Leah Giberson

Leah Giberson makes paintings of suburban Americana: houses, lots, caravans and motorhomes. More of her work is available here.

Via OMGPosters

Fresh ideas and playful presentation from Rita Topa Architects; this is their entry into the Reinvent Cities architectural competition.

Frank Gehry designed these duplex houses for Make It Right, a charity founded by Brad Pitt to aid in the redevelopment of the Lower 9th Ward in New Orleans.

Will Steacy

Some beautiful urban photography from Will Steacy; the series is called Down These Mean Streets.

Steacy has also put together an interesting collection of essays by photographers, on remembered moments when they didn't use their camera: The Photographs Not Taken.

Via Geebird & Bamby

Toby Ashbee

This project from Toby Ashbee explores 20th century American music through typography. In the poster pictured, each state boundary is filled with lyrics from a song in which the name of the state is mentioned.

Via Creative Review

Tommy Cinquegrano

I really like the gritty quality of these posters from Brooklyn's Tommy Cinquegrano; they remind me a little of David Hockney's photo collages.

Via OMGPosters

Aleksandra Mir

Triumph, by Polish artist Aleksandra Mir, is an exhibition project consisting of 2,529 sporting trophies, won by people who responded to an ad placed by Mir in a Sicilian newspaper.

The exhibition catalogue for Triumph is here.

Via It's Nice That

Teahouse : a sweet little Japanese tea house in Prague, by A1 Architects.

Following up on my earlier item about the Falkirk Wheel, here's a good in-depth post on the subject by R.J. Evans at Quazen.

Min-Kyu Choi's Folding Plug

Min-Kyu Choi, a graduate of the Royal College of Art, has redesigned the humble UK mains plug.

In these days of widespread miniaturisation, the plug is often the bulkiest part of an electronic product: this clever design allows it to fold into a much more elegant, portable shape, while still maintaining compatibility.

Via DeZeen

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