Awesome Art & Design

Kokuyo’s Beetle Tip highlighter pen gets its name from its horned tip, which lets you highlight in bold, sharp or with two lines to keep the marked part unobscured. Kokuyo also has a dual-color variant.

Seeker Stories takes us inside Minister’s Treehouse, a treetop home that measures in at 97 feet-tall, has some 80 rooms, and is supported by six trees. Sadly, it was shut down to the public for being a fire hazard – for obvious reasons.

Mondo has a timed sale for three awesome screen prints based on Mad Max: Fury Road. The 13″x 16″ portraits of Max and Immortan Joe are by Mike Mitchell. The 36″x 24″ poster is by Ken Taylor. Until 8/13 only.

Located at Macy’s Center City in Philadelphia, the Wanamaker Organ is the world’s largest musical instrument. It took two years to install all of its parts throughout the building. Since then nearly 20,000 parts have been added to it.

YouTuber Denis Beyser compiled some of the most eye-catching wristwatch movements and displays from MB&F, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Ressence and other makers of complex watches. They’re more conversation pieces than timepieces.

MC Squares are modular whiteboards which can be arranged into just about any shape or size, and can be carried individually so you can jot down ideas on the go, then bring them back to the office. Cork and Chalkboard tops also available.

The Beach Bot is a unique robot created by Disney Research and students from ETH Zürich. Its single purpose is to draw huge images in the sand. Here, it pays tribute to the man who made everything at Disney possible in the first place.

Director Patrick Weldon of Figurehead Media House created this stunning motion time-lapse, that starts with simple images of farmland, but gradually escalates into an ocular feast of night skies, cityscapes, and awe-inspiring locales.

Baptiste Debombourg – the man behind the staple murals – created Stellar, a roller coaster-like installation made of 1200 café chairs in France’s Place Du Bouffay. It’s a riff on the surrounding coffee shops and restaurants.

Etsy store 3D Printing Egg used Jeff Kerr’s designs to 3D print light switch plates that look like the antique lever switches that mad scientists often use in pop fiction. Available in six colors and as single or double switches.

RocketJump Film School has a great counterpoint to the video about how CGI is ruining movies. The fact is, many movies and shows use CGI. If you think a particular example is bad, don’t blame the tool, blame the one who wields it.

Dancing Strawhats is a trio of masked street dancers who love to incorporate Asian culture into their performances. This video was filmed in Kyoto with choreographer Koharu Sugawara and other Japanese dancers.

This promo spot for Australia’s Holden Astra by GMUNK and The Creators Project used a combination of illuminated quadcopters and a car outfitted with extra lights to create some cool abstract long-exposure light paintings.

Milk Run Co.’s unique drink coasters are made from recycled plywood playing fields from old, defunct pinball machines. They come from a variety of machines circa 1955 to 1979. Sold in sets of four with a metal stand.

Fred & Friends’ tiny little water tower for your plants not only looks cool, it works to gradually dispense H2O into the soil, keeping them moist without overwatering. Made from frosted glass with a steel frame. Wonder if you can graffiti it.

An animation challenge to create clips using just 99 frames. Many of the videos show tremendous creativity and artistry given the extreme limitations. We’ve posted some of our faves, and you can view the numerous submissions here.

(Flashing lights) A pulsating RGB army chases teenagers in a forest made of spheres in this trippy, eye-popping music video for Green, a single by French electronic artist Azel Phara. Created by Bif and Mill+.

LEGO Ideas member Matthew Inman honors his first car, the BJ42 Land Cruiser, by proposing a LEGO set based on the off-roader. His prototype’s windshield frame is a tad too thick on the sides, but otherwise it’s a great build.

Tel Aviv-based artist Ariel Zuckerman uses paper origami techniques to create his striking lighting series; he stretches, folds and twists two dimensional sheets for the unexpected result, which looks great whether illuminated or not.

Urban artist Owen Dippie decked out a wall in Brooklyn with the four Renaissance artists – Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo and Donatello – wearing their respective Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle namesakes’ masks. Photos by Jaime Rojo.

Artist Elliot Schultz created a variety of machine-embroidered discs, each of which is covered with numerous still frames which create animations when spun on a record player under a strobe light. It’s music for the eyes.

Workers can take advantage of these mobile workspaces outside of Amsterdam, which use converted old trailers to create impromptu offices in the Dutch countryside, complete with Wi-Fi, coffee makers and compost toilets.

Yoo Hyun makes detailed portraits and illustrations on paper without using any kind of pigment. Instead, he makes alternating columns of diagonal cuts of varying widths on paper. More on his Instagram and Facebook page.