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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.
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
For his latest 3D animation challenge, pwnisher asked artists to submit no-AI visuals for a trading card game. Over 1700 artists participated in the Gauntlet of Gods 3D challenge, showing off some amazingly imaginative and diverse designs. The artist index can be viewed on Google Sheets, and a physical version of the Gauntlet of Gods
Artist David Mokso shows how he made a huge bust of Godzilla. It took him nearly 600 hours to create the monster using a metal frame, layers of foam, hand-sculpted clay, and 3D-printed resin accents. This Kaiju doesn’t just sit there and look pretty; its chest doubles as a display shelf. We got worried for
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
Over the past seven years, UK illustrator Sam Drew (aka “Lumps”) has created a number of surrealist animated vignettes. This 3-minute reel collects some of these wonderfully weird and wild tidbits for our enjoyment. From man-machine hybrids to inflatable humans to nose hairs that just won’t let go, Lumps’ imagery is both oddly satisfying and
Axes has a new series where they take ridiculous AI-generated designs and try to make them real. In this episode, they replicate a demonic table with a huge carved skull in a sea of lava. CNC-carved from wood and filled with epoxy resin, the real-world version isn’t as extreme, but it’s still impressive, especially the
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
Inspired by instant film cameras, Strange Inventions came up with the idea of making a digital camera that captures individual images on its own display cartridges. The camera shoots digital images and uploads them to e-Paper displays, which can show each image indefinitely without a power supply. The low-resolution, 4-color images have a cool retro
Physics simulation expert Alexander Gustafsson arranged 999 CGI spheres in a spiral and gave each a different amount of bounciness. When he dropped them onto a flat surface, they produced fascinating patterns. Adding to the effect are color-based sounds, which make eerie sounds straight out of a horror movie. He’s also made a straight-line version.
Axes: Garage created a 10-foot-long table that combines woodworking, epoxy resin, and custom electronics to produce an interactive light show. Its makers embedded hundreds of touch sensors and RGB LEDs beneath its surface, displaying colorful patterns when touched. The modular circuits can be adapted to create tables in other shapes and sizes.
New Zealand artist Jamie Thomas has made some incredible animal sculptures from scrap metal. In this video, he walks through the process of bending, welding, and grinding a bunch of old horseshoes and metal files into a dynamic sculpture of a duck taking flight. Along the way, he talks about how he got his start
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