Awesome Art & Design

A funny good luck charm from Kid Robot and The Simpsons. Homer Buddha is a 7″ vinyl figurine with a movable head and a tummy that you won’t be able to resist touching. Drops 9/6/12 for $50.

Shut the key designing game down. We have a winner. Goodworth & Co.’s key will make you feel like a bad ass every time you take it out. It’ll open up conversations as well as it does locks.

Blinds with graphics that make double references to video games, featuring classic characters and icons made from controllers and handheld systems. Available in four designs and different colors.

Artist Mark Crilley starts out with a torn playing card, and challenges himself to draw a photorealistic rendition of the King of Clubs that’s nearly indistinguishable from the real deal.

14-year-old LEGO maniac Evan Bacon is well on his way to being a pro LEGO artist with his second life-size superhero sculpture. His 6-foot-tall Iron Man even has light-up eyes, hand, and arc reactor.

Add some arrrr to your bedroom with these pirate-themed bedding, pillows and sheets from Sin in Linen. There’s also a shower curtain available. Ink fans should check out the tattoo-themed bedding.

If Dexter Morgan is reading this, here’s the perfect thing for covering the walls of your dedicated kill room. These photo-decals are available in sizes up to 81″ x 116″, and as small as a gadget skin.

Jim Tuckwell is working on a deck of playing cards based on Game of Thrones, particularly the Starks, Lannisters, Targaryens and Baratheons. Here are the first 3 cards. We can’t wait to see the rest.

Designed by Angelina Barkschat, Finn Blümel and Severin Arnold, the 63 Grad (63 Degrees) bench can be folded thanks to its nylon hinges. Multiple units can be connected to form a larger bench.

Unimpressed with available designs featuring the various house crests from Game of Thrones, graphic designer Darren Crescenzi took matters into his own hands and made this sleek poster.

Embroidery does not easily elicit our admiration, but these surprisingly detailed and in some cases satisfyingly eerie hand-stitched illustrations from Etsy seller Sam Gibson are a good exception.

Rodrigo Rubio and his colleagues only needed 5 weeks to create the Solar House 2.0 – and were able to customize it for its surroundings – thanks to digital design and digital fabrication technology.

Designed by Kacper Hamilton for ski gear company Zai, the Core axe has a wood and carbon fiber helve and interchangeable carbon steel heads. This thing will surely split your wallet in half.

A sexy, modular system for storing bottles of wine, with wall-mounted panels made from aircraft-grade aluminum and a variety of stylish wood veneers. Each panel holds up to 9 bottles.

A working prototype made by Aerofex Corporation. The vehicle has an intuitive control system that responds to the rider’s leaning movements and balance, similar to a Segway.

Artists and sculptors – including the original designers of Boba Fett’s costume – created over 40 alternate Boba Fett and clone trooper helmets for the As You Wish charity auction event.

DeviantArtist Witit Karpkraikaew proves how truly deviant he is with these creepy, childhood-ruining images of Disney princesses after they’ve been infected by the living dead.

By using a grid of thousands of special lenticular LEGO bricks, Arthur Gugick created this awesome mural that shows Batman when viewed from one angle, and The Joker as you pass by.

Looking for some wall lamps to go along with your gun table lamps? These deadly sconces by ceramicist Ryan Weigner of Loaded Objects should do the trick. Also available: an AK-47 floor lamp.

A wall of LEDs that light up whenever they come into contact with water. It was made by Antonin Fourneau and his colleagues at the Digitalarti Artlab and was displayed in Poitiers, France.

Designed by WG3, the Hypercubus is a compact and portable yet very alluring shelter that could function as a temporary retreat for tourists who want to really take in surrounding landscapes.

Invented by Micah Black, PLY90 brackets are aluminum and stainless steel connectors meant to connect pieces of sheet-wood or plywood, allowing you to create your furniture and other DIY projects.

Megawing’s ceramic coin bank is shaped like a teapot. It’s designed to make withdrawing coins as easy as depositing them. To extend the metaphor, the coins are poured out of the coin bank’s spout.