A daily field guide to visual culture
Art, architecture, nature, and design, discovered and shared since 2009.
Denmark’s Forest Tower at Camp Adventure spirals 45 meters above the beech canopy, with a 900 meter boardwalk that welcomes walkers of every ability.
Someone in the Netherlands picks a dandelion each spring and attaches its seeds to an LED. One at a time.
The British sculptor was commissioned to fill flagship windows in New York and Beverly Hills with surrealist versions of each city’s own streets.
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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.
A building site looks like a place where things get built. Spend a morning on one and it is mostly a place where people wait for information, and the cost of that waiting is enormous.
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.
Every advertising format invented since 1950 competes for attention. Handing someone a small free thing skips the competition entirely, which is why the oldest trick in retail refuses to die.
James Turrell turns pure light into places you can walk inside, from glowing Ganzfeld rooms to Roden Crater, his volcanic observatory in Arizona.
It’s always exciting to see familiar landscapes flipped on their heads.
The deepest underwater photoshoot is beautifully composed.
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Magical
While on separate side of the planet from each other, these two places share a common trait: height.