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2019Poster for the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain (46207861534)
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2018Election poster rack Oulu 20180106
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2019London - QE Olympic Park
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2010Visit the Brookfield Zoo, WPA poster, 1936
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2025Mihály Bíró - Poster Székesfővárosi Állatkert
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2013Sculpture: A condensed funfair and giant floating bottle star in new outdoor show
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2015Illustrator Ian Stevenson on creating a mural for Russell Brand
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2012Simon Bent is painting Melbourne multi-coloured with his vibrant design
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2010Tomas Mankovsky: Dancing Pigeons
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2015New Burning Man book looks at 16 years of burning art in the desert
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2013Lovely short film follows Letman as he makes a mural at the Walker Art Center
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2013Architecture: + Pool is a giant filtration system that makes NYC's rivers swimmable
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2014Scott King's graphic novel lampoons the supposed power of public art
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2014LucienneRoberts+ and Real Studios' Tower of London "time machine"
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2011Daniel Kitson
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2015John Nolan creates a giant animated robot head to promote new maker space
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2014Skopje 2014 - Agency for Electronic Communications and Archeological Museum
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2012Ben Long's brilliant blurred billboards on show in Birmingham
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2015It’s OK to Disagree: The Divisive Work of Artist Olafur Eliasson
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2014Studio Audience: Pod's up with Martin Creed show, Magpile awards and The Hoff
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2013Tracey Emin's neon takes over Times Square every night in February
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2008Not Just A Load Of Hot Air
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2013Raw Color's massive foam sculptures look like a lot of fun
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2008The Garden of St Benjamin
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2016Tunnels, towers, walkways and pavilions: 20 years of Studio Olafur Eliasson’s projects
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2013Studio Audience: Giant polar bears, Instagram ads and a new national treasure?
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2012Designing London 2012: Thomas Heatherwick's genius lights up bonkers opening ceremony
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2011Folly for a Flyover & It's Nice That
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2018Art for the public LCCN98508342
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2024Wambrechies 2020 rue d'ypres
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2010The Bitter End
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2013London Underground turns 150 with Mark Wallinger’s labyrinthine roundels
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2015JR creates a 150-ft high image for The New York Times Magazine cover
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2012Opinion: Is street art really relevant anymore?
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2007Sportsday Megaphone
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2007Throw Me The Statue
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2018“The beauty of abstraction”: Christoph Niemann on his new mural for a Berlin train station
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2011The Sultan's Elephant
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2011Young and Free: Australian Street Art
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2010People Collective
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2011Recoat
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2017WPA Zoo Poster (Elephant)
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2011What's On: Field of Light
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2023“Community is really what feeds our soul”: Lakwena’s artwork puts people at the core
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2009Dan Tobin Smith
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2011Walker Art Center
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2011Public Collectors
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2013Music: Spinetingling orchestral magic in abandoned Underground stations
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2012Plans unveiled for Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei's Serpentine Pavilion
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2013Set Design: Sarah Illenberger creates window displays of giant metal leaves
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2009Red De Leon
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2011Martin Creed
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2015Upside-down pylon the star at London Design Festival but what role graphics?
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2013Architecture: A giant inflatable canopy created by the brilliant Snarkitecture
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2017We speak to Gillian Wearing about making the first statue of a woman in Parliament square
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park -- 2022 -- 1629
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2015Interactive projections by Aakash Nihalani that will blow your mind
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2015Kaleidoscopic stairs lead the way to the RA’s Summer Exhibition
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2014Frank and Patrik Riklin build enormous picnic blanket in the Swiss Alps
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2018Niesky, Görlitzer Straße 27 (3)
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2018Niesky, Görlitzer Straße 27 (1)
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2019Poster for the Grand Re-Opening of the Public Domain (46880708062)
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2011Andrea Marks: Freedom on the Fence
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2013Art: Katharina Grosse's eye-popping installation takes over Brooklyn park
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2015Public school art, Sioux City Art Center LCCN89715176
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2014Reverse graffiti artist Moose creates London skyline with the Nissan LEAF
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2012LDF 2012: Ten designers create a bench to mark a decade of the festival
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park, Henry & William Ketcham Families Grove -- 2022 -- 1643
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2011Craig Colorusso: Sun Boxes
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2012The whole world is a playground for self-styled urban hactivist Florian Rivière
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2012Jeppe Hein's Modified Social Benches are on show at Belgium's Beaufort04
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2018Frieze Sculpture 2018 proves the power of art in the public realm
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2016The Klassnik Corporation rethinks the bike stand on London’s Caledonian Road
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2015A dog that follows you round Westfield in new OgilvyOne Battersea campaign
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2013Art: Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones' Gates of Hell mural
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2012Canary Wharf Screen: Dryden Goodwin
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2023Alice Bloomfield on spending three years animating a nature-filled installation for the Outernet
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2009Brighten The Corners Update
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2019Decoding Dictatorial Statues untangles the agency of sculpted bodies
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2012We love Superflex's hand-painted, and powerful "To Let" signs for the Biennial
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2012Doug Aitken's presents The Source at Tate Liverpool for the 2012 Biennial
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2012Rafael Rozendaal's work projected onto the world's biggest LED screen in Seoul
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2012Artist Sebastian Errazuriz turns Occupy's visceral anger into a line of chairs
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2016Gillian Wearing uses the public's work to examine privacy and individual vs collective experience
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2013Competition: Talenthouse and O2 hunt for new art for iconic music venue
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2013Unique project Recalling 1993 puts pay phones back on the map
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2008Felice Varini
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2015Striking red and yellow pavilions installed at London's King's Cross
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2016Olafur Eliasson’s installation The Open Pyramid dominates the Long Gallery in Shanghai
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2010The Selby: Rockaway Taco
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2016Ewen Spencer on new commission, Kick over the statues
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2013Stunning 48 kilometre thread installation arrives at South London Gallery
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2009Heatherwick Studio
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2011Ben Long: The Great Travelling Art Exhibition
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2015Sweet Caro's lines: a series of abstract sculptures takes over Yorkshire
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201315 artists create new work to mark London Underground's 150th birthday
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2013Amazing! Geoff Mcfetridge's new fence mural around the Walker Art Centre
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2012Ogilvychange address riot-hit area with a baby-faced art project
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2020Jack Sachs creates a series of giant smile-inducing statues for Chengdu
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2015Jussi Puikkonen photographs the man behind that giant rubber duck
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2015Artist and wordsmith Jenny Holzer’s unexpected show in Somerset
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2017David Lewandowski’s floppy rubber bodies take over the streets of Japan
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2012Rats of the skies? Nope, these pigeons get a makeover for the Venice Biennale
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2012Posters on wheelie bins against the siting of missiles in East London during the 2012 Summer Olympics, Leytonstone, London - 20120516
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2010Willi Dorner: Bodies in Urban Spaces
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2014Ai Wei Wei, the Barbican and Kirsten Dunst selfies in this week's podcast
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2013CANADA, Aries Moross, Random International and more added to line-up for Here 2013, our creative symposium!
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2012Ben Long's brilliant scaffolding lion is mane attraction in London park
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2010Narrow Streets
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2011Peckham Outer-Space Initiative
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2019Kate Isobel Scott makes us think twice about staring at your phone on the train
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2013Check out these cheeky plaster hands grifting on the streets of Barcelona
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2015Join us for our public art-themed Nicer Tuesdays!
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2011Save the Keith Haring Mural
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2007Be Part of It
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2012We couldn't not mention it - the design side of London's triumphant Olympic Games
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2013Art: Alex Chinneck flips a house upside down in the name of art
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2011Sam Gellman: Mass Games
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2012Frieze Projects East: Gary Webb
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2018Niesky, Görlitzer Straße 27 (4)
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2011Shoreditch Design Triangle
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2017Illustrator Peter Judson on his vibrant and celebratory hoarding for The Hoxton
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2015Sir Peter Blake's designed a dazzle ship and it looks bloody ace!
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2011Immersive Surfaces: Dumbo Arts Festival 2011
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2016Sculptor Wilfrid Wood joins the programme for Here 2016
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1977I ♥ NY
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2012José Parlá
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2023How to inject play and childlike wonder into your work with Shawna X
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2025Jake Green pays tribute to Leyton Orient and the rituals that bind the community
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2008Inner City Snail
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2012SWEET! Frieze Projects East brings a confection of public sculpture to east London
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park, Mimi Gardner Gates Bridge -- 2022 -- 1637
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2012Environmentally interactive swarm illuminations in Helsinki's Silo 468
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2008Improv Everywhere
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2018Anoniem, Detailontwerp voor de versiering van een plafond in neo-classicistische stijl - Ébauche détaillée de décoration d'un plafond dans le style néoclassique, KBS-FRB
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2010WPA Art Poster Albany
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2013Bold, punchy, in your face sculptures from the unmistakable Matt W Moore
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2010Flickr - …trialsanderrors - Port of Philadelphia, WPA poster, ca. 1937
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park, Hartriegel -- 2022 -- 1617
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2011Bruce Munro: Water Towers
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2008The Lion
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2011Fourth Plinth
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2011Sam Falls
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2012DesignMarch: Gardar Eyjolfsson
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2013Interesting new book looks at the whys and wherefores of public typographic installations
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2010Jenny Holzer
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2019Bath School of Art alumni collaborate on a 90 metre-long mural delving into the university’s archive
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2014The Pothole Gardner takes on the outdoors in Uniqlo's HEATTECH wear
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2014Pixham End Roundabout cycling statue
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2014Art: Etienne Lavie transforms Paris' billboards into classical masterpieces
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2022Olomouc - Náměstí Republiky - View ESE on Okresní hejtmanství (Eclectic architecture) & Baroque Kašna Tritónů 1709 Václav Render
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2013Video: Doug Aitken's new public art project Station to Station
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2012Ann Hamilton encourages swinging in New York, with spectacular results
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2012In the Park (poster)
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2012DesignMarch: Ostwald Helgason
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2015David Brandon Geeting’s brilliant and strange litter-based art
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2014Art: SpY hangs an enormous lit-up moon from a crane in Lausanne
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2008Rob Ryan / If You Could
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2012A huge broken plate is thought-provoking addition to Belgian town
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2012Candy Chang explores Vegas revellers' confessions in thought-provoking show
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2011Aamu Song: Reddress
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2018Ruohan Wang continues to wow with her public art installations
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2017Trump’s inauguration and a design census: a look back at January 2017
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2012A jaw dropping light spectacular without any Z list celeb switch on nonsense!
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2012Charles Sowers mounts 612 wind arrows on San Fran museum with stunning results
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park -- 2022 -- 1627
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2012Star Sites - The Finalists and Winner of MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program 2012
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2011Si Scott: Forever Manchester
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2015Steve Powers' New York street signs offer an alternative perspective
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2012Bread Collective create gorgeous 100 metre long east London typographic mural
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2009David Edwards AKA Minotaur Shock
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2009Your Playground
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2014Art: Penique transform spaces with huge balloons and it's amazing
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2010Juno Hamburg
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2015WPA-Forum-for-Artists-poster-1936
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2012Erwin Wurm creates giant surrealist sculpture for New York hotel
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2007Felice Varini
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2022Reflecting on a bold year for motion design with DEMO festival
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2013Use your creative skills for HTC One's new billboard campaign
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2015Paula Scher's confrontational Shakespeare in the park identity
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2012Charming paper sculptures by Mandy Smith to launch summer arts festival
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2011Janet Echelman
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2021The personal is political: Haitham Haddad’s journey to bring Arabic back to public spaces in Palestine
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2013Kanye Wests' New Slaves is celebrated on public buildings across the globe
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2021都民ファーストの会 with 無観客 flags at Meguro Station 2
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2015City Art Square Mascot1
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2021"Art for the Public by Chicago Artists."
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2014100 Water Colors WPA Art Project poster 1940
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2021都民ファーストの会 with 無観客 flags at Meguro Station
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2013Refreshing and inspiring – the billboard that generates water from air
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2010Ft Marion Natl Monument poster 1938
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2007Barmy Bush
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2011Jaume Plensa at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
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2013Kai and Sunny's excellent first ever mural takes over London reception
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2014Barber Osgerby's swinging, reflective installation in huge V&A gallery
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2014The South London Gallery open a new show of work by Lawrence Weiner
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2011Improv Everywhere: Say Something Nice
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2012Dark Igloo create fabulous 450ft mural on Google HQ representing history of Chelsea, NY
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2013Art: Do a good deed for Clare Twomey's new exhibition Exchange
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2013Illustration: Spot the artists in Nous Vous' enormous drawing for the Walker Art Center
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2012Aeolus is a remarkable wind powered instrument humming away in Canary Wharf
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2013Art: Lisa Pacini and Christine Istad haul an enormous LED sun to the darkest parts of the world
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2022Mural logo 2022
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park, Moseley Path -- 2022 -- 1622
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2011Rivera Mural Palacio Nacional Mexico from Conquer to Present Detail Canon
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2016Logo FDP MV 2015
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park, Hartriegel -- 2022 -- 1615
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2016Múzeum-sziget, Városi Palota (Stadtschloss). Fortepan 17435
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park, Wald-Geißbart -- 2022 -- 1624
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2024Poster for Tramway V exhibition
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2024Empire State Plaza, Agency Building 3 - Albany, New York 2024
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2018Niesky, Görlitzer Straße 27 (2)
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2014Logo Sinnenpark
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2023Poster for the Olympic Park - geograph.org.uk - 4564877
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2009Vancouver Flower Clock Project Poster Clean
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2011Close-up of a sculpture of a sparrow at the Olympic Village in Vancouver
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2011Sculpture of a sparrow in Olympic Village, Vancouver
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2018Niesky, Görlitzer Straße 29 (5)
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2022Seattle (WA, USA), Olympic Sculpture Park -- 2022 -- 1636
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2020Hygeia, Montreal General Hospital - Flickr - colros
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2020A poster depicting the Kit Carson Memorial at Fort Carson, Colorado (CO) - DPLA - 91d68e98af3e91171b5b681c32b27a1f
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2017Artists - Artist paints book poster. Charles B. Falls, well known illustrator, painted a large poster in front of the New York Public Library, at Fifth Avenue & 42nd St., New York. He has done over $3
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2014Public Warning Art.IWMPST13660
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2014Image-Disney Concert Hall by Carol Highsmith edit
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2020Wall Poster - DPLA - 4606e1b70e4f68b3b4ef11124c4247f4
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2019London - QE Olympic Park (2)
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2024A Five-ring Circus
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2017The It’s Nice That Podcast: discussing the attributes of public art
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2025New Logo and Identity for EXMURO by LG2
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2025Rex and the City
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2014New Logo for National Arts Centre by Scott Thornley + Company
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2017White Flag project that is tackling global division and the “growing fear of the stranger”
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2015Infini Type Family
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2018Sydney Opera House as Billboard
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2015Subway Stations Poster
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2026New Logo and Multisensory Identity for Kanal by Base Design
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2018New Logo for National Endowment for the Arts done In-house
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2018WcDonald’s
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2014Set Design: Tom Hancocks' wonderful project puts spheres in the spotlight
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2014Art: Austrian collective Numen/For Use create the most fun-looking interactive sculpture
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2022One man’s rubbish… discover the wonderful creative world of Glastonbury’s painted bins
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2012Street art with a soft touch – the amazing butterfly installations of Tasha Lewis
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2008The Silent Giants
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2012Great British Galleries: Hepworth Wakefield
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2013Follow Nick Cave to the red light district in Jubilee Street (NSFW)
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2012Bright, bold and beautiful – Evan Robarts transforms broken rubbish into engaging sculptural forms
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2022Motion Nation
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2012LDF 2012: Dezeen's Seven Dials project takes elevated art to a whole new level
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2011Snarkitecture
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2020New Logo and Identity for Museu Nacional da República by Porto Rocha
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2011Tim Simmons: Urban Land Project
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2009Repainted Bike Lane Symbols
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2014Airco Caravan paints motel rooms that have played host to gruesome murders
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2015"I went swimming in the King's Cross pond art installation, my god it was cold"
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2023Whichever Way the Wind Brews
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2011Whale Trail
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2013Art: Escif's wall terrorists have been spotted somersaulting across Spain
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2015Like Me
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2013Art: Ai Weiwei recreates his impressive Forever Bicycles in Toronto. But bigger
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1966Robert Jasper Grootveld met oranje bloemen bij het Lieverdje op het Spui in Amsterdam
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2012Passers-by set the birds swooping in charming interactive NYC installation
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2012Anish Kapoor: Orbit
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2008Plymouth Exhibition
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2025Craig & Karl’s inflatable Cosmos welcomes Melbourne’s commuters with smiles, shapes and surprises
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2010Luzinterruptus
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2013"Playboy Marfa": Art or Advertising?
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2012Canary Wharf Screen
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2015Cornelia Parker unveils a new sculpture to hang in London's St Pancras Station
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2011Hackney Wicked
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2016When in Rome, Etch your Logo
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2012Fantastic Factology brings some humdinger trivia to the Olympic Park
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2018Totes with Purpose
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2015A huge, inflatable bouncy castle sculpture of Nicolas Cage in a Cage!
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2014Alex Chinneck's spectacular levitating building in Covent Garden
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2024Tall Drink of Water
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2017Leaf Logos
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2016Follow-up: New Logo and Identity for Mural Arts Philadelphia by J2 Design
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2012Branching out - A/LTA Architects' Basketball Tree is a real winner
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