Awesome Art & Design

A clever iPhone 4/4S case which turns its LED flash into a colorful notification light, glowing when you receive texts, calls or emails, yet still allowing you to use it for photos. Available in a variety of colors.

Yeongkeun Jeong and Aareum Jeong devised this clever system of stick-on dots and a lengthy strap which can be woven around the triangular frame of most bikes, creating storage space out of the void.

A reversible jacket made from a special three-layer fabric. The dark side keeps you warm while the light side is for keeping cool. The jacket is also breathable and waterproof.

Made from flexible silicone, the Pack-Away Bucket folds flat when not in use, minimizing storage space. Works great for gardening, but also as a serving piece for outdoor dining.

A clever beach-side promotional display for Sprite looks like a giant soda machine, but we’re thinking that it dispenses water and not lemon-lime soda or else it would make for one sticky mess.

Artist Jill Sylvia creates incredible models of structures such as the New York Stock Exchange, the U.S. Treasury and the Capital using sheets of financial ledger books with holes cut out of them.

For his Brecce collection, designer Marco Stefanelli combined sawmill scraps and other waste materials with resin and LEDs to make wonderful organic lamps that are eye-catching yet still subdued.

Zone out for a sec and appreciate the fine work My Dog Sighs puts into FreeArtFriday: a weekly ritual of creating art pieces with found materials and leaving them on the street for passersby.

Assembly produced this live performance which combines music, dance, computers and animation, controlled through a Microsoft Kinect. And yes, the audio is at least partially controlled by the dancer.

Architect Haiko Cornelissen’s whimsical aluminum outdoor table combines modern urban sensibilities with a bit of nature, adding a live grass table surface beneath your plates. Ants not included.

These photos weren’t taken at Burning Man. A LEGO forest was installed overnight in the rather barren landscape of Broken Hill, Australia as part of the LEGO Festival of Play. Also done in Sydney.

Designed by Hélène Van Marcke, the Up, Up, Up is a portable picnic set. It includes a table and two benches that fold as one unit. Unfortunately it seems to be available only in Europe.

Be swept back to 1994 every time you look at your fridge with these Final Fantasy III (aka Final Fantasy VI) dialog box magnets. You can choose to have lines from the game or your own quote.

Guilhem de Castelbajac’s Off Duty No More is a limited edition line of used taxi cab lights re-purposed as interior lamps. If you act quickly you can get them on Fab for nearly half the price.

The best way to eat popcorn at a horror movie is out of one of these awesome zombie-themed buckets created by ad agency Y&R for the Motor City Nightmares convention. Want. Now.

A stop-motion animated film from the twisted mind of writer Charlie Kaufman being funded outside of the conventional studio system so its creative team has no interference with their artistic vision.

Ryan McNaught used over 200,000 bricks to build a cross-section replica of the world famous Colosseum. The half is further split into its current ruined state and its original form. More here.

Marvel unveiled Tony Stark’s new armor for the upcoming movie Iron Man 3 at the San Diego Comic-Con. Too bad these photos were taken by Shellhead’s latest nemesis, Off-Center Man.

Evan Wondolowski uses shreds of discarded old U.S. Federal Reserve notes to create portraits of celebrities and politicians. Each bit is individually glued in place, shadows accented with charcoal.

Wacom’s 24HD touch adds intuitive multi-touch commands to your repertoire of design or drawing tools. It has the same viewing angle, resolution, express keys and adjustable stand as the 24HD.

Stop off in Terminal 1 at the Changi Airport the next time you fly into Singapore to see a ballet of golden raindrops about the dream of flying in the largest kinetic sculpture in the world.

At auction is Chrysler’s proposed – and ultimately vetoed – Corvette killer. The XNR’s asymmetrical design was influenced by the Indy racers of its day. It has a 250hp 2.8L slant-6 engine.

Andyalm doesn’t just turn a railroad spike into a knife, he hand-forges one of the most badass precision cutting instruments we have seen. The carrots show how easily you can take off fingers.