Art & Design

Nils Volker’s slowly crawling Lightdrawing Robot seems more like the half-shell Da Vinci than the real one; still, there’s something charming about painting with LEDs and long exposures.

Own a piece of WW2 history with this Spitfire Sculpture; limited to 24 pieces, it’s crafted from the Spitfire engine of an RAF ace who fought in the Battle of Britain; #13-24 sit on engine conrods.

Santa keeps current thanks to Peter Terren’s 30 foot Tesla Christmas Tree; it was shot by rotating a rod atop a Tesla coil while switching color filters (the star is 10 dead flourescent tubes).

Maxim Dalton’s Guitar Lessons is a noteworthy performance, with 35 of the world’s most amazing axes on a single 19″x25″ poster; it includes Slash, Hendrix, Clapton, and more.

Celebrating the upcoming Simpsons: The Complete Twentieth Season DVD set, this epic Simpsons poster is a who’s who of Springfield; check out the scrollable version here.

If you’ve used up all your lives and find yourself in 8-bit heaven, don’t be surprised if you see an extra dimension or two: Sevensheaven’s Voxel Game Art puts a 3D spin on 2D games.

T Campbell & John Waltrip’s Epic Misney celebrates Disney and Marvel becoming the happiest ohana on earth with a mashup that’ll hook you in with its fantastic and incredible images.

For diaper dudes and dudettes who know how to dish it out: Shi Jinsong’s gun-toting, stainless steel carriages takes the pacifism out of pacifiers with badass baby transports.

Master Chief, Kratos, and other characters get reduced to their digital basics with these Videogame Minimalism posters; it’s created by a SCEE artist and also available for sale here.

Minifigs get superpowers thanks to artist Ulises Farinas’ LEGO Superheroes; he’s only done two pieces (DC-themed Rise and Lego my Marvel), but they’re absolutely marvel-ous.

The living dead strike back in this series of re-imagined Star Wars posters; created by Matt Bush for zombie theme week at StarWars.com, all six episodes get an infected makeover.

eBoy’s Amnesty Poster is part of the Poverty is Modern campaign, with 4 Euros of each poster donated to Amnesty International; it’s a disturbing, pixelated look at human rights issues.

After you get over the initial “What the heck?!” shock (it is art, after all), this Rotating Kitchen art piece by Zeger Reyers is pretty cool in a giant blender-sort of way; it’ll spin until 2/28/10.

Minimalist art is all the rage, but Albert Exergian’s Popular TV Show Posters are some of the best we’ve seen; he reduces The Simpsons, 30 Rock, Heroes, and more to their bare essentials.

Brock Davis’ Arcade Expressionism pieces swap pixels for paint brushes with acrylic versions of Donkey Kong, Dig Dug, and Missile Command; also check out his Squares series.

The Big Apple becomes New Yew Tree Village with the Atlas of True Names, a set of maps which translate the names of cities into English; our favorite? Stink Onion (Chicago).

Available once A Life Well Wasted’s Episode 5 posts, Olly Moss’ Enemy Weakpoints Poster is a geeky limited-edition strategy guide to taking out enemies both digital and mythical.

Yes, that Jag sitting in your driveway is a trick of the light, but what a beautiful trick: Mark Brown and Marc Cameron’s Light Graffiti Cars create photonic versions of the R8, Morgan Aero, and more.

Exploded t-shirts and diagrams are all the rage, but Adam Voorhes’ Real Exploded Objects literally blows them out of the water: eviscerated Etch-a-Sketches and frog guts, anyone?