Category: Art
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“Private moon” project
Boris Bendikov
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Brussels – A colourful building
YouTube link In the center of Brussels (near Rogier metro station), Dexia, a French bank opened its new building. 38 levels, 100,000+ LEDs and you get one of the most colourful urban vista in the world. At night. Source: CreativeReview.
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Ring faucet
A design of Lim Sun Liang that was worth a Red Dot Design Award 2006 for its innovative concept in which water flows magically from a ring cut inside the heart of the faucet. As far as I know, you cannot buy this kind of faucet.
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Pintos, by Bev Doolittle
Pinto horses, five of them, in “Pintos”, one of many optical illusion-based paintings from Bev Doolittle.
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Amazing images of Earth seen from space
Source: 11 phenomenal images of earth.
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Art Nouveau design
Thanks again to BibliOdyssey, here are nice Art Nouveau patterns. By Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942).
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Les Roses – Redouté
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) is certianly considered the greatest drawing artist of plants and flowers. Many copies of his paintings and engravings are available on line. Why not start with his page on BiblioOdyssey?
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Mere poster or optical illusion
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Illusion of a perspective
Wrong perspective, optical illusion, mistake of the drawing hand? Along similar lines, more brillant, here is a cool graphical work from Daniel Martinez Lara and Kike Oliva. And, finally, the engraving from Escher that inspired one optical illusion and draws from the other’s principles.