Art
January 19, 2012

Geometric Street Painting Runs Through Switzerland Village

Talk about the old world and the new world colliding! Every year, the small Switzerland ski town village of Vercorin asks artists to come and create works during the summer months. They're not looking for a singular sculpture, they're interested in creative projects that incorporate the entire village. In 2010, Lang/Baumann was asked to take on this challenge.

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Food Art
January 18, 2012

Planetary Chocolates Are Out of This World

L'clat, the chocolate boutique of the Righa Royal Hotel Japan, has created beautiful planetary chocolates that look too pretty to resist. The chocolates are edible replicas of the planets Mercury (coconut mango), Venus (cream lemon), Earth (cacao), Mars (orange praline), Jupiter (vanilla), Saturn (rum raisin), Uranus (milk tea) and Neptune (cappuccino).

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Art
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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Architecture
January 14, 2012

Artificial Sea Trees Restore Environment

Waterstudio.NL is an architecture firm that specializes in creating projects that are on or near water. One of their newest projects is a towering multilayered structure called the Sea Tree. In an effort to bring back healthy environments to large cities, these structures would be built in the rivers, lakes, or harbors that often border large metropolises and house not only sea life but also various birds, insects, and plant life.

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