are a highly unusual, mostly untapped ...
It's easy to let your car go a while without having it washed, and some artists make it even easier, by creating beautiful works of art using only a brush and the dust coating your neglected ...
If you believe there's beauty in destruction and a special kind of hope in disaster, Steve McGhee's art will speak to you. The Canadian illustrator's imagination gives birth to tragedy, calamity, ...
The Star Wars franchise was a phenomenon that rocked the world, and spawned an entire industry of offshoots, from television shows, to cereals. What's most amazing about the Star Wars universe is ...
