Awesome Art & Design - Page 9 Of 158 On The Awesomer

LEGO fanatic Jason Allemann continues to add to his collection of sweet brick-built automatons. His latest construction is a mechanized cross-country skier who effortlessly glides across the smooth LEGO snow below his tiny plastic feet.

Woodworker Ollari’s shows us how – with enough talent and creativity – something as mundane as a hunk of old firewood can be transformed into a beautiful piece of art. We got a little nervous when he started drilling the holes, but it turned out brilliantly.

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While Corridor usually packs their videos with digital VFX, their latest clip was done entirely with in-camera effects. By dressing eight performers in identical garb, spinning them on a playground set, and time-lapse, they were able to create a dizzying real-life zoetrope.

Tested’s Adam Savage has built some incredibly complex projects, but here he returns to his model-making roots, and shows us how to make a completely unique robot sculpture using parts cobbled together parts from Weta Workshop’s Giant Killer Robots board game.

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Mark Rober has built a lot of fun and fascinating gadgets. He explains his process with his latest build – a rock skipping robot. Through rigorous research and testing, he was able not only to build the robot but to learn how rock skipping works as well.

For his latest build, LoreCraft created an amazing, life-size bust of one of our favorite characters of all time, the red-faced, smart-mouthed, and generally badass Hellboy, complete with his iconic devil’s horn stumps and a smoking cigar.

While the building has yet to be completed, we still are wowed by the idea that a 400 foot-tall skyscraper has a working 350 foot-tall waterfall built into its facade. The Liebian International Building is being built in Guiyang, China. Sadly, they can’t run it all the time.

By using a similar mechanism to the ones used in 3D printers, maker Josh Sheldon created an amazing robotic rig which can be used to guide a light source along a precise path. The result are some of the most beautifully smooth long-exposure light paintings we’ve ever seen.

BrickBros Productions is back with another great LEGO stop-motion clip. This time, it’s not their food they’re playing with, but power tools and LEGO lumber. We don’t recommend running your bricks through a table saw.

Add custom pixel animations to your favorite song while you blast it out of Divoom’s adorable omni-directional Bluetooth speaker that looks like a tiny retro TV set. Grab one for 20% off in The Awesomer Shop.

Vans collaborated with the Vincent Van Gogh Museum to create a collection of shoes and apparel featuring the late artist’s paintings. The proceeds from the collection will go to the museum to continue preserving Van Gogh’s legacy. Drops 8/03/18.

With the wealth of art at hand, we thought designing a comic book action figure would be easy. But artist Jason Fabok points out the back-and-forth process involved in turning a sketch into an action figure, using his work on the DC Essentials line as an example. Skip to 2:33.

Fabricator Brian Oltrogge walks us thorough a truly modern process for casting a custom hammer. He used a 3D printer to generate patterns, hand-sanded and smoothed the parts, then used them to make sand molds for its aluminum handle and lead head.

This slick piano has an display on top which shows the upcoming notes a la music video games, and LEDs that light up in reaction to the keys its pianist hits. Sadly, you can’t purchase this custom keyboard, so we’ll just have to drool over Rousseau’s one-off creation.

Etsy artist VictorianDollhouse created this series of baltic birch plywood models which let you create your own miniature sculptures of classic cars. Choose from the Citroen 2CV, Jaguar E-Type, Mazda Miata, Chevy Corvette Stingray, and Morgan 3-wheeler designs.

New Zealand filmmaker Phil Brough’s wonderful animated short tells the story of a fire brigade who attempts to save their city from a fire, but are frustrated by the fact that everything around them is made of cardboard – and apparently filled with gasoline.

(PG-13) Animator Jeron Braxton has a truly unique style that combines dreamlike imagery, with elements from pop culture and folk art, laced with intense socio-political commentary. In this trippy clip, a man starts off in a car race that ends up being a race for his life.

Product designer Sebastian Maluska came up with the Nest Tent, a simple and lightweight rooftop tent inspired by sailboats. It’s made of aluminum and waterproof sailing fabric. It can be installed in nearly any vehicle and acts as a rooftop rack when folded.

Heeeere’s an expensive way to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. Film and Furniture offers an officially licensed rug that bears the iconic pattern of the Overlook Hotel’s carpet. The rug measures about 95″x 67″. It’s also available as a runner.

Encyclopedia Pictura’s series of vignettes about a group of young friends is wildly inventive, from its adorable environments, to its character design, to its lighthearted story and dialogue, to its great voice acting. Animation junkies will definitely want to check this out.

Unlike most digital displays, Canvia adjusts its screen based on ambient lighting. The result is that its high resolution artworks look incredibly real. The app lets you choose from thousands of curated pieces for free, and there’s also a premium tier for even more choices.

Cooking expert Linda Nicholson aka “Salty Seattle” shows us how she makes some of her colorful rainbow-striped pasta without using any artificial ingredients. She uses flowers, vegetables, and spices to add the color to her pasta ribbons.

Video artist, music and comedy producer Nick DenBoer’s wild and crazy CG animation work can be seen in TV shows, music videos, and commercials. His latest showreel is packed with so much insanity that we couldn’t resist sharing it as a standalone work of entertainment.

Keep your bike from gathering dust, and keep your wall from getting banged up while brightening your storage space with these machine-washable bicycle covers. Each one is made from stretch jersey fabric and one size fits all bikes. Available in a variety of fun patterns.

Up for a fun and challenging project with a satisfying result? Look no further than this wooden model of a London-style double decker bus. Once you assemble all 216 laser-cut parts, you’ll have a working vehicle that can actually move up to 12 feet on rubber band power.

Created by Pindar, Hunter, and Dante Van Arman, CloudPainter is a robotic system designed to paint original artworks, using artificial intelligence to help it make creative decisions. Like human artists, it continues to improve and learn as its database grows.

Looking for a fun and modern accent for your garden or front porch? Skip the traditional garden gnome, and go with Plato Design’s Nino. This 13″ tall gnome features a brutalist, low-poly design cast into hand-worked cement. Available in white, grey, or pale pink.

Animator Georgios Cherouvim’s video for Poppy Edwards aka Crøm-lus ethereal track features fantastic imagery, manipulating footage of faces using an algorithm replicating the behavior of slime mold as it forms branch-like structures in search of nutrients.

Artist Keisuke Teshima demonstrates his technique for painting beautiful and dramatic images of dragons using sumi-e brushes. What really makes them special is how he uses a large brush loaded with multiple shades to create their bodies with a single stroke.

The Sega Arcade: Pop-Up History is a pop-up book that celebrates the work of game designer Yu Suzuki. It includes pop-up models of the arcade machines for Hang-On, Space Harrier, OutRun, ThunderBlade and After Burner along with their stories.