Examples library
50 ways to look closer.
A playful library of paintings, sculpture, buildings, designed objects, clothes, vehicles, food, print, and everyday culture. Open any example to see the same careful result shape used in the Art Says Hi app.
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Art and sculpture
Paintings and sculptures that reward a slower look.
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Architecture and places
Buildings and streets where structure becomes visual culture.
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Designed objects
Objects shaped by use, proportion, and daily ritual.
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Fashion and wearables
Clothing and accessories carrying function, line, and identity.
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Vehicles and mobility
Machines and routes that give movement a visible form.
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Food, print and everyday culture
Ordinary images, objects, and rituals worth another look.
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Public domain Mona Lisa
A portrait that keeps its distance while appearing to meet your eye.
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Public domain The Starry Night
A night sky that refuses to stay still, held above a quiet village by a dark cypress flame.
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Public domain The Great Wave off Kanagawa
A wave becomes an arch, a claw, and a frame for a small mountain.
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CC BY-SA 4.0 The Thinker
A body at rest that still carries the pressure of a thought in motion.
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Public domain Las Meninas
A painting that makes the viewer part of the room before explaining why.
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Public domain The Birth of Venus
A figure arrives on the shore as myth, movement, and carefully arranged line.
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Public domain Water Lilies
A surface where reflection, water, and paint keep trading places.
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CC0 1.0 Guernica
A fractured room where grief refuses to become a single image.
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Public domain Nighthawks
A brightly lit diner that makes the surrounding city feel even more absent.
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CC BY 2.0 Terracotta Warrior
A repeated face that makes one figure feel both individual and part of an enormous system.
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A building where structure, ornament, and light keep changing jobs.
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CC BY 2.0 The Pantheon, Rome
A room whose most important window is a circle cut into the sky.
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CC BY-SA 2.0 Victorian London Terrace
A row of homes turns repetition into a portrait of a street.
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CC BY-SA 3.0 Barbican Estate
Concrete, water, planting, and walkways make a city feel layered rather than flat.
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CC BY 2.0 Centre Pompidou
A building that turns its infrastructure into its public face.
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CC BY 2.0 Art Deco Cinema Facade
A street entrance turns the promise of a film into a pattern of light, letters, and arrival.
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CC BY-SA 2.0 Georgian Townhouse
A disciplined façade where proportion makes ordinary rooms feel quietly formal.
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CC BY 2.0 Bauhaus Dessau
A building that makes windows, workshops, and movement read like a visual system.
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A small coffee maker whose octagon, handle, and pressure logic became a household icon.
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CC BY 2.0 Eames Lounge Chair
A chair that makes comfort look engineered, layered, and slightly ceremonial.
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CC BY-SA 4.0 Anglepoise Lamp
A lamp that makes balance visible through springs, joints, and a small pool of light.
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CC BY-SA 3.0 Braun SK 4
A clear-lidded radio and record player where control is expressed as a quiet rectangle.
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CC BY-SA 3.0 Thonet No. 14 Chair
A bentwood chair where a few repeated curves carry an entire social history.
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CC BY-SA 2.0 Original iMac G3
A translucent computer that made the desktop feel like a piece of coloured furniture.
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CC BY 2.0 London Red Telephone Box
A small public room where colour, lettering, and repetition make a piece of infrastructure memorable.
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CC BY 2.0 Penguin Tri-Band Paperback
A paperback whose orange bands turn a shelf of books into a visual system.
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A garment where straps, flaps, and folds remember weather, work, and the body inside them.
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CC BY 2.0 Diver's Watch
A watch whose bezel, markers, and heavy case make time look ready for water.
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CC BY-SA 3.0 Chronograph Watch
A watch face that turns a small circle into a crowded map of time.
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CC0 1.0 Structured Top-Handle Handbag
A bag whose frame, handles, and compartments make carrying look almost architectural.
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CC BY 2.0 Quilted Chain Shoulder Bag
Soft geometry, a repeating surface, and a chain turn a small bag into a moving pattern.
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CC BY-SA 4.0 Five-Pocket Denim Jeans
A pair of trousers whose seams, rivets, and fading turn workwear into a record of movement.
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CC BY-SA 2.0 Bomber Jacket
A cropped jacket where ribbing, pockets, and a front zip hold the body inside a compact shape.
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CC BY-SA 3.0 Oxford Shoe
A shoe whose closed lacing and layered leather make footwear read as a small piece of tailoring.
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A sports car whose roofline, lights, and repeated curves make speed feel composed.
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CC BY 2.0 Volkswagen Beetle
A rounded car whose repeated curves make the cabin feel like a small shell on wheels.
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CC BY 2.0 Classic Mini
A small car that makes economy, character, and crowded urban movement share one shape.
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CC0 1.0 Citroën DS
A car whose long body and floating roofline make the road look almost liquid.
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CC0 1.0 Land Rover Defender
A vehicle whose upright body makes utility look like a visual identity.
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CC BY 2.0 Vespa Scooter
A scooter whose painted shell turns movement into a clean, almost gestural outline.
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CC BY 2.0 Brompton Folding Bicycle
A bicycle whose hinges and small wheels make transformation part of the design.
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CC BY 2.0 London Routemaster Bus
A double-decker whose stairs, windows, and red body turn public transport into a moving section of the city.
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A poster that turns a route, a place, or a season into a reason to move through the city.
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CC0 1.0 Vintage Travel Poster
A printed promise that compresses a landscape into colour, type, and one memorable shape.
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CC BY 2.0 Vintage Biscuit Tin
A container that keeps its second life visible through colour, illustration, and the marks of use.
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CC BY-SA 2.0 Matchbox Label
A tiny printed surface where a few colours and a small emblem have to carry a whole promise.
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CC0 1.0 Japanese Ramen Bowl
A bowl that holds a meal, a pattern, and a small architecture of rim, broth, and topping.
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CC BY 2.0 Croissant
A folded pastry where layers, shadow, and a curved silhouette make process visible before the first bite.
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Public Domain Mark 1.0 Vintage Railway Ticket
A small rectangle that turns a journey into typography, perforation, and permission to pass.
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CC0 1.0 Classic Diner Menu
A menu that turns choosing lunch into a small theatre of lettering, borders, and imagined abundance.
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