The creative minds of Terry & Terry Architecture designed this San Francisco townhouse which maintains a classic Victorian front & exterior while the rear of the house boasts a contrasting, modern style.
In their words:
While maintaining parts of the original Victorian layout, Terry & Terry Architecture designed a new rear portion of the house, adding bathrooms, bedrooms, and an open concept kitchen, dining, and living area. Also added were outdoor desk spaces, a ground-level patio and tiered exterior stairs.
Most of the mediocre design today comes from designers who are faithfully doing as they were taught in school: they worship at the altar of the visual.
Banksy’s dropped a new piece in central London (corner of Cleveland Street and Clipstone Street to be precise). It’s been speculated that the painting was created in reaction to the recent arrests of fellow street artists, Invader and Revok, in Los Angeles.
Here’s one more infographic for the books. We get a kick outta GOOD’s latest effort which makes one wonder if in fact nihilism is a widespread epidemic in our culture (given the over-exposure of one particular recent event, that is).
A few years back, we shared a statement made by Adbusters that went a little something like this:
“We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality.”
Fast forward to 2011, and the creation of a new blog with the primary goal of proving “that hipsters aren’t original, they’re just trying to be like dear old dad.” Dads: The Original Hipsters manages to hit the nail right on its rusty head -and then some. The result is a critique that’s not only astute, but pretty damn funny too.
Artists do the darndest things. 35 years in the making, and artist Scott Weaver may still consider his elaborate kinetic structure of famous San Francisco landmarks a work in progress. More than 100,000 toothpicks were used in constructing this unusual work of art, aptly titled (as you may have guessed) “Rolling Through the Bay”.
We dig this latest effort by Ogilvy Paris. IBM’s Smarter Planet poster series use minimalistic graphics to drive home the message. On a similar note, peep this to learn about IBM’s recent centennial bash.
It may be a tad creepy, but this image is a well-crafted animation made possible by a media format from back in the day. This new minimalism brings life to scenes without overpowering them, creating a form that’s both layered and informative. Dig, if you will, this interview of the folks behind the animated GIF series.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of Alfred Barr’s diagram on Cubism and Abstract Art, Daniel Feral revised the layout to illustrate the history and many influences of street art and graffiti.
This diagram was produced as part of PANTHEON‘s exhibition: an accumulation of 33 artists brought together to interpret and visually represent the journey of street art and New York City’s central role in advancing the art form to other geographies around the globe.
