A daily field guide to visual culture
Art, architecture, nature, and design, discovered and shared since 2009.
A Ukrainian artist swaps faces for clouds, fluff, and empty space, and somehow the person becomes more legible, not less.
From painters of the quiet suburban hour to worlds that fold, one-line drawings, vintage posters and paint that left the canvas, this is a curated tour of the most extraordinary painting and illustration we have ever featured.
These huge public sculptures bring a sense of joy, whimsy and curious-humor to our often too-boring built environment.
Few artists have ever reshaped the human perception of space, light, and obsession quite like Yayoi Kusama.
16 Years of Exploration
The Atlas
Eight curated destinations across architecture, nature, art, design, and beyond: the best of Moss & Fog, all in one place.
The Shop · Curated Objects
Objects Worth Keeping
Twelve things with a maker behind them, chosen the way we choose what runs on the site: because someone got it exactly right.
Rare Trees
$40
Mushroom Hat – Corduroy – Mustard
$40
Terrazzo Gem Soap, Mini
$7
Mini Wireless Color Changing Lamp
$25
Gravitas Stacking Game
$49
Thick Lines Tree Souvenir Patch
$8.50
Pocket Terrarium / Self Sustaining Miniature Ecosystem
$11
Cabin Porn
$40
Colour Hexagon Enamel Tray
$17.50
The Outdoors Oracle
$29.95
Field Studies Vol. III: The Rare Ones (Set of Four Printable Art Prints)
$10
Max Dinnerware, Bowls (Set of 6)
$60
Beetles that fire boiling chemicals, lizards that shoot blood from their eyes, moths that jam bat sonar and a snail that builds its shell out of iron. Twenty-nine of the strangest ways animals stay alive, explained.
This artist asks: what happens when the things we build turn to ash, and what comes next?
From gravity-defying paintings to double-exposure dreamscapes, these are the eight most hypnotic surreal artworks we’ve discovered, and adored.
It looks like a fairytale forest powered by Victorian steam tech, but the machinery isn’t just for show.
Autumn travels. We followed it to six places where the season is spectacular and the crowds have not caught on yet, from a Hokkaido volcano to a Hungarian marsh full of cranes.
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Magical
Point a laser at a birch tree and leave it running all night, and you will watch the whole crown sink by ten centimeters, then lift itself back up before dawn.