Art
June 20, 2012

Vibrantly Colored Crocheted Playground

Japanese artist Toshiko Horiuchi-MacAdam is considered one of Japan's leading fiber artists, using knitting and crochet as the foundation for much of her work. Her website explains that she specializes in “creating large, interactive textile environments that function both as imaginative and vibrant explorations of color and form, at the same time as providing thrilling play environments.” That is exactly what we see here at the Hakone Open Air Museum in Hakone, Japan.

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Design
June 19, 2012

Awesome Pictogram Rock Posters

Ready to test your Rock n' Roll knowledge? Illustrator Viktor Hertz is back with a fun new series called Pictogram Rock Posters. His most ambitious work to date, this set crams in a total of 234 song pictograms into 8 different posters. Hertz has been working on this personal project for the last five months. The artists and bands he chose include The Beatles, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley.

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Photography
June 14, 2012

Intriguing Portraits of Rooms from Above

German photographer Menno Aden's Room Portraits series reevaluates the structure of a room by presenting an aerial perspective that typically flattens the three-dimensional space, reversing the effects of construction. This act of taking a real room and photographically reverting its appearance into a stylized blueprint offers insight into not only the size and shape of the area, but the type of person who dwells or works within the space.

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Uncategorized
June 13, 2012

A Painter’s Life Recorded in Numbers

The late French-born Polish artist Roman Opalka was a man of numbers. Best known for his numerical paintings known as The Finite Defined by the Nonfinite, Opalka began his famed work by hand-painting a consecutive series of integers, starting with “1” on the uppermost left-hand corner of the canvas, in 1965. He proceeded to produce canvases filled with the progression of numbers continuously following the previous batch.

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My Modern Met

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