New Visual Identity for Norway’s National Parks

Scandinavia is known for its widespread design sensibility, but no country has embraced contemporary graphic design at the institutional level quite like Norway. After commissioning top graphic designers to modernize the visuals of their passports and banknotes, now the country’s national parks can boast of their own acclaimed graphics design. Architecture and design firm Snøhetta—whose pixelated design was selected to appear on Norway’s money—brings a …

Cacti Made from Plastic Bottles

Czech artist Veronica Richterová is repurposing plastic bottles into dreamy works of sculptural art in what she calls PET-ART. The crinkly green, blue, brown and clear bottles are distorted, punctured and popped to form small cacti or are stacked on top of each other to create larger works like transparent trees or jellyfish. Since 2004, Richterová has been dedicated to using the recyclable bottles as …

The First Flex4K Footage from a Drone

Experimental production company Brain Farm has made history with the world’s first-ever Flex4K footage captured using a drone. The audacious entertainment company is known for their larger-than-life cinematic productions and the recent footage they’ve captured is no different. The bulky Flex4K camera weighs in at a whopping 30 pounds, making it too heavy for drones to carry, but Brain Farm found a way to make …