Arts & Design

Japanese artist Kazumasa Nagai's posters put animal spirits at the heart of a floating modern world.

The people of the Siberian taiga, like the creatures they hunt and trap, are kept busy trying not to get bloodied or frozen, in a documentary narrated by Werner Herzog. Video after the jump.

To brand a normally-invisible gadget, it pays to know your cognoscenti.

Among the lunar-phase calendars usually found stacked in crystal shops and New-Age book stores, a radial version by designer and type founder Dimitre Lima stands out.

To reboot their product line, Polaroid have appealed to the highest authority: they've named Lady Gaga their creative director. Her photographic sunglasses may be a caprice; her new digital instant camera offers retronovation with technical flair.

A breakneck desktop adventure offers an uncanny sense of what daily life is like for a tech blogger. Video after the jump.

This year's spring line will debut in the Uncanny Valley.

A ukulele is still a better option for guitarists on the go. But Amidio's OMGuitar approaches the six-string "interface" with refreshing sensitivity.

From Tiepolo's Immaculate Conception, a generative rush of uncanny planes emerges not as narrative, but a separate object of contemplation.

A short film about the eye behind The Sartorialist shows how the web, like the printing press and photography before it, unleashes disruptive beauty. Video after the jump.