Awesome Art & Design

A curvy wood chair that combines a place to read your books along with shelves to store them in. Kindle, Nook and iPad fans will need to fill those cubbies with some other tchotchkes.

Joey the War Horse is a stunningly lifelike puppet made by the Handspring Puppet Company. We’d recommend you watch the whole video, but if you want you can skip to 9:00 to see Joey in action.

This concept lets you break off tiny slivers of soap so you can wash your hands without ever defiling a shared block of soap with your germs. You could just use pump soap, but this looks way cooler.

Like many people, Dave Hakkens has a habit of chewing on his pen. He eventually found a type of candy that doesn’t stick or melt easily and used it to create his edible pen, which also uses edible ink.

Created by Dana Krieger for Seattle’s TEAGUE, this urban bike concept would offer integral LED electric turn signals in the handlebars, a red brake light and TRON-like electroluminescent frame lighting.

You’re looking at the future of vending machines. With a 47-inch touchscreen and a camera, the Acure guesses the gender and age of the customer to help make product recommendations.

This Kickstarter-funded software will let you design your own chair, share it online, and have it digitally fabricated using a service like Ponoko. A physics engine even tests chairs for stability and comfort.

Next time your boss demands copies of that TPS report ASAP, express your apathy by stampling them all together with the latest in stapler-rubber-stamp technology. Take that, evil boss!

This concept writing instrument from Monocomplex measures the distance between two points by drawing a line – straight or curved, the distance would display on an embedded LED display.

Buenos Aires-based artist Max Dalton created a supercool poster featuring The Pulp Fiction Action Figure Collection for an upcoming art show in New York. Wish we could be there to see it in person.

Tim Wheatley cobbled together a zoetrope using a bicycle wheel and a camera. Unlike a traditional zoetrope, the Cyclotrope can use not only images but actual objects to give the illusion of motion.

From Alex Profit – the man who directed Around the World in 80 seconds – comes this much longer stop motion trip around the world, covering eight beautiful cities from different countries.

These substantial steel desktop dumpsters sporting urban art from SteelPlant are conversation-grabbers. They’re cut, formed, and welded up from 14 gauge solid recycled steel. (Thanks Ryan!)

A short survey of the progression of opening credits from movies and TV shows over the years, made by Ian Albinson, Editor-in-Chief of Art of the Title, a website dedicated to great title design.

A limited-edition art book by DB Burkeman & Monica LoCascio, showcasing approximately 4,000 stickers with themes ranging from music to brands to street art. Includes 23 designer die-cut stickers.

Duane Keiser cleverly combines painting and video to make an analog animation of sorts. He makes a painting of a tangerine and then proceeds to modify the painted fruit until it’s, well, peeled.

Designer Andrew Kim’s stand holds an iPad, iPhone, iPod, and even a stylus all in one compact unit. Made from laser-cut plywood, acrylic and birch, we’d love to see it made into a product.

We can’t tell you the specs for Samir Sadikhov’s GT racer because it doesn’t exist anywhere but on his computer – so let’s just pretend it’s got 1200 horsepower and goes 0-to-60 in 1 second flat.

Martin Backes’ Pixelhead mask is a humorous attempt to take back anonymity in our increasingly invasive world. They’re more like improved burglar masks to us. Contact Martin if you want to buy one.

Previously featured for his pencil/photo mashups, artist Ben Heine has a unique new technique – creating entire portraits from a series of perfect circles with only Photoshop CS4 and his raw talent.

Luc Besson is best known for The Fifth Element and The Professional. Here, the director tries his hand at CG animation in a whimsical short film for Renault, which translates to “Extraordinary Breath”.

How can you not love this duo uof East Village apartments, conjoined by a metal slide – so occupants can quickly descend from the office above to the living area below. Up requires stairs.

With Zack Snyder’s Sucker Punch just days away, animator Ben Hibon created this striking animated film, providing backstory to the birth of the film’s army of reanimated human/steampunk soldiers.