Awesome Art & Design

Using motion tracking tech and a grid of LED screens, AKQA designed Nike’s RISE basketball court to help provide training drills for young athletes, but to also put on an amazing lightshow. The NBA needs these now.

It seems like a simple concept, but its apparently quite tricky to create 1:1 scale edible playthings the way that designer Akihiro Mizuuchi did. We’re guessing that they’d be pretty tricky to build with unless you live in a refrigerator.

Paris-based artist Dimitri Tsykalov has a very cool collection of knit credit card art. When displayed in a gallery, the still-attached balls of yarn are placed on the floor to mimic the unraveling of financial markets around the globe.

Technicon Design’s concept luxury jetliner that replaces windows with panoramic projection surfaces which relay what’s outside the aircraft using video cameras. It’s a cool idea, but we can only imagine the glare on our laptop screens.

Kutani Choemon is a 130-year-old Japanese pottery shop that uses a 17th century style. But it can still keep up with us young ‘uns, as shown by its teacups that feature modern pastimes. The shop also has surfer chopstick stands.

Italian artist Pietro D’Angelo uses hundreds and hundreds of paperclips to create his amazing collection of figurative sculptures. They kind of make that paperclip necklace you put together at the office look just a tad inferior, don’t they?

Illustrator Doom CMYK has been mashing up Daft Punk with other pop culture characters. His latest combo transforms the disco duo into Optimus Prime and Megatron. Just 30 prints are being made, so order now. Stickers included.

Photographer Rob Whitworth and urban explorer JT Singh are back with another impressive motion time-lapse video, this time capturing North Korea’s seldom explored capital city, revealing a vibrant city that defies stereotypes.

Made by Andreas Bhend, Miilo is an extendable children’s bicycle. It starts out as a trainer bike, but you can upgrade it to a fixed gear bicycle using most of its existing parts to adapt to a child’s growth.

Researchers from CMU have come up with a way to load 3D models into 2D photos, allowing nearly seamless manipulation of the objects so they look like they’re part of the photo, complete with matching light and shadows.

Fueled by his lifelong fascination for stone architecture, historian Matthew Simmonds trained to become a stone carver. Some of his sculptures are miniatures of classical structures carved out of single chunks of marble.

While there are digital filters to make images look like paintings, Pixeli.st does it so much better, where real live human artists will handmake an oil painting of your digital image. Simply upload your image and they’ll do the rest.

(SPOILERS) Graphic designer Michael Tyznik’s transit maps for A Song of Ice and Fire‘s Westeros, as well as the whole Known World. The destinations, connections and status of certain lines allude to events in the series.

Lighten up your coffee with this clever glass creamer which looks like one of those restaurant coffee pots. And before you complain that the orange top means “decaf”, just remember that half-and-half has no caffeine either.

Winner of Oregon Manifest’s 2014 Bike Design Project, the Denny bicycle has a handlebar that doubles as a bike lock, a front carrying shelf, and a removable battery for its assistive motor, brake light, front light and turn signals.

Another impressive performance from Enra, combining projected animations with live action – in this case precisely matching the timing of Yusaku Mochizuki’s diabolo juggling with the digital images on screen.