Design

February 21, 2012

25 Stunning Examples of Shape-Shifting Smoke Art

Disclosure: This post is coming to you from MiO. Change your water. Change your day. What do you want to change? After looking at some fantastic photo manipulations of water, we thought we'd turn our attention to the art of smoke. Today, we've rounded up a stunning collection of photos that show how digital artists can change its look and shape to take on different but all too familiar forms.

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February 16, 2012

Innovative Home Office with an Overhead Library

Who needs an office at work when you've got a home office like this? National Geographic Society's Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis called on architect and designer Travis Price to construct his very own personal at-home workspace in Washington, DC. Price's architecture and design firm Travis Price Architects took on the task of creating this unconventionally visionary design for the multifaceted scholar.

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February 2, 2012

Dreamy Hanging Sculptures

Nicola Yeoman is a London-based installation artist who plays with the concepts of perspective and common spatial expectations. At first glance, her installations are conventional hanging sculptures. Upon entering the gallery space, initial reactions to the work are challenged “as the viewer finds him or herself able to walk within and about the work–the relationship of the viewer with the object renegotiated and the interplay of dependence altered.

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January 16, 2012

Futuristic Picasso-Inspired Cubism Portraits

Finding inspiration from world-renowned painter Pablo Picasso's cubism era, illustrator and designer Dave Murray has created his own line of “futuristic cubism” works in his series entitled Polygons. Relying heavily on multi-toned geometric shapes, Murray produces stylized portraits that almost appear like sharp, pixelated images. Although, rather than the standard square-shaped pixels, these works feature primarily triangular blocks of colors to depict pop culture figures.

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My Modern Met

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