Thread art installation

When I first set my eyes on Japan-born, Berlin-based artist Chiharu Shiota's work, I wasn't sure if I was looking at an installation or a dark charcoal

The amazing installation was created by Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe, who has been tricking museum visitors in Ohio into believing they are seeing the meteorological wonder indoors.

Over the years, we at Bored Panda have released quite a few pieces on subpar design. And while these publications are incredibly fun to prepare and scroll through (just take a look at this one), we need to balance them out a little. After all, not every designer is an incompetent 3-year-old. Some of them are 4... light-years ahead of the competition.

Too Much Night, Again installation at South London Gallery by Pae White exhibit design

DMY: this calendar by German designer Susanna Hertrich shreds paper displaying each passing day. Called Chrono Shredder, the piece displays the dates on a scroll of paper, showing the current day while all the past dates are shredded up to curl in a heap on the floor. See all our stories about DMY Berlin in

We first caught sight of one of Daniel Steegmann Mangrané's colorful curtains at Esther Schipper gallery's booth at Frieze New York last year, where we couldn't stop taking pictures of how nicely it framed the crowds rushing by on the other side. But we'd forgotten all about the Spanish-born, Brazilian-based artist until more of those curtains popped up on Sight Unseen contributor Su Wu's blog I'm Revolting last week. Steegmann appears to have a very philosophically rich practice, full of…

Sheela Gowda at Lunds konsthall And Tell Him of My Pain (1998) is a vein-like installation: a dark mass of thread, stained with blood-coloured kumkum arranged in elegant visceral tangles that end in a barbed posy of needles. You can't tell by looking, but to make this work the artist had to pull a 360-foot long thread through the eye of every single needle

While Gabriel Dawe uses thread to create his ethereal rainbow colored installations, Los Angeles-based artist Megan Geckler uses plastic ribbon or

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