Awesome Art

Celebrate your love for Studio Ghibli with this artful coffee table book. The 160-page book explores the history of the famed Japanese animation studio and its films. It includes director’s commentary, behind-the-scenes stories, and lots of animation art and promotional imagery. Released in 2022, it covers every movie through Earwig and the Witch.

Instantly upgrade skateboards, club bathrooms, and anything lame with some of the world’s coolest street art by slapping on a peel-off sticker from these two legendary Stickerbomb books. Updated for Laurence King, each edition is awesomer than ever with more than 300 artist-commissioned stickers. Grab both books: Stickerbomb 1 and Stickerbomb 2.

This artfully-illustrated deck of playing cards from Art of Play pays tribute to the work of prolific 20th-century artist Alexander Calder. The designs are inspired by the artist’s colorful paintings from the latter part of his career, including his lighthearted Card Players series. Each letter and number is derived from Calder’s handwriting.

A special gold foil edition of Dorothy’s mesmerizing poster that illustrates the history of rock and roll music. The print connects the dots between more than 1400 musicians, songwriters, and producers from the pioneering days of rock through the 21st century. Printed on deep black uncoated paper and fits in standard 60cm x 80cm frames.

Mattel Creations salutes Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami with a special version of the Magic 8-Ball. The fortune-telling sphere is decorated with Tanaami’s colorful and surreal imagery and includes answers inspired by the late artist. Comes artfully packaged with a certificate of authenticity. We also love their Fisher Price telephone 8-Ball.

Joseph Marr specializes in sculptures made out of sugar. As his profile with Great Big Story reveals, his edible creations often invert the stereotype of the eccentric artist. Joseph is absolutely baffled that people would lick and eat his works when they’re out in public. But he does love the interactive aspect of his material, as evidenced by his latest piece.

Humans since 1982 is back with another batch of its mesmerizing wall clock. The ClockClock 24 consists of 24 analog clock dials that, instead of telling the time individually, move in sync to form a digital display. This striking white on blue version was designed in partnership with Kit Kemp Design Studio. Limited to 100 units.

Paper artist Pei Haozheng used his steady hands and razor-sharp scissors to cut the longest contiguous strip of paper from a single sheet of A4 paper – just slightly smaller than U.S. letter size. The finished strip measured over 108 meters (354 ft.) long and Pei arranged it to look like a slice of a human brain and his signature.

This boxed set of postcards makes an excellent gift for any Star Wars fan. It includes 100 collectible postcards based on the franchise’s best and most memorable comic book covers. There are images dating back to the 1970s through the 2020s, with all of your favorite characters represented, from Chewbacca to Darth Vader to Grogu.

Each visit to Floor796 is like exploring world’s largest Where’s Waldo image. The website consists of a constantly-expanding isometric animation of life on the 796th floor of a huge space station. It’s packed with pop culture references, and the entire animation has been drawn by a single artist using a special browser-based editing tool. (Thanks, Rob!)

The latest edition of editor Julius Wiedemann’s coffee table book offers an A-Z catalog of some of the most influential manga creators ever. The 576-page hardcover book includes biographies and bibliographies, example art, and character descriptions from greats like Osamu Tezuka, Katsuhiro Otomo, and more.

Artist Kendra Norton’s unique coloring book has no outlines for you to color in. Instead, it’s filled with abstract blobs of color, and you draw the lines. Whether you doodle dinosaurs, flowers, buildings, or goldfish, go where your imagination takes you. In addition to the original, there are also Through the Seasons and Mindful Journeys editions.

This unique LEGO Art set uses more than 3000 pieces to create an eye-catching piece of wall art inspired by our galactic home, The Milky Way. Rather than using flat studs like some LEGO Art kits, this one has dimensionality, thanks to its clever use of bricks like flowers, hearts, grilles, slopes, and more. The finished artwork measures 26″ W x 16″ H x 2″ D.

Spring has sprung for Field Notes’ colorful Spring 2024 Quarterly Edition. Three original abstract designs by Chicago artist Emmy Star Brown grace the covers of this limited-edition 3-pack. Printed on high-quality cover stock, the artwork pops with contrasting glossy and dull varnishes. Inside are three page styles: ruled, dot graph, and plain.

Bentley’s latest masterpiece is a unique Bentayga Hybrid hand-painted by Stephen Wiltshire, MBE, an autistic savant architectural artist who can sketch detailed cityscapes after a single viewing. Titled “Belonging Bentayga,” the $200K+ Alpine Green car features 29 people and landmarks to embody the unity and diversity of our world while celebrating neurodivergence and craftsmanship.

Science expert Joe Myheck shows how he made a unique crown fit for a mermaid queen by pouring a crucible filled with molten metal into a vat of water-absorbing Orbeez gel beads. The metal he used is called Nordic gold – a colorful alloy composed of copper, aluminum, zinc, and tin.