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(Pic) The World’s Most Expensive Cities

(Pic) The World's Most Expensive Cities

The Economist Intelligence Unit has released the results of a survey listing 132 cities with the highest cost of living from around the world.

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(Pics) Crystals And Lasers: Matt W Moore In Paris

(Pics) Crystals And Lasers: Matt W Moore In Paris

Matt W. Moore is currently showing off a collection of new works at the Since,Upian Gallery in Paris.

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TapeTronic: Hacking Tape Decks To Create Music

TapeTronic: Hacking Tape Decks To Create Music

Using a hybrid mixture of modified tape decks and various effects Alexis Malbert creates music using archaic technology.

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The Proliferation Of Legal Art Squats In Paris

The Proliferation Of Legal Art Squats In Paris

Former illegal art squats in Paris are increasingly being renovated into quality legal studio and exhibition space by the city.

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(Pic) Visvim’s Artisanal Hiking Supplies

(Pic) Visvim's Artisanal Hiking Supplies

Inspired by an alpine mountain adventure, Visvim head designer Hiroki Nakamura has created an unusual line of artisanal hiking supplies.

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Creative Inspiration from the Behance Network XVIII

Creative Inspiration from the Behance Network XVIII

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Creative thinkers – the people with the most ideas – often struggle the most with organization and productivity. We aim to change that.

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Swimming Back In Time: The Piscine De Pontoise in Paris

Swimming Back In Time: The Piscine De Pontoise in Paris

At a time where there’s a lot of debate on how we should be transforming our cities to make them more sustainable and pleasurable, one of the answers is in rehabilitating old structures instead of destroying them.

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Creative Inspiration from The Behance Network XVII

Creative Inspiration from The Behance Network XVII

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Creative thinkers – the people with the most ideas – often struggle the most with organization and productivity. We aim to change that.

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Lanvin Head Creates Stamp For The French Postal Service

Lanvin Head Creates Stamp For The French Postal Service

In celebration of iconic French label Lanvin’s 120th anniversary, creative mastermind Alber Elbaz has designed two stamps for the French postal service.

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The Poetically Correct Crew’s Cellograff

The Poetically Correct Crew's Cellograff

Kanos and Reci Xelecce created the Poetically Correct crew and came together with the goal of adding artwork to the streets of Paris without vandalizing or compromising the existing landscape in any way.

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YSL Helps Women Find Their Inner Parisienne

YSL Helps Women Find Their Inner Parisienne

In combination with the launch of their new fragrance, Parisienne, YSL has developed an interactive site that enables visitors to explore Paris along with a chance to win their own trip.

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(Pics) Wood Paintings by Faile

(Pics) Wood Paintings by Faile

Street art collective Faile let us know about some new work they are producing. Their “Wood Paintings” straddle a line between painting and sculpture, and give an added dimension to their graphic style.

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Paris Planning An Electric Car Share System

Paris Planning An Electric Car Share System

The mayor of Paris recently announced plans to implement an electric car share system.  While details are still sparse, it appears that they will be building an infrastructure to support 2,000 EV’s within Paris, and another 2,000 cars will be distributed amongst the surrounding cities.  At an estimated price-tag of $14 million dollars to both build the infrastructure and purchase the vehicles, the system is not only affordable, but is yet another example of movement away from a product driven model towards a service-focused one.  There are a wide variety of immediate implications to this program, ranging from reduced [...]

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Graffiti Taxonomy

Graffiti Taxonomy

Using over 2,400 different graffiti tags from all over Paris as raw data, artist Evan Roth photographed, tagged and sorted each piece by letter, creating am archive cataloging the stylistic diversity found in the city. This fascinating study is now on display at Foundation Cartier’s Born in The Streets exhibition. Watch the video below to see an overview of the project.

Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2009 from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

[via Wooster Collective]

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