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Would You Wear These Japanese Hoof Sandals?

High heels are hard enough to walk in– but can you imagine wearing hoof sandals?

From the looks of things, learning to walk in them would take ages. And even then, there’s still the ever-present threat of a sprained ankle just waiting for you to make one false step. But hey, that’s just part of the package if you want to look like a magical faun. Continue reading »

Dad Shows What Would Happen If Kid’s Drawings Became Reality

“Things I Have Drawn” is an Instagram account where artist and father-of-two Tom Curtis shares children’s drawings from all over the world. But that’s not all – he decided that it would be fun to bring those cute, childish doodles into the real life. The result is both funny and terrifying. Continue reading »

What Would U.S. Money Look Like, Given The Proper Attention Of An Industrial Designer?

Industrial designer Andrey Avgust hails from Belarus, a country whose currency I admit I’ve never seen. But he’s seen our yankee dollars and recognizes that their design kind of stinks. For fun Avgust gave U.S. bills a redesign, starting with the material: Polymer. Continue reading »

Would You Ride Your Bike More Often If It Looked Like A Horse?

Would you ride your bike more often if it looked like a horse? That’s the idea behind “Horsey”, a set of wooden accessories you can attach to your bicycle to make it look like a pet horse, and therefore encourage people to bike more often instead of driving. Continue reading »

An Illustrator Imagined What Would Things Say If They Could Talk

According to Teo Zirinis: “More than often, I find inspiration in food and objects that surround us in our everyday lives. I wonder what it would be like if they had a voice of their own. What would they say and how would they interact with each other? I brought these silly thoughts to life through my illustrations and here are the results!” Continue reading »

How Ads From Today’s Famous Brands Would Look If They Were Created In The 1950’s

Advertising, as well as a lot of other fields, has had to adapt to the evolution of technology. And we can totally see a difference when we compare the old, vintage ads to the ones created nowadays. While both vintage and today’s ads still think about consumer desire, today they rather sell an idea than a product. Continue reading »

This Girl Makes A Pop-Culture-Inspired Pies That Would Be A Sin To Cut

These days food gets photographed so much that it has to be pretty. Especially if it’s pies. Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin (previously featured) is a confectionery artist who makes sure this happens – she bakes pies that are too nice to eat! Continue reading »

Artist Illustrates What Would Happen If Movies And TV Shows Were Made In Real Life

If you have ever watched a movie or a TV series then you have come to the right place. Have you ever wondered what would it be like, if the characters and scenes from your favorite TV shows and movies were based in real life? Continue reading »

Would You Feel Safe In A Building Like This?

British artist Alex Chinneck has completed his first permanent public installation – a 10-tonne ripped page made from 4,000 bricks. Continue reading »

This Is What The ‘Ideal’ Woman’s Figure Would’ve Looked Like In The 1930s

Beauty standards are always changing, but they never seem to go away. In 1938, LIFE magazine did a feature on 20-year-old June Cox, showed the model in a floor-length dress and then again in her underthings, and proceeded to praise Cox for possessing the “ideal figure.” The model stood 5 ft. 6 3/4 in. and weighed 124 lbs., though life insurance statistics, the magazine said, suggested she should weigh 135 lbs. Continue reading »

Artist Wil Hughes Shows How Pop Culture Icons Would Look In Real Life, And It Will Give You Nightmares

Australian digital artist Wil Hughes, who studies animation at Griffith University in Brisbane, has a unique talent; he turns beloved, usually family-friendly pop culture icons into nightmarish demons that look like they clawed their way straight out of Hell. Continue reading »

Illustrator Reimagines What Disney Movies Would Look Like If They Were Made Nowadays

UK-based graphic artist Tom Ward has a lot to say about the current state of the world, and he’s using the help of everyone’s favourite Disney characters to do it. Continue reading »

Here’s How Some of Rock and Roll Legends Would Look Like Today If They Weren’t Dead

So many musicians have passed away too fast over the past couple of decades. They left their fans heartbroken, listening to their music until today. Regardless of your taste in music, chances are you remember when the news cycle covered one of their deaths. You are probably constantly thinking about what they could have yet created if they hadn’t died. Unfortunately, we cannot possibly know that, but what we could do is imagine what they would look like today if they were still alive.

Elvis Presley – Jan. 8, 1935 – Aug. 16, 1977

The King of Rock and Roll, who died in 1977 at age 42.

That’s exactly what the Sachs Media Group set out to do with the project you’re about to see. They have teamed up with photo restoration and manipulation company Phojoe to create speculative portraits of what rock and roll’s greatest musicians might look like if they were still alive today. Continue reading »

A Minimal, Multi-Colored Keyboard That Would Brighten Up Your Work Day

Considering that many of us use our computer keyboards all day, every day, it seems that we do not pay very much attention to them—however, if they look as awesome as these rainbow-colored ones from CandyKeys, clicking away at the work desk would be so much more pleasant. Created in partnership with Reddit user u/PVgummiand—who posted an image of the multi-colored onto the website a while ago—the ‘DSA Candy’ is actually a set of keycaps that are meant to be used with a mechanical keyboard. Continue reading »

Artist Shows How To Repackage Junk Food So That Hipsters Would Buy It

You’ll never find a box of Cap’n Crunch or a pack of Slim Jims in a hipster’s house. Why? Well, aside from the fact that neither are organic, the colors of the packaging would simply clash too much with all of the other artfully designed products in their food cupboard. Continue reading »

Artist Imagines How McDonalds Would Look If Nazis Opened It In Hell

If you’ve ever wondered what McDonald’s would look like in a post-apocalyptic zombie world ruled by Nazis, artists Jake & Dinos Chapman have got it covered. In what can only be described as “creepy AF”, the nightmare-inducing artwork is littered with Ronald McDonalds on crucifixes, squads of Nazis doing what Nazis do, a boat being pulled down a squalid river by dolphins, and perhaps the most surreal of all, hoards of Ronald McDonalds killing zombies. Continue reading »

30 Vintage Ads That Would Be Banned Today

Besides being discriminating, vintage ads were also full of lies. Whether we like it or not, it is a piece of history worth seeing for everyone. Continue reading »

Comic Artist Imagines What Classic Movies Would Be Like If Everyone Had Smartphones

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These days, smartphones are an unavoidable part of life.

You probably already know someone that’s always glued to their phone. It might even be you – checking directions, ordering stuff from Amazon, reading reviews on TripAdvisor, and generally ignoring everyone around you for the allure of a smartphone screen. Continue reading »

Simpsons Illustrator Imagines What Animals Would Do On Halloween

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Most animals don’t celebrate Halloween, unless their owners dress them up that is. Simpsons illustrator Elizabeth Climo has a big imagination, and she created some comics that show what animals would be doing if they actually did celebrate Halloween, and she nailed it. Continue reading »

How Beautiful Our World Would Look From Above If You Were A Bird

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The Arlit uranium mine is located in Arlit, Niger. French nuclear power generation, as well as the French nuclear weapons programme, are both dependent on the uranium that is extracted from the mine – more than 3,400 tonnes per year. (Photo by Benjamin Grant/Penguin Random House) Continue reading »

How Female Disney Characters Would Look If They Were Men

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Sakimichan is the pen name of a young Canadian artist that is well known for her digital paintings. Such paintings include personified animal characters from Disney and Warner Brothers, including Simba and Bugs Bunny, as well as other fan art pieces that range from Naruto to Cartoon Network shows. Some of these fan art pieces include gender bends, where a female character is redesigned to be a male character, or a male character is recreated as a female. Continue reading »

What Would Animals Say If They Could Speak?

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All of us have already wondered what animals think and what they would say to us if they could talk. Jimmy Craig tried to answer this question with these amusing comics which are part of a series called “They Can Talk.” Continue reading »

If Modern Movies Would’ve Been Released On VHS Cassette

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Audio and visual formats go out of style so fast that digital streaming now seems quaint, and we sort of skipped Blu-ray completely. But, while hipsters get nostalgic over vinyl records, there is no equivalent retro love for VHS cassettes. Which is odd when you think about it, as the first home video format seemed like a miracle in its day. Continue reading »

These Stunning Drone Photos Would Be Completely Illegal Now

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Back in the day, before the authorities caught on to what was happening, photographers were free to fly their drones anywhere they pleased. There were no laws limiting how high they could fly, where they could fly, or when they could shoot photos and videos. Those were the glory days. And Amos Chapple made the most of them. Continue reading »

An Artist Has Created A Series Using Professional Make Up That Would React To The UV Light Of A Black Light

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According to an artist Adriano Rodrigues: “For my final project for Photography, I created a series using professional make up that would react to the UV light of a black light. First off, I want to thank Sarah Luke for her patience as a model and Breeanna Nichols for her stellar work at applying professional grade make up on Sarah. This and formost was a group effort, we simply intended to make something that capured our imaginations and to shake up the concrete “boring” world. This was a one day process, took roughly 7 hours to create and photograph and an additional 6 hours of editing images. Nikon D600 was the DSLR used for this project and Adobe Photoshop.” Continue reading »