Awesome Art & Design

Established by Mehdi Ghadyanloo and backed by the government of Tehran, Blue Sky Painters turns drab buliding facades in Iran’s capital into murals with eye-catching illusions or drawings that interact with their surroundings.

The Ground Unmanned Support Surrogate (GUSS) is a US Marines proof-of-concept autonomous vehicle. It can be controlled remotely, follow its remote control, drive to a waypoint and operated like a normal vehicle.

That’s no moon. It’s not a space station either. Unlike its predecessors, this Death Star is fully operational… as a rug. This officially-licensed rug is made of polyester pile and has a 52″ diameter. Much fancier, unofficial version here.

Artist Michael Murphy created these cool hanging pieces for the Nike Store Berlin which look like Michael Jordan when viewed head on, but disintegrate into important icons of his career when viewed from the side.

As part of its new Space series, City Prints has created this stunning lunar image which maps out the landing sites of all of NASA’s lunar missions. Available framed, matted or in custom sizes or printed on custom substrates.

Designed by Chinese architecture collective, Penda, this temporary dwelling, constructed from bamboo and rope modules, is designed to allow visitors to sleep in the midst of nature without any impact to its surroundings.

This amazing window display for Hermès was created by Thibault Zimmermann and Lucie Thomas aka Zim&Zou, who we’ve featured previously. While many of the objects are papercraft, the fox was made from leather.

Dangerdust is the moniker of two (partially) anonymous Columbus College of Art & Design students. Every week, they make impressive typographic chalk art of a memorable quote and leave it on campus. Learn more about them here.

Mustard’s amusing 9-inch ceramic plates let you make fun of wild animals without the risk of them chewing your limbs off. Available in lion, gorilla, giraffe and panda bear designs. Dishwasher and microwave safe too. Woot!

Artists Walter Hugo & Zoniel installed a tank filled with jellyfish behind the windows of an abandoned building in Liverpool, England. The outer garage door only lifts at night to expose the amazing glowing creatures within.

Believe it or not, these objects are actually made from wood. Artist Tom Pfannerstill found some discarded and worn out packaging of everyday things and painstakingly recreated them out of basswood and paint.

The EO1 is a low power computer designed strictly to display images – including animated gifs – and Javascript animation. It has a 23″ 1080p IPS display in portrait mode. You can easily change what’s on display via a mobile app.

The Virtual Windscreen Concept is a track-oriented heads up display. Similar to the interface in driving games, it can show data such as GPS, lap times and racing lines. It will even let you race against a “ghost” car.

While the vast majority of wall clocks use hands which rotate around a center point, designer Karl Dierenbach’s clever and minimal ChronoDisc tells time using two easy-to-read pointers which spin on an off-center orbit.

(NSFW) A brilliantly animated, hand-painted music video for The Peach Kings’ fuzz-rock track Mojo Thunder. Its use of light on dark illustration is truly stunning. Created by Ataboy, Kris Merc, Benjy Brooke and Vikkal Parikh.

Using Scantech’s SL 3D scanner and a 5-axis Breton CNC machine, they were able to precisely recreate a damaged stone gargoyle from Denmark’s Kronborg Castle. Imagine the work it would have taken to do the job by hand.