Art
April 23, 2012

Street Art Symbolizing Mexico’s Strong Family Bonds

Street artist Liqen was invited by the “Collectivo Tomate” to paint a mural in Xanenetla, a neighborhood with lots of rich history in the Mexican city of Puebla. As corn is a staple food in this country, he wanted to express the idea of how strong the family is there, making each grain a person or animal as a symbolic unit of a set.

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Art
April 20, 2012

Fun Interactive Murals that Play Off One Another

I was led to Brooklyn design studio Dark Igloo's work through Web Urbanist's recent post on their creative Google mural. After looking through Dark Igloo's Flickr stream, I came across a set called Analog Interactive Mural that just made me smile from ear to ear. Love how they've created a set of black and white framed art pieces that seem to interact. Stare at them for a bit and you'll see hidden stories emerge.

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Design
April 18, 2012

Extraordinary Deer-Shaped Electrical Towers

Across a vast expanse of country land, lofty electrical towers always seem somewhat out of place. They clash with the natural aesthetic of the environment, yet they are needed in this high-functioning world we live in. Moscow-based design studio Design Depot has realized a design concept that has the potential to remedy this visual dilemma–deer-shaped transmission towers.

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Art
April 18, 2012

Giant Fractured Sphere at the Vatican

Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro is known to construct enormous spheres with layers of complexities. One of his monumental orbs stands tall as the centerpiece of the Courtyard of the Pinecone at the Vatican Museum. The structure titled Sfera con Sfera, translated as Sphere within a Sphere, is a bronze statue that appears golden as the sun shines down on it. It is 4 meters (a little over 13 feet) in diameter.

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