(TrendHunter.com) These paper wallets made by Tyvek are actually made of “thousands of long plastic fibers creating a surface that is both lightweight and durable yet super thin and tear resistant” says dynomighty. They add, “A secret storage area can be used by pulling out the tucked in flaps from the ends, place yo…
(TrendHunter.com) Duct tape art is quite the novelty.
The medium is durable, and much cleaner that clay or paper mache. Maybe not as malleable, but still unique as an art supply.
A quick Internet search led me to an article in Freestyle magazine (Volume 15, Issue 6), advertising an annual duct tape festival in Av…
(TrendHunter.com) The Junkture Table is yet another example that furniture made from recycled material does not have to look like crap. This chic table’s centerpiece was made from a magnesium wheel rim that was recovered from a junkyard in NYC. This rim was then covered with black glass for that avant garde, urban ch…
(TrendHunter.com) I adore this range of “domestic” jewelry from Australian designer Victoria Mason, especially the pencil sharpener as I remember trying to keep the shavings perfect too. The chair and paper plane are equally glorious and random. And that is just the necklace…
Earrings come in the form of Nice Bisc…
(TrendHunter.com) This amazing image comes from The Australian Postal Service.
The text in the background of the image appears to be wrapping around the hugging couple. It says, “If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter”.
Amazing optical illusion. Great ad.
(TrendHunter.com) The name of is this beautiful ambient lamp is “O”. Sounds like the title of a mildly erotic novel. Yanko Design says, “O†the spherical ambient lamp is made out of composite materials and consists of elegant art nouveau symbols illuminated at varying intensities by rotating a ring. The lamp can…
(TrendHunter.com) Garbage as design is a modern art form that seems to be on the rise, as the push to become environmentally innovative grows stronger. A different approach to this green art form is this recent guerrilla campaign featuring animals made of recycled garbage bags. Art student Joshua Alan Harris literall…
(TrendHunter.com) This homoerotic recreation of Leonardo’s Last Supper has offended a Viennese cardinal, making it second piece of modern art on Trend Hunter we’ve known to offend the church.
Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, archbishop of Vienna, described the image as “a homosexual orgy” of Apostles, which he found …
(TrendHunter.com) If you can’t afford to type on a real golden keyboard, perhaps this hand-painted one is an alternative. The bronzed board is one of several painted computer keyboards from GeekStuff.
You could save the $214 and paint your own with nail polish or coat one in metallic spray paint. I think I’ll stick…
(TrendHunter.com) Remember the Where’s Waldo books you loved as a kid? Now you can play the high-tech, ultra-modern version with Google Earth!
Where On Earth Is Waldo? is the creation of Melanie Cole, a Media Art student who came up with the idea for her graduation project.
The glasses-clad, lanky geek in the stri…
(TrendHunter.com) These are some of the really nice and creative business cards I found in a blog I like. There was a very wide selection so picking just five was difficult. These are the cards I enjoyed the most with a very brief description.
The first one in the gallery is an oblivious dog tag card. I find the se…
(TrendHunter.com) Home Sweet Home is a book about Banksy, who is arguably the best-known graffiti artist in the world. Banksy is also very shifty, clandestine and surreptitious. Nobody seems to know a whole lot about the Bristol, England native. And whoever knows something is not talking. Anyway, “Home Sweet Home”, s…
(TrendHunter.com) Wayne Martin Belger builds cameras. But not just any cameras. Belger builds pinhole cameras using such media as gold, silver, aluminum, acrylic, and brass among others. He also employs formaldehyde, HIV-infected blood, human bones, organs and skulls and a host of other unconventional items. A brief …
(TrendHunter.com) Who knew that barcodes could be so much fun? Barcodes are the machine-readable representation of information most of us are familiar with.
A Japanese firm named D-Barcode has been “decorating” these codes and their products are now used all over Japan. Great, fun concept.
(TrendHunter.com) They say the home is an extension of yourself; it’s a haven where you can express your style outwardly. Judging by these mural homes, apparently some people have a lot to express!
I’ve seen garage doors turned into murals, and those alone are very eye-catching, but for the truly expressive, it take…
(TrendHunter.com) This beautiful piece of art actually consists of 20 printable, paper CD cases. When placed together, the individual hexagonal cases create a larger image that makes a beautiful piece of wall art. As seen in the gallery, they can also be assembled separately for smaller design statements.
Even bett…
(TrendHunter.com) I have just discovered this artist Sarah Graham whose painting are just amazing. They look so real, unless you look closer, you could mistake them for photographs.
Her work is based on the pop culture and inspired by her working in Woolworths at the age of 16.
(TrendHunter.com) Jill Townsley’s impressive art piece Spoons is constructed using over 9,000 plastic spoons and over 3,000 rubber bands.
Spoons is exhibited at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in NYC.
The fragility of the installation, contrasted with its sheer magnitude and the huge number of the pieces used r…
(TrendHunter.com) I found out about Joao Sabino whilst looking at the keyboard bag (shown below) which led me to his website and in turn, a large section of some of his awesome designs.
I think the way he reinvents objects, such as the wine glasses, is really fresh and actually different, for once showing you can re…
(TrendHunter.com) If you had long hair like Rapunzel, would you rope your man like this?
These digitally altered, modern-day fairy tale images include classic heroines with sexy, modern twist. They include Little Red Riding Hood who’s sitting on the the back of the Big Bad Wolf’s bike; another image shows Cinderell…
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