Awesome Art & Design

“What do you want to be when you grow up?” Ogilvy Brazil asked the perennial question to kids in this ad for the Red Balloon English School and turned their answers into business cards.

A cartoon re-telling of Swan Lake made the old-fashioned way – with pen and paper. Also it stars sumo wrestlers. Greg Holfeld spent 5 weeks drawing a total of 1300 stills to make the cartoon.

A brilliant short film about two containers of milk, made by Catsnake for Friends of the Earth. The props and scenes are so effective, we constantly had to check if the containers were animated.

Jillian Mayer has a message for her future grandchild: “That incomprehensible old hag is not me, that bedridden body is not me, that corpse is not me. This is me, child. Also, babies are scary.”

Illustrator A.J. Hateley’s ongoing series Thirty Days of Videogames features beautiful vintage-style fake book covers inspired by videogames. You can get some of them as prints here.

A Skywalker Ranch staff bike pimped with an Episode V theme. Accessories include a Hasbro AT-AT head, Master Replicas FX lightsabers, and a chrome Vader head from a PEZ dispenser.

Hao-Chun Huang‘s Flexbook concept has hinges at the center of its keyboard and display, so it has an e-reader, tablet and laptop mode. It also has a waterproof keyboard and swappable rubber skins.

Al Farrow uses ammunition and firearms to make amazing religious sculptures, such as miniature churches, mosques, synagogues. Pictures taken by Meighan O’Toole; more at her Flickr page.

Etsy seller Pipe Dreams 2010 makes beautiful puzzles of continents and countries using laser-cut wood. Each piece has a magnet on its back so you can display them separately or as one.

(Possible Spoilers) Flickr user wd.farmer loved the 50s style art and icons in Portal 2 so much and decided to make posters out of them, along with quotes from Aperture Science CEO Cave Johnson.

Designed and produced by professional musicians, HANDSON’s PePaKuRa are detailed pre-cut miniature paper models of musical instruments. Watch a violin PePaKuRa being assembled here.

You don’t need to be a geek to know how to pop open a cold one with Art Lebedev’s Ctrl+O bottle opener, although Windows users would appreciate the reference more than Mac fans.

Inspired by an article by Dave Philipps published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, Dorothy used a medium that glamorizes war and violence to reveal the darker reality that soldiers live through.

Designed by John Greg Ball, the Subsonic Chair’s two 16″ subwoofers and two 4″ midrange speakers will let you thoroughly rock out to your favorite music, video or video game while sitting.

These World War II monuments built throughout Yugoslavia now stand neglected and forgotten. Photographer Jan Kempenaers captured these hollow symbols in his book Spomenik.

Mike Joos has a series of prints featuring popular characters both real and fictional riding their very own custom bikes – with a couple of exceptions. You can also order the prints as T-shirts.