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World’s Most Colorful Neighborhoods: 11 Bright Spots in Urban Landscapes

Cities around the world are feeling increasingly homogenous and gray, so it's nice to know there are still colorful locales where you can stumble along a hidden cobblestoned alley and take in a ...

Museum Matches: Candid Photos Capture Patrons Who Look Like Artworks

Candid captures require patience, particularly when a photographer like Stefan Draschan decides to wait for a perfect aesthetic coincidence between a work of art and one of its passing ...

Art of Deception: Pencil Drawings Look Like Colorful 3D Splashes of Paint

Seeming to rise up off the canvass, a viewer would be impressed to discover these swaths of paint to be two-dimensional in nature, but then further shocked to realize the material isn't paint at ...

Buildings as Backdrops: Playful Photography Humanizes Built Environments

People often play a small part in architectural photography and renderings - not so in this series of travel photographs, which would lovely but otherwise unremarkable without clever human ...

Siberia Space: Russian Town Tints Its White Winter World

The tiny Siberian town of Ust-Yansk counters the pervasive whiteness of long & snowy winters by cladding its buildings in a rainbow of contrasting colors. To say Ust-Yansk is isolated ...

Holy Housing: Stained Glass Walls & Ceiling Fill Cabin with Color & Light

The complete opposite of a minimalist Modernist glass-clad house, this rustic and homey backyard cabin exhibits hand-crafted details, rich dark wood and best of all: a gorgeous array of custom ...

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 ...

Architectural Polychrome: Vintage Interactive Color Guidebook by Le Corbusier

Created by Le Corbusier, one of the most famous architects of the Modern movement, this vintage Polychromie Architecturale: Die Farbenklaviaturen book features interactive pop-up and pull-out ...

Threading Rainbows: Spectral String Art Looks Like Strands of Light

Using a simple material palette of thread, wood and nails, artist Gabriel Dawe's latest cascading color creation combines thousands of threads to make a remarkable interior ...

Creative Crosswalks: Artist Adds Color to Brighten Crossings for Students

Part art project and part urban safety experiment, this series of Funnycross installations in Madrid have been positioned outside a cross section of city schools. Designed by Bulgarian ...

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