Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira has no qualms about breaking down the walls of museum spaces with his sculptures. These tree trunks almost becomes a part of the museum, weaving in and out of the walls and pillars.
Dentsu London’s hand-finished conductive christmas card that lights up when you complete the circuit. Lovely!
One of Roy Lichtenstein’s last works was on display in Gagosian Gallery in Hong Kong recently. Lichtenstein re-interpreted Chinese landscape paintings in his own unique pop-art style. This resulted in a very much bold and edgy, yet somewhat quiet and harmonious collection.
Kyosuke Nishida, Brian Li and Dominic Liu came together to create this beautiful 3D poster and site, Words can come fly, in support of the people of Fukushima and to help raise funds for those in need.
Studio Roso created this beautiful Christmas tree, commissioned by V&A. Made up of 3.3 miles of elastic cord and over 4 meters in height, this tree features a total of 1500 individual strands of cords coming together with ge0metric shapes that resembles Christmas ornaments to form a beautiful Christmas tree.
With a 0.5 mechanical pencil, a large 5ft by 8 ft blank piece of paper and 10 months at 10 hours a day, pop surreal artist Todd Schorr created this intriguing work called Solitude.
Banky’s newest work, Cardinal Sin, is a pixelated sculpture of a 18-century stone bust of a priest on display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.
Spanish art collective Penique Productions gives new meaning to existing spaces by completely enveloping them with custom inflatable structures. The result is a stunning monochromatic representation of the shell.
Designed by MAD architects, the Ordos Museum in Inner Mongolia is like a space ship that has just landed in the desert.
British architect Ian McChesney produced a series of sculptures named ‘Blaze’ along roadside verges of the A66 in Middlesbrough, resembling rolling hills ablaze with the sun, all gold and shimmering.
A delightfully ‘low-tech’ way to explain the very much high-tech, done in classic Eames clarity.
Read MoreWith a simple twist and a turn, Japanese illustrator ‘BAKU’ Maeda transforms the lowly ribbon into a delightful caricature of animals in all shapes and forms.
Designed by Japanese designer Taku Satoh and sold at a charity market earlier this year to benefit victims of the 3.11 tsunami and earthquake, these beautiful pebble shaped wood seems like the perfect toy for little hands to stack and play.
Strong, clear and immaculately well-controlled identity and environmental graphics by British design firm Cartlidge Levene for V&A. via SeptemberIndustry.
Pareidolia is a phenomenon where human beings need only a few minimal details to recognise a face. And as such we’re predisposed to seeing human faces in everyday objects such as clouds, buildings, and paintings. Ukrainian painter Oleg Shuplyak exposes this side of us by cleverly using people, objects, and landscapes to give his paintings a double meaning, much like the more famous Surrealist painter, Salvador Dali.
Mother London’s Christmas project is a hilarious take on psychic readings, promising tees with your personal psychic readings by celebrity LA-based psychic Lucinda Clare. All for just a £100 donation to Age UK.
Vases present flowers as a one dimensional opbject, often obscuring the equally beautiful but oft over looked views, like the bottom and the back of the blooms. Giorgia Zanellato’s Narcisco Vases transform a single stalk of flowers into a kaleidoscopic work of art, allowing the viewer to appreciate the flowers from all angles, all at once.
These intrigue and delicate drawings of hair come from the hands of America based Chinese artist, Hong Chun Zhang.
If you are in New York, drop by Barney on Madison Avenue to visit Gaga’s Workshop. Working closely with Lady Gaga, Barney created an entire floor of weirdness and limited edition items. Did I mention that 25% of sale from all items here will go to the anti-bullying Born This Way Foundation? via mymodernmet
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