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Ukiyoe Small Museum: “Open When I Wake Up and Close When I Must Go to Sleep”

Located in Kyoto, Japan, the Ukiyoe Small Museum has extremely flexible hours, at least for its owner/operator, artist Ichimura Mamoru, whose sign explains: "When I’ve had enough the store is ...

A House to Die In: Oslo Officials Block Controversial Home Designed by Snøhetta

Designed to be a fittingly strange work of architecture on the grounds of famous painter Edward Munch's former home, A House to Die In has sparked controversy since its proposal some years ...

Artists in Residence: 18 Stunning Studios Designed for Cultivating Creativity

Shouldn't the settings of temporary artist residencies be just as creative as the art produced there? These structures include communal houses, remote huts, mobile studios, inhabitable ...

Applied LEGO: Design Graduate Sends Miniature Figures of Himself as Resumes

Design and architecture firms are used to getting creative resumes in the mail that unfold into portfolios or assemble into paper models, but this LEGO figurine may be the most creative variant ...

Secret Studio: Suspended Mobile Room Slides & Hides Under Busy Overpass

Designer Fernando Abellanas has built a remarkable micro-dwelling in Valencia, Spain, that slides into position under a bridge, suspended safely out of sight from the traffic passing by ...

Proto-Pantone: 800-Page Color Palette Guide Book Hand-Drawn in 1600s

This vast volume full of mixed watercolor swatches and other illustrations elaborating explains the art and science of combining waters and colors to create a huge array of tones, tints, shades ...

Artist Socks Series: Wear Pairs of Figures from Famous Paintings

Simple stripes, colors and patterns are all that is visible when you are wearing shoes, but kick them off and you can show off famous figures from classic paintings. They may not be fit for ...

Geographical Profiling Points to Artist Banksy’s Secret Identity

A set of mathematical processes developed for use in crime-fighting and disease-tracking indicates that one already-suspected individual may indeed be the infamous graffiti and installation ...

Virtual Heist: 2 Artists Secretly 3D-Scan an Ancient Artifact

An usually high-tech form of pseudo-theft, executed by a pair of artists, has resulted in a high-resolution scan of the famous Queen Nefertiti statue at the heart of a dispute between Germany ...

Mosaic Murals: Tile Patterns Spray-Painted in Deserted Spaces

A puzzle of layers rather than pieces, each of this spray-painted works takes aesthetic cues from historic Barcelona, deploying them in novel contexts using unexpected ...

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