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Atelier Lune’s Camping House concept explores a trailer-sized shell that unfolds into an A-frame interior with modular spaces for living, utilities and guests.
A tiny-home concept imagines unfolding a roomier A-frame from a trailer.
Qualcomm's latest imaging pipeline can treat parts of a photo differently, leaving phone makers to decide how much control reaches photographers.
Your next phone camera may make more decisions before you press save.
Lyon designer Alexis Cros mixes Xerox textures, airbrush and digital tools into graphics that give local music and DIY communities a visual identity.
The rough edges are part of the design.
RX Architects reconnects a Sussex home to its rear garden by changing the route through the house and adding a glazed dining room with a sheltered window seat.
One house extension starts by changing how people move through the home.
A filmmaker builds one handheld camera setup through five stages, showing what each accessory adds and what it costs in weight and handling.
Watch a simple camera grow into a documentary rig.
Joe Hart’s Aspirantes photographs enter Mexico’s independent wrestling circuits, where masks, athletic spectacle and local communities create vivid real-life characters.
Ringside with Mexico’s masked wrestling heroes.
Jaume Plensa’s new gallery shows turn wood, iron, granite and bronze into contemplative portraits, including faces carved across monumental rows of wooden slats.
A face emerges from a sculpture spanning 28 feet of wooden slats.
Newly uncovered mosaics and teaching halls strengthen the case for an ancient Greek complex linked to Aristotle and the young Alexander.
Mosaic floors are revealing how Macedonia's elite may have learned.
Casa Copycha combines a sunken courtyard, an expansive palm roof and sea-facing rooms to make the Pacific coast part of everyday family life.
A beach house shaped around courtyards, palms and waves.
Drew Doggett contrasts monochrome riders crossing the Sahara with anonymous draped figures in pastel architectural spaces across two new photographic series.
A photographer builds two dreamlike worlds from riders, fabric and light.
Close examination of Australian stick insects has revealed overlooked species and eggs that resemble tiny lidded seeds.
Even familiar insects can hide species science has missed.
LACMA’s new exhibition revisits the gadgets, experimental houses and hopeful illustrations that imagined how Americans would live between 1925 and 1985.
Yesterday’s future homes are back on view.
AFAR’s look inside New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel pairs vivid rooms and a theatrical restaurant with a candid account of what its luxury rates include.
Step inside a New York hotel where color and pattern fill nearly every corner.
Photographers framed September's Harvest Moon beside castles, road signs and cathedral towers in a global collection of night-sky views.
One full moon, many ingenious frames.
At São Paulo’s 111 House, Isay Weinfeld and Rodrigo Oliveira weave plants through concrete and timber so the home’s garden climbs its façades.
This city house grows its garden vertically.
Tanya Marcuse assembles flowers, moss, fruit, bones and other organic materials into intricate scenes whose changing forms become large-scale photographic works.
These elaborate photographic gardens are assembled by hand over weeks or months.
Bronze armor, carved marble and ancient jewelry are returning to Greece, where some objects can reunite with pieces from the same excavation.
After decades abroad, these ancient objects are coming home.
Olivia Rodrigo’s dissolving stage dress revives Hussein Chalayan’s experiments with transforming clothes.
A costume change happens in the rain.
A nature-themed commercial revives a dance anthem with handmade woodland costumes rather than computer-generated creatures.
Those woodland creatures are people in handmade costumes.
Simulations suggest that rapidly feeding black holes wrapped in dense gas could explain some mysterious objects spotted by Webb.
Those tiny red dots might conceal ravenous black holes.
Polaroid's new camera encourages split images, layered exposures and light painting directly in the analog process.
These effects happen before the print leaves the camera.
The Await camera brings film-like rolls and delayed viewing to digital photography, making anticipation part of taking pictures.
Take the picture. Resist checking the screen.
Boox's compact Picco reader attaches to a phone, moving books onto a separate E Ink screen.
Your phone just grew a tiny paperback.
A photo essay reveals the couple's Tuscan wedding setting and style.
A Tuscan estate becomes a cinematic wedding set.
A rare two-headed turtle hatchling found on Cape Cod is receiving specialist care while its prospects remain uncertain.
Two heads, one extraordinary little turtle.
A working Apple-1 and a vintage Steve Jobs letter offer a tangible look at the company's earliest personal-computing era.
Before the sleek aluminum, there was this circuit board.
Fragments of faces and watchful eyes become intimate wearable sculptures in Joy BC's first solo exhibition.
These tiny sculptures are meant to be worn.
A sliding tray lets this coffee-table concept conceal everyday clutter while keeping it within reach.
Company is coming. Slide the clutter out of sight.
An interactive artwork combines videogame history, player-created avatars and Thai folklore inside a Bangkok exhibition.
Pick up the controller. You're inside the artwork.
A small design studio channels collectible-card enthusiasm and expressive lettering into spirited visual identities.
Branding with a trading-card collector's imagination.
An illustrator explains how a South American cycling adventure changed her approach to making art and building a creative life.
She cycled the Andes and found a different creative rhythm.
A newly launched showcase gathers 72 emerging creatives from 16 countries across a broad range of visual disciplines.
Meet the people making the next wave of visual culture.
William Matthews's new book explores bolo ties as wearable art.
Small accessories, extraordinary artistic range.
Silver eyeliner and wet-look hair define the show’s futuristic beauty direction.
Runway makeup goes metallic.
Timbers exposed on a Nantucket beach may belong to a nineteenth-century wreck, but their identity remains unconfirmed.
The surf may have returned a nineteenth-century mystery.
A compact home squeezes two lofts, a substantial kitchen and a living area into an unexpectedly small footprint.
Two lofts and a real kitchen fit inside this?
A modular ceramic vase concept borrows the fluting of classical columns to give individual stems an architectural setting.
One flower gets its own miniature monument.
Deliberately stained shirts turn a laundry campaign into a playful argument for keeping clothes longer.
The stain is the entire point of this shirt.
Industrial spaces, expressive furniture and unusual installations reveal the visual character of Berlin's new design festival.
Berlin turned its industrial spaces into a design playground.
Glass and walnut turn a familiar manual brewing ritual into a countertop display.
This coffee maker wants to stay on the counter.
An artist transforms ordinary objects into elastic, mischievous cartoons shaped by the rhythms of cursive handwriting.
What happens when everyday objects learn to doodle?