Awesome Art & Design

A backpack and portable sound system in one. Just like Solid Gray’s other backpacks, the Bass-pack is made of lightweight yet durable plastic. It also has a foam-lined interior. No word on price or release date yet.

Bradley Hart’s imaginative pixel portraits are created using ordinary syringes and bubble wrap; he injects each individual bubble with acrylic paint in an elaborate and time consuming process.

Inspired by stone age cutting implements, designer Michele Daneluzzo’s primitive knife for Del Ben eliminates the handle in exchange for a tapered handgrip, and a curved, razor-sharp blade edge.

Magnetic Kitchen uses a laser cutter to etch a variety of original designs onto 7-ply hard rock maple boards, creating skateboard decks that are equally at home on your wall and on the streets.

Rocking stools that are not just ready to assemble – they’re easy to assemble. The Kickstarter rewards are unorthodox though – you’ll only get a stool if enough people in your city place an order.

Michael Roopenian is turning his concept into a modest reality. Engrain Tactile Keys are beautiful stick-on keys made of sandblasted and lasercut wood. They’re only for Apple keyboards though.

Designed by Le Mouton Noir & Co, B.B. Billosaur is no ordinary piggy bank. He doesn’t accept coins – his mohawk of holes only accepts bills. He comes with corks should you want to seal his head.

Designer Amaya Gutierrez drew inspiration from her home in Oaxaca, Mexico for this comfy looking handwoven chair. A team in LA uses Oaxacan knitting techniques to give the chair its unique look.

You’ll identify with this great animated short by Benny Box if you’ve ever found yourself mentally humming a tune you can’t stand because you were the unfortunate victim of an ear worm.

Artist Calvin Seibert creates sandcastles with wondrously smooth surfaces, comprised of squares, spheres, cylinders and other shapes influenced by both traditional and modern architecture.

A sculptural lamp with gangly legs rocking wooden Jordans and packaged in a wooden shoebox. 6ft 6in is an homage to His Airness made by artist Kimou Meyer aka Grotesk. It’s really just 30″ tall though.

Do you love the Content Aware Fill tool in Photoshop? This prototype program can do that with videos. It inpaints by using pixels from certain frames to edit a moving object out of other frames.

Ebru or paper marbling is a method of aqueous surface design. Oguz Eygur shares some captivating footage of a truely professional ebru artist, his father Seyit, practicing the ancient and beautiful art.

A collection of avant garde menswear inspired by hugs and the need for human connection. Made by Chan Si Leong as a project at the London College of Fashion. Photos by Sara Pista.

(Gore) Flickr member nolnet juxtaposed LEGO minifigs and the iconic toy soldier design with horrible scenes of war – the violence, consequences and the people who make a living selling weapons.

We like Samuel Orr’s four minute time-lapse because 1) the film was dynamically distilled from 100,000+ photos; and, frankly, 2) it’s fun to see 24 hours unfold in the greatest city in the world.

The T-frame display makes any t-shirt special, whether it’s one autographed by your favorite athlete or just the one you wore yesterday. Designed by Caleb Ferris & Prakhar Mehrotra.

re:3D’s Gigabot 3D printer has a build volume of 24 cu.in., significantly larger than other prosumer and desktop 3D printers, so you can print larger items or print multiple small ones at once.

Designer Natascha Harra-Frischkorn’s clever bookshelves dynamically adjust to the heights of books you place within them by using flexible wood flooring and stainless steel clamps on the ends.

A unique tent that’s made out of canvas soaked in concrete. The tent is relatively flexible and compact when dry, but it transforms into a sturdy structure when it’s soaked in water and inflated.

Foam replicas of one of Andy Warhol’s most famous pieces – one of his batch of hilariously accurate replicas of consumer product packaging. We wonder if Warhol would deem these ironic or appropriate.

Designed by Naoki Hirakoso and Takamitsu Kitahara, the Kai is a lounge table that’s filled with asymmetrical drawers and cupboards. Contact Hirakoso to order. Images by Takumi Ota.

The world’s largest LED sculpture is now live. The Bay Lights’ 25,000 LEDs form an ever-changing display that’s 1.8mi long and up to 500ft. high along the West Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.