Power of Books: 6 Graphic Illustrations of Literal Imaginings
Ever get done reading a chapter and feel like the book is more real than the room around you? Now, what if that were literally true of your favorite volume? What might that look ...
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Tidying Up Art: Messy Masterpieces Made Neat & Clean
The Swiss are known for leading an orderly existence, so you can imagine their frustration at grandiose works of German art and the excesses of their French neighbors as well. Ursus ...
In The Doghouse Again: 13 Odd Animal-Shaped Buildings
If you liked Animal House the movie, you'll love Animal House the, er, house. This unlucky group of 13 zoomorphic buildings make being sent to the doghouse (or cathouse, as the case may be) a ...
Creative Fuel: 12 Appealingly Painted Oil Storage Tanks
Most oil storage tank farms are big, bland and boring, classic examples of form following function with the occasional company logo affixed to break up the visual monotony. Most but not all: there ...
Don’t Trip: 4 Dizzying Rooms by 1 Surrealist Spatial Artist
Like some kind of strange spatial magician, Kyung Woo Han turns conventional furniture, fixtures, doors and windows into otherworldly scenes that call into question just how familiar we really ...
Mundane Music: The Sonification of Everyday Things
Exploring the world through sound is not limited to simply listening to the audio that's automatically produced by the people, nature and objects that surround us each day. For designer Dennis P. ...
Rainbow Food Photography is Not Entirely Appetizing
Would you eat purple lettuce? How about green bacon or multi-colored pasta? Photographer Henry Hargreaves has put some of our favorite foods into an entirely new context by giving them a ...
Stripped to Skeleton, Old Building Becomes Bright Art Lab
An unused building at the Monterrey Institute of Technology's León Campus in Mexico was stripped to its frame and re-imagined as a dynamic 'creative laboratory' with transparent walls and an ...
Vintage Vandals: 6 Artists Monsterize Thrift-Store Paintings
You seem to see them at every garage sale: a chipped and battered, faux-ornate, gold-colored frame containing a bland and boring landscape that only holds meaning for the original painter and ...
Public Camouflage: Make-Up Artist Makes Models Invisible
Illusion relies on expectation - we glance but only glimpse what is familiar and the rest blends neatly into the background, particularly as we go about our busy lives in a bustling urban ...
