Source Design You Trust  Between the 12th and 13th centuries, Bologna was densely packed with tall, defensive stone towers, some reaching up to 97 meters. These towers were complemented by fortified gateways known as torresotti, remnants of the city’s 12th-century walls, which have mostly vanished. Constructing a tower, even with serf labor, was a slow…

Source Colossal   Armed with tweezers, a porcupine quill, and more patience than most of us could fathom, the senior paper conservator of the Victoria & Albert Museum tackles a finicky restoration project in a new video. Susan Catcher walks us through her impeccably precise process as she restores a damaged fan dating back 200 years.…

Source Design You Trust  “Smilin’ Jack” is a massive jack-o’-lantern face painted on a squat, ellipsoidal storage tank at the Phillips 66 refinery in Wilmington, originally built by Union Oil in 1952. Inspired by the tank’s orange primer and pumpkin-like shape, a plant executive proposed painting a festive face on it, which was approved and…

Source Artsy Shark  Enjoy the portfolio of UK artist Rhia Janta-Cooper, who creates delightful landscapes and nature-inspired paintings. The post Featured Artist Rhia Janta-Cooper appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source Colossal   Nothing sparks the imagination quite like coming across a trove of old photographs. We look for writing on the reverse and scan the anonymous faces to read a range of expressions. Where exactly they were at that moment, what brought them together that day, and who took the picture? For Stan Squirewell, the…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  For Frieze London 2025, kurimanzutto presents a solo booth by Ana Segovia, featuring a new body of work that continues the artist’s critical engagement with the visual codes of masculinity in popular culture. Taking familiar images from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema and the Western genre, Segovia…

Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home  Assimilation is not a monolith. Just as notions of the American Dream shapeshift so, too, does the vision of that fantasy. In Mike Lee’s case, he has witnessed a refocusing on family and shared values. This embrace of a more traditional mindset echoes his parents’ generation, even…

Source Colossal   “New York is humanity itself. Every type of person is here—every ethnicity, every culture, every religion, every viewpoint. And somehow, despite the honking, the yelling, the shoving, we find a way to make it work,” says Brandon Stanton. Creating one of the most well-known archives of city life, Stanton is the photographer behind…