Photographer Shin Noguchi captures comical human moments in street photography. Walking through the streets of Japan, photographer Shin Noguchi has an eye for capturing humorous, heartbreaking and sometimes hysterical moments of everyday life. Through his work, the photographer captures and highlights subtle expressions of Japanese culture. While his shots often take place in public spaces […]
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California-based artist Spenser Little crafts wire-frame portraits in public spaces. For over 15 years, Spenser Little has created wire art installed on lamp posts and other public structures around the globe. Using a simple technique, Little’s work has captivated a wide audience, from pedestrians to museum patrons, with a single metal wire. The subjects of […]
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Amsterdam-based designer Sebastian Brajkovic transforms classical furniture into modern, distorted sculptures. Brajkovic’s half furniture, half sculptural pieces are a conceptual exploration of motion and contortion. Inspired by literal expressions of passing time, his sculptures illustrate how physical objects come undone as they age. “I like the aspect that time is visible in the work that […]
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French artists Ella & Pitr paint massive murals of sleeping giants, smooshed and contorted into rooftops, lots and buildings. Flying over the Paris Parc Expo in France, looking down is normally a boring view of concrete and cars. That was until artist duo Ella & Pitr decided to transform the gray space into a massive […]
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Emmanuelle Moureaux hangs 140,000 individual colored paper letters to create a rainbow passageway in Japan. Moureaux is a Tokyo-based architect, originally from France, who is known for using color as a three-dimensional element to create tangible layers and spaces. Rather than applying colors as a decorative element to her pieces, different shades are used to […]
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French artist Julien Malland (known as Seth Globepainter) takes us on a tour of his mind with a large-scale installation in Bordeaux. Within the halls of the Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez museum in Bordeaux, Julien Malland has transformed the eighteenth-century castle into a colorful, immersive illustration of his world travels and a tour of his […]
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Fabian Oefner crafts complex sculptures of intricate technologies suspended in transparent blocks. In a new sculpture series titled Cut Up, Oefner dissects the inner-workings of complex technologies — like an SLR camera — and arranges their pieces in a constructed way. In previous works, the artist would capture moments of intense destruction. Here, Oefner explores […]
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Syrian-American sculptor Diana Al-Hadid creates ghostly architectural references that melt away into bodily forms. Al-Hadid is an artist known for creating haunting, organic pieces inspired by well-known archaeological finds. From bronze, steel, and concrete, the sculptor forms disheveled columns, great walls and arcing aqueducts that melt away into human forms. The sculptor is also known […]
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Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde creates interactive artificial landscapes that explore our relationship to the natural world. In his premiere solo installation, PRESENCE, Roosegaarde invites guests of the Groninger Museum (Netherlands) to leave temporary impressions. They can lay down to make a shadowy silhouette on a glowing backdrop, dig through piles of illuminated orbs or even […]
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Netherlands photographer Claire Droppert captures abstract silhouettes of animals but in a completely unstructured, unusual way. Sea creatures, silkworms, snakes and more emerge in midair from clumps of tossed sand in Droppert’s latest photography series — Sand Creatures II. Each scene captures a moment of explosive motion, with the sandy particles often shown blowing or […]
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All that glitters is not gold. To artist Sara Shakeel, the whole world is coated in diamonds, crystals, and glitter. The ex-dentist turned photographer has developed a following for some iconic images, featuring subjects from french fries to female figures covered in silver and shiny things. Her most recent work, The Great Supper, features a […]
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“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” — Vincent Van Gogh Japanese ceramicist Yuta Segawa has crafted thousands of tiny jars, shrinking full-size detail into thumb-sized crafts. Together, the miniature vessels create a dotted spectrum of color. Crafting the miniature figures is an example of what details a human touch […]
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“Every natural action is graceful.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti photographs every-day abandoned spaces in and around Tehran in her 2017 series, Home. The images she captures are not of historic buildings or landmarks, but rather the organic growth of the natural world when humans leave their home forever. Some staged, […]
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