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The city is a fantastic source of beauty and inspiration, with all the glitz and glamour glistening beneath the city lights. But there is another side of the city altogether, one rife with its own kind of allure. Across the tracks, away from the dazzle of downtown, lies a darker imagination, this one looking to grunge-ridden, dilapidated architecture for inspiration. There is a beauty that pervades this kind of urban decay and captured wonderfully through a photographer's well-trained eye. These industrial city scenes are wonderfully dark and offer a glimpse of the weathered face beneath the city facade.

Grafitti art : I don't recommend bringing anything like this to critique (hee hee) but it's a good source of inspiration.

99 slides of Bauhaus designed and Bauhaus inspired architecture and a yurt and R. Buckminster Fuller. Can be downloaded.

Art made from old, unused books.

The new documentary by the director of Helvetica (follow the link on the top left for Helvetica).

This is a collection of clever mug designs. Helps you remember there is sometimes humor in design.

Just click it.

YES.