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American artist Steve Moore or pxl8r creates inconceivably detailed depictions of famous faces entirely from perler beads. The brightly-colored plastic pieces are arranged in 11 x 11in squares then melted with the heat of a clothing-iron into photo-realistic mosaics of contemporary celebrities. Pxl8r is able to produce highly-detailed visions of easily recognizable faces by studying an …

Eeating Sushi can get so arty in the future! Thanks to this idea developed by international ad agency I&S BBDO for the umino seaweed shop.  ’Design Nori’ is a series of intricately laser-cut seaweed for rolling sushi. Each sheet of five designs– ‘sakura’ (‘cherry blossoms’), ‘mizutama’ (‘water drops’), ‘asanoha’ (‘hemp’), ‘kikkou’ (‘turtle shell’), and ‘kumikkou’ (‘tortoise shell’)– is based …

New York city-based artist Jennifer Rubell has developed a collection of eighteen pre-fabricated female mannequins which have been reinterpreted To become life-size nutcrackers. Each of the barbie-like lady sculptures have been positioned on their sides atop a pedestals with their legs slightly splayed– when the left leg is pulled down to meet the right, the hard shell of …

If concerts are feeling a little lackluster to you lately, it might be time to experience live music in a whole new way.The Nordik Impakt festival – a nocturnal electronic music event, might be just enough to get you excited again! Because the concert runs deep into the dark night, the creative team at Murmure stepped in …

Carmen Kass goes wild in  Mario Testino‘s editorial for the May issue of British Vogue magazine with styling by Lucinda Chambers and I absolutely love it! Less is just not more!        

New york-based matt cusick has made a name for himself as a fine artist due to his elaborate depictions of humans and other animals,water and landforms crafted entirely from recycled maps. To develop these collage pieces, he meticulously slices segments of antiquated cartographic works including those of old encyclopedias, textbooks, roadmaps, and atlases in order to layer small …

Taiwanese airline company EVA air has delved into a collaborative project with japanese toy manufacturer sanrio to decorate the exteriors of three of their planes with the image of cartoon cat character Hello Kitty. The three distinct feline motifs decorate the fleet of A330-300 airbusaircrafts flying highly-trafficked routes in asia. Beginning in taipei’s taoyuan international airport and ending in either …

Stéphane Pelletier is one of the leading creative still life photographers. In an industry where still life is becoming even more of a novelty than traditional editorial photography, we look to images like these and to unravel rising trends through depiction of color, silhouette and juxtaposition. He learned photography on his own, traveling and living in …

At the Cool Collector we received this beautiful and fun project by Dutch photographer Niqi Segers: the Hundred Beards project. Niqi Segers started the Hundred Beards project in 2010 and will continue with it until the result of a hundred beards is accomplished. When the time comes the whole collection will be shown in a …

Restaurant Wahaca, the ‘It’ under the Mexican foodies is all about the experience around dining, eating, enjoying and having fun at the same time. But of course, that is all easy-talk. What makes them new is about way more then that. Not just the Mexican, healthy, honest food. For example, they have a driving restaurant; …

Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch Fashion designer focused on fashionable technology. Almost every month she puts out a new piece of technical couture. Last year she was in the spotlight for designing a tech suit for Fergie from the Black Eyed Peace for the Super Bowl. With projects as the Intimacy dress and Pseudomorphs, she …