Design
July 26, 2017

Artist Spends Day Inside Giant Clock at Amsterdam Airport to Draw Its Hands in Real Time

Blurring the line between performance art and functional design, the striking Schiphol Clock features hands drawn on in real time. Created by Dutch designer Maarten Baas and installed in Amsterdam's bustling Schiphol Airport, the fascinating piece artistically reimagines the ticking of a traditional clock. Measuring 3-meters tall, the Schiphol Clock presents a fascinating 12-hour video of Baas using a paint roller to consistently create—and repeatedly erase—the hands of the clock minute by minute for 12 hours straight.

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Art
July 25, 2017

25+ Mind-Blowing Hyperrealistic Paintings

Kit King and Corey Oda Popp Married artists Kit King and Corey Oda Popp create collaborative, close-up paintings of people. Ranging from studies of body parts to expressive portraits, their collection of paintings simultaneously exhibits their astonishing attention to detail and their appreciation for the human figure.   Gioacchino Passini In his large-scale paintings of dew-covered roses, artist Gioacchino Passini explores the one-of-a-kind nature of flowers.

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Photography
July 24, 2017

Watch How Fast Chinese Models Work to Strike Over 100 Poses in a Minute

Watching these videos is like taking a master class on how to pose like a model. In television and movies, modeling photo shoots are often portrayed at a leisurely pace. The subject might strike many poses over the course of a minute, but there's no real sense of urgency to them. That's not the case for fashion models in China, where such time would be seen as a luxury.

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Resources
July 21, 2017

200+ Posters From the Golden Age of Graphic Design Are Now Free to Download

Today, more and more cultural institutions have started to offer free art resources to the public through online archives. From high-quality reproductions of antique photographs to museum-approved art books, these complimentary materials promote and exhibit the endless possibilities of Internet learning. Recently, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) has opted to contribute to this downloadable, digitized phenomenon with Art of the Poster 1880-1918, a curated collection of posters from the “Golden Age” of graphic design.

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