Creative Cartography: 15 Artists Transforming Maps
Maps aren't just two-dimensional pieces of paper depicting the locations and geographic features of the world. They're the basis for portraits, sculptures and clothing, and are reconstructed or ...
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Graphic Archi-Type: 14 Buildings & Cities Made of Text
The right minimalist sans-serif or swooping, elegant script typeface can be just as expressive as the words it spells out, and can sometimes even stand in for brushstrokes of paint and other ...
True Colors: Compressed Movie Prints Show Film Moods
When you watch your favorite movies over and over, you might start to acquire the ability to recite every line. Every frame of the movie looks familiar and you can predict how the light will ...
Literary Love: 12 Works of Book Art & Architecture
The meaning of a book goes far beyond mere printed words. Books are symbols – for knowledge, fantasy, curiosity and so many other things – and even in an increasingly digital world where many ...
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 ...
Pop-Up Pulp: Book Covers Made Into Dramatic 3D Scenes
The sensational cover art of old pulp fiction novels has long been a source of fascination for lovers of unusual art. The images on the front of the books almost seemed like natural extensions of ...
Extreme X-Ray Tech: Revealing Beauty in Everyday Objects
To the millions of people who have to pass through high-powered x-ray machines in order to travel by air, this technology often feels invasive, stripping them of their clothing and perhaps ...
Don’t Call it Knitting: Olek’s Crazy Crocheted World
A genderless figure in head-to-toe crochet camouflage lounges on a crochet-covered chair atop a crochet rug, surrounded by crochet wall hangings that say things like “Wake up and play with ...
News Made Meaningless: Meticulous Art by Kim Rugg
Bent over a copy of The Guardian with an X-acto knife, London-based artist Kim Rugg carefully cuts out individual letters from the front page and places them on a cutting mat beside her. Then – ...
Haute Hospitality: 20 (More) Awesomely Artsy Hotel Rooms
Tree houses, neon lights, robot sculptures and all-white rooms reminiscent of outer space: these loopy lodgings definitely can't be found at your local Holiday Inn. And why settle for a bland ...
