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All images courtesy of Rijksmuseum Totaling a whopping 717 gigapixels, a new photo of Rembrandt’s 1642 painting “The Night Watch” unveils an astounding array of minuscule details and precise artistic choices behind the Dutch Golden Age masterpiece. A team at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which is currently housing the art historical work, captured 8,439 individual images to create the gigantic...

Image © May Parlar Every month, Colossal shares a selection of opportunities for artists and designers, including open calls, grants, fellowships, and residencies. If you’d like to list an opportunity here, please get in touch at [email protected]. You can also join our monthly Opportunities Newsletter.   Open Calls Aperture Portfolio Prize The Aperture Portfolio Prize is an annual...

The beauty of natural wood can make any room feel warmer and more welcoming. Wood coffee tables are especially easy to coordinate – as long as you stick to complementary wood tones throughout your furniture theme, each piece will easily adapt to your decor or color palette selections as they evolve over time. We’ve scoured the web to...

This post is the result of my own curiosity. I wanted to know what captured the attention of IH readers and the Internet, so I did some digging on Analytics. And I landed on these 3 posts that collectively clocked over 250,000 pageviews. What surprised me was the top 2 were wardrobe hacks, a shift away from 2020...

There’s a mouse, or something else alive, scrabbling around our living room wall. It’s almost a comfort at this point—though I wouldn’t want to meet it—that this unseen tiny neighbor is keeping warm after so many weeks in whatever warren it’s carved from the crumbling plaster and lath on the other side of the wall. It keeps inscrutable...

“Citrus Series #33.” All images © Dennis Wojtkiewicz, shared with permission Artist Dennis Wojtkiewicz (previously) finds creative nourishment in succulent slices of melons, lemons, and apples that appear to glow under studio lighting. Rendered in pastels with slightly blurred lines, his works focus on the seeds, fibrous veins cradling pockets of juice, and thick rinds visible only through...

All images © Kaori Kurihara, shared with permission Japanese artist Kaori Kurihara (previously) creates otherworldly fruit-like ceramics that appear as though they have sprouted in a magical rainforest or exist in a children’s book. Kurihara’s sculptures take a creative spin on the shapes and textures found in thistles, tropical fare, and other fruits. One of her pieces, for...

Replacing one existing house and a warehouse, this large family home was made to complement the tropical lifestyle of Kerala, India. Created by The Design Room, the architecture sympathetically retains the native trees of the 600 square metre site, and encloses several of them within a central courtyard design. The built spaces branch out from this open-air heart...

Image © Andrew McCarthy, shared with permission Set against a star-studded backdrop, Comet Leonard, aka the Chrismas Comet, blazed overhead on December 26, emitting a colorful stream of light that illuminated the dark skies. Andrew McCarthy (previously) documented the celestial body as it hurtled over the Arizona horizon and created this striking, magnified composite of 25 separate shots....

Created by the famous Italian designer Massimo Vignelli, the Stendig Monochrome Wall Calendar remains a cool example of bold 1960s modernist design. $60BUY IT$60BUY IT$60BUY IT$60BUY IT$60BUY IT Get it here. Recommended Reading:  A Bubble Wrap Calendar For 2022Related Posts: Modern Classic Chairs 36 Unique Desk & Wall Calendars To Help You Get Ready For The New Year...