Awesome Art & Design

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.

Michal Bonikowski’s conceptual electric snowmobile features a sleek lightweight shell and an enclosed passenger compartment. While it might isolate you from the outside world, you could go insanely fast in this thing – if it existed.

Satoshi Araki loves to create unbelievably detailed scale models and miniature dioramas, featuring both real world and fictional elements. Spoon & Tamago says he mainly uses styrofoam boards for his sculptures. More here.

Claire & Max shot footage of abandoned locations (no, that’s NOT the real Eiffel Tower) with their drone, then flipped it on its head to make for a truly surreal viewing experience. The Danny Elfman-esque music really sets the mood.

(Gore) Editor Jacob T. Swinney compiled this short series of scenes from Quentin Tarantino’s films in which sound effects sit front and center, demonstrating how effective and important the use of good audio is to complement visuals.

Formic is a CGI/live-action short animated by Roman Kaelin and Florian Wittman which gives us an ants-eye view on the universe, as the tiny insect does its best to survive the dangers of a typical day at a skatepark.

Victor Jardel’s wonderfully animated music video for Senbeï’s genre-defying track Rain features three strange but endearing characters who leave the forest and explore Paris during a downpour.

Illustrator Rocky Davies has an ongoing series of parody ’80s style vinyl record covers featuring famous supervillains, including Doctor Doom, Mr. Stay Puft and one of the funniest versions of a Predator that we’ve ever seen.

Using nothing but Pantone color swatches, artist Nick Smith creates pixelated versions of famous works of art which look become more and more accurate the further away you view them from.

Over the past seven years Keith Anderson has been getting tattoos based on his son’s drawings: a daisy, a house, his son’s handwriting and more. Props to the tattoo artists for preserving the spirit of the sketches. Photos by Chance Faulkner.

Industrial designer Jolene Carlier says, “most popcorn machines are very dull though the simple process of making popcorn is exciting.” So she conceived of Popcorn Monsoon, a hot air popcorn machine that’s both fun and functional.

We can only imagine how many hours it must have taken the dedicated fans behind this epic MineCraft map to replicate the massive world of Westeros, and they aim to build every location from George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy universe.

Designed by Yegor Zghun for Art Lebedev Studios, this cheeky kitchen organizer transforms random kitchen tools and utensils into the world’s largest Swiss Army knife. Giant toothpick and useless tweezers not included.

Paul Robertson and Ivan Dixon created this awesome pixelated version of the opening of The Simpsons. While we’ve played several Simpsons video games, this is the one we want to play most – especially that level at the end.

This space-age device is capable of pushing out room-filling, distortion-free sound on par with speakers many times its size. Packed with tech, its computer-controlled mechanical wings create high pressure waves to increase bass output.

Calamityware’s bandanas disguise monsters and other creepy critters in their patterns. Choose from the already available blue paisley print, or the new red pixel art design which is now raising funds on Kickstarter.

For web designers and developers, the old HTML table is something we try to avoid like the plague. But this artist with the patience of a saint shows how these silly old-school grids can be used to create intricate pixel art. More here.

Battlecat’s deliciously weird animated short film is described as “An educational short film about different types of lava.” We suppose that’s an accurate description, but only in the loosest of terms. Crunchy sounds by Per Ulv.

A computer animated simulation of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy. It will be the world’s most powerful operational rocket, able to lift the equivalent of a fully-loaded Boeing 737 into orbit. It will also support reusable booster rockets.

Artist Michael Aaron Williams creates amazing images by painting coffee and ink on sheets antique ledger paper. We’re particularly smitten with the image of the women with buildings and trees for hair, and the bears are truly awesome.

Founded by Gregory Kloehn, the Homeless Homes Project turns found objects and other discarded materials into tiny homes for the homeless. Each home is relatively easy to transport and has a unique personality.

While this static scene of a Paris apartment isn’t exactly the most dynamic of settings, it serves as an impressive demonstration of the detail and photorealism that can be achieved with an off-the-shelf graphics engine.