Awesome Art & Design

Quattria’s Anita is a customizable shelf made of thermoformed acrylic. You can choose which letters to have, whether they’ll be in white, blue or red and whether your shelf will be wall-mounted or just placed on the floor.

Time-lapse videos of Chicago, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas and Los Angeles turned into kaleidoscopic eye candy by photographer Michael Shainblum. Check out the stills on his Flickr page. The song is Butterfly by Bassnectar.

While we still ponder how we managed to draw a cube that one time in art class sophomore year, Chris Carlson impresses with this 3D chalk art time lapse of Donkey Kong versus Escher; bonus stop-motion scene included.

A truly awesome lamp made from a cluster of PVC bubbles, illuminated by 150 white LEDs. While it may be retro-inspired, this lighting fixture is anything but old-fashioned. Designed by Anna Siedlecka & Radek Achramowicz.

Turn a photograph, a magazine cutout or pretty much anything into a postcard with Tatjana Buisson’s Postick. Its an adhesive label printed with the blanks you find at the back of postcards. Measures 5.7″ x 3.8″.

Artist Alessandro Diddi effectively uses light and shadow techniques along with cutouts and folds to create flat pencil illustrations that appear to jump from the page. No 3D glasses required.

500 Level offers officially-licensed NFL and NHL t-shirts with a twist. Each player’s image is created by a fan, with an individualistic design approach. Head to their Kickstarter campaign to help fund their fledgling Chicago-based operation.

An offshoot of BMW’s Active Tourer concept compact car. It’s a hybrid that has a 1.5L engine and an electric motor for a total output of 190hp. It has a built-in carrier rack for two bicycles, rugged interior and a glass roof.

Tim Leong’s book presents trivia about comic books and comic book characters using stylish charts and infographics. Hardcore comic fans shouldn’t expect an encyclopedia though: Tim seems to have focused more on fun than facts.

A lightweight shelving system which uses a single shape of off-kilter geometric cubby. They can be stacked on the ground, or mounted on the wall, and interlocked in virtually limitless arrangements.

We’re not sure why you’d want to, but if you ever needed a comprehensive yet compact list of humanity’s ills, check out this table by UK-based art studio Dorothy. It tabulates “85 of the worst elements of humankind.”

Chances are that nobody you know will spend $550 on a deck of playing cards, but that doesn’t make these cards any less cool. They’re individually silkscreened by Norman Ibarra onto the backs of discarded New York MetroCards.

While most typographic posters are of inspirational or motivational quotes, Lauren Hom honors the little lies and excuses we make every now and then. Buy prints and merch on Society6. Find out how she makes them here.

(NSFW: Lyrics) David Fuenz was sitting on a train from Stockholm to Copenhagen with nothing better to do, so he used the time to illustrate the lyrics to Kanye West’s latest single in his Moleskine journal. (Thanks Daniel!)

Invented by Steve Hollinger, the Squito is a ball-shaped throwable camera. It takes 360º panoramic videos or pictures and has built-in image stitching and stabilization. The Darkball variant uses infrared and thermal imaging.

(Link NSFW) Phil Mimms aka HMN ALNS likes to draw popular anime characters in flashy street clothes. He’s drawn characters from Naruto, Slam Dunk and Dragon Ball Z. You can buy his merch on Red Bubble.

We’ve already featured a few of Motoi Yamamoto’s unique and intricate saltworks. Now here’s the artist at work. You can watch him make more art in person at the Monterey Museum of Art until 8/25/13.

A rear wheel drive single-seat sports car based on one of the year’s most popular releases – the 2014 Jaguar F-Type. The Project 7 has an aluminum body, a 5L supercharged V8 engine with 550hp and 8-speed ZF transmission.

His darkly detailed 3D compositions are striking and imaginative, while reminiscent of the best work of H.R. Giger. Tomasz Strzałkowski has created imagery for a number of video games, but his personal works are truly amazing.

Arrrrgh! Real pirates don’t play poker with cheap plastic poker chips. Manly men play with pirate gold. These antiqued metal coins from onepointsix look like pirate’s booty, and come with colorful fake gems to complete the look.

IKEA designed improved temporary housing for refugees. Like IKEA’s furniture, the houses are assembled on-site. They are more durable and comfortable than tents and even have a solar panel and insulation. More here and here.

Add a dash of life and humor to your meals with Manga Plates. Made by Comicalu, the plates look like frames from a Japanese comic book, complete with sketches that accentuate food. More on Comicalu’s online shop.

A one-seater helicopter designed for zipping over rush hour traffic. We’re not certain about the airworthiness of Héctor del Amo’s chopper design, but we’re all over the concept, and hope to see something like it produced at some point.