The First Thanksgiving Warrington Colescott 1973
A big tip of the hat to TBTP follower Sandra A. for this clever map created by Christoph Niemann (see Monday’s post on Berlin) for the New York Times Magazine in 2011.
h/t Zimad in Queens
Deutsche Bahn, the German national railway network, commissioned artist and illustrator Christoph Niemann to create a pair of forty meter-long tile murals for a pedestrian tunnel at the Berlin Wannsee train station. Working with 10×10 cm tiles, Niemann designed two different colorful pixelated abstracts.
The design on the left side of the passageway depicts a fun beach scene along the lakeside of the suburban Wannsee. While on the right, the mural incorporates the infamous villa where the Nazis held the 1942 conference to decide their so-called “Final Solution.” Niemann chose to use a single red window in the building and its blood red reflection on the lake to abstract the historical horror of the site.
h/t Tom Gauls
h/t William Blake
h/t to Miguel Marquez (aka Michael Pederson)
For the last century, American road trips have inspired authors to write great novels and memoirs based on their travels by car, bus, or motorcycle. From F. Scott Fitzgerald to Jack Kerouac the open road has launched a special form of travel literature and has encouraged countless readers to embark on their own adventures. This stylish infographic highlights just a few of the open road journeys that we love to dream about.
You can make sculptures with almost anything and everything: marble, stone, paper, wood … and even books . In Seoul, South Korea’s Starfield COEX Mall Library , which we featured back in January of this year, there’s an impressive example of book art.
The Starfield Mall collaborated with artist Mike Stillkey , who specializes in making sculptures by stacking books. And to celebrate the Winter holidays, the latter has imagined a display that takes the form of a sculpture 9 meters high … composed of 14,000 books .
This display is divided into three “book walls” that illustrate Winter scenes hand-painted by the artist directly on the books. You can see a reindeer and a rabbit toboggan, different animals riding a unicycle , or two cats dancing on the head of a bear .
The artist reveals through his book sculptures a wonderful world where animals are “humanized” , to the delight of visitors to this library. If you enjoyed this creative display for the holidays , you should visit Stillkey’s website.
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