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Mondrian Lives On: The Artist’s Influence on Architecture & Design

How is it that a simple, abstract composition of black and white grids and primary colors has touched our collective psyche so deeply? Dutch-born artist Piet Mondrian created some of the most ...

Reading the Road: River of 11,000 Glowing Books Flows Down City Street

Thousands of books spanned from sidewalk to sidewalk in Ann Arbor's Literature vs Traffic installation, creating a space for quiet reflection on the value of pedestrian-friendly public spaces ...

Imaginary Movies: Graphic Designer Turns Posted Photos into Film Posters

Inspired by gorgeous photographs posted to a popular social media website, one designer has reversed the normal narrative of movie marketing, creating publicity posters for speculative films, ...

Big Data Art: Printed Visualizations Highlight Daunting Tech “Terms of Service”

Everyone knows that actually reading a "terms of service" agreement is rarely (if ever) done by consumers using large digital platforms, but there is something powerful about seeing just how ...

Refugee Baggage: Suitcase Dioramas Show Dark Scenes from Countries Fled

The project of a Syrian-born artist and architect and an Iraqi-born author, this installation invites viewers to imagine what refugees leave behind when the pack up the few things they can carry ...

Miniature Calendar: Micro-City Scenes Made Daily from Household Objects

It takes just one artist to raise this annual micro-village, putting out a fresh scene daily featuring miniature people going about their everyday lives, navigating repurposed objects designed ...

Four-Dimensional Murals: Artist Folds Space Inside Architectural Facades

Folding and flexible geometric forms seem to weave in and out of the structures graced with murals by David Louf (known as Mr. June), seeming to imply what a blank facade could have been in the ...

Wild Waste: Giant Trash Animals Nest Inside Abandoned Las Vegas Motel

A classic mid-century roadside motel in Las Vegas has been turned into a fantastically colorful habitat for a series of huge animals, constructed from waste collected from dumpsters, abandoned ...

Exhibits On The Beach: Sculpture By The Sea Makes Waves

'Sculpture by the Sea' returns to Sydney's beautiful Bondi Beach, featuring awesome open-air art exhibits by over 130 artists from 21 countries. Now celebrating its 22nd year on the ...

Subjective City: Massive Wall Map of NYC Assembled from Handwritten Directions

A few years back, artist Nobutaka Aozaki started asking directions from strangers on the streets of Manhattan, then collecting those maps (hand-drawn from memory) to assemble into a huge and ...

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