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Berlin-based artist Bartek Elsner works with paper and cardboard to produce impeccable replicas of objects ranging from a simple boxed video cassette to a multi-textured chainsaw. While the medium in this series titled The Paper Stuff is reminiscent of Chris Gilmour's cardboard…

Are you an artist who's looking looking for inspiration? Look no further. One day at the Squish Studio will get your creative juices following. Located just outside the small town of Tilting on the eastern end of Fogo Island, Squish Studio sits atop a rocky strip of coastline that could rival Italy’s western coast. The ground beneath the studio is so rocky and uneven that the southern…

UK-based artist Nic Joly is well-versed in all kinds of creative media including stained glass, metal work, furniture design, and, in this instance, sculptures. His Little People Under Foot set is a collection of tiny people in everyday life scenes, generally standing a little less than one half inch tall.…

Romainmôtier is a small Swiss village that borders France. It is known for its modest population and picturesque town whose architecture is reminiscent of the Roman Empire. Like a small European village straight out of a movie, Romainmôtier holds a charming annual used book fair that takes place at the…

Resonate, an interactive sound and light installation, entertained audiences in Frankfurt, Germany at the opening party for this year's biennial festival of lighting culture known as Luminale 2012. The responsive structure is the combined efforts of students studying master programs — "Interior Design - Spatial…

Korean artist Seon Ghi Bahk recreates man-made structures by repurposing natural resources, charcoal in particular, and suspending them with transparent nylon thread. Bahk's series of sculptural works are composed across a three-dimensional space, giving the illusion of a floating solid figure. The meticulous alignment of each lump of uniquely-shaped charcoal…

It's confusing to see someone mowing a lawn inside the arches of a cathedral, but that is what's happening inside of York Minster, the largest gothic cathedral in Northern Europe. 2012 marks Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, which commemorates her 60 years on the throne. Throughout the year, the country has planned a variety of events to celebrate this special occasion. One…

British artist Bruce Munro is back with another spectacular light installation, this time taking his lighting expertise to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. The exhibition simply called Light features a number of…

Photographer and graphic designer Jon Deboer first became interested in photography through courses he took while studying graphic design. Now, the artist uses his photography knowledge to transform endless black and white tones into powerfully expressive scenes. His series, entitled Digital Noir, evokes a sense of mystery along the dark city streets of Detroit. The black and white…

Finnish artistic duo Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen have constructed a structure titled Wave of Matter with an incredibly simple concept that involves thousands of tiny metallic spheres placed on a tilting table top. The installation's sloping mechanism causes the silvery orbs to shift and glide from one end to the next. Its hypnotic movement from one end of the…

These cute, up-close dog portraits make me so happy! Minneapolis-based photographer Barbara O'Brien provides pet, animal, and rural lifestyle photographs to advertising agencies, magazines, and book publishing companies. In her series called Dog Face, the artist has brilliantly captured the individual character of all types of dogs by narrowing in on each canine's…

When most people think of Fiji, they think of vacationing on the islands, laying out in the sun, and perhaps taking a dip in the water. What if they did more than simply wade around in the water and actually plunged dozens of feet? Poseidon Undersea Resorts gives vacationers the opportunity to not only dive deep into the Fiji lagoon, but to actually sleep and dwell in their…

"What would happen if a rainbow became disorganized—would it fall from the sky? What if a rainbow misbehaved, causing its color spectrum to take on new order? Would it include black, as rainbows in comic books often do?" These are the questions artist Pae White wanted you to think about with this colorful, site-specific installation for the Art Institute of Chicago back in…

Could this be the future of fashion? French fashion designer Franck Sorbier unveiled his latest collection of haute couture for the Fall/Winter 2012-2013 that features a seamless (no pun intended) blend of fashion and technology. The designer's new line of works consisted of only two models — one in a black, fitted dress with an elaborate, pointy hat and the other with a…

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Chow Hon Lam just wrote to us to tell us about his recently released commission. Back in 2010, Nike contacted the Malaysian artist to see if he would, exclusively, make them some funny t-shirt designs. In essence, they wanted something "different."…

Co-founders of Cao | Perrot Studio, a bicontinental creative studio based in Los Angeles and Paris, Andy Cao and Xavier Perrot have recently unveiled their latest installation titled Red Bowl. The skilled landscape artists have constructed this structure consisting of 5,000 black rods, arranging the tall poles in a circle around a wooden walkway over a pond at the…

New York City is filled with commuters, so on any given day you're bound to find discarded MetroCards, the people's ticket to public transportation, in the subway and even in the city streets. Most pedestrians wouldn't think twice about these yellow and blue cards that litter the urban setting, but New York-based artist Nina Boesch not only notices them, but she utilizes their…

Multifaceted artist Muti Randolph redefines the space his installations inhabit, blurring the lines between art and architecture. He designs interactive works that allow spectators to enter and experience the visually stimulating installations firsthand. His piece titled Deep Screen invites gallery visitors to step into the display and take in the three-dimensional…

Friend and photographer Navid Baraty just shared with us his great shots of the hundreds of people that gathered in Times Square early Monday morning to watch NASA's rover Curiosity make its Red Planet touchdown. The unprecedented event was a dramatic moment in the rover's eight-month journey through space where it had to travel 350-million miles to reach its ultimate destination.…