Awesome 3D Architectural Illusions

3D street artists are becoming ever more popular, but their sidewalk chalk art isn’t the only 3D art of its kind. Inside a home, on the outside of a building or even in a swimming pool, the illusion of three-dimensionality can transform a space, giving the appearance of depth, texture and place in a mythical or fantastical fashion.

Eric Grohe creates surprising illusions of far-reaching spaces out of otherwise flat surfaces. In some of these images of his works, it is difficult to see what is within the picture he created and what is in the real foreground. Though not strictly photorealistic, his plays on perspective feel compellingly real from a distance.

This mystery artist clearly has an eye for classical and medieval scenes. His paintings both enliven these otherwise conventional interior spaces, creating amazing conversation pieces and great play spaces for children. If anyone knows who this is, please add information and links in the comments!

3D pool art is a bit more on the playful side of 3D residential art. Composed of custom tiles, these creations can be purchased in standard patterns or made to order for specific pools.

Final Exhibition Booth Design

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Creative Hotels From Around The World

The best thing about the internet is that you get to see odd and strange things from around the world, you might not see anywhere but on the internet. It's sad I know. But that is the point of this site, to connect you to weird and interesting places, things and ideas from around the world. Some of these hotels are kinda scary, kinda cool and kinda weird. Would you stay at these hotels?

Hotel made of Sand in England

Houses in Mexico

Icehotel, Canada

Survival Pod Hotel, Holland

Tree House, India

Poseidon Undersea Resort, Fiji

Sewage Pipe Hotel, Austria

Cave Hotel

Urgup, Turkey

Hotel built over a lake

Lake of Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Sweet hotel in Japan‏

Nice Deisgn & Beautiful Bridges

Henderson Waves Bridge

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore. This 9 km structure connects Mount Faber Park with Telok Blangah Hill Park.

Aiola Island Bridge

Designed by Vito Acconci, this ‘island’ has a sunbathing area, a trendy bar and a coffee house, plus it allows you to cross the Mur River in Graz, Austria.

Langkawi Sky Bridge

This beautiful sky-bridge in Malaysia is suspended at 700 metres above sea level and spans 125 across the mountains, offering magnificent views of the Andaman Sea and Thailand’s Tarutao Island.

Magdeburg Water Bridge

Located in Germany, this 918-metre navigable aqueduct water bridge bridges the River Elbe to connect two important German shipping canals; the Elbe-Havel Canal and the Midland Canal.

Tianjin Eye Bridge

Giant observation wheel is constructed on a bridge over the Haihe River in the city of Tianjin, China.

Octavio Frias de Oliveira Bridge

Cable-stayed bridge in São Paulo, Brazil. This bridge is unusual due to its form, which is similar to an “X”. It is the only bridge in the world that has two curved tracks supported by a single concrete mast.

Banpo Fountain Bridge

The fountain bridge that crosses the Han river in the Seoul capital of South Korea is a major tourists attraction.

Python Bridge

Beautiful modern bridge located in Amsterdam’s Eastern Harbor.

Less is More & More is Less

"Less is more" is the notion that simplicity and clarity lead to good design.

This is a 19th century proverbial phrase. It is first found in print in Andrea del Sarto, 1855, a poem by Robert Browning:

Who strive - you don't know how the others strive

To paint a little thing like that you smeared

Carelessly passing with your robes afloat,-

Yet do much less, so much less, Someone says,

(I know his name, no matter) - so much less!

Well, less is more, Lucrezia.

The phrase is often associated with the architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the founders of modern architecture and a proponent of simplicity of style.


"Less is more" is the phrase as adopted by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe as a precept for minimalist design.  As designers, we all know that a minimalist design can achieve beautiful results. Still, many designers have trouble creating one; either they have a hard time making a page with so few elements look good or the final result just doesn’t look “complete.” There are many articles on the Web about minimalism and this article aims to help you achieve a minimalist design that is beautiful but not bare.

As mentioned, minimalism brings the most important content to the forefront and minimizes distractions for the user. If a page has too many elements, the viewer will be confused about where to look or misinterpret the priority of each element. A minimalist design puts the focus squarely on the content.

Any splash of color on a black-and-white design, for example, is sure to get the user’s attention. The color itself becomes the focal point. Let’s look at a specific example:

You’ve probably seen this kind of design before: plain white background, one block of content and one graphic element.

The graphic element brings color, texture and shape. It is clearly the most important element on the page, and it defines the designer’s brand and identity.

With the complexity of this particular graphic element, more content on this page would have made it less noticeable, and less important. Keeping the content to a minimum, the designer has achieved the perfect balance.

Theme of Exhibition Booth

In our group, we are choosing brand of Genting for our exhibition booth and our theme is "2012 Chinese New Year of Dragon".

Chinese New Year is the major celebration of the festivals in Chinese Culture. There are many things that we are aware of about this celebration. Things such as giving red envelopes to children, cleaning the house, and having a big feast are well known to the adoption community. Chinese New Year is the most important and, at 15 days, the longest holiday in China.

Chinese New Year was celebrated on the first day of the Chinese Lunar Calendar, this is the most important annual festival for the Chinese community. Each year is named after one of the 12 animals according to the Chinese Zodiac.Houses are cleaned and decorated to prepare for the big day. 

Debts are settled, prayers and offerings are made. New clothes are bought and plenty of food are prepared. 

Family members from far come back for the gathering. New year cards are exchanged between friends and relatives. A reunion dinner for the family is held on the eve of the new year.Bad language and unpleasant topics are discouraged.

There are lion dances and small fire works. Red paper showing Chinese characters of prosperity and wealth are pasted either in front or inside the house. Ang-Pow or red packet containing money is given out to children and elderly. Open house is practised for visiting relatives and friends with various ethnic races. The new year is lasted for fifteen days which the concentration is on the first three days. The celebration ends with the Chap Goh Mei on the fifteenth day.

Unusual and Creative Alarm Clocks

Shape Up Alarm Clock

This dumbbell-style alarm clock wants to start your day off right! Just set the alarm and in the morning it will buzz until you’ve done 30 reps.

Pillow Alarm Clock

The pillow uses an LED fabric substrate below the surface to wake the user using light. This substrate also functions as a display, showing the time on the surface of the pillow.

Smash Alarm Clock

The alarm is switched off by punching on the top of the alarm clock.

Pull Handle Alarm Clock

To set the alarm you simply pull down the handle to the designated time remaining. The alarm will sound once the handle reaches the top and a simple tap on the LCD screen will shut it off.

Carpet Alarm Clock

If you want to turn the alarm off, you have to get up and step on it.

Sleep Alarm Clock
When you close your laptop, iSleep pillow gets filled with warm air, music is being played and after 10 minutes the alarm clock rings.