Awesome Art & Design

A concept by industrial design students Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno, this table is light enough for two children to lift and move yet can withstand the impact from a one-ton object falling onto it.

One of the exhibited pieces on Screen, an online art gallery set up by Swedish art center Kulturhuset. So what’s it about? You tell us. We watched the whole thing though. It was awesome.

The El Ateneo Grand Splendid is a bookstore in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Built in 1919, the 21,000 sq.ft. theater was converted into a music and book shop in 2000.

Wallpapers for refrigerators. There are designs that cover the entire front doors as well as partial fridge cover-ups. We’re hoping the company will someday accept customer-submitted designs.

Keep Decepticons off your front lawn with this amazing 7.5 foot-tall sculpture of Bumblebee, handmade from various scrap metal parts by ScrapSculptures. Get Optimus Prime here.

To promote his rolling papers, Snoop Dogg teamed up with Pereira & O’Dell to create Rolling Words. Its pages are filled with song lyrics and double as rolling papers. The spine acts as a match striker.

Inspired by Thomas Edison’s vintage lightbulbs, The Dapper Llama creates fine handmade wooden table lamps which add a rich and nostalgic ambient glow to any room.

Wander through the public spaces of the White House and explore its artworks from the comfort of your computer, thanks to Google’s collaboration with President Obama and the First Lady.

A group of colorful beings bring an equally colorful city to life with their mind in this eye-popping animated short film by Argentinian design and motion graphics studio 2veinte.

A stainless steel box that holds about 45 matches. Its barrel pops is coated so safety matches can be lit as they are taken out. The textured bottom is for igniting strike-anywhere matches.

A young man experiences afterlife in the Old West, still haunted by memories of his lover. An animated visual feast directed by Mike Roberts, based on the music of Canadian indie rock band The Sadies.

Art Lebedev Studios outs one of its greatest ideas yet, a radiator that looks like the bones of the mighty (except for its arms) T. Rex. Alas it’s only a concept, but shut up and take our money already.

Google’s augmented reality project. Ideally, the heads-up system will be able to recognize objects and will be controlled by voice, providing access to location, communication and organization apps.

David Lindecrantz created this cool retro-style app which takes your iOS device back to the 80s, complete with classic Macintosh and Game Boy B&W dithering algorithms. Sample images here.

Cribble put the envelopes given to him by his university’s career department to send out resumes in to good use as the background for this imaginative and often nonsensical short animation.

Now through April 15th, 100% of the net proceeds of these cool art prints, magnets and keychains from ExBoyfriend go to help save the lives of animals through the Maryland SPCA. DJ Kitty FTW!

An interlocking set of identical, extruded aluminum rails allow you to create the just the right size wine bottle rack, forming perfect honeycomb shapes as you stack them higher and wider.

The title says it all for this awesome print from The Oatmeal. The perfect print for any kitchen, as Grizz spices up his kill with an ample dose of hot sauce. Signed by the artist and measures ~19″x27″.

Apple fans looking to upgrade the looks of their Magic Mouse can have it covered in a durable carbon fiber vinyl in black, graphite, silver or white. Mail in your current mouse or get a brand new one.

Designed by Karl Zahn, the Dunk lamp will delight and torture basketball fans. The hoop begs you to play ball with it, but the fragile fluorescent bulb – not to mention the price – tells you otherwise.

Youtuber rikkitikkiberger captured the long process of lathing that woodturner Soren Berger uses to make one of his unique lampshades. Don’t worry, he repurposes all that scrap material.

Australian painter Jeremy Geddes often uses space travelers in urban environments as a motif in his hyperreal/surreal work. The results are amazing dreamlike images like these.

It was this epic poster for a Mastodon show that first drew us to designer/illustrator John Vogl’s work. Truth is that his great style and clever touch make it hard to find a print of his we don’t like.