Rain Water Gives a New Life to Street Murals

“PANTONE” in the recent times collaborated with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's designers and art directors to transform Seoul, Korea's streets during the dreary monsoon season. The suitably titled “Project Monsoon” venture bring into being with the artistic team painting Seoul's somber roads with “hydrochromic paint”, which is a type of paint that changes from transparent to opaque when it gets wet and form into flamboyant murals inspired by South Korean culture. Therefore, East Asian customs emphasized on the river and its stylish flow, which is precisely what the designers required to capture in their public works of art. 

These cheerful pieces are then surprisingly revealed as rain falls from the cheerless gray sky and the water droplets come in contact with the ground. Consequently, among a gloomy rainstorm, passersby are given a bit to smile about as an underwater world filled with swimming fish and turtles appear right before their very eyes. However, since it can rain for up to three weeks during monsoon season, the inhabitants of Seoul will have something to look forward to whenever they find themselves reaching for their umbrellas.

Gigantic Urban Flowers Bloom When Pedestrians Pass By Under Them

HQ Architects developed a wonderful public installation that provides an artistic aesthetic to the environment through playfully responsive design. The Warde project, located in Jerusalem's Vallero Square an urban area that's in really bad condition is being given a set of towering flower sculptures, big adequate to draw the gaze of the whole plaza. So, rather than fighting against the marketplace's metropolitan nature, designers sought to work in accord with the municipality. These massive blossoms are motion-activated, which means that they bloom when pedestrians walk by or when trolleys arrive. To flawlessly describe their installation, HQ Architects says, the urban space abruptly reacts to the people using it therefore; people can also utilize the flowers for shade from the sun or for light when dark time’s approaches. Moreover, once the square is no longer busy with people, the flowers wilt and close, their lively petals resting until the next surge of action within their vicinity inspire them to bloom once more.

Beautiful Vertical Planters Inspires You To Grow an Elegant Garden Indoors

Well, there’re huge populations living in small homes around the world. So, being a creative mind you should know that floor and counter space is at a premium place in your home. Therefore, this often leaves minor place for potted plants. The creative mind designer “Kim Fisher” has an ingenious solution. The skillful artist has created a 22 inch circular hanging planter that holds colorful vegetation, even with limited space available at your home. So, she has decided to attach this into the wall, and you can take advantage of the vertical height while leaving other more useful areas frees. Hence, it’d be better yet, the planter’s clean and modern design look like a work of art rather than a conventional pot.

This beautiful suspended garden is in particular crafted for succulents and air plants, actually made from aluminum, and the bottom half is properly covered by heavy-duty plastic that keep small rocks, moss, dirt, and plants in place. For those who lack a green thumb, this setup requires very little maintenance with plants that are difficult to kill. Kim Fisher vertical garden is hand-crafted and includes two air-plants, and also available through her Etsy shop.

Gorgeous Paintings on Fallen Tree Logs Mirror Their Natural Origins

The skillful artist Alison Moritsugu captures the real essence of Mother Nature in her log paintings. These beautiful environmental pieces utilize trees as both the subject and the canvas. The fragmented nature of the trees lets the designer to paint directly onto the rustic wood. At once her inspiring work is complete, what results is a painting that explores the history of American landscapes.

Moritsugu lets viewers to see what America was like when settlers first arrived and furthermore depicts the destructive effects of industrialization. Therefore, this sense of strained duality is one of the main stimulations behind the artist's work. She said that I normally like the juxtaposition and tension created by having an image of nature on a section or sample of real nature. However, it is contrast that makes Moritsugu's work a real essence, instigating viewers to reflect on how man has inclined nature and vice versa. 

Moreover, it is also very imperative to notice that the artist gathers her canvases from trees that have naturally fallen after a storm or from human activities that cut them down and plan to chip them. Moritsugu sporadically uses endangered species to make her work even more thought-provoking. Well, so to view the artist's reflective work in person, you can visit New York's Littlejohn Contemporary from November 12th to December 12th, 2015.