Awesome Art & Design

Made by Austria’s Team 7, the Flaye Table can be extended by 39″ using a mechanism that hides extra panels in the middle of the table, and can be opened by one person. Request a quote here.

Take 4:40 out of your day and expand your mind – check out Powwow Trail, part of The Ways, an ongoing series of stories on culture and language from Native communities around the Great Lakes.

Hungarian designer Krisztina Boazzai has had enough with individual plastic forks, knives, and spoons, and has come up with a single disposable utensil that works as all three. So long, spork!

Diginate lets you design stickers and order as few or as many as you want. You can make a wide variety of stickers and prints, from stick-on drawings to product labels and even large posters.

LIKE Architect’s extraordinary holiday display for IKEA Portugal was comprised of 1200 lamps fitted with twinkling LED bulbs to promote the home furnishings retailer’s energy-efficient lighting line.

Designed by Form Us With Love, the Cord Lamp turns the aesthetically disruptive part of a lamp into its main attraction. Made of a textile cord and a steel tube. A smaller version is also available.

Treehugger founder Graham Hill showed Gizmodo his NYC apartment, which has a total of 8 rooms despite being only 420sq.ft., thanks to the extensive use of drawers and hidden shelves and furniture.

PIXEL is an interactive picture frame. It has 1,024 LEDs , perfect for displaying 32×32 pixel art. You can upload an image or animation using an Android app. It acts as a mirror when turned off.

Designer Adin Mumma’s gorgeous chess set is crafted from walnut and metal, the pieces and board have curved components so they wobble like Weebles after you move them.

Inspired by squash courts, the ASB Glassfloor is a multi-functional flooring system made from glass and an aluminum substructure, with LED marking lines that can be selected on a touchscreen.

deviantART member Zoki64 breathes life into old consoles and controllers by customizing them using car paint and giving them a glossy finish. Check out his YouTube channel for videos of his creations.

Know anyone who likes beer and colors? The 200 shades of the Beertone Reference Guide will begin with bright beers and end with dark ones, and each will have its own picture and description.

Neighbirds are modular birdhouses designed by Andreu Carulla Studio. They are easy to install and can be hung not just on trees but on a wall or ceiling as well. Contact Utoopic to order.

Get in me belly! That’s what you’ll be shouting when you get one look at these adorable, but inedible plush “un-grumble sliders” from Chicago artist SteffBomb. Buy ’em by the sack!

French artist Gerald Parel made these awesome illustrations of the Masters of the Universe characters. His use of lighting and perspective really make the characters larger than life.

Artist Eric Standley creates insanely detailed paper artworks. Each piece is made of more than a hundred layers of laser-cut paper “in an attempt to capture the reverence of the infinite.”

At CES 2013, Audi presented technology that allowed an Audi A7 to park and then return to pick up its owner on its own with the help of Wi-Fi laser sensors embedded in its surroundings.

These cassette tape coffee tables made by Taybles can hold a lot of your favorite tapes and other stuff, thanks to steel cup holders and a drawer. Customize its parts to create your own mixtape.

The Good Night Lamp is actually made of at least two Internet-connected lamps. Turn the Big Lamp on or off and all Little Lamps connected to it will do the same. A warm way of sending a message.

54-year old Simon Beck makes huge geometric art by walking on snow. It takes him up to 10 hours per day to finish a single artwork, which he usually makes at the Les Arcs ski resort in France.

The Modo is a modular desktop organizer. It has 16 long and 4 short aluminum pins that you can arrange as you need on the bamboo board. The board also has slots for cables and flash drives.

It’s hard to improve on a classic Scotch whiskey, but collaborating with Italian design firm Pininfarina for a limited-edition series of specially-packaged Chivas 18 is a good start.

Designed by Alexander Taylor for Praxis, the Grip looks exactly like the rubber handlebar grips on BMX bikes. It uses an LED as a light source. It’s just begging to be played with as a lightsaber.