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My kids love it when I stop - stop tidying, stop 'doing stuff'. Putting some music on and getting the coloring pens out is a great family activity - a rare moment when you can all be round the table,...

We celebrate the start of the Tour de France in Leeds this weekend by selecting five artists from our directory making work about cycling, bikes and Yorkshire

This map of traffic densities is an amazing use of Illustrator's potential to trace areas with vectors. The variation in line point to measure density is subtle but beautiful.

This is definitely a statement piece. This triptych of the Grand Canyon shows incredible depth of the Colorado river and all the connecting canyons that make up the Grand Canyon. The topographical lines are interpretive in order to give depth, but the actual rivers and canyons are representative of the actual canyon. The map was originally drawn by hand using satellite photography. Each print is printed on 24x36 inch panels, so you will receive a total of three 24x36 inch prints. The map…

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Flooding Mechanisms, Bra, Driva & Ribot –––––– AA School of Architecture Dimitra Bra - Lida Driva - Silvia Ribot Landscape Urbanism 2015 Professors : José Alfredo Ramírez - Eduardo Rico - Clara Oloriz – Flooding Mechanisms A New G...

NEW YORK—From afar, Marc Bradford’s large-scale works look like abstract paintings with amazing palettes culled by a color expert. But up close, the details of the beautifully hued canvases r…

Moscow 1808, 1905, 2007 Duralar, enamel paint, pins, 2008 Back to 2007-2009 gallery Prev Next

This is a gallery-quality giclée art print on 100% cotton rag archival paper, printed with archival inks.

Just heard about Mark Bradford, since he is at the MCA this year. Detail from above:

I'm going down a path....not sure where it's leading. I have a few ideas and a few projects underway. I love being in this place - where you can feel so much potential and you are channeling and reigning in all the directions you could take with this concept. One...

I'd like to generate map tiles that give you that same dizzy feeling you get when you look down at a city at night, from an airplane. We've spent so long fussing over the relentless details in cartography that we've sort of forgotten what things (should) look like at a distance. This August 2010 version of prettymaps is codenamed "Isola", after the Finnish textile designer Maija Isola. At a time when the tools for making custom maps and bespoke cartographies are becoming easier* and more…

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