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Painted figures with limbs knotted together in a gallery, part of fredrik raddum sculptures at Arme og Ben.
Sculpture

Fredrik Raddum Ties Painted Figures in Knots at Copenhagen’s Arme og Ben Show

 Collage-style view of VSCO billboard photographers' selected works displayed on outdoor billboards across several states.
Photography

VSCO Picks 25 Final Photographers for Home-State Billboards From 13,500 Entries

 Rodeo life captured in portraits and candid moments, showing the everyday world of black rodeo culture today.
Photography

McClellan’s Photos Replace the John Wayne Cowboy With Black Rodeo Life

 Blanket octopus with iridescent, sail-like membranes trailing behind a golden head, one of the 1839 awards 2026 winners.
Photography

1839 Awards Honor Night Plankton and Nigerian Gods in 2026 Photo Contest

 A large painted artwork spreads across a grassy field under open sky, one of Saype's temporary murals on grass.
Art

Saype Paints Temporary Murals on Grass and Snow, Then Lets Nature Erase Them

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2025

Design

Why AI matters now in graphic design

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2013

Photography

Outstanding Kids Photography by Adrian Sommeling

  Andrian Sommeling is a talented photographer and photo manipulator, who shoot amazing photographs with humour and creative. Adrian says that kids are the biggest inspiration…

2012

Photography

Photographer Polina Rabtseva

  Polina Rabtseva – young and talented photographer from Minsk, Belarus. Lives and works in LA. Shoots portraits and fashion. Website: www.pollyshot.me

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ART SPOTLIGHT (view all, Art spotlight)

Scale model of a sculptural stage set in a gallery, one of many zaha hadid stage designs on display. Five Hadid Stage Designs, from Mozart to Pet Shop Boys, Come Out of the Archive Fairground-inspired sound dioramas displayed in a gallery space during the yuri suzuki onomatopia exhibition at Osh Gallery. Yuri Suzuki Turns Fairground Rides into Sound-Filled Dioramas at Osh Gallery Several julie curtiss paintings displayed together, including tilted laundry rooms and tarot-themed scenes on gallery walls. Julie Curtiss tilts laundry rooms and tarot readings just enough to unsettle viewers Fairground acoustic dioramas on display at Osh Gallery in London, inviting visitors to listen to public space. Five Fairground Dioramas Let Visitors Hear Public Space at London’s Osh Gallery

VEHICLES SPOTLIGHT (view all, Vehicles spotlight)

A digitally rendered 1965 Mustang restomod fastback with a wide Japanese-style body kit, shown in a three-quarter perspective view. Someone Puts a Japanese-Style Widebody on a 1965 Mustang Fastback in CGI Digital makeover of a 1965 Pontiac GTO showing its reworked body, bold colors, and redesigned lines. Paris Studio AZER Gives a 1965 Pontiac GTO a Bolder Digital Makeover A completed LEGO Interstellar Ranger model sits on a table with its removable roof lifted and rear hatch open. LEGO Greenlights Interstellar Ranger Build With Removable Roof and Rear Hatch

ARCHITECTURE SPOTLIGHT (view all, Architecture spotlight)

Designer Fernandes Cuts Holes in a Steel Curb So Low Plants Can Cross

A plant pushing through a cracked sidewalk usually signals trouble, but Sara Fernandes sees a design brief. Her prototype, Let Them Through, opens gaps in an ordinary curb so vegetation can move across a boundary that normally shuts it out. It is a modest idea with surprisingly thoughtful implications for everyday streets.

A perforated corten steel curb runs along a street, its rust-colored surface dotted with openings for low plants.

Nicosia’s 1970s House Gains a Glass Pavilion Left Open for Future Uses

Concrete planes stretch toward a wooded courtyard in Cyprus, while a glass room deliberately resists a fixed purpose. The 1970s home's new pavilion leaves its interior free of partitions, inviting residents to shape daily life inside it and watch shifting light and foliage across its walls.

The nicosia house extension shows a glass pavilion joined to a 1970s house, its interior left open.

PHOTOGRAPHY SPOTLIGHT (view all, Photography spotlight)

Close-up view of oak plant galls on a Solano oak branch, with wasp-made growths resembling alien architecture in varied shapes. Boomer’s Close-Up Photos Show Wasps Turning Solano Oaks Into Alien Architecture Solitary tree photography shows a lone tree under a wide sky with a pale moon above. Nature AroundClock Photos Make Lone Trees and Moons Look Like Surrealist Paintings Large black-and-white portraits wrap Cloud 11 for the inside out project thailand installation, spanning facade, level two, and retail. Cloud 11 Hangs 2,500 JR Portraits Across Its Facade, Level 2 and Retail Visitors move through the Paris Photo 2026 fair, browsing photographs and photobooks displayed across gallery booths and tables. Paris Photo 2026 Sends Visitors From Ruff’s Entrance Wall to Seine Photobooks Three photographers work a rocky cliff edge while photographing red bull rampage, as a short documentary follows their work. Documentary Short Follows Three Photographers Working the Cliffs at Red Bull Rampage

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A lone photographer stands on a hazy, wind-blown sand dune under diffused sunlight at photography workshops 2028.

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Wade and Leta's Shanghai playscape sculpture, a large interactive structure that visitors power by moving through it.

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A detachable wireless slashvibe voice controller held in a hand, used to speak commands to an AI agent.

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Sony's original walkman headphones, revived as the MDR-3R, rest on a surface with blue and orange foam ear pads.

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AceiiLab A1 autonomous wheeled tennis robot with built-in AI and cameras, ready to serve on a court.

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Powerhouse Parramatta free entry draws visitors into a bright new building with a large public courtyard in western Sydney.

Powerhouse Parramatta Opens With Mostly Free Entry to Make Culture Accessible to All

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An office with a long table and curtained walls inside a Tokyo brutalist warehouse converted into a company headquarters.

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A plain storage tunnel reworked by Chartier-Corbasson into dignified paris public toilets for the Olympics, seen from inside.

Chartier-Corbasson Shows an Ordinary Storage Tunnel Can Become a Dignified Paris Public Toilet

Shenzhen opera house construction site on Shekou Bay, with partially built halls rising along the waterfront.

Shenzhen Opera House Builds Its Four Halls on Shekou Bay Ahead of December 2028

Pedrali's orgatec office furniture arranged in a welcoming, home-like display, softening the workplace with warm residential touches.

Pedrali Makes Office Furniture Feel Like Home at Orgatec in Cologne

Glulam buildings by Tonkin Liu form a york minster restoration centre beside the cathedral in York.

Tonkin Liu Builds Twin Glulam Workshops Beside York Minster for Stonemason Training

Tall cedar trees fade into soft white fog across a quiet Japanese forest mist scene at dawn.

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Hannes Caspar Makes Floating Women and Cactus-Headed Walkers Look Startlingly Real

A modular blue sofa with two white speakers sits in an industrial space, one of several copenhagen design week exhibitions.

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Silver NOCTILUX book cover with a centered black-and-white lens cross-section diagram, part of the leica noctilux lens evolution.

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A Loll Designs outdoor bench in HDPE plastic, a rebuilt aldo leopold farm bench for outdoor seating

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A folding-screen device used as a handheld wildlife field guide, showing animal species photos and identification details.

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A low, flat-roofed Belgian midcentury modernism house with large glass walls set across open polder grassland.

Bieke Casteleyn Adapts Palm Springs Modernism for Belgium’s Flat, Low-Lying Polder Landscape

A pebble car key case with a textured, stone-like surface, shown beside a vehicle key, displaying its compact, rounded form.

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A magnifying lens table lamp with several round lenses stacked, one being lifted off by a diner's hand.

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Person holding a black smartphone horizontally, fingers on its edges, ready to take a holocoder bayer filter-free photo.

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An electric café racer motorcycle rides along a street, showing its low, sleek profile and minimalist design.

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