Contextual « 360Photography

RSS

Posts Tagged ‘Contextual’

Window Shades: Contextual Street Art Frames View of Greek Cityscape

04 Apr

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

shades

A turn of phrase meets art in this mural made to look like a face, with glass-framed eyes reflecting the world outside.

shades-at-night

Graffiti interventionist Achilles likes to put art in context, using walls and spaces as backdrops for layered works that wouldn’t work quite the same way anywhere else.

streetartsurprise

angles

twistedart

Many of his site-specific works play with perspective and create visual surprises by tucking elements onto different surfaces to create reveals as the viewer approaches.

Compared to his complex works, his artist bio is short and to the point: “Achilles lives and creates in Athens, Greece. He loves street art, graffiti and painting. He works as a freelancer creating murals, portraits, paintings, illustrations etc.”

[ By WebUrbanist in Art & Street Art & Graffiti. ]

[ WebUrbanist | Archives | Galleries | Privacy | TOS ]

WebUrbanist

Comments Off

Posted in Creativity

Free Little Libraries: 25 Contextual Designs & Creative Reuses

19 Jun

[ By Delana in Architecture & Public & Institutional. ]

antique style little free library

Little Free Libraries have been popping up all over the U.S. – and in other countries as well – since 2009. The movement began in Wisconsin, where Todd Bol built a tiny replica of a schoolhouse and put it on a post in his front yard. The sign on the box read “Free Books,” and anyone passing by was welcome to take a book and leave a book. Above: a library in Toronto.

brown house little free library

green roofed little free library

Over the years, the movement grew. The Little Free Library boxes started popping up all over. The original was made from recycled materials, and Bol eventually teamed up with an Amish carpenter to start making the tiny libraries. You can now buy your own Little Free Library or, like a lot of people have done, get creative with your very own design.

triangular little free library

red cabinet little free library

green parrot little free library

Each official Little Free Library gets its own registration number. In January of 2015, LFL estimated that there were about 25,000 of the tiny lending boxes around the world, with thousands more being built every year. As word of mouth spreads and people get more interested in sharing books with their communities, the libraries continue to pop up everywhere.