Design
October 4, 2017

150 People Attempt to Draw World’s Famous Logos Completely From Memory

Can you remember what the IKEA logo looks like? Could you draw the Starbucks mermaid without peeking? That’s the challenge that Signs.com gave to 156 Americans. In half an hour’s time, they were asked to recreate 10 famous company logos completely from memory. The results, called Branded in Memory, are fascinating; they demonstrate the wide range in which people recall some of the world’s most popular brands. After all of the logos were drawn, Signs.

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Entertainment
October 3, 2017

People Are Transforming Themselves into the Terrifying “It Clown” for Halloween 2017

Every year at Halloween, there is some facet of pop culture that is seemingly everywhere and at every party. Last year, the focus was on the candidates in the U.S. election. This year, the trend is still spooky, albeit more classically scary: Pennywise the clown from the It remake. The mysterious evil being is sure to make you quiver with fear, and that’s even before you see what some creative folks have envisioned.

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Portrait Photography
October 1, 2017

Photographer Creates Conceptual Portraits to Understand Her Evolving Identity

One of the many benefits to producing art or snapping a photograph is creative expression. Over time, you're able to use it as a way to reexamine who you are and how you’ve changed. Photographer Reylia Slaby sees this as vital to understanding her own identity and how complicated it is. When we first featured Slaby’s portrait photography in 2014, she was trying to find her identity.

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Installation
September 29, 2017

Japanese Artist Plants Colorful Flower Landscapes to Explore Nature’s Cycle of Life and Death

Japanese artist Azuma Makoto explores the lifecycle of flowers with two incredible botanical sculptures exhibited at the Oi Futuro museum in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The symbolic work evokes the Buddhist value of contemplating life and death. Viewers are encouraged to reflect on the transience of all living things, as the colorful flowers slowly decay over time.

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My Modern Met

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