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Bright Ideas for Dark Art: Murals by Skurk Play Tricks with Light & Night

The deep sea anglerfish is a disturbing monstrosity that uses lights to lure in its prey and is the featured backdrop of a recent work of graffiti best experienced at night. Existing wall ...

A Silver Lining: 14 Cloud-Shaped Homes, Furnishings & Decor Designs

Floating on air, flickering with lightning, providing a pillowy soft surface or gently raining water down on plants, these cloud-shaped home accents and architectural designs are downright ...

Head Light: Popup Wall Lamp Has Horns that Glow in Shadows

A classy alternative to hanging animal parts, this deer head wall lamp started as a design concept, went viral as a prototype and has just been funded for full production via a successful ...

Time-Traveling Trams: 30,000 LED Lights Vanish Street Trains

Extended exposure photography combined with a unique art installation project creates an incredible time lapse illusion on the streets of Budapest, making train cars appear to disappear in a ...

Glow-in-the-Dark Highways: Free Lighting Hits the Streets

Proposed just two years ago, this alternative solar-powered passive streetlight system is now already a reality, deployed along motorways across the Netherlands. As one reporter put it after ...

Flintstones Furniture: 15 Designs Made of Stone and Lava

Evoking the primitive furniture of mankind's cave-dwelling days, these tables, chairs, stools and desks feel massive and monolithic, yet many are surprisingly lightweight. Some are hewn from ...

Visionary Videos: 7 Awe-Inspiring TED Talks on Architecture

Watch these videos and you will never see built environments in the same way again. Some tackle timeless questions of light, dark and color, while others address emerging technologies and the ...

For The Love Of Santa! 22 Crazy Christmas Decorations

The holiday season is about friends, family, and feeling close to one's fellow man. This is all well and good, but it's also an excuse to go absolutely insane with decorations. After a couple of ...

Illuminating Inventions: 10 Twists to Simple Street Lights

Street lights are a ubiquitous part of the urban landscape - so much so that most of us hardly notice their presence at all. What would happen if improving the aesthetics, functionality and ...

Interactive Light Art Installation Operated by Smart Phones

A five-story 'veil' of light situated along the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany billows and contracts according to users' finger movements on their smart phones. 'Photophore' was installed at ...

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