Mathieu Tremblin Watermarks The City
In street art great ideas are often simple ideas. Today I stumbled upon a recent artwork by French street artist Mathieu Tremblin that makes fun of the characteristic watermark you often find in stock photos on the Web.
Read more →#Stadvandetoekomst: A Future City Exhibition Curated By The Pop-Up City
Last winter the Museon in The Hague asked us to co-curate a summer exhibition about the city of the future. After months of hard work, we’re very happy to announce the official opening of #stadvandetoekomst (#cityofthefuture) on Thursday June 20th!
Read more →Photoshop Artist Gives People At The Bus Stop A Live Retouch
By Joop de Boer
For the occasion of the Adobe Creative Days, Berlin-based Photoshop artist Erik Johansson gave unsuspicious bus travelers a live retouch job, and projected the edited versions right in front of them in an advertising space.
Read more →Dutch Outlet Supermarket Fights Food Waste
By Joop de Boer
Think ‘outlet store’ and things like outdated fashion, suburban shopping malls and crowded Sunday afternoons pop up in your mind. However, a new outlet supermarket in the Netherlands has become very fashionable by selling food that’s not fashionable any more for half the price.
Read more →Home Recording Project Turns Building Into An Online Radio Station
‘Home’ is a new residence in Amsterdam that houses 69 international students of the city’s music academy. The building’s owner wanted the surrounding neighborhood to benefit from all the musical talent inside. Turning the building into a giant radio transmitter, the Home Recording project enables the students to share their melodies with neighbors, relatives at home and everyone else.
Read more →Unlock Private Spaces In The City With Breather
By Bob Wiebes
The local Starbucks if often filled with hip looking people who are slowly sipping their coffees with hasty people incomprehensibly shouting their names to the baristas. In between these people, the keen observer could discern another group altogether: the people who despite the circumstances desperately try to work. For the people who like a bit more peace, quiet and privacy than their local coffeeshop can offer them, there is Breather.
Read more →Smart Billboards Double As Urban Furniture
By Joop de Boer
IBM has launched a clever series of billboards that double as urban furniture. Three different billboards that promote the company’s People for Smarter Cities program are designed to sit on, to take cover under when it rains or to pull your bags over instead of carrying them.
Read more →Apps For Urban Farmers
By Bob Wiebes
Nothing shouts ‘traditional’ as urban farming does. Actively trying to pull away from our digital world, it encourages people to roll up their sleeves and start getting their precious typing hands dirty. Still, it seems quite impossible to avert anything from the digital revolution, which is once more proven by the newest trend in urban farming: apps!
Read more →This Laundromat Is A Bar Too
By Bob Wiebes
For people who would like some excitement during their laundry, there is the Wasbar, a combination between a laundromat and a bar.
Read more →A House Made Of Sugar
By Joop de Boer
Installation artist William Lamson created a small greenhouse out of caramelized sugar. Edible architecture!
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