World is Not Just Red – The Mondrian Pepsi Can
Italian designer Andrea Salamino re-imagined the design and the can of the brand Pepsi by drawing his inspiration from neoplasticism, the colors of artists Piet Mondrian and Jean Gorin. Continue reading »
Slasher Sweaters: The Perfect Gift For The Psychopath In Your Life
Holiday fun from Austin’s Mondo Gallery. Curators and retailers of limited edition screen-printed posters, movie soundtracks on vinyl, VHS re-issues, toys, and clothing, the freaks at Mondo are always on the cutting edge of pop culture weirdness. Continue reading »
Artist Crafts Incredibly Realistic Gigantic Flowers Out of Paper
San Francisco-based artist Tiffanie Turner has had a lifelong obsession with botanicals, expressing her adoration in the form of incredibly realistic paper flowers. Using delicate crepe material, she crafts soft-looking petals that have the same creases, folds, and postures to convincingly mimic nature. Continue reading »
Transparent Sculptures Explore the Depth of Human Emotion
First featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 12, Korean artist Jin Young Yu makes haunting sculptures with a mystifying use of transparency. She achieves the invisibility of her doll-like figures through a highly transparent plastic. Yu’s deeply intimate works reflect on her emotional experience of adolescence, and more recently, mirror her adult personality. Continue reading »
This Armchair Is Designed To Fold Out Into A Bed
Russian designer Elena Sidorova, has created Flop, an armchair that folds open and becomes a bed.
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A Photo Shoot That Puts Manchester United’s New Home Shirt At The Heart Of The Look
he landscape of football is one of incredible swell. A game that fuels a momentous culture, it captures music, art, design and so much more. In a new photography series, we headed to Manchester, a global capital for creativity, to bring football and fashion together in a shoot that puts United’s new home shirt at the heart of the look. Continue reading »
Fantastic Pencil Sculptures By Jasenko Đorđević
Born in Tulza, Bosnia, Jasenko Đorđević uses an X-acto knife and tiny chisel to carve detailed pencil-tip sculptures. The result resembles something made from stone or charred wood. Đorđević was first inspired to carve pencils after seeing the work of Dalton Ghetti. Continue reading »
Artist Beth Cavener Creates Terrible Animal Sculptures You’ll Never Forget
The sculptures of Beth Cavener focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalisation, and articulated through animal and human forms. Cavener wants to pry at those uncomfortable, awkward edges between animal and human. Continue reading »
Andrew Myers Creates A Portrait Using Suspended Painted Cubes
Artist Andrew Myers has created “My Dealer Is Not A Square,” a portrait of his art dealer Lawrence Cantor, that took 7 months to create from concept to finish. Continue reading »
A Girl Collects Porcupine’s Shed Quills And Makes Different Things Out Of Them
Snuggles is a 8 month old African Crested Porcupine (Hystrix cristata) here she is trying to look like a bad ass with her Mohawk quills out.
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Artist Uses A Sewing Machine To Capture Nature’s Fragile Beauty With Embroidery
“I hope to capture the power, beauty and fragility of nature in knotted embroidery threads. The work explores the sculptural possibilities of a unique embroidery technique that utilizes a domestic sewing machine and a base fabric that dissolves in water. By repeatedly stitching threads into dense structures I create intricate and complex openwork compositions that mimic natural forms and structures.”, told artist Meredith Woolnough to Bored Panda. Continue reading »
An Artist Created 100 Ceramic Mugs In 100 Days
“A few months ago I started a project as part of the #100dayproject. The 100-Day Project is a celebration of process that encourages everyone to participate in 100 days of making. The great surrender is the process; showing up day after day is the goal. For the 100-Day Project, it’s not about fetishizing finished products—it’s about the process.”, told designer Adrian Smith to Bored Panda. Continue reading »
EverBlock: Customize your Space With Oversized Modular Lego Bricks
Giant LEGOs for adults? Heck. Yes. EverBlock is a modular building system of giant plastic blocks that can be used to build anything from furniture, walls, shelving, bars, and even entire rooms. Obsessed with LEGO bricks as a child, EverBlock founder Arnon Rosan realized there might be a demand for a functional full-scale building system for personal and industrial purposes. Continue reading »
The Star Wars First Order Stormtrooper Vehicle
Hot Wheels takes over New York City with a fleet of Star Wars First Order Stormtrooper vehicles to celebrate Force Friday on Thursday, September 3, 2015, in Paterson, N.J. (Photo by Andy Kropa/Invision for Mattel/AP Images)
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Uber Is Offering Mad Max Rides In Seattle
For all its corporate skullduggery and obnoxious, rules-don’t-apply-to-me swagger, it’s hard to deny that Uber has some clever promotions at times. In a partnership with Warner Bros, the company is offering limited edition rides straight from the post-apocalypse to celebrate the September 1st release of the Mad Max video game. The cars are available for a limited time in Seattle only, but at least the rides are free because “dollars are worthless in the wasteland.” Continue reading »
Artist Wendy Tsao Transforms Kids Drawings Into Adorable Plush Toys
Wendy Tsao brings kids drawings to life by transforming them into amazing plush toys. Wendy made her first toy (which she calls ‘softies’) back in 2007, based on a self-portrait her 4-year-old son had drawn. Continue reading »
World’s Largest Hammock Installed In New Jersey
And…relax! King Digital Entertainment celebrates the launch of its new mobile game, Paradise Bay, setting the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Hammock in New York on Wednesday, September 2, 2015, in Jersey City, N.J. The ultimate symbol of relaxation, the hammock embodies the beauty and charms of the tropical island themed game and brings them to life on an enormous scale. Measuring a huge 65 feet long by 31 feet wide – that’s over 10 times the size of a regular hammock – the net of the hammock is large enough to hold 1000 bass-sized fish, could fit 170 people lying head to head, side by side, and is large enough to park 24 New York City taxis fender to fender. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision for King World Entertainment/AP Images)
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Realistic Animal Lollipops and Sugar Sculptures by ‘Amezaiku’ Artisan Shinri Tezuka
Ever had a hankering to taste a slippery goldfish or a wriggling tadpole? Now you’re in luck thanks to a new candy shop in Tokyo called Ameshin that offers traditional Japanese amezaiku, a form of artisinal candy making that dates back to the 8th century when the edible objects were offered at temples or given as gifts. Continue reading »
An Architect In France Has Designed A Concrete Pool Table For Public Spaces
French architect Gwendal Le Bihan, has designed Urban Pool, a concrete pool table for public spaces. Continue reading »
Adorable Rocket Raccoon Backpack Buddy
Rocket and Groot’s relationship could be complicated, but it’s simple. After all, do we have any precedent for how a sentient tree creature should relate to a gun-toting not-raccoon? Not so much. And yet, their odd-couple friendship comes naturally. Well, of COURSE, the not-raccoon understands and translates the sentient tree creature’s language. Why wouldn’t he? Continue reading »
Photoshop Fridge Magnets – Burn And Dodge Your Way Through The Kitchen
According to Photojojo studio: “You’re a whiz when your fingertips hit the keyboard. You’ve got brushes and lassos at the ready.” Continue reading »
Housewares To Make You Smile By Beardbangs Ceramics
“We’re Alicia and Jo of Beardbangs, a wife and husband team that attempts to make the cutest housewares imaginable by transforming illustrations into ceramic objects.” Continue reading »
Dad Builds Triple Rocking Chair So He Could Read To His 3 Kids
Master craftsman Hal Taylor loves to read to his children, but when his third child, Rose, was born, he ran into a problem – his three children wouldn’t fit in his lap when he went to read to them on his rocking chair! Continue reading »
French Designers Create A Tiny Bathroom In A Box
Bathroom design company Line Art, has created La Cabine for French company, La Fonction. Continue reading »
Designer Develops Alzheimer’s-Friendly Tableware Thanks to Inspiration from Her Late Grandmother
Industrial designer Sha Yao created the inspiring Eatwell tableware line to help those who are coping with Alzheimer’s disease. Continue reading »
