Awesome Art & Design

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.

Despite providing virtually no real security for your possessions, the UGEARS plywood safe construction kit is still super cool. You’ll spend 6 to 7 hours assembling this intricate 179-piece punch-out model, which has a working combination lock when finished.

Etsy shop Thumbs Design makes high quality bootleg pins, stickers and other merchandise that combine The Simpsons with other popular movies and TV shows. Its newest offerings depict Bart and company as Pokémon. Ralph as Psyduck is all we need.

Thailand sculptor Mari9art’s incredible build is made from recycled car parts and scrap steel. It measures 2.2m tall (~7.2 ft), and includes free door-to-port shipping, though getting it to your house might be a challenge from there. His lifesize T-Rex is even more mindblowing.

To celebrate the fall harvest in Japan, a group of more than 100 volunteers worked tirelessly to build this awesome straw sculpture of Godzilla. It measures 7m (~23 ft.) tall, with a 10m (~33ft) long tail, a light-up head and tail, and looks like its ready to stomp these kids. (Images: Jcast)

This prop chandelier measures about 6′ in diameter, yet weighs just 12.5 lb thanks to its zip-tie-together PVC construction. Comes with a dozen LED flicker candles. If you’re feeling crafty, you could build your own based on designer David Andora’s Instructables version.

The latest Figma action figure in Max Factory’s Table Museum series is the first to be based on a painting. It’s none other than the tormented figure from Edvard Munch’s The Scream. It’s articulated but keeps the proportion of the character. We need its poses as emoji.

Designed by pastry queen Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome, these stencils make it easy for anyone to create awesomely geeky pies. Designs include C’thulhu, a fire-breathing dragon, a prancing unicorn, and a kittens with deadly weapons, among others.

Dinara Kasko combines her training as an architect and as a chef to create cakes with eye-catching geometric shapes and lines. She designs her own silicone molds and makes them on a 3D printer. Siliko Mart will soon mass produce and sell her molds.

Luthier Linda Manzer shows off one of the most amazing stringed instruments we’ve ever seen – a multi-necked guitar with a whopping 52 strings that she built for musician Henrik Andersen, based roughly on a hilarious cartoon he provided. Hear Henrik play it at 3:06.

Real Engineering explores the architecture and technology which have allowed for the construction of such mega skyscrapers as the 2716 foot-tall Burj Khalifa and the 1761 foot-tall Taipei 101, and how they resist massive forces from wind vortexes.

Carpenter Frank Howarth’s latest creation is designed for fighting off walkers, ready to bash in their skulls with even greater effectiveness than Negan’s dirty girl, Lucille. Plus, Frank’s turned, patterned bat is simply beautiful when it’s not covered in blood and guts.

Over the last few years, product designer Gianluca Gimini has asked friends and acquaintances to sketch what they thought a bicycle looked like from memory. He would later go on to build these awesomely offbeat, yet realistic 3D renderings of the bikes.

Each of these adjustable desktop lamps is handcrafted from one or more beautiful woods by the Colorado Springs’ artists of FishRule Studios. It’s hard to pic just one, but the organic textures of the beetle-killed pine make it our favorite.

Poligon’s etched metal calendars not only look cool, but offer a satisfying feature – the ability to punch out each day as it passes. Choose from a foldable triangular design or a flat version with hidden magnets for fridge mounting.

It might look like a giant egg on wheels, but Aerovelo’s highly aerodynamic, high tech, lightweight recumbent bicycle allows its rider to achieve insane speeds as high as 89.59 mph, the fastest speed ever recorded by a human-powered vehicle.

The perfect conversation piece for fans of the dopey but lovable Brit. This awesome coffee table from Bohemian Workbench is based on Karl’s pudgy noggin from The Ricky Gervais Show. The 34″ tabletop is made from birch with walnut accents, and comes with a glass top.

The Sandy Eggo CNC shop created this brilliant looking chair from birch plywood. The back and seat are made from a single sheet of wood, and offers greater comfort than traditional flat surfaced chairs. It snaps together by hand, using no screws or nails.

Steve Cutts‘ black and white animated video for Moby and The Void Pacific Choir’s track pays homage to the 1920s & 1930s style of Max & Dave Fleischer, while at the same time commenting on the woes of modern urban life and technological obsession.

Yes, we know it’s illegal to deface U.S. currency, but artist Matt “Ginozko” Anderson’s transformation of Abraham Lincoln into Bill Murray on a Fiver is too good to pass up. Seriously though, The Murricane should be on at least one of our bills, dontcha think?

Up until now, most projection mapping has been done on fixed or predictably moving surfaces. This incredible tech from Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory can project onto moving objects like paper or fabric, adjusting images up to 1,000 times per second.

AberuizDesign creates 3d printed sets of chess pieces and matching wooden boards based on American cities. Choose from Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Seattle, San Diego or San Francisco. You’ll need to buy both black and white sides separately, so they’re quite spendy.

MB&F and Caran D’Ache teamed up to create this incredible limited-edition writing instrument, which looks like a tiny rocketship. It has retractable landing gear, and comes with a tiny magnetic astronaut and a display/storage box that looks like a launch pad.