Photographer Patrícia Almeida recently shot these great photos of a wonderfully whimsical umbrella art installation in Portugal. Like something out of a fairy tale, the umbrellas look almost like they’re magically floating in mid-air. As she writes, “In July, in Águeda (Portugal), some streets are decorated with colorful umbrellas. I felt like a kid, amazed by all…

The annual harvesting of cranberries has to be one of the most ingenius methods of fruit farming there is. Every fall after the berries ripen on the vine, instead of being picked by people or machine the fields are flooded with water from a nearby reservoir. Because the berries are filled with air, all it…

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With the festive season nearing, the flurry of celebration is palpable and designboom is receiving work from all over world honoring the spirit of the holiday. inge vanluyd an stefan vanbergen from belgian company mooz have sent designboom images of their ‘taste tree’ adorning hasselt’s main square in belgium. the 9 metre-high sculpture is made up of…

Artist Kevin Champeny recently designed this crazy chandelier made of 3,000 hand-cast acrylic gummy bears called the Candelier for home furnishings company Jellio. The light comes in two sizes, the largest of which actually uses 5,000 bears, is 31″ in diameter, and weighs in at about 50 lbs.   Source: www.thisiscolossal.com

“You’ve finally made it, after a breathless climb up the winding marble staircase, to the upper terrace of the Duomo di Milano — the famed Cathedral of Milan, Italy, and the fourth largest in the world. You flip through your guide book. A towering forest of ornate spires, the same ones that enchanted the literary…

“Red is dead, la campaña de Renault que se burla de Ferrari…  Estábamos acostumbrados a ver la lucha de Pepsi vs Coca-Cola o incluso McDonald’s contra Burger King, pero es la primera vez que nos encontramos unas piezas de Renault que atacan directamente a Ferrari. De la mano de Publicis Conseil (Francia), los de Renault crearon estas piezas tras proclamarse vencedores…

The globally acclaimed Magnum photographer Steve McCurry unveiled the 2013 Pirelli calendar during an official event held November 27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This year’s beauties have opted to keep their clothes on, with Summer Rayne Oakes posing in an admittedly plunging red gown. Rio de Janeiro in Brazil was chosen as the setting…