Design

June 4, 2020

Cheeky Pop Culture Tattoos Combine Beloved Fandoms With Fine Art

Pop culture can play a meaningful role in our lives, so it’s only natural that people want to remember them forever with a tattoo. Luckily, an artist known simply as Kozo is creating body art that is striking in its faithful recreations of beloved movies, television shows, and beyond. Although Kozo is happy to tattoo a portrait of Wall-E, his most memorable pieces are fusions of multiple subjects and characters.

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May 30, 2020

Meticulously Crafted Miniature Interiors Are So Lifelike It’s Amazing They’re All Fake

The best miniatures have the ability to transport people to another world without them even realizing it. So detailed and precise, they look and feel like a lifesize environment. Nothing proves this more than a collection of photographs from Lyon's Musée Miniature et Cinéma. It was here that digital retoucher Diego Speroni shot Little Spaces, a fascinating series where one slowly realizes that seemingly abandoned environments aren't actually real.

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May 26, 2020

Designers Create Hands-Free Pedestrian Crossings to Lessen the Spread of Germs

As the world continues to grapple with the coronavirus, more and more designers are using their skills to help keep us safe. From new ways to open doors to concepts for air travel, design is paving a new normal for what post-Covid life will look like. As we remain more conscious about what we touch and the germs we're spreading, even small things like pedestrian crossings become a point of contamination.

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