While India is still struggling to ensure cleanliness in each and every city, China has envisioned to build pollution-fighting Vertical Forests for their clean and green future. Expected to be built by 2018, the vertical forests consists of two towers called the Nanjing Green Towers. These green buildings will be covered with more than 1,100 trees and 2,500 cascading plants and shrubs, covering around 65,000-square-feet...
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YouTube is a good place to find information, as well as, funny content to lighten your mood after a hectic work schedule. You may already have subscribed to some of the channels to never miss their video. Recently, Shimla Highlanders, a group of Shimla-based young YouTubers, started their video-sharing channel to deliver you comic content filled with local slangs. All they want is to keep...
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We all know how important it is to reduce, reuse and recycle. Sadly, there are people who still don’t hesitate a bit to throw garbage on roads, corners or any empty space they find. But Shimla-based green artist Om Prakash Sharma is someone who creatively makes use of waste material by turning it into decorative animal figurines.
There are so many people – from delivery men and postmen to bus drivers and rickshaw drivers – who burn themselves day and night to keep us operating. But often their work is taken for granted and sometimes they are even ill-treated by so called educated and dignified people around us. But have you ever thought of appreciating the work of people who do thankless...
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In recent times, plants have become a major part of our home decor. Be it residential or commercial spaces – everywhere indoor plants are replacing the pocket-burning statues and other decor artifacts. But Mariana Folberg, an industrial designer who runs the San Francisco-based Mar de Fe design studio, has taken plant decor to another level with these realistic glow-in-the-dark plants.
Shubham Dogra, a self-taught artist from Jammu, has a remarkable talent for making 3D drawings that seemingly pop right off the page. Using his drawing tools, the skilled illustrator gives depth to the two-dimensional plane with meticulous shading and toning. Hence, these flat surfaces appear three-dimensional – as if the sketches have come to life.