Showing posts with the label Art & Design

The Giant Pink Bunny at Colletto Fava

Jul 19, 2016

On the hills of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy's Piedmont region, there lies an enormous pink bunny. The t...

The $8.5 Million Astolat Dollhouse Castle: World’s Most Expensive Dollhouse

Jul 14, 2016

Appraised at $8.5 million, the Astolat Dollhouse Castle costs more than a fully furnished condo in New York City. But then, this is no ordin...

Photos of World’s Famous Monuments Taken The Other Way

Jul 1, 2016

Take any famous monument around the world, and look up pictures of it on the Internet, or at your own albums, if you have visited the place....

Drone Photos Capture The Rich/Poor Divide in Cape Town

Jun 22, 2016

Although South Africa’s apartheid era ended more than twenty years ago, there is still a palpable economic tension between the blacks and th...

Artist Installs Floating Piers on Italian Lake

Jun 14, 2016

A three-kilometer-long floating walkway made up of 220,000 high-density polyethylene cubes connect two small islands to the shore on Lake Is...

Historic Dollhouses Capture 300 Years of British Domestic Life

May 27, 2016

The National Building Museum in Washington DC has a new exhibit. On loan from the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood in London, this ...

Murals From Trash by Bordalo II

May 3, 2016

Portuguese street artist Artur Bordalo, known in the art world as Bordalo II , uses trash as his medium which he recycles into amazing stree...

Undressed: An Exhibition of Underwear

Apr 19, 2016

Underwear worn by British supermodel Kate Moss, corset worn by American burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, boxers worn by star footballer Davi...

Can You Draw a Bicycle From Memory?

Apr 16, 2016

In 2009, Italian/American designer Gianluca Gimini walked up to random strangers and friends and asked them to draw a bicycle from heart. S...

Secret Rooms Inside Abandoned Sewers

Apr 4, 2016

Italian street artist Biancoshock has just finished installing a couple of secret, miniature rooms, hidden under manhole covers, inside an a...

The Murals of National Autonomous University of Mexico

Mar 14, 2016

The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), located in downtown Mexico, is the largest university in Latin America, and one of the ...

Vertical Earth Kilometer

Feb 26, 2016

In Friedrichsplatz Park in Kassel, Germany, there is a public art installation of epic scale, but you can’t see it. The only visible sign of...

Collaborating With Insects to Make Art

Feb 24, 2016

Some of the most hated creatures on earth are bugs. These small scurry things invade our home and private spaces, spoil our food, get into o...

Diana Beltran Herrera’s Realistic Paper Birds

Feb 19, 2016

These stunning paper birds were created by Columbian artist Diana Beltran Herrera using nothing but a few colored papers, glue and a pair o...

Brent Christensen’s Amazing Ice Castles

Feb 18, 2016

Brent Christensen is the founder of Ice Castles , an Utah-based company specializing in creating lofty ice castles by carefully orchestratin...

Artist Creates Large GPS Doodles by Cycling Around City

Feb 17, 2016

When Canadian artist and fitness junkie Stephen Lund began tracking his cycling routes using GPS, he saw a potential to be creative with the...

Want to Spend a Night in Van Gogh's Bedroom?

Feb 11, 2016

The Art Institute of Chicago has created a life-size replica of Van Gogh’s famous bedroom at his home in Arles, France, which he had immorta...

Unseen Pictures of The Vietnam War From The Other Side

Feb 8, 2016

What the western world remembers about the Vietnam War is defined by a handful of iconic photographs taken through the lenses of American an...

Dominic Wilcox Turns Kids’ Crazy Inventions Into Real Products

Feb 2, 2016

We all have brilliant ideas for products that could make certain chores easier to perform if only they could be turned into reality. With th...

Syrian Refugees Build Miniature Replicas of Country’s Destroyed Monuments

Jan 28, 2016

As war rages on in Syria, it’s only the people that refugee camps could provide protection to. The homes, the cities, the culture and the hi...