Awesome Art & Design

From the happiest place on earth to scary as hell: Jeffrey Thomas’ Twisted Disney Princesses are fantastically wicked makeovers of Alice, Pocahantas, Mulan and Snow White.

The euro-trash dance moves don’t quite do it for us, but we still like Lichtfaktor’s Light Graffiti; each performer holds a light spray can with kinetic battery that is rendered live on screens.

It’s fairly slow-paced, but JumpTrumpRumpBump’s trippy plot, jazzy music, and funky animations make up for it; each frame literally looks like a standalone art piece.

While Made of Myth focused on decay, Patrick Runte’s Jump and Run brings video games to life with actors in familiar costumes reenacting Space Invaders, Pac Man and more.

Swank it is not, but this Marvel Comic Mural will elevate your geek cred to superhero status; it spans 9′ x 15′ and is plastered with comic book covers from the X-Men, Hulk and Thor.

Games aren’t made in cubicles but factories: French magazine Amusement’s Made of Myth feature posits a world filled with forges for Sonic’s rings and discarded Tetris bricks.

Finnish artist Markku Lahdesmaki’s art features a googly-eyed robot with a frightening resemblance to Futurama’s Bender; it’s still pretty cool, albeit pricy at 3-4 figures a piece.

Travis Pitts’ Zombiganda Posters envision an alternate reality America fighting undead instead of WW2; our favorite: ZOM-BOT, whose arms turn into spinning blades of zombie death.

Worth1000.com’s latest photoshop contest is Tolkien on overdrive: Middle Earth 2009 takes the Shire and applies a thick (and often controversial) coat of post-modern symbolism.

Installed outside a Montreal ticket office, Moment Factory’s LED Video Wall uses tracking devices to interact with passersby in seemingly random ways, often without their knowledge.

Aissa Logerot’s Halo Light Writer makes tagging geeky, swapping aerosol with photons; you’ll be able to change intensity and color, but charging the battery is old-school: shake the can.

Experience The Planets is an ongoing art project that visualizes our solar system through the eyes of artists; it’s developed by Greg Martin, who knows a thing or two about space art.

These building facade projections just keep getting better and better: 555 KubiK is a step up from the Castle, with a pair of hands and sound effects adding to the already cool 3D trickery.

Jess Bachman’s 2010 Death and Taxes poster is an exciting one for bean counters and watchdogs alike: a new administration equals plenty of shuffling for our precious tax dollars.

Our arboreal friends are the last ones we’d think to be noisemakers, but Diego Stocco’s Music From A Tree brings their numerous twigs, branches and leaves to life with an array of mics.

It’s almost more movie mayhem that we can handle: Tim Doyle’s Crazy 4 Cult 3-D poster is packed with about 40 weapons from cult movies with varying levels of obscurity.

Even if you’re a Super Smash Bros Brawl expert, Brawl will show your favorite characters in a completely new light: it’s real people in odd costumes and with even odder poses.

Think twice when you bite down on a Christmas treat: Jason Freeny, who did the Lego and Gummi Bear schematics, is back with the positively gut-wrenching Gingerbread Man Dissected.

Dion Briggs takes a slight break from his exploded tees with the Mac Poster Trilogy; it features one lithograph and two screenprints that should leave Apple fans peachy keen.

Stefan Le Du’s Stormtroopers 365 is an ongoing art project using our favorite weak-willed Imperial minions in often-compromising positions; he’s shooting one new pic every day.

Installed at the Goodwood Festival in England, Gerry Gudah’s Audi Central Display stands a whopping 105 feet high; it features an R8 on one end and a 1937 Streamliner at the other.

Instead of throwing out his kids’ toys, artist Robert Bradford creates sculptures made entirely from plastic toys; he’s been known to pack in up to 3,000 toys, all held together by screws.

If you want to Get Zombified, artist Joel Harris will do it for free; UPDATE: due to extreme popularity, the promotion is over but you can still get zombified for a discounted rate of $15.