For ten days in May of 2009, the street artist RIPO used news headlines as inspiration for a painting that he then covered with another painting of the following day’s news–a commentary on the over-saturation of media and fleeting nature of news–before peeling back a strip for each day to created a spectacularly striped, multicolor [...]

Jeanne-Claude, one half along with her husband of the artist duo Jeanne-Claude and Christo, died on Wednesday in New York at age 74 of complications from a brain aneurysm. The couple’s most iconic work, incidentally, was probably their Gates installation in Central Park in 2005, but the two had been active since the 60s. (They [...]

As much as ads annoy us if we have to sit through them at moments not of our choosing, when we get to watching beautiful commercials by incredibly creative designers and directors we can’t get enough. Our latest round-up of cool (mostly) new commercials is all about animation (mostly computer animation, but not exclusively), and [...]

By now, hopefully, you know all about the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt meme (if not, watch this), and if so then you’ll know just how parody-friendly this particular meme is. So much so, in fact, that alternate versions of the original shirt have popped up all over, leading the web culture experts at Urlesque to [...]

Sunday was America Recycles Day, but since we were out gathering cans and bottles and the like we weren’t able to blog about it. As is out wont, we’re over-compensating for our oversight with this graphic listicle we found of 44 Recycling Logos, some of which may look familiar, while others are rather geographically specific [...]

We once went to a concert in the Sydney Opera House, and though the actual performance hall was a spectacular wood-paneled space and the exterior is stunning, the halls and communal spaces inside the opera house look like a parking garage. So we wonder if it really belongs on The Coolist’s listicle of 10 Modern [...]

We were recently stuck on an unfamiliar block in a bit of a jam, and we desperately needed to find a phone booth. After searching for nearly 20 minutes we gave up: we were already soaking wet. We didn’t actually need to call anyone, but as far as shelters in a downpour go, phone booths [...]

Amidst all the gimmicky design trends and hot looks that last for a month or a season or a year, it’s nice to know that certain visual tricks and designs will never stop catching our eye. Print Mag has done a bang-up job chronicling one especially popular design trope’s many iterations in magazine design, album [...]

Last night two of the biggest cities in Brazil (and the world), Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, were plunged into darkness for several hours after a failure at a massive hydro-electric dam. From what we know about urban masses in such situations of widespread confusion, people will either go crazy or come together, and [...]

One day in the hopefully not too distant future, we’ll be able to fold electronic paper in a certain way and it will spring to life with our favorite games animated in real, physical three-dimensional glory. It’ll look something like that recreation of Pacman with specially programmed roombas. Until that day, though, we’ll have to [...]