Throughout the month of February, London-based artist Tracey Emin is warming the hearts of visitors to New York City’s chilly Times Square with her romanticaly themed project “I Promise to Love You”. Every night from 11:57 until midnight, forty large advertising screens display Emin’s neon valentines.
VisitNorway’s newest marketing campaign celebrates the 150th anniversay of Edvard Munch‘s birth with a unique contest. Travelers can participate in the “Year of Munch” by uploading their personal “scream experience” video on the VisitNorway website during the month of February. Video stand-outs can win daily prizes and be eligible for the grand prize of $4000 in travel to Norway.
Empty bookshelves become the perfect backdrop for visual projections in this new music video from the House music duo Baarrengaard & Briem. The video for the song “Love With You” was created by Icelandic visual artist Harald Haroldsson.
Paris is often referred to as la ville lumière or the city of light. Paris-based freelance designer and photographer Clémentine Tantet decided to take that notion about the luminous city a step further and represent the Paris Metro map in the form of a lovely star chart. What a beautiful idea.
Images © Clémentine Tantet
Travelers flying on Virgin Atlantic between New York and London this month are being treated to the world’s first transatlantic, commercial art gallery. The “Gallery in the Air” is operating from February 1 through the 28th and is exclusively showing the work of British street artist Ben Eine. The artist is probably best known for his “Alphabet Street” project in London where he painted each letter of the alphabet on twenty-six shop shutters.
The “Gallery in the Air” features ten of Eine’s typography inspired paintings. While other works will be displayed at galleries in Virgin’s JFK, Newark and Heathrow clubhouses.
The Monastiraki neighborhood located in the heart of Athens beneath the Acropolis has been hard hit by the Greek economic crisis. But the art and design group beforelight has collaborated with local residents and businesses to transform the dark and gloomy Pittaki Street into a cozy, welcoming space.
Reprising their “Under a Different Light” project, beforelight worked with local volunteers to gather, rewire and hang old lamps and light fixtures above the narrow street.
The future of traditional travel guidebooks is still very much in doubt, but Britain’s Rough Guides is battling back to rebuild its brand and to hang onto market share. Facing a serious shake-up following its take-over by Penguin last Fall, Rough Guides dropped most of its non-travel titles and has refocused its efforts on its strong list of travel destination guides.
With a revamped website and an amusing new ad campaign, Rough Guides hopes that travelers will again opt for old-school, well researched guidebooks, along with digital media. As a former guidebook writer, I wish them well.
These days, we see all kinds of pop-ups appearing in cities and towns around the world. There have been pop-up restaurants, bars, stores, museums and kiosks. But Antwerp, Belgium‘s Sleeping Around may be the first moveable, pop-up hotel.
Using six recycled, 20-foot shipping containers, Sleeping Around has created a cozy four-room hotel, café-lounge and sauna complex. Over the last few months, the hotel has popped-up in three locations in Antwerp. It’s currently picturesquely situated on the riverside Scheldekaai.
Plans for the pop-up hotel include moves to other European cities and possible a Greek island. Nightly rates range from €149 to 199 for a double room.
If you are a fan of street art, you may enjoy this story of Chinese street art collective IDT ‘s 1,200 mile journey through Southern China and Tibet leaving samples of their work along the way. The project, called “On the Road—Graffiti in Vagrancy”, was 50 day oddessy underwritten by Converse. This 30-minute film documents the trip by NAN, SINIC and WHYYY:
As a longtime Vonnegut fan, I was very impressed by this cleverly designed poster created by New Jersey graphic designer Maya Eilam. The ingenious visual represents Kurt Vonnegut’s early theories regarding archetypal story lines in Western literature.
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