For the last several years, Danish design firm MONSTRUM (previously) has constructed wildly imaginative playscape features for playgrounds around the world with an intense focus on both artistic and architectural quality. The playgrounds are designed and built locally in their large studio just outside Copenhagen and then shoppied in components to sites around Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and …

Mexican calligraffiti artist Said Dokins combines calligraphy writing with graffiti techniques to create public murals that address conflicts of power, destruction, and control imposed by both historic and contemporary regimes. His latest project, Heliographies of Memory, uses luminous tools to explore displaced memory, creating light paintings that use famous historic buildings or other iconic sites as temporary backdrops. “‘Heliographies of …

Being single and living alone can be pretty awesome, and these illustrations show why. Created by LA-based painter, illustrator and occasional animator, Yaoyao Ma Van As, this series of illustrations pretty much sums up the magic of living alone. From leaving your marks everywhere to cleaning up whenever you want – living alone really has …

With her amazing vegetal objects, where the wood used returns to life, Brazilian artist and designer Camille Kachani imagines a world where nature takes back its rights. This series of furniture and everyday objects questions poetically our use of nature by asking a simple question: does nature really belong to us? More info: Camille Kachani   …

HBO partners with NYC-based designer twins Dee & Ricky to produce seven pixelated pins modeled after the show’s main characters. The limited edition pack comprises ‘Jon Snow’, ‘Tyrion Lannister’, ‘Hodor with Bran’, ‘Drogon’, ‘Littlefinger’, ‘Cersei Lannister’ and ‘Arya Stark with Needle’. “As a design duo, we found Game of Thrones as an inspiration to our …