Designed by Gnocchi+Danesi architects, this prefab mountain retreat is sleek and minimal, with expansive ceiling height and echoes of a traditional alpine shelter.
The 258 square foot design is compact and can be site-delivered by helicopter, allowing it to be placed in the most remote of locations. With layouts starting at $40,000, it’s an affordable modern option for people seeking a natural retreat.
We made it! The entire ROYGBIV rainbow explored, color by color.
Red – Orange – Yellow – Green – Blue – Indigo – Violet
Violet is the color at the end of the visible spectrum of light between blue and the invisible ultraviolet. Violet color has a dominant wavelength of approximately 380–450 nanometers.
Violet is a gorgeous, sexy color, full of personality and beauty. Historically associated with royalty and majesty, it still has connotations of extravagance and individualism today. We’ve gathered some beautiful imagery that embody violet below, from sparkling jewels to fields of lavender. Make sure to see our Pinterest page to view our curated collections. And thanks for following our colorful journey. 🌈
Iceland is like a laboratory for planet Earth, a landscape so wild and varied that it sometimes seems to defy explanation and reason. Indeed, it’s a country with few trees, but a massively diverse natural look and feel, and Kevin Krautgartner‘s Iceland From Above is a clear exploration of just that.
In his series of drone photography, Iceland’s multiverse of textures comes alive, from bright green lichen to rocky volcanic landscapes.
Click on the images below to see them in stunning aerial detail. Via Behance:
CES kicked off with a couple of surprises this year, including Sony, who introduced an entirely new car! (their first) called the Vision-S. Including their decades-long experience in audio, the car will feature a 360-audio system, all-electric drivetrain, as well as 30 sensors that watch the inside and outside of the vehicle for safety and mobility.
The Vision-S is a prototype, but a very realistic, street-ready one, and we’re unsure if you’ll see people driving a Sony nameplate anytime soon. Fascinating launch, via The Verge:
We’ve posted about Françoise Nielly before, and her work has continued to impress us. Considered a knife-painter, her ability to capture the personality of a face with such quick, rough strokes is truly a mastered skill. Her more recent body of work has the same vibrant colors, but it’s more mature and less jarring to the eye than her earlier paintings. The color seems slightly less electric, yet still distinctively hers. Brought to some level of fame for a painting she did of Barack Obama, she has continued focusing almost exclusively on portraits. See more of her series on Behance:
We recently posted about famous British artist Andy Goldsworthy, who works with nature to create beautiful, if fleeting, works of art. We are now aware of another Brit who takes this form of art seriously. James Brunt hails from Yorkshire, and also uses the outdoor world as his canvas, beautifully arranging stones, sticks, leaves and rocks to create mandalas and other works of art that are truly impressive. His use of symmetry and form are great, and the effort and care needed to create such detailed arrangements is what sets his art apart from the casual beach wanderer, who might make a simple stone collection on the sand. You can see more of Brunt’s work on Twitter. Via Colossal:
While most people wouldn’t notice anything, artist Diana Yevtukh couldn’t walk past a tree with knots or scars, and not want to fill them with her work. She took to carefully hand-embroidering these scars, filling them with detailed eyes, hearts, and bunches of flowers. The work is full of emotion and depth, but also has a lovely subtlety to it as well.
Whether the trees appreciate the effort, we’ll never know, but it’s a gesture that we think adds artistic life to the natural world. Via DesignBoom:
We love the eye of Claire Droppert, she has an ability to convey so much with her imagery.
Her series Silence shows us utterly peaceful, quiet moments, the ones you can imagine being so quiet that your own breath or heartbeat are noticeable. We’re taken on a journey with a sled dog, down foggy autumn roads, and to peaceful oceanside docks. Photos like these make us want to breathe deep, and relax…. Via Fubiz:
The pink flamingos still look pink in Paulo Pettigiani’s Infraland series: Bolivia. But a lot of the landscape does, too. Indeed, the choice of using infrared film in this land of salt and open skies is an unusual one, maybe more subtle than some of his previous work. We do like the way the cacti show off their pink spikes, and the tufts of pink grass contrast to the pale blue skies. Doubtless his series will continue, we’re eager to see where Infraland will take us.
The Netherlands has a lot going for it, including some of the most idyllic, fairytale-like little towns and villages. Even the biggest Dutch city Amsterdam has an aesthetic quality that is second to none. Dutch photographer Albert Dros shows us the tiny town of the Zaanse Schans, which is just twenty minutes outside Amsterdam. Captured during a quiet sunny morning, Dros shows us the ideal little town bathed in fog and early morning light. Small windmills, little bakeries, and the quintessential Dutch architecture indeed make this a place that feels out of a fairytale. Via Behance:
We love the style of Ranganath Krishnamani, an Indian illustrator from Bangalore that captures the outdoor landscapes and travelscapes so beautifully. His digital art makes great use of saturated colors and silhouetted figures, with impressive light. We tour through Hampi, Bangalore, and Kundapur, through all sorts of weather and seasons. Via Behance:
Coracle Ride – Coracle boat, the play of light/shadow on the rocky terrains and the beautiful flowing Tungabhadra River, bring back fond memories of the enigmatic town of Hampi, Karnataka.
Light at the end – Walking through the old town in Bangalore, invariably end up in these narrow alleys following my curiosity . These curvy lanes still have a welcoming charm.
Lost in Details – Walking through the arched bays, consumed by the details, ornate interiors, domes and windows. Queens Bath , Hampi Karnataka
Harvest – Walking through lush green paddy fields in Kundapur, close to Udupi (Karnataka, India) during the harvest season
Way finding – Walking back late evening in Mangalore (Karnataka, india), I noticed this interesting duo working together to find their way back home through the storm. Had to recreate it!
We love the color and movement of this mesmerizing short film by Rus Khasanov, showcasing impossibly colorful balls of paint and glitter morphing, merging, and absorbing one another. Like seeing cells divide and combine in a hyper color world, the video is also edited with precision, paired with a dramatic score. Entitled Unity, it may be entirely abstract in nature, but it has our full attention. Via Colossal:
Trees do SO much for us. They clean our air, provide our oxygen, cool our cities, and provide us the desperately needed respite from civilization that we need. Not to mention all of the thousands of other species they support. Isn’t it time to show the trees some love?
This adorable project by Monsieur Plant starts that payback, with a soft green, mossy hug. The moss hands gently wrap the tree trunk, giving a bit of love back to our tall, barky friends.
This temporary installation makes us smile. Thanks, trees.
The work represents the surrealist evolution of the human being into a tree, absorbed by the “nature” which has taken back its rights. Nature and man merge and become one.
Fractals exist everywhere in nature, creating infinite, mind-bending patterns that are even stranger than a casual glance may show. Indeed, even their definition causes disagreements between scientists and researchers.
A fractal is a subset of a Euclidean space for which the Hausdorff dimension strictly exceeds the topological dimension.
Mandelbrot described a fractal as:
“a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole”
We love that these complex shapes can be found in nature, foods (romanesco, anyone?) and also deep within the brain, when on a psychedelic experience.
Regardless of how you define it, the scientific and visual nature of fractals make them fascinating to explore. And isn’t expanding the mind a good thing?
These elegant and fanciful shampoo and bath product containers are, themselves, made from soap, resulting in an eco-friendly, and meta product line. Created by design student Mi Zhou from the Central Saint Martins program, we love the look and feel of the vessels, and the way they are entirely usable, from the contents to the containers themselves.
In an era where we need to reduce our single plastic use as much as possible, we think this soap-within-soap approach is pretty clever. And it doesn’t hurt that the vessels themselves are beautiful to look at, reminiscent of perfume bottles. Via Colossal:
We love everything about these illustrations. The style, the color, the concepts behind them, all resonate with us. Entitled “Verbéton”, the series shows nature and animals taking over human constructs, from buildings and monuments, to tuk-tuks and even aerial trams. We see all manner of critters, from spotted deer, to lemurs, and even the elusive Okapi, or forest giraffe.
The work of French studio Fago, the colorful and lively art show mother nature reclaiming her rightful place in the world. If you’re like us, and find it fascinating to picture how nature might actually take over our built society, there’s a book on the subject called The World Without Us that we recommend.
