Awesome Art & Design

The music video for Love Is Making Its Way Back Home, a track from Josh Ritter’s new EP Bringing in the Darlings. The video was made by Prominent Figures using photographs of 12,000 paper cutouts.

Animator What Pixel You On takes the retro pixel art style and breathes new life into it by popping it into the third dimension. If our old Nintendos could have done this, we’d probably still be playing them.

We’ve seen a periodic table of tables, but this one’s more impressive. Wolfram Research co-founder Theodore Gray made this wooden table and filled each drawer (and his office) with element samples.

We’re not sure what legal mumbo-jumbo they pulled off, but Zip Zip has managed to make these colorful flash drives with cases that look a lot like LEGO bricks and are even stackable.

From Brook Aboud – who brought us the Slice of Pizza sleeping bag – comes another delicious looking and comfortable creation. Each chair comes with a butter pillow and is sewn and dyed by hand.

A brilliantly executed print campaign for Stihl Power Tools by Australia’s \WHYBIN \TWBA \TEQUILA inspiring us to go outside with clever references to modern technology.

Designer Jake Wright turns military waste into lighting fixtures and furniture. His creations take the equipment “out of their aggressive context” and highlight their form rather than their function.

We are loving these big twirly drawings that were made with footprints in new snow by artist Sonja Hinrichsen and 5 volunteers at Rabbit Ears Pass in Colorado. Watch a gorgeous vid of it here.

A collection of over 1000 personal drawings and concept images from his films. This 430 page hardcover book would do any coffee table proud. Deluxe Edition ($299) includes a signed lithograph.

A concept by Ukrainian designer Michael Samoriz, the Projector table lamp has 25 LEDs arranged in a square, calling to mind the huge spotlights in stadiums. This would go well with foosball tables.

250 VFX artists – including some from Hollywood – are contributing time to this Anime series about two lovers who have never physically met – yet are connected psychically. Help fund production here.

Designed by Aric Norine, the Stack is meant to provide an “infinite cycle of soap.” A new bar has a groove on top, allowing you to merge an old, smaller piece so that nothing is wasted.

No, it’s not a new Mac app. This short film shows artist Thijme Termaat creating works for his IPaint Project. The stop-motion and his skill makes real life seamlessly flow into his paintings and back.

Lisa Krowinski turned the entries from Jared Wunsch’s now defunct website into stationery. Some of the pick-up lines won’t be as effective as they are funny, but there are good ones in the mix.

Christopher Daniel’s unusual, but comfy looking chair is made from 59 individual components, held together by powerful magnets. When not in use, it can be turned into a solid cube.

Julie Bender doesn’t paint with pigments; her tool of choice is heat. She specializes in pyrography – a technique that involves using a heated implement to scorch materials like wood, paper or leather.

Logical Art designed the smartly styled pieces in their Empty Memory jewelry collection to double as flash drives. They are sold out at the moment but are accepting pre-orders for a new batch.

(NSFW: Nudity) We wish we could give these killer graphite drawings from artist Melissa Cooke’s current project The Between Spaces (and the rest of her work actually) a closer look.

Graphic designer and artist David Marsh uses Pantone swatch graphics in Adobe Illustrator to produce these nifty looking recreations of classic album covers. Follow the link for more.

Schreer Delights recently made a line of iPhone cases paying tribute to the classic Mac products you can’t let go. Demand was high but supply was not. Hopefully they’re back up for sale soon.

Digital print house MOO steps up their game with their luxurious new business card line, printed on super-thick 32pt Mohawk card stock, with four-color printing and a color sandwiched in the middle.

Takanori Aiba’s collection of miniature structures were inspired by his earlier experiences in making bonsai and illustrating mazes. The detailed beauty of each work is mind-boggling.

With shattered bits of old CDs, Sean Avery creates intricate sculptural animals, insects and birds, making fur and feathers from the shards. Where was this guy back in the AOL days?