Street Furniture – Pop Up Public Seating
Ever been somewhere and wanted to take a break, but there was no great place to sit? Designer Oliver Show decided to create a simple way to put seating into public areas, using yellow drainage pipes that are found sound the city of Hamburg. The pipes are flexible, cheap, and weather resistant. The design is simple – find a spot [...]
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Deconstructed Flowers – The Art of Fong Qi Wei
We’ve all seen flowers and heard of the “he loves me, he loves me not,” method of pulling off flower petals to predict if someone loves you. Fong Qi Wei, takes the removal of petals to a new level in his series of photographs of deconstructed flowers. Wei is a conceptual fine art photographer who is based in Singapore, who [...]
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Double D’s : A Café in a Double Decker Bus
Food trucks have been on the rise lately, but in Asheville, NC there is a café that takes food on wheels to a new level. Double D’s, a coffee shop located in downtown Asheville, is located inside of a bright red double decker bus. It is parked on downtown Biltmore Ave., and has been in operation for over twelve years [...]
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Tomi Astikainen – Living in a Gift Economy
Whenever I am looking for interesting things on the web, I will check out what events or workshops the creative group Pixelache are having in Helsinki, Finland. I checked their site yesterday, and saw that there was a speaker/ potluck event called Living in a Gift Economy with Tomi Astikainin, who is a writer and advocate of the creative commons [...]
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Jimmy Kuenhle – Inflatable Wonderland Labyrinth of Joy
I recently was able to check out Jimmy Kuehnle’s piece, Inflatable Wonderland Labyrinth of Joy at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland, OH. Jimmy is an artist known for making inflatable wearable forms that he wears in public spaces, and I was interested to see what inflatable setup he had created for the Sculpture Center show. When you find the space, [...]
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