15 Beautiful Butterfly Designs (SUPER GALLERY) Edit

Butterflies have been influencing designers since the dawn of time. The delicate insects are difficult not to admire, from the vibrant colours of their wings to their ethereal nature in general.

We have seen a variety of butterfly inspired products from designers, from home design to fashion. The main image in this super gallery is from the April 2008 edition of Vogue Germany showing an Alexander McQueen Spring 2008 dress.

Take a look through the features below to see how one simple insect can evoke so many different design inspirations.

Fashion

Insect Accessories - Princess Beatrice’s Butterfly Bonnet

Ordinarily when you see an accessory as eccentric as Princess Beatrice’s butterfly hat, you write it off as a very rare, albeit entertaining fashion faux pas. However, one could start to wonder that this… [More]

Heartbeat Controlled Fashion - Butterfly Flap Dress (GALLERY)

If you’re wearing Alex Reeder’s beautiful white Butterfly Flap Dress, you won’t be able to hide the fact your crush gives you major butterflies. The second your heart rate speeds up, so does the pace at… [More]

Alexander McQueen’s Butterfly Hat - Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A Beehive (VIDEO)

For spring 2008, eccentric milliner Philip Treacy teamed up with infamous bad boy of British fashion, Alexander McQueen to pay homage to the woman who discovered them both, Isabella Blow. This headpiece… [More]

Art from Insects 2 - Butterfly Wing Jewelry (GALLERY)

Nature’s genetic paintbrushes have turned out works of art made of hundreds of thousands of bilaterally-symmetrical butterfly and moth wings.  Even in death, their mounted beauty can remain intact for… [More]

Butterfly Monocles - Uma Thurman for Another Magazine (GALLERY)

Actress Uma Thurman was recently featured in an editorial spread as well as in an interviewed by Another Magazine. I love photography by Craig McDean, particularly the butterfly motif as a symbol of rebirth… [More]

Decor

Futuristic Ceiling Light Inspired by Paper - Vinta Butterfly Light (GALLERY)

Simple aesthetics are so often the most beautiful as in the case of the functional Butterfly Light that is so much more pleasing to the eye than those gaudy ceiling lights. “The concept of the Butterfly… [More]

Color Changing Eco Light - Solar Butterfly Light

The perfect way to set the mood of your next garden party is with the color changing solar LED butterfly light! The glowing insect charges in the sun all day via a small solar panel, automatically switching… [More]

Butterfly Releases - Kit Adds Butterflies to Every Occasion

Weddings, Funerals, Births, Birthdays, Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Quinceañeras, Anniversaries, Graduations, Memorials, Corporate Events, Parties, Romance, or…. just because! Butterfly releases are an increasingly… [More]

Street Art History Lessons - Pure Evil Pearly Kings (VIDEO)

I love these Pearly Kings & Queens which are popping up all over London - and are by a street artist known as Pure Evil. This work, found on a church hoarding, infuses the London tradition of the Pearly… [More]

Trash Into Art - Amazing Beer Can Butterflies (GALLERY)

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… [More]

Beer Can Butterflies - More Garbage as Art (GALLERY)

Artist Paul Villinski takes these empty cans, or “dead soldiers” as he puts it, from the streets of New York City to create butterflies that are each unique so on generation’s trash will be another generation’s… [More]

Wings Fly into Fashion - Delicate Spring Accessories (GALLERY)

One of the hottest ways to accessorize this spring and summer is with wings, be they feathered bird or angel wings, or delicate wings like those of butterflies and dragonflies. The Victoria’s Secret… [More]

Insect Based Robots - The Next Generation of Bots

When we talk about robots suddenly we connect to human looking machines, but it seems future will bring us something different. And it makes a lot of sense, if insects are everywhere and reach every place…… [More]

Dragonflies

Making Machines to Imitate Nature - 14k Gold Mechanical Dragonfly (GALLERY)

Anax Imperator Machina is latin for The Emporor Dragonfly Machine, says artist Jesse Dang. Illiantbray is pig latin for brillant. This large model (8 inch wingspan) is meant to interpret the gadgets of… [More]

Dragonfly Robot (VIDEO)

The world’s first winged robot has been released by WowWee.  It’s a remote control dragonfly.  It appears relatively difficult to fly. [More]