Awesome Art & Design

A hilarious greeting card from Sycamore Street Press. It can be a silly but sincere show of love between bros, or used sarcastically. Be sure to get one for yourself as well for buying a great card.

(SPOILERS!) A look at some of the effects made by Pixomondo for the second season of HBO’s Game of Thrones. The show bagged the Outstanding Visual Effects at the 2012 Emmy Awards.

Another piece from designer Finn Magee’s Flat Life series. Like the Flat Light, the Flat Time poster contains an illustration of an old LED alarm clock that is actually functional.

This is just plain wrong, but we can’t stop staring at it. Little Sad Keanu Reeves is a 3D printed figurine made by Shapeways member neuralfirings. It comes in two sizes, both of them sad.

Hiding high-end speakers and amps inside wall art, TruAudio’s aFrame acoustic artwork offers hundreds of prints you can hang on your wall to let your sound be heard and not seen.

A breakthrough engine that could propel airplanes to insanely high speeds, designed to enable jets to fly up as fast as Mach 5 – which means you could fly from London to Sydney in just 4.5 hours.

Randall Munroe made a huge illustration – 46ft wide if printed at 300dpi – filled with diverse sights. You can see the entire thing here, but it takes away the exploration and discovery.

Buddhist monks spend days creating an intricate mandala using colored sands. Once complete, they destroy their masterwork in seconds, symbolizing the impermanence of life. More here.

An innovative 40,000 hour LED lightbulb which can be controlled wirelessly via your smartphone, and set to any color you desire. Control one or many lights all from the palm of your hand.

A gorgeous example of upcycling done right, Balaz Moldovan’s adirondack chair is made from old whiskey barrel staves. Also available as a rocking chair. Check out his Etsy shop for more.

An incredible feat of engineering by Korean artist JônPaSang, this matrix is comprised of thousands of styrofoam cubes which move in and out to form images. Also serves as a huge projection screen.

Combining modern tech and natural beauty, the Orée Board Bluetooth keyboard is handmade from a single piece of either walnut or maple, in Mac or PC, US, UK or Canada layouts, and three fonts.

Channel your inner Nathan Drake with a beautiful holster from Four Chamber Forge. They can be custom-made to carry a variety of handy stuff including wallets, cellphones, flasks… and hatchets.

We’re loving both the Egyptian-themed and original graphics on these handmade, silk-screened jams from the curated shopping experience that is Seattle’s Cairo Vintage.

Designed by Nendo for the Momofuku Ando Center in Nagano, it has 78 birdhouses on one side and a tree house on the other. People can look at the birds in the nests from inside the tree house.

Blow off steam and avenge the Starks with this target poster featuring one of the most despicable TV characters in recent history: Game of Thrones‘ Joffrey Baratheon. Buy ’em by the bunch!

The Lamello Invis Mx is an innovative fastener, which allows wood to be joined without any visible screws, and for parts to be assembled without clamping, thanks to a special magnetic driver.

Michael Peebles started the Huntington Baseball Co. in hope of bringing the game’s rich history back to life with a series of hand-made, old-fashioned gear including bats, gloves, baseballs and hats.

deviantART member Jian Guo depicted five memorable scenes from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as stained glass drawings. Check his gallery for the high-res versions.

Designed by Eduardo Alessi for area+, these whimsical desktop accessories are each made from a single sheet of die-cut cardboard and made to look like animals. Coming to retailers soon.

The utilitarian design of most power strips can be quite the eyesore. But Kikkerland’s clever use of visual metaphor makes this power strip an eye-catching device that you won’t want to hide.

Illustrator Martin Woutisseth returns with another cool graphic animation, upgrading the opening credits from Breaking Bad with iconic locations and characters from the series, and a new theme song.

This might look like a photograph, but if you can believe it, it was actually drawn using 6 colored and 1 black BIC pen. It took attorney/artist Samuel Silva 30 hours to complete. More drawings here.