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Sunset gathers eight ways to slow down outside this fall, from film photography and plant pressing to watercolor sketching and paper star charts.
Try an autumn outing that leaves you with a sketch, a journal page or a roll of film.
A new Curiosity retrospective places a blue sunset, a distant mountain and a door-like natural fracture inside the rover's long visual record of Mars.
The strangest-looking things on Mars often make the best lessons in geology.
Emi Takahashi lets slime mould, agar and duckweed shape graphic identities that blur the boundary between typography and living material.
What if a logo could literally grow?
Organizers explain how fashion, skateboarding, wrestling, a cat circus and immersive art made Bumbershoot’s latest edition a meeting place for creative communities.
At Bumbershoot, the surprises stretched well beyond the concert stages.
The first selections for VSCO's state-by-state billboard project move distinctive photographic voices from small screens toward public space.
What changes when a photograph leaves the feed and becomes part of a city?
Girlhood Studies founder Claire Marie Healy shares a weekend of London galleries, books, films and convivial meals as her project begins a new chapter.
Inside a culture writer’s ideal off-duty weekend.
Taehyoung Maria Jeon reimagines everyday plants as exuberant digital creatures and shapes, now gathered in the proposed monograph Folium.
Ordinary houseplants turn into a vividly unfamiliar universe.
Pilot Matt Melnyk photographed rippling green auroras from a Boeing 787 flight deck as the northern night returned to a Calgary-to-London route.
An aurora photograph gains a different scale when the foreground is a flight deck.
MSCHF transforms two Lexus vehicles into physical sculptures that bend and twist like objects manipulated in 3D software.
These cars look Photoshopped, but the sculptures are real.
Sarah Lee’s oil paintings turn glaciers, lakes and skies into quietly uncanny worlds, with auroras, red moons and flashes of lightning.
These landscapes feel peaceful until their strange light draws you closer.
Jing Huang's photographic collaboration with silk weaver Jingwei explores how two very different image-making practices depend on patience, material and attention.
A film photograph and a woven silk image have more to say to each other than they first appear.
A six-year reconstruction brings Paul Rudolph’s 1955 Biggs Residence into contemporary coastal life while preserving its tropical modernist character.
A bag of old drawings helped bring this modernist house back to life.
John Kovaleski’s father-and-son comic turns baby babble, everyday mishaps and parental uncertainty into small, affectionate absurdities.
This toddler speaks in babble; his dad supplies the beautifully baffled translation.
Stone columns, stacked bridges and an Alpine peak become a visual tour of the stories people invented to explain extraordinary places.
Before a geological explanation, there was often a giant—or a devil.
Hannah Buechler reveals how music, fashion, collecting and material experiments feed richly layered textiles made with beads, wool and found objects.
Broken jewelry and saved scraps become intricate textile worlds.
From mountain foliage to chile harvests and dramatic coastlines, Sunset’s fall selection offers eight distinct ways to experience the American West and nearby British Columbia.
Golden aspens, bright red chiles and moody coastlines set the scene for fall.
A folding frame and articulated load bed let the Faltos trailer shrink into a compact garage footprint, turning a familiar piece of equipment into an exercise in spatial design.
The engineering story is what happens to the trailer after the trip.
Jessica Hische uses expressive lettering, bright colors and animal characters to help young readers make room for difficult feelings in her forthcoming picture book.
Even the letters carry the feelings in Jessica Hische’s new picture book.
Tiny factory creatures turn glove-making and fish packing into a delightfully strange hand-drawn chain reaction.
Who is making those rubber gloves?
NASA scientists are studying ancient Scottish rocks to help interpret possible traces of past microbial activity on Mars.
The search for clues about Mars leads to Scotland’s sea cliffs.
A rare Jens Quistgaard house and purpose-built sets shape the unsettling domestic world of the upcoming film Verity.
This thriller's striking lake house is a real architectural rarity.
Mu Pan packs animals, humans, and uncanny hybrids into small paintings that unfold like entire worlds.
Zoom in: this small painting holds a universe.
A field test explores how Vivo’s 400mm phone attachment handles long-distance photography while retaining access to the camera’s shooting modes.
This phone wears a 400mm lens.
Jessica Ayromloo reimagines a sprawling Palm Springs home with science-fiction references, mirrored surfaces and playful pastel rooms.
A Palm Springs house becomes a pastel science-fiction fantasy.
Harriet Mena Hill turns salvaged concrete and soft wool into intimate portraits of a changing London housing estate.
A demolished home's fragments become its portrait.
NASA field researchers install instruments and survey trees in Puerto Rico to help satellites read the faint light emitted by plants.
Plants give off a faint glow, and this forest team is measuring it.
A Helsinki Design Week roundup brings together wood experiments, reused interiors and other ways Finnish designers are shaping everyday spaces.
Three tree trunks helped make an entire wooden pavilion.
Illya Goldman Gubin hugs and crumples cardboard boxes into individual stools, then fixes their folds with resin and fiberglass.
This fashion-show seat began as a cardboard box.
A family Fiat rescued from decades in a barn has inspired an extensively reworked classic with a projected collector-car price.
A tiny Fiat gets a painstaking second life.
Wangari Mathenge's New York exhibition pairs richly detailed paintings with her first publicly exhibited sculptures to explore inheritance and Kenyan history.
Memory becomes something to rebuild in paint, wood and thread.
Floating porcelain bowls turn water currents, collisions, and Athens weather into a changing musical composition.
These bowls are the orchestra.
Campanero’s compact tent trailer uses add-on rooms and awnings to grow from a two-person sleeper into a larger family camp.
A camper that can grow with the family.
Cincinnati's former Procter & Gamble headquarters becomes a hotel whose layered rooms and local art preserve the character of its Beaux-Arts setting.
A Cincinnati landmark gets a new life without losing its history.
Es Devlin's new retrospective leads to a rotating, mirrored library holding more than 2,000 color-arranged books.
A library that turns into its own reflection.
A new review finds playful retro controls and a tiny body make the Instax Pal 2 engaging, while shutter lag, battery life and price limit its appeal.
This tiny camera is as much a tactile toy as a picture maker.
Argyle Design adds warm woods, vintage lighting and inviting lounge spaces to an industrial Los Angeles building that houses a working film-editing studio.
This film-editing studio is designed to feel more like a home.
Anton Gudim's two-panel comics turn familiar conveniences and habits into quick expectation-versus-reality surprises.
Every perfect plan has a 'but.'
The crowdfunded Vault M3 opens at several angles and swaps tool-holding panels to turn a compact pouch into a portable workstation.
Unzip a pouch and stand your tools upright.
Artist and musician Sean W Spellman maps a New England road trip through independent restaurants, art-filled stays and music-minded gathering places.
Follow an artist's route through New England's creative corners.
A fresh collection of pet photographs finds comedy in feline lounging, improvised beds, and unlikely cuddles.
Pets keep finding new ways to steal the scene.
TechRadar’s review praises Nothing’s audio and comfort upgrades but finds the heavy carrying case complicates the premium headphones’ appeal.
The headphones impress; their case makes the reviewer hesitate.
From dawn rides in Bangkok to cycling clubhouses and bike-friendly hotels, a travel feature explores how riding can connect visitors with local places and people.
Some of a city's best moments arrive before the streets wake up.
Leone's new Happiness Factory mixes a live sweet-making line with playful rooms, colorful packaging, and tactile displays.
A real sweet factory opens its doors to wonder.
A twentieth-anniversary retrospective revisits how Heroes used ordinary people with extraordinary abilities to make superhero television a shared weekly event.
Twenty years ago, saving the cheerleader became a television obsession.
Maison Margiela's latest Paris runway turns domestic references into deconstructed fashion, including crushed silverware and floral fabrics that evoke vintage tablecloths.
A garden tea party becomes a deconstructed runway wardrobe.
Aldi UK's limited giveaway jacket folds into a grocery bag, making a familiar shopping mishap the premise of a visual campaign.
Forgot a shopping bag? Wear one.
A new anniversary feature reassesses Enterprise’s creative risks and the later seasons that gave its early Starfleet adventures a stronger identity.
Enterprise turns 25, and its journey looks different in hindsight.
In a new interview, Al Diaz revisits his collaboration with Jean-Michel Basquiat and explains the satirical street messages behind SAMO.
One of SAMO's creators wants its story told in his own words.
A cardboard dial, bottle weights and scavenged parts become a working pendulum clock in Niklas Roy’s playful experiment with timekeeping.
This working clock began as locally scavenged trash.
Starship reached orbit and deployed satellites on a test flight shortened after an engine problem.
The world's largest rocket has reached orbit.
LAIKA’s art director reveals the physical sets and puppets behind Wildwood as a London exhibition prepares to show how the film was built.
Wildwood’s miniature worlds are bigger than you think.
Quiet Nerd builds a wooden electric camper with eight driven wheels and tank-style steering, then puts the prototype through a revealing overnight trip.
This handmade wooden camper can turn on the spot.
A shark-inspired film is headed for Airbus A330 testing, using microscopic grooves to reduce drag.
An airliner's next efficiency upgrade takes its cue from shark skin.
Venice’s glassmakers turn molten material into experimental sculptures and chandeliers, with contemporary artists working alongside Murano’s furnaces.
An octopus-inspired chandelier shows what Murano glass can become.
Jon Ching turns dandelions, flowers and smoke into unlikely companions for animals in paintings about resilience, family and the natural world.
A lioness wears a dandelion mane in Jon Ching’s imagined ecosystem.
Voge's CU-X concept pairs a proposed hybrid powertrain with striking cruiser bodywork, though production plans and specifications remain scarce.
This futuristic cruiser is still a concept, but its details demand a closer look.
Animator Joseph Clark explains how his lean, remote studio channels its budget into artists and why he made the creators’ rights film We Are Better Than This.
Inside an animation studio built around human hands.
A monumental inflatable gold coil briefly transformed New York’s High Line into a walk-through sculpture that seemed to hold up the building above it.
The High Line briefly had a giant gold portal tucked under a building.
A new manual-focus lens lets photographers change the character of background blur using a third control ring and shaped inserts.
A twist of this lens changes the personality of its blur.
Quest gives each science-fiction and fantasy story its own typography and artwork, making an online magazine feel like a world to explore.
A different visual universe for every story.