Design

November 10, 2011

Nature-Infused Human Beings

New York-based artist Matt Wisniewski creates mixed media images that are beautifully refreshing. His digital art collages create a stunning fashion and nature mash-up. The artist manipulates photos he finds on Tumblr to incorporate both the beauty of the human form and the beauty of nature. The surreal visual experiments, currently featured on Wisniewski's own Tumblr entitled Five Minutes to Live, depict a variety of natural elements as an extension of the photos' subjects.

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November 7, 2011

Best Halloween Costume: Carl from Up

Yes, we all saw some pretty ingenious costumes hit the web this past Halloween, but did you see anything as adorable as this? Cutest costume belongs to little baby Rizden, whose photographer mom, Stephanie Read, dressed him up as Carl Fredricksen, the grumpy old man from the 2009 Pixar film Up. “These were taken at our Church Trunk or Treat last week,” Read says. “Dan (her husband) was sick.

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October 31, 2011

Rearrangeable Pop-Up Garden Shed

The collaborative design between architect Vile Hara and designer Linda Bergroth is a stunningly simple design that offers an array of customizations. The prefabricated Garden Shed is a greenhouse and storage space that can easily be assembled with just a screwdriver. It's constructed out of Finnish pine and safety glass and also includes automatic openers to help control temperature regulation.

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October 19, 2011

Exploding Room Frozen in Mid-Air

What does an exploding room actually look like? Havana-based artists Dagoberto Rodriguez and Marco Castillo, collaboratively known as Los Carpinteros, have constructed an installation depicting a room amidst an explosion. The imaginary blast rips through walls and furniture, leaving broken sculptures and debris suspended in the air. It's as if time has stood still.

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