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Striking Gallery of Iconic Celebrities using Matchbooks | Helablog - StumbleUpon
Making you rethink the term’ playing with matches’, artist Mike Bell creates portraits of iconic celebrities on the packets, and then manipulates the matches to form hand poses.L’artista spagnolo Lorenzo Duran si avvale delle foglie come tela per le sue incisioni.
Lorenzo Duran - Designaside.com - StumbleUpon
Whenever I take road trips, I often notice the hulking shreds of stripped semi tires laying around, and I’ve always thought two things: one, they look almost organic- like they’re actually the carcasses of some prehistoric animal that blundered its way onto the highway, and two- that that animal must have been damn ugly. But when I saw a tire sculpture by Yong Ho Ji the other day, I realized I was pretty wrong about the hideous part. He reassembles strips of old tires with resins and screws into gorgeous creatures with predatory stances and sinuous movement.
Hyper-Realistic Rubber: Tire Sculpture by Yong Ho Ji - Unfinished Man - StumbleUpon
A Portrait of Tobias Wong Using 13,138 Dice | Colossal
Canadian artist and designer Tobias Wong died last year at the young age of 35, or more specifically, 13,138 days. In tribute, his friend Frederick McSwain created this immense portrait of Wong entitled Die using 13,138 dice as part of the BrokenOff BrokenOff exhibition at Gallery R’Pure in NYC in memoriam to the artist during NY Design Week. McSwain via Core77: