VIDEO‘Virtual Depictions:San Francisco’ is a public art project consist of series of parametric data sculptures that tell the story of the city and people around us within a unique artistic approach for 350 Mission’s media wall.

50 unconventional street signs, a public art project from the Dept. of Transportation, placed throughout NYC till the end of August. By artist and designer Ryan McGinness.

Brazilian art collective Bicicleta Sem Freio creates the largest public art project to date in Los Angeles Arts District.

Montreal based A’shop crew is an artist-run production company that creates graffiti murals, street art, and other public art displays.

VIDEOThe Smith Center for the Performing Arts in Las Vegas commissioned artist Tim Bavington to create a monumental piece of public art work. From concept to completion, this beautiful video tell the story of Bavington's "Pipe Dream".

THE (Art) VAULT wins American Architecture Award. A storage facility in Miami, whose facade works like a series of boxes (canvases) that are used as an installation to display public art by both emerging and established artists.

For those who eschew air-conditioning for the open air, ARTINFO chooses six of the best public art projects currently on view in New York.

French artist JR has produced this inspiring public art projectin the favelas of rio beautiful, and sad at the same time...it's hard to look at them in the eyes...

Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls: a public art project of 4 man-made waterfalls rising from New York Harbor. It will appear June 26 -Oct. 13, running 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Composer is a public sculpture in Vancouver, Canada. Designed by Swiss artist Heinz Aeschlimann.

ENESS brought Sonic Light Bubble, a large-scale installation to life for White Night Melbourne, Australia. This giant synthetic organism attempts to humanize lighting-based public art, attracting passers-by to engage and interact with its beauty.

Sonic Light Bubble, a living breathing public art installation responds with visuals and sounds when approached. lovingly sculpted by ENESS exhibited in Melbourne's Federation Square.

Jen Stark's latest public art installation brings color to the Miami International Airport.

"Vaulted Willow" - by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY - is a permanent Public Art Pavilion that resolves and delineates structure, skin and ornamentation into a lightweight unified system.

The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in East London's 'Living Walls'. 2.5km of public art from the London Legacy Development Corporation, Moniker Projects and Create London.

Flederhaus in Vienna is part public art, part public meeting space with 28 hammocks, designed by Heri & Salli Architects.

Hypertube is PKMN Architects & Taller de Casqueria's public art collaboration as part of an initiative in Madrid to improve the urban landscape in lower income neighborhoods.

An abandoned gas station in Chelsea is transformed into a rural landscape in the midst of NYC showcasing public art before becoming yet another apartment condominium.

Denver Botanic Garden brand new permanent ceiling by Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY: intricated double curved surfaces are playing off Cheshire stripes and non-linear color gradient.

HEARTWALK is a new heart-shaped public art installation in Times Square made of boardwalk planks salvaged after Hurricane Sandy.

For the first time in history, New York City’s iconic water tanks will be used as canvases for public art.

FEATUREDGiveaway!!! Ice Cube celebrates the Eames Limited Edition Poster. You've probably seen the video circulating as part of LA's Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival happening right now, here's a chance at the poster.

Mind bending public art piece by German collective Inges Idee with a great description of how it was conceptualized and fabricated.

The Seduction of Galileo Galilei is a public art project by Aleksandra Mir. To build a tower of automotive tires as high as possible until it topples over, only to start over again. Watch the Video!

Lumenscape from Urbana is a public art project commissioned by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. It is an investigation of the inclusion of touch and desire, as relevant, attainable qualities into the built environment.

Cuore di pietra presents a Public Art project for the city of Pianoro.

Banksy's latest piece of public art is a play on street art pioneer Keith Haring's style.

APAP OPEN SCHOOL, by Lot-Ek in Anyang, South Korea. Designed for Anyang Public Art Project (APAP), is strategically positioned over Hakwoon park pedestrian walkway along the Anyang River

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's "Solar Equation" is a large-scale public art installation that consists of a faithful simulation of the Sun, 100 million times smaller than the real thing. Commissioned by the Light in Winter Festival in Melbourne.

Never seen before outside the walls of Rajasthani village homes, the Mandana tradition of painting is practiced by the women of the Meena tribe. Handed down from mother to daughter, this stunning public art is a community tradition.

The Naoshima Public Bath ““I♥Yu” is a sensational kitsch public art space set in a traditional Japanese public bathhouse (sentō) with a flamboyant exterior and truly surreal art space within.

The Alliance for Downtown New York came up with The Re:Construction Initiative, a project which recasts construction sites as canvases for public art.

A piece of public art in itself, this house in a gritty, industrial suburb of Melbourne, Australia, brings a sense of life and fun to the otherwise concrete neighbourhood.

Electroland is a design team that creates public art using tracking technology. With innovative technique they bring to life everyday architecture triggered by people as they traverse community spaces.

Newly posted photos from Carrie Chau's Indigo Child public art exhibition in Hong Kong (via flickr user doc18).

Canada's Magenta Foundation takes recycling bins in downtown Toronto, adds the works of up and coming photographers, and turns them into hot pink public art galleries.

Kinetic public art sculptures by Konstantin Dimopoulos.

Marjolijn Mandersloot's giant bobblehead dog sculptures are just some of her amazing public art works.

canadians never cease to amaze. We're Not Gonna Take It is an interactive public art project that allows you to record your own protest songs using the telephone.

Piano. Push. Play. is distributing pianos painted by local artists all around Portland again. May your summer be filled with spontaneous public jam sessions…

Birds of Australia by Eggpicnic is one of 10 new public artworks revealed by the City of Sydney set to change the cityscape.

Amazing sculptures and artworks in public space by German artistic collective Inges Idee (Hans Hemmert, Axel Lieber, Thomas A. Schmidt and Georg Zey).

Climate Inaction Figures - toy-inspired likenesses of prominent public figures who claim, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that there is no reason to act. They are the brainchild of creative directors Cabot Norton and Arturo Aranda.

Katie Paterson in collaboration with Zeller & Moye has gathered 10,000 tree species spanning time and space for Hollow, a new public artwork for Bristol, commissioned by the University of Bristol. 

Los Angeles Public Library Card by Shepard Fairey. It features the 90 year old historic Central Library. This is the first new design in 20 years and the first artist card. It is now available at all 73 locations of the LAPL.

Summer Fridays is a pop-up series created by the beauty brand Glossier in which the public is invited into their HQ for the afternoon. Included in the space is an "escape room" created by artist Grace Villamil.

For the first time, a full-scale version of Tokujin Yoshioka’s “KOU-AN Glass Teahouse” will be on show for the public to enjoy.

Some awesome and sincere word-art public installations by Brooklyn based Erin Rachel Hudak!

'MoMo the bird cage' the first available semi articulated figure with a floating head for public with love by Mani Zamani.

Cracking Art Group, Pan-European art collective, unleashing 24 gigantic 100 kg neon snails on Sydney as part of Art & About, month-long city public arts program, after which the snails will be broken down and recycled.

Some bright telephone operator in São Paulo, Brazil decided to commission 100 artists to paint 100 public phone booths some time back...

Incredibly intricate glass smoking mask tribute to the Game of Thrones' Daenerys rising from the ashes. It is the highlight of the now-public body of work by glass pipe artist GingerELA.

VIDEOBeams of light across Philly's skyline converge and move interpreting voice messages in a luminous public artwork

LALA Arts is about to release a series of limited-edition series of metal die-cast mini-billboards based on the Public Works project billboards going up around LA, designed by a select group of leading street artists and graffiti writers!

Peckham Space art gallery launches a new public artwork on Peckham Square. The Peckham Peace Wall by Garudio Studiage celebrates the post-it notes of love and respect for the area which grew on Rye Lane in the aftermath of the 2011 London riots.

'Insert Change Here' is an art show by W+K 12 at Wieden+Kennedy featuring over 60 local artists. The art is sold out of vending machines and all the proceeds go to arts education in Portland public schools.

'Bookyard' is an expansive outdoor public library, designed by Massimo Bartolini for the Belgian Art Festival. All books are for sale and visitors may bring home some pieces of the artwork by leaving a donation.

Hundreds of public telephones in Sao Paulo's city center have been filled with art and color by artist Luciana Asunción as part of a movement called 'Call Parade' based on the 'Cow Parade' from several years back, where cows met the same fate.

This year's Serpentine Pavilion in London by architects Herzog, de Meuron, and artist Ai Wei Wei, finally opens to the public June 1.

German artist, Cornelia Konrads, creates installations in public spaces that are punctuated by the illusion of weightlessness. Incredible work!

Elmgreen & Dragset will install a new permanent public sculpture on the Elsinore, Denmark waterfront, of 'Han'- a posed boy made of shiny stainless steel, who will blink creepily once every hour.

Public artists Gaëlle Villedary helped the French village of Jaujac celebrate the 10th year of its arts and nature trail programs by cutting a new green path through its city center.

“Theatre for One” is a portable performing arts space for one performer and one audience member, that turns public events into private acts, making each performance a singularly intimate exchange.

Noma Bar has created a dog-shaped machine to allow members of the public punch out shapes from large pieces of paper to create artworks.

David Chipperfield Architects completed the renovation of the Neues Museum, located in East Berlin. Chipperfield calls it 'an important moment bringing the Museum which was destroyed during WW2 back into the public life of the city'.

'Stained Window', a collaboration between renowned street artist Banksy and students at the City of Angels public school in Los Angeles.

The Cool Hunter rounds up beautifully designed public car parking spaces.

Human Polyfilla? Don't Panic interviews Willi Dorner, who has been arranging faceless people in public places for seven years with his 'Bodies in Urban Spaces' series.

Before I Die…in Nola is an interesting project belonging to public installation artist and urban planner Candy Chang.

Where’s the Chicken? is a robotics public artwork supported by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Locate and interact with autonomous chicken robots at specific spots throughout the city.

Having produced elegant responsive lighting installations for the likes of the V&A and Massive Attack, London based collective, United Visual Artists, have unveiled their first permanent public artworks in Toronto

The very talented Pixar artist/production designer Don Shank opened his originals store to the public today.

Theater designed by Studio Gang Architects for Rock Valley College to replace an existing outdoor venue. This is a theater for the performing arts.

Living Light by The Living is a building facade of the future that displays air quality and public interest in the environment. It is a permanent outdoor pavilion in Peace Park, across from World Cup Stadium in Seoul, Korea.

Students of Potsdam polytechnic college engineered a collection of metal products for german manufacture Hugo Bräuer. Main target of the project is to bring the artisanry of metal production into a new public awareness.

The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free to the public. Run by EXP at the University of Westminster, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

A new exhibition at the British Library reveals the history of cartography. Drawn from over more 4 million historically significant maps, most of them have never been seen by the public.

Pulp Magazine is an online publication redefining how food is seen and presented to the public. The core basis and idea surrounding Pulp will simply be food. Pulp is based out of NYC and will have international artists contributing to Pulp. We will be combining food with fashion and art. Taking it to a new level of how it can be seen and perceived.

Food is an essential of life and a way to bring people together. A relation that everyone has no matter the background they come from.

Thank you,

The Pulp Team

Infomab10 pavilion was installed at Paseo de Recoletos in central Madrid during the public arts festival Madrid Abierto 2010 and is currently located at the Matadero cultural centre (Madrid).

California College of the Arts ID student Ryan David Francis breaks out of the box with his radically-shaped Sony DSLR concept. a352's unusual form isn't purely aesthetic: but allows a variety of ways to grip the camera while shooting.

Julien Berthierinstalled an artificial entrance to an existing frontage in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. The facade, using the local architectural codes, occupying 10 cm of public space. 4 years later, the address still exists

The project is a residence for two artists. Inspired by geometric arrangements of interlocking polygons, the new residence takes the form of a heptagonal figure. Design by Michael Maltzan Architecture.

The cold weather in Minnesota is an incubator for great creativity. This week the Art Shanty Projects (possibly the largest outdoor group art installation) open their doors and fishing holes to the public.

ARTINFO gives you a preview of the most interesting works to be seen at Art Basel Miami Beach this year, incuding Perino & Vele's Public invasion.

The talented author & artist of The Art of Wooing: An Email Tale of Modern Courtship is teaching mixed media classes at Hands on 3rd, a very cool new spot in LA that functions as a public work space for artists at all levels.

Hand from Above is an artwork for public space screens that augments a giants hand with live video to play with pedestrians.

A new contemporary arts program called ReMap is taking to the streets with guerilla-style artwork that blurs the lines between public property, commercial art practice, and vandalism.

Artist Milan Heger launches 'Artifacts'. A new collection of luxury eco-friendly furniture finally available to the general public!

This year, the National Design Museum — along with the first lady — will host a number of public programs in conjunction with the National Design Awards. The reason: More people want design. Here are some of the 2009 National Design Award Winners

The National Art Hate Week campaign calls for the public to stage a silent revolt and visit a local gallery, take a closer look at what’s being shown, and then actively hate it.

Selfridges & Wieden + Kennedy London launch ‘Future A-Z’, 25 ‘crazy-sensible’ products for 2109. The public are invited to design the missing 26th product in the ‘IDEAX’ competition. The winner sees their idea made and exhibited in London Selfridges windows.

Tokyo Design Festa Gallery - A unique gallery with 29 individual spaces for artists to showcase their work - and free for the public!

Excellent speed-drawing from Public Spirit. Creates a machine in minutes. Follow for video.

Paul McCarthy's work ranges from intimate performance videos to spectacular public works - all without sacrificing its unnerving psychosexual tone. His most recent sculptural work is a Santa figure holding a tree-like butt plug.

This is the latest creation from LA artist Damian Francis Wagner for Dola a public garden space dedicated to the arts. The piece will be on view at Dola 1423 1/2 Abbot Kinney Venice Ca. thru Nov.

Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, D. Billy adds visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti.

Has the Daily Mail uncovered the "real" true life story of Banksy? is he really Robin Gunningham? Is he a public schoolboy from middle class suburbia? Or is this an even LARGER ruse?

A film combining graffiti and animation, on public walls. By Blu a street artist from Bologna.

A nice concrete library in Medellín, Colombia. Three volumes articulated by a curve building serve as public space to the community, while connecting separate neighborhoods of the city. By Giancarlo Mazzanti.

Diana Guerrero-Maciá. hand-sewn collage, soccer balls and well tailored ransom notes.

The cell phone booth by Nick Rodrigues, should be required in public.

Learning to Love You More is a contributing site created by Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher. The artists give assignments & the public submit responses. Assignment #09: Draw a Constellation from Someone's Freckles.

On the LA Public Library turning 150, there is also an official poster by DKNG, featuring 150 books (there's an accompanying list of the must read classics on the site too!)

Luke Flowers Raised by Rainbows print at Gallery 1988 is an absolutely stunning piece filled with 150 references to books, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the LA Public Library! 16 x 20 inch signed open edition.

“Hellos Without Handshakes” is a new public service campaign to discourage the practice of handshaking as businesses across the country begin to reopen. It includes a collection of free, downloadable posters. Created by High, Wide, & Handsome.

Chrome Dino Set designed in New York by Andrew Bell for Google to celebrate 10 years of the Chrome browser! You recognize this cute pixel dino and cacti from when your internet goes out! Limited sets available to the public 3/11/19.

Good Ship IKEA by Mother London is a life sized version of the IKEA SMÅKRYP bath boat that can clean up 20kgs of trash from the waterways! The public is currently invited to remote control them in Deptford Creek, east London.

Apple Piazza Liberty, including both a grand public plaza and a store below, opens in the center of Milan.

JEM is an interactive public sculpture that senses your presence and responds with an ever-changing music & light symphony. Designed by ENESS. JEM can be found at Flowstate located in South Bank, Brisbane, Australia.

Copenhagen Islands by Fokstrot. CPH-Ø1 is a small 20m2 hand made wooden platform with a linden tree at its centre. The first in a series of moveable, floating, public spaces free for people to explore and conquer.

Apple Park Visitors Center in Cupertino is now open. In addition to the store and cafe, visitors can interact with the 3-D model of the campus which is brought to life by augmented reality.

Steven Harrington designed the cutest public skatepark complete with skateable sculptures in Long Beach, CA for the Dew Tour! Constructed by California Ramp Works. Harrington created a visual aesthetic for the entire event.

FEATUREDItalian Design Magazines, French Newspapers, Tech/Business Mags, bestsellers and new cookbooks in eBook form... How did i just realize how many can be read and borrowed online for FREE? NOTCOT inspiration overload!

VIDEO "Save Our Snowmen," a climate change mockumentary and public-service campaign from Cool Effect, an online crowdfunding platform that backs carbon-reduction initiatives. Ad by Swirl.

How To Get Out Of London Without Trying by Herb Lester. Easy escapes from London by public transport.

Raubdruckerin, Berlin-based collective of 'pirate printers' ink and lift images from geometric public fixtures onto shirts and totes, creating freely sourced wearable art.

Carrigan's Public House in Birmingham, AL has a Beer Rover! A defender turned beer tap/bar!

Bread Stamps, part of a six month project called Forno Pubblico (Public or Communal Ovens) by Tour de Fork for Miele.

Space by Jangir Maddadi Design Bureau - private in public! The furniture’s dynamic allows you to chose to either interact with the world around you, with the technology in your hand – or the peace in your mind.

WATERLICHT by Daan Roosegaarde is a public project for the Dutch Water Board. Using the latest LED technology the dream landscape raises awareness about the power and poetry of water creating a Northern lights style effect.

Bazar Noir, a new concept store that sells unique objects and accessories for the home, has opened its doors to the public in Berlin.

LIKE architects‘ playLAND is a set of three bouncy and colorful spatial interventions set for children in the public space of Paredes de Coura, Portugal, using beach floats as construction module.

Anamorphic Illusions by Street Art Collective Truly Design in Lausanne // Switzerland as part of Art on Science 2014, a public exhibition, focused on optical illusions.

The Library of Birmingham is a transparent glass building overlooking Centenary Square, the largest public square in the heart of Birmingham. The library’s internal space invites to look upward, following the long escalators.

Saraiva + Associados's Lisbon police headquarters.

To celebrate the opening to the general public on April 12 the Zoological Park of Paris, with french agency ubi bene, go on with a guerrilla marketing campaign featuring open animal crates in the city centre.

The foundation Achille Castiglioni offering the public the chance to see many of the objects he designed in a domestic setting: the beautiful and perfectly preserved apartment that used to house his studio and is today the seat of the Fondazione.

Sam Durant – Proposal for Public Fountain (2013)

Foundin Singapore, a city installation of tiny figurines scattered throughout public places in Singapore, just waiting to be found. Jan 8 - 19, 2014.

Fun public service announcement posters on the tube illustrated by Matthieu Bessudo aka McBess.

Zootechnical by Joao Loureiro. Space is defined around animal sculptures in their relation to the architecture. Specifically to further explore the "relationship between form and function of the architecture of public and private spaces."

How do you create effective lighting when there’s no way to get to the grid? The ‘Flow’ light is powered by constant prevailing coastal winds and is built to be almost completely biodegradable.

After completing Europe's largest public library in Birmingham, architect Francine Houben of Dutch studio Mecanoo spoke to Dezeen about the role of the library in the digital age and claims libraries are as central to society as cathedrals once were.

The PhytoKinetic Bus, currently operating in Girona, Spain, is the world's first green-roofed public bus. The roof garden is highly sustainable, helping to cool the bus interior by near 40°!

Great initiative from the NYC Dept of Design + Construction: Built/NYC! They are calling on local designers/firms to submit furniture, lighting, textile, etc designs to be commissioned for public buildings!

Elon Musk releases initial plans and designs for the Hyper Loop, an experimental transportation system from LA to San Francisco to the public.

The public mural project Forest For The Trees comes to Portland this August

City Forward, free web-based platform from IBM that enables users – city officials, researchers, academics and interested citizens world-wide, to view and interact with city data while engaging in an ongoing public dialogue.

Printer's Pie, 10x5' typographic mural created for Fuller's Ltd. by Alan J Bastien in 1955, claimed to be the first public presentation of Mistral typeface.

FEATUREDThis week's NOTCOT.org roundup ~ from GTA V to april fools’ jokes like google maps going treasure map, bone inspired goods, tangram fruit rollups, ikea stools into kids bikes, public swings that can turn into a band and so much more!

Interactive Fish Tank is an experiment in design and public interaction. Plays with the illusory boundary between the real and virtual​.

This 'rug' was made from over 1000 meringues, and found in a cake hotel opened in to launch a range of new sugars for Tate & Lyle.

Vehicle Design Lab shows progress from initial ideas to what will be a graduation exhibition this June. RCA vehicle design course is over 40 years old, and this is the first year the public is invited to track the progress of students.

Eyebombing is the act of setting googly eyes on inanimate things in the public space.