Make Your Walls Come Alive

Whether you’re looking for a simple, minimal solution for a place to hang your coat or keys, or if you just have a knack for fantasy, you’ll appreciate this clever wall ornament by Jeong Hwa Jin. Leaf brings vitality to dull walls by covering unsightly nails and providing a unique way to hold your keys, jacket or other items.

Designer: Jeong Hwa Jin

Banzai! 32 Wildly-Shaped Trees And Bonsai Art

[ By Marc in Environment & Nature & Gadgets & Geek Art. ]

Some forms of sculpture take a bit more patience than others. Plant shaping and bonsai pruning are two examples of art that takes years. With patience comes permanence, however, as a properly shaped plant will impress generations.

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Shaped trees are most often manicured for decorative purposes only, but they can also be made functional. By carefully guiding a plant’s growth around metal support beams, small buildings can be constructed out of a living frame.

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A gorgeous, organic fluidity makes these plants perfect example of the highest end of the bonsai art spectrum. Carefully shaped and pruned to be gorgeous microcosms of nature, they are living art.

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Some shaped plants are more complicated than others, but all require a level of patience beyond the limit of the average person.

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The artist Takanori Aiba creates fantastic epoxy bonsais and artwork that are realistic enough to seem totally believable, but wild enough to keep one inspecting the artistic details for hours.

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Pooktre is a company that shapes plants into furniture and fantastic designs. Some of the plants are harvested for pre-shaped furniture, while others are meant to remain as living artwork.

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Bonsai trees can be formed into an incredible variety of shapes and sizes. These examples vary wildly in terms of their overall design.

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For those who don’t take the art of bonsai as seriously as others, Crash Bonsai is a company that feels the same way. Crash Bonsai creates highly realistic car models that have had a minor accident… the perfect accoutrement to that bonsai tree.

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Who says a bonsai can’t have any color? These examples show the range of appearances these versatile plants can take on.

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The art of bonsai has been around for thousands of years and its popularity is only growing. There is something powerful about shaping nature to fit one’s design, while also learning to have patience and a gentle hand.

[ By Marc in Environment & Nature & Gadgets & Geek Art. ]

Street art by Hanksy

Fan of both Tom Hanks and Banksy? Meet Hanksy, a street artist that replicates Banksy’s artworks and incorporates Tom Hanks’ head in it. The result is pretty hilarious and worth checking out. Just like Banksy, he remains anonymous, but he did answer to an interview by The Awl.

Lovely Layers

Originally designed as a base for a salvaged piece of glass, the Lofting Table merges creative construction methods with classic style that has a subtle nautical feel. The name is derived from the traditional lofting technique used to plot curves in boat-building; an unusual method for the construction of a timber table. Using a combination of 3D CAD technology & the simple jointing method, the construction is based around laminating horizontal layers together to form a single complex 3D geometry.

A series of straight edged plywood chords combine to describe a complex shape formed by the extrusion between a straight line (at the table base) and a curved-edged top. The separate plywood pieces are laminated (via dowels) together by hand to form a continuous, composite surface, which extends the layered surface effect of the exposed plywood lamina. Once all pieces are combined, the shape gives the table an overall stability which allows for the thinness of the members.

3D CAD software was used to establish the form, which was then sliced into strips to suit the plywood thickness and exported as 2D information to drive a CNC router. The shape of the pieces means that they can be nested within sheets of plywood to minimise cutting wastage. The table is hand-finished and sealed with a natural wax to enhance the exposed plywood grain.

Designer: Matthew Jones

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Zigzag bookcase shows Ikea a thing or two about not shipping air

"REK is a bookcase that grows with your book collection," writes Reinier De Jong Design on its official website. "The more books the bigger the bookcase gets. The zigzag shaped parts slide in and out to accomodate books in the resulting voids. REK will always be full, regardless of the quantity of books. Also the books can be arranged according to their sizes. The narrow spaces are excellent for magazines."

Price is "on request", unfortunately, which suggests I'll be sticking with my cheapo Billies for the time being.

REK bookcase [via Jessamyn West]

Chop ‘n Pour

Experience is a good teacher they say and designer Junjie Piao learnt a good lesson with it. A stint in chopping celery sticks left him frustrated, especially when it was time to scoop and transfer them to a bowl. He decided to “design something to make this process easier without disturbing slicing.” Thus was born Pour-Smart, an L-shaped plastic piece and a bar of strong magnet. The contraption allows you to chop and easily transfer food from the cutting board to a bowl. Simple and very useful is my verdict!

Designer: Junjie Piao

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Anatomical cross-sections made with quilled paper

Stunning artworks by Lisa Nilsson. She takes rolled pieces of paper and assembles it to create anatomical drawings. These pieces take forever to create and look absolutely gorgeous. Via Colossal.