How neat is this? The folks at Faber & Faber, an independent publishing house in London since 1929, recently found a forgotten hand press in their archives. As it turns out, the half-century-old machine was used by the firm’s most famous designer, Berthold Wolpe: they’ve since refurbished the relic, which is going to be back in action producing limited edition broadsides and paper goodness for a brand new imprint.
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Last year, LinkedIn suffered the embarrassment of having millions of its users’ passwords stolen. So someone went and turned it into art. Of course they did.
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For some people, even the lowly peanut butter and jelly sandwich represents a culinary challenge that could go disastrously wrong at every step. It’s those amateur chefs who need all the help and support they can get, and that’s what these placemats featuring detailed blueprints for incredibly simple dishes provide—well, that and a way to keep your dining table clean.
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Having decided the city needs more public art, Baltimore is currently installing whimsical crosswalks around the city. This giant zipper by artist Paul Bertholet and a hopscotch-inspired piece by Graham Coreil-Allen are already up, and two more creative crosswalks are on the way. Any interesting crosswalks in your town? Drop some pics in the comments. [NPR]
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Contemporary visual arts and the new space age we are currently living in often pleasantly fuse together, resulting in great art and illustrations that everyone would gladly hang on the wall. To Infinity And Beyond is a space art exhibition of 40 young Hungarian graphic designers and painters currently on display in the Budapest Planetarium, and we’re happy to show you a brief selection from the exhibition material.
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Strapping on a pair of oversized headphones is a great way to shut out the world. But what if the beat was coming from outside the earpads?? For his latest trick, prolific sonic experimentalist Zimoun crafted a makeshift noise-maker out of a pair of mini-pizza-looking boxes, two prepared DC motors, and a couple of cotton balls.
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For those of us stuck in the slushy northern reaches of the country, the first weeks of December are always painful—for the internet (and Instagram, and Twitter) is full of interesting art on view at Design Miami/ and Art Untiled. Here’s some of the best of what we’re missing out on (or, if you hate Miami, narrowly avoiding).
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Two hundred years ago, this brick building in London was a horse stable and carriage house. Now, artist Alex Chinneck has flipped the facade of the fading architectural site upside down for an installation called Miner on the Moon. It’s subtle enough to escape first notice, strange enough to require a second look, and a good reminder to pay attention to the world around you. [It’s Nice That]
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There is some truly incredible stuff in this round of the most beautiful items of the week. Yayoi Kusama’s infinity rooms? You’ll be dying to check them out. Museums that are actually made of gingerbread? You’re mouth will be watering over them. Besides those, there are plenty of other wonders of art architecture and design below:
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What is art? Well—it’s subjective, that’s for sure, and context can have a heck of an impact on how we think about what we see. Marcelo Pena Costa decided to have a bit of unauthorized fun following the ArtRio fair earlier this year: once the show had closed down and shipped out, the Brazilian creative director snuck in and nabbed some of the forgotten screws used to hold up works that themselves were worth a fortune.
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