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Puppy
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Fox
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Cherry blossom
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A Fish Restaurant in Prague
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Goat
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Kitties
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Elephant
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Gramophone puppy
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Tiger in Prague Zoo
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Dragon
  Inspirations.  
Waiting for the deal
Where is the state of the world affairs? Is the press into it? Or the public? Are we all sitting pre...
David Shrigley Drawings
Shrigley’s approach is reminiscent of that of children who expose both the funny and the terrible ...
Iconic Photos from the Getty Images gallery
Getty Images gallery, the world´s largest commercial photography archive with a collection of over ...
Thonet
Who is not familiar with the famous bistro stools, bentwood rocking chairs or steel-tubed seating o...
Playboy Architecture
Playboy Architecture 1953-1979: The exhibition, on view at Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt ...
Vienna 1900
In September 2013 MAK-Museum für Angewandte Kunst opened a new permanent exhibit on Design / Arts a...
Abbazia
Abbazia was one of the favorite winter destinations amongst Vienna´s wealthy and famous. Known as t...
Philip Guston - Late Works
The bold and extraordinary oeuvre of the American painter Philip Guston (1913–1980) was one of the...
Kata Legrady
The sculptures, photographs and drawings by Kata Legrady cause irritation among viewers: her works o...
Hair!
Mobility
Mobility - a global phenomenon of the early twenty-first century. Fotogalerie Wien - Association for...
Carlo Scarpa for Venini
A new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents the results of a very unique...
Paris Photo 2013
You don´t want to miss Paris Photo if are looking for photographs by modern masters and quality pu...
Weegee The Situation Photographer
"... In my particular case I didn´t wait ´til somebody gave me a job or something, I went and crea...
The Artists of Gugging
These artworks by the artists-in-residence at the Gugging House of Artists shed lights on the therap...
Contemporary Istanbul 2013
Take a look at the art works presented at this year´s Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair.
FIAC 2013
This year at the 40th edition of FIAC (October 24th-27th), the fair featured arts that can be bought...
Jaime Hayon Mediterranean Digital Baroque
New designs by Jaime Hayon.
It´s Swab Barcelona
This year SWAB Barcelona 2013, International Contemporary Art Fair opened its doors from October 3rd...
The Warhol & Basquiat Collaboration
”It was like some crazy-art world marriage and they were the odd couple. The relationship was symb...
HR Giger´s World in Deep Space
Necronom HR Giger is the featured artist at Ars Electronica 2013. This year’s honor goes to the le...
Summertime
The summer has always been a time when people particularly like to relax, to enjoy themselves in the...
Moroccan Carpets and Modern Art
In the early 20th century, Moroccan carpets fascinated artists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Le Corb...
Good Taste? Bad Taste?
What is taste? Who decides what is good or bad, beautiful or ugly? We argue about taste although the...
Martin Schnur
A young painter playing with realities between light, shadows and reflections. All images courtesy: ...
Hans-Peter Feldmann Photos
Düsseldorf-born artist Hans-Peter Feldmann rose to fame in the early 1970s with his photographic se...
Living Color
photos by Alberto Seveso and Martin Klimas. Added images by Pery Burge. www.burdu976.com www.martin-...
Electric Geometric
work by Melbourne based visual artist Ollie Lucas. www.ollielucas.tumblr.com
Prague
Prague: images by photographer Pawel Fabjanski. www.fabjanski.com
Back to the basics
Back to the basics with ceramics, paper, wood and leather. Three young designers and their quirky id...
Günter Brus Draws with Friends
Collaborative Bild-dichtungen, or picture poems. Image courtesy: BRUSEUM - Neue Galerie Graz.
High Renaissance
The Italian Renaissance was what Jonah Lehrer calls "The Age of Excess Genius." All images courtesy:...
geometric collection
Alphonse Mucha
Mucha Manga Mystery - The exhibition is on view from March 6th to July 14th, 2013. Image credits: Mu...
A creature of habit
and other works of graphic design, static and animated, by Skip Dolphin Hursh. www.skiphursh.com
Everyday Design Classics
A collection of timeless designs.
Deutsche und Japaner
Berlin: Design for print by studio Deutsche und Japaner. www.deutscheundjapaner.com
AALTO
just starting a collection of 20th Century Classics
The Beauty of the Moment
Honululu, Hawaii: The main focus of "bijinga" prints, or pictures of beautiful women was to capture ...
INSPIRING TYPE
inspiring contemporary type specimens from hellotype, groovewear, hyperkit, sebasandclim, Penguin ...
Mazinger dreams of Robots
Robots by Morishita, spaceships by Joao Ribeiro, Tyler West, Tuomas Korpi, David Kang and others, ci...
1913: What To Draw
Illustrations by E.G. Lutz from 1913. From the cover: "this is really a remarkable book in which lin...
Switch Off!
The setsuden campaign to save energy in Japan, at setsuden.tumblr.com
Hiroshi Kawano: Pioneer of Computer Art
In 1964, Hiroshi Kawano, a Japanese philosopher teaching aesthetics, published the world´s first co...
Einstein´s diary
diaries by great minds
Icons
by newgrid
Supergirls
by Yuko Shimizu
The Cool World of Alex Katz
Brooklyn artist Alex Katz (born 1927) is arguably one of the most prolific artists alive. Although t...
Ideas Through Pictures
from the book English Through Pictures by I.A. Richards and Christine M. Gibson
Pop Pop Pop
Claes Oldenburg made art of the soft, easy, and comfy life in the Pop Age.
Amazing alphabets
Historic typography
Traffic signs for meetings
No more meetings going nowhere. Download our signs as project shots, then print.
Winter keeps coming
and we present an exceptional designer from a country used to a chilly vibe. Representing Denmark is...
Tadanori Yokoo
Poster art
Lucio Fontana
Scratching and cutting in art
BOUTEILLES
contemp bottle design
AUDIO
industrial design classics
Quotes
Meaningful quotes with illustrated backgrounds
Absolut
Åhus, Skåne, Sweden: Creative ads for design-conscious vodka brand Absolut
Wine
Graphic design for wine bottles.
Symbols
Escherified Icons
Olivetti
The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivet...
Phlegm
Sheffield
Surreal Sceneries
Graphics by Bengt Bockman
Illustrations
Stories without words
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Pierre Bonnard: The Memory of Colors
In autumn and winter 2019/20 the Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien presented »Pierre Bonnard - The Color...
Objects of Desire
»Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today« 28.09.2019 – 19.01.2020 at Vitra Design Museum Surrealis...
Typography
Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.
Black Box. A Cabinet of Robotic Curiosities
The Vitra Campus has a new exhibition space: in one of the houses at the southern entrance, a Black ...
The Joys of Ice Skating
That skating 400 years ago was one of the most popular winter activities in the Netherlands can be s...
Wayne Sorce: Urban Color
"Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...
Design for Disaster
"A disaster zone where everything is lost offers the perfect opportunity for us to take a fresh look...
HOKUSAI X MANGA
Courtesans, Heroes, Stars and Phantoms - In the early seventeenth century, Edo, which was the bigges...
German Painting after the 1960s
What is so 'German' about the art made by German painters and sculptors after the 1960s to now? The ...
David Bowie is Crossing the Border.
This is a tribute to the musician, artist, designer, and dandy David Bowie (January 8th, 1947-Januar...
Europa ‒ Where it has been & Where it is at
What image represents Europe? Is it the fall of the Berlin Wall, universal human rights, the Europea...
Édouard Vuillard: Turn of the Century Paris
A painter of interiors and park landscapes, Vuillard created his first lithograph series in black-an...
Ghost: Kader Attia and Ventimiglia
The striking similarities between the installation of Kader Attia and the current situation in Venti...
American Modern Paintings at Sotheby´s
Sotheby's New York sale on Wednesday, May 20th totaled $38,301,625 reflecting the continuous health ...
Neighborhood
A bi-annual competition organised by architekturbild e.v. and Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfu...
Frank Stella: Radical Abstraction
In 1959, a newcomer in his early twenties takes New York’s art scene by storm: the American Frank ...
The New Social
From April 1st to Mary 31st 2015, twelve outstanding young European photographers will be presenting...
Sony World Photography Awards
Landscape in my Mind
A network of connections between man and nature, the landscape presents itself as a projection of th...
Monet and the Birth of Impressionism
The nineteenth century was a time of upheavals. A wide variety of developments took place at the sam...
Contemporary Still Life
Works from the Sony Photography Award 2015 shortlist. © Courtesy of 2015 Sony World Photography Awa...
Richard Estes´ New York
"Estes is a paradigmatic example of a world-class artist who is also a consummate artisan. He uses h...
Who the f*** is Halil Altindere?
Since the mid-late 1990 artist Halil Altindere played with the notions of social and individual idio...
18 classic chairs
The chair is one of the most fascinating design objects of all time. An exhibition at the Gorcums Mu...
William Glackens
Glackens was a boyhood friend of Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951), the Philadelphia-born pharmaceutica...
Posters from Germany, Austria, Switzerland
In the spirit of media theorist Marshall McLuhan’s widely known book The Medium is the Massage: An...
German Pop
Was there Pop Art in Germany? Pop, which began in Great Britain and the USA and was quickly establis...
Hans Christiansen´s Jugendstil
"I take my work as an artist as general as possible: I want to paint a portrait but can also design ...
Pop Art 1960s
“Popular, mass produced, expendable, cheap, witty, sexy, playful, conspicuous, seductive” Richar...
Walker Evans. A Life’s Work
Depression Era photography by Walker Evans. Walker Evans (1903 – 1975) was one of the great pers...
100 Years of Swiss Design
To the present day, design in Switzerland has the reputation of being honest, precise, sober and use...
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: La Vie Bohème
Turn-of-the-century Paris was a state of mind as well as an environment for artists and bohemians. A...
Kinetic Sculptures by Alexander Calder
Undoubtedly one of the most celebrated inventors of modern sculpture, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) i...
Nils Dardel: Modern Dandy
Nowadays, Sweden loves Nils Dardel’s (1888–1943) oeuvre. But that was not always the case. He ha...
Karl Neubacher: Media Artist, 1926-1978
Born in Hattenberg in Upper Austria in 1926, Karl Neubacher, along with Richard Kriesche and Peter G...
Posters. Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol (1928-1987) was painter and illustrator, photographer and film-maker; he published magaz...
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Master of Color
"I can’t work rationally; I’m too much a colour man (Farbenmensch) for that." said Ernst Ludwig...
War and Propaganda 14/18
2014 sees the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Ha...
Postmodern Wunderkammer
Celebrating its 30th anniversary since opening, Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in Frankfurt looks...
Wieslaw Smetek
Wieslaw Smetek is one of the most active magazine illustrators in Germany. As photography gradually...
Postcards from Egypt 1912
A group of seventy-six persons in 1912 at Easter set out on a tour of Egypt with Ludwig Koessler, th...