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Freaky Skull Illusion Paintings
Tom French’s latest collection of paintings entitled “Don’t Look Back” is a doozy, and for good reason. The acrylic works of art depict figures (usually, couples) that seem to be happy and in love, but the arrangement of the subjects creates the illusion of a foreboding skull. To add to the creepy-o-meter, French’s works are all in black and white, giving the imagery a certain type ...
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Dessert Tarts As Accurate Pantone Swatches
Emile de Griottes, French food designer, has developed a series of dessert tarts that recreate the pantone colour swatches with hilarious accuracy. The swatch colours are made using berries, carrots, candies and other food items and arranged on a tart base that is iced in white frosting and labeled as the pantone swatch it is meant to represent. de Griottes created this collection for a special ...
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Eerie Post Apocalyptic Photos Of Famous Cities
Russian artist Vladimir Manyuhin has wowed us with manipulated photos of famous cities around the world. In an attempt to explore what the world could look like post-apocalypse, Manyuhin has made digital enhancements to photos he took of real cities suggesting what the spaces might look like once overcome by mother nature, abandoned by humans and left to decay thanks to the elements. We actually like ...
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Jumbo iPod Coffee Table
We have recently decided that no living room, family room or office lobby space is complete until it is adorned with an iTable – a jumbo-sized iPod with four legs designed by Italian designer, Mirko Ginepro for Milan Design Week. The iTable is made out of a Corian surface (commonly used for kitchen or bathroom counters) with a glass insert, and can is available in a ...
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Sculptures Made Out Of International Currency
Canadian artist Kristi Malakoff created these wonderful sculptures for her 2008 Polyhedra series. Despite the large scale photos, most of the sculptures are beautifully tiny…the sphere is only 2″ in diameter, for example while most other pieces are 2.5″. Each piece is made from folded currency bills from around the world, including Canada, Brazil, Zambia, Egypt, Bolivia, China, Afganistan, Yugoslavia, Iraq, Paraguay, Russia and more. It ...
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Funky Portraits Made From Old Floppy Disks
UK-based artist, Nick Gentry, has created a beautiful collection of portraits painted on a canvas made entirely out of 3 ½” floppy disks. Finally, a good way to use the old hunks of plastic and film, and a creative solution, too! Some of the details of the floppy disks remain in tact and add a visually dynamic element to the works of art – the written ...
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Amazing Earthquake Proof Wallpaper
German scientists at the Karisruhe Institute of Technology and researchers at Bayer MaterialScience have developed a wall treatment referred to as “seismic wallpaper” that is best suited for homes in earthquake-prone cities. The specially reinforced paper is called EQ-Top, and boasts the ability to hold masonry walls together and prevent them from breaking, falling or crumbling when subjected to a quake. The material consists of special ...
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‘Green Pick’ Turns Old Credit Cards Into Guitar Picks
MTV Brasil’s Green Picks Recycle Machine is all the buzz in the whoa-vironment today. The Green Picks Recycle Machine is designed to help folks get rid of old credit cards, video rental cards, expired health and drivers license cards and turn them into something useful – guitar picks. The machine was developed by Brazilian creative company, Loducca, and the Green Picks was installed in a night ...
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Famous Album Covers Recreated With Pantone Swatches
British graphic designer, David Marsh, has created these whoa-worthy recreations of famous album covers using pantone swatches. The images were created in Abode Illustrator and have a real “digital impressionism” vibe that we love. The images can be a little hard on the eyes, but when viewed from a slight distance, the image is easier to view and the brilliance behind these digital mosaic works really ...
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Awesome Kitschy Pac-Man Bookshelf
One of our favourite Italian designers, Mirko Ginepro, is responsible for the brilliance behind the Puckman bookshelf. The unit is made out of varnished wood and is of course painted in a golden yellow reminiscent of the 80′s cult videogame, Pac Man. The Puckman shelf (yes, Puckman is correct, not Pacman) is custom made to order, so you can choose a size and alter the colour ...
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Geeky Adobe Icon Pillows For Graphic Designers
Are you looking to add a little bit of geek-ness to your home? Well, look no further, the toss cushions created by My Suite Stuff are sure to strike a chord with graphic designers. Not only are the pillows designed to resemble jumbo-sized graphic software icons, but the names behind the collection is equally geeky and fabulous. You heard of Adobe’s Creative Suite? Well, now you ...
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Comedy Moustaches For Your Hipster Dog
Your dog may be a fur ball as it is, but maybe he or she is dying to don a stache. You never know, and so it only seems fair that you should offer the pups the option and let them decide for themselves. Thanks to Muttropolis, we’ve been introduced to the Humunga Stache Dog Toy, a stache-shaped toy made to fit in a large or ...
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Art Made From Thousands Of Words
NY-based artist Meg Hitchcock has created a wonderful series of art works all based on words. Words, letters and phrases have been taken from religious and spiritual texts to form the beautiful graphic works of art you see here. The artists claims to “deconstruct the word of God by cutting letters from sacred writings and rearranging them to form a passage from another holy book. For ...
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If ‘The Simpsons’ Characters Were Modern Furniture
The masterminds behind 56th Studio have made us say WHOA! with their hilariously accurate caricature furniture collection. 56th Studio creates and produces quirky designs and cutting-edge graphic works, but all items have a “form-follows-story” mantra. The chairs that made us smile are all based on the popular television series, The Simpsons, and each distinctive feature of the shows characters is exaggerated to produce a single piece ...
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Python: The World’s Fastest Amphibious Vehicle
WaterCar‘s Python is the world’s fasts amphibious vehicle to ever be designed and built. The Python can reach up to 60 mph of water speed, and mid 12 second ¼ mile times and 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds. For those of you who don’t speak “car stats”, the translation is simple: it’s FAST! The engine is based on the famous aluminum LS Corvette power train. The ...
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6 Amazing Hyper Realistic Pencil Drawings
Artist Paul Cadden is a 47-year old hyperrealist artist who uses graphite (aka pencil) and chalk to create amazing works. Cadden often works from photographs and video stills, using his simple artists’ tools to recreate the imagery. Cadden believes that works of art create the illusion of a new reality not seen in the original photo, and we’d have to agree. We never thought it possible ...
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What Mickey Mouse Should Look Like At 84 Years Old
Mickey Mouse was born in 1928, making him the ripe old age of 84 years old in 2012. Darick Maason has sculpted the Elderly Mickey Mouse. I know what you’re thinking…the artist must have used a Mickey Mouse plastic mask and added wrinkles to it…right? Wrong. (Although admittedly, we thought this too). The sculpture was made entirely from scratch while the artist was enrolled in a ...
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Fake Lady Lap Pillow For Single Men
We are so happy that there is no shortage of interesting pillow design out there, and the Hizamakura is no exception. Shaped like a beautiful woman’s lap, kneeling in Japanese style, the Hizamakura pillow provides the best imitation of a woman’s lap that is ready for you to take a nap on. The pillow is made from polyurethane and wrapped in a polyester “skirt”. The item ...
