These Tan Leather Boots Are Inspired By Those Worn By Luke Skywalker
If these tan leather boots look familiar, that’s because the designer behind them – Althea Fyfe – designed them with the style of Luke Skywalker in mind. Duck boot in style, the boots are designed to be a desert boot rather than a winter boot and feature a canvas, leather and rope composition. Continue reading »
Agnė Kišonaitė Used 1,969 Nail Polish Bottles To Create This Work Of Art
Lithuania-based artist Agnė Kišonaitė created this colorful piece of cosmetic art using 1,969 bottles of assorted nail polish. The project, which is titled ‘Glass Blowing’ is a large mural of a female’s face that emphasizes a set of large, red lips. Continue reading »
Canadian Artist Creates Miniature Dioramas In An Old Vintage Ring Boxes
Canadian artist Talws creates miniature dioramas in old vintage ring boxes. The canvas is quite limiting, but that’s doesn’t stop Talwst, who has transformed the tiny boxes into variety of scenes. Some reference pop-culture, other history, and some are just artist’s memories made manifest. Continue reading »
Inimitable Hand-Made Babydolls By Elena Kirilenko
Being a teacher and a mother of three children, talented Russian doll-maker Elena Kirilenko manages to find the time for creation these inimitable dolls which definitely look like real babies: tiny and sweet. Of course each of them is being created in a single copy and has its own face expression, temper, and emotions. Continue reading »
Russian Artist Turns Boring Soviet Apartment Building Walls Into Art
How can one fight the greyness and blandness of everyday life? With mad painting skills, apparently. Boris Chernichenko, who comes from the Russian city of Astrakhan, smote banality by decorating the stairwell in his apartment building. No more plain, white-ish walls – they’re now decorated with murals of natural landscapes. Continue reading »
This Baker Turns Break-Ups Into Bake-Ups With Her Delicious Instagram Account
Isabella Giancarlo created an account called Eat Your Heart Out that posts photographs of breakup messages on delicious looking confectionary. Continue reading »
An Artist Has Created A Brilliantly Detailed Manhattan Desk That Glow In The Dark
“It has been a dream for me to create a replica of Manhattan since I was in design school (although it is not really the whole Manhattan, since I have to decide where to stop or the desk would be too big to build)”, explains Troy Huang on Bored Panda. Continue reading »
An Artist Has Created A Glass Sculpture With Detailed Paintings That Can Only Be Seen From Close Up
The stained glass sculpture is primarily inspired by the idea of a giant floating fluorescent amoeba. By combining and abstracting visually significant characteristics also of other living forms the art piece points to the fascination about life as a phenomenon that is difficult to grasp. Since the sculpture shines, it arouses curiosity from great distance, only by getting closer to the piece its detailed painted patterns can be spotted. Continue reading »
The Realistic Zombie Mugs Every Horror Fan Should Have
Buford, Georgia-based artist Kevin Merck creates hyper-realistic zombie mugs that are scarier than Monday mornings. Cue sound effects: dun-dun-dun-dun! A teacher by day and a self-taught ceramicist by night, Merck used to sculpt horror-themed mugs only around Halloween. Continue reading »
This Bizarre Romper Gives Your Baby A Cat’s Tail From Behind!
Have fashion designers lost their minds? Probably, but check out this adorable — albeit weird — kitty cat romper for babies, designed by ekoD Works. Continue reading »
Low Pixel CG: The Playful Ceramic Artwork Of Toshiya Masuda
When you say the words pottery or ceramics most people will think of earthy clay and glazes. Images of old vessels that hold flowers, or used as tableware, might come to mind. On the other side of the spectrum are computer graphics and digital art, a wholly intangible media that’s made of bits and bytes. Combine these two vastly different fields and you get what artist Toshiya Masuda calls “image gap.” Continue reading »
Insanely Creepy Skulls Carved Out Of Fruit & Veg
The art carving creepy faces into fruit and vegetables isn’t a new concept, but Russian artist (and now Paris resident) Dimitri Tsykalov has set a new benchmark in terms of creativity and technique with his horror-tastic series of skulls carved into various fruit and vegetables. Continue reading »
25,000 White Roses Made Of LED Lights For Valentine’s Day
Photo by Kin Cheung / AP Photo
“Light Rose Garden” is originated from South Korea, an art installation project featuring 25,000 white roses made of LED lights for Valentine’s Day. Continue reading »
This Is A Carpet Made Of Vintage Jeans Labels
Polytuft from Sweden creates carpets made of the leather patches from jeans. Each carpet is unique since all leather patches are taken from old and worn out jeans. Continue reading »
This Artist Creates A Ceramics Imprinted With Patterns Of Vintage Typewriter Letters
Ceramic artist Laura C. Hewitt creates a wide range of cups, plates, and other ceramic objects imprinted with letters and numbers from old typewriter keys. The Alaska-based artist utilizes fragments from mathematical formulas, programming languages, and other science-influenced designs, all carefully applied with a variety of typewriter letters in black ink to create one-of-a-kind pieces. Continue reading »
Makeup Artist Turns Herself Into Creepy Monsters That’ll Give You Nightmares
Andrea De La Ossa, a cosmetologist and beauty vlogger, definitely doesn’t have problems choosing her Halloween looks. Using her incredible make-up skills, she can turn herself into any creepy character she wants. Continue reading »
“Ballads Of Shanghai”: Changing Face Of Urban China
“Big Dreams”. (Photo by Graham Fink/Riflemaker)
The rapidly changing landscape of urban China is the subject of artist Graham Fink’s solo photographic exhibition, opening at Riflemaker gallery in London on 1 February. Over the course of five years, the artist has documented various demolition sites in and around Shanghai – the largest city by population in the world. The photographic series communicates the enormity of the transition that is taking place there as the country moves increasingly towards a large-scale urbanization and more workers relocate for employment in the manufacturing industries. Not only are new cities emerging but immense urban renewal efforts are underway. Continue reading »
Artists Recreate Van Gogh’s Iconic Bedroom And Put It For Rent On Airbnb
For the first time in North America, all three versions of Van Gogh’s famous painting of his bedroom in Arles, France, will be displayed in Chicago along with some of his other work. To celebrate the occasion, the Art Institute of Chicago has recreated the room and put it up for rent on Airbnb for just 10USD. Continue reading »
Ethereal Floral Tattoos Mimic Delicate Watercolor Paintings On Skin
Aro Tattoo, aka @tattooist_silo, creates exquisite works of art onto the skin of her clients. Focusing on floral arrangements, the Korean tattooist uses soft pink, red, and blue ink to mimic the colors you’d find in a beautiful sunset. They offer an alternative stylistic approach to tattooing—rather than outlining subjects in a solid dark outline, Aro Tattoo completely skips the black ink and defines form with color. Continue reading »
Mini Glacier Candles Remind You Of Global Warming As They Melt
Designed by Brynjar Sigurðarson for PCM Design, these glacier-shaped candles will not take a long time to melt upon contact with heat. They have been developed in order to remind people that global warming is our problem and it’s still time to act. Continue reading »
This Old Man Spent 13 Years Growing A Giant Dragon In His Yard
For some, gardening and lawn care can be a therapeutic endeavor. For other, like Norfolk, England resident John Booker, lawn upkeep can be a way of life. It all started with a vision. The English man had a dream to grow a massive dragon on his lawn, so he began trimming his hedges. Continue reading »
Classic Literary Scarves Allow You To Literally Wrap Yourself Up In A Good Book
The Little Prince Book Scarf
Thai retailer Fresh Comfy is a fashion retailer that creatively transforms classic literary poetry and novels into wearable fashions that capture the essence of the words and stories with beautiful calligraphy and drawings. The chic scarves are wearable versions of many of the pages of the books allowing fans of the classics to adorn their favorite literary pieces on an everyday basis. Continue reading »
Bring The Argentinian Grasslands Indoors With These Stunning Handmade Rugs
Argentinian artist Alexandra Kehayoglou hand-crafts gorgeous rugs that bring the outside in — the lush green blankets and tapestries let the owner snuggle up to the outside world, inside. Alexandra makes the rugs from discarded thread scraps that she collects from her family’s carpet factory in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Continue reading »
Shipwrecks And Deep Ocean Scenes Encapsulated Inside Translucent Whale Sculptures
Japanese artist Isana Yamada creates clear resin whales that contain miniature worlds. The six whale project, titled Samsara, represents the six realms in Buddhist cosmology: the Heavenly Realm, the Asura, the Animal Realm, Hell, the Ghost Realm, and the Human Realm; Samsara is Sanskrit for the cycle of death and rebirth. Continue reading »
Jellyfish Plants Transform Your Room Into A Underwater Wonderland
Everyone loves adding a little greenery to their living space. They really freshen things up. But house plants aren’t always the easiest to keep alive. And these awesome airplant holders by JellyFishKisses on Etsy will get you moving in the right direction. She’s come up with everything from airplant jellyfish to pineapples and even unicorns with rainbow horns! You’ll have a hanging garden fit for a magical mermaid in no time! Continue reading »
