 Text Lights - Nathan Coley's Floating Text Messages::These light text installations are by UK artist Nathan Coley. The messaging in these pieces is neither negative nor positive which is one of the things I love about them. I also love that they look really… [MORE] |
 Mixed Media Taxidermy - Sequined Dead Animals::These mixed media taxidermy pieces from Angela Singer are nothing short of brilliant.
At first they're slightly repelling as it looks like their blood and guts are spilling out, but if you are brave enough… [MORE] |
 Offbeat Luxury Auctions - Sotheby's Hirst Art Tops $125 Million With A Pickled Shark, Embalmed::In London, a sale of pieces by provocative British artist Damien Hirst has raised more than US $125 million. According to Sotheby's, the sale smashed the $20 million record for an auction of works by a… [MORE] |
 Guerrilla Rubber Duckies - Famous Paintings "With Extra Ducks"::Some of the world's most famous masterpieces have been given a super cute added feature; a yellow rubber ducky.
The photographs, published in a group called ‘With Extra Ducks’, were created by Tina Hannan,… [MORE] |
 Giant Guerrilla Toilet Paper Rolls - Dulcolax Laxative Ad::Toilet paper rolls have fascinated the TrendHunter community season after season. We can't get enough of Custom Toilet Paper or Toilet Paper in-A-Tube trends, even if we tried.
Some artists have taken… [MORE] |
 Animal Hand Paintings - Hanimals::These hand paintings from conceptual artist Mario Mariotti (1936-1997) are quirky and creative. His pieces have come to be known as Hanimals.
He is famous for his amazing hand paintings, and I particularly… [MORE] |
 Shredded Book Art - Literary Masterpieces Shaped by Scalpel::If Scottish artist Georgia Russell needed another career she could choose to be a surgeon, for her work shows her great skill with sharp scalpels turning books, pictures, music sheets, maps and even currency… [MORE] |
 Cigarette Art - 12 Cancer Stick Creations::It's all smoke and mirrors. Tobacco companies have used these tactics for decades to keep the addiction to cigarettes legal.
You might become addicted to cigarettes as art after looking at this collection.… [MORE] |
 Architectural Fantasy Exhibits - NL Architects at Venice Biennale::Dutch Architects, NL will be exhibiting their vision of virtual architecture at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition (Venice Biennale) “Out There: Architecture Beyond Building” in the Italian… [MORE] |
 Optical Illusion Decor - Felice Varini's 3D Rooms::Swiss artist, Felice Varini does not digitally manipulate pictures. What he is incredibly good at is painting walls, ceilings and floors such that optical illusions form when viewed at certain angles.… [MORE] |
 Powerfully Fragile Digitalized Art - Classic Images Get a Dark Twist::Natalie Shau is a 23 year old digital artist based in Lithuania who has produced some really phenomenal artwork.
The first five illustrations in the gallery were done on assignment from French jewelry… [MORE] |
 Fake Street Signs as Public Art - Panos 2013::In Lyons, France, artists from all over the world are given the chance to showcase their art for a new project called Panos 2013 in a unique gallery--the streets of the city.
The art project has clear… [MORE] |
 Pimped-Out Bicycles - Dzine Lowrider Bike Sculptures::Dzine launched a new show at the Deitch Gallery in Long Island City with some seriously pimped-out bikes. Dzine's bikes are all fully functional, but sold for outrageous prices as sculptures.
The blue… [MORE] |
 Palace Pop Art - Jeff Koons Versailles Exhibit::The 17 sculptures in American artist Jeff Koons’ current exhibit in the Château de Versailles, once the home of French Royalty, has stirred up quite a controversy. Right-wing protesters are insisting on… [MORE] |
 Surrealist Fashion Film Promotions - Prada Animates 2008 Fall Collection::In a unique promotional twist, Prada presented its Fall 2008 collection with “Fallen Shadows,” a very surreal, quaint and sedate animated short film which was screened in front of a very exclusive crowd… [MORE] |
 Celebrating Cereal and Consumerism - Iconic Images from Breakfast Foods::Ryan Alexiev's latest exhibition, The Land of 1000 cereals, showcases the Los Angeles-born artist's uncanny knack of creating images of iconic figures using breakfast cereal.
Pamela Anderson, Larry King… [MORE] |
 Haunting Teen Photography - 15 Year Old Channels the Supernatural::Eleanor Hardwick is a fifteen-year-old gifted photographer and entrepreneur born in Oxford, England. Her life’s passion is photography. “I love photography, because you can use the world that you have… [MORE] |
 3-D Sci-Fi Art - Amazing Deviant Art by Fredy Wenzel::Fredy Wenzel is a prolific and absolutely amazing 3-D graphic artist from Germany. His skills have produced many top quality sci-fi and fantasy posters that are sure to please fans of the genre.
He is… [MORE] |
 Quirky Fluorescent Cat Sculptures - The Feline Staring Contest Light::Cats are creepy sometimes, especially when they give fierce and prolonged glares at something. It even gets freakier when the object they have their focus on is not visible to our naked eye.
Using that… [MORE] |
 Post-It Notes Masterpieces - Mona Lisa from 12,000 Sticky Sheets::This entrant used an astounding number (12,000) of Post-It notes in different colors to create this version of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Mona Lisa' - the video shows the build-up. It is arguably one of the… [MORE] |
 Tattooed Laptops - Michael Dinges 'Dead Reckoning' Exhibit::"Dead Reckoning" is the name of Chicago-based artist Michael Dinges’ latest exhibition.
The items shown in this fascinating exhibit consist of engraved Apple laptops and brass recreations of historical… [MORE] |
 Flat-Pack Funerals - DIY IKEA Coffins::It was only a matter of time before IKEA ventured into coffins. Artist Joe Scanlan has created simple coffins for $15,000--or a book for $27.50 that tells you how to make your own coffin from IKEA parts… [MORE] |
 Organic Beach Portraits - The Stoned Face::There really isn’t too much to be said of this creative artwork, as it is quite simple in principle as a “collage” of stones.
Needless to say, any number of pictures can be assembled using a variety of… [MORE] |
 Vortex Art Homes - The Inversion House::This artful architecture can look either like a brilliant museum display or a run-down shack depending on your perspective.
Dan Havel and Dean Ruck of Art League Houston created this "Inversion" in 2005,… [MORE] |
 X-Ray Walls (FOLLOW UP) - Out of Bounds by Chris O'Shea::Imagine if you could point an x-ray flashlight at a wall and be able to see what lies behind it - just like Superman with his x-ray vision. That’s what Chris O’Shea did with his “Out of Bounds” gallery… [MORE] |
 Humanizing Famous Portraits - Untooneds by Mataleone::Trendhunter has found some awfully good untooning trends. Here is the work of Mataleone, a Brazilian whiz at Photoshop. His unique work is in the humanizing of drawings and cartoon characters. By far,… [MORE] |
 $18,000 Star Wars Statues - Bronze Darth Vader::Darth Vader, the dark lord of Star Wars, is now cast in a limited edition bronze statue. The Darth Vader statue weighs over 150 lbs and is four feet tall. Thirty numbered statues of Darth Vader are available.… [MORE] |
 Fairytale Finger Flora - Valerie Hammond Twilight::Valerie Hammond’s Twilight: Contes de Fées, will be the featured exhibit at Garson Baker Fine Art in New York, NY, from September 11-October 11.
The phrase “contes de fées” is French for fairy tales—which… [MORE] |
 Creepy Recycled Sculptures - Nemo Gould Robots::Nemo Gould’s recycled robot sculptures are made almost entirely with found objects, but Gould would rather you focus on these objects’ current iteration--as some seriously creepy robots.
Robot sculptures… [MORE] |
 Raw Poultry Public Art - Attention Chicken by Nicolas Lampert::I love a bit of meat which is why I love the work of Nicolas Lampert - his meat landscapes were previously featured here at Trend Hunter. This chicken takes it to a whole new level. Lampert worked with… [MORE] |
 Functional Classical Decor - Fiona Thomson Lights and Speakers::Fiona Thomson Lights and Speakers bring 19th Century ornamental objects to life with modern innovations.
Thomson turned one of the most iconic busts in history, the Beethoven Bust, into an MP3 speaker… [MORE] |
 Enlightened Fish - Dried Cod Lamps as Art::Uggi Lights, also known as dried cod lamps, are an interesting example of age old tradition re-made. In Iceland people used to hang fish whole to dry and then eat (and actually, they still do). Two Icelandic… [MORE] |
 Protective Armor as Home Decor - Ruth Borgenicht Chain Mail Sculptures::This piece is outstanding. It’s from Ruth Borgenicht who creates ceramic pieces of chainmail into various works of art and I could look at the pictures all day. At first glance I thought it was cool crochet… [MORE] |
 Curated Chocolate - Toyko's All-Chocolate Exhibition::How much fun would it be to go on a Godzilla type chocolate rampage through these chocolate cites?
This is just one piece from the the Chocolate exhibition in Tokyo last year. Other pieces featured were… [MORE] |
 Remixing Street Art - Banksy Gets Jelly-Bean Redux::I am loving the work of Prudence Emma Stait, even more now that she has used candy to recreate street art. How good does this look?
Warhol’s painting of Marilyn Monroe also had the candy treating, but… [MORE] |
 Political Sneakers - Barack Obama Nike Air Force One::Amongst all the other political merchandising, the Obama Air Force 1 sneakers are certainly unusual. The image of Obama is on the right sole. On the left is another image with the words “ A black Man runs… [MORE] |
 3D Wall Coverings - Hanna Nyman Peel-Back Wallpaper::Swedish designer Hanna Nyman’s floral inspired wallpaper patterns are not like other wallpapers. They are completely interactive--users can peel back sections of the wallpapers to customize and create… [MORE] |
 Kaleidoscopic Photography - Kim Joon's Body Art::Body Art is a Trendhunter favourite. Here, the art form has been stepped up considerably with not just a single body being painted but several bodies. They have been grouped together in different ways… [MORE] |
 Duct Tape Drawings - Art of Joe Girandola::I can't even wrap up a parcel with tape without getting yards of it stuck in my hair, on the cat and so forth. Hence Duct Tape Drawings by Joe Girandola totally blow me away.
Joe was classically trained… [MORE] |
 Mind-Boggling Bodies of Water - The Zipper Pond::The “Zipper Pond” is now one of the feature attractions of the Juming Museum, located in Taiwan. Who would have thought of using a gigantic zipper in a pond?
When I first saw this creative lotus pond,… [MORE] |
 Colorful Robot Art - Eric Joyner's Artificial Enlightenment::The Eric Joyner Artificial Enlightenment exhibit will be featured at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, CA, on September 6, 2008. Worthy of note is that if you watch the video interview of Joyner… [MORE] |
 Supercar Origami - V12 Engine by Yee::This V12 engine won’t make your car go “Vroom!” but it WILL make your jaw drop. That’s because this perfect and accurately-sized V12 engine is made almost entirely out of paper. A Canadian designer named… [MORE] |
 Remanufactured Art - Shifting Crap to Crafts::Remanufactured is the name of an exhibit to bring interest to the reusing of modern waste for crafts. From dissection (removing most of an item to reveal the art) to manipulation (weaving hair into intricate… [MORE] |
 Clothes Made of Paper Maps - "Les Robes Geographiques"::The clothes Elisabeth Lecourt makes are really not for wearing because she made them by cutting and folding actual paper maps. She assembles the clothing like in dressmaking. She also does it in such a… [MORE] |
 Anything-but-Average Art - The World's Strangest Statues::Chances are, you've never seen statues like these before. From the upside down man to the guy juggling babies, (shouldn't someone call children and youth?) these crazy pieces of art are sure to catch the… [MORE] |
 Surrealistic Cyberpunk Portraits - Almacan's Mechanical Mirage Art::Almacan is the pseudonym of Japanese artist, Kazuhiko Nakamura, whose amazing digital art is inspired by surrealism and cyberpunk. He is particularly drawn to 19th century machine designs and armour.
Almacan… [MORE] |
 Printer Paper Scultpures - Peter Callesen's Scherenschnitte::There’s only so much you can do with an 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper, right? As Peter Callesen proves to us with his amazing paper sculptures, the previous statement is just plain wrong. To Callesen, the possibilities… [MORE] |
 Inedible Micro Meals - Polymer Clay Food by Mimiature::It's too bad that the Mimiatures mini-food is inedible as they really look good enough to eat. Every polymer clay morsel has been patiently crafted to delicious detail by Mimi, a Thai artisan.
Her food… [MORE] |
 Star Wars Lego Olympics - The Imperial Sportstroopers::It was bound to happen: the Lego Galactic Empire and the 2008 Beijing Olympics fused into a photo gallery of epic proportions. Alan Chia's Imperial Sportstroopers is a fantastic iteration of pop culture… [MORE] |
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