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If you dress the sculptures as hipsters it gives them an awesome new look. They become contemporary and totally badass. Needless to say, they look a lot more human. They look like people who we can picture in our lives. This beats Madame Tussauds.

Though New York gets the nod as the birthplace of both punk music and pop art, Los Angeles has significance in both worlds.

Every matchbox needs a little decoration on the outside. But sometimes package designers go the extra mile to make your moment with fire a truly trippy experience. Here are some of the weirdest matchboxes we've ever seen.

Washington’s National Gallery of Art has so far made super high-resolution images of 25,000 works freely available on NGA Images, a site that describes itself as 'designed to facilitate learning, enrichment, enjoyment, and exploration'. You can browse the images by collection — French galleries, self-portraits, music — view the most recent additions, or pull up the works of art most frequently requested by others.

As the Taksim Square demonstrations escalated into police riots, Turkish television ignored the major event and instead broadcast a documentary on penguins. The penguin became a symbol of the gutlessness of Turkish media.

Dresden, Germany-based photographer Matthias Haker created an absolutely stunning photo series of abandoned buildings' lavish interiors in all their deteriorating hyperreal beauty. It's called Decay.

'Space, lines, light and sound' are the essential components of the experience of architecture and the most profound buildings have captured these moments through thoughtfully orchestrated design.  Recently, architects that have designed churches with these primary elements in mind have come under criticism by the Vatican for diverting from the traditional form and iconography of churches.

Band battles, brass classics, Cotton Club etiquette, and how to do the 'double roll' like a pro.

Designed and constructed by artist William Lamson, Solarium is a functional greenhouse with 162 windows made from carmelized sugar at the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York.

Once a bookkeepers' shorthand, @ has become the fulcrum of our digital identities. How did that happen?

Creativity, inspiration, imagination and little motivation is the recipe behind a successful classical Logo which become the trademark and emblem of any organization. A logo design expresses the inspiration and impresses the mission statement on which the organization is up to. An interesting logo hides different meanings in its own. It hides the source of ideas, zeal of imaginations and a spirit to explore the limits.

It is no longer the world’s tallest building, but the Empire State Building’s charisma ensures it remains an icon of American design.

During a long road trip, there's nothing more entertaining than coming across a (tastefully) vandalized street sign. We're not technically condoning acts of vandalism — simply appreciating the artistic license. We've all seen crude street signs, such as speed limits becoming 'pee' limits, or the heralded 'For Lease Navidad'. But others with deeper messages blow their competitors out of the water.

French artist Mademoiselle Maurice has two fun new pieces up this month as part of the 2013 ARTAQ Festival in Angers, France. Requiring over 30,000 folded components, the artist relied on help from school children and people living in nearby 'leisure centers' to help complete all of the pieces in time for installation.

Designer Abelardo Gonzalez has created OpenDyslexic, a free, open-sourced font that can help people with dyslexia read a book more effectively.

Exhibited at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York until this month, the work of Alberto Campo Baeza is on display to celebrate the awarding of the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture 2013. In a spare white quadrangular room in the main building and with only natural light from above, 24 white panels appear floating over the walls, without touching or marking them.

Vipp, makers of the iconic trashcan, partnered with German fashion label Lever Couture to present a collection of their famous bins dressed in couture called Trashion Bins.

At first glance, they just look like sexy street art.

Bryan Berg was introduced to card-stacking by his grandfather at the age of 8. He is a self-taught artist in all of the techniques he uses today. Berg’s freestanding card structures are based on a grid-like arrangement, which Berg tested in a structural engineering lab to support 660 lbs per square foot ― using no tape, no glue, no folding, and no tricks.

Munch Museum designed by Herreros Arquitectos will take pride of place in redevelopment plan for Oslo's Bjørvika waterfront.

Enthusiasts from Switzerland collected the worst seat patterns of the world. Public transport makes us crazy every day – we thought it’s worth!