All Blog Posts Tagged 'space' (28)

You may already be aware that designer Paul Smith has the ultimate creative workspace, but we're going to bet that you've never seen it quite like this. To make this one-of-a-kind portrait, Nottingham, UK-photographer David Baird shot and then meticulously stitched together, over a course of 20 hours, 180 high resolution still images of Smith's office. At…

How much fun is this? As part of the Belfast Children's Festival, which runs from March 8 to March 15, huge inflatable red and white dogs are being suspended in mid-air! It's a unique art installation, called Space Pups, at Ulster Museum in North Ireland. Every two minutes the puppies inflate and…

Spain-based artist Javier Gonzalez Pacheco recently created this gorgeous digital illustration of Felix Baumgartner's incredible jump from space in his recent mission for Red Bull Stratos. If you were like me, one week ago today, you watched in awe as the Austrian daredevil leaped out of his capsule, from more than 24 miles up to shatter not just the sound barrier, which is 690…

Inspired by the legendary video game Space Invaders, artist Yves Caizergues created an awesome art installation that was displayed at Nuit Blanche, a nighttime art event held in Toronto this past September. For one night, Toronto's streets were filled with contemporary art, from smaller, intimate experiences…

If you were like us, last week your Facebook feed was inundated with photos of people capturing space shuttle Endeavour as it soared right above our heads. Piggybacking on top of a modified 747, it was an incredible sight and, without a doubt, one that most people will remember forever. In Southern California, Endeavour cross-crossed the skies, flying just 1,500 feet above some of…

Next time you're touring Washington D.C., drop by the Washington National Cathedral to a see a stained glass window like no other. If you'll believe it, there's actually a tiny piece of the moon inside of it. Where? In the center of the large red orb.

Called the Space Window, it was designed by artist Rodney Winfield and shows orange, red and white stars…

There are few true pioneers throughout history that have changed the world and inspired so many as the late great astronaut Neil Armstrong. He has had an immense impact on the entire population of the world with his admirable career that urges anyone who dares to dream to find the confidence in making their far-fetched dreams come true. Armstrong, who recently passed at the age of 82, is…

Despite space travel being a reality for decades, it has truly comes to people's attention nowadays. With the Curiosity rover landing on Mars, people's interest in space, science, astronauts, and flight directors with mohawks has piqued. While the robot on Mars has been making headlines with its fascinating image captures, there are numerous remarkable photographs taken on our home planet of other…

Ready to see some rare images of your favorite rock and roll bands? The Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles just sent us these preview images for an exciting new exhibition that opens there in two days, on June 23. Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is the…

Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit created this magnificent image by combining 18 long-exposure digital images taken with a camera mounted inside the International Space Station (ISS) on March 16, 2012. The streaks of psychedelic colors show the passage of cities below the ISS, airglow in Earth's atmosphere and the circling motion of stars. Even more amazing, the bright blotches lined…

This has got to be one of the craziest spaces we've ever seen! Architect Boris Banozic worked with students from the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt to create Trillusion, an installation that explores the relationship between furniture and space. Using three colors - black, white and orange - they formed an "abstract shadow of play" that messes with your mind. The piece asks…

Australia-based tactile typographer Dominique Falla recently created a large scale typographic piece using Illustrator, thousands of pins and hundreds of meters of string! Called Relax and Unwind, it was one of two pieces she made for…

Jonathan Mak, the now 20-year-old Hong Kong student who created that simply beautiful tribute to Steve Jobs right after his passing, is back with another fresh design. This time he's created it for one of the biggest brands in the world, Coke. It's of two hands in the…

Dutch astronaut André Kuipers, who is currently on a expedition on the International Space Station, shares his incredible photography from space. More than just landscape photography, Kuipers lends the rest of us still on our home planet his incredible perspective from 400 kilometers above Earth.

The unbelievable imagery he captures with his Nikon D3S and D2Xs is awe-inspiring. The…

NASA recently unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky, which includes more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. It is comprised of more than 2.7 million images taken at four infrared wavelengths of light,…

Though there seems to be small signs of hope that the housing market is finally turning around, by most all accounts we still have a long way to go. Stockholm, Sweden-based graphic designer Patrik Svensson sent word about some clever illustrations he created for Swedish monthly magazine Nöjesguiden that includes this negative space one that shows an upset face within a…