Inspirations.  

Blast

Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...

Man. Kiki. Lee.

The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray) "All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...

Attachment

Chairs by German designers Yvonne Fehling & Jennie Peiz.

Conformity

“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...

Uncanny Bodies

There is a space of imagination stretching between brain, lens and body: Photography by Ariana Molly...

Trees in Winter

A series utilizing random patterns in nature to reveal mathematical beauty, by Ansen Seale.

Observatoires

Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...

Erwin Poell: Naturwissenschaft + Technik

Erwin Poell (1930) is a German graphic designer. From 1951 he studied with Walter Brudi at the State...

101 x 101

AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...

Nauru

Nauru was first inhabited at least 3,000 years ago. Inhabitants caught ibija fish, acclimatised them...

SCHNAPPVIECHER

The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-yea...

German Painting after the 1960s

What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...

The contemporary condition

Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...

Orange mecanique

Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...

Merzbau

"The Merzbau is the construction of an interior from sculptural forms and colours. In the glazed gro...

"I’m an outsider"

Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New...

Spacecraft

Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...

Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek (b. March 17, 1896, Kolin, Bohemia – d. September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, ...

Mirrors

Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...

Charles Negre

Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.

Symphonie

Posters for the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Bureau Mirko Borsche is a graphic desi...

constructing meaning in 3 steps

Frank Hülsbömer was born 1968 in Münster/Germany.

Iraq

Photojournalist Luke Wolagiewicz lives in London. Over the last 15 years he has worked across the Mi...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

The Other Side

There's always another side, other stories and new faces behind the glamorous curtains of the fashio...

Oskar Schlemmer: Das Triadische Ballett

After Walter Gropius founded the stage workshop in 1921, Oskar Schlemmer, the head of the stage work...

Spatial Objects

Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...

Hello Winter

Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...

Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry

Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...

The Sea by Emil Nolde

Born in the village of Nolde in 1902, Emil Hansen came from a family of peasants. Nolde completed an...

UN_NATURAL BESTIARY

In this work Andrea Alessio collects, as in an ancient bestiary, a series of animal images. The fore...

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

I would like to introduce this new series of photos by Andrea Alessio by appealing to an axiom that ...

Behind the walls

Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...

Lo Zuavo Scomparso

Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...

Bender Chair

The human body is not built for rigid sitting on a chair over an extended period. In fact, moving an...

Technological Exaptation

Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...

Touch

Touch Collection for Nespresso by Geckeler Michels. A choice of black pigmented porcelain guarantees...

Parisian Still Lifes

Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.

Versuchsaufbau A

Die Grundidee des Versuchsaufbaus–A beruht auf dem System der astronomischen Sonnenuhr. Sonnenuhre...

Volkswagen Jetta

Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...

Inside is Out - Outside is In

photography by Thomas Skou, Copenhagen.

Aeronauts

Photographer Benedict Redgrove was born in Woodley near Reading, England. He studied at Berkshire Co...

Ramona Rosales Portraits

Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.

Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin

Studio Laucke Siebein is a design studio based in Amsterdam and Berlin. Dirk Laucke (1965) – born ...

B3 / Wassily

An icon of 20th century design, the Model B3 or Wassily chair was designed by Marcel Breuer between ...

Memory & Form

Paul is an Australian-Taiwanese photographer living and working in New York. He studied in Milano an...

Low Tech

Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...

Permanent Objects

Simon Freund of Simon&Me is a young German artist working in the field of consumable goods. Each obj...

BRANCHES & TREES

Line structures from branches and trees against the sky or as a reflection

White Rooms

Photographer Wouter Hogendorp from Den Haag documents the beauty of architectural details: light, th...

Dominik Tarabanski

Photographer Dominik Tarabanski was born in Poland. He lives and works in NYC.

Hans Poelzig: Architecture as Gesamtkunstwerk

Architect Hans Poelzig (1869 – 1936) was an eclectic visionary. He worked with sculptural effects,...

New York by Louis Faurer

Louis Faurer (1916 – 2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...

The Long River

Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the ...

Things As They Are

Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...

Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels

Sebastian (or Sébastien) Stoskopff (Strasbourg, July 13, 1597 – Idstein February 10, 1657) was an...

It Must Be Beautiful

Bus stop embellishments in Belarus. Photographer Alexandra Soldatova was born in 1983. She graduated...

Seventies Portraits

Beautiful black and white portraits from the seventies.

Material zur elementaren Gestaltung

1G Material zur Elementaren Gestaltung. Published by Graeff, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter. Contributio...

Time Bandits

Visual communication artist Sabine Marx-Nieder is based in Munich, Germany.

Simon Vahala ....things that simply just happen

... things that simply just happen, with no one noticing or caring. The subject? Nature inscribed by...

André Kertész

André Kertész (1894-–1985) was born in Austria-Hungary. In 1912, he bought his first camera and m...

Muhamma

Happy days in the town of Muhamma, Kerala, India. Images (C) Mario Gagliardi 2014.

Hotel Metropole

Hotel Metropole, Mysore, India. This remarkable building was constructed by the Maharaja of Mysore t...

The ghost of Vasco Da Gama

Kappad beach near Kozhikode (Calicut), India, where the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama landed on ...

Travel Stories

Images from Taichung, Taiwan; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Berlin, Germany; Frankfu...

Cope: Product

Raised in Maryland, photographer Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended the Ar...

Cope: Architecture

Raised in Maryland, photographer Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended the Ar...

Seen or remembered

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Ben...

Postcards from Miami

Art Deco in Miami Beach. Photos (C) Mario Gagliardi