Costa Rica has a unique position on the world stage: It has free healthcare and education, a commitment to environmental protection, and overall high state of well-being among its inhabitants. The one thing it’s missing? A military.
Graphic by Stephanie King for Oxford University Press
Tokyo at Night by Mateusz Urbanowicz
Mateusz Urbanowicz, also known as Matto, is a Polish artist and illustrator currently based in Tokyo. He originally moved to Japan to study animation and comics and he landed himself a gig at Tokyo-based animation film studio CoMix Wave, where he did backgrounds for, among other things, the film “Your Name.”
In 2017 he left the studio and began working as a freelancer so he could focus on personal projects like Tokyo Storefronts. His latest project is Tokyo at Night, a series of 10 watercolors illustrating the backstreets of Tokyo at night. The 10 illustrations were created along a path from Kudanshita that goes through the neighborhood of Kagurazaka and ends at Waseda.
Art Prints from photographer/web developer and designer, va103 aka Victoria Avvacumova
Dawn’s Moon | Moon gazing | Polychrome Moon | Blue Madness
When I was 12, my brother bought me my first camera: lomo Smena 8m. I began enthusiastically photographing my friends and kittens, developing the photographs myself in our bathroom which my brother used as a darkroom. But my brother moved out, took his developing equipment with him. Next I lost my lomo camera. My passion was postponed for years.
I shoot digital nowadays, and I am never without my camera and 2 lenses: Canon 16-35mm f/2.8 + macro 100mm f/2.8.
Instagram: @crossconnectmag
Stijn Poelstra’s Photographs the Schröder House
Photographer Stijn Poelstra has captured the abstract proportions and primary colours of a Gerrit Rietveld-designed Schröder House in Utrecht. Deemed a UNESCO World Heritage site, the house in the Netherlands was designed by the Dutch furniture designer and architect in 1924.
Rietveld was part of the De Stijl art movement pioneered by abstract artists Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg. Their work was characterised by a rigid geometry of horizontal and vertical lines using a limited palette of black, white, yellow, red and blue.
Modern Relics: A Retrospective of Ruin Interventions
Ruins and dilapidated structures are often celebrated because, apart from nostalgic value, the natural dilapidation itself over time may offer a sculptural aesthetic to the structure. This phenomenon is unique due to its temporality. often, in restoring these structures, architects incorporate crisp, contemporary materials to contrast the ruinous elements. Celebrating the original structure in this way serves to highlight the ragged edges and deterioration. in other instances architects have approached the task of renovation with a more traditionalist philosophy, respecting or replicating the archaic materiality.
designboom revisits the ruin renovations and interventions covered in the past to investigate these different approaches. Follow the source link to learn more about each project. Identified from the top:
- Church of Corbera Ferran Vizoso
- Cave House hyperSity
- Aloni decaArchitecture
- Pi des Català Marià Castelló Martínez
- Ping Village Bookstore 3andwich
- Kalø Castle MAP Architects
- La Ruina Habitada Estudio Castillo
- Astley Castle Witherford Watson Mann Architects
- Church of Vilanova de la Barca Aleaolea
Drone Photographer: Gabriel Scanu
Gabriel Scanu is a 21-year-old Instagram sensation (has built up a 200k-strong following) who is the trailblazer for contemporary landscape photography thanks to his breathtaking aerial shots of iconic Australian landscapes and coastlines. His use of aerial photography to capture idyllic scenes from a bird’s-eye view offers a fresh perspective on well-loved and photographed locations such as Sydney’s Bondi Beach, Mona Vale and other iconic coastlines on the countries East Coast.
Artist website: https://www.gabscanu.com and instagram.com/gabscanu/
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