Awesome Art & Design

The Coin Jewelry Company transforms vintage American currency into unique rings, some of them made from 90% silver or more. The Morgan Silver Dollar is especially sweet. You can find many coin rings from other artists on Etsy too.

Currently in development at Quirky, Track is a concept for a lamp that follows your movement. Like Soloshot, the lamp works by tracking a wristband. It can be placed on a flat surface, hung or mounted on a tripod.

Clothes made of glass-coated fabric. If someone takes a picture of you with a flash when you’re wearing any of these, the glass will reflect the flash back at the camera, obscuring your face in the process. If only they worked without a flash.

The guys from Dissolve are back to recreate scenes from classic award winning movies using nothing but stock footage from their video library. We dare them to try Guardians of the Galaxy and The LEGO Movie using this technique.

Josh Carmody’s clever stool does have legs. It’s just that there’s only three of them. The diagonal cross brace and the stool’s proportions make it seem like it has four legs when viewed from certain angles. Contact Josh to order.

Mold can be really nasty stuff. It can ruin buildings, foods, and make people deathly ill. But viewed through photographer Nick Lariontsev’s extreme zoom lens, it looks like the landscape of an alien planet. It also makes some tasty cheese.

(Loud) An awesomely trippy 3-dimensional illusion that appears on an overhead LED display at the Center Bar at the SLS Las Vegas hotel. The effect only works if you’re standing at the proper angle though. Read how it works on Make:.

Build tiny, intricate urban landscapes with these full-color 3D printed blocks, inspired by architecture from major cities around the world. They snap into a special baseplate which can even house LED illumination for their windows.

Leave a truly lasting impression with these very special business cards, printed onto real matte finish carbon fiber. Minimum quantity is 50 cards, and at $20 per card, you’ll only want to leave them with very special clients and prospects.

While it wouldn’t be the first Nixie tube clock we’ve seen, there is something nifty about the minimal design of the Blub Uno, which displays digits one at a time on its single numeric tube. It also has date, temperature and alarm functions.

Jerome Daksiewicz of NOMO Design created these posters which commemorate iconic facades of car models throughout the years. His initial designs include Ford, GM and BMW vehicles, but we hope he creates others down the road.

Photographer Rob Whitworth wows us once again, creating an eye-popping journey to the city of Dubai, as seen through the lens of his incredible flow motion time-lapse process. Check out some additional footage in 4K here and here.

Poet Audio’s eyecatching speaker features a 170-watt amp and an array of seven drivers and to push sound in all directions. Wirelessly streams via aptX lossless Bluetooth or AirPlay tech. Available with or without the wooden stand.

Etsy shop Plane Pieces makes lamps, sculptures, tables and other furniture and accessories out of pistons, propellers and other parts from World War II-era aircraft. Items are limited and can be customized with different colors.

A series of handmade basketball rings with stained glass backboards, gold-plated rims and bejewelled nets. Victor Solomon’s Literally Balling started out as a joke, but has turned into a commentary on rich and powerful sports stars.

In an attempt to make its homely LEAF electric car a bit more interesting, Nissan Europe gave one a factory glow-in-the-dark paintjob – which we think would look even better on a Lambo. Sadly, there are no plans to put it into production.

José Manuel Hermo Barreiro aka Patelo spent over 2,500 hours to make this miniature hydraulic 32-piston W engine. It’s so balanced and its 850 pieces fit together so precisely that it barely shudders when it runs.

Former NASA employee Mark Rober has a patent for a microwave with an infrared camera and an LCD display on its door. The idea is for users to see when food is fully heated. Show your support for the project by simply signing the petition here.

Matt Bilfield creates bold pop art portraits which combine the cartoon style of Lichtenstein with the pointillism of Chuck Close. Each image is made from a grid of thousands of painted dowels, bringing them into focus when viewed head on.

French shop Boom-art printed two 16th century art works – The Lady and the Unicorn and The Garden of Earthly Delights – onto sets of three surfboards and skateboards. The surfboards can also be bought separately.

Danny Yourd’s short documentary about Michael Paul Smith, creator of the highly detailed 1:24 scale 20th century dioramas collectively known as Elgin Park. Michael started making models as therapy, then ended up changing people’s lives.

Kanemaki Yoshitoshi makes life-size wooden sculptures that confront and visualize the dichotomies of existence: life and death, conflicting emotions and multiple identities. See more of his work on Behance.

A group of sculptors recently recreated the iconic UK construction outside of Lake Mills, Wisconsin. Sadly, they were taken down due to warm temperatures and safety concerns. Awe-inspiring photos by Eli Wedel. Buy some prints here.