Ever wondered what a magic carpet would look like?

We Make Carpets is a creative collaboration of Dutch artist and designers, Bob Waardenburg, Stijn van der Vleuten and Marcia Nolte.

Inspired by the shapes, colours and possibilities of the chosen material, the carpets produced are not just a decorative piece of art, but rather a critical view of consumer society. In the earlier centuries, carpets were always associated with wealth, prestige and power as it was a labour-intensive product. We Make Carpets have juxtaposed this idea by using everyday items – band-aids, pegs, plastic forks and paperclips.

The carpets are temporary; all made on the spot with no thought out plans or sketches beforehand. After a material is chosen, they commence their exploration, slowly laying down each object one after another, creating intricate patterns.

We Make Carpets have made ordinary every day objects into very extraordinary pieces of art.

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When artists draw or paint, they usually use different materials like paper or canvas, with ink, pencils or paints.

New York based illustrator, photographer and graphic designer, Jorge Colombo, takes a more unconventional approach – creating art using an iPhone or iPad.

Colombo captures the essence of city life using an application called Brushes. He illustrates without making sketches or referring to photographs, but from real life.

Colombo uses a companion application, Brushes Viewer, which makes a video that captures each step of how he composes his artwork. These videos tell a story, and at the same time build suspense through the layering of colours and shapes created.

What a portable and fun way to create art on-the-go!

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A Madrid based group of creatives, Boa Mistura, recently completed a series of anamorphosis* walls in Vila Brâsilandia – one of São Paulo’s slums, or better known locally as a favela.

This was a Participative Urban Art Project that involved Boa Mistura and the locals – transforming the dull and depressing laneways of the slum into colourful, almost hallucinatory, paths filled with messages of hope and love. The winding streets, the heart of the community’s internal life, were the focus of the project. The final art resulted in almost three-dimensional optical illusions that seemed sculptural enough that one could pluck them from the air.

Boa Mistura’s body of works are truly inspiring – they celebrate art, colour and life.

*The term anamorphosis, as more recently recognised in the art world, is the technique of distorted perspective where an image is recreated when the viewer is at a specific vantage point.

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Gjon Mili is a photographer recognised for his inventive use of light and Picasso is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. The meeting of these two brilliant minds was bound to result in something unusual, something beyond belief. And, it did … a remarkable series of light paintings. With a mind sparking with excitement, Picasso traced through the air one intriguing shape after another and whilst he drew with light, Mili captured the drawings.

His light paintings very much reflect the style of his works. They are so fluid and beautiful.

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We’ve talked about paper art, pencil art, jelly art and now we bring you tape art!

Brooklyn based artist Rebecca Ward pushes the commonly held notions of adhesive tape and creates brightly coloured three-dimensional installations out of this sticky medium. Her intricate and thoughtful body of work explores the unique structures of her chosen sites. Ward’s work, often seen radiating up and down bare concrete walls uses overlaying simple shapes, patterns and lines. This juxtaposition of illusory and geometrical complexities has no doubt challenged the way people perceive and interact with the built environment.

We are in absolute awe of her work.

www.rebeccasward.com