Tag Archives: art

STREET SPIRIT

Peaceful protests are popping up around the globe.
One of the latest stand-outs is Pete Dungey, a British-based intervener who creates pothole gardens in the blemishes of Britain’s roads.
As street art as we know it continues to grow and change, keep an eye out for unusual interventions and be prepared to look twice at [...]

MADE IN CHINA

Wearing art as clothing has been given a new definition.
Designer/artist Xiaofeng’s porcelain garments are made up of shards salvaged from construction sites in Beijing.
Some pieces date as far back as the Ming dynasty and beyond.
Lacoste’s polo shirt is a digital mosaic by Xiaofeng.
Its porcelain shards depict blue and white lotuses and cherubic babies — Chinese [...]

MIRAGE MODE

It may seem as if this house is hiding some dark secrets behind its doors, thanks to the latest designer decorating craze.
Imagine a home which has doorways which lead into a column-lined corridor, an escalator or a dark and winding staircase.
These trompe l’oeil doors are fabric designs which can be stuck onto doors [...]

GRAFFITI TURNS INTO ART AT NIGHT

Run down and graffiti-ridden sites have been given a much needed face-lift with extraordinary ‘light’ art.
Brightly coloured dragonflies and lillypads decorate murky stairwells and butterflies swarm in unused drains in the art created by ‘Tigtab’.
Much like Banksy, Tigtab, from Melbourne, Australia, keeps her identity a closely guarded secret. Each image is created [...]

TOWER OF BEAUTY

American artist Amir Zaki depicts the lifeguard towers that scatter the beaches of Southern California in his photographic series.
By taking away extrinsic features like stairs and ramps and removing indentifying artributes and backgorunds, the result is something between familiar and foreign.

THE ART OF FASHION

Maria Fernanda Cardoso blurs the world of fashion and art with her elaborate wearable pieces made from Emu feathers.
Rather than create ordinary clothes or conventional art, the Colombian-born artist and Yale grad says the cloaks and hats are intended to be seen as living sculptures that work as a form of camoflage.
Whether it’s a shamanistic [...]