Awesome Art & Design

Gaming Heads’ officially-licensed diorama recreates the famous Doom box cover art. It’s finished and painted by hand and has removable bullet effects. The Exclusive Edition has pulsing lights in its base. Standard version here.

(Spoilers) Mackevision shows off some of the visual effects it did for the fourth season of Game of Thrones. It’s like half of the things we saw on the show were enhanced or didn’t exist at all, from entire cities to wisps of smoke and fog.

Everything is awesome! Kite Bricks envisions a new approach to building, using interlocking blocks that work like giant LEGO blocks. They bricks would have built-in channels for cables and pipes, and snap-on wall and flooring sections.

Artist Laura Hartrich of Tiny Scissor Times handmade this impressive recreation of a classic Calvin and Hobbes scene using needle and thread. Sadly, we can’t have it, as her son is the lucky recipient of this awesome artwork.

Bangkok’s New World shopping mall was abandoned back in 1999. Later, an unknown person started populating its flooded basement with koi and catfish. Jesse Rockwell captured these amazing photos of its unusual residents.

Graphic artist and illustrator Mordi Levi created these 3D meshes of characters from Game of Thrones, but reduced the number of polygons to create a cool stylized visual effect. Can we play a video game with these characters now?

The Museum of Modern Art partnered with the irreverent Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan to release small replicas of L.O.V.E., his infamous anti-Fascist sculpture. Available as a snow globe and as a rotating music box.

Sculptor turned baker Annabel de Vetten is known for her morbid and horror-themed creations. She said she’s often asked what’s inside her decorated cakes, and what they taste like. This is Annabel’s answer.

For his River Collection, furniture maker Greg Klassen took discarded wood and then cut blue glass by hand to make them fit the contours of the wood. The resulting tables and sculptures look like rivers or lakes.

Ricochet Studios’ homage to an urban custom. Shoe Toss is a lamp with its bulbs housed in ceramic replicas of shoes. The literal power line delivers electricity to the bulbs via the laces. The shoes can be repositioned or removed.

The Design Prototype 100 (DP-100) is Aston Martin’s entry for Vision Gran Turismo in Gran Turismo 6. The concept car has a mid-mounted twin-turbocharged V8 engine that produces up to 800hp. Check out its life-size model here.

YouTuber Benjamin Dalsgaard Hughes shares this trippy painting in Windsor, England that reveals a different perspective depending on how you look at it. The trick is simpler than you think. We wonder if it works just as well in person.

As part of her I Want to Work for Nike portfolio, fashion designer Nerea Palacios modified some of the company’s soccer jerseys with a Game of Thrones theme. The Westeros Cup will probably require armor though.

Like Mercedes-Benz, Nissan also built a life-size model of its Concept 2020, the concept supercar that will be playable in Gran Turismo 6 this July. The model was displayed at the 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed.

Cartegram encourages smartphone users to explore and share. Pocket notebooks suggest loosely defined locales to find. Users then attach biodegradable stickers to the location, and snap an Instagram pic to share their journey.

will.i.am introduces 3DSystems’ Ekocycle Cube, a compact 3D printer designed to create objects using 25% post-consumer materials. We only wish you could stick plastic bottles directly into it instead of having to buy cartridges.