Collar AG – A Wearable Device For Surveillance By XCEED
Under the giant wave of big data, every decision we made on the web is being drawn into bottomless whirlpool. Whether you drop a keyword in Google’s search engine, or click a like on the Facebook, the Internet will record it and customize the filter bubble for your behavior. This phenomenon is set to become a personal optimization system that isolates us in the ideological frames. Continue reading »
Israeli Artist PILPELED Collaborates With Bike Company Creating A First Ever Artistically Designed Bike
Electric Concepts has announced a fruit of a unique collaboration with PILPELED as well as FOFFA creating an innovative and fascinating, first ever artistically designed bike in the electric bike market. This product has been produced with PILPELED x FOFFA to disrupt the electric bike market by creating and delivering electric bicycles that look great and attractive with artistic design and provide the class, speed and extra boost required for urban commuters while riding on the road. Continue reading »
Boxed In: Life Inside The “Coffin Cubicles” Of Hong Kong
Photographer Benny Lam has documented the suffocating living conditions in Hong Kong’s subdivided flats, recording the lives of these hidden communities. Continue reading »
Creative Nightscape And Astrophotography By Jaxson Pohlman
Jaxson Pohlman is a talented self-taught photographer and artist from Wichita, Kansas who currently lives and works in Chicago, Illinois. Spending most of his life in the Great Plains of Kansas, Jaxson has always felt the need for a creative eye in photography. Specializing in astrophotography, Pohlman’s photo’s are sure to inspire imagination and provoke emotion. Continue reading »
Fragmented Ink Paintings On Arrays Of Vintage Books By Ekaterina Panikanova
Spread across the opened pages of books pinned against the wall like insect specimens, Russian-born artist Ekaterina Panikanova creates ink paintings that appear like fragments of memory. Continue reading »
Into The Canvas: One Model, Incredible Makeup, And No Photoshop
Being André Derain
“Into the canvas. Half a year working with Andrew Kezzyn and Bella Grigoryants.
Standing in the middle of a DIY supermarket… It does not mean maintenance in your flat. It is preparation for going deep into the canvas. We have tried on the colour, the light, the perspective and the atmosphere of Neo-Classical painting. We have built the picture into its depth. Continue reading »
Photographer Karen Jerzyk Paints Entire Rooms A Single Color For Surreal Shots
Photographer Karen Jerzyk turned abandoned spaces into dark fairy tales after the death of her father.
Blue
After getting into trouble with that series, she created Colors, a series of fantasy scenes photographed in rooms dominated by a single color. Continue reading »
A Night Stroll Along The Milky Way In Central China Inspired By Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night
An eye-catching tourist attraction in Zhengzhou City in central China’s Henan Province is lighting up the night – a walking path which has been laid with glowing pebbles. Continue reading »
The Prince Of Surrealism Takes A Poetic Approach – The Worlds Of Rafał Olbiński
For more than three decades, the Polish-born illustrator, graphic designer, and surrealist painter Rafał Olbiński has lived and worked in New York, winning more than one hundred awards during his career for his imaginative acrylic paintings and distinct posters. Continue reading »
New Stick-On Soles Let You Forget Flip Flops And Go Barefoot
You could say some clothing manufacturers are trying too hard because their products look simply ridiculous, but even though these stick-on pads look unorthodox, they actually have a set of very useful functions to help your feet relax on holiday. Continue reading »
Landscape Mirrors: Surreal Photo Manipulations By Rigved Sathe
Rigved Sathe is a talented freelance graphic designer currently based in Pune, India. Rigved received his BA in Design and Visual Communications from Symbiosis Institute of Design. Continue reading »
Daredevil Photographer Recreates Iconic “Jaws” Movie Poster
A photographer got up close and personal with a 15-foot tiger shark to snap pictures similar to those used in the iconic poster for Steven Spielberg’s shark attack movie “Jaws”. Continue reading »
Chinese Artist Uses Colorful Paper To Warn Of Danger Of Guns
“Ocean of Flowers” by Chinese artist Li Hongbo was recently unveiled at Eight One Art Museum in Beijing. The artwork consists of nearly 2,000 colorful paper sculptures in the shape of different weapons such as pistols, machine guns and bullets. Continue reading »
Ukrainian Artist Made A Mesmerizing Sculpture Of Giant Raindrop Resting On Man’s Face
Ukraine is very hot during summer and also blood freezing during winter, but for one sculpture it is always raining. It is the amazing work of an artist Nazar Bilyk that created this 6 foot tall statue made of bronze and glass. Continue reading »
This Artist Imagines The Roman Empire’s 250,000 Miles Of Roadways As A Subway Transit Map
University of Chicago sophomore Sasha Trubetskoy spent a few weeks designing this amazing subway-style transit map of all the roads in the Roman Empire circa 125 AD. Trubetskoy pulled data from numerous sources, but took liberties where the history is fuzzy. Continue reading »
Artist Dave Slater Makes 1963 Corvette Stingray Out Of LEGO Blocks
One of the most iconic American cars, the Corvette Stingray, has been the envy of every garage since it was first released in the early 1960s. Rather than just covet the classic sports car, Dave Slater went about building his own 1963 Corvette Stingray out of LEGOs. Continue reading »
Fabrice Monteiro Travelled To The Most Polluted Places In Africa And Created Terrifying Characters Who Roamed Their Midst Dressed In Eerie Debris
Informed by Africa’s environmental problems, Fabrice Monteiro’s photographs aim to highlight urgent ecological issues all over the world. His series The Prophecy is on show at Photo Basel 2017 until 18 June. All images courtesy the artist, Photo Basel 2017 and Mariane Ibrahim Gallery. Continue reading »
What’s Wrong With Today’s Society Captured In Though-Provoking Illustrations By Al Margen
We all know that nothing is perfect. Our modern society included. There are many things that are problematic and troubling, and even though we notice them, we are not too fast to work on fixing matters. Continue reading »
IKEA Invents Clever Posters To Cook
IKEA Canada has created an amazing recipe book entitled Cook this Page, which lets you use its pages to cook directly on them! If this book illustrates recipes in the purest visual tradition of the brand with posters, it proposes you to detach a page, to place the required ingredients on the drawings, then to fold the sheet before putting it in the oven! Printed on cooking paper, the IKEA Cook this Page is a great concept, very playful, which can help some to get into the kitchen. A creative operation created by Leo Burnett Toronto. Continue reading »
Donyale Luna – The First Black Supermodel, Whom History Forgot
Fashion model Donyale Luna, the first black model to appear on the cover of Vogue, modeling to a captive public audience, in a shopping mall in Sydney Australia. Donyale, who also appeared in several movies produced by Andy Warhol, died in 1979 at the age of 33 from a heroin overdose.
It’s slow progress since Donyale Luna became the first black supermodel nearly 50 years ago. Especially since most inveterate fashion-watchers don’t even know Luna’s name. Continue reading »
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Most Famous Buildings Get 3D Paper Model Treatment In New Book
Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect, would have turned 150 this year, and some of us just can’t get enough. With celebrations of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birthday in full swing in architectural institutions throughout the country, a new book is giving Wright fanatics the chance to recreate some of the architect’s most notable works through a series of cut-and-fold paper models. Continue reading »
The Supertrain Of 1979 Will Blow Your Mind
A nuclear-powered bullet train that was equipped with amenities more appropriate to a cruise ship, it had luxuries such as swimming pools and shopping centers.
Supertrain was an American television drama/adventure series that ran on NBC from February 7 to May 5, 1979. Nine episodes were made. Most of the cast of a given episode were guest stars. The production was elaborate, with huge sets and a high-tech model train for outside shots. Continue reading »
The Alley Cats: Photographer Nayan Khanolkar Captures Leopards In The Middle Of Mumbai
Few people can associate the bustling metropolis of Mumbai with forest and diverse wildlife, let alone the presence of a large cat in the by-lanes of the city. Yet this unexpected situation exists in the middle of Mumbai with more than 35 wild leopards living in the center of the city in Sanjay Gandhi National Park. Here you can see one of them on its nocturnal prowl. Continue reading »
These Ink-Redible, Explosive Masterpieces Are Like Say-What-You See Inkblots Tests Only In Water
The vibrant colors burst from Brian Tomlinson’s works, appearing as though they may be coloured ash clouds from an erupting volcano, rather than simply everyday substances. By doing so, Brian challenges viewers to identify what images can be imagined when mixing one fluid with another. In order to shoot the series, entitled Liquid Ink Art, Brain drops different coloured inks into a fish tank full of water before capturing high-speed shots with a flash. Continue reading »
Stunning Colorized Photos Of Legendary Soviet Female Snipers From WWII, Including One Dubbed ‘Lady Death’ Who Killed 309 Nazis
Stunning colorized images have given new life to WWII female snipers who protected their territory against German attacks, including the most successful female sniper in history, Lyudmila Pavlichenko also known as ‘Lady Death’.
Roza Shanina was one of the 800,000 women who fought in Russia.
The photographs were colorized by Moscow artist Olga Shirnina. Continue reading »
