Out of the Box Magazine

Using the logos of a whole bunch of brands and making them come together as stunning mosaic portraits, Charis Tsevis, created this amazing project for Clear Channel, one of the world's leading outdoor advertising companies

  Choi and Shine want to transform how utility structures are built. Their “Land of Giants™” design, proposed in 2008, sees electrical pylons as human-shaped statues decorating the Icelandic countryside. Architects Jin Choi and Thomas Shine are the minds behind this skunkworks, experimental design studio.

Mosques throughout the Muslim world have some of the most intricate and exquisite architecture ever created by mankind. There’s too much amazing architecture in them to cover in just one post, so we decided to focus simply on the mosque’s ceilings – something the faithful might see when they look up to the heavens.

The Mirror Houses are a pair of  holiday homes , set in the marvellous surroundings of the South Tyrolean Dolomites, amidst a beautiful scenery of appletrees, just outside the city of Bolzano. They were designed by Peter Pichler Architecture.

The best  small towns  provide beautiful locales that inspire both creativity and activity. Check out the 25 most  picturesque small towns  that would definitely breathe back life to your travel and inspiration for your photos.

Apreciem estas fantásticas imagens das criações deste ano do Festival Internacional da Neve e do Gelo.

They are climbing El Capitan, a 3,000-foot-tall granite monolith in Yosemite National Park in California. This monolith has been climbed many times before, but they are ascending the Dawn Wall route, a sheer face of rock considered by many to be the longest and hardest free climb in the world.

In the wake of the horrific shooting at the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, illustrators and cartoonists around the world come together in solidarity with the 12 artists and ordinary people who died in that event by doing what they do best – drawing cartoons that express their thoughts and emotions more eloquently than words ever could.

The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression  are  constantly  on the outlook for ways to tell the public and the press about the atrocities journalists in many countries face. They cover stories about reporters being abducted, killed, and intimidated globally. In a recent  advertising  blitz, the CJFE illustrated the conflict between guns and

Time Slice is an  ongoing  series of photographs by  Richard Silver  that explores how iconic buildings and monuments change in appearance from day into night.  Silver  shoots some 36 photos at intervals over several hours and then layers them into a final composition. The result is amazing! Take a look!

Do you remember photographer  Seth Casteel ’s  adorable  underwater dog  photography  series? Now, the New York- and LA-based photographer is back with a sequel capturing the first moments of little puppies diving into the water for the first time. “ To create this series, I taught  swimming lessons  to over 1500 puppies, building their confidence in the water and helping them develop safety and survival skills, ” writes Casteel. “ Most of the puppies only swam for a few minutes and were not ready for pictures, but some decided to start jumping in on their own and chase after toys! “

Moscow - born artist   Yulia Brodskaya  creates stunningly intricate typography and illustrations out of  colored paper . Using only paper and glue, she cuts, quills and uses other paper art techniques to make extraordinary pieces of art. In 5 years the artist has created  more  than 100 projects, working with major brands like Nokia, Starbucks, and The New York Times Magazine.

Promotional event held at Rossio, Lisbon square, July 18, 2014.  We believe that smart ideas can make the city a better place. As this "dancing light" that makes people wait and see, rather than through a red light.  For greater security for all.

Six massive  industrial silos  on the Granville Island in Vancouver, Canada, have been wonderfully transformed into six vividly colored  giants  by Brazilian  graffiti  artist duo Os Gemeos. Octavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, the twin brothers behind Os Gemeos, dedicated roughly a month of their time to create this astonishing piece as part of the Vancouver Biennale.

Roberto Perez, better known as Rob the Original, is a San Antonio, Texas-based contemporary artist and hair stylist who uses his clients’ hair as his canvas. Perez, an excellent representative of the growing BarberArt movement, cuts, shaves, and dyes hair to create photo-realistic portraits, beautiful floral and geometrical patterns, or pretty much anything he himself or his confident clients can imagine.

The Sardine collection by Bordallo Pinheiro results from a collaboration between the Earthenware Factory of Caldas da Rainha, founded in 1884 by Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro, and EGEAC/Municipality of Lisbon, which has been organising, since 2011, the Sardines competition within the Lisbon Festivities. This initiative, open to all participants, has resulted in a remarkable number of creative proposals, from which we chose those that make up this collection. Having started with 22 different models (21 originating from the competition, plus the original Bordallo sardine), its composition will be reviewed annually, with the introduction of new creative proposals and the discontinuation of others. Each year is therefore an unrepeatable opportunity to acquire some of these models. Additionally, special limited editions will be created in collaboration with international designers.

A mural by Belgian artist ROA decorates a wall in the surrounding area of the village of Erriadh, on the Tunisian island of Djerba, on August 6, 2014, as part of the artistic project “Djerbahood”. Artists from 34 diffrents nationalities were invited by France-based Tunisian artist Mehdi Ben Cheikh to take part in an initiative to turn Djerba’s Erriadh district into an “open sky museum”. (Photo by Joel Saget/AFP Photo)

Arizona based designer Kate Brown created a unique contemporary lounge chair called Etazin that embodies functionality, aesthetics and high quality performance. The structure of the chair, except for the soft part, was made of steel. This way, designer Kate Brown combined a lounge chair and a hammock in this alternative shape. The chair itself rotates at 360 degrees. The cushions are removable. It easily accommodates two people, and it’s very good for relaxing in the back yard.

Japanese designer of shoes and bags Masaya Kushino is the owner of his own brand that is promoted not only in his native country but also in Europe and North America. The new series of Masaya Kushino is called Jakuchu and symbolizes the transformation of a nestling in a beautiful bird with a luxurious feather assembly. The series is called that way after the Japanese painter of the eighteenth century, whose name was Jakuchu Ito.