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Inspirations.
Things As They Are
Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...
Pryor Console
The CASTE line of furniture and accessories is designed by Ty Best. Ty was born and raised in Montan...
Dim Sum for designers
Make the dough: In a bowl, combine salt, flour and water. Knead into a smooth dough for 5 minutes. C...
New Patterns
my new patterns
Postcards from Miami
Art Deco in Miami Beach. Photos (C) Mario Gagliardi
The Art of Ralph McQarrie
Ralph Angus McQuarrie studied at the Art Center School in Pasadena. He first worked for a dentistry ...
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...
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...
WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN
Sungwon Suh studied Business Administration at Dongguk University in Seoul and fashion at Raffles Co...
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 ...
Amir Zaki: Southern California
Amir Zaki is a practicing artist living in Southern California. He received his MFA from UCLA in 199...
Minoru Yamasaki and Jean Baudrillard
Minoru Yamasaki, best known as the architect of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, created several...
Shannon Goff
Shannon Goff works with sculpture, ceramics, and drawing. Goff received a BFA from University of Mic...
Stars in your eyes
Tim Lahan is an artist and illustrator living and working in New York. He’s the author of The Nosy...
Paul Rand
A selection of work by eminent American graphic designer Paul Rand.
Islamic Art Now
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) presents Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of the Middl...
Constructing the sixties
"My personal practice focuses on America during the 1960s and 1970s. The works take the form of stag...
Pili Wu: Plastic Classic
Pili Wu (b. 1986) is a graduate of the Industrial Design Department of Shih-Chien University (Taiwan...
Ghia Gilda
Chrysler’s executive Virgil Exner commissioned the Gilda showcar in 1955. It was designed by desig...
Richard Estes´ New York
"Estes is a paradigmatic example of a world-class artist who is also a consummate artisan. He uses h...
Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva: Nature vs. Nurture
Collages by Dessislava Dobreva Terzieva, a Bulgarian born, Detroit based artist.
Exit Eden
Doug Fogelson studied photography at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Columbia College...
1-Bit Symphony
Tristan Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University, and received a maste...
China
Photographic impressions of Shanghai, Hangzhou and surroundings. © Mario Gagliardi
时晓凡: Hong Kong Moment
时晓凡 / QUENTIN SHIH (a.k.a. SHI XIAOFAN), born in Tianjin, China in 1975, lives and works as a ...
Trylon and Perisphere
Images from the New York World´s Fair 1939.
The Tallest Buildings in the World
The tallest buildings in the world in 1901 New York City and other images from the United States aro...
You belong here
It is New Orleans’ distinct history that makes it an illuminating source of philosophical inquiry ...
Sturtevant Double Trouble
Elaine Sturtevant understands the power of images. The American artist who worked most of her life i...
Herb Aach: Color Theory
Intense hues evenly inhabit the circular forms: clear orange, a lush green, a glowing violet and oth...
LIVE / WORK
So what’s this exhibition all about, anyway? Well, these are infertile female harvester worker ant...
Vicky Moon: Mid-century Modern
Vicky Moon is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA with a B.F.A. in Photograph...
Coffee light
A lamp by Chinese designer Liu Jiryre.
site specific
Originally from Mexico City, Gabriel Dawe creates site-specific installations. His work has been exh...
Joel Sternfeld: On This Site
Joel Sternfeld was born 1944 in New York. He earned a BA in Art from Dartmouth College in 1965. He b...
An Entangled World: The Art of Judith Scott
Judith Scott (May 1, 1943 – March 15, 2005) was a pioneering American sculptor and textile artist....
Hanhsi Chen and Shikai Tseng
Poetic Lab is a London-based joint studio founded by Chinese designers Hanhsi Chen and Shikai Tseng....
Zhili Liu 刘知礼
design by Zhili LIu, China.
Modular Constructivism: Norman Carlberg and Erwin Hauer
Norman Carlberg (born 1928) studied at the Minneapolis School of Art and at the University of Illino...
Jason Munn
Jason Munn (1975) grew up in Neenah, Wisconsin, but now calls Oakland, California home. He began mak...
Michael DeLucia: Sculptures
Michael DeLucia was born 1978 in Rochester, NY. He studied at Rhode Island School of Design and at R...
Donald Judd: Sculptures
Donald Judd began as a painter, his paintings developing in the early 1960s into low-reliefs, then i...
Donald Judd: Graphics
Donald Judd began as a painter. His paintings developed in the early 1960s into low-reliefs, then in...
Hello Kitty Culture
The iconic Hello Kitty turned forty in 2014. Sanrio and the Japanese American National Museum (JANM)...
Steve Wolfe
Steve Wolfe (b. 1955) re-creates worn books and used records, primarily from the 1960s and 1970s. I...
Von Tundra
Von Tundra is an American design studio and creative collaboration between Dan Anderson, Chris Held,...
Futurist Aristocracy
Axis No.3, England 1935; De Stijl No.1, Netherlands 1917; Futurist Aristocracy, USA No.1, 1923; Futu...
Andrew B. Myers
Andrew B. Myers is a Canadian photographer. He lives and works in New York. His clients include Airb...
Doug Wheeler: Light and Space
Doug Wheeler is a pioneer of the “Light and Space” movement. He began his career as a painter in...
Sigrid Sandstrom
"Seeing allows us to navigate the world. Through perception we become oriented in space and time. Se...
William Glackens
Glackens was a boyhood friend of Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), the Philadelphia-born pharmaceutica...
A Feast Of Colours
Expressionism, an artistic movement in which pictorial imagery is depicted through dramatically expr...
Stuart Davis
Stuart Davis was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 7, 1894. His father was the art editor of the Philadel...
骆丹简历: Collodion
Lou Dan pictures locals with whom he lived for half a year from a valley in Yunnan province with the...
Illustrations by Victo Ngai
Victo Ngai is a New York based illustrator from Hong Kong. She graduated from Rhode Island School of...
Keibei Li
Industrial Designer Keibei Li holds a BA from RISD. He interned at Speck design, Google, Samsung, an...
唐晟艺
Series "Boom" by photographer Tang ShengYi.
Tang ShengYi, born in 1990, lives and works in Shanghai...
Silent Night
Markus Henttonen (b. 1976) is a Finnish artist photographer currently living and working in Berlin. ...
Aminimal
Svetlana Blum Briscella and John Briscella are the creative minds behind Aminimal, a Brooklyn-based ...
Ren Han 任瀚
Ren Han (1984 Tianjin, China) lives and works in Tianjin. He studied at Academy of Fine Arts Tianjin...
Christophe Urbain: New Orleans
Photographer Christophe Urbain from Strasbourg is an autodidact with a background in informatics. Af...
李浩強, 趙國君 & 何文裕
Todot Design from Macao is Bob Lei, Patrick Chiu and Fish Ho.
Bob Lei graduated with a BA in Graphic...
Tom Hancocks: Ode to Symmetry
CF Goldman SS15 collection and Ode to Symmetry by Tom Hancocks. Tom is a visual artist based in New ...
Benjamin Phelan
Benjamin Phelan, b. 1982 Bryn Mawr, PA, lives/works in Brooklyn, NY.
Solo and Two Person Exhibition...
Masood Kamandy
Masood Kamandy (b. 1981 in Colorado) is a Los Angeles based artist. Masood received his MFA from the...
Daniel Kaufman
Designer Daniel Kaufman studied at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked at MAYA Design, RORUS INC, ...
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No.5 Warehouse Museum of Fossil
A space in the headquarter of a stone manufacturer in China. With its monochromatic walls, oddly sla...
Pulp architecture
The need to stand out in a hyper-commercialized market results in remarkable examples of contemporar...
Culinary Tradition
Four examples of contemporary food packaging designs inspired by traditional Chinese patterns and gr...
Kids House
For Inwayi Kids House in Ningbo City, China, designer Nono Xia of graphic design studio Ninemix cam...
Tatsuo Miyajima: Being Coming
Although this is for an exhibition of Japanese contemporary artist Tatsuo Miyajima at Shanghai Minsh...
K11 Musea
Westworld meets Surrealism in the interior design of K11 Musea, a new shopping mall in Hong Kong, a ...
Lotus Zen House
The Lotus Zen House hotel is located in Mount Jiuhua, an important Buddhist site in China. Hong Kong...
Laurel Hills Residence
A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...
Los Angeles
Traveling with Google Maps
The e-scooter Boom
The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...
Franz Kline
Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...
Jeff Zimmerman
Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...
Home Patterns
“Home Patterns” is a new series of patterns by Longstory, designed for printing on textiles, wal...
American Food
Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...
Jean Lurçat
Jean Lurcat, painter, poet and ceramicist, great renovator of contemporary French tapestry, produced...
Heartbeat, Heartseat
Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...
This City
This City is an audio-visual piece performed as musical alter-ego Mark Eats. It explores what happen...
The Glass House
"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...
Porcelain Monobloc
This work consists of nine unique, porcelain reproductions of different styles of mono-block resin c...
The Oily Actor
“I had been looking around these ideas of systemic crisis, global financial crisis, which is what ...
Julius Shulman: Visual Drama
"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...
Charles Guo
Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler
“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...
Mass, space, plane and line
"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...
Superheroes
Paola Mathe, born in Petionville, Haiti, lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA in econom...
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...
The Way Of The Light
Vasa Mihich studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Mihich has l...
朱敬一 Standing Ink
Zhu Jingyi , born 1975 in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China, studied at Nanjing Normal University a...
Radebaugh and Bohn
Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was an American illustrator, airbrush artist, and designer. Some of...
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...
Forward Retreat
Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...
Afflicted Objects
"When I was 22 years old I found myself pacing the hallucinogenic black & white sidewalks of Rio de ...
邵 年 Shao Nian
Graphic designer Shao Nian, born 1993, is co-founder of Orgasm studio and owner of slow salon. He li...
Ramona Rosales Portraits
Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.
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...
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 ...
 and her MFA in Textile Design and Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Michigan State University. Before joining MSU, she was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Donghua University in Shanghai, China.&image=https://www.penccil.com/files/U_461_156849452610_1.1_40s_Meditation.river_XiaGao.jpg){kind=link}
 and her MFA in Textile Design and Art from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently, Gao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at Michigan State University. Before joining MSU, she was a faculty member at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Donghua University in Shanghai, China.&pic=https://www.penccil.com/files/U_461_156849452610_1.1_40s_Meditation.river_XiaGao.jpg&language=en){kind=link}