Ex-McLaren Designers Just Built a $130,000 Carbon Fiber Chair
Luxury furniture has long borrowed the language of high-performance design without much of the substance behind it. Carbon fiber panels get applied as surface decoration,…
Sculptures
Michelangelo’s iconic David bust gets recreated in LEGO, turning plastic into sculpted marble
If you ever took a drawing class, you have met this face. Art schools spent about two centuries buying plaster casts of David’s head and…
China Just Built a Mirrored Heart at the Lake Called ‘The Last Tear
Sayram Lake sits in a remote corner of Xinjiang, China, at an altitude that makes the air feel thinner and the colors feel brighter. It’s…
China’s New Coastal Installation Looks Like It Belongs in Space
Not every art installation earns the right to exist in a landscape. Most feel like intrusions, objects dropped into nature rather than grown from it….
The Designer Who Hid His Dumbbells Built Bronze Ones Worth Displaying
Home fitness equipment has quietly moved into the living room, but most of it hasn’t earned its place there. Dumbbells in particular are purely functional…
Giant Sculptures Look Like Machines but, Nobody Knows What They Do
Most public sculptures ask you to stand in front of them and feel something, usually reverence, awe, or a vague sense of civic pride. They…
Raul de Lara’s “Host” exhibition weaves together wood and identity
“Why can plants be considered native to more than one nation while people can’t?” This is a question that is very much relevant today with…
FundamentAI shows how AI and nature can co-design cities of tomorrow
Even though you’ve probably seen “AI this” and “AI that” for the past couple of years, we’re still barely scratching the surface of what Artificial…
The ‘Gentle Geometry’ Of Wood Reflecting Cultures Through Sculptures By Aleph Geddis
If you are inclined to woodworking, sculpture, or an appreciation for abstract geometric forms, the creations of sculptor Aleph Geddis are sure to captivate your…
Intricate Origami Meets Welded Car Parts In This Artwork That Challenges The Excess Of Desire In Society
The earthquake and the consecutive tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, and destroyed the coastline, resulting in numerous deaths and bulldozing the country’s…
Sculptor creates scientifically accurate glass creations of bacteria and viruses
In the past two years, we’ve seen an increase in interest in things like bacteria and viruses. Of course, we’d like to learn more about…
LEGO master builder Mitsuru Nikaido creates detailed animal sculptures that will shock and awe you
Mitsuru Nikaido, a Kurashiki-based artist, makes sculptures of different animal species from LEGO building blocks. Mitsuru Nikaido has been creating intricate sculptures out of LEGO…