In a clever little marketing ploy and nostalgia trip, IKEA recreates famous living rooms form TV shows, using their line of furniture. From The Simpson’s to Friends to Stranger Things, the sets are familiar, though each of the chairs, couches, and lamps have product callouts.
Bamn! Craaaaak! Boom.
We love the kickass nature of these bold and vibrant pop heroines, with comic-book appeal, and also model bravado.
In the classic style of Caravaggio and Monet, we see still lifes of food and drink, but they’ve been updated to reflect the absurdity of our current plastic age.
In this strange and beautiful series by Madrid-based NastPlas, we see insects that have been thoroughly ‘modified’ to adapt to changing climate and the changing world of the 21st century.
These tongue-in-cheek/food-in-mouth images by Ben Fearnley showcase emergencies, and how to remedy them, with some smartly placed foodstuffs.
Local Preacher is known for bright, colorful photography, and he offers up another series of flowers and fruits, showcased in beautiful, neon and pastel light.
Artist Melissa McGill’s Red Regatta adds a beautiful splash of red to Venice’s Lagoon, and is a wonderful example of kinetic, practical art in motion.
Imagine stepping into a cavernous room, entirely covered and filled with vibrant, alien-like hair. It’s a multi-sensory experience, part of the Icelandic exhibition at the 2019 Vienna Art Biennale.
Armenian graphic designer and artist Nvard Yerkanian gives us a look at the modern yet somewhat dystopian Soviet designs of the 60s and 70s.
This beautiful ‘treehouse’ is more a modern cabin, built vertically, and suspended into the Mexican treetops.
It’s very easy to get wrapped up in small problems and forget to keep a global perspective, to realize how fortunate most of us truly are. These very sobering and insightful juxtapositions by Uğur Gallenkuş give us a taste of that. Using matched objects and perspective, we see wealth, stability, and even opulence paired with the war-torn equivalent, all in one image.
These clever and impressive renders show tools that are entirely made of their respective parts and cohorts. We see power drills made of bits and drywall anchors. We see a hammer made entirely of tacks and nails.
Really unique and impressive pottery by Martha Pachón Rodríguez, who brings sharp, ‘teeth’ to the edges of her ceramics. The multi-colored, intricate points add fascinating contrast to the vessels, which feel very organic and alive.
Brazilian William Santiago has a colorful collection of patterns and designs that have been turned into equally colorful clothing. The collection is called anunciação, and we admire the complex, intricate figures and designs involved.