Data + Design Project

A Lifetime of Sculptures Play with Light and Shadow

Friday 03.22.2013 , Posted by

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What only look like sculptural piles of rubbish become fascinating studies in light and shadow when illuminated from just the right angle. The work of dutch artist Diet Wiegman, each sculpture is built with a precision at odds with the rough materials from which it is constructed. He uses paper, photos, glass, mirror, cardboard, clay, wood and a host of other ingredients to build just the right forms โ€“ forms which subsequently cast shadows of masterworks like Michelangelo’s David or the dancing figure of Michael Jackson. [Read more...]

Felice Varini: Anamorphic Paintings Cover the World

Thursday 03.21.2013 , Posted by

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At first they appear to simply be gigantic swooping shapes painted across buildings around the world… but find the correct focal point and they pop into astounding geometric forms. Swiss artist Felice Varini has been creating these massive pieces since 1979; starting small with room based installations, but later growing to pieces that cover entire villages and require a hike up a mountain to properly appreciate. His anamorphic paintings have impressed a generation of creatives, and continue to be emulated to this day. [Read more...]

Parquet: Is it a Rug or a Sculpture?

Tuesday 02.26.2013 , Posted by

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It’s hard not to be confused by this new piece by Daniella Mooney. Seemingly a wood parquet floor climbs up over a wooden chair, changing into a thick, flowing rug. Even on second glance the illusion is hard to shake. This is the work of a master woodworker. [Read more...]

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Visual Bits #356 > A Colorful World: Installs & More

Thursday 01.10.2013 , Posted by

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Gregory Scott Jumps Into His Paintings

Thursday 12.13.2012 , Posted by

Gregory Scott does more than paint self-portraits โ€“ he literally merges with the images he creates. Using his combined skills in painting and photography, he makes large canvases and then suspends them before reality โ€“ often with surprising results. Sometimes Scott’s images are funny, other times completely bizarre, and sometimes they are sweetly poignant. Partly helped by his mostly black and white format, many of his images are confusing to interpret at first glance, often revealing clever tricks of perspective only on closer inspection. [Read more...]

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Alexander Kent Shows It’s All About Perspective

Monday 11.05.2012 , Posted by

Our view of life is often all about our perspective. Whether that is dealing with people around us, the often unexpected situations we encounter in our day to day life, or simply the way we observe our surroundings. London-based photographer Alexander Kent knows this well, using unusual perspectives and visual illusions to create work which makes us look twice and more closely analyze what we see. [Read more...]

Metamorphosis- Art That Transforms Before Your Eyes

Wednesday 08.01.2012 , Posted by

We’ve all seen the famous Young Girl-Old Woman illusion, but Swiss artist Markus Raetz has taken perceptive illusions into the third dimension. The septuagenarian sculptor and conceptual artist has been blurring the line between illusion and reality with his sculptures and showing his intriguing works all over the world at shows, Biennales, and museums for over forty years. Each one of his pieces transform from one form into another as they move or the viewers move around them; sometimes abstract forms are the intermediates while others are recognizable all along. [Read more...]

A House Precariously Perched 100 Feet in the Air

Friday 06.08.2012 , Posted by

The University of California San Diego recently got an astounding and mind bending addition… a small cottage perched precariously on the edge of Jacobs Hall many stories in the air (fittingly on Engineering Building 1). The custom-built installation was the brain child of artist Do Ho Suh, who said after conceptualizing the highly complex project that he “never thought it would be realized.” Happily he was mistaken: the building is now a reality, jutting out 100 feet in the air from the corner of its cement host buildings rooftop at a disconcertingly canted angle. [Read more...]

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Visual Bits #198> Time To Hit The Streets

Saturday 05.26.2012 , Posted by



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Magic Photography from the Woods to the Sea

Thursday 03.29.2012 , Posted by

Standing unsupported on the damp, leaf covered forest floor, a picture frame reveals the woods through its empty form… and something more. Through the frame, the torso of a mans body wearily crawls, arms outstretched and searching, as if from another world. Such is the mysterious photography of Kevin Corrado. His peaceful, yet slightly unsettling works are beautiful in their simplicity and in the way that they each tell an intriguing but incomplete story. With these stunning images there’s always more than meets the eye. [Read more...]

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