my inspiration

My name is Bernadette and I'm currently an architecture student. This blog is a collection of references and inspirations, so don't mind me!

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Giovanni Anselmo

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thanks for replying! for the underwater cities, I was thinking more like constructing them as such, not the ones that are in ruins? I should have worded it differently lol. like otoh gunga from star wars

Well then, here are some underground cities that exist only in images:

Plastic Fish Tower

Aequorea

Orta Blu

Ocean Spiral

Water Discus Hotel

Otoh Gunga (c’mon, I had to!)

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Permeable Facades

Follow the source link for project information and image credits.

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Donald Judd, Untitled (Bernstein 90-01), 1990

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Valerio D’Ospina, Paintings.

Stunning cityscapes and industrial paintings from Italian artist Valerio D’Ospina.

Don’t miss Supersonic Art on Instagram!

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RIJNSTRAAT 8 by Ellen van Loon / OMA

Rijnstraat 8, the renewed government office building housing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers and the Immigration and Naturalistation Service, was officially opened by the Dutch King yesterday. A Public Private Partnership under the name of PoortCentraal, consisting of BAM, ISS and OMA, has renovated and transformed the 90.000 m2 building located next to The Hague’s central station, giving it a second life as a modern and transparent working space for the Dutch government.

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literally most things that people write off as just ‘textures’ to use in graphics are stolen & unsourced material created by artists or photographers NOT meant to be used as elements in projects without royalty payments. you can say ‘it’s just random tumblr posts they don’t care’ but you wouldn’t want someone to take your work and edit into their work so they can be praised for their beautiful style and creativity even if they just post it on social media w/o profit, would you?? so maybe if you browse pinterest or google images for pictures without finding the original source, you’re using images that you’re not allowed to use without realizing it.

you see it on here a lot especially in (i won’t link anything but i’m sure you know what i mean) those album track ‘aesthetics’ posts, au ‘aesthetic’ posts (you see these less in kpop, but where people use non-royalty free images to kinda craft a visual au), and even just rather typical graphics that have a lot of ‘texture’ elements. and texture packs too!! that’s often where the problem starts; people just collect images (often literal art), compile them in a folder w/o sources, then insist no one can repost those images w/o crediting the person who compiled them. what???

SO may i suggest some of my fave places you can get FREE, ROYALTY-FREE elements that are totally legal to use

creativemarket has 6 free high-quality resources (textures, brushes, fonts, etc), different every week! wow awesome i check it every week

search ‘freebie’ on behance. awesome stuff!!! lots of v nice templates textures and fonts

mockup zone freebies

unsplash: tons of very nice free photographs, not shitty stock photos

pexels: same idea. + they have an adobe plugin so you can get photos without closing your editor damn nice

pixelsquid is a super cool free program (again w a ps plugin that i love) with lottts of super cool hq 3d elements!

as to not make this too long: spoongraphics, lostandtaken (textures galore), pixeden, freebiesbug.

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I’m gonna add a few more:

Morguefile is my favorite free stock photo site

Texturemate is full of excellent free textures, brushes, and patterns. 

Transparent Textures actually lets you combine colors and patterns to build your own texture right there in the browser.

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Jan de Jong, woonhuis met kantoor, Schaijk 1962-67

Photos © Kim Zwarts

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FW 17 - Saks Fifth Avenue  Nikola Denić

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Hytte Sirdalen is a minimal home located in Sirdal, Norway, designed by Filter Arkitekter.

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Miniature Calendar Tatsuya Tanaka

Everyone must have had similar thoughts at least once. Broccoli and parsley might sometimes look like a forest, or the tree leaves floating on the surface of the water might sometimes look like little boats. Everyday occurrences seen from a pygmy’s perspective can bring us lots of fun thoughts.

I wanted to take this way of thinking and express it through photographs, so I started to put together a “Miniature Calendar” These photographs primarily depict diorama-style figures surrounded by daily necessaries. Just like a standard daily calendar, the photos are updated daily on my website and SNS page, earning it the name of “ Miniature Calendar”.

Images and text by Tatsuya Tanaka

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Terra Preta soils are of pre-Columbian nature and were created by humans between 450 BCE and 950 CE. The soil’s depth can reach 2 meters, and exists in small plots averaging 20 hectares along the Amazon river. It was made by adding a mixture of charcoal, bone, and manure to infertile soils, making them ideal for agriculture, and it can even renew itself slowly thanks to all the microorganisms living in it.

It’s such a rich soil that researchers are trying to recreate it on a larger scale and include it in modern agriculture practices.

Source: wikipedia

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This is the first image I’ve seen of terra preta in cross section. Cool. 

Interested in knowing more about this? This looks like a pretty decent academic piece.

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SCREAMS ABOUT SOIL ECOLOGY AND THE BRILLIANT FARMING PRACTICES OF PRECOLOMBIAN PEOPLE LIVING IN SOUTH AMERICA FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS

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I’m researching de-desertification techniques and other agricultural tricks from older civilizations so I can totally sneak them into the various cultures of my fantasy setting. Not gonna lie. 

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Chinampas, man. 

Chinampas. 

It gets my horticulture loving plant nerd ass going, let me tell you. 

Also if you want an excellent source for de-desertification here’s a documentary for you. 

[kasaron]

Vid link is dead for me, but Chinampas look absolutely like something the Mortei would engage in, along with making terraced gardens on the mountainous areas of their land range (they rolled the shitty land lottery, they have borderline tropical swampy wetlands in the valley of mountain ranges; but the flipside is they have HUGE stores of coal and artisinal springs, not to mention plenty of growing weather). 

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Look up “Green Gold” with John D. Liu; you should be able to find the docu somewhere. 

He’s achieved remarkable things in reversing desertification in China and parts of Saudi Arabia. 

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so I might be working on a cryptid/monster dating sim