Recycled Home Designs – Bottle Lamps II (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These are lamps made out of different kinds of recycled bottles and chains. There are soda bottles, milk bottles and plastic bottles. Some of these designs are simple enough and are DIY (Do It Yourself) such as the collection of the 5 clear soda bottles which is the next to last photo. This arrange…

Glow in the Dark Spray Paint Games – Virtual Park

(TrendHunter.com) Pierre Haulot and Nike teamed up to create Virtual Park. This is a glow in the dark spray paint to create boundaries, lines, a ball that glows in the night, etc that allows a pick up game of basketball or soccer or hockey, etc to go well into the night. The paint disappears after a couple of hours a…

Brand Personalization – Scion Speak

(TrendHunter.com) It’s all you, you, you. Well for Scion anyway, which is launching Scion Speak, which allows the car brand’s enthusiasts to personalize their vehicles yet further with custom-made modern age heraldic crests reflecting their lifestyle and passions. Designed in consultation with the fiercely loyal Scio…

Skin Conditions as Art – Dermatographia Canvas (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This young woman has a rare skin condition known as dermatographia. This is an immune system skin hypersensitivity that releases histamine which is the chemical (neuro-transmitter) your body produces when you’re having an allergic reaction. High levels of histamine cause this woman’s blood vessels t…

DIY Doodle Bags – Scribble Couture (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These bags are perfect for those moms who like to brag about their kids’ supposed artistic inclinations when, most of the time, it is just plain (and very normal) doodle. Scribble Couture will allow those mothers to show off their spawn’s scribble on their bags by having the doodle stitched onto lea…

Erotic Photo Skate Dekcs – Marilyn Minter Supreme Skateboards

(TrendHunter.com) Supreme skateboarding brand is following this year’s trend in urban industry. How? They asked New York-based artist Marilyn Minter to create the design for three skate decks.

Minter is recognized in the modern art milieu for “close-ups of the erotic nature that confuse and astound the viewer.”

Ke…

Laser Cut Records As Wall Fashion – Ideia Revives Vinyl (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Vinyl records, when not being sought by afficianados or crafters are very cheap. Parents tend to have them hidden away afraid they might throw out that classic Abba LP. Ideia and Companhia saw something different. They saw art, and put their laser cutter to work making some very unusual but great de…

Top 40 Pranks – Prank Ideas for April Fool’s Day (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Looking for the top pranks of all time? With April Fool’s Day just around the corner, it’s time to ‘get your prank on’.

Accordingly, we’ve prepared a cluster of our favorite pranks.

Hopefully you can use this list to inspire your own pranks.

Be warned that many of these pranks require a lot …

Resume T-Shirts – Let Your Shirt Get You a New Job

(TrendHunter.com) This is a total riot! Blackbird Tees’ custom Resume Tees will put your resume on the back of a T-shirt for you so that you may advertise yourself to prospective employers.

Popgadget notes, “When ordering, you choose an intro or teaser line for the front of your t-shirt (for instance, “My resume i…

Bottle Cap Portraits – The Work of Molly B. Right (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These amazing five portraits were made with bottle caps.

The first one is of the very recognizable face of Abraham Lincoln. The second one is a beautiful reproduction of Dutch master Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with Pearl. The third portrait is a representation of iconic jazz singer Billie Holliday. F…

Peace Murals – LA vs War Installation (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Graffiti usually brings up images of young punks vandalizing public property, but these peace murals evoke none such thoughts.

The Yo! What Happened to Peace? art installation in Los Angeles is for LA vs. War and features paintings like a gigantic image of Mahatma Gandhi. The project is meant to a…

Extreme Crafts – Knitted Harley Davidson (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I always marvel at stuff like this. Even though this knitted Harley Davidson obviously has no functionality that I’m aware of, the tremendous work that went into putting this project together and bringing it to fruition is worthy of admiration. I suppose that the person or persons who did this are d…

Wooden Cars II – Opel Car Actually Drives (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Seemingly inspired by The Splinter’s wooden concept, a Russian guy transformed his ordinary Opel car into an amazing piece-of-art. A piece of art that you can drive!

The guy did an amazing job. Look at all the details and craftsmanship. Simply beautiful.

If you haven’t seen it before, check out t…

Street Art History Lessons – Pure Evil Pearly Kings (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I love these Pearly Kings & Queens which are popping up all over London – and are by a street artist known as Pure Evil. This work, found on a church hoarding, infuses the London tradition of the Pearly Kings and Queens (started in 1875) alongside stencil sprayed butterflies whose wings spell out Pu…

Faking Street Cred – Hero Tattoos

(TrendHunter.com) These are called Hero Tattoos and what they do is fake street cred.

So for example, If someone takes a nasty, embarrassing spill and sustains a cut that needs stitches, they can get a tattoo claiming that they got the scar fighting off an armed robber who slashed him with a knife. I’m making stuff…

Hoax Hacks – Skullphone Fakes Digital Billboard Hijack

(TrendHunter.com) It was rumoured that a series of Clear Channel digital billboards were hacked by an 18 year old graffiti artist by the name of Skullphone.

As of March 25th, 10 billboards in LA were displaying Skullphone’s logo (a skull talking on a phone) intermittently along with their regular ads. And you can b…

Top 10 Steampunked Items + Stratocator Guitar (SUPER GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Steampunk mania describes the modern design movement which seeks inspiration from the era in which steam power dominated.

Faking the antique appearance of the Victorian era devices has become a widely used element of modern art and design. Aside from a heavy use of brass, etching, and copper-plati…

Naughty Art Campaigns – PLAYB0Y Reading Ad (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter has featured many creative works that use numerous naked bodies to create an image, logo or social commentary. But I like this new PLAYB0Y Germany ad the best!

Created by Philipp & Keuntje ad agency in Hamburg, Germany the playful tongue-in-cheek “Reading” ad asks you the following qu…

Steampunk Clocks – Klockwerks by Roger Wood (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These steampunk clocks are all hand-made by Roger Woods, who calls his collection Klockwerks.

The term “steampunk” denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of art and …

Urban Playgrounds in 30 Cities – World Pillow Fight Day (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) World Pillow Fight Day took place in cities around the world Saturday 22 March, 2008. The picture and video show thousands of people battling it out in New York’s Union Square.

The idea started with Lori Kufner and Kevin Bracken, who have organized pillow fights and subway parties in Toronto and …