"If you knew how much work went into it, you would not call it genius."
~ Michelangelo
In today's edition of the Daily Grind, we celebrate design and art in unusual places. These designers, artists and architects express themselves via non-traditional tools and methods. Their minds keep our world interesting and alive and engaged.
- Quiz Time: Which City Is Most Right for You to Live In? I got San Francisco which I'd never thought about before but wasn't shocked by.
- The wood fired Dutchtub may look like a giant coffee mug, but its ingenious design allows anyone to take a hot bath anywhere.
Just add creme and sugar.
- Graphic Designer Fulvio Obregon imagines the lives of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman during their downtime.
- Do you ever wonder what designers collect?
- French sculptor Maud Vantours uses paper and an X-acto knife to create complicated 3-D artwork:
- Imaging on the go is here; just fire up the iPad.
- A 90-year-old man in Madrid, Spain is building a cathedral by himself...and has been for 53 years.
- Abandoned buildings are being transformed into works of art.
A mural inside a water tank.
- Hawaiian-born artist Hula paints semi-submerged women that interact with the surface of the water. His palettes include icebergs, underpasses and abandoned ships.
- A century-old theater in Buenos Aires was scheduled for demolition, but the structure was saved and converted into the most amazing bookstore that's now on my bucket list.
Waanders in de Broeren Bookstore
- You will feel like a King while you're waiting for a bus in Austria. It feels insulting to call these elaborate creations mere "Bus Stops".
- The Serif TV by Samsung was a huge hit when released last year. Its elegant and unusual free standing design is a work of art, but was originally only available in Europe. However, it will soon be released in the U.S.
