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Dark Backgrounds Dramatize Colorful Portraits of Quilled Paper by Yulia Brodskaya

For years Yulia Brodskaya (previously) has gravitated toward light backdrops for her densely quilled paper portraits. “It rarely even crossed my mind that I should choose any colour other than white. White allows all wonderful colour reflections and blended inter-reflections from paper … Continue reading

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Paper Wildlife Sculptures by Artist Diana Beltrán Herrera Document Nature’s Most Striking Details

In 2012, Bristol-based artist Diana Beltrán Herrera (previously) began sculpting impeccably layered paper birds and other wildlife as a way to record her surroundings. Her lifelike pieces continuously have captured nature’s finely detailed and minuscule elements, like the fibrous texture of … Continue reading

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Figurative Faces Emerge From Layers of Tightly Stacked Pipes

Artist Yi Chul Hee creates amazing, innovative sculptures composed of stacked layers of pipes. Unexpected shapes and forms emerge from his carefully crafted piles of hollow tubes. Each piece plays with light and shadow, allowing it to seep through and visually shift … Continue reading

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Embroidered Patches Redefine Vintage Postcards and Photographs by Fiber Artist Han Cao

“Nice hair.” All images © Han Cao, Through densely laid cross-stitches and whorls of thread, Han Cao revitalizes discarded photographs and postcards. Similar to the artist’s previous projects, her latest series New Nostalgia strikes a balance between the original subjects … Continue reading

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Sam Cobb’s Amazing Automata Sculptures!

Meet artist Sam Cobb, a sculptor who specializes in making animated statues–automata! Sam joined us at this year’s DesignerCon to show off a few of her works and kits, and we chat with her about how she designs and prototypes … Continue reading

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Make this card Robot Cat automata

Keith Newstead You can download PDF’s for this automata at my Facebook Group ‘Mechanical Adventures’ https://www.facebook.com/groups/39331…

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ANTONI GAUDI’S BARCELONA – FOUR UNEARTHLY BUILDINGS YOU MUST-SEE IN BARCELONA

ANTONI GAUDI’S BARCELONA – FOUR UNEARTHLY BUILDINGS YOU MUST-SEE IN BARCELONA Welcome to Gaudi’s Barcelona! Architects, artists, engineers, travellers and vagabonds alike, make their way to the Catalonian capital in a sort of ‘design pilgrimage’, visiting the surreal moderisme (Spain’s … Continue reading

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Moses Boyd | Stranger Than Fiction (Director’s Cut)

Warning: video contains flashing images. The brief spoke of ‘hyper-musicality’. Outside of the obvious, this got us thinking about how might a sound ‘look’? What are our instruments, as filmmakers? First though, we had to set the mood and feel … Continue reading

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The Troubling Stories Behind Five Monuments That Came Down in Recent Days—and Why Their Removal Was Long Overdue

The histories of these monuments are inextricably woven into legacies of colonialism, brutality, and slavery. More: The Troubling Stories Behind Five Monuments That Came Down in Recent Days—and Why Their Removal Was Long Overdue

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