Tiny Toothpick Art Goes Far Behind Merely Miniature
A toothpick replica of the Eiffel Tower is impressive enough - but one San Francisco artist takes it much further than that, using shards of a single toothpick to build amazingly tiny, detailed ...
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Paper Architecture: Intricate 3D Sculptures by Ingrid Siliakus
From flat sheets of paper, entire cities emerge, rich in unexpected details like balconies, tiny windows and even little people. Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus uses an initial 90-degree fold to ...
Moments in Time: Tiny Figures Balanced on Watch Hands
Tiny colored figures balance delicately on the hands of watches are the latest imaginative creations from surrealist designer Dominic Cox, who is also known for his hooks made of hardened ...
Interactive Urbanism: 5 Simple Street Art Projects
Transforming how we see the cities around us by forcing us to look at our surroundings - and each other - in new ways, these 5 street art projects are simple yet powerful. Artists are spreading ...
After Effects: Moldy Miniature Homes Left to Decay into Art
A tiny paper village blooms with a thick, cobwebby coating of multi-colored mold, left to decay just as every structure ever built by man would eventually do if humans were to disappear. Italian ...
Make-Believe Miniatures: 15 Amazing Tilt-Shift City Photos
It's a case of life imitating art: photographs of full-sized objects or scenes that look like tiny, perfectly constructed models. Tilt-shift photography, whether using a real tilt-shift lens or ...
Towards a New Antarchitecture: Tiny Worlds in Ice
As the last continent on Earth to be explored – and still the least developed – Antarctica may yet fall prey to the onward march of human civilization, but its lack of resources beyond ice ...
Out of the Dollhouse: 10 Miniature Works Where Tiny Rules
In the West, bigger is typically considered better, but there's a growing movement against this mentality, and many artists are shrinking their skills to a smaller stage. These artists create ...
Strange Miniature Worlds Made of Cotton, Sugar and Spice
Gazing at the portfolio of artist Matthew Albanese, you’re likely to marvel not just at his guts for getting so dangerously close to a tornado or erupting volcano, but luck for always seeming ...
Itty Bitty Cities: 22 Models That Miniaturize the World
Model cities aren't just the stuff of kids' toys. They're used all over the world for urban planning, architectural proposals and research. But while miniature cities are useful, they're also a ...
