Matthew Rangel is an artist from the San Joaquin Valley in California beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains. His digital and analogical prints … [Read more...]
Don’t Be Afraid of Bad Dreams: Rik Smits’ Cities and Landscapes
Rik Smits is a Dutch artist who works with several media. His large pencil drawings depict cities and landscapes sceneries, sometimes with a realistic … [Read more...]
Joseph Müller-Brockmann: Musica Viva Posters for the Zurich Tonhalle
Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914-1996) was an influential graphic and exhibition designer and photographer who lived and worked in Zurich. As the leading … [Read more...]
Surviving the Fall. Late 19th to early 20th Century Ligurian Ex-Votos
These ex-votos ("Per Grazia Ricevuta" or PGR, in Italian) are popular expressions of religious gratitude and public testimony of faith, from the … [Read more...]
François Marius Granet’s Spaces Under Vaults
French painter and watercolourist François Marius Granet, (1775-1849), a scholar of Jacques-Louis David, lived and worked for several years of his … [Read more...]
National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1967)
The (unbuilt) competition project for the National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, was a sort of religious building, or rather … [Read more...]
Boats of the Pearl River (1800-1820)
This series of paintings dates back to 1800-1820 and depicts a series of different types of boats that use to cross the Pearl River in Guangzhou, … [Read more...]
The Ideal City of Chaux by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1773-1806)
In 1789, during the Revolution and specifically during his imprisonment, architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux started the project for the "Ideal City of … [Read more...]
Herman Volz’s Depictions of San Francisco’s Industrialization (1930’s-1940’s)
Herman Roderick Volz (1904–1990) was a Swiss-American painter, muralist, lithographer, set designer, decorative artist and ceramist. As an advocate … [Read more...]
William Heath Robinson’s Wacky Inventions
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was a victorian cartoonist best known for drawing overly complicated mechanisms able to achieve only simple … [Read more...]
120 Variations on the Platonic Solids: ‘Perspectiva Corporum Regularium‘ by Wenzel Jamnitzer
The 1586 book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium, (Perspective of the Regular Solids) is a study of the five Platonic solids modified, stellated and … [Read more...]
Embracing Landscapes: “Mimesis” (1972-1973) by Barbara and Michael Leisgen
Barbara and Michael Leisgen are a couple of German artists working at the intersection between photography, performance art and land-art since the … [Read more...]
Alexandre Ciancio’s Bain de Foule (2013)
Alexandre Ciancio is a French architect and graphic designer, who investigates the relationship between architecture, image and metaphor. In 2013 … [Read more...]
“The Road”(1958): An Antimonument by Oskar Hansen
"The Road" is an unbuilt project by Polish architect Oskar Nikolai Hansen (team leader) with Zofia Hansen, Jerzy Jarnuszkiewicz, Edmund Kupiecki, … [Read more...]
Reinventing Suburban Reality: “Constructed” by Pawel Nolbert
"Constructed" is a series of photos by Polish graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer Pawel Nolbert. A selection of the artist's own travel … [Read more...]
Piero Portaluppi’s Wagristoratore (1929-30)
The Wagristoratore, opened in 1930, is a project by Milan-born architect Piero Portaluppi. Located in Passo di San Girolamo at a height of 2318 meters … [Read more...]
Zones Devoid of Time: Ballard’s Penguin Covers, by David Pelham
David Pelham was an English artist and graphic designer who came to meet author J. G. Ballard through their mutual friend, pop artist Eduardo … [Read more...]
Leonie Bos’ Ideal Abode
Leonie Bos is a Dutch illustrator who reproduces a traditional printmaking effect through digital techniques. Many of her works include architectural … [Read more...]
How to Make Architecture Disappear: Ice House I and II by Gianni Pettena (1971-1972)
Italian artist Gianni Pettena conceived a series of works which might be considered on the brink between land art and architecture. Two of the most … [Read more...]
Liam Cobb, “Reflections” and Other Drawings
Liam Cobb is an illustrator and comic artist we have already featured on Socks. Here we collect a series of sketches, croquis, half finished … [Read more...]
‘Book To The Head’ And Other Comics by Max Baitinger
Max Baitinger is a German comic designer, illustrator and animator. After studying carpentry, he moved to Leipzig to study illustration. His style is … [Read more...]
The Temporary Inhabitant (L’Habitant Temporaire) by Thomas Batzenschlager
"L’Habitant Temporaire" is a project by Thomas Batzenschlager, a French architect living and working in Santiago (Chile), which takes the form of an … [Read more...]
Infinite Infrastructure: Drawings of Tokyo Stations by Tomoyuki Tanaka
Tomoyuki Tanaka is a Japanese architect who creates mesmerizing x-ray drawings of Tokyo's major stations. These are precise ballpoint pen descriptions … [Read more...]
Manufacturing Nature: “Trees by Man” by Michael Amery
Michael Amery is an artist based in Cape Town, South Africa with a graphic design background. His series of drawings in charcoal and India ink called … [Read more...]
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