Days before the start of the COP21 Global Summit in Paris, 600 posters by 82 artists from 19 countries were placed behind glass at bus stops around the city.
The wheeze – subverting actual posters by the conference’s rather smug corporate sponsors, including Air France, Dow Chemicals and GDF Suez (Engie) – was organised by UK based anti-corporate collective Brandalism.
MORE: Brandalism: 600 ad takeovers in Paris before the COP21 Climate Conference (Street Art News)
Green painted pallets used by Malka Architects to construct cheap, useable social space in downtown Las Vegas as part of the recent Life Is Beautiful music and art festival.
Embedded circles, useable voids, adaptable seating and not a triumphalist or tyke in sight.
Fruits toilet paper from Lantona marketing in Japan – winner of the 2015 platinum Pentaward for creative packaging design.
€11.55 (+ shipping) for a 4 piece gift set or €106 for 48 roll packs.
Unscented.
Gruesome typographic photo manipulations by Lightfarm Studios for an anti texting-while-driving PSA by Mitsubishi.
A proof of concept by the Unseen Art project, (currently funding on Indiegogo) which aims to make the world of fine art accessible to the blind and partially sighted by creating 3D versions of famous works, printable by anyone with access to a 3D printer.
Fair play in fairness.
The Vitrine Project by Dublin based creative agency In the Company of Huskies for ID2015. To wit:
For one day only, we placed everyday items and street furniture in museum-style vitrines around Dublin city centre, encouraging people to rethink what design is, and what impact it has on everyday life.
The Liminal exhibition runs at the ID2015 Design Hub, Dublin Castle from November 20th to December 30th, 2015.
(Thanks Tara Walsh)
Some imaginative responses to a challenge by designers Luka Or and Keren Tomer who invited their third year design students at Israel’s Holon Institute of Technology to give new sense and purpose to the humble pencil.
