Archive for the ‘Environmental’ Category
How bad can it get?
I ask myself this question, but not in relation to the credit crunch, but how bad the environmental crisis will have to become before newspapers will devote as many column inches to the environment as they do to the economy. A selection of today’s front pages from Newseum. Without the environment there will be no […]
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Tags: Add new tag, column inches, credit crunch, crisis, environment, Media
Good Conversation
Am here all alone in Reading for the time being, so this work by Martin Nicolauson originally posted at It’s Nice That really resonates with me. I have been striking up conversations with many random strangers (none have yet run away). Tomorrow university starts, so this may stop, or perhaps we can get some great […]
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Tags: furniture
Paper Cutouts
Also over at Fecal Face is an interview with Nicki McClure, who does some pretty amazing paper cutout work.
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Tags: Add new tag, paper cutouts
Facing up to some big issues
Via Thriving is this inspiring and delightful project by activist and photographer JR, who takes portraits of people pulling faces and prints them LARGE and places them in public places. JR’s aim is to “shift thinking habits and reframe our stereotypes and prejudices”. Should you be wishing to make your own large prints, you might […]
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Tags: large posters
Eiffel tower extension
This is a hoax I now find out, but still, it’s a beautiful idea. The Guardian reports that the Eiffel Tower is to altered for the structure’s 120th anniversary next year. Serero Architects of Paris has won the competition to redesign the structure’s public viewing platform and reception areas. I think this is very beautiful… […]
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Tags: Eiffel Tower
All the time in the world
‘All the time in the world’ is a 22m long electroluminescent wall in Heathrow airport in London. It’s by Troika. The piece extends the traditional format of a world clock by displaying time zones of places with exciting and romantic associations instead of the usual world capitals. So, it “allows passengers to extend their imagination […]
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Tags: All the time in the world, Troika, World clock
Electric art
This artwork by Richard Box consists of 1301 fluorescent tubes powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. How scary is that… A beautiful way of physically illustrating an invisible menace. Thanks to The Serif for the link.
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War, a lot of hot air
This project is by German artist Hans Hemmert, a member of the 4 person artist collective Inges Idee. I found this on the wonderful Wrong Distance blog. The writer says that this project “reaffirms my belief that young children and conceptual art go great together”. Indeed.
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Homeless signs
The aim of these metal street signs is to make passersby contemplate the city’s homeless population. The artist is Mark Daye and there are more shots on his Flickr page. Via Core77 via anarchitecture via cluster
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Street art tees
via SpeakUp is this nice campaign for Fresh Cotton tees. Random artwork for the t-shirt is provided by a die cut in the poster. Link to more pics >
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