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Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their local car dealership in Oklahoma to get an oil change and found this cup sitting there covered in extraordinary etchings from a ball-point pen… The Reddit member (username SquishyMcphee!) asked the cashier where it had come from … [She] said that a [...]
Camping on Mars? Seaside fun with views of Saturn? French artist Djuno Tomsni imagines the perfect summer vacation in outer space with his hand-made collages from vintage holiday brochures and photo albums. The good news is these otherwordly prints are available on Society6– that means you can order them in an array of different formats from pillow throws, [...]
Every once in a while, a fashion brand does something that stays with you and swims around in your head for a while, making splashes in your memory until you realize, maybe I want to own that? This is what happened to me when I came upon the Ten & Co 2013 lookbook. As you [...]
I‘m not an art buff. I just like what I like and save it as my desktop background image or, if I’m lucky, find a €20 poster of it somewhere that I can stick on my wall. Right now, I’m liking the work of Craig and Karl, the guys behind those sorta-like-Leichtenstein portraits with all [...]
If you have typography skills, obviously the next logical step is to just start illustrating designer label-dropping Hip Hop lyrics, right? Okay, so it’s a little random but a perfect excuse to ogle some beautiful typography on this fine morning by graphic designer Luke Skinner. His project “Luxury Rap” consists of his hand-drawn lettering in ink [...]
Waiter! There’s a Britney Spears in my coffee! (I knew that was going to be terrible but I did it anyway). We’ve seen hearts and even cat faces in our lattes made by baristas with an artistic flair– some good, some great, but I’ll bet you’ve never seen anything quite like these coffee portraits by [...]
Mixing Justin Bieber’s perfume and the scent of Jersey Shore’s Snookie with an Eau de Chanel? Cause for Coco to roll over in her grave no doubt, but that’s exactly what Dutch artists Lernert and Sander did when they combined 1,400 samples of every new perfume launched in 2012 to create Everything. Packaged in a pretty neat bottle, a [...]
So painstakingly detailed, you could easily mistake these photographs for real life-sized rooms straight out of a decorating magazine or a coffee table book for ‘grand home design’. A Tennessee entrance hall These are miniature models made on a scale of one inch to one foot– that includes the upholstery, textiles, rugs, curtains, hand-painted wall-paper and [...]
What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing look pretty souless in comparison. I’ve come across wonderful collection of French letters and envelopes, romancing the lost art of doodling! Pierre-Stéphane Proust has been collecting these delicate novelties of the past and organising exhibitions for over 30 years. Browse the rest [...]
Okay so this is probably going to be more fun for my New Yaawker readers, who know the city’s streets like the backs of their hands, but if like me, you just love that sketch-booky/ void of perfectly straight lines/ children’s book nostalgia-kind of art, then I suspect you’ll fall head over heels for [...]
Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their
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It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost
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This is the story of a French postman who spent thirty years of his life building his dream home–
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Sawn in half with a chainsaw, wheeled down the streets of San Francisco, stuck on a barge at Marina
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Waiter! There’s a Britney Spears in my coffee! (I knew that was going to be terrible but I
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When was the last time you felt like complaining to your landlord? It seems there’s always
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Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky
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Mixing Justin Bieber’s perfume and the scent of Jersey Shore’s Snookie with an Eau de
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So painstakingly detailed, you could easily mistake these photographs for real life-sized rooms
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What a rare treat it would be to receive something like this today. It certainly makes emailing
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