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Mate Wall Chess Set

Mate Wall Chess Set

Mate puts a complete chess set on your wall, and doubles as a playable work of art. The square pieces hold neatly in their wood cubbies, and can be ordered in a variety of colors. Measures 23.5(h) x 18.5″(w) x 2.25″(d).

Geek Art: An Anthology

Geek Art: An Anthology
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Thomas Olivri compiled this amazing book featuring over 750 images of pop culture inspired artworks from talented creators around the globe. It also includes website and contact info for each artist, so you can buy their works.

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Crush Collective: $$$ Machine

Crush Collective: $$$ Machine
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A collection of prints from digital pop art specialists Crush Collective. $$$ Machine features remixed images of US dollar bills, shamelessly flaunting the power of the currency with bright and bold graphics.

Cubic Rubber Bands

Cubic Rubber Bands

Not only do Nendo’s cubic rubber bands just look plain cool, they’re easier to find in a drawer, and will never get tangled up with others. Sadly, they’re only available in Japan for now, and cost about 10 bucks for a pack of three.

La Machine: Long Ma

La Machine: Long Ma

La Machine’s Long Ma is a 50′ tall dragon horse puppet that expels fire and steam. The French puppeteers recently put on a show in Beijing featuring Long Ma and their other famous puppet, the giant spider La Princesse.

Altered States of America

Altered States of America
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Chop Shop’s Altered States of America is a collection of prints, cards and pins featuring characters and items from various sci-fi, horror and fantasy stories set in the US, from Twin Peaks to The Walking Dead. More here.

Il Capo (Excerpt)

Il Capo (Excerpt)

As part of his 2010 film Il Capo, artist Yuri Ancarani captured this footage of the work that happens every day in an Italian marble quarry, as the chief on the job site directs construction equipment like the conductor of an orchestra.

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Kawaii Baseball Cards

Kawaii Baseball Cards

A side project of Tofugu illustrator Aya, Kawaii Baseball Cards features baseball cards of MLB players, complete with stats and trivia, and animated gif versions. She also makes other MLB images as requested by her followers.

Pejac: Window Silhouettes

Pejac: Window Silhouettes

Spanish artist Pejac’s simple acrylic paintings creates illusory silhouettes that use windows as frames and the view outside as the background. The painting is completed when it’s photographed in certain angles.

Floating Building

Floating Building

Designed by Alex Chinneck, Take My Lightning But Don’t Steal My Thunder appears to be a stone building with its upper half suspended in mid-air. The polystyrene structure is actually supported by a thin steel frame at its corners.

GotG Awesome Mix Vol. 1 Vinyl

GotG Awesome Mix Vol. 1 Vinyl

You can already get Peter Quill’s Awesome Mix Vol. 1 on vinyl, but Mondo’s variant comes with Tyler Stout’s sweet sleeve art as well as a screen-printed handbill. Still have your Walkman? Wait for the literal mixtape.

Hanksy’s Surplus Candy

Hanksy’s Surplus Candy

(NSFW: Language) Parody street artist Hanksy puts his notoriety and knowledge of street art to good use in The Hundreds‘ documentary series Surplus Candy, where he takes us on a tour of the graffiti scene in various cities.

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Emulsifier

Emulsifier

Mixed media artist Thomas Medicus created this extraordinary sculpture from 160 individual hand-painted glass strips. As you move around the anamorphic object, it transforms into four completely different images. More on Colossal.

Roy Kafri: Mayokero

Roy Kafri: Mayokero

Performer Roy Kafri’s quirky beatbox track Mayokero is handily upstaged by director Vania Heymann’s clever music video, in which classic vinyl album covers come to life and sing his track.

Alex Gross: Future Tense

Alex Gross: Future Tense

Alex Gross’ Future Tense series consists of paintings with a shallow and saccharine beauty, expanding upon “themes of consumerism, industrialization and the omnipresent media” and “our inability to exist in the present moment.”

Diggin’ in the Carts

Diggin’ in the Carts

Red Bull Music talks to some of the best Japanese composers, game designers and the musicians they influenced in the amazing miniseries Diggin’ in the Carts. A must watch for video game and music fans. English captions available.

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

How to Draw a Perfect Circle

Lifehacker DaveHax shows us a really simple way to draw a perfect circle, using parts of your hand as a sort of drafting compass. The technique doesn’t allow for much size flexibility, but it’s still a neat (and shockingly obvious) trick.

The Keyboard of Isolation

The Keyboard of Isolation

In 2012 DDB Shanghai made this awareness campaign about Internet and computer addiction. The ad agency made a keyboard-shaped sculpture showing the likenesses of addicts and their loved ones trapped in the keys.

Hure Tables

Hure Tables
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Vintage Industrial’s Hure tables were inspired by and named after a 19th century lathe and milling machine maker. Hure added his signature to his products and made beautiful bases for what would otherwise be utilitarian devices.

Nuvitron Nixie Clock

Nuvitron Nixie Clock

Looking like something that belongs on a mantle in BioShock’s lost city of Rapture, these limited-edition handmade wood art deco clocks feature the warm orange glow of high voltage, cold-war era Nixie tubes to tell time.

3D Illusion Sketches

3D Illusion Sketches

Artist Nagai Hideyuki creates drawings which seemingly defy the laws of optics, bursting forth from his spiral notebooks to produce an impressively 3-dimensional appearance. Watch how he draws them over on YouTube.

Ultrasound Gesture Recognition

Ultrasound Gesture Recognition

A couple of years from now, you won’t need to touch or talk to your phone to interact with it, thanks to Elliptic Labs. The company came up with a technology that uses ultrasound to detect gestures made around a device.

Fine Line Playing Cards

Fine Line Playing Cards

Created by Adam Farbiarz and Adam Thompson, each of these cards has an illustration which represents its value and suit. You’ll have as much fun trying to figure out what each cards as the card game you’re playing with them.

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