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Art and design that challenge expectations. Discover creative works, clever concepts, and beautifully executed ideas across multiple disciplines. Designs that highlight form, function, and innovation.
Give your home an explosive new look with one of these handmade hand grenade side tables from Reimagined Wood Shop. Their skeletonized design cuts down on weight while still offering rigidity. They’re cut from 0.72″ thick hardwood veneer plywood and come in 18″ tall and 24″ tall variants. Just don’t pull that pin.
Star Wars fans will want to hang this print of 120 canon symbols by Jasper van de Ree of BREEN Studio. The 16.5 × 23.4 in matte-finish print includes symbols from factions, clans, organizations, military designations, and personal symbols, all cataloged in a clean white-on-black image. He’s also posted a comprehensive online guide to the
Artist Yohei Kisanuki, aka LimbaTrip shared this amazing time-lapse video of one of his hand-illustrated motion illusions. The precisely placed dots and lines trick our eyes into seeing a turntable crawling with ants using a stroboscopic animation known as a phenakistoscope. He also posted a longer, ant-by-ant drawing video if you need something to veg
UK textile artist Ali Hill creates intricate architectural images, sewn on fabric. Her embroidery technique involves hand-drawing detailed buildings and cityscapes, then painstakingly following every single line with her sewing machine. The process takes tremendous patience, but also looks relaxing in a way. Ali sells prints of her works on Etsy.
Graffiti doesn’t get much respect as an art form, but it looks pretty cool as furniture. These pieces are by industrial designer Luis Alicandu, who is also an editor at design blog MoCoLoCo.
Halloween is around the corner, so there’s no better time to pick up this spooky Black Cat deck from Fulton’s Playing Cards. The deck features vintage-style line backs by artist Ethan Kowaleski with unlucky felines and witches hiding in the shadows. Their fronts are decorated with bold blacks and reds. A limited Gilded Edition adds
Designer Andrew Kaefer made one of the coolest bags ever. As part of his Junk Drawer collection, he created a super-size Rubik’s Cube purse that actually spins. Beyond looking amazing, it’s practical, with three large storage compartments. He assembled it using more than 150 squares covered with dyed leather and using lazy Susan spinners to
Andy Huot Creations shows how he made a clock that uses light-up segments and mirrors to create an infinite reflection effect. He 3D-printed its segments and added strips of RGB LEDs driven by a WLED controller. It has a solid mirror in the back and a one-way acrylic mirror in front to produce the depth
Indie developer Grow Now! Games created a custom engine that renders 3D objects using ASCII characters, then used it to build a walkable cyberpunk city. Housed in a single HTML file using JavaScript and Canvas, it calculates perspective, depth, collisions, and hidden surfaces in real time. A playable prototype is available for a small charge.
We’ve seen woodworkers use pallet wood to create some beautifully rustic objects. After making a pallet wood guitar that sanded away much of its texture, Danny Lewis built another that preserves the rough, splintered texture of the pallet wood. The finished piece looks fantastic and has a wonderfully warm sound.
Random Hands shows how they turned a stack of stainless steel rulers into a unique Damascus pattern, which he sandwiched around high-carbon steel to make a beautiful Japanese-style meat cleaver. He fitted it with a hexagonal wood handle and a hand-stitched leather sheath. We’d love this knife in our kitchen, but sadly, this one isn’t
Get a close up view of The Beatles’ last live public concert through the eyes of rock ‘n’ roll photographer Jim Marshall. This deluxe volume collects over 150 photos and proof sheets, half of which are published here for the first time. Not only did Marshall’s camera capture the concert itself, but also unguarded moments
