Gum Blondes (Update) – Jason Kronenwald’s Bubblegum Portraits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Jason Kronenwald makes portraits of blonde-haired public figures using a very unusual medium: chewed bubblegum. The malleable portraits are manipulated onto a plywood surface, and sealed with an epoxy…

Showcasing Ugly Art – MUMOK’s Bad Painting-Good Art Exhibition (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I think many of us have gone through the experience of going to a museum or to one of those ultra hip “art galleries” and finding ourselves saying, “What is this crap? This isn’t art. This is …

3-D Living Wallpaper – The Work of Emma Hack (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Artist Emma Hack, who lives in Australia, creates really gorgeous designs utilizing female models that she successfully blends in with their surroundings. The effect is beautifully crisp, vibrant, liv…

Skeleton Furniture – The Bone Chair

(TrendHunter.com) The Bone Chair, by designer Joris Laarman, is inspired by bones and trees, and was created using a process that copies the way evolution constructs.

He used a dynamic digital tool developed by Inter…

Bringing Back Wooden Toys – Take G Toys (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In the modern age where video games are the hottest birthday presents, and toys seem to be based on cartoons, Take-G Toys continues to produce elaborate wooden toys that are every bit as detailed as t…

Animals Made of Recycled Electronics – Eco Art-Deco Machinery (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Designed by Ann Smith, these unique robotic animals are a creative method of recycling old electronics and machine parts.

As toys, art, or environmental statements, the marketing possibilities are …

Botanical Shoes – Shoe Fleur, A Footwear Fantasy (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I couldn’t believe what I was seeing when I saw Michel Tcherevkoff’s photographs of shoes and purses fashioned from plants and flowers.

“It all started with the underside of a banana leaf,” Luxu…

Soldier Support Stamps – UK Post to Honour Iraq Soldiers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The postal officials in the U.K., the Royal Mail, always consider the significance of a theme before they print a series of postage stamps. Steve McQueen, one of the U.K.’s most prominent artists, sig…

Custom Wallpaper – Wall Coverings You Colour (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It’s finally time to let your creativity out on the walls like you always wanted to as a child! This writable wall paper has speech bubbles that let you write, philosophize or graffiti your own walls,…

Insect Dolls – Toddlerpedes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Toddlerpedes is a collection of totally creepy and bizarre sculptures by artist Jon Beinart that are made using body parts from baby dolls.

Beinart started making creatures from doll torsos, limbs an…

Flood Awareness Furniture – The Lunuganga (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) WOKmedia came up with the Lunuganga branch shelf as a “response to the flooded, jungley environment” they experienced in Sri Lanka, and the culture shock they experienced.

They wanted to take a remi…

Rooftop Lakes – Psycho Buildings at Hayward Gallery (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Southbank Centre of the Hayward Gallery in London, England has become the home of a new exhibition called “Psycho Buildings”. The installation includes a roof top lake, designed like an infinity…

Fashion Art Installations – Diesel’s Glazed Paradise

(TrendHunter.com) The Diesel Denim Gallery in Aoyoma, Tokyo is currently showing an exhibition of work by Mark Jenkins and Miho Kinomura. Glazed Paradise will be on show until August 15th featuring an installation whic…

Girly Gothic Art – Queenie’s Pocket Full of Posiez (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Multi-talented L.A. based gothic artist Queenie is the ruler over a kingdom of playfully wicked characters she calls Posiez. Her Posiez are portrayed in a series of paintings, shown exclusively at the…

Automotive Art Galleries – Art Car Boot Fair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) It is time for what has been described as “The worlds funkiest car-boot sale” once again. The Art Car Boot Fair is the ideal venue kick start an art collection with one-off, specially commissioned pie…

Activism Through Aerial Photography – 360° BULGARIA (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) In the midst of the green fad, when social statements go after instant shock value more often than not, it’s refreshing to see a truly inspired project meticulously planned and brilliantly executed, l…

Recycled Stir Stick Chandeliers – Studio Veríssimo Eco Lights (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Each day, millions of plastic coffee stirrers are thrown out after a two-second stir at coffee shops. This chandelier by Studio Veríssimo was created out of hundreds of plastic stir sticks, acting as…

Push-Pin Art – Eric Daigh’s Portraits (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) These push-pin portraits are a modern take on Monet’s dotted paintings; from afar, they look like beautiful, full-colour portraits of people, but close up, their true pixel-like nature is revealed.

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Interactive Human Body Museum – Corpus (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Along the A44 highway, between Amsterdam and The Hague, sits a giant, human-shaped building. It is the home of Corpus, a tactile interactive museum experience that takes visitors through the spaces in…

Pencils as Canvas – The Art of GhostPatrol (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) I fell in love with this unusual but beautiful art the moment I stumbled upon it. This pencil art comes from the creative mind of someone who calls himself GhostPatrol. This individual is an Australia…