Blog of the moment Colossal alerted me to this beautiful project by Anna Schuleit for the Massachusetts Mental Health centre.
You can read about it and see more photos here.
Such an extraordinary idea, executed flawlessly.
“In Madrid, in less than 30 years, more than 50% of the public fountains in service have been lost, which now are seen to be dismantled, broken, without a tap to drink from or simply dry.
On a cold night at the end of January, we went out into the street and took control of 4 unused public fountains in the city center, bringing them back to life for a few hours.
A clever and beautiful installation by Luzinterruptus
The work of Josie Morway is full of so much energy that I couldn’t resist posting.
She works on canvases up to 7ft tall and can capture the beauty of birds flawlessly.
She’s on Etsy too, bonus!
Since completing studies in Graphic Design, John Dilnot has used up his time creating amazing installations and sculptures from pictures of birds and butterflies, cut up and arranged beautifully.
His website is testament to his plethora of skills, I suggest you have a good long look around.
There’s a really brilliant article on Cool Hunting (the source for many of my amazing finds) on typographer and genius, Andreas Scheiger.
My bumbling words can do nothing to convey the level and depth of his talent and creativity to you, so please, do yourself a favour and look the man up.
Origami is awesome, and something I will definitely be taking up more of in the coming year, which is why I got super excited to see this piece.
A stunning combination of both origami and typography, this 3D masterpiece was created in aid of the Words Can Fly A Thousand Miles project.
“The words on the poster were inspired by the instant encouragement and consoling words that Japanese people were able to receive just after the tsunami and earthquakes hit Japan, through social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter.”
By Montreal-based designers Brian Li, Dominic Liu and Kyosuke Nishida.
Read more here.
Call me slow, I don’t care, but this has been sat in my mental queue for a long time.
British artist Zadok Ben David created this incredible installation of thousands of steel cut flowers. Viewed from one end of the room they appear completely black, but from the other, a myriad of colours appear.
See more, read more, over here.
I found this on Colossal. Pretty gosh darn fantastic.
Welsh-born artist and photographer Olsen Zander has been wrapping trees in white fabric around the UK for the better part of a decade. In this series entitled Tree, Line, Zander uses the fabric to reveal the horizon lines as they disappear behind the surface of trees. Really amazing work. If you liked this, also check out the mirrored tree installations of Joakim Kaminsky and Maria Poll. (via it’s nice that)
Robert Montgomery has featured before and I couldn’t resist featuring him again. He’s incredible, and his urban poetry blows my mind.
Some real life, grown up art now, thanks to the Royal College of Art, London.
Their summer show was apparently quite the event, but a particular project that caught my eye was that of Oscar Lhermitte.
Aptly titled ‘Urban Stargazing’ he has altered the urban landscape with some constellations of his own making, each one narrating contemporary myths about London.
For those of us not in the big ‘L’, there’s some handy google maps to point us in the right direction.
Wherever you are, you should definitely find out more.
