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News14 Brilliant Business Card Designs
With designs that range from a balloon to a fortune cookie to a lego piece, here are some of our favourite creative business cards.
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NewsPositive Posters Use Design to Highlight Global issues
This creative initiative is a competition and exhibition asking designers worldwide what they think the most pressing global issues are.
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NewsA Short Film Made Using Musical Bicycle Parts
Brooklyn artist Stephen Meierding has pulled bicycles apart in order to make his short film 'Bicycle Sounds'.
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NewsGiant LEGO Structures Around the World
To celebrate LEGO's 50th Anniversary in Australia, take a look at the most spectacular giant LEGO structures from around the world.
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NewsBeautiful Bird’s-Eye View Room Portraits
German photographer Menno Aden transforms everyday rooms into fascinating works of art that make you want to sprout wings.
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NewsInfamous Dictators Get Hipster Makeovers
Ronallman's illustrations prove that hipster wardrobes might be better suited to conservative nutjobs.
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NewsFrom the 'Mona Lisa' to 'Codex Atlanticus': A Look Inside The Lume's Multi-Sensory Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
The only 360-degree exact replica of the world's most-famous enigmatic portrait, da Vinci's notebook pages, 40 of his machine inventions brought to life: they're all on display.
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GuideSix Spectacular Art Exhibitions Hitting Sydney in 2023
Famous Modern masters and significant contemporary artists from Australia and abroad are being celebrated in these unmissable exhibitions.
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GuideImmersive and Impressive Blockbuster Exhibitions to Look Forward to Around Australia in 2022
Plan trips to dive into all things Disney, peer at Yayoi Kusama's finest in two different cities, scope out Picasso's best and fall in love with Elvis paraphernalia.
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GuideHow to Get Your Arts and Culture Fix in Tropical North Queensland
Explore beachfront markets, local art galleries and a tropical gin distillery.
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NewsEight Epic Sculpture Parks in Australia Worth a Road Trip
From sculptures among vineyards and wildflowers to metal figures appear that sit on the surface of a gigantic salt-crusted lake.
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NewsThe Twelve Most Impressive Art Galleries in Regional Australia
From country Victoria to the WA coast to the Tiwi Islands, these galleries house homegrown and Indigenous art collections worth planning a whole weekend around.
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NewsReviving Dead Words with Beautiful Typography
A blog called The Dead Words is using thematically appropriate typography to breathe new life into, well, dead words.
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NewsTurn Your GPS Bicycle Routes Into Artworks
Michael J. Wallace has found a neat way of combining both of these talents, all while getting the daily dose of fresh air and outdoor exercise that we so dearly need.
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NewsThe 10 Best-Attended Art Exhibits of 2011
The Art Newspaper compiled the 10 best-attended art exhibits of 2011.
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NewsArtist Creates Immense Art with Fingerprints
Zhang Yu meditatively presses his right thumb into ink, creating infinitive patterns with the prints.
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NewsSix Australian Art Galleries Join Google Art Project
Six Australian galleries have joined Google Art Project to make fine art accessible worldwide.
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NewsLightScythe Reveals Floating Images of Light
By capturing the movement of a LED-covered stick, the Mechatronics Guy reveals beautiful text and images.
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News5 DIY Ways to Transform Your Walls
Easy enough for the craft beginner, these wall art DIY projects could fool anyone into thinking you're an interior designer.
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NewsThe Nerdy Girl Gets the Jock and Other Love Stories from the Voices Project
The Voices Project is brings together young people from different backgrounds and disciplines, and makes writers and viewers think about how storytelling changes from medium to medium.
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NewsArtist Creates Large-Scale Sand Art
California artist Andreas Amador covers his local beaches in beautifully organic sand carvings.
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NewsThe Creators Project Blends Art and Tech in San Francisco
The Creators Project provides techie-minded artists with the means and exposure to commune and create.
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NewsBloom: 28,000 Flowers Fill A Disused Mental Institution
A disused mental institution in Massachusetts becomes public art as it's filled with 28,000 flowers.
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NewsTheatres To Usher In Live Tweeting
The last bastion of the phone-free two hours, the theatre, might be about to crumble.
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NewsVivid Ideas 2012 Program Announced
Vivid Ideas is the creative part of the extravaganza that is Vivid Sydney, and this year it's bigger than ever before.
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NewsBerndaut Smilde Conjures Clouds Indoors
In a seemingly magical act, Smilde produces and photographs his indoor clouds to explore the concept of transition and physical presence in his latest collection.
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NewsMakoto Tojiki Brings the Intangible World of Holograms into Reality
Utilising thousands of LED lights and optical fibres, the Japanese artist creates futuristic celestial-like sculptures.
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NewsNew York’s Iconic Water Tanks To Become Public Art
The Water Tank Project aims to raise awareness about water sustainability in a whimsical urban makeover.
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NewsMoss Poetry Appears in Sydney’s Paddington Reservoir Gardens
The walls of Sydney's historic reservoir are currently playing host to obscurely profound pieces of moss poetry.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Photographer Dean Sewell
Dean recently sat down with Concrete Playground to talk about the Lonely Station, photography and the usefulness of good rope skills.
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NewsEvery World Press Photo Winner From 1955 to 2011
They say a picture tells a thousand words, and this old statement is strikingly appropriate for what's displayed here.
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NewsWhat Music Looks Like as an Object
German artist Martin Klimas endeavours to answer the question: 'what does music look like?'
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NewsStuart Ringholt’s Naked Art Tours Come to Sydney
An art tour where all participants must turn up in the flesh, literally.
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NewsHow Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
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NewsFireworks by Day
A Chinese artist takes modern art to the sky with his daytime fireworks exhibition.
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NewsPlease, Steal Our Banksy
A Melbourne hotel issues an open invitation to steal their artwork straight off the walls.
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NewsConcrete Playground Talks to Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Lozano-Hemmer is famous for art that lurks in public spaces, galleries and even beaches, amplifying passers-by into new creatures with a city-sized will.
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NewsThe World’s First Functional Painting Typewriter
To the delight of fetishists of redundant technology, an American artist has created a typewriter that paints.
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NewsConcrete Playground talks to Photographer David Stewart
Concrete Playground recently caught up with one of England's most respected photographers. Here's what he had to say.
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NewsBen Turnbull’s Real Life Superheroes
This British artist's work serves as a bridge between collective fantasy and the harsh truths of the society we live in.
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NewsConcrete Playground’s Guide to Sydney Festival 2012
The reinvigorated Sydney Festival has completely transformed our city in summer and it’s made Sydney a truly amazing place to be in January.
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NewsPaula Scher’s Amazing Maps
Scher's pieces offer an individual distortion of the world and strong commentary about our society and often chaotic lifestyles.
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NewsBeautiful Paintings of Graffiti on Vans
New York artist Kevin Cyr paints the artfully graffitied vans and vehicles of his Brooklyn neighbourhood.
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NewsThe Mona Lisa Recreated with a Single Line
It's incredible the things an ordinary person can do if they just have the appropriate felt-tip pen.
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NewsBrooklyn Man Turns His Life Into An Exhibition in a Dumpster
In the ultimate act of not being able to let go, an artist has transferred the detritus of his past into a perusable dumpster.
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NewsSemi-Fictional Audio Guides Narrate New York’s Museum Mile
A conceptual sound collective and the French join forces to take you for a merry and blissfully confusing journey down Manhattan's Museum Mile.
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NewsNYC Artist Brings Subway Etiquette to Life
NYC artist Jay Shells' Subway Etiquette Posters pokes fun at commuter pet peeves.
