Art / Design / DIY / Offbeat
While most old electronics and appliances end up in landfills, Captain Heartless gives a second life to these unused metal objects. Instead of throwing away old motor rots found in the junkyards, he turns them into interesting robotic lamps. These functional steampunk lamps will please the nerd within you while adding aesthetic industrial charm to your home or office interior.
Art / Design / Handicraft
Are you an entomophobic and simply can’t stand the sight of any insect around you? No matter how scared you’re of bugs and creepy-crawlies, but you are likely to fall in love with the beaded insect jewellery by Russian artist Julia Frolova.
Art / Design / Painting
Hailing from a small village in the south of the Czech Republic, Agnes Kasparkova proves age is just a number. The 90-year-old grandmother is fulfilling her passion for art by painting floral patterns on every house in her village. She retired from her agriculture work around 33 years ago and has been painting houses ever since.
Art / Design / Handicraft
Ukraine-based husband-wife duo, Andrew and Tatyana Smanfe, creates whimsical metal art by bending and welding steel wires. Together they create stunning sculptures, wall decor, and 3D paintings – all crafted from several steel wires. These gorgeous art pieces are likely to enhance any contemporary home decor with their exquisiteness.
Art / Design / Painting
Half painting, half sculpture! The outstanding 3D portrait, titled Descent, is created by artist Bruce Mackley by drilling over 20, 000 everyday screws into a wooden board. To sculpt this industrial mosaic, he used decking and framing screws and further set them into painted pine board at varying depths. The result is a breathtaking 3D painting that looks realistic from a certain distance. Only when...
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Art / Design / DIY
Hungarian artist Timea Papp creates adorable, full-of-life pictures using pebbles. Not just stones, she also uses wood pieces, paint, and her creative imagination to make beautiful illustrations, which resemble actual paintings. We have seen many artists who paint on pebbles, but creating full pictures out of stones is something unusual and absolutely wonderful.
Design / Offbeat
A bee hotel is a place that you create for native bees to breed and flourish. Czech designer Boleslav Daska (of DILNA HAMMER) makes colourful hotels for bees, butterflies, and other insect pollinators. All these species play an important role when it comes to plant pollination, as well as, producing useful substances such as honey, silk, lacquer, and wax. But sadly most of these insect...
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Art / Design / Offbeat
Even those who are afraid of insects and creepy crawlies couldn’t resist admiring the beauty of these colourful insect sculptures. Created by Raku Inoue, Japanese artist and designer who currently lives in Montreal, these delicate insects are made from a variety of flowers and leaves.
Art / Design / Handicraft
Combining handmade lace artwork with knotty pieces of wood, Hungarian artist Ágnes Herczeg creates harmonious scenes expressing thoughtfulness and beauty of humanity. Her intricate figures form a connection with mother nature, focusing on a juxtaposition of the delicateness of the lace and the solidity of the wood.
Art / Design / Offbeat
Trash for Cash is a sustainable advertising project started by Hamburg-based environmentalist Sönke Rosenkranz to turn scrap into beautiful portraits or company logos. With the help from refugees, their team collects trash from the environment to build corporate logos and famous celebrity portraits. Further, these artworks are sold and half of the money goes to a charity.