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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.
Holotrigger creates live audiovisual performances and installations with lighting by Ksawery Komputery and percussion by Jacek Prościński aka wh0wh00. Among their visual feats is this ring of 144,000 LED lights that encircles the drummer. As wh0wh00 plays his electronic rhythms, the lights react in real time using custom software and hardware.
Peter Callesen is an amazing paper artist; his latest “White Diary” is a human head filled with thought processes and stories. His works use nothing more than A4 or A5 paper, pencil and glue.
Poster Boy is an NYC artist who vandalizes subway posters, largely with clever cutting and pasting. It’s screwball humor with a healthy dose of social commentary.
As we’ve seen before, lost-wax casting can create some amazing items. So Copper has taken the metal casting method and applied it to the making of its brass pens. Each pen has a hollow metal body with intricately-detailed scrollwork and a smooth, twist-to-open mechanism. The hollow sections reduce weight while maintaining structural integrity.
We generally think of smoke as the byproduct of some other process, but these photographs highlight the seemingly chaotic wisps and curls. The result is intimate, artistic, and awe-inspiring.
Artist Daniel Rozin has spent three decades making interactive displays that react to viewers’ movements. This piece features 450 penguins that rotate to create a shadow of the person beside them. Their fuzzy, black-and-white bodies are ideal for creating the illusion of light and shadow. Steve Wilson, co-founder of 21c Museum Hotels, shows how it
Artist Gregor Becker makes incredible works of modern art using a truly unique method. His colorful, freehand mosaics are made by standing thousands of tiny pieces of hand-painted paper on edge into a special adhesive. Since each piece casts a shadow, every viewer’s perspective is different. You can find close-up photography of his works on
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
An artist creates a detailed landscape by painting inside a glass sphere with a tiny hooked brush. This traditional Chinese technique, known as nei-hua (内画), requires every stroke to be applied in reverse through a narrow opening. The video, posted by Timeless Flavors of China, showcases the patience and precision required to master this unique
Animator Michel Gagné has worked on films like Ratatouille and The Iron Giant. After releasing a the short The Saga of Rex Part 1: Abduction in 2013, he’s spent years as writer, director, and producer to bring us a feature version. The hour-long film follows the story of a fox who was taken from his
Fancy furniture can cost thousands of dollars. Connor Creates thought it would be a fun challenge to make an artful chair mostly out of popsicle sticks and hot glue. He assembled the chair from more than 3100 sticks, which is surprisingly sturdy thanks to lots of layering. Not bad for about $100 in supplies.
Bring some desert flair to game night with this Cacti Chess Set designed by ForgeCore and sold by AllyandOlly. The 3D-printed succulent unrolls to reveal a chess board, with tiny cactus figures standing in for game pieces. A flower-topped queen, branching king, and bunny-eared knight are a few of the standouts. Available with or without