Portable Cities: Suitcase Architecture Made from Clothing
What connection does a discarded sweater on a subway have with the city in which it's found? For Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, the used clothing of a city's inhabitants take shape as ...
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Haircut Time: 25 Hair Styles That Will Blow Your Mind
As someone who has never said anything to a hair stylist beyond "Make it shorter," I have a true admiration for people who step outside of the box and get truly creative with their hair. It's ...
Stuck On You: Seattle’s Gum Wall Is Pretty, Gross
The "Gum Wall" takes the concept of sticktoitiveness to a new level - actually, 15 feet above Post Alley in Seattle's famous Pike Place Market. The wall's owners no longer bother scraping away the ...
Body Art: Creations Made of Human Flesh, Blood & Bones
What could be more personal and human than a cast of your head – made from your own frozen blood? The human body has been used as a canvas for all sorts of art, but perhaps more interesting and ...
Building a Dream: Recycled Art From Old Lottery Tickets
Don't we all have big dreams when we buy a lottery ticket? Even if we don't truly believe it will be the big winner that will change our lives, we hold out some amount of hope that we'll get ...
Wrapped & Twisted Book Sculpture by Jacqueline Rush Lee
For most of us, the value of a book is in its text. But book artists like Jacqueline Rush Lee see much more than just words on a page – to them, books are a highly unusual, mostly untapped ...
Crafty Beetle-Inspired Tiny Treehouse by Terunobu Fujimori
Looking like a prop from a Tim Burton film, the little structure lives up to its name: Beetle's House. It stands on four slightly off-kilter legs presenting its charred pine wood exterior, like ...
Paper Mache Masters: From Crafters to Professionals
Paper mache is a process used to create art that involves laying paper over a form and using a wet paste or adhesive to keep it together, and harden it. Most people's experience with paper mache ...
Stop, Pop & Roll: Urban Tape Line Art by Aakash Nihalani
Do you see beauty in a cinder block wall, a street crossing or a stop sign? Chances are, you don't even notice them – but Aakash Nihalani would like to help you out with that. The ...
Just Your Type: Kooky, Real & Physical Typography & Fonts
The art of typography goes far beyond Arial and Helvetica. There is a certain elegance in the way that typographers can take a standard set of letters and turn them into unique and lovely works ...
