Unsettlingly Bad Europop Album Covers From The 1970s & 80s
Rock on to the worst in funny, creepy bad album cover art from the Netherlands. Dutch singles are a ridiculously small niche, but there are some ridiculously bad covers to explore. Take a look! Continue reading »
The Wired Beauty Of The Street Lettering Of India
On India Street Lettering, Pooja Saxena documents street lettering and signage from India. Continue reading »
People In Berlin Came Up With A Creative Way To Fight Swastikas
There’s a new trend in Germany. Graffiti artists in Berlin are coming together to turn swastikas into much less sinister drawings. They’ve started #paintback – a campaign to turn hateful symbols and slogans on the streets into something fun and artistic. Continue reading »
Pack All The Things! Here Is The Ultimate Burning Man Checklist
Packing for Burning Man is no small feat, and with several dozen must-haves and several hundred want-to-haves, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of everything to bring with you to Black Rock City. Continue reading »
Winners Of The Guardian Readers’ Travel Photography Competition – January 2018
Images of nature and people came to the fore in our first monthly competition of the year.
“This shot of a house in the snow was taken on an August stroll with my Danish uncle around a village in East Greenland”. (Photo by Rachel Jones/The Guardian) Continue reading »
These Are The Spectacular Winning Photos In The 2017 Best Aerial Photography Contest
Grand Prize. “Above the polar bear” by Florian Ledoux/© SkyPixel Photo Contest
Aerial photography inspires us to explore the unknown world and create unique works of art from a brand new perspective. Founded three years ago, SkyPixel is now one of the premier aerial photography communities in the world with over six million registered professionals and enthusiasts. Continue reading »
Meet The Hater Box, A Random Contestation Generator As An Answer To Social Networks
Voluntarily provocative, The Hater Box transforms the principle of old split flap displays into a random generator of contestations, cold and impersonal. Continue reading »
“The German Hair Force”: Portraits Of German Soldiers With Long Hair In 1970s
For 15 months during the 1970s, Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, allowed soldiers to wear their hair long, reflecting trends in society. The move angered the country’s NATO partners during the height of the Cold War and earned the military the disparaging nickname of the “German Hair Force.” Continue reading »
Sinister Parodies Of Classic Children’s Books
“Bad Children’s Books” or the classic children’s books from 1940’s to 1960’s hijacked by illustrator Bob Staak. Subversive, disturbed, twisted, but full of humor! Continue reading »
Bitter Truths By Truth Potato That Will Make You Think
Bitter truths are in abundance and the Truth Potato is on a mission to throw most of them onto our faces, to break the cloud of denial that covers our life. Continue reading »
“Scraps Of The Untainted Sky”: The Epic Dystopian Artworks By Daniel Dociu
Daniel Dociu is a concept artist and illustrator in the game industry currently working on the Guild Wars series. He has worked for many companies, including EA Games, Microsoft, Wizards of the Coast and is now Director of Art at Amazon Game Sudios. Continue reading »
The Superb And Cute Miniature Watercolors By Rachel Beltz
Pennsylvania-based artist Rachel Beltz paints cute miniature watercolors ‘to show that beauty is in the little things’. Continue reading »
“Chernobyl: A Stalker’s Paradise” – Photographer Vladimir Migutin Captures The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone In Infrared
Pripyat is a ghost town in Ukraine, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, as a monument to the most terrible nuclear catastrophe in world history. We have already seen him many times, but never before in such an unusual form. Continue reading »
Incredible Travel And Adventure Photography Of Sam Morrison
Sam Morrison is a multi-talented photographer, art director, retoucher and traveler currently based in Los Angeles, California. Sam shoots amazing travel, landscape, lifestyle, urban and adventure photography. He also creates stunning photo manipulations. Continue reading »
“Army Troops Around The House”: WW2 Toy Soldiers And Their Curious Adventures
Even grown-ups love to play toy soldiers. And some of them do that better than kids. For example, Canadian artist @littlearmymen creates toy soldier figures and takes photos of them. Sometimes, his army goes on weird adventures. Continue reading »
Salvia Is The Surreal Drag Artist Channelling Alien Glamour
Born and raised in the Welsh wilderness, as a kid Salvia never felt at ease in her human body. “I always felt detached,” she says, “as if it was just an ugly vessel carrying me around.” Continue reading »
Assistant Professor Of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology Creates Amazing Precise Metallic Replicas Of Ancient Fossils And Cells
By day, D. Allan Drummond is Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at The University of Chicago, where he runs the Drummond Lab. After hours, his interest in evolution and cellular structure takes a different, tangible form. Drummond constructs exacting replicas of creatures from the deep fossil record, paying specific attention to the detail of their underbellies, which are often obliterated by the passage of time. Continue reading »
Surreal Stretched-Out And Rearranged Portraits By Sakir Yildirim
Sakir Yildirim is an Istanbul-based creative art director who combines photography and graphic design to create amusing and surreal images. His series Crawler is a collection of glitchy, stretched-out Photoshopped portraits, while Flip and Mirror features rearranged strips of a photograph rearranged haphazardly. Continue reading »
Company Hilariously Mocks Stupid Client Requests, Shows What Happens When You Do Everything They Ask
Designers and their clients will never understand each other. And that’s a good thing. I mean, let’s face it, designers have a way bigger understanding of their craft and (usually) the more freedom brands give them, the better the results of their collaborations are. A recent tweet by Japanese brand Nissin Cup Noodles is a perfect example of the terrible visual disaster that happens when a designer follows through with every single client request. Continue reading »
LEGO – The Patent Of The Brick That Revolutionized The World Of Toys
Here is the patent of the first original LEGO brick, which has since revolutionized the world of toys! Continue reading »
Marvelous Beauty And Lifestyle Portraits By Consuelo Sorsoli
Gorgeous female portraits by Consuelo Sorsoli, young photographer, retoucher and filmmaker currently based in Arco, Italy. Consuelo focuses on portraiture, she shoots vibrant fashion, glamour, beauty and lifestyle portrait photography. Sorsoli uses Sony A7rII camera. Continue reading »
Indian Artist Has Created “Kalpavriksha – The Wish Fulfilling Tree”
Indian designer and artist Vibhor Sogani has designed a modern stainless steel sculpture named “Kalpavriksha – the wish fulfilling tree”. The recently completed sculpture is the largest public art installation in the state of Gujarat and the second-largest in India. Continue reading »
Photographer Jonathan Higbee Discovers A World Of Coincidence On The Streets Of New York
For over a decade, photographer Jonathan Higbee has walked the streets of New York with a camera in-hand, spotting extraordinary juxtapositions and unusual moments when the world aligns for a split second in front of his lens. At times he manages to completely erase the boundaries between manufactured imagery found in billboards or signage that pollute the city streets and captures anonymous passersby who seem to live in an alternate reality. Continue reading »
Bublik – Circular Apartment Building In Moscow Is The Pinnacle Of Brutalism
During the socialist time eastern Europe was a home to many unusual ‘brutalist’ structures, Moscow especially. Communist authorities had to industrialize and expand the cities as soon as possible because of large influx of rural population in capital cities. Continue reading »
Photographer Spends 10 Years Photographing Same Bench, Captures More Than He Expects
One Ukrainian photographer has spent a decade of his life on a single project, and it’s so intimate, it’ll make you feel things. Through his kitchen window, Yevhen Kotenko has shot the same park bench for 10 years and while its paint changed, some things remained the same. Continue reading »
