A daily field guide to visual culture
Art, architecture, nature, and design, discovered and shared since 2009.
Noticing that many jigsaw puzzles share the same die cut, Tim Klein combines scenes to make strange and amazing creations.
Jesús Rafael Soto’s Pénétrable BBL Jaune hangs outside the Serpentine in London — 4,000 yellow tubes you don’t just see, you walk through.
Street art has always thrived on friction: public and private, polished and improvised, sanctioned and subversive.
16 Years of Exploration
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Eight curated destinations across architecture, nature, art, design, and beyond: the best of Moss & Fog, all in one place.
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Objects Worth Keeping
Four things with a maker behind them, chosen the way we choose what runs on the site: because someone got it exactly right.
Pollen Robotics built a 25 cm open-source biped with an articulated beak, seven trained behaviors and roller skates. It sold 10,000 units in a week.
Three oceans, the highest tides on Earth, and cities where half the neighbors were born somewhere else. Our case for Canada, with the imagery to match.
A keychain the size of a AA battery, machined from Grade 5 titanium around a sealed tritium vial, that glows for a quarter century with no battery, no switch, and no charging.
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.
A designer in Cambodia gave 90 kids one brief: draw a house for a bird. The sculptural results are stranger and more alive than most things built by professionals.
A 1992 concept van with two interior levels and futuristic styling that made jaws drop — and then quietly vanished. One of automotive history’s strangest what-ifs.
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