A daily field guide to visual culture
Art, architecture, nature, and design, discovered and shared since 2009.
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.
Ian Strange cuts, floods, and blackens real suburban homes across four countries. Art that cross-examines what the domestic ideal promises and conceals.
The sleek hideaway in Ex Machina is real. It is the Juvet Landscape Hotel in Valldal, Norway, and its glass-walled rooms are still bookable today.
These images appear like paintings until you look a little closer and see they’re actually photographs.
Swedish artist Eric Rohman created thousands of movie posters, using bold shapes, sparse color, and cinematic restraint to define a striking era of Scandinavian graphic design.
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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.
These huge public sculptures bring a sense of joy, whimsy and curious-humor to our often too-boring built environment.
There are plenty of loud opinions in grower forums and Reddit threads, but not a lot of straight comparison.
‘Cathedral of Sound’ Turns Manchester’s…
These dreamlike (nightmare?) images nevertheless are fascinating and beautiful.
This fascinating, futuristic EV was designed to traverse the narrow roads and paths of Tulum in Mexico.
This audacious concept car from the 1950s has features that would still be considered futuristic in 2024.
A classic concept of the 1980s, this design defies explanation and description, but remains a true standout even today.
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