Explosive Furniture – Grenade Drawers (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) How bad-ass is this Grenade Estuche (Jewelry case) set of drawers in the shape of a hand grenade by Los Carpinteros? It’s certainly not your mom’s typical jewelry case!

Los Carpinteros’ work was recently featured an PBS’ Frontline/World in a report about Cuban art.

Other interesting and unusual p…

Double-Take Animal Photography – Intimate Views of Tim Flack (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Tim Flack’s portfolio of photography is astonishing. He captures stunning images of animals using unexpected perspectives and extreme close-up points of view. Flack’s photos of bats are genius, he actually makes them look.. cute… in a way. There is a sense of actually ‘experiencing’ the c…

Car-Inspired Furniture – Steven Heller’s Cadillac Furniture (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) For self-confessed car freak Steve Heller, his love of 1950’s Cadillac models inspired him to thread into the sphere of furniture design. Heller has built functional art such as chests, tables, bars, entertainment units, beds and dressers from metal and wood and the result of his efforts are really …

Luxury Fruit – Glass Art by Anthony Biancaniello (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Other than a bowl of real, healthy fruit to eat, the fake fruit bowl as a decor item is so tacky most people would not contemplate having it in their homes. Even the better attempts at realism still fall far short of any artistic expectations. Until Anthony Biancaniello’s Art Glass Fruit, that is.…

Horro Stuffed Animals – Matt Kirkland’s Dissected Toys (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) When most of us think of stuffed animals, we think cuddly, cute, snuggly and lovable. For some designers have more twisted, less affectionate associations with the toys. Matt Kirkland tore open this series of stuffed animals to reveal the insides of them, showing what the inner workings of mechanica…

Stone Age Modernism – Glass Knives by Noa Bembibre

(TrendHunter.com) Hardcore, New Finnish Design is presenting Noa Bembibre and her Glass Knives collection during New York Design Week 2008.

“Bembibre’s glass knives combine the very ancient roots of design – transforming rocks into tools – with innovative contemporary kitchenware design,” HardcoreDesign s…

Nightmare-Inspired Photograpy – “After Dark, My Sweet” by Joshua Hoffine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Joshua Hoffine is an artist who finds inspiration in Hollywood icons like Stanley Kubrick. He directs the stars of his photos, usually family and friends, using elaborate sets and props, make-up and lighting to create creepy images that are terrifyingly beautiful. Hoffine evokes the fears that we al…

Flared Chairs – The $2,105 Gownchair (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Gownchair is a limited edition, luxury-priced, sculptural chair by Giorgia Paolini from the Paolini Design Store. Its flowing contours and strong visual impact will suit those with an appreciation of fashion, art and bold design.

It is handmade of fibreglass — the production presentation on th…

Rotary Phone Animals – Telephone Sheep

(TrendHunter.com) Talk about telephone installations! Jean-Luc Cornec’s Telephone Sheep is totally made from telephones and telephone cable. There is a whole flock of them, artfully arranged at at the Museum for Communications in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Some of the sheep appear to be grazing, some huddled toge…

Recycled Auto Part Art – Hubcap Creatures (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) What do you do with your hub caps when they wear out or become outdated? You could toss it in the garbage like most of us, but that’s not what the people do at HubcapCreatures.com. They use the hubcaps of cars to create modern art, with a heavy emphasis on fish and other creatures of the animal king…

Moving Architecture – John Körmeling’s Rotating House (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) John Körmeling’s house, which looks like a real house, can rotate completely over a span of 20 hours.

“The house will not be fit for human habitation; it consists of a steel construction covered with red brick strips and tiles,” Gizmodo says. “The windows are made of laminated glass with white wi…

Animated Retooning – Turning People Into Humanized Cartoons (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) The Trend Hunter community has been fascinated by what’s being referred to as “untooning.” The new graphic art form strips famous pop culture characters of their “cartoon” characteristics and transforms them into what artists imagine they would look in the flesh. This process gets to the …

Jewellery Made of Real Tentacles – OctopusME! (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) OctopusME! is releasing a line of jewellery made of, you guessed it, octopus. The line uses sushi-grade octopus with solid sterling silver.

Some cultures see the octopus as a symbol of transformation and regeneration. Because of their ability to change color to match their backgrounds, octopus are…

Hand-Drawn Fashion – Illustrated T-Shirts (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Send your t-shirt along with some information about yourself to Dave is Drawing and he will hand draw on the tee for you.

Dave is not a teenager with a hobby for drawing, he is a professional designer / copywriter / illustrator, with clients including the New York Times, Sundance Channel and Vice.…

Animated Fashion Designers – Marc & Karl on the Simpsons (VIDEO)

(TrendHunter.com) First Karl Lagerfeld was featured in Grand Theft Auto IV, and now the Chanel designer has been forever immortalized as a Simpson, alongside fellow designer Marc Jacobs. Both are known for their quirky personas, and Matt Groening did a fantastic job capturing their colourful characters.

The images …

Human Camouflage as Art – Worth1000 Showcases People Blending with Environment (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The graphic design website worth1000, which I visit often, ran a contest recently they called Human Camouflage. The contest had people submit entries where they were required to create scenes where humans successfully blended in with their surroundings. I am including some of the entries in the gall…

Mutated Humans as Art – Lucy and Bart (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) People, get ready for the future! Lucy and Bart is a collaboration between brilliant artists Lucy McRae and Bart Hess which they describe as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body.

They both share a fascination with genetic manipulation and expressions of beauty…

Kids Drawings Made Realistic – The Monster Engine (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) The Monster Engine harnesses the purest creativity found in children and transforms their scribbles and art work into more professional looking paintings.

Instead of just seeking inspiration from, or reinterpreting, their work, Dave Devries asks, “What would children’s drawings look like if they …

Untooning (Part IV) – How Sonic Would Look Alive (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) With the help of computer graphic technology, cartoon characters are “coming to life”. First it was the Simpsons, then Jessica Rabbit, Bowser and Mario. Well, now its Sonic the Hedgehog’s turn to be converted to realism.

The design by Marcus Blättermann (essenmitsosse) depicts how Sony’s Sonic wo…

3-D Paper Figurines – Bert Simons’ Sculptures (GALLERY)

(TrendHunter.com) Bert Simons makes incredible 3-D paper portraits, some of which are photo-realistic as you can be seen from the fourth image in the gallery. I really love the other female human figures and the camouflaged head among the greenery.

Simons is a Rotterdam-based artist who does graphic, product, inter…