Awesome Art & Design

Just because there’s a giant washing machine robot hovering over crowds of screaming masses running from flaming buildings doesn’t mean that it necessarily means them harm… or does it?

This side-scrolling beat-em-up finally hit XBLA and PSN, and it’s well worth the wait. Tons of weapons, local co-op mode, great looks and a story from the writer of God of War add up to a great game.

The talented Faith Pearson was challenged with incorporating old ink cartridges into her artwork. She transformed them into geeky, humorous works of art with heavy sci-fi and pop culture references.

Chinese artist Ju Duoqi likes to play with her food, recreating classic paintings using precisely diced and sliced veggies. With such knife skills, she’s our write-in nominee for Top Chef.

Japanese subways are filled with posters reminding commuters of proper manners. These posters from the 70s and 80s are done with a variety of styles. Can you guess what they’re saying? More here.

These Sentinel playing cards, a collaboration from theory11 and Hatch, are absolutely gorgeous inside and out, from the original art on the cards to the metallic accents and on the sleek and sturdy box.

Choi+Shine‘s entry in the Icelandic High-Voltage Electrical Pylon International Design Competition turns pylons into statues. Frankly, we’re more surprised that there’s a pylon design competition.

Adam Sidwell draws a pop culture bad dude every week, and all of his work has been wicked so far, from Tyler Durden to Sam Fisher. Buy his posters and inject a heavy dose of bad-ass to your life.

We’re not sure if this is a one-shot or a pilot episode for a series, but either way it’s worth watching. Gluko & Lennon is a funny animated short with a quirky and beautiful art style.

A beautiful short film made by Will Hoffman and Daniel Mercadante for Radiolab’s Words podcast, WORDS plays a game of word association while barely using any spoken language.

Done a promotional stunt for Epson, this full-scale replica of an Acura NSX race car was made entirely from paper (and maybe a little glue). We’d be more impressed if they could make it drive.

Kris Kuksi is an American artist whose distaste for typical American life and pop culture shows in his extraordinary, grotesque sculptures, which focus on the fallacies and fragility of mankind.

Urban projection experts Macula used the facade of the Hilton hotel in Prague as the canvas for their hypnotizing light show. Check out more of Macula’s magic on their website.

The fact that an artist named “Toastman” has been making giant artworks out of burnt toast for the last 10 years is awesome enough, but his latest, da Vinci’s classic, is a true masterpiece (of toast).

Hector Lopez‘ illustration combines three of our favorite things, sharks, giant dinosaurs, and robots. This thing needs to be made real, or at least turned into a movie on the SyFy channel.

Dalton Ghetti is an insanely talented artist who makes detailed sculptures using the graphite tip of pencils. Odd Stuff Magazine has more pictures as well as an interview with Ghetti.

Show your loyalty to Google’s mobile OS as well as your creativity with one of these blank Android mini-collectibles. Each one is the perfect canvas for your ideas. Design ideas courtesy of Gizmodo.

These unassuming sculptures of popular cartoon characters were made by artist John Hopkins. They’re actually made of several disproportionate parts. See more of Hopkins’ work here.

Artist Olly Moss created these wicked retro movie posters for the Alamo Drafthouse Rolling Roadshow, a nationwide tour of famous movies in famous places. Check out the rest of ’em here.

Sit back with your iPad and enjoy this artful short by MattsMacintosh which walks us through the major evolution in Apple’s industrial design over the last 30 or so years. My how far we have come.

We can hardly believe it ourselves, but these beautiful animated scenes – reminiscent of the backgrounds in old LucasArts adventures – were entirely coded in HTML5 using 8-bit color cycling.

Robert Burden makes amazing tapestry-style paintings of the action figures he loved as a child, from G.I. Joe to Voltron to Hulk Hogan. Print versions of his paintings are for sale at his website.

For almost 20 years now, the farmers of the town of Inokodate in the Aomori prefecture in Japan have been making amazing illustrations using only different colored rice plants.