May 2, 2012 • 9:40 am 0
David A Brown created an Optical Chapel in an office space that was once an optician’s office in downtown Houston. The installation incorporated 11,000 photographs. The project was featured in FotoFest 2012.
Filed under: Art, Current Events, Design, Photography, Poetry, Travel, david a. brown, fotofest 2012, houston, installation, optical chapel
January 30, 2012 • 5:39 pm 1
If you were Amanda Nelsen, you’d make art with it. I love that she took something that’s wasteful and rather insidious and used it creatively. Isn’t it beautiful? [via The Artful Desperado]
Filed under: Art, Current Events, Design, Travel, Amanda Nelsen, Recycling
January 20, 2012 • 4:01 pm Comments Off
October 11, 2011 • 3:42 pm Comments Off
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck, the creators of Inversion, have created a new piece of temporary public art by the Houston artistic team of Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. Located at Project Rowhouses, the structure is part art, part stage and part park. It’s also awesome art. There are concerts and activities planned there (3705 Lyons Avenue, Houston, TX) this fall.
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Design, Poetry, Travel, dan havel, dean ruck, Havel Ruck Projects, houston, inversion, Public art
August 23, 2011 • 10:05 am 2
The urban lyrics of Robert Montgomery are nested so tightly into the cityscape, you might not notice. But they are there, each of them, a ghost in the machine.
Check out his site here.
(via My Modern Met)
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Design, Photography, Poetry, Travel
August 22, 2011 • 8:59 am Comments Off
Art happening on the NYC subway
Olek is an artist. What is her art? Well, it’s called knit graffiti, yarn bombing, or urban knitting . It makes us take a second look. Or perhaps a 30 second look. New York City-based artist Agata Oleksiak (known as Olek) uses crochet in bold colors to make her statement. (via Web Urbanist)
Filed under: Art, Current Events, Design, Travel, art, crochet, knit graffiti, new york city, yarn bombing
July 18, 2011 • 11:22 am Comments Off
Although I don’t do it as much as I used to, I still love writing in cafes. I enjoyed this story from Web Urbanist on cafes around the world with uber cool design. Pictured here is the East Beach Cafe in Littlehampton, UK. Check out the other dozen here.
Filed under: Architecture, Blogs, Design, Writing, cafes
April 20, 2011 • 9:48 am 1
Now this chair has the poetry in it!
Via DesignBoom: The zartan chair by philippe starck with eugeni quitllet is a new approach to industrial production in a post-plastic era.
at the magis booth on the milan fairgrounds, designboom spotted this from top to toe wholly natural chair, made of a sort of ‘liquid wood’.
Read more here.
Filed under: Art, Blogs, Design, designer chairs
March 15, 2011 • 5:00 pm Comments Off
One of my (many) childhood fantasies was having an identical twin. You too? Check out the repetitive hilarity of illustrator Judy Kaufman. Bring back the joy!
(via Art MoCo)
Filed under: Art, Blogs, Books, Design, identical twins, illustration, judy kaufmann, twins
February 15, 2011 • 7:30 am Comments Off
A new sculpture exhibit by Jaume Plensa has recently erupted along Buffalo Bayou in Houston. Mr. Plensa will be giving a lecture at the MFAH on February 16, 2011. For complete details, click here.
[photo by the Rice Design Alliance]
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Design, Poetry, Travel, Buffalo Bayou, houston, Jaume Plensa, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, sculpture, Visual Arts
October 25, 2010 • 9:26 am Comments Off
How to start the week? With Banksy, of course!
Other posts on Big Window about Banksy? Click here.
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Design, Travel, banksy, graffiti, Simpsons, Street artist, urban art
October 4, 2010 • 9:15 am Comments Off
Meet Warp, an example of cool art animation by Florent di Bartolo. I discovered this at Rhizome.
Filed under: Art, Design, Video, Web, animation, Florent di Bartolo
September 22, 2010 • 10:11 am Comments Off
Follow the link to more cool photos and a video. (via DesignBoom)
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Current Events, Design, Travel, Arts, london, London Design Festival, Stuart Haygarth, Victoria & Albert Museum
September 9, 2010 • 9:29 am Comments Off
NYC Isamu Noguchi’s Cube 1000, originally uploaded to flickr by njsnowdog.
Filed under: Architecture, Art, Design, Photography, Travel, Isamu Noguchi, new york city, Photography, red cube, sculpture
June 10, 2010 • 4:12 pm Comments Off
Four Inderminate Lines Illuminated shows a sculpture currently at Hermann Park in Houston, was originally uploaded to flickr by wyojones.
Filed under: Art, Design, Poetry, Travel, Hermann Park, houston, sculpture, texas, Visual Arts
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