Awesome Art & Design

Fake posters poking fun at the Coachella lineup have been a thing for 10+ years. But this might be the best one yet, as Botnik used machine learning to come up with the names of the acts for the Southern Cali music festival. We’re so excited to see Smushy Twin touring again.

Artist and LEGO fanatic Mike Marrocco of Funk Blast Art created this amazing model, which does away with the drab shades of grey and replaces them with oranges, blues, yellows, greens, purples, and more. This needs to be an official LEGO kit.

For decades, artists had to rely on clunky old lightboxes if they wanted to trace a subject. We recently discovered modern lightboxes, which are thin and portable. They use bright white LED illumination and USB power. There’s a good variety of styles and sizes over on Amazon.

Revolve splits the tire into segments, which are then mounted on a hexagonal frame. The frame lets you collapse the wheel into a pod that’s 60% smaller than normal. Inventor Andrea Mocellin hopes it will lead to transforming and compact transportation devices.

Artist The Poncho Pilgrim used the low frame rates and coarse edges of 16-bit style graphics to put together a beautiful short film that really creates a sense of place despite the technical limitations. Check out his YouTube channel for more of his art and animation.

There are dozens of Star Wars coffee table books, but The New York Times’ In a Galaxy, Far, Far, Away still stands out. It compiles the publication’s notable Star Wars articles going way back to 1973. It comes with a magnifying glass bookmark.

Sculptor and builder of things Bobby Duke decided to do something that serves no purpose but to prove that it could be done, as he bought a pack of pencils, then carved a tiny pencil from it’s wood, and then an even tinier pencil from the lead of the tiny pencil.

The linear windows of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic structures are the perfect subject for Marc Hagan-Guirey’s book, which comes with 14 cut-and-fold models based on buildings from the Frederick C. Robie House to Taliesin West and the Johnson Wax building.

While roses are a great way to show you care this Valentine’s Day, they only last a few days, then wither and die. On the other hand, MetalRelic’s handcrafted steel roses will last a lifetime, and look badass doing it. Sold in singles, multiples, or dozens.

An engrossing time-lapse short showing artist Steeven Salvat as he creates an intricate pen and ink illustration, a drawing of a mechanical-biological hybrid crustacean. Check out the completed image and others from the series on his Behance page.

Pop artist Butcher Billy’s latest work is a series of vintage comic book covers based on the fourth season of Black Mirror. Each episode gets one cover, plus two bonus covers for the last episode. You can get them as posters, tees and more on Redbubble.

Honda commissioned Thailand-based motorcycle shop K-Speed to customize the 2018 Honda Super Cub for the retro motorcycle’s launch. The shop’s Super Power Cub is modern and beefy yet retains a vintage charm by leaving the lower fairing. More on Bike EXIF.

A must-own print for any fan of motorsports. DNBK. cataloged and digested down 69 iconic race liveries into a bold, colorful, and dynamic piece of wall art. Measures 18″ x 24″ for easy framing, and printed on acid-free archival stock. (Thanks Chris!)

AstroReality offers a set of colorful 3D printed models of the Solar System’s planets – plus Pluto. Each sphere measures about 1.2″ in diameter. Get AstroReality’s augmented reality app and to view add-on effects like Saturn’s rings or the Earth’s atmosphere.

Watch as sculptor LoreCraft transforms a hunk of styrofoam, clay, mesh, and paints into a detailed bust of the nightmare-inducing demogorgon from Stranger Things. Those teeth still get us every time. Oh, and watch the volume on your speakers at 5:00.

Director Taehoon Park’s abstract sci-fi short film is a visually stunning animation about a corporation who develops a technology which sends dying people on a wild journey through their dreams and memories during their last rest before The Big Sleep.

(Spoilers) A look at some of the visual effects used in Guillermo Del Toro’s wonderful film, and how VFX artists used green screen, CGI, and other techniques to not only create the amphibian man, but to magically transport viewers in place and time.

Japanese paper goods company Triad presents a wonderful series of notepads which are sliced in such a way that they reveal intricate sculptures of locations and objects as each layer is peeled away. They’re currently sold out, but it sounds like they’ve got more in the works.

Jason of JK Brickworks shows off another slick mechanical LEGO build – a canoe being paddled by a pair of brick-built French-Canadian fur traders. Like his other models, it can be hand-cranked or run with a LEGO Power Functions motor. More build details here.

Vallée Duhamel’s surreal short film uses a mix of visual techniques to place multiple characters in the same space, yet living on different planes of existence, such that none of them is aware of the others. Inspired by the Oscar-winning short Tango by Zbigniew Rybszynski.

Arvind Sanjeev’s Lumen is a portable augmented reality system in the form of a flashlight. The idea is for it to automatically recognize objects and enhance their function, provide information, display video or animation and more.

Part of how CGI has gotten so much better in recent years is the development of systems for specific types of physical realism. Here Soeren Pirk demonstrates an amazing system designed for simulating the motion of tree branches, and the way wood burns when set on fire.

It took Guldies nearly 5000 individual photos (though they used just about half of those) to put together this wonderful stop-motion short film in which a giant human hand hand prepares for a peaceful day of fishing by his cabin.