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guerilla swing from a billboard

admin — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:47:25 +0000

with the help of simple climbing tools, czech artists vojt?ch fröhlich, ond?ej mladý,
jan šimánek, and vladimír turner convert this rotating billboard in some kind of carnival like ride.

the cloud by MVRDV

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:19:33 +0000

not sure where formerly hyped architecture studio MVRDV got their inspiration from this time

in the streets

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:32:20 +0000

German street artist Timm Schneider hits it again.

admin — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 10:10:01 +0000

man, this is a great concept, too bad the client is unbearable

NYC – street side haiku

admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:26:14 +0000

a collaboration between the new york city department of transportation with safe streets fund
and american artist john morse, ‘curbside haiku‘ brings bright graphics and playful poetry
to the street signs of new york, in an initiative designed to promote road safety.

144 signs covering 12 different designs have been placed in areas near cultural centers and schools,
where a high percentage of accidents take place. in some locations, the signs feature only graphics,
with the haikus embedded in a QR code. in others, signs are hung in pairs featuring both image and text.

improv art

admin — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 09:02:05 +0000

Brakay is the name of the collaboration between Brad Downey & Akay during this years Fame Festival in Grottagli, Italy.

open house

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:52:38 +0000

this building by Sou Fujimoto Architects in tokyo questions the existence of wall just as much as the existence of privacy. live together just like on the playground.

fragmental landscapes

admin — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:34:07 +0000

The work of the German educated graphic designer Jens Reinert offers some new perspectives on our architectural surroundings. Instead of complete buildings Reinert models their fragments or visualises the volumes of subterranean spaces – it seems he builds “negatives” of architecture we ususally only perceive from the inside.

ironic places

admin — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:04:43 +0000

Frank Kunert creates impossible situations in his scale models that also reflect the tristesse of west germany in the post-war era. spiced with hard irony.

pixelated patience

admin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:23:26 +0000

this massive mozaic measures aprox 5.8 x 2.9 meters and consist of 4242 rubic’s cubes. altogether, the work weighs about half a ton. I could not find any information on the time it took Pete Fecteau to complete this piece.