Hong Kong
He says: "No matter how clever we are at dominating our environment with concrete structures, nature somehow finds its way to fight back. This reminds us that our concrete jungle eventually would have to give in to the force of nature if we’d let go, as captured by Romain’s images of sprouting flowers and maturing trees on unlikely places."
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Imagine Fashion
In a quest for expression and identity, artists make imaginative worlds visible and preserve fleeting moments of beauty.

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Designers & Makers
There is a focus again on making things with creativity and quality. A new generation of makers, artisans and designers look at new ways of working and making.

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The Bauhaus Revolution
The Bauhaus: it's People, Politics, Art, Design and Architecture.

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Superwall
SUPERWALL is the wall for the latest and greatest in visual art. Our focus is on the visceral, the sublime, the surprising, the profound, and the accidentally found.

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DESIGN DIY
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House Now
Does contemporary architecture make us feel at home?

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New Design Materials
Balloons or recycled fiber for fashion, wood chip resins made into lightweight foam for chairs, recycled plastic extruded by a robot: New materials and what can be done with them -...

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Generative Art
Art, videos and music created with algorithms. Post your demos, videos, music pieces and images of generative art. Or use the generative design tools here in penccil to create amaz...

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BRUTALISM
BRUTALISM is a magazine of remarkable architecture. Brutalist architecture combines early modernist ideas with post-war rationality. Usually built in concrete, brutalist structures...

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The Elements in Design
Artists, designers and architects work with the elements of nature.

Memories of Ruins: Rebecca Bathory
Finding beauty in darkness, poetry and meaning in the forgotten and surreal, imaginary worlds amongs...
Toshio Onda
Japanese Fashion photographer Toshio Onda studied at the University of West England. He lives in Par...
Charles Guo
Jean-Jaques Lequeu
Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cad...
Rayan Ayash
Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.
Palmyra, End of March, 2016
Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...
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...
Royère
Jean Royère (1902-1981) worked in the import-export business before working for cabinetmaker Pierr...
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...
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.
Alain Georges Frank Jacquet
Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...
Observatoires
Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...
A+A Cooren
A+A Cooren is a Paris-based French-Japanese design studio founded in 1999 and run by husband and wif...
OZ
OZ was an underground magazine first published in Sydney in 1963. A second version appeared in Londo...
Nauru
Nauru was first inhabited at least 3,000 years ago. Inhabitants caught ibija fish, acclimatised them...
SCHNAPPVIECHER
The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-yea...
Serge Mouille
Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...
Damien Coupeté images
paintings
Pascal Häusermann
Pascal Häusermann was born 19th of November 1936 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied at the School of...
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 ...
André Bloc - Sculptures Habitacles
From 1962 to 1966, André Bloc created his habitable sculptures. This work marks the evolution of th...
"I’m an outsider"
Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New...
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.
Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker
Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...
Domestique
Face à une appropriation sous contrôle et une perte progressive des mécanismes d'interaction entr...
Voiture
C´est un travail sur l´expérience et l´émotion du passager dans une voiture d´un futur proche,...
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...
朱敬一 Standing Ink
Zhu Jingyi , born 1975 in Jiangyin, Jiangsu Province, China, studied at Nanjing Normal University a...
The 2015 best of penccil
This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...
Bulb
Bulb: Handblown glass hooks. Different sizes and colours decorate the wall and help you organize.
D...
RoundAbout
RoundAbout: The geometrical shape of this side table creates a strong graphical image. The component...
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
Spatial Objects
Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...
Hello Winter
Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...
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 ...
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...
Forward Retreat
Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...
Technological Exaptation
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Parisian Still Lifes
Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.
Lucha Libre
A small set of ´Lucha Libre´-posters found by Dutch graphic designer Hans Gremmen at a printer in ...
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.
邵 年 Shao Nian
Graphic designer Shao Nian, born 1993, is co-founder of Orgasm studio and owner of slow salon. He li...
Aeronauts
Photographer Benedict Redgrove was born in Woodley near Reading, England. He studied at Berkshire Co...
Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head
Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...
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...
Naturoscopie
Habité par un héritage de l’art nouveau, Noé Duchaufour Lawrance s’appuie non seulement sur l...
White Rooms
Photographer Wouter Hogendorp from Den Haag documents the beauty of architectural details: light, th...
Dominik Tarabanski
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Zigzag Castle
Felice Varini was born 1952 in Locarno. He lives in Paris.
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 ...
Football and architecture
In Brazil, a country of 200 million people, the lack of housing is estimated at 5.2 million homes, 1...
Passage
The crossing of the Mediterranean Sea is a particularly deadly stage of the path of migrants to Euro...