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There’s no waste in the designers’ mind, because anything old and unused can find their new life after redesigned by them with full imagination. These three-dimensional sculptures made out of recycled skateboard decks are rightly good examples. Created by Haroshi, each piece features a delicately distinctive pattern and shining bright colors. Who would believe they’re crafted out of layers of stacked wooden decks, if the designer didn’t tell us the truth?

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Can you believe simply with ordinary thread and nails we can create amazing portraits like these? Completed by Pamela Campagna and her husband Thomas Scheiderbauer, each piece took them nearly a month and inspired by their old photos. I don’t know which word could express my appreciation for their wonderful work… Really well done!

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Almost in every part of the world we can find creativity, which now exists in Finland too. There in that country, Miina Akkijyrkka shapes some huge cows using old vehicles. By arranging different parts of cars to become sections of the cows, the artists cleverly created unique metal cows featuring a lovely appearance.

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People who love chocolate will no doubt appreciate the artwork-alike chocolate made by Jean-Michel Carré. Each piece not only comes with a cute shape, bright appealing color, but also unique taste. Almost every day, Jean-Michel Carré will add surprising ingredients like avocado, curry, Sichuan pepper, balsamic vinegar or lotus into the chocolate, thus to give his chocolate a really special taste. If you have any other request, the “passionate chocolatier” will customize it too.

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Is there anything cannot be accomplished with paper? As the development of paper art is quickly pushed forward, it’s more difficult to figure out what the paper material cannot do. Shown here is Yulia Brodskaya’s latest work “Babushka”. It may seem quite simple on screen, but in fact each detail is subtly finished with various shapes and colors of paper. To make the portrait is difficult, but what is harder is to create the artwork. Congratulations, Yulia Brodskaya, you’ve gotten an imaginative creativity.

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Day and Night Poster, just as implied by its name, is a series of unique posters that display different scenes in the light and in the dark. They seem quite common when there’s sunlight or lamp light hitting them, but will show totally different things as the light becomes dim. You see, the moon rises in the posters, a neon sign turns on, and there may be vampire wandering in streets… Wow, cool!

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While most designers are busying adding more and more elements into their artworks, Japan-based Yuki Matsueda has, however, managed to let some elements escape from his art pieces. The result seems quite amazing… A vivid 3D image is successfully created and all the elements are believed to be more shocking than those stay still on paper.

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There are no two identical leaves in the world, especially after they’re cut into different shapes. They seem not gorgeous, but really elaborate indeed. Wish you would appreciate the unique sense of beauty these leaves bring to us.

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Except for the one we’re now living on, there’s actually another Earth in Paris city. It is a sprawling mass of grass that measures 100 meters in length, totally costing ninety workers five days to build 1200 square meters of lawn and 650 cubic meters of sand in the center of a garden.

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Paper can be crafted into anything. Anything you can ever imagine, such as the wigs. They’re beautiful, each featuring delicate paper cut and outstanding feeling of fashion. Once viewing these paper wigs for a long time, you even couldn’t help to imagine how great they would be if worn on your head… Yes, I want them!

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Camouflage can be anything. To animals, it is an essential skill; and to artists, it is conception and inspiration. From this series of creative photographs in which people are dressing in camouflage suits, you’ll see how great the camouflage art would be. Let’s go and check them out!

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London-based Nails inc. has launched these magnet polish products that can create a stereo image on your finger nails. This series is available in three colors, each of which is mixed with iron powder in it. Once you paint your nails with the polish, place a magnet close to your fingernails and soon you’ll see awesome lines on them.

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Let us enjoy the beautiful scenery of Eiffel Tower, Taj Mahal and American cities now, with these fantastic paper sculptures created by Christina Lihan. Each piece is hand assembled in detailed layers, being rather rich with the layer and a stereoscopic feeling. To finish these sculptures, about up to 300lb of coldpress watercolor paper was used, which indicates the designer’s really hard work. But obviously Christina Lihan’s efforts have not been wasted, coz all the sculptures seem so great. Well done.

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Time again new value is found with old things. With his creative design and good work, Edouard Martinet sculptures several metal animals using waste materials such as automotive engines, typewriter keys, car lights and so on. Quite surprisingly all the sculptures are created by fitting each component into place instead of using solder, while the results still turn out to be firm and solid.

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Totally beyond imagination… With subtle design and delicate carving, Wim Delvoye has transformed unused tires into amazing sculptures. In his series “Pneu” (French for tire), each piece comes with a unique pattern and they all look so great.

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Almost all things change to create their own beauty, and so does the waterfall. In Osaka City Station, there’s a unique waterfall designed by Koei Industry that performs various patterns as the water falls down. The system is based on a printer that emits illuminated water droplets, which are controlled with a computer. To learn more about the fantastic beauty, let’s check out the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Origami is charming. You see, any common paper can find its values when transformed into a origami sculpture. Almost all the sculptures here are carefully folded from a single uncut square sheet of paper, visually represent animals, plants and fictional characters. [Read the rest of this entry...]

If anonymous, we believe more people would love to hug others. Apparently Keetra Dean Dixon thinks so too, as she has created this Anonymous Hugging Wall for social facilitation. Now merely built in London, this hugging wall is deemed as an important trial to make people closer. If I’m in London, I’ll go and give you guys a hug. [Read the rest of this entry...]

It’s not the first time we see illustrations out of clay because there’re actually many cartoons using clay material, but our feel is still the same: amazing. [Read the rest of this entry...]

1200 bottles of nail polish, 900 fake fingernails and 25 days – all those have resulted in these nail art advertisements for Kia’ new automobile “Picanto”. Fantastic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Not everybody loves skateboard but everyone would love the PAS House designed by Gil Le Bon Delapointe and Francois Perrin. It is a perfect house with every space and furniture skateable: the ground becomes the wall, the continuous ceiling forms a tube of a 10ft diameter, and most furniture is integrated in the curve to become part of the skateable house. Really funny, right? We can easily skate in and outside a house with this PAS. [Read the rest of this entry...]

On the Goodwood Festival of Speed held in Sussex, UK many visitors were firstly amazed by Gerry Judah’s 28-meter-high Jaguar E-Type sculpture rather than real cars shown there. The steel sculpture is mainly about a Jaguar E-Type car balancing on its front bumper, and it is made of half a kilometer of steel tubes that have a diameter of 1.2 meters. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Surprise, these amazing portraits are not crafted with pens but with threads and needles?! It is exactly numerous threads running across each other subtly that make these portraits especially exquisite. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Still amazed with small animals made with balloons? Well, forget them and have a look at these big guys: huge dinosaurs, complicated 3D people, and even famous “Mono Lisa Smile” – they’re all created by Larry Moss with balloons. So fabulous! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Time again we have to remind you that even what you see with your own eyes may not be the same as it looks because your eyes would deceive you. So with these items shown here, you’ll firstly need to cut them apart and then to make sure what they are. Wow, in fact they’re all wood, or more exactly wood sculptures! Surprise? [Read the rest of this entry...]

British artist Keira Rathbone has created these beautiful paintings with a typewriter. Each piece is made up of various numbers and letters, also including comma, connecting lines, quotation marks and so on. But rightly with such simple characters typed in again and again, Keira Rathbone finally accomplished these special paintings. So genius! [Read the rest of this entry...]

A really great artist can create wonderful things almost anywhere – on walls, grounds, lips, eyelids, or on book pages. Look at these paintings from Mike Stilkey, I bet everyone would think of one same word “wow”. But wait, and imagine what will happen when these books fall apart onto the ground… [Read the rest of this entry...]

Several years after discarded on street, one old bicycle recently finds its new functions: to work as a special city decoration. Painted with bright pink color and built with a basket for flowers, this bike now seems rightly one of fabulous sculptures commonly seen in cities. Clever!

Now our eyes are not merely the windows of the mind, they’re also a unique kind of screens of movie scenes. From these fabulous eyelids created by DeviantARTist KatieAlves, we could see quite an amazing collection of mini worlds, including some scenes from films The Lion King, Aladdin, Alice in Wonderland and so on. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Have you already discovered that these creative portraits are constructed out of discarded street maps, if without the title or the article? It’s really unbelievable. Although the stunning 2D and 3D portraits are made of lines on road maps, they seem to have been built with many blood vessels. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Can you believe it that Mark Evans creates these amazing leather art works with only knives, scalpels and some special waxes? I believe that, because within the field of art there’s nothing impossible. What indeed surprised me is the fact that the artist is so young- too young for us to believe that he would devote weeks and months on merely one piece of work! But correspondingly, the payoff is worthwhile- here’s numerous praise from the world for Mark. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I’ve thought of many things I’d like to do if I could get lots and lots of money, but among them never includes the activity of paper money folding. I mean, money origami is really luxurious… but still interesting. Have a look at these ones created by Craig Sonnenfeld, they may be quite valuable paper-folding works we can ever find. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The lapse of years will never have those famous people like the Beatles and Elvis Presley really wiped from our memories, because we’ve got too many items to think of them. Such as these Detailed Paper Art created by Alexei Lyapunov and Lena Ehrlich. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Surprises always come to us when we view common things from a different point, and quite often new types of art may be resulted at the same time. Recently when Riss, a Canada-based designer thought of the idea to draw on bananas, he has started the time of banana art. Even though we have seen paintings on apples or oranges before, these delicately-made banana paintings still deserve our praise. [Read the rest of this entry...]

I am ready to bet these would be the most magnificent and wonderful explosions you can ever meet. Almost after every explosion, a large, impressive portrait will then appear on the walls. Created by Alexandre Farto, such amazing portraits were even used to make a stunning music video shown after the break. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Fantastic portraits can be made with almost everything, because anything we’ve seen in daily life would become part of art when they come to the artists. And right here we’d like to introduce you several 3D portraits created by Andrew Myers with nails. To complete every portrait, the designer needs to drive in 8000 to 10000 nails simply with his hands and his imagination, but relies on no hi- tech equipments such as computers. Well, his hard work makes these portraits extraordinarily amazing! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Cycling in water is really mad and exciting, even though we seldom have the chance to try that. But these sculptures designed by Zoltan Kecskemeti are quite lucky, because they can ride on the River Danube everyday—as the water moves on, it drives these unique sculptures to act too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

We never welcome bullets or guns as they usually represent war and violence, but the case will change when we come up with these Bullet Hole Paintings. With a 0.22-caliber rifle, American artist Walton Creel has created these unique paintings on Aluminum boards and therefore ensures them better contrast and more accurate color rendition. So do you like them? [Read the rest of this entry...]

What have you seen, lively crabs, smart foxes, cute pandas, and other kinds of animals? Not exactly, because what is shown here is merely one thing: lips, and of course coming with various patterns. Isn’t that incredible, our lips now can create impressive paintings too?! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Advertisements never contradict with art and the clever combinations of different simple elements usually bring about quite fantastic ads just as the followings. Let’s move on and see how the ads tell a story about the band. [Read the rest of this entry...]