Giant Urban Artvertising Contest – Diesel Wall (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) For the last few years, Diesel has held annual competitions to create an ad campaign to dominate the walls of major cities.

Since “Big ideas need big spaces,” the Diesel Walls are ready for updated expansions in New York, Manchester, Zurich and Barcelona. As a result, the Italian fashion label has…

Handwritten Art Sneakers – Reebok x Maeda Emoretion (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Famous graphic designer John Maeda has teamed up with Reebok for the beautiful Reebok x Maeda Emoretion.

Maeda drew inspiration from the 7th Law- emotion- from his book, The Laws of Simplicity where he urges us to embrace our natural desire for personal meaning in everything we do.

The design has…

Geeky Counterculture – SciFi Movie Inspired Graffiti (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Graffiti is a form of expression that has seen a lot of controversy and that controversy is not about to be resolved any time soon. If ever.

In any event, take a look at these wonderful movie-inspired graffiti projects. The murals include characters from Star Wars, Alien and the Transformers films…

6 BadAss Designs – Knuckle Insired Products + Wooden Knuckles (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I am not sure how good these artsy wooden knuckles would be in a fight but I think they are just awesome. Also, it would be easier to get them through airport security than the real ones.

The totally badass $40 wooden knuckles are hand-crafted in Nashville by woodworking master gangsta Mitch Rober…

Pimped Toilet Lids – Toilet Tattoos

(TrendHunter.com) Pimp your toilet? Absolutely! You can beautify your toilet lid with really colorful toilet tattoos. The Toilet Tattoos are printed on plastic film that will stick electrostatically to your plastic lid which will allow you to remove them easily for cleaning or changing. The skins come in a variety of…

Designer Graffiti Easter Eggs – Celebrity Eggs For Charity

(TrendHunter.com) Thornton’s have come up trumps again with egg-cellent Easter PR Story.

They have created five Easter eggs bearing the faces of Gordon Brown, Victoria Beckham, David Beckham, Lily Allen and Prince Harry. These people were chosen as they “represent a spectrum of British culture.” Yeah, yeah but we ar…

Futuristic Historical Art – Last Star Wars Supper

(TrendHunter.com) This amazing image is a recreation of Leonardo DaVinci’s “Last Supper” that features Star Wars characters. What’s even more amazing is that the image is actually 69,550 frames from all six Star Wars movies. I’m not sure how much “artistry” is involved in the actual creation of pieces like this. I th…

Urban Coloring Books – Street Photos You Colour for Fun (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Despite what you may have been told, colouring books are not just for kids. Just look at this urban colouring book and sticker kit from Sanithna Phansavanh! It integrates black and white photographs of city scenes, then lays over black outlines, like the ones in a kids colouring book that you can de…

Urban Body Graffiti – Walee’s Graphic Designed Skin (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) If you’re talented at graphic arts or have a gift for graffiti, why limit yourself to traditional mediums? Walee (Waldo Lee) doesn’t. He uses the female body as his canvas, putting his design skills toward creating the ultimate art project; one that is carried on the skin of his girlfriends.

The c…

Bread As Art – David Reimondo’s Burned Toast (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What you are looking at, my friends, is art. Ok, to the unsophisticated and uncouth (like me) that might just be a whole bunch of burned toasts artist David Reimondo lined up and manipulated to look like whatever he made the stuff look like. And its all cool. The tired cliche says art is in the eyes…

Viral Urban Graffiti – GTA IV NYC Wall Murals (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Grand Theft Auto IV has come up with a really creative campaign to market their latest game. GTA hired counterculture artists to create elaborate graffiti wall murals all around New York City.

The images are scattered from China Town to Harlem, so those in the NYC area can head down and check it o…

Graffiti Seat – The Throne by Ted Nemeth (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What better way to punch up the colour in your living room than with an item like this ultra hip graffiti seat? Whether you have white walls and clean lines or an eclectic mix of clutter, this sofa would suit many modern living environments.

The urban chic statement piece designed by Ted Nemeth is…

Interactive Fashion Tech Tells Eco Story – Edoc Laundry

(TrendHunter.com) Edoc Laundry, a Seattle based clothing company, is all about encouraging the interactive social experience. By combining fashion and technology mediums, Edoc Laundry creates garments with codes and messages that most people can’t see unless they are searched for thoroughly.

These hidden details a…

Real Cardboard Building Blocks – Bloxes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Children love cardboard boxes. It always happens without fail that a kid will play more with the sturdy box than the toy that came in it. Give them a washing machine or refrigerator box and watch out! Now, the inner child in all of us can play with cardboard boxes or even build our homes with them. …

Life-Size Fairy – Fantasy Statue

(TrendHunter.com) I ran across this item at Alibaba.com in the Gifts & Crafts > Sculptures > Fairies Fantasy Erotic Sexy Statues category. It is a life-size statue of a fairy (or perhaps larger-than-life; I’m not quite sure how big a fairy actually is). I always thought of fairies being small like Tinkerbell. Perhaps…

Preview Your Tattoo in 3-D – Tuvie.com

(TrendHunter.com) Before you commit to that permanent tattoo of your current infatuation, it might be a good idea to get a visual of what the tat will look like once you have it inked on your ass forever until you die or until you have it removed by laser surgery whichever happens first. Loic Zimmerman, a computer gr…

Chandelier With a Message – The End of an Era (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) ‘The End of an Era’ by Ian Burns is a chandelier of sixteen small monitors hanging from the ceiling, all displaying a live-feed image of a light bulb created by the “perversely archaic method of a camera obscura.” By focusing on the ubiquity of the screen and our ever-more sedentary relationshi…

One Million Trees Art Project – Its OK

(TrendHunter.com) I love this project by the artist Sighn. The project features hand-crafted “Its OK” pieces. For each piece sold, a tree will be planted (in cooperation with Arbor Day Foundation). The interesting part is that the project has a “limited” edition of 1 Million pieces! That’s one million new trees. How …

High-Tech Graffiti – “Couleur sur l’Objet” Painting Robot

(TrendHunter.com) Get Banksy one of those! “Couleur sur l’Objet” by Stefan Rechsteiner brings high tech and robotics to street art. “Couleur sur l’Objet” is basically a wall climbing robotic printer, based on the principle of the vortex-robots that are able to climb walls with the help of suction. It featu…

Agressive Art Furniture – Brass Knuckle Chair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Here is a nice chair where you can relax and sip coffee in the morning from your Brass Knuckle Mug. The Brass Knuckle Chair is a formidable metal art chair that would add a touch of, “Don’t mess with me; I’m a bad-ass to your house” and would intimidate your poor retro sofa. The 60L X 39W X 52H inch…