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Category / Art & Design Awesomeness

A Miniature New York State of Mind

Oh boy, look what I found. New York City has never looked more alluring than on a ½ inch to 1 foot scale– that’s half the size of ‘dollhouse scale’ by the way. Grit, graffiti, grime and all, Alan Wolfson‘s urban sculptures aren’t your typically ‘twee’ miniature artworks. A Brooklyn native, Alan is a night person…

Someone Illustrated Kerouac’s On the Road, Page by Page

When I found these illustrations by Californian artist Paul Rogers, it made me want to read Jack Kerouac’s On the Road all over again, accompanied by these fabulous little pictures of course. Rogers is not a stranger to the great writers of the 20th century, he’s also done ten covers for Random House UK of Hemingway…

Girls on Bikes

There aren’t enough girls on bikes. If I ever see one, I have to stop and wonder, sort of like when you see a female taxi driver. There is something seriously inspiring and powerful about a woman taking over what society still assumes is a man’s territory. Photographer and motorcyclist herself, Lanakila MacNaughton is looking for…

This is what Two Graphic Designers Dating each other Looks Like

Meet Jessica Walsh and Timothy Goodman, both designers living in New York. They are good friends with opposite relationship problems and recently found themselves single at the same time. As an experiment, they are dating for 40 days and documenting it for us on a blog. Jessica is a “is a hopeless romantic who jumps…

Through the Eyes of a Boat

I came across this photographer, there’s no hidden story, no lost secret as you might have come to expect from this blog, just pure appreciation for the habit of looking out of windows, especially round ones, on boats. Photographer Luke Casey has traveled the world by sea and found it looked very different through the…

Searching for Doodle Man: Who Doodled on this Styrofoam Cup like a Legend?

Somewhere out there is an undiscovered doodling prodigy! A Reddit user recently walked into their local car dealership in Oklahoma to get an oil change and found this cup sitting there covered in extraordinary etchings from a ball-point pen… The Reddit member (username SquishyMcphee!) asked the cashier where it had come from … [She] said that a…

5 Unforgettable Artist Ateliers

What is more enchanting than an artist’s studio? When these painters, sculptors and creators make a space their home, it changes the environment forever. The living space inevitably becomes a rich source of inspiration for the artist; from the furniture, the objects and books to the colour of the walls, floors and most importantly, the…

The Girl who Mapped Manhattan’s Memories

Never underestimate how far your little art project can go. In her freshmen year of college, Becky Cooper discovered she had a ‘thing’ for cartography after she was hired to help map all of Manhattan’s public art. Soon enough, she was inspired to embark on her own idea– to map Manhattan’s memories. Becky hand-printed a few…

Knock Loud, I’m Home

It’s still a work in progress so I don’t have a whole stack of images but I really wanted to show you this photo manipulation series by Daniel Barreto, a 21 year-old Boston-based artist. From miniature dive bars with lights to cozy apartments built inside forest trees, it reminds me of a grown-up version of…

Paris: The Little Details

Sometimes I feel like there’s just too much photography of Paris; images we’ve seen time and again of the same monument, the same cobblestone street, the same wrought iron windows. But then I found the work of Getty photographer Gerard Hermand. He sees something most people don’t… Discover more of Gerard’s work on Flickr. :::…

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