Awesome Art & Design

Each and every Satellite phone case is one of a kind. Its makers at Carved create them by pouring colored resins over hunks of burled wood that they then slice thin. The resulting designs are beautiful, organic, and unlike any other phone case.

Designer and fabricator Chaz Capobianco shows off a cool creation, a large, flat spiral cut from a sheet of aluminum, which produces mesmerizing patterns as its center is moved about. It’s sort of like giant, flattened Slinky, and so much cooler than a fidget spinner.

Metalsmith Shurap walks us through the process of laminating layers of stainless steel screen into a sweet damascus knife, layering the steel and pressing it repeatedly to create its swirled patterns, then anodizing it to bring out the blue tones.

PlaySomeToys follows up on the adorable ClassicBot Classic (aka the Macinbot Classic) with a collectible toy inspired by the original iMac G3. Unlike Jony Ive’s original, this version has detachable arms and legs, and eyeballs on its CRT. In Bondi Blue or Tangerine Orange.

2001: A Space Odyssey gave us one of the longest spaceships in the history of science fiction. Now, thanks to Japanese toymaker Kayiodo, you can own an intricate 1/10th-scale replica of the 54-foot-long model that was used in the production of Kubrick’s masterpiece.

Do-it-all craftstman The Q shows us how he made a huge machine gun using mainly cardboard, wood, and lots of glue. It has an electronic mechanism that lets it fire long paper bullets, as well as a swappable cartridge.

The stop-motion music video for Said the Whale’s pop track features a meticulously planned and edited sequence of 2250 still photos which were sequenced to create the illusion of motion within the frame. It took a team of 6 over 80 hours to put together the clip.

ilsangisang’s clever lamp features a design that makes it look like it’s always turned on. It sits at the intersection of your desk and a wall, providing a mock beam of light that doubles as a display for small objects. It also really does light up. Measures about 15.5″ tall.

Gift Wrap My Face lets you add an extra touch to your gifts by making personalized gift wraps. Choose from its many gift wrap designs then upload a picture to add to the template. Despite the service’s name, the pic you add doesn’t have to be of your face!

Modustrial Maker teamed up with fellow builder Jonny Builds to transform a huge honkin’ wooden timber beam and sheets of steel into a sculptural ambient floor lamp, loaded up with LED strips that display patterns in reaction to music. We want one of these in our office.

When you visit casinos, it’s pretty easy to take all the grandeur for granted, but a lot of craftsmanship goes into everything you see on the gaming floor, such as the precisely balanced roulette wheels made by SET-Production shown in this brief factory video.

Like Ant-Man with a paintbrush, artist John Brosio likes to play with proportions in his works, incorporating larger-than-life versions of animals and everyday objects juxtaposed with realistic images of suburbia. You can find limited edition prints of his works here.

This wood-grained journal may or may not inspire you to finish The Great American Novel, but it certainly will look cool sitting there as a paperweight, and if nothing else, you can spend time doodling or meticulously laying out your own lines on its 300 blank pages.

Someday your entire wall or floor can be a source of light. European scientists are working on a modular tile called Lumentile that looks like an ordinary ceramic but is actually touch-sensitive and has RGB LEDs. Multiple tiles can even be turned into a video display.

Ansty Labs’ Pixl is a unique and fun take on building block toys. Instead of pieces with grooves or studs, each Pixl block has a magnet inside that automatically rotates so that it will always stick with another Pixl block. Pixls comes in four sizes and 52 colors.

Kurzgesagt celebrates the continued progress of the human era with the 12,019 calendar. It counts from the time that humans began building massive structures. Each month comes with an artwork depicting early human cultures and craftsmanship.

It may take less than seconds to get through the main sequence in Darren and Jordan Pearson’s light painting video, but it took significantly more time, effort, and planning to draw each of its 300 long-exposure frames by moving colored lights by hand.

YouTuber Jisaku kōbō recently showed us how to upgrade cheap speakers with custom wood enclosures. He’s back to show how a pair of glass fish bowls can work with off-the-shelf speaker drivers. Every time he drilled into the glass, we cringed a little.

SuckUK’s four-color pen comes loaded with cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks, so you can draw images in full color with a single pen by crosshatching. While it doesn’t let you adjust saturation levels, it’s still a nifty tool for sketching and belongs in every artist’s toolbox.

Evan Snider walks us through the process of crafting a completely handmade chainmail shirt, painstakingly assembled from thousands of copper rings, individually opened, then linked over the course of 66 hours. The finished shirt weighs in at about 25 pounds.

What you’re looking at is mathematician Kokichi Sugihara’s “Triply Ambiguous Object, ” a seemingly three-dimensional object that messes with minds by providing three completely different interpretations depending on the angle you view it from.

Taking a decidedly different approach from Shmoxd, I Like to Make Stuff made a fake neon sign by making silicone mold from a 3D print, then casting the shape from epoxy, and running electroluminescent wiring through it.

Italian furniture maker Ozzio shows off a the Metrino, a modern wood and metal coffee table which offers a hinged lid that smoothly transforms into a desk, thanks to its hydraulic lift mechanism. As a bonus, it offers storage space beneath its lid.