Architecture
January 21, 2018

Concrete Water Pipes Reimagined as Micro-Apartments for Innovative Housing Solution

Housing shortages are a reality in many parts of the world, but nowhere more so than Hong Kong, where the average one-bedroom apartment downtown rents for $2,100 and many people are forced into cheap black market apartments called coffin cubicles. But James Law Cybertecture, a Hong Kong-based studio, is looking to change that through the development of affordable micro-housing.

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Funny
January 19, 2018

Funny Guy Reveals What’s Going On Beyond the Edges of Famous Album Covers

Russian Photoshop wizard Igor Lipchanskiy sprinkles his technical skills and good dose of humor on famous album covers, transforming them into something completely—and hilariously—different. Lipchanskiy creates funny Photoshopped versions of the covers, expanding them out to see what “really” happens in the parts we don't normally see. Lipchanskiy inserts himself as a willing assistant, doing whatever it takes to make the musicians on the album covers happy, whether it's giving Will.i.

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Social Cause
January 18, 2018

Sexist Vintage Ads Completely Reimagined Just by Reversing Gender Roles

You don’t have to look far to find sexist vintage ads. In the middle of the 20th century, these advertisements were considered completely normal and even amusing. Nowadays, they're not just dated but appalling for the misogynistic treatment of women they display. (Of course, these types of gendered stereotypes in advertising still exist today, though in less potent forms.)

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