Tag: design
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Beautiful Wood Sculptures Crafted from Discarded Tree Trunks and Branches
Artist and sculptor Jae-Hyo Lee uses organic materials like wood to create large-scale, sculptural pieces that favor both form and function. Focusing on geometric shapes such as the sphere, Lee somehow manages to transform tree trunks and hefty branches into perfectly formed globes, columns, and furniture-like objects. To achieve the striking, smooth look of his sculptures, the 50-year-old artist…
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Now You Can 3D Print Your Own Garden in Any Shape You Want!
Just in case you didn’t think 3D printers couldn’t print EVERYTHING, think again! Some students at University of Maribor in Slovenia designed a “green” 3D printer, known as PrintGREEN, whose output has the ability to grow grass. The device produces an earthy mixture in a variety of shapes and sizes, allowing you to express your gardening creativity with…
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Animal Skeletons Crocheted From String!
In one of the more unusually beautiful artistic pursuits we’ve seen recently, artist Caitlin T. McCormack crochets animal skeletons from yarn and then solidifies them with glue. The works are intricate and look extremely fragile, just like old animal bones that have spent time in the ground. Her works come in several forms, from single skulls…
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Cliff House Has an Amazingly Terrifying View
Greece’s economy may be going through some issues at the moment, but that hasn’t dulled the creativity of Greek architects Laertis Antonios Ando Vassiliou and Pantelis Kampouropoulos from Opa Works who have up with an amazingly terrifying cliff house. The concept design is called “Casa Brutale”, and it is designed to mesh well with nature. The building is completely…
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New Suspended Treehouse Tents and Hammocks Designed by Tentsile
You might remember a little while ago that we showed you these amazing Tensile tents that hang suspended high in the trees. Well they’re back with several new models such as a small hammock for three that can be layered into a multi-tiered treehouse, a 2-layer tree tent, and a massive communal tent system designed to hold 6 people high in the air.…
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Yummy Sweets Perfectly Organized by Color
Our recent post about photographer Emily Blincoe was so popular (see HERE) that we thought we’d share another one… this time with a bit of a sweet tooth. For her Sugar Series, she collected a wide range of color-specific candies, arranged them in deliciously symmetrical squares, and then photographed the organized compositions. She included every candy one can imagine,…
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Brilliant Human Head Helmets By Jyo John Mullor
In what has got to be some of the most awesomely creepy designs we’ve seen in a long time, Dubai artist Jyo John Mullor has created several concept images of different kinds of human heads helmets! Mullor tells us that as this stage these are strictly concepts only, but we’d definitely purchase one if he took…
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There Are 2 Types of People. Which One are You?
According to Joao Rocha, an art director from Lisbon, Portugal, there are only ‘2 Kinds Of People’ in this world. To prove his point, Rocha has created a fun Tumblr account featuring illustrations that reduce some of our quirks to simple everyday decisions. “There are only 2 kinds of people in this world, those that find this…
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Amazing Crocheted Leaf Sculptures by Susanna Bauer!
To truly appreciate the delicacy of Susanna Bauer‘s leaf sculptures, think of crunching a dead leaf in your hand, how it disintegrates into dust with the slightest effort. To work with dry and fragile leaves as a medium for crochet seems nearly impossible, but Baur somehow manages it with ease, turning leaves into cubes, tunnels, and geometric…
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New Laser Engraved Rolling Pins Imprint Elaborate Designs on Baked Goods
When we last wrote about Zuzia Kozerska of Valek Rolling Pins (previously), she practically set the interwebs on fire with lasers, more specifically her laser engraved rolling pins that imprint different patterns in cookie dough. Kozerska has been hard at work creating increasingly more complex designs as well as special mini pins just for kids. You…