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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.
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.
In this video from Timeless Flavors of China, we’re treated to a demonstration by artist Zhang Yulin, as she creates intricate patterns from a single sheet of paper. After folding the paper into a wedge, she sketches out a design, then cuts through the layers with razor-sharp scissors. It’s like those paper snowflakes but way
After making an OLED jacket based on Cyberpunk 2077’s NUSA Infiltrator outfit, Zibartas built a motorized helmet to go with it. He made it with carbon fiber-reinforced parts on a Prusa XL 3D printer. For its shiny surface, he coated parts with resin and glossy paint, and electroplated the metallic pieces. LED lighting and an
London-based wildlife artist Josh Gluckstein is a known for creating incredible animal sculptures using recycled cardboard. His paper menagerie includes giant turtles, a manta ray, whales, an elephant, a giraffe, a lion, and an awesome looking shark he created for Discovery’s Shark Week. He also created version of Mabel in Beaver form from Hoppers.
For Toolroom Takeover 2026, Mike and Hazel from Chronova Engineering came up with a unique design for a pocket tool. Their “Impossible” scribe use a pair of interlocking helixes to change its length. What makes it even more fascinating is how its tip deploys in the opposite direction as it expands. A larger, 3D printable
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.
Ayscrim Studios makes these awesome desktop clocks built to look like the backglasses from classic pinball machines. Based on officially licensed art from Gottlieb and Bally with credit to the original artists, they come in electromechanical and digital versions with colorful edge-lit translites. The pinball flipper buttons for setting the time are a nice touch.
Japanese lighting company Kodama Art Science Technology (KAST) shows off a unique electromechanical contraption they built that lets them synchronize the aim of dozens of laser beams to create incredible starburst patterns. The moving, kaliedoscope-like patterns it outputs are like nothing we’ve seen done with lasers before.
Even if you think AI is pure evil, we think you should watch this. Written and directed by Malik Zenger, Oneiric is the most entertaining AI film we’ve seen. The 20-minute sci-fi flick bounces between genres and was made using Higgsfield’s Cinema Studio 4 with Seedance under the hood. Its creators shared all of the
Damascus steel is made by folding layers of metal to produce unique organic patterns. Glass artist Jacob Barfield used a similar technique to make a Bowie knife out of glass. He started by heating layers of blue and white glass and folded the molten glass onto itself. After shaping the blade on a sanding wheel, he
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
Shinola’s new Detrola watch collection is all about bold design. Our faves so far are the colorful geometric faces on their Color Theory models. Available in warm or cool color combos, the watches feature a TR90 resin case with a stainless steel core and a 705 quartz movement with a date window. A flat sapphire