Awesome Art

Watch the Airigami team assemble one of their latest creations at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. It’s a 20-foot balloon acrocanthosaurus, accompanied by balloon plants and insects. More photos here.

Johan Scherft makes realistic life-size papercraft scale models of birds. He makes templates on a PC then paints the printed templates by hand. He also has a few colored templates on his site and tutorials on YouTube.

Artist Jeff Nichol pays tribute to the great Willie Nelson with an amazing paper cut portrait in honor of the Red Headed Stranger’s 80th birthday. The track is a chill remix of Willie’s Georgia on My Mind by Worldwide Groove Corp.

Mike Mitchell shows his love of the movies by creating his digitally produced collection of favorite film characters; if you’re in Austin 4/26-5/25/13, check them out in person at Mondo.

DIY Print Shop sells kits that contain almost everything you need to make screen printed posters or T-shirts, including a manual and instructional DVD. You’ll have to supply the electronic printer though.

UK artist Dylan Shields crafts his intricate sculptures out of old potato chip boxes and packing tape. Much of what he creates is rather epic, which fits with his use of biblical themes.

(Some images NSFW) Artist Ben Frost has chosen an unusual canvas for his art – he uses McDonald’s iconic french fry packaging as the backdrop for some of his pop art paintings. Only one question: Where’s Frylock?

Designed by Lucien Langton, the FireWriter is a dot-matrix printer that uses a torch to burn images into a surface instead of ink. Not only is it highly impractical, it’s a major fire hazard. Still, the ink cartridges are a bargain.

A group of art students at the UK’s University of Derby have been creating a series of images using the CMYK halftone technique to reproduce color photos – with one minor difference – they’re drawing every single dot by hand.

Steffen Heidemann & Viktoria Klein create these 50 x 70cm (~20 x 27.5″) silkscreened astronomical charts, worthy of display in any home or office. Choose from Northern or Southern skies and various color combinations.

French artist Jeremy Laffon creates spiraling towers and sculptures using the humble material of chewing gum, then documents their decline in video and photographs by applying heat to slump the structure.

Dan and Dave collaborated with design agency Stranger & Stranger to create this gorgeous playing card deck. Each its 54 cards is a unique work of art. Comes packed in a cool embossed and foiled box, sealed with a retro tax stamp.

Artist Mark Wagner creates unbelievably intricate collages using U.S. currency. His diverse portfolio ranges from faces to plants to animals to complex scenes and his 14-panel masterwork – Lady Liberty. More here.

Encourage your kids – or your inner child – to doodle with Burgerdoodles color-in wallpaper. It’ll take you a while to fill in the 394″ x 20.5″ sheet. Want to start from scratch? Check out these special paints instead.

Made by Mike Doyle, this fictional alien city measures 5′ high and 6′ wide. It’s made of over 200,000 LEGO pieces and took him over 600 hours to complete. You can buy plans, prints and DIY kits of parts of the city on Kickstarter.

Woodies takes Converse Chucks or Vans Slip-Ons and prints their own designs or your custom creations directly onto the shoes. No artistic vision? Their graphic design team will help ensure you have the coolest kicks on the block.

Given how Anakin built C-3PO, it’s only appropriate that artist Gabriel Dishaw make a bust of the helpful robot using scrap from computers, calculators, adding machines, printers and typewriters.

Artist Daniel Rozin’s latest interactive creation uses 465 motors and spokes to create geometric shapes, wavy lines, and replicates the movements of those who stand in front of it. Available through Bitforms Gallery NYC.

Give your walls an elegant and edgy boost by covering them with memento mori; these iconic (and stylish) golden Sugar Skulls represent Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations.

Terrestrial artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada created this gigantic portrait of a woman’s fierce gaze the size of two football fields to help Dutch feminist organization Mama Cash promote the protection of women’s rights around the world.

You might put an eye out with the extra pointy ears on this awesome 3D printed bust of The Dark Knight, created by artist Metin Seven, and available from Shapeways. Measures ~4.7″ tall, and available in a variety of materials.

Artist Jurgen Kuipers built a 1:1 scale model kit of his award-winning bicycle, the Sawyer. The bicycle’s unique plywood frame and drivetrain gives it the profile of a lowrider motorcycle.

(NSFW: Language) Artist Jay Shells made more than 30 official-looking signs with rap lyrics that called out streets and other areas in New York. Animal followed him around as he posted the signs in the referenced locations.