Awesome Art & Design

Ampoids creates these very special tube amplifiers which pay tribute to vintage TW-style guitar amps. We absolutely love the flame maple cabinetry on this 33-watt amp, which is best enjoyed when paired with a Celestion loaded speaker cab.

Give your keyboard an upgrade with these walnut wood keycaps from MechanicalleeKBs. They work with Cherry MX compatible keys, and are sold in sets of 4, so this could get expensive. We wish they sold a complete set with modifier keys and spacebar too.

Japanese artist @thumb_tani uses his skills to create fascinating – and sometimes impossible seeming – non-permanent structures by delicately stacking and interlocking coins and other small objects. You can watch the coinmaster at work on video here.

We won’t let the irritating audio take away from Mitchell F. Chan’s Something Something National Conversation (In 2 Characters or Less), which features one of the most satisfying elements we’ve seen in an art installation – two puffy white clouds colliding endlessly in mid-air.

Even if its story is a bit enigmatic, we love the look of Luke Saunders‘ colorful animated short film about a future in which sea creatures seem to have evolved into some sort of flying species who thrive off of electricity. It also turned us on to the cool new sci-fi channel DUST.

Inspired by Powers of Ten and a derivative scene in A Cosmic Voyage, this 3.14″, 1.8lb glass sphere contains a tiny scale model of Laniakea, a supercluster of galaxies that includes our very own Milky Way. The model consists of 380,000 laser-etched dots.

Recards makes unique greeting cards which include a vinyl record and a platform, spindle, and stylus you pop out and fold together to actually play the record. It’s a bit involved to assemble, and the audio sounds awful, but it’s still a cool conversation piece.

The latest version of Evil Mad Scientist Labs‘ versatile pen plotter can write on most flat surfaces, using a writing instrument of your choice to create intricate, precise, and repeatable drawings and handwriting. It runs at up to 2x the speed of the old model.

Lexus and Vevo collaborated to build this awesome version of its IS sports sedan, wrapped in 41,999 colorful LEDs. It can display images and animations, and can respond to gestures or music. It appears in the music video for Be the One from UK musician Dua Lipa.

Using a pair of record players, a stick of wood, a binder clip, a fine point pen, and some tape, you can make a machine that traces the movements of one turntable’s arm, to make abstract art on the other’s platter. You can make something even cooler with a little extra effort.

Made By Skateboarding shows us the process of taking old skateboard decks, slicing, relaminating, and reworking the wood to transform them into new objects. In this case, we get a cool pocket knife we’d be proud to own. You can buy their knives here.

Originally available only in Italy, you can now get your hands on these cool Pantone color ornaments from Amazon. The two-toned glass spheres are sold individually so you can mix and match your favorite hues.

Nervous System’s laser-cut birch plywood jigsaw puzzle has “no fixed shape, no starting point, and no edges.” This design allows for thousands of different shapes to be created from the same pieces. This special edition has 133pcs., including some space-themed ones.

Adobe Principal Scientist Paul Asente shows off an early preview of a tool which can take any style you can roughly sketch onto a sphere, and apply it to another 3D model, allowing styles to be magically transferred from object to object. Windows users can download a demo here.

For Hero Complex Gallery’s Sci-Scapes exhibit, illustrators Josan Gonzalez and Laurie Greasley made The Raid, a massive cyberpunk artwork filled with famous science fiction and fantasy characters, including Judge Dredd, Ellen Ripley, Tetsuo and Major Kusanagi.

Designer Kevin Finn’s equine playing cards feature abstract line-art images of horses, with jockeys as the jokers. The images shown here are just design prototypes. The finished cards will be printed by the United States Playing Card Company, with gold metallic details.

Paul Myers designed this replacement interior door knob which can only be opened by dropping a marble into its top. It’s made from 3D printed PLA, Airsoft and skate bearings. You can pick one up in his Etsy shop, Beta Things. We dig his business card embosser too.

Studio Smack created this weird and wonderful animated re-imagining of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden Of Earthly Delights. Watch in 4K, full-screen to see all of the detail – or head to MOTI to see the full-size installation. See if you can spot Spongebob.

While you might think those goofy dancing inflatable guys you see at car dealerships were the brainchild of some advertising genius, they actually got their start as moving sculptures during an Olympic opening ceremony 20 years ago. Great Big Story shares the details.

Possibly the strangest drawbridge design we’ve ever seen, the Heatherwick pedestrian bridge in London, England curls itself upwards like a pill bug instead of the traditional lift mechanisms. While it’s not exactly necessary, it’s an impressive feat of engineering.

Inspired by the Tenere XT600Z enduro motorcycle, the T7 concept is a long-range off-roader with a lightweight midsize chassis, an aluminum tank, carbon fiber fairing and skidplate and 4-projector LED headlights.

Minifigs with attitude. LEGO Ideas member bruceywan presents this spot-on concept for a Mighty Morphin Power Rangers LEGO set. It comes with all seven Rangers, each with a removable helmet, Zordon, Alpha 5 and the Command Center.

No Brain, No Gain. ToyQube’s limited edition 9″ vinyl figure was designed by pop artist Ron English. The red version is limited to 300 pieces while the black and gold is limited to 80 pieces. You can also order the red one straight from Ron to get an autographed piece.