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This office building in Osaka is covered in beautiful greenery. Known as an "organic building," it features a surface covered with different plants, each in a specialized container with customized watering. The building houses a company that ...

Mike King is a brilliant but accidental graphic designer who started as a late-70s punk rocker in Portland, Oregon, making show posters for his own bands and other acts at small venues. Before he knew it, he was creating gorgeous, fascinating concert ...

There is a Match Museum in Jönköping, Sweden, dedicated to matchsticks and matchboxes. It's one of only a handful of match museums worldwide. I love looking at vintage matchbox art, and this museum sounds like a great place to see some. -- Read the ...

This painting by Louis Wain depicts a wonderfully playful scene of cats sledding down a hill. Some look thrilled, while others look absolutely terrified. A few have even gone flying off their sleds and landed upside down in the snow. I need to find a ...

In the Retable de la Passion, an oil-on-wood altarpiece from around 1500, a small dog sits among the crowd at Christ's trial. It has grey stubble, a weak chin, and an expression that's unsettlingly human. The dog is Pontius Pilate. -- Read the rest ...

Gouache applied by airbrush -- that was the secret behind the impossibly smooth, vivid covers Robert Tinney produced for Byte magazine across 80-plus issues from 1975 into the late 1980s. Each one took roughly a week to finish after phone calls with ...

This lovely animation comments on the idea that our screens are consuming us. Although it takes a screen to watch this animation, it's a good reminder that too much screen time can mess with us. There are three slides in this series, and in each one,

Painter Jan Van Kessel didn't slack off when it came to his signature. His name becomes the entire subject of this painting, shared by the PDR. The painting features his name spelled out by beautifully rendered worms, bugs, and snakes that twist and ...

Michael Beitz's Lies Bench plays with the idea of lies as something we rest upon. Made from dark maple and upholstered in soft salmon-colored chenille, the benches connect to spell "Lies" in loose, cursive lettering. Their simple, elegant design ...

In a crumbling 11th-century church in Halberstadt, Germany, an organ has been playing the same piece of music since 2001. It will finish in 2640. The composition is John Cage's ORGAN²/ASLSP -- "As Slow As Possible" -- and the organizers took the ...