Geometric Wooden Textile Art By Elisa Strozyk - Beautiful. Elisa Strozyk is a unconventional textile designer. Instead of fabric, she uses wood to construct rugs, carpets, and blankets. While we often think of wood as rigid surface, her work breaks this convention and transforms it into something much cozier.
Elisa’s textile art acts like fabric. They easily conform to a surface and can bunch together, allowing something or someone to be wrapped up in wood. Each piece is comprised of tiny shapes, variations of triangles and squares. Paired together they make tessellations, or the tiling of shapes to insure there are no gaps between them. These textiles are meant to have us consider a new perspective on material. Elisa gives more insight to her work, writing: The world around us is becoming increasingly immaterial.
VikMuniz. Colossal | Art, design and visual ingenuity. Michael DeLucia's Incredibly Mechanical Geometric Drawings Are In Fact Hand Drawn - Beautiful. Sculptures by Alexander Becherer. This massive, detailed sculpture by Alexander Becherer titled Paratropolis is constructed from hardened polystyrene, wood, metal, cement and spray paint. Consisting of words and icons, the sculpture mimics an architectural model of a city and comments on current trends of urbanization. Our current age, the 21st century, is characterized by worldwide urbanization, sprawling agglomerations of cities, and an increasing rural exodus.
As recently as 1970 there were merely 3 so-called mega cities: New York, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Thirty years later there are already 24. This trend and transformation – and the continuing expansion of existing cities – impacts individual biographies as well as society as a whole. Today more than 3 billion people – almost half of the world’s population – are living in ever growing and barely governable urban agglomerations. Paper Sculptures by Matt Shlian. As an artist working with paper and an engineer, Matt Shlian's work is rooted in print media, book arts and commercial design. He uses his engineering skills to create kinetic sculptures which lead to collaborations with scientists. Working on the nanoscale, Matt translates paper structures to micro folds. Beginning with a system of folding, the artists finds that at a particular moment the material takes over.
Caras Ionut / Photos. Seon Ghi Bahk's Cascading Sculptures Created Out Of Charcoal - Beautiful. There is something intrinsically fascinating about seeing the ordinary created in new, surprising ways. Artist have long used this technique to make their viewer contemplate new connections and possibilities, and the internet has proven to be a particularly useful tool in spreading this type of work. South Korean artist Seon Ghi Bahk is an expert at this method. Using charcoal and other natural materials en masse to form familiar objects, Bahk reminds of us the connection between man-made goods and their source. Bahk’s precision is absolute, meticulously hanging large groups of charcoal at specific heights to collectively echo architectural and building elements, such as stairs, columns, shelves and planters.
Using translucent nylon thread to hang individual pieces gives each installation a floating quality, further separating them from their everyday inspiration. (via mymodernmet) Shintaro Ohata's Paintings That Are Also Sculptures - Beautiful. Shintaro Ohata’s painting slash sculptures are beautifully finished glimpses into another world. The artist, born in Hiroshima, Japan, creates paintings that are accompanied by three-dimensional sculpture. Both the painting and the sculpture are so perfectly rendered that they seamlessly intermingle with one another. Ohanta’s painting abilities incorporate light, mood and subject impeccably. The effect is a snapshot out of a narrative where each figure is the heroine of her own story. There is a theme of solitude to Ohanta’s work. Michael DeLucia's Incredibly Mechanical Geometric Drawings Are In Fact Hand Drawn - Beautiful. Banksy Pieces Transformed Into GIF Animations - Beautiful.
Risky Business. "Whaddaya buyin'?" — Home. Home. Alexander Diochon on Behance. Woman Pays $10,000 for Non-Visible Artwork. The Museum on Non-Visible Art, or MONA, houses a variety of non-visible works of art that can only be admired by reading the artist’s description. Sounds weird, but believe it or not, someone actually paid $10,000 for one of these ‘masterpieces’. I have to admit I’ve always wondered why some people spend thousands, sometimes millions of dollars on abstract art pieces that look like the work of someone who has nothing in common with art.
But then again, I’m not very art-inclined. Anyway that doesn’t seem so strange to me anymore, not since I read this article about a woman who paid $10,000 for an artwork she can’t even see. “Fresh Air” was just one of the works exhibited at the Museum of Non-Visible Art, a strange project supported by actor James Franco that tries to take conceptual art to a whole new level. So when someone buys one of these unusual creations all they get is a card with a description of the artwork made by the author and a letter of authenticity.
Via NPR and Geekosystem. Unlikely: The Impossible and Improbable Objects of Giuseppe Colarusso. In this ongoing series titled Unlikely, artist and photographer Giuseppe Colarusso imagines bizarre and humorous objects, each of which is either technically impossible, improbable, or simply useless in its proposed design. Colarusso tells me via email that many of the pieces he fabricates himself, however some are digitally created in Photoshop. So what’s the point? He hopes each image will make you stop, think and hopefully bring a smile to your face, which is definitely a worthy cause. Also, I would pay top dollar for that spray paint can with adjustable hue sliders, so could somebody make that? See some 50+ additional concepts over on his website. Beauty In A Light Bulb.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 2011 | Comments: 23 I’ve been holding on to a few expired light bulbs with the thought that I would work with them somehow – here are a few ideas for reusing dead bulbs… Make a glass sculpture by hot gluing the bulbs together at their bases. An interesting piece to set on the coffee table – my kids really like this one. Start by gluing together four bulbs of equal size and add bulbs on to build your design. For this design, I hot glued the bulbs into a three dimensional star shape and then wrapped the center with jute. You could line your mantel with a few of these or set a great centerpiece for a dinner party. A bauble for my desk – to keep the ideas coming. They may be burned out, but they can still hold light – try using them with candles.
Place a small glass cylinder inside of a larger one, fill the space with bulbs and you've got an interesting display of glass and light. I’m listening to Room For Squares tonight. Ellen Jewett Portfolio. JJK Airbrush. Unofficial Paul Felix. Colossal | Art, design and visual ingenuity. Hat Boy. Art Made From Unconventional Materials (PHOTOS, VIDEO) What if disney villains were beautiful.
DeviantART. Beautiful/Decay. Beautiful/Decay. JUXTAPOZ. Juxtapoz Magazine. Colossal Art. Colossal. Ind. Artist. Steampunk. Pokemon. Various Artists. The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures. Forget those pesky 3D printers that require software and the knowledge of 3D modeling and behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that draws in three dimensions in real time. Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space. Sound like magic? Well it certainly looks like it, watch the video above to see the thing in action. The 3Doodler was designed by Boston-based company WobbleWorks who recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the miraculous little devices that utilizes a special plastic which is heated and instantly cooled to form solid structures as you draw.
I don’t know about you but for me this might have just won the most impulsive Kickstarter purchase in history.