Awesome Art & Design

Eric Grohe specializes in making murals that provide the illusion of depth. It takes Grohe up to a year to finish a project, because he studies exactly how shadows fall on the wall he’s painting over.

A zoetrope uses slits and motion to make pictures blend and give the illusion of motion. Pixar made a zoetrope at Disney’s California Adventure Park, but they used sculptures and strobe lights instead.

Composed entirely from lights that artist Chateau Bezerra found throughout New York City, this experimental music video synchronizes perfectly with Gorilllaz track On Melancholy Hill.

How can Marc Cameron and Mark Brown improve on their prior light graffiti car images? With enhanced light, cleaner lines and more elite motors, like the Ariel Atom and Ferrari 458 Italia.

UK-based movie magazine Little White Lies often have awesome art on their cover. Thankfully, they’ve decided to sell copies of the illustrations as prints. The Tron print is so bad ass.

Made by digital artist Joshua Davis and Microsoft to promote the hardware acceleration and HTML5 support of Internet Explorer 9. Draw gestures and watch traces of other artwork bloom in its wake.

Furni and Kitsune Noir collaborated with artist UPSO to create Neverend Clock #2. Features laser-etched Russian birch plywood with kick ass mustache clock hands. Limited to 88 pieces.

Michael Graves’ steeply sloped, Dutch-style peaked roofs and dormers compliment the historic surroundings of the Louwman Collection, the National Automobile Museum of the Netherlands.

Despite Ralph Lauren’s boasts, this isn’t exactly the first time we’ve seen projection mapping. Outrageous “4D” claims aside, the light show is fun to watch. Check out the London version here.

The 2010 World Architecture Festival has honored the ultra-linear MAXXI, the National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome designed by Zaha Hadid Architects, with the World Building of the Year title.

The Blackmail Postcards pack contains two blank cards as well as over 250 assorted self-adhesive letters, so you can easily create your own ransom note-style messages. Or actual ransom notes.

A hilarious set with almost all male Star Wars characters. Admiral Ackbar’s pinup will send shivers down your spine and puke in your mouth. Available as prints, iPhone cases and iPod skins.

At first glance, you’d think that you were looking at some sort of 3-dimensional sculpture, but these are just flat sheets of paper, illustrated with incredible depth by Chilean artist Fredo.

Bitplay INC specialize in designing gadgets that are fun to use. Their Bang! concept lamp has a gun-shaped remote used to switch it off. The shade even tips to the side when the lamp is “hit”.

Check out Barbarann Garrard’s too cool Kill Bill-inspired cake, with bride and bullet bottom, crazy 88’s in the middle and Beatrice’s O-Ren Ishii fighting suit on top. Bonus: edible Death List Five.

We don’t know what posessed Brandon Ortwein to draw iconic vehicles as vans, but the end results are funny but still recognizable. Available as prints, iPhone/iPod Touch cases and laptop skins.

You’d think that modern movies would just use digital effects to create sounds, but there’s still a need for the professional Foley artist, who crafts noises with just their body, props, and mouth.

We’ve seen scoop shaped tortilla chips that help you get more salsa on the chip, but this spoon-shaped corn chip concept by Denis Bostandzic is brilliant. Frito-Lay, you’d better get on it now.

Earlier this year, Mark Pernice took a distorted self-portrait from Apple Photo Booth and worked with a sculptor to turn it into a real mask. Now you can help him raise funds to make a whole series.

Tokyo’s Daisuke Motogi created this comfy chair that can hold all your books, remotes, gadgets and other small objects in the cracks between its soft blocks. Just don’t lose your pocket change in it.

Artist Federico Uribe had been making artwork using shoes when Puma sent him a bunch of different colored laces. Then inspiration struck. Uribe’s “paintings” now fetch as much as $70,000.

To make this coffee shop fit in, Nemaworkshop used the nearby Bryant Park Library for inspiration – and came up with a library turned on its side. The “books” are actually pictures on custom tiles.

Sure, your watch, phone and computer already have one built-in, but you’ll have fun forming and arranging digits on this old school calendar. Made using laser-cut acrylic and wood veneer.