These Nessie pins are killing me– they’re undeniably cute, and I want to own more than a couple packs! Designed by UK designer Duncan Shotton, each pack of thumbtacks inspired by the famed Scottish Loch Ness Monster comes with 6 heads, 12 body segments, and 6 tails. Even the packaging is really sweet– also, there...
Danish furniture design company HAY named their new rug set “Pinocchio” after a common candy in Denmark– the rug is made of colorful felted balls that mimic the round shape of the sugar-coated licorice sweet. The tactile surface of the rug combined with the bright colors make it an ideal mat for any playroom, although...
Japanese artist Takanori Aiba starts with the Japanese art of pruning bonsai, and then transforms the work into a tiny world within and around the bonsai tree. His elaborate treehouses have carefully constructed latticework and landings with stairs that wrap around the piece in a maze-like fashion. Some of the pieces have moved on to...
Japanese artist Yukio Nishimura creates all of these sculptural pieces with a single sheet of creamy white paper– the mind bending origami is comprised of thousands of folds that make beautiful patterns of light and shadow. The medium could not be any simpler, but he has imagined incredible variations for each pattern. There’s something so...
Something simple and sweet today: these origami boat candles by Slovakian artist Roman Ficak are a playful and simple accent for home decor. They burn for 2 hours each, and of course, they float! The set comes in six colors, but I think I’d like a small fleet of each. [Via DesignEast.]
New York-based artist Eric Cahan waits for the perfect moments to capture these serene shots: his series of photos, titled “Sky Series,” are flawless studies of light and color in the sunrise and sunset hours. Every photo appears as a simple gradient of colors, but the more you stare into the sky, the more you...
I’ve posted some work from Torafu Architects before, but their new series of Air Vases is fascinating– by slicing up printed circles in precise lines, they’ve created paper-thin vases that can be folded flat. The vases are purely decorative, obviously, but its interesting to note that they can be molded to form different shapes and...
Wataru Itou (伊藤航) is a Japanese student in a Tokyo art university with an amazing piece of work: this paper castle, titled “Umi no Ue no Oshiro” (A Castle On the Ocean) took four years to complete, and the level of intricacy in the structure makes it a true masterpiece. There are so many layers...
The Society of Design of Pennsylvania wanted famed typographer Jessica Hische as a speaker, but what’s the best way to the attention of someone so busy (and, to get them to say yes?) They created an entire website just for this purpose, and the crowning achievement of their project was a invitation made out of...
Mini Eco is an UK mommy blog with a penchant for featuring colorful DIY tutorials, and one of the recent projects on there cleverly used platonic solids to make a decorative garland. The geometric shapes are lovely to look at in their symmetry, and she even includes the templates to each object so that you...
Artist Richard John Ivankovic started a fascinating undertaking recently– he is adapting H. P. Lovecrafts famous book, the Call of Cthulhu, into a Seussian-style storybook “for beginning readers.” The sci-fi short story has captured the imaginations of many (read the Wikipedia article here to get a fuller picture of the aquatic horror) but this particular...
These photos of light trails are more than man-made light painting photographs– these are slow-shutter and multi-exposure composite photos of fireflies floating about in their nightly mating ritual dances. Photographer Tsuneaki Hiramatsu has been taking these photos in the Maniwa and Okayama Prefecture in Japan during the summer rainy season, where the fireflies come out...
Nessie Pins: Creative Loch Ness Thumbtacks
Feb 22, 2012
Adorable Felted Ball Rugs, Inspired by Candy
Feb 22, 2012
Tiny Elaborate Bonsai Treehouses
Feb 16, 2012
Mind-Bending Single Sheet Origami
Feb 15, 2012
Origami Boat Candles
Feb 14, 2012
Sky Series: Flawless Photos of Sunrises and Sunsets
Feb 13, 2012
Paper Thin Air Vases That Transform
Feb 8, 2012
Incredible, Intricate, Glowing Paper Castle
Feb 6, 2012
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