Awesome Art & Design

Want to make a quick buck? Master the Etch A Sketch. Artist Christoph Brown can make a portrait on the drawing toy in just 2 to 5 minutes, then sell it for up to $500. Damn. Check out his merch and services here.

Susanna Hesselberg’s sculpture When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down was inspired by a line from Laurie Anderson’s song World Without End. (Photos by Clyde Yee and Claire Voon.)

A look at some of the natural landscapes made by YouTuber koooolalala using Unreal Engine 4. At this point Memorex should just let Epic Games use their slogan. Check out kooolalala’s YouTube and Flickr pages for more.

Swimming Design promoted Terada Mokei’s 1:100 architectural figures by using the paper models to recreate the world famous Shibuya Crossing, i.e. the jam-packed intersection news channels often show when talking about Tokyo.

Long-exposure photography can produce some amazing results – but you need to have a plan if you want your pictures to turn out well. Here, photographer Darren Pearson shows us how to create a skeleton made entirely of light.

Tooli is a compact but scalable CNC machine that works with four heads: a plotter for drawing and cutting, an airbrush for painting, a laser for engraving and cutting and a liquid dispenser that doubles as a pick-and-place tool.

The Met takes us inside the painstaking, 10-month process of restoring a massive oil painting from 1660, first removing old varnish, then repairing its structure and canvas, restretching the canvas, touching up paint, and revarnishing it.

We best enjoy movies that meld reality, practical effects, and limited CGI. Too much CGI feels consequence-free to us. Here, Story Brain explains “The WETA Effect,” which kicked off an era of unreal and unrelatable action sequences.

“You speak to know pain that you only fathom because we told you it was there.” Darius Simpson and Scout Bostley perform a spoken word poem about outsiders who claim to know the plights of their race and gender.

A compact 3D printing pen that lets you draw objects in three dimensions. It heats super hot so it can handle a wide variety of materials, and can even solder. Down the road, it will get add-on tips for woodburning, foam cutting and more.

Inspired by the futuristic designs of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Yard Sale Project’s modern curio cabinet transforms from a monolith into a series of 12, 16 or 20 cubbyholes when opened, and can also spin so it can be used in a corner.

Thor ter Kulve and Rob McIntyre’s CanopyStair is a set of modular steps that form a spiral staircase around a tree, complete with a handrail. It can be attached without any tools and without damaging or marking the tree.

Illustrator Marco D’Alfonso pokes fun at the horrible Batman & Robin and its nippled suits by mashing it up with Rolling Stone‘s infamous Janet Jackson magazine cover. The poster measures 11″x 14.5″ and has a 0.25″ border for framing.

Divergent Microfactories’ proof-of-concept car for its chassis assembly. Paired with carbon fiber tubes, DM’s lightweight and modular 3D printed aluminum nodes could lead to more affordable and environment-friendly car factories.

Formlabs made a Rube Goldberg machine using its new Tough Resin. Compatible with the Form 1 and Form 1+ 3D printers, Tough Resin is durable, rugged and flexible, making it ideal for high-impact and high-stress use.

Lexus claims it has developed an honest-to-goodness hoverboard. The Slide is equipped with a liquid nitrogen reserve and magnets to attain frictionless movement. Don’t play with our hearts Lexus. Let this be legit.

Two sapphire wafers that protect photos and text from scratches, fire, water and more. Data is shrunk 30,000 times and then laser-engraved between the wafers. You can use a magnifying glass, a microscope or a camera to zoom in.

An incredibly accurate cosplay of Batman’s armor from Arkham Origins made by Julian Chekley and his crew at Order 66. Julian’s Darth Malgus is equally awesome. Photos by Kamil Krawczak. Video here.

Photographer and cinematographer Beno Saradzic made this haunting short film out of several time-lapse sequences shot separately over several months at the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Street artist Super A made these large pigeon murals in Netherlands. The one on the side of a building is about 105ft. high. The birds have a threatening and inquisitive expression, as if asking you why you’re in their ‘hood.

Up Dog’s Odin looks like more like a sculpture than a chew toy. Stuff treats inside to keep Fido occupied, or link multiples together for more fun. Readers save 10% with discount code THEAWESOMER10 (exp. 8/30/15)

Believe it or not, this image is made of virtual blocks. Minecraft streamer Thorlar spent 23 and a half weeks manually laying 1,128,960 blocks to create this replica of a Blizzard wallpaper.

In animator Svilen Dimitrov’s short film, we start out at the end of a man’s life, but we are transported through the events that led up to his demise, as his day plays out in reverse order. We wish we could play it backwards now.