Musical Painting – Paintjam by Dann Dunn (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The work of Dan Dunn, as featured on his website Paintjam.com, is simply amazing.

In a theatrical performance, (as featured in the above video) to a song by Ray Charles, he produces a seemingly effor…

Micro Art Interventions – Markus Hofer in Bologna (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Markus Hofer, an Austrian artist, has created a series of small-scale art interventions that despite their size, still have a powerful impact. His exhibit, entitled Interventions in Bologna was on dis…

110,664 KM Self Portraits – GPS & DHL Art is World’s Biggest Drawing (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) What a brilliant use of technology to create unique art! Erik Nordenankar devised a genius plan to create the Biggest Drawing In The World by tracking the movement of a GPS briefcase traveling the glo…

Foliage-Covered Wardrobes – Tord Boontje for Meta

(TrendHunter.com) It’s hard to tell this is actually a wardrobe unless someone told you. Tord Boontje, a Dutch industrial designer created this piece for Meta. The doors of the wardrobe consist of hundreds of hand-pain…

Female Form Furniture – The Anthropomorphic Chair

(TrendHunter.com) I absolutely love this anthropomorphic chair designed by Sergio Gill. The funky chair which made it to the IWF Design Emphasis Competition, resembles a reclining female figure. Gill used a software pr…

Tunnel Telescope From NYC to London – Telectroscope (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Completion of a 100 year old engineering project finally happened a few days ago. The tunnel between New York and London, called the Telectroscope, allows residents of both cities to peer down the gia…

Dental Paintings – Custom Tooth Art II (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Trend Hunter published an article about dental tattoos not long ago, which you can see below, and now we’re happy to do a follow-up. The dental designs in this gallery are made with very colorful pain…

Gold Guerrilla Street Art – The Midas Project in Barcelona (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Have you ever heard of King Midas? To make a long story short, he was a pretty greedy king who wished that whatever he touched would turn to gold. As a result, he ended up starving to death because all the food he touched turned to the valuable metal.

The project by an unknown rebel street artist q…

Furniture Made of Books – This Into That

(TrendHunter.com) Functional art by This Into That includes bookshelves and cases made of, well, old books. They’re handcrafted by Jim Rosenau who was raised in a house with about 5,000 books. His thematic book furniture idea came after reading an essay called “Books as Furniture” by Nicholson Baker. Some of hi…

Recycled Bottle Ceilings – Aesop’s High Glass Boutique (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) This is further proof that sustainability does not have to look boring, drab and pedestrian. Australia-based brand Aesop, which specializes in boutique botanical skincare products, built a retail store in Adelaide that has a ceiling crafted entirely out of recycled bottles arranged in a funky wave p…

Controversial Public Transit Photos – Paris Metro Nudes (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Paris Metro Officials are racking their heads trying to find out how photographer Jam Abelanet was able to take such artsy shots of nude babes on the metro. They are actually afraid that the passengers may actually try to imitate the poses in photographs which were published by the free newspaper ca…

Fishing Lure Jewelry – Kaga Samurai Folk Art (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Kaga fishing lures are a Japanese folk art which some say embodies the samurai spirit. The featured designs are from a Japanese family firm called Meboso Hachirobei Shoten which has been in business for 430 years! Their latest craft is transforming them into wearable pieces of art in the form of jew…

Animal Hair Hats – Nagi Noda Creations (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Sometimes, something just captures, confuses and inspires you. That is exactly the effect of these quirky animal-inspired hair hats by Japanese art director Nagi Noda. They are truly out of this world. I do not understand or get them, yet I am mesmerized by and love them.

Known for her direction of…

Manimals – Animals of the Chinese Zodiac (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Remember that 1990’s show which had a super sleuth transform into different animals? Well ‘Manimals’ is not exactly related, but does share the name. Manimals is an exhibit by artist Daniel Lee. Drawing inspiration from the Chinese Zodiac, Lee has created portraits of people in likeness to the anima…

Real Life Barbies – Evelina Bratell’s 1959 Doll Fashions (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Inspired by the iconic 1959 Barbie, Evelina Bratell a student at Beckmans design school, created a fascinating Barbie fashion collection with a photography theme of living in the Barbie doll house.

Bratell’s Barbie fashion collection was created in a blown-up scale of 6:1, while sticking as close a…

Giant Human Nest – Benjamin Verdonck’s Skyscraper Nest (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) Benjamin Verdonck is living in a giant nest hanging from a high-rise building in Rotterdam. The Belgian man says he will be there until May 22nd.

Judging by the images in the gallery, the nest looks like it was made out of twigs as well as more resistant and durable materials.

Benjamin built thi…

Recycled Soda Can Jewelry – Eco Art by the Disabled (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Most people know about fair trade coffee, but there are also fair trade artisans who stand to gain a better standard of living if what they produce fetches fair prices. The Mombulu Workshop in Mombasa, Kenya is a group of disabled artisans who make some pretty funky jewelry out of recycled soda pop…

10 Optical Illusions in 2 Minutes – Samsung Soul Commercial (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) This is Samsung’s latest commercial created to promote the Samsung Soul phone, titled “10 Optical Illusions in 2 Minutes”. Despite its title, there are no digital imaging tricks used. Each is performed just by a guy, some clever props, and a time span of two minutes. Watch and enjoy.

$86.3 Million Paintings – Triptych by Francis Bacon

(TrendHunter.com) Sotheby’s estimate that Triptych, created by the late Francis Bacon would fetch $70 million was surpassed by over $16 million. The sale of Triptych became, “the most expensive work of contemporary art ever sold at auction and a retort to doom-sayers who had predicted that the art market would fa…

Athletic Light Graffiti – Stickman Basketball Players

(TrendHunter.com) We’ve covered light graffiti before, the photographic art of creating designs or writing with the use of a small, rapidly moving light source in a dark setting, yet it still continues to fascinate us as well as the rest of the photo-intrigued blogosphere.

Although this image looks like a bunch of …