Furniture - Project Scrap

Gathered from the backstreets and curbs of Montréal, these inventive pieces all started their life as cast offs, destined for the landfill. Hats off to M Studio for the rescue and repurposing of this otherwise ill-fated furniture.

EVOL's Hidden Cities

I've featured the incredible stencil work of street artist, EVOL on the blog before, and this new series of pieces has compelled me to do so again. I love the interactive aspect of this particular piece. I imagine you must feel like Godzilla when walking through this miniaturized urban landscape.

via Unurth

The California Table

Ahhh, my home state immortalized in salvaged Claro Walnut (a native of California). Hats off to J.Rusten for creating a compelling piece of furniture that could have easily been kitschy. Nice work!

via If It's Hip, It's Here

Dane Lovett - Pop Goes the Realism

I'm totally digging on Aussie artist, Dane Lovett's pieces. Of course, I'm a sucker for drum machines, sequencers, old keyboards and music in general, so what's not to like. Oh yeah, and plants are okay too. Check him out here.

via The Import

Paper Quilled Starry Night

Paper quilling can be hit or miss sometimes, but more and more folks are taking it to the next level and producing some crazy pieces as a result. Case in point: Susan Myers' recreation of Van Gogh's Starry Night. Now, that's a lot of quilling!

via Illusion

Poster Roast

poster by Telegramme

I'm a huge fan of the screen printed gig poster. I've spent hours combing through gigposters.com, marveling at the boundless creativity of the artists featured there. Gig posters, I've always believed, are the perfect marriage between art and communication.

So, I was very excited when I happened upon Poster Roast, the UK's version of gigposters. Turns out that what's happening across the pond is HAPPENING. Some really great stuff to check out over there. Enjoy!

Darth Vader at Yalta?

Well, that would explain a lot. Standing behind Stalin for a reason, I gather. See more super heroes and villains during WWII here.

via Toxel

Mama Didn't Raise No Chicken

I'm diggin' on Kirk's work! A conglomeration of stylin' portfolio pieces with a sense of humor and a nod to mid-century aesthetics. Right up my alley! Yours too?

via Grain edit

Paper and Wire

Polyscene's work is yet another great discovery from the Upon a Fold blog. Many stunning pieces in paper and folded Polypropylene (nice!) can be found in the photostream here.

Maskull Lassere - A Bone to Pick

Canadian sculptor/woodworker, Maskull Lasserre is turning out some amazing pieces! I just about fell off my chair when I saw that axe handle, didn't you? Kudos to Christopher from the Colossal blog for finding consistently great stuff like this. Hat tip to you, sir!

Tattly - Designy Temporary Tattoos

I'm sort of a sucker for clever design in-jokes. I know, it's hokey, but they do make me chuckle. So, you can imagine my delight when I happened upon Tattly, a website that hawks design-inspired temporary tattoos. I especially love this Milton Glaser example. If they ever do a Saul Bass tattoo, I'm all over it.

via Swiss-Miss

Jerry Can Speakers

I have no idea how they sound, but they look freakin' awesome! I think I'd like them even better if they looked like they normally do with dents and paint chipping. I guess that's why there's always DIY.

via Unconsumption

Co-opted Currency

 

There's a surprising amount of money art out there these days, mostly using bills as a medium, but not a whole lot of coin. Stacey Lee Webber is a bold exception to that trend. Using pennies, nickels and dimes, Webber cuts, bends, and fuses this small change together to create some stunning stuff. My favorite? The tape measure, for sure.

Pallet Table

Well, this is the best looking piece of pallet furniture I've seen in some time. If it wasn't in Lyon, I might have to bip out and get me one. I might have to anyway. I hear France is lovely this time of year.

via Recyclart

Giant Graffiti Seen From Space

63 year-old billionaire, Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan recently had a crew of workers dig his name in the sand near Abu Dhabi. That wouldn't be so special, except that his name is 1000 meters tall and can be seen from SPACE! Will massive sand graffiti be the new trend for the ultra rich? Who knows, but as one of the commenters said: "At least it's kerned nicely." Good one.

via Discovery

History of the Title Sequence

A History Of The Title Sequence from jurjen versteeg on Vimeo.

One of my lifelong friends is an absolute freak for title sequences. His enthusiasm is amazingly contagious, and I have learned to come to love them almost as much as he does. So, when I saw this short film by Jurjen Versteeg, making a post about it was a foregone conclusion. This one's for you, big guy.

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Erik Johansson's Downtown Photo Illusion

I've always had a child-like fascination with street illusions and I love all the cool stuff that I've seen in the past few years from the chalk-wielding devotees of the art form. Erik Johansson's "Mind Your Step" is the first time I've seen a photo illusion of this size, though. Really great to see the citizenry of Stockholm have this much fun with a public piece of art. I've walked across this exact spot many times, and in its every day life, it's sort of a dreary square that leads to the subway. Nice to see it take on a new life as an interactive gallery. Congratulations, Erik

via WebUrbanist

The Modernist Crib by Baby Suommo

People get the urge to have kids for all kinds of reasons. The best excuse is probably not furniture design, although, I think it's completely legit considering the look of this crib by Baby Suommo. Now, if they'd just make a dog crate like this, I'd be all over it.

via Design Milk

26 Nautical Flags

I love the Best Made Co. I love their axes, their design sense, their packaging, all of it. So it would follow that I would love this set of hand painted nautical flags on wood. The $1900 price tag caught me by surprise, but it's still a cool idea. Ripe for the DIY treatment, methinks.

In fact, I think this is just begging for a contest of some sort. Tell you what...the person who comes up with the best set of these in any medium (paint, crochet, knitting, quilting, sculpture, whatever) will win a free year of advertising on DudeCraft. A year! The deadline for entries is September 1, 2011. Let's get busy.

via NotCot

The Power of Love (and Post It Notes)

Loving this stop-motion animation created by Casa Darwin using 350,000 Post It notes on the facade of the Galeria Melissa, in São Paulo, Brazil. 25 animators + 5 months + 30 thousand spontaneous love messages = awesome!

via NotCot

Sweet Pinstriped Skateboard Deck

And it comes complete with a process video. Love it!

via Lost Garage

The Beastie Muppets

Sesame Street breaks it down from Wonderful Creative on Vimeo.

The internet has been all a twitter for the past two days with the release of the Beastie Boys new video, directed by Spike Jonze. It's clever, to be sure. But the cast of Sesame Street, edited to appear as if they are performing the Beastie hit "Sure Shot" is so, so much more entertaining to me. My only gripe? Why didn't The Count do the line about "Well, it's The Taking of Pelham, 1, 2, 3"? Still, amazing editing work!

via Gizmodo

Handmade With Love

Super-duper digging on Goran's new poster featuring bike parts and tools. I'll take one. please.

via Behance