(TrendHunter.com) The Japanese bento box, or lunch box, dates back hundreds of years in Japanese history. The contemporary bento box has been influenced by pop culture elements such as movies, TV shows and manga.
The bento box is “Comprised of food crafted into visually creative, appealing and recognizable forms, a…
(TrendHunter.com) A plain, white pair of tennis shoes provides way too much creative potential to leave them as they come. Case in point, the Pimp My Flats exhibit has some stellar designs, showcasing ordinary plimsol shoes that have been taken to the next level of hip.
Each pair of Lazy Oaf shoes has been decorated…
(TrendHunter.com) Eric Staller is a New York-based artist whose light experimentation techniques include using a tripod and long exposures of light to create spectacular artwork against the backdrop of urban environments. His light drawings, permanent artwork in public places, sculptures, and photography date back to…
(TrendHunter.com) NYC’s trash is Paul Villinski’s art. These beautiful art pieces explore themes of transformation and recovery through the metamorphosis of crushed beer cans from the streets of New York into flocks of realistically crafted butterflies.
I like the transformation of what we look at as garbage with no…
(TrendHunter.com) Dutch Atelier Van Lieshout has their Sensory Deprivation Skull on display at Carpenters Workshop Gallery, a new Gallery in Mayfair, London, designated to furniture. A chair you can sit in with the doors closed and without any disturbance from the outside world. Even with a cosy sheepskin!
Joep van L…
(TrendHunter.com) I’m an origami fan! Last year I saw a bar in Barcelona that had decorations made entirely of origami. I was so inspired, I’m already working on some design ideas based on origami, the Japanese paper folding technique.
But the guys featured in the video above made a step by step tutorial on how to m…
(TrendHunter.com) What a fun addition to your walls. Tetris is one of my favorite games, so the prospect of having an adjustable tetris mirror is definitely exciting for me.
The Tetris Mirror by UK designer Soner Ozenc is constructed out of thirteen interlocking mirrored acrylic panels. The mirror can be arranged t…
(TrendHunter.com) Every 9 months many restaurant change their cutlery. Designer and artist Osian Batyka-Williams used this insight and created this piece of art that proves again than almost any garbage can be recycled and turned into art.
But if you are scared of sitting on 150 forks and knives, it is said that the…
(TrendHunter.com) Thornton’s have come up trumps again with egg-cellent Easter PR Story.
They have created five Easter eggs bearing the faces of Gordon Brown, Victoria Beckham, David Beckham, Lily Allen and Prince Harry. These people were chosen as they “represent a spectrum of British culture.” Yeah, yeah but we ar…
(TrendHunter.com) Despite what you may have been told, colouring books are not just for kids. Just look at this urban colouring book and sticker kit from Sanithna Phansavanh! It integrates black and white photographs of city scenes, then lays over black outlines, like the ones in a kids colouring book that you can de…
(TrendHunter.com) What you are looking at, my friends, is art. Ok, to the unsophisticated and uncouth (like me) that might just be a whole bunch of burned toasts artist David Reimondo lined up and manipulated to look like whatever he made the stuff look like. And its all cool. The tired cliche says art is in the eyes…
(TrendHunter.com) Interactive art installations allow anybody to create their own artistic manifesto.
Liquid Space 2.1 is an interactive space that uses a software and electronic systems to create a live response when humans interact with it. It was created by Studio Roosegaarde 2.5 and involves human sounds and mot…
(TrendHunter.com) Looking for rich culture but can’t decide between chic Parisian-style art and cuisine, more intense features of a bull fighting city like Barcelona, or the fashions and clubs of LA? Don’t choose any of those. Add some red wine and sweaty tango to your day dream, and you’ve got the pumping beat of Bu…
(TrendHunter.com) If you’ve ever wondered what award-winning interactive architecture looks like, you’re seeing it right now.
The Burble London by Haque Design + Research Ltdd with Seth Garlock and Rolf Pixley is running alongside six other projects in six different genres. The burble is the finalist in the Interac…
(TrendHunter.com) Designer Martino Gamper, who was born in Italy and studied sculpture and product design in Vienna, is one of seven finalists in the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year contest. The art project which resulted in his nomination under the furniture category, is called “100 Chairs in 100 Days.”
Just as…
(TrendHunter.com) Making your house chic and elegant while saving the environment is always good in my book, so I was happy to stumble upon Ryan McElhinney’s site. McElhinney makes artistic yet practical pieces of recycled Toys which are bonded together and then coated in a High Gloss polyurethane lacquer. Each piece…
(TrendHunter.com) You see fonts everywhere, from graffiti in the street to advertising press inserts or choco pack you were holding in your hand earlier. They are everywhere. Creating them is not that easy as you need to build up their own personality..
Job Wouters is a font artist and along with his 4 year old nephe…
(TrendHunter.com) My friend Alex posted these three great examples of egg tuning on his blog.
What was the insight for this project? For Easter in Romania, everybody embellishes boiled Easter eggs. In some regions, the eggs are true pieces of art as they are painted manually in tens of shades and forms (and sometime…
(TrendHunter.com) (Warning: post contains bare bodies)
How much would you pay to own photographs of some of the world’s most famous beauties… without their clothes on? New York auction house, Christie’s bets people are willing to shell out a few thousand dollars to own sexy photographs of the most attractive fema…
(TrendHunter.com) These beautiful, unique and quirky book covers were designed under creative direction by Paul Buckley, but credit for The Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition has to be given to various designers whose works have been clustered together to create the commemorative art book.
The Penguin Classics Deluxe …
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