Awesome Art & Design

Tired of dealing with dirty upholstery, Sitskie came up with its patented block furniture system. Small strips of wood joined together by elastic create a seating surface that’s comfortable and easy to clean. It’ll leave your bank account spotless too.

Wilfried Grootens’ mesmerizing cubes are made of painted glass slides laminated together. The resulting hybrid of painting and sculpture invites you to check it out from different angles. Videos by Norbert Heyl.

It almost seems like Mazda is doing its fans a disservice by dangling these cool 2016 MX-5 Miata concepts in front of our faces. The Spyder is an homage to classic roadsters, while the Speedster is a pure sports car, weighing just 2080 lb.

In this beautifully illustrated graduation short from students of Moscow’s Vgik Film School, a young prince heads out of his palace, excited for his first hunt, but is lead on a mystical journey in which he comes to realize the precious value of every life.

Musician and sculptor Andy Thurlow has created not just one or two, but dozens of unique musical instruments, each of which makes strange and unusual sounds. He says he built them because he was tired of everything else sounding the same.

Staged back in 12/2014, Illumi’Nantes was an projection mapped display shown on the facade of France’s world famous Nantes Cathedral. It featured intricate, animated versions of artist Alain Thomas’ Nativity paintings. More here.

A master glass blower in Italy shows how to take a blob of molten glass and transform it into a detailed sculpture in seconds, massaging the searing hot material into a prancing horse with tongs and scissors. Skip to 1:00.

Artist Heather Rooney shows off her incredible talent for drawing photorealistic portraits using Caran d’Ache Luminance colored pencils. Her work is so good that some of her subjects look better than they do in real life. Check out her YouTube channel for more.

Footage of a relatively simple, yet ingenious 4-axis industrial milling machine that can cut, engrave and shape up multiple objects simultaneously. These sort of machines are most often used to make decorative woodwork, furniture legs, or small sculptures.

Try out tattoo designs before getting real ink done. Send Momentary Ink an image of your design and they’ll send back a temporary tattoo kit that looks just like a real tattoo when applied. It lasts up to a week and can also be rubbed off with oil.

Street art group Indecline broke into a military testing site in California and spent five days creating what they claim is the world’s largest illegal graffiti piece: a 3,100ft. long painting based on Woody Guthrie’s folk song.

Filmmaker WhoIsPablo has outdone himself with his latest video, which breathes life into the posters from popular motion pictures by replacing the still images with the actual moving images from the films which served as their inspiration.

Oskar & Gaspar show us the least painful way to get a full body tattoo, by projection mapping intricate designs onto the bodies of models who already had some real ink. The animations truly bring the tattoos to life, though some of them kind of creeped us out.

“I think there’s an artist hidden in the bottom of every single one of us, and here we will try to show you how to bring that artist out.” The Bob Ross company now has full episodes of The Joy of Painting on its YouTube channel. Learn, relax and be inspired by some happy little trees.

PROJECTiONE’s awesome interactive sculpture was the result of creating over 20,000 extruded polyethylene foam rods, better known to most of us as “pool noodles” and arranging them on raised wood decks to create an otherworldly landscape in the middle of Muncie, Indiana.

(PG-13) Perhaps the most incredible work of body painting we’ve ever seen, this masterpiece by artist Johannes Stötter is actually comprised of two people lying on top of one another. His five-person tree frog is pretty incredible too. More here.

Volvo gives us a glimpse of its future haulers, which will act much like our mobile devices. These trucks can automatically download updates in real time, change their internal specs to suit the job or the driver, schedule trips to the mechanic and more.

An eye-popping short film shot for Philips Ambilight TVs which follows mountain bikers Matt Hunter, Matty Miles and Graham Agassiz through spectacular and eerie nighttime landscapes. It’s the perfect storm of action, cinematography and lighting design.

Los Angeles’ pop art Gallery1988 offers up a collection which pays tribute to the greatest sitcom of all time, Seinfeld. The exhibit kicked off on 10/17, and you can find many of the works for sale on their website. Sadly, Cuyler Smith’s George Costanza trading cards are sold out.

(PG-13) Ogilvy Beijing worked with The Center for Psychological Research, Shenyang to raise awareness on the effects of verbal abuse. The campaign’s centerpieces were sculptures of abusive phrases that could be rearranged to form weapons.

A group of Stanford mechanical engineers modded a 1981 DMC-12 to study autonomous driving systems that can adjust to extreme situations, particularly ones that require counter intuitive driving. So far they’ve taught their electric DeLorean to drift donuts on its own.

You could hide all your spare rolls of toilet paper under the cabinet, or you could turn them into a work of cheeky wall art, courtesy of designer Bertrand Jayr’s concrete shelf, which transforms your TP into a fluffy white cloud. Even better with sky blue walls.

Walking with her distracted father, a young girl notices wildflowers growing all over the city. She collects and shares them with others along the way. This wordless illustrated book may be aimed at kids, but its reminder applies to everyone in this age of multitasking.