From fashion to beloved pets to portraiture these collages magnificently exude character and wit. English artist Peter Clark creates three dimensional images out of his collection of old stamps, maps, buttons, love letters, sewing patterns, playing cards, and more. Peter first draws the outline, then carefully chooses from his collection of found ‘things’ to find the right texture and colors to ‘paint’ his collages. A. Borloz had it right when he referred to Clark as “A true paper collage genius.”

The book Paperwork by Peter Clark and Matthew Sturgis, featuring these collages, is now available to buy from Peter Clark’s website. Paperwork is also available through Amazon.

Dutch artist Marjan Teeuwen proves that even clutter and destruction can be beautiful. She eviscerates the walls of abandoned Amsterdam buildings, conjoining rooms with massive holes, and uses leftover fragments to create densely textured walls and surfaces. Countless objects are crammed into small rooms. The objects are combined according to function, texture and colour, and ordered in a ramshackle architecture of rows and columns. Teeuwen’s installation art dramatically puts any contemporary hoarder to shame.

You can see more of Teeuwen’s work saatchi and at Cokkie Snoei.

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We are happy to see the launch of NPS’s Technical Preservation Services (TPS) new website. TPS is an amazing public resource for all things regarding preserving our nation’s historic buildings. Blank Space developed the UI design, HTML and CSS code, and the graphic illustrations.

Case studies highlighting successful tax incentives projects and projects that combined historic rehabilitation and green building practices rotate on the home page and in several sections of the site.

The new site features expanded information on Sustainability and Historic Preservation, including the recently-published Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation & Illustrated Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings. Also included are links to research and studies on energy efficiency and historic buildings and to sustainability resources for home owners, historic districts and communities and Federal agencies.

The weatherization section highlights the importance of implementing cost-effective measures to make a building’s envelope more energy efficient. Weatherizing a historic building requires undertaking those measures in ways that have minimal impact on the historic building’s design and materials. The illustration above depicts major sources of air leaks in American homes.

Congratulations TPS on your new website!

The Crystal Towers were by far my favorite installation on the Chihuly Bridge of Glass in Tacoma. The two towers rise forty feet above the bridge deck with the intention to serve as beacons of light for the bridge and city. All of the glass installations around and in the Museum of Glass and inside the old Union Station are definitely worth the short detour off highway 5.