Susan Stockwell Makes Victorian Gowns from Paper Maps and Real Money
We’ve all seen paper dresses before, but Susan Stockwell’s Victorian gowns made from maps and various bills are in a class of their own. A sculptural study on colonialism and the British empire, her series of life-size paper dresses are composed of ordinance survey maps and English bills glued together. By sing military maps to create […]
Designer Gives Dollar the Pop-Culture Treatment
James Charles is not the first artist to use currency as inspiration for his original art, but his works are the geekiest I’ve seen in a while. While some items of the “American Iconomics“series might have ou think that Charles simply manipulated the faces on genuine dollar bills, it’s just an illusion. The artist kept […]
The Money Sculptures of Justine Smith
London based artist Justine Smith makes original sculptures and collages using real banknotes from various countries around the world. From the artist’s website: Paper has always been a primary material in the work of Justine Smith. Her current work is concerned with the concept of money and how it touches almost every aspect of our […]
The Shrimp People
The things people will do for money… To advertise their new Chinese food products, KFC has hired seven young people to dress-up as shrimps and live together in a small glass house. That’s not so difficult if you’re doing it for just a day, but these guys have been sharing a small space since October […]
Pennies Make Great Floor Tiles
Some people are literally throwing money on the floor… Like the people that came up with the idea of paving the floor of the Standard Grill, in the Standard Hotel, New York, with thousands of pennies. It looks pretty cool, no doubt about it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if, one day, people got on […]