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SINGLE EYES GAZE OUT OF ANTIQUE CUTLERY, TINS, AND OTHER 4 hours ago · The Georgian era saw the rise in a jewelry trend that’s equally sentimental and peculiar: to remember spouses who had died or to honor clandestine affairs without revealing anyone’s identity, people would commission tiny renderings of a person’s eye to be painted on broaches, rings, and other accessories they could carry with them. Similar to a lock of hair or portrait hidden in alocket
AN OVERSIZED AND ECLECTIC STACK OF WELL-LOVED VINYL SLIDES 6 hours ago · Flip through a treasured record collection and you’re likely to find tattered covers and faded, bent corners on the most played albums. Artist Erik Burke displays these signs of a well-loved LP in a new mural that amplifies music’s outsized impact to a monumental scale. Tucked into a corner at Reno’s Record Street Brewing, the towering artwork gathers a vintage collection—TheNotorious
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on ENCHANTING SCENES COMBINE MULTIPLE PRECISELY CARVED Valerie Lueth, who’s behind the Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Printshop (), continues to cultivate dreamy scenarios painstakingly printed with intricately carved woodblocks.Her recent creations include a distant truss bridge peeking through vegetation, a whimsically intertwined pair of trees—now in full color, this piece began as a black-line woodcut commissioned for an edition of Jean-Claude A CANDY-COLORED CLOUD HOVERS OVER A WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the midst of a thunderstorm, and as Kottke notes, the serendipitous shot evokes the saturated, trippy swirls in Milton Glaser’s 1966 poster of Bob Dylan. ORNATE JEWEL-TONED STITCHES EMBELLISH COMMON HOUSEHOLD The artist meticulously stitches ornamental sculptures that resemble common domestic items and vintage electronics. Covered in crisscrossed seams and textured rows, each piece is a product of combining embroidery, appliqué, and quilting techniques, and the resulting jewel-toned works are heavily adorned with flowers and other organicforms
150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
SINGLE EYES GAZE OUT OF ANTIQUE CUTLERY, TINS, AND OTHER 4 hours ago · The Georgian era saw the rise in a jewelry trend that’s equally sentimental and peculiar: to remember spouses who had died or to honor clandestine affairs without revealing anyone’s identity, people would commission tiny renderings of a person’s eye to be painted on broaches, rings, and other accessories they could carry with them. Similar to a lock of hair or portrait hidden in alocket
AN OVERSIZED AND ECLECTIC STACK OF WELL-LOVED VINYL SLIDES 6 hours ago · Flip through a treasured record collection and you’re likely to find tattered covers and faded, bent corners on the most played albums. Artist Erik Burke displays these signs of a well-loved LP in a new mural that amplifies music’s outsized impact to a monumental scale. Tucked into a corner at Reno’s Record Street Brewing, the towering artwork gathers a vintage collection—TheNotorious
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on ENCHANTING SCENES COMBINE MULTIPLE PRECISELY CARVED Valerie Lueth, who’s behind the Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Printshop (), continues to cultivate dreamy scenarios painstakingly printed with intricately carved woodblocks.Her recent creations include a distant truss bridge peeking through vegetation, a whimsically intertwined pair of trees—now in full color, this piece began as a black-line woodcut commissioned for an edition of Jean-Claude A CANDY-COLORED CLOUD HOVERS OVER A WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the midst of a thunderstorm, and as Kottke notes, the serendipitous shot evokes the saturated, trippy swirls in Milton Glaser’s 1966 poster of Bob Dylan. ORNATE JEWEL-TONED STITCHES EMBELLISH COMMON HOUSEHOLD The artist meticulously stitches ornamental sculptures that resemble common domestic items and vintage electronics. Covered in crisscrossed seams and textured rows, each piece is a product of combining embroidery, appliqué, and quilting techniques, and the resulting jewel-toned works are heavily adorned with flowers and other organicforms
150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house JUNE 2021 OPPORTUNITIES: OPEN CALLS, RESIDENCIES, AND Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you'd like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open AN OVERSIZED AND ECLECTIC STACK OF WELL-LOVED VINYL SLIDES 6 hours ago · Flip through a treasured record collection and you’re likely to find tattered covers and faded, bent corners on the most played albums. Artist Erik Burke displays these signs of a well-loved LP in a new mural that amplifies music’s outsized impact to a monumental scale. Tucked into a corner at Reno’s Record Street Brewing, the towering artwork gathers a vintage collection—TheNotorious
FLORA AND FAUNA CONVERGE AS FANTASTIC HYBRID CREATURES IN Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imaginesa
NINE MASSIVE WAVES OF DEADWOOD SURGE ACROSS A FOREST FLOOR 1 day ago · As the fear of a second wave of COVID-19 swept through Germany in the fall of 2020, photographer and artist Jörg Gläscher decided to channel his own worry into a project that felt similarly vast and domineering. “I was working (with the idea of) the pure power of nature, the all-destroying force, which brings one of the richest countries in the world to a completely still stand,” he PRESERVED GRASSES AND TWIGS RADIATE OUTWARD IN DELICATELY 1 day ago · Artist Kazuhito Takadoi tames the unruly grasses, leaves, and twigs grown in his garden by weaving the individual strands into exquisite radial sculptures.Stitched into paper or bound to wooden discs made of cedar of Lebanon, oak, elm, or walnut, the abstract forms hover between two and three dimensions and utilize traditional Japanese bookbinding techniques to secure the threads. SINGLE EYES GAZE OUT OF ANTIQUE CUTLERY, TINS, AND OTHER 4 hours ago · The Georgian era saw the rise in a jewelry trend that’s equally sentimental and peculiar: to remember spouses who had died or to honor clandestine affairs without revealing anyone’s identity, people would commission tiny renderings of a person’s eye to be painted on broaches, rings, and other accessories they could carry with them. Similar to a lock of hair or portrait hidden in alocket
ASPARAGUS, CUCUMBERS, AND CABBAGE LEAVES TAKE A FRESH Ben Denzer cultivates what could be the next trend in sustainable fashion with a green redesign of the classic Hermés Birkin bag. The artist and designer whipped up these vegetable versions of the iconic, high-end accessory by arranging asparagus stalks, cucumber slices, and cabbage leaves into a trio you’d be more likely to find in the produce aisle than a luxury shop. A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso far.
INNUMERABLE PIECES OF DYED CLAY ENVELOP MEDITATIVE Thin ribbons of porcelain ripple across the surfaces of Alice Walton’s abstract sculptures. Gently sloped domes and pillars are covered in countless individual strips, which vary in thickness and length and add irregular texture and depth to the finished pieces. "Every mark I make, whether this be a COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
SINGLE EYES GAZE OUT OF ANTIQUE CUTLERY, TINS, AND OTHER The Georgian era saw the rise in a jewelry trend that’s equally sentimental and peculiar: to remember spouses who had died or to honor clandestine affairs without revealing anyone’s identity, people would commission tiny renderings of a person’s eye to be painted on broaches, rings, and other accessories they could carry with them. Similar to a lock of hair or portrait hidden in a locket AN OVERSIZED AND ECLECTIC STACK OF WELL-LOVED VINYL SLIDES 3 hours ago · Flip through a treasured record collection and you’re likely to find tattered covers and faded, bent corners on the most played albums. Artist Erik Burke displays these signs of a well-loved LP in a new mural that amplifies music’s outsized impact to a monumental scale. Tucked into a corner at Reno’s Record Street Brewing, the towering artwork gathers a vintage collection—TheNotorious
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on ENCHANTING SCENES COMBINE MULTIPLE PRECISELY CARVED Valerie Lueth, who’s behind the Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Printshop (), continues to cultivate dreamy scenarios painstakingly printed with intricately carved woodblocks.Her recent creations include a distant truss bridge peeking through vegetation, a whimsically intertwined pair of trees—now in full color, this piece began as a black-line woodcut commissioned for an edition of Jean-Claude A CANDY-COLORED CLOUD HOVERS OVER A WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the midst of a thunderstorm, and as Kottke notes, the serendipitous shot evokes the saturated, trippy swirls in Milton Glaser’s 1966 poster of Bob Dylan. ORNATE JEWEL-TONED STITCHES EMBELLISH COMMON HOUSEHOLD The artist meticulously stitches ornamental sculptures that resemble common domestic items and vintage electronics. Covered in crisscrossed seams and textured rows, each piece is a product of combining embroidery, appliqué, and quilting techniques, and the resulting jewel-toned works are heavily adorned with flowers and other organicforms
150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
SINGLE EYES GAZE OUT OF ANTIQUE CUTLERY, TINS, AND OTHER The Georgian era saw the rise in a jewelry trend that’s equally sentimental and peculiar: to remember spouses who had died or to honor clandestine affairs without revealing anyone’s identity, people would commission tiny renderings of a person’s eye to be painted on broaches, rings, and other accessories they could carry with them. Similar to a lock of hair or portrait hidden in a locket AN OVERSIZED AND ECLECTIC STACK OF WELL-LOVED VINYL SLIDES 3 hours ago · Flip through a treasured record collection and you’re likely to find tattered covers and faded, bent corners on the most played albums. Artist Erik Burke displays these signs of a well-loved LP in a new mural that amplifies music’s outsized impact to a monumental scale. Tucked into a corner at Reno’s Record Street Brewing, the towering artwork gathers a vintage collection—TheNotorious
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on ENCHANTING SCENES COMBINE MULTIPLE PRECISELY CARVED Valerie Lueth, who’s behind the Pittsburgh-based Tugboat Printshop (), continues to cultivate dreamy scenarios painstakingly printed with intricately carved woodblocks.Her recent creations include a distant truss bridge peeking through vegetation, a whimsically intertwined pair of trees—now in full color, this piece began as a black-line woodcut commissioned for an edition of Jean-Claude A CANDY-COLORED CLOUD HOVERS OVER A WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the midst of a thunderstorm, and as Kottke notes, the serendipitous shot evokes the saturated, trippy swirls in Milton Glaser’s 1966 poster of Bob Dylan. ORNATE JEWEL-TONED STITCHES EMBELLISH COMMON HOUSEHOLD The artist meticulously stitches ornamental sculptures that resemble common domestic items and vintage electronics. Covered in crisscrossed seams and textured rows, each piece is a product of combining embroidery, appliqué, and quilting techniques, and the resulting jewel-toned works are heavily adorned with flowers and other organicforms
150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house JUNE 2021 OPPORTUNITIES: OPEN CALLS, RESIDENCIES, AND Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you'd like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open AN OVERSIZED AND ECLECTIC STACK OF WELL-LOVED VINYL SLIDES 3 hours ago · Flip through a treasured record collection and you’re likely to find tattered covers and faded, bent corners on the most played albums. Artist Erik Burke displays these signs of a well-loved LP in a new mural that amplifies music’s outsized impact to a monumental scale. Tucked into a corner at Reno’s Record Street Brewing, the towering artwork gathers a vintage collection—TheNotorious
FLORA AND FAUNA CONVERGE AS FANTASTIC HYBRID CREATURES IN Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imaginesa
NINE MASSIVE WAVES OF DEADWOOD SURGE ACROSS A FOREST FLOOR 1 day ago · As the fear of a second wave of COVID-19 swept through Germany in the fall of 2020, photographer and artist Jörg Gläscher decided to channel his own worry into a project that felt similarly vast and domineering. “I was working (with the idea of) the pure power of nature, the all-destroying force, which brings one of the richest countries in the world to a completely still stand,” he PRESERVED GRASSES AND TWIGS RADIATE OUTWARD IN DELICATELY 1 day ago · Artist Kazuhito Takadoi tames the unruly grasses, leaves, and twigs grown in his garden by weaving the individual strands into exquisite radial sculptures.Stitched into paper or bound to wooden discs made of cedar of Lebanon, oak, elm, or walnut, the abstract forms hover between two and three dimensions and utilize traditional Japanese bookbinding techniques to secure the threads. SINGLE EYES GAZE OUT OF ANTIQUE CUTLERY, TINS, AND OTHER The Georgian era saw the rise in a jewelry trend that’s equally sentimental and peculiar: to remember spouses who had died or to honor clandestine affairs without revealing anyone’s identity, people would commission tiny renderings of a person’s eye to be painted on broaches, rings, and other accessories they could carry with them. Similar to a lock of hair or portrait hidden in a locket ASPARAGUS, CUCUMBERS, AND CABBAGE LEAVES TAKE A FRESH Ben Denzer cultivates what could be the next trend in sustainable fashion with a green redesign of the classic Hermés Birkin bag. The artist and designer whipped up these vegetable versions of the iconic, high-end accessory by arranging asparagus stalks, cucumber slices, and cabbage leaves into a trio you’d be more likely to find in the produce aisle than a luxury shop. A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso far.
INNUMERABLE PIECES OF DYED CLAY ENVELOP MEDITATIVE Thin ribbons of porcelain ripple across the surfaces of Alice Walton’s abstract sculptures. Gently sloped domes and pillars are covered in countless individual strips, which vary in thickness and length and add irregular texture and depth to the finished pieces. "Every mark I make, whether this be a COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
19 ILLUSTRATORS CELEBRATE WHAT THEY LOVE ABOUT ASIAN Nineteen international illustrators have banded together to raise money to stop violence against Asian communities. Curated by the new platform Paperboy, a print sale called MUST BE NICE! asked the artists to share what they love about Asian culture, which resulted in an electric array of works celebrating everything from food and animals to traditional craft. FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on CLOSE-UP PORTRAITS REVEAL THE INCREDIBLY DIVERSE The U.K. alone boasts 250 solitary species, a few of which Forwood photographed in a series of portraits that reveal just how unique each individual is. To capture the creatures up-close, he constructed a log-and-bamboo bee hotel while bound to his home in Bristol during quarantine—Forwood frequently travels around the globe to document A CANDY-COLORED CLOUD HOVERS OVER A WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the midst of a thunderstorm, and as Kottke notes, the serendipitous shot evokes the saturated, trippy swirls in Milton Glaser’s 1966 poster of Bob Dylan. SVA’S SUMMER 2021 CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES BEGIN JUNE Courses begin June 7 at the Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts. Whether it’s to advance your career or try something new, SVACE offers more than 170 online courses to choose from. Visit sva.edu/ce to view all course offerings. School of Visual Arts has been a leader in 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other 9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDY This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
19 ILLUSTRATORS CELEBRATE WHAT THEY LOVE ABOUT ASIAN Nineteen international illustrators have banded together to raise money to stop violence against Asian communities. Curated by the new platform Paperboy, a print sale called MUST BE NICE! asked the artists to share what they love about Asian culture, which resulted in an electric array of works celebrating everything from food and animals to traditional craft. FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on CLOSE-UP PORTRAITS REVEAL THE INCREDIBLY DIVERSE The U.K. alone boasts 250 solitary species, a few of which Forwood photographed in a series of portraits that reveal just how unique each individual is. To capture the creatures up-close, he constructed a log-and-bamboo bee hotel while bound to his home in Bristol during quarantine—Forwood frequently travels around the globe to document A CANDY-COLORED CLOUD HOVERS OVER A WEST TEXAS LANDSCAPE While chasing a tornado near the small town of Earth, Texas, earlier this week, amateur photographer Laura Rowe captured this enormous cloud filtered with pastel sunlight. The candy-colored mass swells above the dusky expanse in the midst of a thunderstorm, and as Kottke notes, the serendipitous shot evokes the saturated, trippy swirls in Milton Glaser’s 1966 poster of Bob Dylan. SVA’S SUMMER 2021 CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES BEGIN JUNE Courses begin June 7 at the Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts. Whether it’s to advance your career or try something new, SVACE offers more than 170 online courses to choose from. Visit sva.edu/ce to view all course offerings. School of Visual Arts has been a leader in 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
A PAINSTAKINGLY CRAFTED VILLAGE PERCHES ATOP A WOODEN Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named “Skyville,” which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave complete with shops, farms and gardens, a library, and a few homes, including the main house A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other 9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDY This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at JUNE 2021 OPPORTUNITIES: OPEN CALLS, RESIDENCIES, AND Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you'd like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open FLORA AND FAUNA CONVERGE AS FANTASTIC HYBRID CREATURES IN Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imaginesa
PRESERVED GRASSES AND TWIGS RADIATE OUTWARD IN DELICATELY 6 hours ago · Artist Kazuhito Takadoi tames the unruly grasses, leaves, and twigs grown in his garden by weaving the individual strands into exquisite radial sculptures.Stitched into paper or bound to wooden discs made of cedar of Lebanon, oak, elm, or walnut, the abstract forms hover between two and three dimensions and utilize traditional Japanese bookbinding techniques to secure the threads. CLOSE-UP PORTRAITS REVEAL THE INCREDIBLY DIVERSE The U.K. alone boasts 250 solitary species, a few of which Forwood photographed in a series of portraits that reveal just how unique each individual is. To capture the creatures up-close, he constructed a log-and-bamboo bee hotel while bound to his home in Bristol during quarantine—Forwood frequently travels around the globe to document NINE MASSIVE WAVES OF DEADWOOD SURGE ACROSS A FOREST FLOOR 1 day ago · As the fear of a second wave of COVID-19 swept through Germany in the fall of 2020, photographer and artist Jörg Gläscher decided to channel his own worry into a project that felt similarly vast and domineering. “I was working (with the idea of) the pure power of nature, the all-destroying force, which brings one of the richest countries in the world to a completely still stand,” he MAY 2021 OPPORTUNITIES: OPEN CALLS, RESIDENCIES, AND Deadline: 11:59 p.m. PST on May 16, 2021. The Coney Family Fund will award two $5,000 grants to Chicago-based visual artists who identify as Black or African-American and are committed to sustainable studio practices and artistic career development. There is a 19 ILLUSTRATORS CELEBRATE WHAT THEY LOVE ABOUT ASIAN Nineteen international illustrators have banded together to raise money to stop violence against Asian communities. Curated by the new platform Paperboy, a print sale called MUST BE NICE! asked the artists to share what they love about Asian culture, which resulted in an electric array of works celebrating everything from food and animals to traditional craft. ASPARAGUS, CUCUMBERS, AND CABBAGE LEAVES TAKE A FRESH 1 day ago · Ben Denzer cultivates what could be the next trend in sustainable fashion with a green redesign of the classic Hermés Birkin bag. The artist and designer whipped up these vegetable versions of the iconic, high-end accessory by arranging asparagus stalks, cucumber slices, and cabbage leaves into a trio you’d be more likely to find in the produce aisle than a luxury shop. ABSTRACT CLUSTERS OF FEATHERS RUFFLE ACROSS VIBRANT NEW Belgian artist Adele Renault (previously) has an unparalleled ability to turn an urban nuisance into an extraordinarily beautiful creature. Her oversized pigeons grace walls in cities around the world, creating public artworks that celebrate her favored subjects in the exact locations they're often INNUMERABLE PIECES OF DYED CLAY ENVELOP MEDITATIVE Thin ribbons of porcelain ripple across the surfaces of Alice Walton’s abstract sculptures. Gently sloped domes and pillars are covered in countless individual strips, which vary in thickness and length and add irregular texture and depth to the finished pieces. "Every mark I make, whether this be a COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDY This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other AN OPPORTUNISTIC RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD CATCHES A RIDE ON AN A red-winged blackbird keen on protecting its chicks was recently caught escorting an osprey away from its nest. Rather than hover around the predator as the species is wont to do, though—it’s known for being aggressive and territorial and is likely to attack larger animals and humans for getting too close to its young—the smaller creature hitched a ride with the raptor by perching on a A GEAR SYSTEM HELPS VISUALIZE THE MAGNITUDE OF ONE GOOGOL Grace Ebert. To celebrate spending one billion seconds on Earth, Daniel de Bruin created a gear system that represents the number googol (that’s the digit 1 with 100 zeros behind it). Every time the first wheel completes 1,000 rotations, which happens in about an hour, the second gear turns 100 notches and the third 10. IMAGINATIVE BOTANICAL CERAMICS INVENT NEW FRUITS AND Laura Staugaitis. Ceramic artist Kaori Kurihara ’s textured ceramics reference familiar botanicals like durian, cauliflower, and bananas, while maintaining an otherworldly element of surprise. The artist adds organic details like articulated fronds and streaked or dimpled skin by hand, while working in part from her imagination. HILARIOUS WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL ‘COMEDY WILDLIFE There are quite a few annual wildlife and nature photography awards these days, and it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all, but if there’s room for just one more distinction, I suppose it’s the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.Founded this year by wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks, the competition is open to anyone with outrageous and weird photos of animals doing, well ONE-OF-KIND WOOL RUG ARTWORKS BY ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU Using scraps leftover thread from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, artist Alexandra Kehayoglou embarks on a laborious hand-tufting process to fabricate wool carpets and rugs that mimic natural textures like moss, water, trees, and pastures. The carpets balance form and function and can powerfully transform an entire room into a lush meadow dotted with pools of water and tufts COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDY This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other AN OPPORTUNISTIC RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD CATCHES A RIDE ON AN A red-winged blackbird keen on protecting its chicks was recently caught escorting an osprey away from its nest. Rather than hover around the predator as the species is wont to do, though—it’s known for being aggressive and territorial and is likely to attack larger animals and humans for getting too close to its young—the smaller creature hitched a ride with the raptor by perching on a A GEAR SYSTEM HELPS VISUALIZE THE MAGNITUDE OF ONE GOOGOL Grace Ebert. To celebrate spending one billion seconds on Earth, Daniel de Bruin created a gear system that represents the number googol (that’s the digit 1 with 100 zeros behind it). Every time the first wheel completes 1,000 rotations, which happens in about an hour, the second gear turns 100 notches and the third 10. IMAGINATIVE BOTANICAL CERAMICS INVENT NEW FRUITS AND Laura Staugaitis. Ceramic artist Kaori Kurihara ’s textured ceramics reference familiar botanicals like durian, cauliflower, and bananas, while maintaining an otherworldly element of surprise. The artist adds organic details like articulated fronds and streaked or dimpled skin by hand, while working in part from her imagination. HILARIOUS WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL ‘COMEDY WILDLIFE There are quite a few annual wildlife and nature photography awards these days, and it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all, but if there’s room for just one more distinction, I suppose it’s the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.Founded this year by wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks, the competition is open to anyone with outrageous and weird photos of animals doing, well ONE-OF-KIND WOOL RUG ARTWORKS BY ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU Using scraps leftover thread from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, artist Alexandra Kehayoglou embarks on a laborious hand-tufting process to fabricate wool carpets and rugs that mimic natural textures like moss, water, trees, and pastures. The carpets balance form and function and can powerfully transform an entire room into a lush meadow dotted with pools of water and tufts JUNE 2021 OPPORTUNITIES: OPEN CALLS, RESIDENCIES, AND 1 day ago · Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you'd like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open NINE MASSIVE WAVES OF DEADWOOD SURGE ACROSS A FOREST FLOOR 8 hours ago · As the fear of a second wave of COVID-19 swept through Germany in the fall of 2020, photographer and artist Jörg Gläscher decided to channel his own worry into a project that felt similarly vast and domineering. “I was working (with the idea of) the pure power of nature, the all-destroying force, which brings one of the richest countries in the world to a completely still stand,” he FLORA AND FAUNA CONVERGE AS FANTASTIC HYBRID CREATURES IN 1 day ago · Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imaginesa
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Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
ASPARAGUS, CUCUMBERS, AND CABBAGE LEAVES TAKE A FRESH 15 hours ago · Ben Denzer cultivates what could be the next trend in sustainable fashion with a green redesign of the classic Hermés Birkin bag. The artist and designer whipped up these vegetable versions of the iconic, high-end accessory by arranging asparagus stalks, cucumber slices, and cabbage leaves into a trio you’d be more likely to find in the produce aisle than a luxury shop. MORE THAN 750 CREATURES INHABIT AN EXTRAORDINARILY Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
ABSTRACT CLUSTERS OF FEATHERS RUFFLE ACROSS VIBRANT NEW Colossal | Art, design, and visual culture. Belgian artist Adele Renault has an unparalleled ability to turn an urban nuisance into an extraordinarily beautiful creature.Her oversized pigeons grace walls in cities around the world, creating public artworks that celebrate her favored subjects in the exact locations they’re often overlookedand disregarded.
INNUMERABLE PIECES OF DYED CLAY ENVELOP MEDITATIVE 1 day ago · Thin ribbons of porcelain ripple across the surfaces of Alice Walton’s abstract sculptures. Gently sloped domes and pillars are covered in countless individual strips, which vary in thickness and length and add irregular texture and depth to the finished pieces. "Every mark I make, whether this be a ABSTRACTED SHOTS FRAME THE ENDLESS PATTERNS OF Tobi Shinobare, aka Tobi Shinobi, has an eye for the symmetry and surreal illusion within urban architecture and landscapes.Often turning his camera upward or peering down from above, Shinobi transforms familiar structural elements like transit lines and buildings into strange scenarios: a stairwell appears like an M.C. Escher woodcut, sand dunes riddled with tracks obscure a roadway, anda
PAPER IS CREASED AND TWISTED INTO AN ELEGANT THREE Artist Reina Takahashi transposes the expressive, refined flourishes common in calligraphy into an exquisite series of paper type. Set against solid backdrops, the three-dimensional forms are shaped with crisp lines, twists, and wide-mouthed cones sometimes made with asingle strip.
COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDY This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other AN OPPORTUNISTIC RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD CATCHES A RIDE ON AN A red-winged blackbird keen on protecting its chicks was recently caught escorting an osprey away from its nest. Rather than hover around the predator as the species is wont to do, though—it’s known for being aggressive and territorial and is likely to attack larger animals and humans for getting too close to its young—the smaller creature hitched a ride with the raptor by perching on a A GEAR SYSTEM HELPS VISUALIZE THE MAGNITUDE OF ONE GOOGOL Grace Ebert. To celebrate spending one billion seconds on Earth, Daniel de Bruin created a gear system that represents the number googol (that’s the digit 1 with 100 zeros behind it). Every time the first wheel completes 1,000 rotations, which happens in about an hour, the second gear turns 100 notches and the third 10. IMAGINATIVE BOTANICAL CERAMICS INVENT NEW FRUITS AND Laura Staugaitis. Ceramic artist Kaori Kurihara ’s textured ceramics reference familiar botanicals like durian, cauliflower, and bananas, while maintaining an otherworldly element of surprise. The artist adds organic details like articulated fronds and streaked or dimpled skin by hand, while working in part from her imagination. HILARIOUS WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL ‘COMEDY WILDLIFE There are quite a few annual wildlife and nature photography awards these days, and it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all, but if there’s room for just one more distinction, I suppose it’s the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.Founded this year by wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks, the competition is open to anyone with outrageous and weird photos of animals doing, well ONE-OF-KIND WOOL RUG ARTWORKS BY ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU Using scraps leftover thread from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, artist Alexandra Kehayoglou embarks on a laborious hand-tufting process to fabricate wool carpets and rugs that mimic natural textures like moss, water, trees, and pastures. The carpets balance form and function and can powerfully transform an entire room into a lush meadow dotted with pools of water and tufts COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDY This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other AN OPPORTUNISTIC RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD CATCHES A RIDE ON AN A red-winged blackbird keen on protecting its chicks was recently caught escorting an osprey away from its nest. Rather than hover around the predator as the species is wont to do, though—it’s known for being aggressive and territorial and is likely to attack larger animals and humans for getting too close to its young—the smaller creature hitched a ride with the raptor by perching on a A GEAR SYSTEM HELPS VISUALIZE THE MAGNITUDE OF ONE GOOGOL Grace Ebert. To celebrate spending one billion seconds on Earth, Daniel de Bruin created a gear system that represents the number googol (that’s the digit 1 with 100 zeros behind it). Every time the first wheel completes 1,000 rotations, which happens in about an hour, the second gear turns 100 notches and the third 10. IMAGINATIVE BOTANICAL CERAMICS INVENT NEW FRUITS AND Laura Staugaitis. Ceramic artist Kaori Kurihara ’s textured ceramics reference familiar botanicals like durian, cauliflower, and bananas, while maintaining an otherworldly element of surprise. The artist adds organic details like articulated fronds and streaked or dimpled skin by hand, while working in part from her imagination. HILARIOUS WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL ‘COMEDY WILDLIFE There are quite a few annual wildlife and nature photography awards these days, and it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all, but if there’s room for just one more distinction, I suppose it’s the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.Founded this year by wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks, the competition is open to anyone with outrageous and weird photos of animals doing, well ONE-OF-KIND WOOL RUG ARTWORKS BY ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU Using scraps leftover thread from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, artist Alexandra Kehayoglou embarks on a laborious hand-tufting process to fabricate wool carpets and rugs that mimic natural textures like moss, water, trees, and pastures. The carpets balance form and function and can powerfully transform an entire room into a lush meadow dotted with pools of water and tufts JUNE 2021 OPPORTUNITIES: OPEN CALLS, RESIDENCIES, AND 1 day ago · Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you'd like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open FLORA AND FAUNA CONVERGE AS FANTASTIC HYBRID CREATURES IN 1 day ago · Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imaginesa
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Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
MORE THAN 750 CREATURES INHABIT AN EXTRAORDINARILY Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
ASPARAGUS, CUCUMBERS, AND CABBAGE LEAVES TAKE A FRESH 11 hours ago · Ben Denzer cultivates what could be the next trend in sustainable fashion with a green redesign of the classic Hermés Birkin bag. The artist and designer whipped up these vegetable versions of the iconic, high-end accessory by arranging asparagus stalks, cucumber slices, and cabbage leaves into a trio you’d be more likely to find in the produce aisle than a luxury shop. INNUMERABLE PIECES OF DYED CLAY ENVELOP MEDITATIVE 1 day ago · Thin ribbons of porcelain ripple across the surfaces of Alice Walton’s abstract sculptures. Gently sloped domes and pillars are covered in countless individual strips, which vary in thickness and length and add irregular texture and depth to the finished pieces. "Every mark I make, whether this be a PAPER IS CREASED AND TWISTED INTO AN ELEGANT THREE Artist Reina Takahashi transposes the expressive, refined flourishes common in calligraphy into an exquisite series of paper type. Set against solid backdrops, the three-dimensional forms are shaped with crisp lines, twists, and wide-mouthed cones sometimes made with a ABSTRACT CLUSTERS OF FEATHERS RUFFLE ACROSS VIBRANT NEW Belgian artist Adele Renault (previously) has an unparalleled ability to turn an urban nuisance into an extraordinarily beautiful creature. Her oversized pigeons grace walls in cities around the world, creating public artworks that celebrate her favored subjects in the exact locations they're often SCI-FI-ESQUE ‘PORTALS’ ON THE STREETS OF VILNIUS AND Prior to hopping on the train for their morning commutes, Vilnius residents can greet pals passing through a main square in Lublin, Poland, despite being 376 miles apart. Thanks to “Portal,” a sleek pair of screens installed in the city centers, passersby have the opportunity to wave hello and ABSTRACTED SHOTS FRAME THE ENDLESS PATTERNS OF Tobi Shinobare, aka Tobi Shinobi, has an eye for the symmetry and surreal illusion within urban architecture and landscapes.Often turning his camera upward or peering down from above, Shinobi transforms familiar structural elements like transit lines and buildings into strange scenarios: a stairwell appears like an M.C. Escher woodcut, sand dunes riddled with tracks obscure a roadway, anda
COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDYETCHED IN SAND AUDIOBOOKETCHED IN SAND AUTHORETCHED IN SAND BOOK REVIEWSETCHED IN SAND PDFETCHED IN SAND PDFETCHED IN SAND SEQUEL This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other AN OPPORTUNISTIC RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD CATCHES A RIDE ON AN A red-winged blackbird keen on protecting its chicks was recently caught escorting an osprey away from its nest. Rather than hover around the predator as the species is wont to do, though—it’s known for being aggressive and territorial and is likely to attack larger animals and humans for getting too close to its young—the smaller creature hitched a ride with the raptor by perching on a A GEAR SYSTEM HELPS VISUALIZE THE MAGNITUDE OF ONE GOOGOLONE GOOGOLGOOGOL 1 REDUCTION1 TO GOOGOL1 GOOGOL NUMBERGOOGLEPLEXIAN THE NUMBERTHE NUMBER GOOGLE Grace Ebert. To celebrate spending one billion seconds on Earth, Daniel de Bruin created a gear system that represents the number googol (that’s the digit 1 with 100 zeros behind it). Every time the first wheel completes 1,000 rotations, which happens in about an hour, the second gear turns 100 notches and the third 10. IMAGINATIVE BOTANICAL CERAMICS INVENT NEW FRUITS AND Laura Staugaitis. Ceramic artist Kaori Kurihara ’s textured ceramics reference familiar botanicals like durian, cauliflower, and bananas, while maintaining an otherworldly element of surprise. The artist adds organic details like articulated fronds and streaked or dimpled skin by hand, while working in part from her imagination. HILARIOUS WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL ‘COMEDY WILDLIFE There are quite a few annual wildlife and nature photography awards these days, and it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all, but if there’s room for just one more distinction, I suppose it’s the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.Founded this year by wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks, the competition is open to anyone with outrageous and weird photos of animals doing, well ONE-OF-KIND WOOL RUG ARTWORKS BY ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU Using scraps leftover thread from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, artist Alexandra Kehayoglou embarks on a laborious hand-tufting process to fabricate wool carpets and rugs that mimic natural textures like moss, water, trees, and pastures. The carpets balance form and function and can powerfully transform an entire room into a lush meadow dotted with pools of water and tufts COLOSSAL | ART, DESIGN, AND VISUAL CULTURE.ARCHIVEABOUTCONTACTDESIGNARTCRAFT Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
FIVE TOWERING FIGURES BY ARTIST DANIEL POPPER LOOM OVER Spread across the 1,700 acres at The Morton Arboretum just outside of Chicago are five enormous figures by Cape Town-based artist Daniel Popper ().Constructed of wood, glass-reinforced concrete, fiberglass, and steel, the looming sculptures stand out against the verdant landscape and pay homage to nature’s endurance and diversity, particularly the 220,000 individual specimens growing on 150,000 HEARTS REPRESENTING LIVES LOST TO CORONAVIRUS IN Nearly 500 meters of small, red hearts will soon cover an expanse of concrete facing the River Thames in London. Now dubbed the National COVID Memorial Wall, the poignant display publicly commemorates the 150,000 lives lost to the coronavirus pandemic in the United Kingdomso
9,000 FALLEN SOLDIERS ETCHED INTO THE SAND ON NORMANDYETCHED IN SAND AUDIOBOOKETCHED IN SAND AUTHORETCHED IN SAND BOOK REVIEWSETCHED IN SAND PDFETCHED IN SAND PDFETCHED IN SAND SEQUEL This past weekend British artists Jamie Wardley and Andy Moss accompanied by numerous volunteers, took to the beaches of Normandy with rakes and stencils in hand to etch 9,000 silhouettes representing fallen people into the sand. Titled The Fallen 9000, the piece is meant as a stark visual reminder of the civilians, Germans and allied forces who died during the D-Day beach landings at A NAIROBI ENTREPRENEUR IS RECYCLING PLASTIC WASTE INTO Collectively, we use a staggering amount of single-use plastic each year—we buy one million plastic bottles each minute around the world—most of which ends up in landfills, oceans, and other natural spaces. Nzambi Matee, a 29-year-old entrepreneur from Nairobi, is combatting this global crisis by recycling bags, containers, and other waste products into bricks used for patios and other AN OPPORTUNISTIC RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD CATCHES A RIDE ON AN A red-winged blackbird keen on protecting its chicks was recently caught escorting an osprey away from its nest. Rather than hover around the predator as the species is wont to do, though—it’s known for being aggressive and territorial and is likely to attack larger animals and humans for getting too close to its young—the smaller creature hitched a ride with the raptor by perching on a A GEAR SYSTEM HELPS VISUALIZE THE MAGNITUDE OF ONE GOOGOLONE GOOGOLGOOGOL 1 REDUCTION1 TO GOOGOL1 GOOGOL NUMBERGOOGLEPLEXIAN THE NUMBERTHE NUMBER GOOGLE Grace Ebert. To celebrate spending one billion seconds on Earth, Daniel de Bruin created a gear system that represents the number googol (that’s the digit 1 with 100 zeros behind it). Every time the first wheel completes 1,000 rotations, which happens in about an hour, the second gear turns 100 notches and the third 10. IMAGINATIVE BOTANICAL CERAMICS INVENT NEW FRUITS AND Laura Staugaitis. Ceramic artist Kaori Kurihara ’s textured ceramics reference familiar botanicals like durian, cauliflower, and bananas, while maintaining an otherworldly element of surprise. The artist adds organic details like articulated fronds and streaked or dimpled skin by hand, while working in part from her imagination. HILARIOUS WINNERS OF THE FIRST ANNUAL ‘COMEDY WILDLIFE There are quite a few annual wildlife and nature photography awards these days, and it’s nearly impossible to keep up with them all, but if there’s room for just one more distinction, I suppose it’s the Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards.Founded this year by wildlife photographer Paul Joynson-Hicks, the competition is open to anyone with outrageous and weird photos of animals doing, well ONE-OF-KIND WOOL RUG ARTWORKS BY ALEXANDRA KEHAYOGLOU Using scraps leftover thread from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, artist Alexandra Kehayoglou embarks on a laborious hand-tufting process to fabricate wool carpets and rugs that mimic natural textures like moss, water, trees, and pastures. The carpets balance form and function and can powerfully transform an entire room into a lush meadow dotted with pools of water and tufts JUNE 2021 OPPORTUNITIES: OPEN CALLS, RESIDENCIES, AND 23 hours ago · Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you'd like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at hello@colossal.art. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter. Open FLORA AND FAUNA CONVERGE AS FANTASTIC HYBRID CREATURES IN 1 day ago · Artist Jon Ching strikes a balance between texture and color in his meticulously detailed oil paintings that make fantastic creatures—owls with plumes of mushrooms and fuzzy molds, seahorses sprouting leafy twigs, and fish with striped tulip fins—appear natural in their environments. This vague distinction between the realistic and surreal saturates Ching’s body of work, which imaginesa
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Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
MORE THAN 750 CREATURES INHABIT AN EXTRAORDINARILY Land and sea creatures alike overrun a new exhibition at Le Stanze Del Vetro in Venice. Titled The Glass Ark, the eclectic bestiary—among the more than 750 animals on view are e lephants, hip pos, cats, giraffes, polar bears, parrots, and poodles adorned with bows— is the expansive collection of art historian and former Louvre presidentPierre Rosenberg.
ASPARAGUS, CUCUMBERS, AND CABBAGE LEAVES TAKE A FRESH 6 hours ago · Ben Denzer cultivates what could be the next trend in sustainable fashion with a green redesign of the classic Hermés Birkin bag. The artist and designer whipped up these vegetable versions of the iconic, high-end accessory by arranging asparagus stalks, cucumber slices, and cabbage leaves into a trio you’d be more likely to find in the produce aisle than a luxury shop. INNUMERABLE PIECES OF DYED CLAY ENVELOP MEDITATIVE 1 day ago · Thin ribbons of porcelain ripple across the surfaces of Alice Walton’s abstract sculptures. Gently sloped domes and pillars are covered in countless individual strips, which vary in thickness and length and add irregular texture and depth to the finished pieces. "Every mark I make, whether this be a PAPER IS CREASED AND TWISTED INTO AN ELEGANT THREE Artist Reina Takahashi transposes the expressive, refined flourishes common in calligraphy into an exquisite series of paper type. Set against solid backdrops, the three-dimensional forms are shaped with crisp lines, twists, and wide-mouthed cones sometimes made with a ABSTRACT CLUSTERS OF FEATHERS RUFFLE ACROSS VIBRANT NEW Belgian artist Adele Renault (previously) has an unparalleled ability to turn an urban nuisance into an extraordinarily beautiful creature. Her oversized pigeons grace walls in cities around the world, creating public artworks that celebrate her favored subjects in the exact locations they're often SCI-FI-ESQUE ‘PORTALS’ ON THE STREETS OF VILNIUS AND Prior to hopping on the train for their morning commutes, Vilnius residents can greet pals passing through a main square in Lublin, Poland, despite being 376 miles apart. Thanks to “Portal,” a sleek pair of screens installed in the city centers, passersby have the opportunity to wave hello and ABSTRACTED SHOTS FRAME THE ENDLESS PATTERNS OF Tobi Shinobare, aka Tobi Shinobi, has an eye for the symmetry and surreal illusion within urban architecture and landscapes.Often turning his camera upward or peering down from above, Shinobi transforms familiar structural elements like transit lines and buildings into strange scenarios: a stairwell appears like an M.C. Escher woodcut, sand dunes riddled with tracks obscure a roadway, anda
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MASSIVE WILD ANIMALS WANDER RUSSIAN STREETS IN SURREAL COMPOSITES BYVADIM SOLOVYOV
APRIL 14, 2020
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All images © Vadim Solovyov, shared with permission Seeing a raccoon washing its paws in the rivers of Saint Petersburg or an octopus tumbling out of a city bus would be a startling sight for most city dwellers. Artist Vadim Solovyov , though, takes those surreal scenes a step farther as he imagines massive rooks, penguins, and chameleons invading the Russian city. While many of the composites feature the animals in nature, some position them in spaces typically occupied by a human, like a sloth behind the candy-covered counter of a convenience store. Solovyov tells Colossal that he began the uncanny series as a way to explore strange events in his real life. For example, he said the giant raccoon and its presumptive counterparts “quietly make their way through the deserted evening city to the embankments and shyly rinse something in the water there. Thoroughly. Not less than 20 seconds,” which is a reference to current handwashing suggestions to prevent COVID-19 from spreading. The artist says he values his work’s visual and textual componentsequally.
> Giant animals (are) only one of the features of this world. Their > origin, the history of the world itself can be found in fragments > from the texts under the posts. Many posts exist in the context of > actual events in my city and country. Through my work, I often > convey in a veiled (and sometimes weird) way important for me issues > or problems of society (attitude to animals, politics, social > flaws). But this, of course, does not exclude the fact that some > works are an ironic “visual game” without additional deep> meanings.
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FIBROUS SPIKES POKE FROM A HUMOROUS PAIR OF CACTI CHAIRS BY VALENTINAGONZALEZ WOHLERS
APRIL 14, 2020
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“Prickly Pair Chair, Gentleman Style” (2009), 180 x 110 x 50 centimeters. All images © Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers Before you plop down on one of Valentina Gonzalez Wohlers ’s vibrant chairs, take a peek at the spine-covered seat. The Mexican designer has crafted cacti-inspired furniture for her _Prickly Pair_
collection that blends the French Louis XV style with Mexican elements. On each pink and green chair, one or two tall shoots branch off the backs with spiny tufts secured on each button. A few years ago, Gonzalez Wohlers added a small footstool to the humorous collection that she’s named Baby Peyote. Keep up with the designer’s spiked furniture on Instagramand Facebook
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Left: “Prickly Pair Chair, LadyStyle” (2009), 180 x 90 x 50 centimeters. Right: “Prickly Pair Chair, Gentleman Style” (2009), 180 x 110 x 50 centimeters “Prickly Pair Chair, LadyStyle” (2009), 180 x 90 x 50 centimeters “Prickly Pair Chair, LadyStyle” (2009), 180 x 90 x 50 centimetersSHARE THIS STORY
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NAPS: A SLEEPY COMPILATION CAPTURES AN ARRAY OF ANIMALS AND HUMANSMID-SLUMBER
APRIL 14, 2020
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From drowsy ducklings to kids fast asleep in the backseat, a short compilation by New York-based filmmaker Daniel Mercadante(previously
) gathers an adorable mix of animals and humans who are too tired to keep their eyes open. “Naps ” catches tiny kittens nodding off and babies in the midst of dreamy slumbers and is a follow-up to “Yawns ,” a similarly soporific compilation. Mercadante said his motivation for assembling the clips is simply “because we could all use a good nap from time to time.” Head to Vimeo and Instagramfor more of the
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DESIGN ILLUSTRATION MISCHIEVOUS MONSTERS SMIRK AND GRIN IN FUZZY ALPHABET COLLECTION BYJOSE ARIAS
APRIL 13, 2020
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All images © Jose Arias Lima-based graphic designer and illustrator Jose Arias has created a wacky cast of typographic monsters ready to cuddle you in their serifs and ascenders—Monsters Inc. meets the alphabet. Often smirking or baring a couple of teeth, Arias’s letter-based characters sometimes come adorned with coiffed hair, a gold crown, and a pair of headphones. Each has an alphabetic shape that’s formed naturally by their bodies or when they jump into the air, open their mouths, or stick out theirlegs.
The illustrator created the project that’s “full of hair and cuteness of characters” as part of the 36 Days of Type challenge , which asks creatives to share their conceptions of letters and numbers. Head to Instagramor Behance
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THICK GREENERY SWATHES A BAMBOO-AND-STEEL COMPLEX IN INDONESIAAPRIL 13, 2020
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Images © Eric Dinardi and ErnestTheofilus
Realrich Architecture Workshop , aka RAW Architecture, completed Guha Bambu just this year, but the cascading vines, luxuriant shrubs, and grass-covered facades on the new project make it appear as an old building overtaken by nature. Each room of the nearly 6,500 square-foot complex has at least two entrances that often face north and south to exhibit the overflowing greenery. Spanning three upper floors and two basement levels, the multi-use structure incorporates modern and traditional techniques like the fish mouth joint , which cuts the end of wood-like substance in a U-shape and positions another piece on top. It’s constructed using a combination of steel, wood, glass, metal, gypsum, bamboo, plastic, stone, and concrete. Located in Tangerang , Indonesia, the new project is actually a renovation of the firm’s existing building named The Guild. It continues to house Omah Library, a dentist’s office, a private apartment, and RAW Architecture’s studio, which are separated at the entrance to prohibit the public from entering the private spaces. Each space is designed to be converted and reused for new tenants. Follow RAW Architecture on Facebookfor updates
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SKILLSHARE CLASSES TO ENGAGE YOUR CREATIVITY THROUGH WATERCOLOR FLORA, STRIKING POSTERS, AND HOUSEPLANT CAREAPRIL 13, 2020
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Considering many of you found our previous Skillshare picks useful, we thought we’d share another selection of courses from the popular online platform that we’re loving here at Colossal. This next round encompasses art, design, and even the basics of home gardening in simple, multi-lesson units. If you need some completely offline entertainment, check out these modern puzzles and DIY kits,
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Designed for novices, this watercolor course by illustrator Rosalie Haizlett teaches the basics of rendering natural features. She’ll walk through taking reference photos, sketching, layering paint, and adding texture to create vibrant mushrooms and ferns. Based in East Sussex, artist Seb Lester (previously ) guides students through essential calligraphy techniques in his 15-lesson course . You’ll learn to write your name with elegant flourishes and even get a printable workbook for an extra dose of instruction. Designers Ellen Lupton and Jennifer Cole Phillips offer a basic graphic design course that explains the principles of scale, framing, grids, and hierarchy. Previous students have designed a variety of spreads like the one above, and the instructors say the main takeaway is this: “Graphic design is all about relationships — the relationships between one design element and another, that element and the page, and that element and yourself.” Learn to adorn hand-drawn letters with beautiful florals in Gemma O’Brien ’s 12 lessons . The Australian artist utilizes drawing techniques with digital collage, creating a dramatic combination of the two. Based on his own poster-a-day project, digital artist and photographer Temi Coker is offering a course focused on merging type and images into striking posters. He leads students through capturing the right images and Photoshop basics and even provides a guide for sharing workon social media.
While this pick has a slightly different focus, it’ll still get your hands just as dirty as learning to use watercolor or hand-lettering with ink. Botanist Chris Satch from The Sill teaches potting techniques, basic care, troubleshooting, and ways to ensure that yourhouseplants thrive.
Alanna Cartier knows that capturing high-quality and effective photographs of artwork can be difficult. In her 11-lesson course for all skill levels, the Toronto-based artist and illustrator teaches how to take effective images for social media and online shops without spending anentire day.
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BEATBOX LIKE A WORLD CHAMPION WITH THIS 13-STEP TUTORIAL BYBUTTERSCOTCH
APRIL 12, 2020
GRACE EBERT
Sure, you can spend your time during quarantine reading a dozen books or scrubbing your cabinets, but what about learning to beatbox from a world champion? Vocal percussionist Butterscotch recently released a 13-step tutorialthat guides
novices through various beatboxing techniques, from the basic baseline and snare—or what she calls Boots and Cats—all the way to singing and live looping . And for those who have a hard time keeping a beat, the musician even outlines a breathing technique that makes it easier to stay steady. Check out Butterscotch’s Instagramto keep up with her
impressive musical projects. (via Kottke)
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