Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Hands down this is one of the most interesting examples creative architecture and community spaces we’ve seen all year. But the finished project almost falls in the shadow of the story about how this library came about.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Stefan Hobmaier, a photographer from Germany, has a new series of photos called Dorfjugend that covers young people growing up in small towns.

Does Bronco make a message about outdoor advertising in this piece of street art? Via Today&Tomorrow.
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German street art outfitter Oink Art Limited has released an interesting new tool for artists, street or otherwise. Their “Stealth Ink” is a virtually invisible ink that goes on clear, but dries dark in a few minutes. See it in action below.

[via Street Art Berlin Blog]

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The NY Times points us to the German suburb of Vauban, a thoughtfully designed community where an astonishing 70% of its 5,500 residents live without owning cars. Completed in 2006, the one square mile neighborhood is comprised of multi-family row houses designed to be more energy-efficient with local businesses interspersed throughout in an attempt to seamlessly integrate the residential and commercial districts. Automobiles are allowed along the town’s main thoroughfare that connects to the train station as well as on certain secondary streets, but those that want to own vehicles are required to purchase garage spaces located at the edge of [...]

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Evidence of their interest in both angles, the first issue features new creative work from European illustrators, as well as academic essays from critics and designers across the globe.  Publisher Pascal [...]

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This year, the curators have taken on the theme “Deep North,” looking at the broader scape of human interaction with global systems. Their site reads:
In the context of climate change, transmediale.09 reflects on the urgency to read global events in fundamentally new ways, developing new cultural vocabularies factoring the autonomous and critical nature of art into the complexity [...]