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Have you ever thought that your shoes may have their own thoughts and personalities to express? Whatever answers you would offer, at least in designer Gwen Murphy’s mind, the shoes do have something to tell us: their appearances, their emotions, and possibly their dreams too. But if with such unique shoes wearing on your feet (surely these sculptures cannot be worn), you may feel that somebody is rightly looking up at you from the bottom as well… wow, that’s so weird!

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Really unbelievable, but all these fabulous sculptures you’ve seen are truly made with sewing buttons, thousands of sewing buttons. Although the material used to build them is very common, the result turns out surprisingly cool: huge, three-dimensional and bit of see-through, creating a unique beauty that attracts all of us.

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Nothing unique… Honestly that was my opinion to these sculptures created by Sang Sik Hong, until I was told that they’re all made of thousands of drinking straws. Showcased at the Scope Art Fair in Miami, Hong’s work are mainly about human’s desire, power and sex, coming in forms of lips, hands, eyes, faces and so on.

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Constructed with 200 suspended sheets made from an electrically conductive material that lights up when a current passes through it, the 25-metre-long Bourrasque sculpture will glow in the dark like a swarm of fireflies, bringing the visitors a shocking beauty of light.

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Mountains, rivers, temples, almost everything we see in daily life would appear in another world constructed by Guy Laramee using merely books. It’s really incredible, as all these 3D book sculptures not only feature impressive grandeur but also come with surprising details. Again it proves that in the artists and designers’ world, everything is possible.

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Made of nanoscale ferromagnetic and fluid (usually an organic solvent or water), this is an interactive liquid toy that invites you to build beautifully-patterned sculptures. Just as shown in the video below, you can construct as delicate sculptures as you could ever imagine using a magnet or two magnets or more. So would you like a try too? Choose your favorite style, Ferrite or Ferro, and then move!

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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.

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Scribbled Line People is collaborative work between Ayaka Ito and Randy Church, who have used applications like Flash and Photoshop to reconfigure images into interwoven portraits. It seems bit of weird, as the artwork isn’t something beautiful or elegant, but it’s truly amazing.

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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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Next month at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, there will be a six meter high and 3.5 meter wide tower built by flying robots. It totally needs 1500 polystyrene foam bricks to assemble the structure, and all those materials will be lifted and transported by the mobile robots. The installation will be open to the visitors from 2 December 2011 to 19 February 2012.

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The greatest thrill you ever get is going on the roller coaster? Of course it is, but next time you can experience another exciting roller coaster that is actually without a roller coaster but some stairs instead! Built in German, the Crouching Tiger and Turtle is a work by sculptors Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter, allowing people to ascend a height to enjoy a distant view by walking up the roller coaster, which is not the most exciting roller coaster but apparently the safest one.

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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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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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