Awesome Art & Design

NOEM made the Spaceship Home for a customer who wanted to enjoy the great view of their lot in Madrid, Spain. Aside from its Space Age exterior, the first thing you see when you open its front door is its retro sci-fi home automation controls.

Tongal calls themselves “the world’s first studio on-demand.” Their platform connects creative experts with brands who need projects done, resulting in some amazing collaborations, like this LEGO Ninja Warrior animation by Sam Lawlace.

Dan Perkins aka Tom Tomorrow is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his postmodern political satire comic strip This Modern World by compiling every TMW strip from 1990 until this year (plus bonus art) in a two-volume set.

LEGO Ideas member Firas Abu-Jaber built this prototype for his official Veneno Roadster kit proposal. Sure it’ll look better with custom parts, but the fact that he pulled this off with stock pieces is amazing.

Inspired by a young Nike fan with cerebral palsy, the Flyease is a wrap-around zipper around the heel that lets you wear shoes using one hand. The first model with Flyease, the LeBron 8 Soldier Flyease, drops 7/16/15 on Nike.com.

With the increasingly digital world of image creation, Sean Adams of Lynda.com revisits just what it took to create layouts before tools like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Quark Express existed. Who remembers Letraset rub-ons?

Natura Vive provides the ultimate lodgings for adventurers, with its Skylodge suites. These transparent luxury rooms hang from a Peruvian mountainside, and can only be reached by a 1300 ft. climb or a lengthy hike and zipline trail.

Motion and graphic designer Martin Woutisseth shows off his style, which combines elements of anime with flat fields of color resulting in animations which look like living illustrations. The track is Cobra Movement by Cobra Killer.

Thomas Dambo creates awe-inspiring beasts from scrap wood and junk. The imposing Olav the Wolf appeared for a brief time, then was burned to the ground. Most of his works can be found in Denmark, but one of our faves is in Puerto Rico.

Izzy Swan makes all kinds of crazy contraptions. His latest build is truly impressive – as it’s able to transport a passenger down the street using the power of a single Dewalt power drill which drive strandbeest-like legs and a wheeled platform.

Want to make a quick buck? Master the Etch A Sketch. Artist Christoph Brown can make a portrait on the drawing toy in just 2 to 5 minutes, then sell it for up to $500. Damn. Check out his merch and services here.

Susanna Hesselberg’s sculpture When My Father Died It Was Like a Whole Library Had Burned Down was inspired by a line from Laurie Anderson’s song World Without End. (Photos by Clyde Yee and Claire Voon.)

A look at some of the natural landscapes made by YouTuber koooolalala using Unreal Engine 4. At this point Memorex should just let Epic Games use their slogan. Check out kooolalala’s YouTube and Flickr pages for more.

Swimming Design promoted Terada Mokei’s 1:100 architectural figures by using the paper models to recreate the world famous Shibuya Crossing, i.e. the jam-packed intersection news channels often show when talking about Tokyo.

Long-exposure photography can produce some amazing results – but you need to have a plan if you want your pictures to turn out well. Here, photographer Darren Pearson shows us how to create a skeleton made entirely of light.

Tooli is a compact but scalable CNC machine that works with four heads: a plotter for drawing and cutting, an airbrush for painting, a laser for engraving and cutting and a liquid dispenser that doubles as a pick-and-place tool.

The Met takes us inside the painstaking, 10-month process of restoring a massive oil painting from 1660, first removing old varnish, then repairing its structure and canvas, restretching the canvas, touching up paint, and revarnishing it.

We best enjoy movies that meld reality, practical effects, and limited CGI. Too much CGI feels consequence-free to us. Here, Story Brain explains “The WETA Effect,” which kicked off an era of unreal and unrelatable action sequences.

“You speak to know pain that you only fathom because we told you it was there.” Darius Simpson and Scout Bostley perform a spoken word poem about outsiders who claim to know the plights of their race and gender.

A compact 3D printing pen that lets you draw objects in three dimensions. It heats super hot so it can handle a wide variety of materials, and can even solder. Down the road, it will get add-on tips for woodburning, foam cutting and more.

Inspired by the futuristic designs of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Yard Sale Project’s modern curio cabinet transforms from a monolith into a series of 12, 16 or 20 cubbyholes when opened, and can also spin so it can be used in a corner.

Thor ter Kulve and Rob McIntyre’s CanopyStair is a set of modular steps that form a spiral staircase around a tree, complete with a handrail. It can be attached without any tools and without damaging or marking the tree.

Illustrator Marco D’Alfonso pokes fun at the horrible Batman & Robin and its nippled suits by mashing it up with Rolling Stone‘s infamous Janet Jackson magazine cover. The poster measures 11″x 14.5″ and has a 0.25″ border for framing.