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.

Digital artist Borna Sammak took over a Best Buy in New York City last night for a two hour solo show of his digital paintings.

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.

While two industrial air-conditioning units churn all day and night at the back of this New York restaurant, the windows and the door are wide open letting the hot summer air in. I actually went in and complained last night about it and the manager gave me a crappy answer that the windows were open because some customers think it’s warm in there and others think it’s cool. I challenged him on this and he shrugged.
We seem to be so infatuated with the sustainability behind the food we eat these days but not so interested in how poorly those serving [...]

Tappening is an educational campaign from BPA-free refillable flasks. It is designed to encourage the public to drink tap water whenever possible and also aims to send a message to the bottled water industry about its “unnecessary and extreme waste of fossil fuels and resultant pollution of the Earth”. We found their rather fun fly-posters on the wall of a deserted building site on 22nd & 3rd Avenue in New York.

Infrastructurist has compiled a fantastic gallery of some of the last remaining full-size phone booths in New York City. Once a standard feature of any urban landscape, these days, any kind of phone booth seems like an anachronism. With the advent of ubiquitous mobile phone use these little phone-call stations are next to obsolete, but hopefully some kind of new purpose can be found for these structures.

[Infrastructurist via Doobybrain]

Walk a little too fast and you might miss it, but nestled in the heart of Brooklyn off the Jefferson L train, a group of artists, activists, and golf lovers have turned a tiny slice of abandoned property into a nine-hole miniature golf course called THE PUTTING LOT. While PSFK reported on in it’s eminent opening in May , this golf course isn’t merely for recreational use- it’s become part of a master plan of it’s creators to promote sustainability, urban renewal, and eco-consciousness. Each of the nine putting holes was designed by a different team of artists and architects [...]

With a peculiar sculpture piece based on a system of “Dendroids,” American artist Roxy Paine has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden. It is an interesting combination of concepts – Paine uses both mechanical means and the innate logic of natural forms to create his “Dendroid” tree-like sculptures. Like in nature, these are a series of vascular networks, tree roots, mushrooms, and fungal mycelia. His meticulous research and observation of a variety of tree species help him to understand the nuances of how a tree grows. Paine has said:
“I’ve processed the [...]

New York now probably has the grandest Wi-Fi hotspot in the country. Yesterday, the New York Public Library opened its elegant Edna Barnes Salomon Room in the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building as a reading room specifically for online users. In recent years, the room has been used mostly for special exhibitions and rental space for private engagements.
Built in 1911, the Schwarzman Building houses the library’s research collection. The Beaux-Arts room is decorated in the classical style with 4,500 square foot of rectangular space and boasts dark maple wood floors. It has seating for 128 people on brown leather chairs and [...]

Standing out from the concrete surfaces and benches of New York’s Collect Pond Park is a ten-sided wooden structure entitled “A Clearing in the Streets.” Commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the installation is meant as a visual intervention, forcing a spaciotemporal instance of the organic within the context of the urban. Although the miniature meadow behind the installation’s wooden panels is small, the project’s creators explain that:
Our collective urban vision is at a point where we need to broaden the definition of “nature” in the city. While there may not be many opportunities to build large-scale parks, there [...]

With the help of DayLife, PSFK has created a special page to help all design fans up to date with the latest on what’s happening at New York Design Week from this weekend onward. On this Event Snapshot page we have headlines from all the major blogs and news sources, photos and videos from the web, tweets (of course) and related PSFK content.
Available here: http://events.psfk.com/page/icff
Let us know what you think as we hope to create these pages for all major cultural events.

The NY Times reports that New York Governor David A. Paterson signed an executive order on Tuesday calling on state agencies to phase out the use and purchase of bottled water in all government workplaces. Citing both economic and environmental reasons, the move seeks to gradually replace both single use bottles and water coolers in favor of tap water fountains and dispensers, setting a strong precedent for local government, businesses and residents to follow suit.
A press release from the governor’s office explains:
Bottled water is wasteful and requires large amounts of energy to bottle and transport. Over 450 million gallons of [...]

To publicize their new fragrance Only the Brave, Diesel has set up a microsite called Is Brave to house their various online presences, including their latest tweets and blog mentions. It also displays videos around the central theme of bravery, titled Heart, Mind and Nerve, and features a shout box for users to convey what they think bravery means to them. Last but not least, they have tied up with artists and icons they think represent bravery, and will be hosting art-related events in New York on April 30th, Miami on May 7th and Los Angeles on May 9th.
While there [...]

Featuring workshops approaching issues as diverse as Policy, Economic Development, Access, Health, Sustainability, and Organizing, the massive conference expects nearly 2,000 attendees. Five main co-sponsors, Caribbean Women’s Health Association, Brooklyn Rescue Mission, World Hunger Year, Brooklyn’s Bounty and the PSFC, and over 120 partner groups, have jumped on board for the inaugural event.

Since when did store openings start looking like Hollywood premieres? Yesterday Topshop, the British retail mega-giant, celebrated the inauguration of their US flagship with a flurry of confetti, paparazzi, and a line of people stretching over a block long, all waiting to get a glimpse of downtown Broadway’s newest addition. Previously, Americans seeking Topshop’s chic and affordable clothing had to wait for a trip to Europe, or order through their highly successful website. As a result of the covetability of Topshops wares, in addition to this difficulty in obtaining them, a certain mystery around the brand was created which more [...]