Inspirations.  

Function Follows Form

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

Damien Coupeté images

paintings

German Painting after the 1960s

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

Antonio Rubino

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

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...

Black Boxes

Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins have practiced sculpture, installation and media art in Toronto si...

Supercars

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

Hasui Kawase 川瀬 巴水

Hasui Kawase (1883 – 1957) , the best known proponents of the 新版画 New Prints movement, was ...

Radebaugh and Bohn

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

France 1661

Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661

Upscaled

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

The Slave Ship

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...

The Sea by Emil Nolde

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

Forward Retreat

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

Pleats House

House ´Pleats M´ in Saitama. Hironaka Ogawa, born 1975 in Kagawa 1975, studied at Nihon University...

Technological Exaptation

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

長嶋りかこ Rikako Nagashima グラフィックデザイナー Founder / Graphic designer

Faces of the 21st century

Images by Thomas Mailaender. « Mailaender’s forum and sphere of operations is less the art worl...

Faces of the 17th century

17th century Dutch portraits from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Cutting Edge

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

Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head

Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...

Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin

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

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...

The Value Of Worthless

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

Fernando Botero

Who doesn´t like Botero? Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born 1932 in Medellín) is...

Sebastian Stoskopff the Painter of Vessels

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

Tensegrity

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

Evol

Tableware "Evol" by Patrick Jouin. Many of his creations are in the permanent collections of museums...

Jean Arp: Randomness

Randomness was a key part of Jean Arp’s work right from the creation of the first dadaist group in...

Time Bandits

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

Hell & Heaven

John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...

バガボンド summer collection

The バガボンド summer collection 2015

Poul Kjaerholm: PK0

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

The fairytales of H. C. Andersen

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

Ben Weiner: Post-Psychedelic Dreams

Ben Weiner lives and works in Queens, New York.

More cats in art

Cats throughout the centuries.

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...

Heinrich Hoerle, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Anton Raederscheidt

Paintings by Heinrich Hoerle, born 1895, Franz Wilhelm Seiwert, born 1894, and Anton Räderscheidt, ...

American Modern Paintings at Sotheby´s

Sotheby's New York sale on Wednesday, May 20th totaled $38,301,625 reflecting the continuous health ...

Modigliani: Your real duty is to save your dream

"What I am searching for is neither the real nor the unreal, but the subconscious, the mystery of wh...

The Art of Writing. The Rebirth of the Ogatsu Inkstone

The inkstone industry of Ogatsu, in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture once accounted for 90% of the...

Bart de Baets

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

Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction

In 1959, a newcomer in his early twenties takes New York’s art scene by storm: the American Frank ...

Gordon Walters: Koru

"My work is an investigation of positive/negative relationships within a deliberately limited range ...

Light installations

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

Monet and the Birth of Impressionism

The nineteenth century was a time of upheavals. A wide variety of developments took place at the sam...

Japanese Swiss Greek

Shibui is the name of a homeware and accessories company based in Switzerland, created by Greek desi...

Jordi López Aguiló

Jordi López Aguiló, born in Valencia 1983, worked with JDS Architects Copenhagen, Ibos et Vitart P...

Hermetic city

Hans Wilschut’s work originates from the urban world. His photographs are lyric reflections on the...

Light is a Vector

Lighting designer Arnout Meijer was born in Rotterdam in 1988. He studied design at Design Academy E...

Richard Estes´ New York

"Estes is a paradigmatic example of a world-class artist who is also a consummate artisan. He uses h...

ingredients

Pierre Gagnaire conceived two playfully named dishes dedicated to the conceptual artist––“Nave...

The Fans

The starting point for the installation was the combination of two intriguing phenomena. On the one ...

Herb Aach: Color Theory

Intense hues evenly inhabit the circular forms: clear orange, a lush green, a glowing violet and oth...

Now whip it / into shape / shape it up / get straight / go forward / move ahead

Experimental Jetset is a small, independent, Amsterdam-based graphic design studio, founded in 1997 ...

The Bean King

A painting by Jacob Jordaens

Santiago Villanueva

Art conceived as an intimate experience of body and time, a quest for an internal portrait in which ...

Diego Velázquez

Baroque Master painter Velázquez, celebrated as the "painter of painters" by Édouard Manet, inspir...

Andréason and Leibel

Kristian Andréason and Kristin Leibel have worked with clients such as IKEA of Sweden and Fagerhult...

Gianfranco Pardi

Born in Milan in 1933, Gianfranco Pardi started studying poetry and philosophy, dedicating himself t...

site specific

Originally from Mexico City, Gabriel Dawe creates site-specific installations. His work has been exh...

Enrico Castellani: Superficie

Enrico Castellani was born in Castelmassa, Rovigo, in 1930. He moved to Brussels in 1952 where he st...

Futurist Aristocracy

Axis No.3, England 1935; De Stijl No.1, Netherlands 1917; Futurist Aristocracy, USA No.1, 1923; Futu...

20th Century Avantgarde Magazines: Bauhaus, Blok, Mecano

Selected pages and illustrations from 20th century avant-garde magazines: Bauhaus No. 2, Germany 192...

A Happy and Abundant New Year

Flemish painter Pieter Aertsen was one of the first artists to paint "inverted still lifes," works i...

Sigrid Sandstrom

"Seeing allows us to navigate the world. Through perception we become oriented in space and time. Se...

Wyne Veen

Wyne Veen is a Dutch artist working mostly in the photographic medium. Veen graduated from the Royal...

William Glackens

Glackens was a boyhood friend of Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), the Philadelphia-born pharmaceutica...