Phonebooks are a useless relic of the past that have--against all odds--continued to waste space and destroy trees. At least one artist has at least found some beauty in them.READ»
You only need to look at one of Co.Design's most popular features to see that society is inundated with information. Artist James Bills has a different take on our info-overloaded culture. He creates art that nods to our desperate ...READ»
Cory Arcangel has said he thinks of his paintings as readymade sculptures, and his affinity for using just about anything at hand as an avenue for making art is one of his most endearing qualities. Since 2004, when his reprogrammed ...READ»
If you listen carefully, deep inside MOMA’s remarkable new show, “Talk to Me: Design and Communication Between People and Objects,” you can hear the sound of a mournful howl. A wounded baboon? A lonely chimpanzee yearning ...READ»
We’ve been meaning to post this ever since seeing reports of Japanese artist Akiko Ikeuchi’s room-sized silk vortex, Knotted Thread, in the annual “Nearest Faraway” exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. The ...READ»
Louise Bourgeois is most famous for her hulking spider sculptures, but she was a talented textiles artist, too. From 2002 to her death in 2010, she assembled fabric drawings out of personal garments, like discarded clothes, sheets, ...READ»
What do you get a new graduate with no job and no clue? Besides, of course, a job, or a clue? Start with these desk set bundles by New York-based office products company Poppin, which some magazines have likened to Office Depot with ...READ»
As we try to do most Friday afternoons, we offer you a little eye candy -- a brief reprieve from design-related matters as you head off into the weekend. This week, it’s in the form of Yago Hortal’s lusciously vibrant paintings of ...READ»
Once upon a time, anyone who professed a desire to save energy or help the environment was assumed to be some tree-hugging hippie. Have we all become a hippie of some sort now?READ»
We're not really sure where to begin with this art work, except to say that it makes Salvador Dali’s paintings look comparatively sane (not to mention boring).
The artist is Australian Jonathan Zawada, who took the world’s most ...READ»
With a new indoor weather monitoring system, IBM makes it easier to ensure rare art is properly preserved. But the implications go far beyond museums.READ»
We’ve all witnessed the unfortunate consequences of overzealous Photoshopping, but in Maura Murnane's hands, it rises to a whole new level of bughouse crazy.
The fashion industry’s yen for perfection is made absurd.Murnane, an ...READ»
Step into Industrious|Artefacts: The evolution of crafts, and you’d be forgiven for wondering aloud what in hell a smattering of clogs is doing alongside a big robot that knits scarves... using wind energy.
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Chairs, crates, and full-sized ladders are easy substitutes for an object like this one, which should earn it a little more scrutiny than the average kitchen-and-home tool. But we like this stepladder for making itself ...READ»
Here’s some Friday fun for you: British artist Arthur Buxton takes famous paintings from the likes of Van Gogh and Monet and Gauguin and strips them down to their most basic color composition. The result, the bright little pie ...READ»
Humanitarian design is all the rage. A wave of Western designers has swept into countries such as India, Rwanda, and Brazil with ideas for clean water, better schools, and economic opportunities. But as Maarten Baas shows with his ...READ»
Art is all about viewer participation nowadays, which is usually just code for making viewers feel as uncomfortable as humanly possible. (See: flaccid, naked penis at MoMA and anything by Yoko Ono.)
But in Germany, boy do they ...READ»
Jeff Koons isn’t the only artist with a penchant for inflating metal. Jeremy Thomas has taken a far less sensational tack, working quietly at a forge outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, to build organic forms out of folded, blown-up ...READ»
To most of us, toothpicks are little more than a welcome post-prandial prod -- the difference between a sparkling smile and a spinach-flecked one. To Scott Weaver, they’re 35 years of his life.
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Weaver, a San ...READ»
