The Bird Apartment – Collective Housing For 78 Birds and One Human.

Nendo Bird Apartment

The Nendo Bird Apartment is a an unusual treehouse designed by Japanese design firm Nendo for the Ando Momofuku Center, a facility devoted to promoting and increasing access to nature activities. The facility is located in a forest in Komoro City in Japan’s mountainous Nagano Prefecture. Nendo’s treehouse is designed to be collective housing for many birds and one person. (more…)

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Drunk With Talent. The Fin Bec Winery Invites 8 Artists To Paint Special Labels.

Fin Bec Winery Invites 8 Artists To Paint Special Labels

 

On a beautiful sunny day in Sion, the wine region of southern Switzerland, eight graffiti and street artists from all over the world gathered for a fun project. Each artist was given a “canvas” made up of 84 wooden wine cases and asked to create an artful interpretation of any wine out of the myFINBEC collection. The final images produced by each of the eight artists are featured on the label of the bottles of their choosing which are sold by the half-case. (more…)

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Neoshed Birdhouses and Bird Feeders For Modern Architecture Lovers.

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Neoshed birdhouses hero IHIH

Neoshed, who makes prefab garden sheds in various sizes also makes handcrafted birdhouses and bird feeders based on those very sheds. If they sound familiar, I wrote about them in 2008, but at that time the birdhouses and bird feeders were still in the prototype phase. (more…)

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The Astounding Range Of Creative Talent Known As Rankin.

Photographer Rankin

John Rankin Waddell, who is better known by the sole name of Rankin, is a very busy and very talented man. Having photographed everyone from the Queen of England to the Queen of Pop, Rankin is often seen as a celebrity photographer, but his talents and repertoire go way beyond portraiture. (more…)

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Warhol-Inspired Campbell’s Soup Cans Are An Old Recipe. How Are These Different?

Warhol-Inspired Campbell's Soup Cans
above left: The Warhol-Inspired Cambell’s Soup Cans offered in 2004 and 2006 and above right: the new cans offered at Target beginning today.

Art and soup lovers everywhere are getting ready to rush out to Target today to buy the limited edition Andy Warhol-Inspired Campbell’s soup tomato cans. (more…)

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