Sweden's Ice Hotel enlists French artist and designer Antoine Weygand and architect Roland Toupet to design and build room 339, also known as 'Diamond Genesis'.
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Arjen Born, a Dutch photographer, offers up his take on assisted living in the future.
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MOA is defined by its position on the side of a small hill, close to the entrance of a university. Conceived as a basic rectangular box, sliced diagonally by the incline of the hill. By Rem Koolhaas.
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The creators of City Prints are now creating maps of university campuses, so you can capture your alma mater in subtle abstracted beauty.
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Brian Stewart's Skin Type. "Everyone has one. Any time you've written on your hand, you've created one. A unique DNA based typeface."
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Photographer Kurt Moses captures these fantastic miniature dioramas.
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Draper by Rob Ley: A 70-foot installation composed of hundreds of unique stainless steel strips that passes through five separate floors of the visual arts school at FSU, offering each level a unique view of the project.
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Art legend Lynda Benglis on Theatricality, Landscapes, and Stepping on Richard Serra's Toes.
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Lynton Pepper's literally cheesy Valentines Day message to his girlfriend cut out from Bavarian smoked cheese.
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New Installation by Joel Shapiro at Rice Gallery in Houston.
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Sagaki Keita recreates classical masterpieces from a complex network of doodles.
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Chinese based architecture firm Ministry of Design has just put the final touches on an angular 750 square meter art gallery in Dong Jiang Bay.
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Italy's June design Showcase from Bisazza Foundation to house incredible italian works such as Alessandro Mendini's 'Poltrona di Proust Monumentale'.
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Glass Cast, a series of research trajectories manipulating glass through the investigation of two methods of working: hot glass blowing and warm glass slumping. Primarily created by Wes McGee and Catie Newell, Univ. of Michigan.
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Photographs of brilliant colors made by ink, light, and glass by Pery Burge.
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Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Room in London's Tate Modern.
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Pretty collection showing the variation in take out cup lids.
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Star Wars Episode VI - Return of the Jedi recreated entirely in Icons(Iconoscope), for your delight and amusement. Think of it as how Ikea might retell the story.
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Si Scott's latest typographic wonderment. Bold As Love is designed for UK tee label Origin68 and is inspired by the Hendrix album of the same name.
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VIDEOForm Us with Love and Cosentino create vases from the quartz composite Silestone.
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Synthetic Grain: a synthetic wall system inspired by natural from, by PROJECTiONE.
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Marc Jacobs looks to friend and sculptor Rachel Feinstein who designed 'broken castle' for his Fall/Winter 2012 Show.
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Sometimes, when two octopi love each other very much, they weave their bodies together and a very special heart is born. Awesome valentine's day octopus card design by Christina Piluso!
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A 34-foot pillar of 15,000 books about Abraham Lincoln to be on display at Ford's Theatre Center for Education and Leadership.
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Fancy furniture for the Designer Dorm, cute cartoon by lunchbreath.
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The Cabinet of Dreams, a virtual Valentine's charity shop for Women's Aid with a street level window in London's Soho created by Grey London. The window is full of miniature installations in bell jars including Kyle Bean, Rob Ryan and Charlotte Brown.
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Tejp Stockholm installation is a collaboration between Färgfabriken and Tobias Rydin, who invited Numen to Stockholm. The artwork is both an exhibition at Färgfabriken as well as the scenography for Tobias Rydins upcoming film KIM.
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This pole-dancing surveillance-camera-headed robot is just one of Giles Walker's whimsical animated sculptures included in this year's RAW Art Fair in Rotterdam this past week.
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Gagosian releases "I Spot DH" pins in response to the recent uproar of ardent hatred concerning Damian Hurst and his "Complete Spot Painting".
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Project Paperclip is the first photography exhibition to use Augmented Reality. Follow the link so you can test it with your iPhone.
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Ingenious hanging gardens for your flat. Designed by french designers Barreau&Charbonnet.
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Collaboration between jewellery artist Hanna Hedman and photograoher Sanna Lindberg.
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Superheroes In Simple Math by illustrator Matt Cowen.
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This Special Museum of Math Edition of the popular Frabjous puzzle/sculpture by Mathematician George Hart is made of Dichroic acrylic which causes it to display a rainbow of colors as it moves in the light.
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Fancy Antique Display is a uppercase display font inspired by French decorative alphabets from the 1940's and 1950's by The Infamous Foundry
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The Cozy Shelter is a inflatable hiding place that has the defensive look of a sandbag fortress from the outside. The inside is like a pastel colored cave of soft woolen blankets. Part of the exhibition Designworld in the designmuseum of Helsinki.
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Beauty Is in the Eye of the Collective: Artwork by Steven Morgana.
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Surreal smoky photographs by Stefano Bonazzi.
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The Faló lamp represents the campfire light that brings people together.
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FEATUREDA peek inside the studio of Chandelier Creative ~ from wine in the ballpit with skateboards and friends with you inflatables to moooi horse lighting, giant doors, neon lighting, and more...
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VIDEOJumping from number 45 to 20 on US album charts this week, Gotye's Making Mirrors might owe some of its popularity to the haunting single 'Somebody That I Used To Know' (with Kimbra) and its visually-stimulating video.
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Le3 invites you to discover 'Golden Tiger'. An amazing running tiger blending into the lights of the streets of Paris during the night. On the video, a motion street mapping with no post production FX.
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Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron who designed the 'Bird's Nest' for the 2008 Olympic Games are collaborating on the 'Serpentine Pavillion' at the Serpentine Gallery on the lawn of West London's Kensington Gardens.
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At Millennium Park, Chicago, Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, also known as 'The Bean,' comes to life with an interactive light show called Luminous Field by LuftWerk, the creative vision of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero.
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VIDEOD/struct by Lucas Maassen and Raw Color consists of items that are completely destroyed, then packaged
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VIDEOFor Coca-Cola’s 125th Anniversary Exhibition's Future Room concept, Antilop transformed santralistanbul's Galeri 1 into an immersive environment by creating 90 square meter of 270-degree projection system.
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VIDEOBuchstabengewitter by Ingo Italic is an experimental generative type project using motion graphics. Each letter is bale to morph into another, creating a unique animation.
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At the Helsinki café Kauko, the coffee is free, but the experience is unpredictable. A Web site with live video lets Internet users raise or lower the seats and tables, dim the lights, or change the music
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VIDEORobot Readable World by Timo shows us how computer vision systems and robots see their environments.
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Ben Barry and his Facebook Analog Research Lab - The friendly coworkers at Facebook share their love of posters and sharing with their own print shop.
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VIDEOStarry Night Interactive by Petros Vrellis is a beautiful twist on the Van Gogh classic. Using a touchscreen and some clever openFrameworks code, this project turns his strokes into awesome new-media!
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Jim Dingilian is an artist who stretches the limits of creativity with his amazing creations. He uses candle smoke to paint picture-perfect images on the inside of empty bottles.
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'The anatomy of mother bear giving birth' is an awesome new mural in Vienna, Austria. This work is a collaboration of four talented street artists – FlyingFortress, Nychos and the Sobekcis twins.
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Kid-in, a platform for a wide range of international and local designers, photographers, artists and thinkers, focusing on the singular subject of childhood.
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Giancarlo Neri brings his installation, Maximum Silence, comprised of 9,000 25cm lights that change in color and intensity, to Paris Square in downtown Rio. Beautiful!
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Agemaps, a fascinating series of photos capturing individuals at different ages by Bobby Neel Adams.
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London's Design Museum is to be relocated to the modernist shell of the former Commonwealth Institute, and the interior redesign by John Pawson architecture firm.
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Glass pill sculptures by artist Beverly Fishman. Marvelous and very addictive.
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VIDEOBehind the scenes with Takashi Murakami as he and his Kaikai Kiki team prepare to launch his first exhibition in Middle East. Opens 9 Feb 2012 in Doha - Qatar.
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A roundup of Sci-Fi art inspired by iconic pieces from art history.
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Dutch design studio VollaersWart created a typographic sculpture/installation for a high school in The Netherlands, an open space and meeting area for students.
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Noisolation, funky headphones by designer Alex Braiwood that alter the relationship between a person and the noise around them.
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Paper Realities - creative series by Jan Kriwol, a photographer and digital artist from Poland.
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Beautiful detail of Phoebe Cumming’s “Flora,” a work in unfired clay, part of “Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Arts and Design,” opening today at the Museum of Arts and Design.
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VIDEOBeautiful interactive installation, Nervous Structure (Field), by Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza.
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Calligraphy and Lettering art of Luca Barcellona, freelance graphic designer and calligrapher from Milan.
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Glitch Textiles from Phillip Stearns are textiles made from patterns produced by short-circuited cameras.
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Transparency Grenade by Julian Oliver captures network traffic and audio at the site then securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where information is mined.
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VIDEODeluge by Even Westvang is a beautiful data visualization of the movement of 300,000 Norwegians as they relocate within the country.
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Suspended Together, beautiful and symbolic installation by Saudi Arabian artist Manal Al Dowayan.
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'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories' a heartwarming collection of stories with 60 quirky illustrations and anecdotes, curated and edited by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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In metrography, Bertrand Clerc and Benedikt Groß realign our distorted idea of distance by fixing the topology of London to the rationalized map designed by Harry Beck.
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Photographer Thomas Czarnecki's latest series 'From Enchantment to Down' captures the dark side of fairy tales.
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▲, pronounced Alt-30, is a work that challenges its players to find and test the thresholds of the piece, as well as their own, through playfulness and curiosity.
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'The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts' beautiful book using the International System of Typographic Picture Education, pictograms designed to communicate complex information in a nonverbal way, by Marie and Otto Neurath.
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Artist Colin Pinegar created its impressive infographic from examining his facebook 'friends', scoring them after a lengthy survey, then making a wax bust for each person in the color that corresponded to their score.
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Martin Azua’s new beautifully geometric Union Suiza vases are absolutely stunning!
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Stunning photos of skeletons by Eiji Yuzawa capture their sculptural beauty.
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For one day, a pop-up aluminum foundry in a small Los Angeles backyard turns scrap metal into designed objects. By Tada Ryvola and Michael Sandstrom of United Environment Architecture.
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FEATUREDGenevieve Gauckler Mugs for Publik ~ Live Joyfully, You are the master!, Throwing The Balls, and Path To Success.
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A walkable rollercoaster sculpture in Duisburg, Germany designed by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth.
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A new set of Royal Mail stamps featuring some of Roald Dah's most popular characters is just out from the Post Office as illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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McDonald’s X California Poppy Seed Bomb Ad by Sean Click. The California poppy is the California state flower, protected by legislature, making it illegal to pick, dig up, or destroy.
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A fusion of aesthetics, feel and handicraft. The pattern on the porcelain bowl by Ines Lang Porzellan is applied with shellac in a dry state, then scrubbed out using a sponge and water, to obtain the relief-like surface.
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VIDEOMusic video for OK Go's Needing/Getting in collaboration with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles.
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Artist Niege Borges Alves has created a series of illustrations of famous dances from film and television. The project is called Dancing Plague of 1518 and features dances from Napoleon Dynamite, Arrested Development and Pulp Fiction, among others.
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Wordpharmacy is a temporary literary pharmacy in Berlin, poems as medication by Danish writer and artist Morten Søndergaard. Food for the soul.
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DIY Monster Valentine from our friends at the Monster Factory.
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David Markus’s Ferrite interactive sculptures looks like endless fun.
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Beautiful illustration by JAW Cooper. One of six LA based artists exhibiting in "Critters & People" at WWA Gallery. Hop, run, and squirm to it Feb. 18.
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What appears to be smoke - or lighting effects - is actually the artist himself, performing with sheets of coloured paper; photographed on long-exposure...
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'Sound Cloud' installation by Kazuhiro Yamanaka for Saazs at A Glass House - Paris.
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I love Jacqueline Bradley's playful approach to sculptural fashion!
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Some multilayered New York paintings by french-based artist Daniel Castan. He uses quick drying acrylic paints while working from memory.
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Delicate leaf skeletons created by Jenine Sheroes from human hair!
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VIDEOLovely little teaser video for Pebble Universe. Great CG art and compositing.
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Illustration made in PVC panels of 3x3 meters for the exhibition in Cuenca "Art on Paper".
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The complex structure of The Cocoon_FS pavilion by Pohl Architects was constructed from leaf-like panels of fiber-reinforced polymer. Its translucent shell admits light during the day and illuminates its surroundings at night.
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BIG (bjarke ingles group) created this year's Valentine's day sculpture 'BIG(heart)NYC' for Duffy Square. 400 transparent LED acrylic tubes envelop a large red heart at the center.
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Lisa Nilsson's stunning anatomical cross sections created from Japanese mulberry paper.
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Julie Bender's beautiful pyrographic artwork creates gorgeous illustrations on wood.
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Arkitypo, the final alphabet capturing the history of type. Beautiful typographical characters showing off Ravensbourne 3d prototyping skills and technology. From Johnson Banks.
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Beautiful artwork in Beijing's Art at Opposite House hotel.
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Adorable bicycle fender ornaments by Maїwenn Castellan.
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SA MI 75 DZ NY, a new installation by Doug Wheeler at the David Zwirner gallery in NY that lets you feel what it's like to walk in a cloud.
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Incredible animals captured in BIC pen by Sarah Esteje.
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Beautiful light installations by Tamar Frank.
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VIDEODesigngoat invited 5 incredible illustrators to make some art inspired by Dublin, to add some life to a Dockland warehouse which they are currently transforming!
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Digital Crafting Collection, the meeting of digital design and Chilean artisans. Products developed by gt2p using Chilean wood with both FSC and Fairtrade certification.
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Jan Avendano's Phantom Tollbooth infographics.
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Guy Delisle's Chronicles de Jerusalem just won the Fauve d’Or award for best comic.
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Jocelyn Grivaud's 'Poupée Barbie' collection, recreating iconic works of art using Barbie dolls.
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Unexpected Skulls: Clever illustrations by incredibly talented Australian artist Karl Kwasny.
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'Forest stories' is a project by Czech designer Michaela Tomíšková. Footprints of the forest atmosphere.
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Sketches from one of the first sound projects called Soundcube, made in 1969 by Bernhard Leitner.
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Juxtapoz previews Ana Bagayan's solo show 'There Is Time To Kill Today' at Thinkspace Gallery on Feb. 4th! Showcase of new paintings, drawings and debut of a new series of charcoal works on canvas.
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VIDEOAsk Golan Levin Anything was created by FITC (Future. Innovation. Technology. Creativity.) and puts the spotlight on some interesting issues that were all prompted from Reddit.
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Jeremy Kool creates amazing origami animals that look very realistic.
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Simple graphic explaining Where Ideas Come From from aspindle.
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VIDEO“Light” a short film directed by David Parker, initially began as a project intended to bring awareness to energy waste.
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Monocle's second World Map edition print comes from the skilled hand of Japanese illustrator Satoshi Hashimoto.
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VIDEOsurface ii, newest video work by the British artist Sam Spreckley, exploring the manipulation of celluloid and the relationships between sound and image. 8mm, HD transfer, digital sound design.
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Beautiful birds cut from maps by Claire Brewster.
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Just in time for Valentine's Day 'Closer' print by the artsy duo behind London-based Mr Four Fingers. Heartwarming for those of us who are true lovers of anatomy in art.
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VIDEOThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by Moonbot Studios.
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VIDEOA year's worth of disposable coffee cups. By A.H!
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VIDEOTadashi Kawamata has a new installation 'Under the Water' at the Kamel Mennour gallery in Paris.
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Bunpei Yorifuji's illustrated history of Japan.
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Schematics : A Love Story, by Julian Hibbard, "a sparse, meditative, and enigmatic narrative embroidered with found schematic diagrams".
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Bruce Lowell makes some amazing things out of LEGO, like this rather realistic KitchenAid.
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SuperUber brings Super Pong to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
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A gabled house cantilevered over the edge of a 7-story building, the latest from Korean artist Do Ho Suh.
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Judy Chicago re-staged her 1968 performance installation 'Disappearing Environments' at the kick-off party for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012. 37 tons of dry ice were used, along with flares for dramatic effect and to assist melting.
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Deloitte 2012 Technology, Media and Telecommunications prediction infographics.
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Take a first look inside Quebec's amazing new Hotel de Glace ice castle!
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The New York Public Library Labs presents Stereogranimator, a tool that turns their amazing library of stereographs into GIFs and 3D anaglyphs.
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VIDEOStill Life by Scott Garner is a tilt sensitive painting that changes the 3d scene accordingly. This is a refreshing and clever take on the classic still ife.
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