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Shazam-like app identifies plants and animals in your photos

If you’ve ever gone hiking and come across plants and animals you were unfamiliar with, and wanted to know more, there’s now an app for that. You could try to describe what you see and type it into Google. But you might not get the…

Daniel Swanick

March 27, 2018

Nature Photography Technology & Innovation

Giant straw animals invade Japanese fields after rice harvest

Fall is here, which means that it’s time for the harvest and the annual fairs that celebrate it. In Japanese culture waste is often minimized, especially in food. Sometimes, during the annual rice harvest, the leftover rice straw is transformed into straw animals.

Daniel Swanick

October 17, 2017

Art & Design Nature Travel

Artist turns old CDs Into amazing animal sculptures

Although we’re taught from a young age not to be wasteful, a broken CD isn’t much good to anyone. In fact, CDs are pretty much obsolete these days. Unless you’re Australian artist Sean Avery that is.

Daniel Swanick

January 27, 2017

Art & Design Nature

Add charm to any room with geometric lamps

Tel Aviv-based design studio Sturlesi Design was looking for to offer a unique and authentic approach to ambient lighting. Hence, a collection of decorative, geometrical lamps were created.

Daniel Swanick

December 9, 2016

Art & Design

Modern light fixtures turn into animals when illuminated

When award-winning Tel Aviv-based designer Chen Bikovski was growing up, she was fascinated by pop-up books. Mesmerized with the experience of three-dimensional storybooks, she transformed this idea into her design practice.

Daniel Swanick

November 24, 2016

Art & Design Technology & Innovation

Powerful ads feature animals tied up like garbage bags

An argument can be made that in order to deserve respect from other humans, you need to be human. However, with peoples deep love for animals, it raises fundamental questions about the basis of moral rights.

Daniel Swanick

November 9, 2016

Advertising Habits Nature

Water Tables create the illusion of animals emerging from the glass

Derek Pearce's Water Tables series features animal bases emerging from glass tabletops.

Daniel Swanick

August 29, 2016

Art & Design

Fake animal facts left all over Los Angeles Zoo

If you recently visited the Los Angeles Zoo, you may have spotted some rather unusual animal facts.

Daniel Swanick

August 4, 2016

Humour Nature Travel

Artist creates animal portraits on wooden canvases

Kirsten Roodbergen has created lovely black and white animal portraits on slices of wood.

Daniel Swanick

January 25, 2016

Illustration Nature

Adorable, brutally honest circle of life illustrations

Mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish, insects and other invertebrates each have their own unique circle of life. And while all animals need to be safe and to reproduce, they also need to eat; one animal feeds off of another to survive—that’s just how it is.

Daniel Swanick

June 5, 2015

Humour Illustration Nature

Geometric models of animals made entirely out of paper

Artist Wolfram Kampffmeyer—aka PaperWolf—has become renowned for his talent creating stunning 3D geometric models; beautiful polygonal animals made from coloured paper.

Daniel Swanick

December 3, 2014

Art & Design

Infographic: The world’s deadliest animals

Sharks, lions and snakes may strike fear into your heart, but they do not even come close to being the deadliest animal on earth. Of the top ten deadliest creatures to humans, most are smaller than a Toonie! And sometimes distinguishing between a cute animal and deadly…

Daniel Swanick

April 29, 2014

Infographic Nature