Tiny sculptures – huge effect

So we generally love anything that’ll stop us dead in our tracks – make us wonder – change our perspective. And here is a brilliant art project that does just that: Little People is a “tiny street art project” based in London by Slinkachu, the guy who is also behind the Inner City Snail, another [...]

Playing tricks on the mind

You may already know this one, it has become a bit of a modern classic. If not, enjoy!

Little boxes…

There’s an old English song Little boxes on the hillside Little boxes made of ticky-tacky Little boxes, little boxes, littles boxes, all the same There’s a blue one, and a pink one, and a green one and a yellow one… It’s amazing what colours can do for a place. This project in the favelas (slum [...]

We <3 visuals

At Copenhagen Playground, we have a soft spot for gimmicks and gizmos that visualize anything otherwise unseen, be it ideas and thoughts, cause and effect, or something completely different. Especially when the visuals are as pleasing to look at as these: In Carnegie Mellon University’s Living Environments Lab Eric Paulos and a group of his [...]

Four squaremeters of endless forest

At Copenhagen Playground, we work a lit with the use of space, particularly spaces in cities and how to make them come alive. We value interaction, surprise, and playfulness, as tools to  create a pleasant and interesting atmosphere – be it in parks, on squares, in empty spaces or the like. Here is a brilliant [...]

Effectful simplicity

Illusions. Tricks of the mind. We are impressed with the simplicity of these ads and how they speak directly to the heart and mind without words. The ads use the same technique – transparency – to promote their wildly different messages. First, good old Nike just did it – again: And on the other end [...]

Last Call

Have you always loved the thrill of a good horror film? Enjoyed the rush of adrenalin, as the characters run across the screen in panic, fearing for their lives? But also breathed a sigh of relief upon leaving the cinema, knowing that after all, it was just a film… Then you won’t like this. Last [...]

Modern classics

The ever lovely LauraJul – Copenhagen’s “man about town”, or rather woman about the web – has found these awesome creations of art with a surprising use of materials. Thumbs up to the artists! And thanks to Laura for the hint: Brilliant push pin artist Eric Daigh and staple artist Baptiste Debombourg. (From LauraJul via [...]

Pixel this

It’s been around the interweb a few times already, but it’s still a good one, and definitely deserves a place on our blog. We love how it merges the virtual and real world, and the playfulness of it. Enjoy: PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN