Inspirations.  

Carreaux

Turn of the century tile and mosaic samples from the Societe Generale de Carrelages in Paris.

The end of history - La fin de l´histoire

"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...

Tamara

Tamara de Lempicka (1898 – 1980) was a Polish Art Deco painter. She was the most fashionable portr...

Blast

Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...

Man. Kiki. Lee.

The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray) "All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...

Conformity

“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...

Bubble

The Bubble series by Melvin Sokolsky for Harper’s Bazaar 1963. Melvin Sokolsky (born 1933) is an A...

Uncanny Bodies

There is a space of imagination stretching between brain, lens and body: Photography by Ariana Molly...

Trees in Winter

A series utilizing random patterns in nature to reveal mathematical beauty, by Ansen Seale.

Woman. Black. White.

Black and white photos of charismatic women.

Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass

The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...

Observatoires

Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...

Impressionist Gardens

“Many of Monet’s colleagues shared his passion for gardening and were inspired to paint gardens ...

Still Life Monkeys

The inclusion of a monkey with other still-life elements imitates earlier Flemish still-life painter...

101 x 101

AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...

Nauru

Nauru was first inhabited at least 3,000 years ago. Inhabitants caught ibija fish, acclimatised them...

Radiofonografo RR126

The Brionvega RR126, designed by Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni in 1965, was a remarkable inno...

SCHNAPPVIECHER

The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-yea...

Animated Self-Portrait

A fun .gif avatar experiment

The contemporary condition

Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...

Orange mecanique

Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...

Antonio Rubino

Antonio Rubino: Pittore, illustratore e scrittore (Sanremo 1880 - Baiardo 1964). Legato all´art nou...

"I’m an outsider"

Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New...

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena

Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...

Spacecraft

Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...

Josef Sudek

Josef Sudek (b. March 17, 1896, Kolin, Bohemia – d. September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, ...

Mirrors

Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...

Charles Negre

Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.

constructing meaning in 3 steps

Frank Hülsbömer was born 1968 in Münster/Germany.

Iraq

Photojournalist Luke Wolagiewicz lives in London. Over the last 15 years he has worked across the Mi...

The 2015 best of penccil

This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...

Hasui Kawase 川瀬 巴水

Hasui Kawase (1883 – 1957) , the best known proponents of the 新版画 New Prints movement, was ...

The Other Side

There's always another side, other stories and new faces behind the glamorous curtains of the fashio...

France 1661

Views of Renaissance France by Kasper Merian, 1655-1661

Oskar Schlemmer: Das Triadische Ballett

After Walter Gropius founded the stage workshop in 1921, Oskar Schlemmer, the head of the stage work...

Spatial Objects

Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...

picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself

picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself is a curatorial poetry collabor...

Hello Winter

Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...

The Slave Ship

But, I think, the noblest sea that Turner has ever painted, and, if so, the noblest certainly ever p...

Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry

Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...

UN_NATURAL BESTIARY

In this work Andrea Alessio collects, as in an ancient bestiary, a series of animal images. The fore...

ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

I would like to introduce this new series of photos by Andrea Alessio by appealing to an axiom that ...

J1

Created by Jae Won Cho, AKA J1. J1 studio is a furniture design studio located in Los Angeles produc...

Behind the walls

Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...

Lo Zuavo Scomparso

Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...

Technological Exaptation

Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...

Faces of the 21st century

Images by Thomas Mailaender. « Mailaender’s forum and sphere of operations is less the art worl...

Faces of the 17th century

17th century Dutch portraits from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Parisian Still Lifes

Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.

Volkswagen Jetta

Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...

Inside is Out - Outside is In

photography by Thomas Skou, Copenhagen.

Aeronauts

Photographer Benedict Redgrove was born in Woodley near Reading, England. He studied at Berkshire Co...

Ramona Rosales Portraits

Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.

Memory & Form

Paul is an Australian-Taiwanese photographer living and working in New York. He studied in Milano an...

Low Tech

Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...

BRANCHES & TREES

Line structures from branches and trees against the sky or as a reflection

White Rooms

Photographer Wouter Hogendorp from Den Haag documents the beauty of architectural details: light, th...

Dominik Tarabanski

Photographer Dominik Tarabanski was born in Poland. He lives and works in NYC.

Fernando Botero

Who doesn´t like Botero? Colombian painter and sculptor Fernando Botero (born 1932 in Medellín) is...

New York by Louis Faurer

Louis Faurer (1916 – 2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...

The Long River

Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the ...

Things As They Are

Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...

It Must Be Beautiful

Bus stop embellishments in Belarus. Photographer Alexandra Soldatova was born in 1983. She graduated...

Ginzburg and Milinis: Narkomfin

Narkomfin Apartment Building, 25 Novinskii Boulevard, Moscow. Architects: Moisei Ginzburg and Ignati...

Seventies Portraits

Beautiful black and white portraits from the seventies.

Time Bandits

Visual communication artist Sabine Marx-Nieder is based in Munich, Germany.

Simon Vahala ....things that simply just happen

... things that simply just happen, with no one noticing or caring. The subject? Nature inscribed by...

André Kertész

André Kertész (1894-–1985) was born in Austria-Hungary. In 1912, he bought his first camera and m...

Heaven & Hell

Details from paintings by Hieronymus Bosch.

Hell & Heaven

John Martin was born near Hexham, Northumberland. He was apprenticed first to an heraldic coach pain...