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"Is sheep shit more user-friendly than cow shit?"Landscape artist Andy Goldsworthy returns home to create a major retrospective of his work at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. [slideshow] (see also L+L 6/10/2004 "Andy Goldsworthy")
Knot Skateboard by BuildLondon-based designers Build created this cool limited edition laser-cut design for an exhibition called Refill Seven launching March 29, 2007 in MTV's gallery in Sydney, Australia.
Timely Lessons From a Rebel, Who Often Created by Destroying"The Gordon Matta-Clark retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art should be required viewing for any architect born in the age of the computer screen."
Phoebe WashburnNew York artist Phoebe Washburn addresses environmental sustainability, urban planning and recycling in her work - she builds large scale pieces from discarded material found on city streets.
Escaping From the Shadow of the 'Wall'"Maya Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 25 years ago—she's spent the time since then proving she's no one-hit wonder."
FROST 2006 : Deck the HallsMoco covers the FROST exhibit of skateboard decks. The exhibit is oganized by IDEA, a group of Edmonton designers of which our very own Adriean Koleric (L+L contributor and editor of designBOT) is a member.
Video objectsw-h-i-t-e-v-o-i-d interaction design has created custom software to perspectively distort video content in realtime onto multiple real world 3D objects.
bookFor 36 weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order between 4 artists, each artist responding to the previous spread.
One Thousand and One Persian LandscapesSome amazing images of Persian manuscript paintings from an exhibition at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art.
The artist's right to retreat into a faraway placePhilip Kennicott thinks that Maya Lin has "retreated from the battlefield of ideas."
Grain ElevatorsBeautiful photos of American grain elevators from the Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record.
Landscapes of Aerial Invention"Artist Natalie Czech's Blattschnitte, from 2002, presents us with aerial views of cluttered landscapes – which Czech has since combined, sutured, and overlain with other views of cluttered landscapes."
Suburban DesertA photo series exploring the suburban development that is quickly overtaking the desert peripheries of Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Denver, and Los Angeles.
One day in Africa as seen by 100 photographersFebruary 28, 2002, a normal, simple day, as many other, captured in 53 countries of Africa, by 100 photographers of 26 countries all over the world. All the photos are worthy to be seen and admired.
Concrete jumble"Empty streets, wilting cabbages and floating bow-ties ... Is this really how artists perceive urban architecture?"
US - Mexico border surveyPhotographs by William Howard. "This project surveys the visual drama of the border, the way it marks the land, and also the human drama, politics, economics and history embedded in a barrier, the way a person's geographic position a few yards one way or the other can provide them with a profoundly different life experience."
Raked SandA photographer from Guernsey rakes images into the sand and then photographs them from above using a kite.
Party wallsPhotos by José Antonio Millán documenting the vestiges of demolished spaces left on suddenly one-sided party walls.
In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss From an Unnatural DisasterWe have previously featured the work of photographer Chris Jordan and his series "Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of Mass Consumption" and this series of the devastated Gulf Coast is perhaps even more powerful.
Flying CarpetAn installation at the Sacramento International Airport by artist Seyed Alavi: satellite imagery depicting 50 miles of the Sacramento River woven as a carpet. Alexander has some ideas of his own too...
Aaron Rose"Somewhere between pinhole photography and medieval alchemy, photographer Aaron Rose thinks of his own imagery as 'photography in its purest phase.'"
Sculptural birdfeedersSt. Louis artist Joe Papendick creates birdfeeders from mild steel, stainless steel and copper. His freestanding garden designs are both sculptural and architectural.
Slopeside at the Olympics, Designing With Frozen FingersArchitects and artists paired up to design six projects for the "Snow Show" for the Turino Winter Olympics.
What If Sprawl Is The Real Entropy?More from Greg Allen about cleanup and restoration work at the Spiral Jetty, and thoughts about Smithson's ideas of "Entropy And The New Monuments."
Cleanup Crew: 1, Entropy: 0 At The Spiral JettyGreg Allen writes a pair of posts about cleanup work around the site of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah. Who's ready for the cappuccino-and-smoothie cart during the peak Jetty months? Anyone? ;-)