Venice Biennale 2015: Swatch Faces

A pavilion full of glowing flowers, a sound project and more across the Italian event's 56th edition

With 15 artists exhibiting across two pavilions for seven months, “Swatch Faces”—the Swiss watch house’s contribution to 2015’s Venice Biennale as its main partner—is impressive in numbers. In person, it’s even more so—from glowing flowers to large-scale photo works, sound projects and more. One pavilion was entirely conceived by Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos and is located in the area of Giardini—the historic heart of the …

Mad Max: Fury Road’s Incredible Cars

When production designer Colin Gibson was hired to design the cars for Mad Max: Fury Road, director George Miller told him, “Make it cool or I’ll kill you.” Instead of making them just look cool, Gibson made sure all of the machines were fully functional and completely bad-ass. To create each of the 88 mechanical monsters, Gibson and his crew scoured junkyards across Australia for …

Microcars at the Jesada Technik Museum

Southeast Asia's largest collection of microcars

While traveling through Thailand, we discovered the Jesada Technik Museum in a small town outside of Bangkok. Home to over 500 vehicles including double-decker buses, airplanes, helicopters and scooters, the museum’s most unique attraction is the vast collection of microcars. Also known as “bubble cars,” these refrigerator-sized automobiles were built small due to limitations in materials and resources in Europe following World War II. The …