Category: Art
-
How to Build A Super Bowl Snack-Stadium
In just a couple of days, Super Bowl 49 will take place between the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. Some people look forward to the day with nervous excitement, while others think it sounds about as fun as a root canal with no anesthesia. Whichever camp you fit in, you’ll still appreciate the effort…
-
Scientifically Accurate Botanical Yarn Art in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s current exhibit, Knit, Purl, Sow, is an entire show devoted to knitting! At the exhibition, expert textile and knitting artists have created finely detailed botanical renderings of plants, flowers and vegetables. The exhibit has been two years in the making and contains 21 works with 19 provided by artist Tatyana Yanishevsky, who studied…
-
33 More Perfectly Timed Photos
Following on from our original and extremely successful “33 Perfectly Timed Photos” (see HERE), we thought we’d scour the internet to bring you a second edition. With all the cameras and smartphones out there, it’s no surprise that, once in a while, someone captures a truly bizarre once-in-a-lifetime photo. Whatever you want to call them…
-
Living Clay Sculptures By Johnson Tsang
In his Living Clay series, Hong Kong-based Johnson Tsang uses masterfully crafted organic and fluid forms to bring otherwise mundane stoneware to life. The sculptor mixes ordinary crockery, traditional face sculpting and an expressive splashing motif to create sculptures that seem to be frozen in time. Living Clay demonstrates Tsang’s extraordinary creativity, which leaves a…
-
12 of The Coolest Offices In The World
Some offices can be boring and stifling, but definitely not these – we made a list of the coolest and most well-designed office spaces in the world. Not all work spaces were created equal – some can reduce worker’s morale while others can keep them happy and inspire them to be more energetic and creative.…
-
Minimiam: Tiny People’s Adventures In The World of Food
Most of us start losing our wild childish imaginations when we grow up, but not Akiko Ida and Pierre Javelle. Since 2002, these two professional food photographers have been shooting a playful series of dioramas called MINIMIAM (“miam” is French for “yum”) that place miniature people in a world of over-sized food. In their dioramas,…
-
![The Ceramic French Bulldog in Love With Coco Chanel by Vincent Agostino [video]](https://static.artfido.com/2014/01/27.jpg)
The Ceramic French Bulldog in Love With Coco Chanel by Vincent Agostino [video]
In October of last year, artFido had the privilege of auctioning off 13 hand painted ceramic French Bulldogs for charity with 100% of proceeds going to Wear for Success, an organisation that provides clothing and training to disadvantaged people seeking employment (read about it HERE). We’ve previously featured Outtie the cat-loving French Bulldog HERE, but his best…
-
Beautiful Photos of Frozen Lighthouses on Lake Michigan
With the winter chill in high gear in the Northern Hemisphere, photographer Thomas Zakowski has captured some beautiful images of frozen lighthouses to reflect just how cold temperatures can get. The photographer’s spectacular shots reveal a lesser seen vision of lighthouses on Lake Michigan, each having been hit with waves of water that have succumb…
-
Awful Client Criticism Turned Into Posters!
If you’re a designer yourself, most of these postcards should ring a bell. Irish graphic designers Mark Shanley and Paddy Treacy, in collaboration with other ad creatives, designers, animators, directors, illustrators and more, created this “Sharp Suits” series, based on their “favorite worst feedback” from clients. The creators say that the series has raised thousands of euros…
-
15 Unusual Animal Friendships That Will Melt Your Heart
There are some people out there that still believe that animals are just dumb beasts, but the unlikely animal friendships we’ve gathered here will prove that they are capable of feeling love and compassion just like we are. Naturally, all of these pictures are heart-breakingly adorable, but there’s more to it than that. Why did…