Awesome Art & Design

Etsy store ResinArtYPCShop makes this soothing nightlight diorama featuring The Legend of Zelda’s Master Sword resting in a mossy green field. It measures about 6″ tall and 3″ wide, although the dimensions vary slightly across orders because each one is handmade. It comes with a 55″ cord with a built-in switch and is powered via USB-A.

We’d tell you the specs of the SL-1200M7B, but we all know what it’s all about. Technics teamed up with Lamborghini to create this slick-looking turntable. It comes with a Lambo badge slipmat and a vinyl record that contains engine growls of the supercar maker’s flagship models. The record is designed to look like a wheel from the Revuelto.

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT language model GPT-4o can respond to and with text, audio, images, and video. But perhaps more scarily amazing is that in Voice Mode – which allows it to respond using an AI-generated voice – it’s as snappy and natural-sounding as a human. GPT-4o is available even to free users, but using it in Voice Mode is limited to paid subscribers.

This cool retro LEGO kit is based on the design of a 1970s portable AM/FM radio. The 906-piece kit has working power and tuning dials, a movable antenna, and a carrying handle. It includes a Sound Brick with fun vintage radio sounds, and you can place your smartphone behind its speaker grille to listen to your own tunes. Drops 6.1.2024.

These playful playing cards from magician Bao Hoang’s company BAOBAO Restaurant are the perfect deck for sushi lovers. The box art is designed to look like a bento box full of sushi, while each card is decorated with artwork inspired by delicious Japanese meals – and the royal court is chowing down. Choose from salmon or tuna nigiri card backs.

Inspired by the car launching mechanism on Hot Wheels tracks, Stuff Made Here made a precision-guided disc launcher. He thought it would be a simple matter of making more and bigger launchers, but fate and physics had other plans. Watch him suffer but soldier on in one of the most entertaining DIY videos we’ve ever watched.

Artist Blake McFarland continues to wow us with his amazing sculptures. His latest creation is a replica of a human skull that he carved from a black walnut burl and epoxy resin. He started with a chainsaw and then refined its shape using rotary tools. He also made a silicone mold to duplicate the design. The original skull can be yours if you’ve got $12,500 to spare.

Filmmaker Paul Trillo used OpenAI’s generative video tool Sora to help create the music video for The Hardest Part from singer-songwriter Washed Out. Rather than attempting to replicate reality, the video takes us on a surreal and dreamlike journey through the lives a young couple. We think it’s a smart use of AI to bring a creative vision to life.

Japanese swordsmiths have been making bladed weapons for centuries. Veritasium offers a scientific explanation of the process, starting with a charcoal smelting method that produces steel from tiny deposits of iron sand collected from riverbeds. After that, a swordsmith forges, folds, and welds different kinds of steel to create a beautiful and sharp blade.

Workspace Hero’s DeskRail is a 3D-printed modular desk organizer system. The base rail comes with a strip of 3M adhesive. With the rail installed, you can now mount its various attachments, such as a phone holder and a cable holder, and slide them along the length of the rail. You can also purchase just the 3D files for the rail and its attachments.

After looking at his house cat, artist Bobby Duke was inspired to sculpt a model of a feline skull out of an 8-ball. Rather than going with the domesticated model, he transported back to prehistoric times and crafted a sabertooth cat skull. Coincidentally, Bobby used tools from Saburrtooth to carve the sculpture. He ended up making its teeth out of a cue ball.

This unique rocking chair from South Korean artist Muddycap has a design that makes it look like it’s in motion all of the time. Its jagged edges create the illusion of movement, much like pond ripples. Like Muddycap’s other wild chair designs, it only exists as a 3D model, but we’d love to see it put into production.

Ever wonder why statues and other geeky collectibles cost hundreds or even thousands of dollars? Watch artist Chie Izuma in action, and you’ll understand. Watch her meticulously paint the $700 Sideshow Collectibles Batgirl statue, eyeballing it all the way. Remember, she does this for each statue, and this is just one step in the whole process.

Old Things Never Die picked up a rare and rusty U.S.A.F. GEMINI X-5 toy spaceship on eBay. After disassembling all of its parts, he got to work sandblasting away the rust, polishing the plastics, and then painstakingly reapplying paint to make it look as good as new. He also had to replace its motor and rebuild its driving mechanism.

Woodworker Neil Paskin recently made a bunch of beautiful patterned wood veneers. After making a small box that incorporated them, he ramped up the challenge by building a tabletop covered with the patterns. Neil estimates that the pattern has 55,000 individual slivers of wood in it. It looks like a laborious process, but the finished table looks fantastic.

Craving coffee at your desk? It’s easy enough to pick up a Keurig that brews on demand. But that wasn’t good enough for Martina from Nerdforge. Her idea? Make a PC with a built-in coffee maker. What she fabricated was a working gaming PC that grinds beans and brews a single cup off coffee. She built it into the enormous Corsair Obsidian 1000D tower case.

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.

A number of makers participated in The Viking Challenge. Among them is DiesInEveryFilm, who avoided the more popular bladed weapons and went with a war hammer. He built it using a hollow steel tube, thick steel plates, and a wood handle with brass and leather accents. Check out all of the Viking Challenge videos, then cast your vote for your fave.

Director and animator Elizabeth Fijalkowski created this wonderfully off-kilter short film about an elderly entomologist who becomes obsessed with collecting an unusual moth that has eluded him for years. The creepy soundtrack by Daniel Carpenter and Foley work by Orb Community Arts help set the tone.

Arist and filmmaker Max Kolomatsky has been using his talent to be a sneaky Good Samaritan to his fellow New Yorkers. He makes better versions of flyers and signs posted by individuals or small businesses around the city, replacing the original ones free of charge and without telling the people who posted them.

Artist Scott Sloan previously wowed us with his 1:6-scale mini pinball machines. Now, he’s showing off a miniature vending machine that actually dispenses tiny soda cans. It’s based on a classic 1970s Dixie Narco soda machine and works just like the real thing, complete with a coin mechanism. We love the funny Q*Bert sounds it makes.

YouTuber Not from Concentrate was so disappointed with the “slim” PS5 that he painstakingly showed Sony what a truly compact version of the console should be. The result is a box with almost half the size and nearly 40% of the volume of the PS5 Slim. It even has a removable magnetic charging dock for the controllers and an external disc drive.

We’ve seen how they make disco balls in the last American mirror ball factory; now see how they do it in Japan. Nissho Co., Ltd. makes shiny spheres by bending sheet metal into domes, screwing them together, hand-cutting and gluing hundred of round mirror tiles then filling the gaps with grout. Note that the tiles are different sizes depending on their placement.