Category: Inspiration

Inspiration

'Who said you need two?' awesome bathing suit designs for women with mastectomies

The summer is warming up, an appropriate time for Monokini 2.0 to launch their Kickstarter crowdfunding initiative to mass-produce their swimwear designs. Monokini 2.0's initiative is to specifically design for women who’ve...

By Laura Smith · 8 hrs ago

Design

A love affair with fish and nature that led to something wonderful, beautiful, and inspiring

Ray Troll is one of the most iconic T-shirt and apparel designers of all time. In fact, he's no ordinary t-shirt print artist. His works have been commissioned by celebrities - musicians and actors alike. One of his outstanding...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Sep. 08, 2020

Creativity

This library ceiling net inspires kids to ‘hang out’ and read

How do you encourage kids to read? Turn libraries into fantasy jungle gyms. It seems to obvious, but that is exactly what Playoffice has designed for their latest project.  The Playoffice Library features a series of climbable...

By Justin Crowe · Sep. 06, 2020

Art

The annual Armory Show is back, takes a deeper look into multiculturalism and other important issues today

The Armory Show is one of the most popular art shows in the country. Each year, it comes back and features highly important pieces of work from various artists. From painters to sculptors to performance artists, the show has...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Sep. 04, 2020

Art

Phenomenal trans filmmaker and artist Wu Tsang shows how differences between us can be a good thing

Wu Tsang is one of a kind. It's not because her films are unique and tackle topics that are deemed taboo by many others. It's not because she's a transgender artist. It's because she embraces what is ordinarily considered as a hindrance...

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Sep. 04, 2020

Inspiration

The astoundingly beautiful ornamental eggs of Eastern Europe

Taking us to a rural village in present-day Ukraine, a particularly poignant video brings us inside the 100-year old traditional craft of ornamental egg painting. A Romanian woman speaks about the business of crafting, and how...

By Steph · Aug. 16, 2020

Nature

The story's in the detail in Ellen Jewett's ornate animal sculptures

Ellen Jewett crafts elaborately intricate sculptures of animals embellished with a variety of ornaments. The artist uses a mixture of cold porcelain and polymer settled onto metal wire armatures, fashioning each...

By Umar Ansari · Aug. 15, 2020

Inspiration

Ride this crazy waterslide with black hole light effects

If you are tired of the typical dark amusement park water slide, then this slide in Bremerhaven, Germany, will be a real treat. In 2012 the waterpark upgraded their slide to make it look like you are flying through space while...

By Justin Crowe · Aug. 14, 2020

Inspiration

Interactive mobile game lets you play inside the work of a legendary artist

It is very common for a work of art to be inspired by a more renowned piece. But how does art inspire a mobile app? 'Monument Valley' is an example of this new and unique trend. Developers ustwo, or "dreamers and doers" as they like to...

By Umar Ansari · Jul. 28, 2020

Inspiration

This 144-year-old Wisteria is stunning. It is the oldest in Japan.

This insanely large wisteria vine rests in Ashikaga Flower Park in Tochigi, Japan. It covers nearly 2,000 square meters and is held aloft by a network of supports. The supports lift the massive vine above the heads of park visitors...

By Justin Crowe · Jul. 27, 2020

Inspiration

Canadian fine jewelry brand focusing on fresh and contemporary designs for women

Mejuri is the brainchild of former engineer Noura Sakkijha and seasoned art director Justine Lançon. It is an e-commerce fine jewelry brand based in Canada which gives a whole new light on making personal jewelry decisions....

By Sharee Ann Narciso-Tolentino · Jul. 19, 2020

Street art

Filipino graffiti artist fills the streets of Manila with Zaha Hadid-inspired wall art

The Manila-based graffiti artist behind the street pseudonym Swtch Off only started developing his creative skills for graffiti seven years ago by filling up the back of his university notebooks with sketches instead of lectures....

By Mariza Monta · Jul. 16, 2020

Inspiration

Artist aims to make life-sized elephant from a single sheet of paper

How big does a piece of paper need to be to produce a life-size origami elephant? According artist Sipho Mabona, 50-feet square. The artist's current crowdfunding campaign aims to prove this theory by raising the necessary funds...

By Justin Crowe · Jul. 13, 2020

Inspiration

DIY peppermint shot glasses will make your holidays even more cheerful

What better way to celebrate this holiday season than with these festive DIY shot glasses. You will be the hit of the next party thanks to food blogger Cheri Alberts and her tutorial on how to make these in your own kitchen. The process...

By Justin Crowe · Jul. 03, 2020

Art

Grass grows through dense fabric in Martin Roth's poetic rug installations

Nature finds a way to take over - even through the thick fabric of rugs and carpets. New York-based Austrian artist Martin Roth waters his carpets daily to ensure that grass he's planted within the fiber grows fast and lush....

By Umar Ansari · Jul. 03, 2020