Bowie covers by graphic designer Todd Alcott.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
A nifty promotional papercraft camera complete with interchangeable lenses and removable flash by Seoul based design company DOTMOT.
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Brad Russell and the rather beautiful results of an extremely dangerous practice – connecting the 2000V transformer from a microwave oven to sheets of wood painted with sodium bicarbonate: tree-like electrical discharge patterns known as Lichtenberg figures which he then overlays, fills, colours and varnishes into art pieces.
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The intricate and ingenious folded paper art of Ekaterina Lukasheva – matt and iridescent paperworks that expand and contract, encapsulating two different forms in one.
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A very satisfying time-lapse video (with equally pleasing speeded-up carpentry sound effects) of luthier Patrick Hufschmid creating the neck and body of one of his hand-built electric guitars, a gig at which he is no slouch.
The art of ‘book sculptor’ Emma Taylor, who tells new stories with old books rescued from charity and second hand shops.
Using only glue, scissors and the pages of the books she carves, Taylor also themes her sculptures in keeping with the subject matter of the books they’re made from, ie. a garden scene emerging from ‘An Introduction to Botany’ and Italian houses hewn from ‘The Story of Venice’.
The free-standing and wall-mounted optical illusions of New York artist, former tape-scaper and dimensional monkeyshine practitioner Aakash Nihalani.
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An apartment building in Utrecht transformed into a giant bookcase (filled with the favourite reads of its residents) in a mural by Dutch street artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed.
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Thousands of stainless steel razor blades welded and linked together to form clothes, shoes and other pleasingly hazardous objects by Bangladeshi artist Tayeba Begum Lipi.