Inspirations.  

Mass, space, plane and line

"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...

E. Hu

Eric Hu is an art director based in New York. He previously worked as the design lead at OKFocus. Er...

Function Follows Form

Formlab is a series of photos generated by an ongoing process for inspiration, random objects are co...

Radiofonografo RR126

The Brionvega RR126, designed by Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni in 1965, was a remarkable inno...

Superheroes

Paola Mathe, born in Petionville, Haiti, lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA in econom...

Antonio Rubino

Antonio Rubino: Pittore, illustratore e scrittore (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Legato all´art nou...

"I’m an outsider"

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

Sadamitsu Neil Fujita

Sadamitsu Fujita was born in Waimea, Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. He attended boarding school in H...

Stan Galli

Illustrator Stan Galli (1912 - 2009) attended the California School of Fine Arts and was recruited a...

Spacecraft

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

Mirrors

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

Supercars

Max Siedentopf grew up in Windhoek, Namibia and continued to live in Berlin and Los Angeles. He curr...

Poise

Two Create was founded in 2002 by husband and wife team Lucy and Tobie Snowdowne. The couple met whi...

The Way Of The Light

Vasa Mihich studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Mihich has l...

Radebaugh and Bohn

Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was an American illustrator, airbrush artist, and designer. Some of...

CHROMAesthesiae

CHROMAesthesiae is a landscape of color populating space in high contrast-gradated clusters. This in...

Upscaled

In the summer of 2010 the city of Eindhoven asked us to make something fun happen in the city centre...

Silent Geography

Silent Geography is a site-specific installation consisting of Hazard's torn paper constructed lands...

John James Audubon and the Golden Eagle

R Kikuo Johnson grew up on the island of Maui. He began a career in cartooning and illustration wit...

Spin it

Posters by London-based graphic design studio Spin.

Forward Retreat

Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...

Faces of the 17th century

17th century Dutch portraits from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Afflicted Objects

"When I was 22 years old I found myself pacing the hallucinogenic black & white sidewalks of Rio de ...

Cutting Edge

Based on the infamous foam-cutting technique - known for providing many interns a lifelong trauma. G...

Lucha Libre

A small set of ´Lucha Libre´-posters found by Dutch graphic designer Hans Gremmen at a printer in ...

邵 年 Shao Nian

Graphic designer Shao Nian, born 1993, is co-founder of Orgasm studio and owner of slow salon. He li...

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.

Nikolai Lutohin

Nikolai Lutohin (1932 - 2000) was born in Yugoslavia as the son of Russian parents. Already as a fiv...

Shin Dokho

Shin Dokho, graphic designer.

Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin

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

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...

Luciferase

A series of table lights in Epoxy resin, colored pigment, sand, silicone, steel and LEDs. Nacho Carb...

White Rooms

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

Müller-Brockmann

Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914 – 1996) was one of the main exponents of the Swiss International Sty...

The Value Of Worthless

Klaas Kuiken is a designer, but in his workspace he´s more like an inventor or craftsman. Klaas Kui...

Dominik Tarabanski

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

New York by Louis Faurer

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

Braun

In 1929, Max Braun began to manufacture radio sets in Frankfurt am Main. In 1935, the Braun brand wa...

Things As They Are

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

Tensegrity

If there is some sort of thread that travels through the life of Raimond Puts (1937 - 2012) then it ...

Pryor Console

The CASTE line of furniture and accessories is designed by Ty Best. Ty was born and raised in Montan...

Object

Karolis Strautniekas is a freelance illustrator living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania. He studied...

André Kertész

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

Heaven & Hell

Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.

Poul Kjaerholm: PK0

While most of his contemporary designers preferred wood as their primary material, Kjærholm chose s...

Postcards from Miami

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

Nelson Mandela Blvd

Wasteland is an on-going collection of self-initiated works by Hanno van Zyl, hand drawn using brush...

The fairytales of H. C. Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen was born 1805 in Odense, Denmark as the son of a poor shoemaker. He undertoo...

The Art of Ralph McQarrie

Ralph Angus McQuarrie studied at the Art Center School in Pasadena. He first worked for a dentistry ...

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

Icons of American Design: George Nelson

"Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of ...

Deutschland

Design of painted wall texts by Rasmus Koch studio for artist Jens Haaning. In 2004, Jens Haaning wr...

Foam wood table

The wood has been planed down to its constituent wood particles and has been recast. As the wood sta...

Supercenter disruptions

Mass: an installation project about creating visual disruptions in places of mass. Mass is a site sp...

Sisyphus

"Motion Control" is an industry term for computer-controlled movement in applications like robotics ...

Paolo Cirio: Overexposed

This artwork is composed of a series of nine unauthorized photos of high-ranking U.S. intelligence o...

Architectural Fun Ride

Borrowing language from roller coasters, the “Architectural Fun Ride” is a block-long, program-l...

Fresh White

Four major arcana here: Fresh White is at a turning point, and a very positive one. The Sun and the ...

Siggi Eggertson: Ich Bin Ein Kugelschreiber

Hello, I´m Siggi Eggertsson. Born in Akureyri, a small town on the north coast of Iceland. Grew up ...

Klas Ernflo: Ink On Board

After his education at Beckmans College of Design, Klas moved to Barcelona where he started working ...

Numerical Digits 1 — 9

1 — 9 for 36 Days of Type — instagram.com/maandesign

Amir Zaki: Southern California

Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 199...

Bart de Baets

Graphic designer Bart de Baets graduated in 2003 from the Gerrit Rietveld academy. Bart teaches gra...

Minoru Yamasaki and Jean Baudrillard

Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, created several...

Ed Fella Documents

“I was an illustrator, so you see endless styles popping in and out of the books. The drawings are...

Shannon Goff

Shannon Goff works with sculpture, ceramics, and drawing. Goff received a BFA from University of Mic...

Light installations

Studio Drift was founded in 2006 by Ralph Nauta and Lonneke Gordijn. Lonneke Gordijn studied at Desi...

Invisible Cities

Gérard Trignac was born in 1955 in Bordeaux, where he attended the Bordeaux School of Architecture....