AIR-INK

Tiger Beer came up with the world’s first ink, Air-Ink, made of pollutant particles. They teamed up with a group of artists from Hong Kong to uncage the brand on…

Art, Design

Zim&Zou are two french artists, based in Nancy. The duo is composed of Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann who studied graphic design (design, publishing, advertising) for three years. The duo then decided to…

Art

MEAT THE CELEBRITIES

Previously mentioned in my post here, James Ostrer is now back with a new series of work featuring meat and celebrities and of course with his signature on it. In his…

Fashion

SUCCULENTS JEWELS

Creator Susan McLeary imagines amazing jewels from succulents she collects at her family’s greenhouse. The plants resist for 2 - 4 weeks before they die and you can remove them…

Art

BERLIN’S KONZERTHAUS WITH 14,000 REFUGEE LIFE JACKETS

For the past two months, Ai Weiwei has been working from the Greek island of Lesbos, documenting the waves of refugees landing on the island after they battled the merciless…

Art, Design

GYRECRAFT

Artist Alexander Groves and architect Azusa Murakami of London-based interdisciplinary design practice Studio Swine explore the long tradition of maritime crafts in Gyrecraft, a new project consisting of an ocean…

Fashion

BREADLINE

In my humble opinion, it takes guts and determination in wanting to initiate a social and ecological change through fashion. And once in a while, a designer like Bethany Williams comes…

Fashion

JON MAX GOH

Cover Image Credits: amfuku.com By stroke of luck, I walked into National Design Centre after lunch during a typical humid afternoon and I was greeted by a breeze of freshness that…

Design

FLOWER CARPET

Cover Image Credits: EPA/JULIEN WARNAND Happy New Year! And nothing beats fresh flowers to start off the New Year. The 77 m x 24 m Flower Carpet is a spectacle held on the Grand…

Art

ILLUSTRATED PEOPLE

A sunburn is never a pleasant thing, not for French artist Thomas Mailaender at least. In this publication titled 'Illustrated People', Mailaender applied 23 original negatives from the archive of modern…

Art

EKKLESIA

The Fallas festival took place in Valencia earlier this year and visitors were treated to an impressive installation called Ekklesia by the artist collective Pink Intruder. This towering piece of…

Design, Science

EVERBRIGHT

San francisco’s Hero Design (led by Alan Rorie and Kelly Parkinson) has came up with a giant interactive pixel board called 'Everbright'. Allowing the user to draw with LED light, the 'Everbright' relies…

Fashion

MINKI CHENG

Nothing is too late for a little apocalypse fashion by Minki Cheng. A Central Saint Martins fashion graduate, Cheng has created a collection of apparel for surviving extreme conditions in style. Cheng…

Design, Fashion

F21 THREAD SCREEN

Most companies seek out the latest displays for high-tech billboards, but Forever 21 has decided to take a different route for this particular Instagram project. For the past year-and-a-half, the…

Art

STELLAR

This isn't the Battleship Galactica at Universal Studios, Singapore. This is the work of Baptiste Debombourg who has transformed an ordinary public square in France into the site of an incredible art…

Art

EARTHCAKE

As we draw closer to the end of the Jubilee Weekend where we celebrate the nation's 50th birthday, I felt necessary to share this piece of public art I came…

Art, Design

CERAMICS PLATFORM

Manufacturer Maruhiro, a leading and long-standing producer of this globally renowned pottery, overhauls its Nagasaki flagship store located in Hasami itself, the region famed for producing sturdy tableware since the early 17th…

Art

ANGEL

The name of this post sounds nothing like its title. Nothing. In fact when I first came across this, I had goosebumps all over. In 2000, Nick Knight and Lee…

Art

BIG BROTHER’S BIRDS IS WATCHING

From farsight, it looked like flocks of seagulls or birds perching on rocks or simply just chilling in one corner. But upon further inspection closer, those are no birds. Instead…

Art

V

Iceland-based multimedia artist, Philip Ob Rey, uses discarded VHS tapes to create haunting creatures that wander frozen landscapes. Night forbade by a sunray. Not a bird to be heard, not…

Art

THE BEACH

The Beach features an immersive installation by experimental design firm Snarkitecture. The 10,000-square-foot space in the National Building Museum is filled with an “ocean” of one million translucent polyethylene balls and a…

Art, Science

FACTICIUS MACTARE (ARTIFICIAL KILLING MACHINE)

Artificial Killing Machine is an autonomous interactive mechanical installation by Jonathan Fletcher Moore. This time based work accesses a public database on U.S. military drone strikes. When a drone strike occurs,…

Fashion

FROM OCEAN TRASH TO ADIDAS SHOES

Sports retailer Adidas recently teamed up with a conservation organization called Parley for the Oceans to put the ocean’s overwhelming amount of trash to good use. In a world’s first…

Art

BANG BANG. HE SHOT ME DOWN.

In this optical illusion-type work titled "Damage", artist Michael Murphy paints 1,200 ping pong balls black and then suspends them from a height. The installation snaps into place when viewed from just the…

Art

UNSTABLE MATTER

Unstable Matter is kinetic sculpture by Finnish artists Tommi Grönlund and Petteri Nisunen, a.k.a. Grönlund-Nisunen. The wobbly table which contains thousands of ball bearings that move and crash within the tablesides. It is rather…

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