Awesome Art & Design

YouTuber t.p. took animator Guy Collins‘ amazing Kaizo Trap video, and reworked it with a fresh electronica soundtrack that fits perfectly with the protagonist’s challenging journey into a platform video game world. Even if you’ve seen the original already, it’s worth a rewatch.

Kano’s Computing Kit Touch teaches kids and electronics beginners about the parts of a computer and the basics of programming by building a touchscreen PC from scratch. It’s based on the Raspberry Pi 3 and comes with over 100 challenges and stories.

Dolla dolla bill y’all. Visualize your financial gains or goals with Ikonick’s optical illusion print. The Rubberband Racks depicts a thick bundle of hundred dollar bills held together by a rubber band. Get it with the black frame for a neat floating effect.

A look at Universal Everything’s latest interactive visual experiment, in which you control a character standing in the midst of thousands, each of whom reacts to your movements while you remain an individual. We’re dying to try a real-time version of this.

LEGO Ideas member The Humble Bricksmith proposes to turn the popular board game The Settlers of Catan into a set made purely of LEGO pieces. Even the dice and cards have been turned into LEGO. At only 2,717 pieces, the game still fits in a small box.

While fillmakers Robin Pogorzelski and Simon Bourrat were in Nepal working on the documentary Everest Green, they shot this short film, which is packed with beautifully lit and composed vignettes, each of which could be a still photograph hanging on a gallery wall.

Add a little thrill to any wall with a T Rex trophy head from White Faux Taxidermy. Each one is cast from resin and polyresin, and finished with colorful and glossy lacquers. Measures 14″ h x 15.75″ d x 7.5″ w, and weighs about 7 lb. Check their Etsy shop for a full menagerie.

Two Minute Papers presents a look at an amazing bit of image enhancement tech from Nvidia, Aalto University, and MIT which uses machine learning algorithms to identify noise in an image, and dramatically reduce it, recovering details that were thought to be lost.

Because of their relatively slow speed, time-lapse videos are the best way to showcase 3D printer builds. Make Anything shows off a neat technique that perfectly synchronizes each layer printed with a still camera’s shutter, resulting in a really slick and smooth visual effect.

(Flashing lights) Burning Man is known for its gigantic sculptures and art installations, and it seems like this year’s festival did not disappoint in the least. Mark Day shares this hyperlapse he made of what was up at this year’s Black Rock City.

Illustrator Theduc created a series of line art t-shirt designs which imagine what the concept sketches for famous characters and objects might have looked like, from R2-D2 to the TARDIS to Monty Python’s Trojan Rabbit.

To commemorate the passing of time, Japanese artist Tanaka Tatsuya creates a tiny diorama every day from household objects like paper and food and figurines. He’s been carefully crafting his ongoing (and mighty) miniature calendar project since April 2011.

Time-lapse footage captured from the Swiss Tech Convention Center, which has installed a complex network of spiral lifts which can reconfigure the number, arrangement, and height of 2,300 of its seats with the push of a button. Engineered by Gala Systems.

Design collective onformative shows off a nifty mechanical sculpture they created, which uses a series of spinning black metal tubes which allow light from an array of fluorescent bulbs to pass through. The result is a binary pixel display with an alluring soundtrack. More here.

Improve your productivity by breaking your day into small chunks of activities with Best Self Co.’s Tempo. It’s the world’s first adjustable hourglass. You can set it to count down to 5, 15, or 25 minutes. It also has an instant reset so you can start over quickly.

“Why fly when you can be driven?” That is the driving question behind Volvo’s electric and autonomous concept car. The 360c is meant as an alternative to short plane trips, letting you work, relax, and even sleep in a spacious cabin while the car drives itself.

Nanoleaf’s new Canvas are modular light panels that are square and can be arranged in an offset manner instead of just a grid. They can be set to change patterns or colors with a touch or a swipe. They will be available soon for $300 for a pack of nine.

Ripping apart old batteries can be dangerous, but that didn’t stop shurap from tearing into a bunch of them in search of usable metal. He then fused the bits together with some steel blades, and crafted a sweet damascus knife with a handle made from a MagLite.

The latest dastardly color puzzle from masochist Clemens Habicht is designed to mock would-be solvers by changing colors. Each piece has a lenticular lens, which makes it shimmer between colors depending on viewing angle and lighting conditions.

Illustrator Nick Cocozza envisions a happier world in which mortal enemies put their differences aside and hug it out. These cheeky prints are available in limited, numbered editions of 50 each, in 8″ x 11″, 12″ x 16″, and 16″ x 24″ sizes. Save 10% with code HAPPY2.

This compact Bluetooth speaker screws onto the top of an empty plastic soda bottle, turning it into an acoustic enclosure, and increasing its bass response and volume up to three times. Permafrost’s speaker recently had a successful run on Kickstarter and should be available soon.

Artist Anna Zhilyaeva has perfected the use of Google’s Tilt Brush VR application. Watch as she creates a 3D interpretation of Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People while performing live at The Louvre in Paris. See more amazing VR art on her YouTube channel

Cath of The Square to Spare shows off a fun little project for guitar players and anyone who appreciates a good musical instrument. In the first clip, she shows us how to make tiny electric guitars using popsicle clips, and in the second, she crafts a mini acoustic.