London-based artist Zadok Ben David has created a unique garden full of 12,000 painted stainless steel cut plants that are inspired by Victorian botanical illustrations in textbooks. Each of these plants is delicately cut, with dark black on one side while bright colors on the other. As a mirror is built rightly behind these plants, they thus allow the viewers to see different plant structures simultaneously.
Why and how could there be trees that grow into the amazing shapes as horses?! Honestly that’s what I thought when I met these sculptures, until I know they’re actually constructed with driftwood and oak. So incredible! When creating, Heather Jansch used an underlying steel frame that has been coated in fiberglass, attached wood onto the frame in certain shapes and then colored needed parts of the wood. The hooves are usually made out of bronze or lead, in case that the sculptures may get blown away in windy days. As a result, with great passion and hard work instilled into these art pieces, each sculpture turns out impressively good, seemingly very similar to real-life horses.
Welcome to learn about another world’s best invention and this time we’ll show you new artificial muscles that can contract and twist, made by researchers from the University of Texas using cylindrical übermolecules. By twisting together “untold billions” of microscopic, straw-like carbon nanotubes into filamentous strands of “yarn”, the researchers have successfully endowed the artificial muscle with an outstanding nanoscale motor capable of spinning at nearly 600 rpms.
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.
With 3D technology processing by big steps, now 3D printers can manufacture many more amazing things than we can imagine, from toys, swimwear, food and even artificial blood vessels.
A research group from Tokyo Institute of Technology have recently developed artificial bone using fish scales. In early experiment, the researchers found that “the collagen that makes up fish scales, has a similar structure to the thickest layer of the human cornea, the corneal stroma”. After that they tried to turn the scientific discovery into real products, artificial bones made of fish scales. [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...]
Will a product’s unique packaging catch your attention and finally make you to buy it? Honestly I’m a person easily caught by interesting packaging designs, especially when they’re as attractive as these ones listed here. Collected from the world, these designs have successfully perfected a product’s image, beat off other products and left the consumers a deep impression. Hopefully we may come up with more interesting ones after we’ve gone through with the 13 designs below. [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!
With his deep love and passion towards his hometown San Francisco, artist Scott Weaver has spent 35 years assembling this mini structure using about 100000 toothpicks. Specially, he also built a “visiting line” which can let a ball roll throughout the entire city. Superb! [Read the rest of this entry...]
Guess what, the Empire State, the White House, Eiffel Tower and other well-known architectures you see here are actually mini-sized sculptures constructed with toothpicks and all the toothpicks are combined together with only glue. Most incredibly, Steven Backman’s tiny work of the Eiffel Tower is made from just one toothpick and some other sculptures of his measure even less than a third of toothpicks in length. So amazing! [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...]
Long-Bin Chen’s Reading Sculptures prove that incredible art can be made with almost everything, even with discarded items. With his rich imagination and outstanding skills, the artist has transformed old telephone directories, old books and other printed material into sculptures shaped like human heads and figures. [Read the rest of this entry...]
