By hammering thousands of nails onto a canvas, artist David Foster creates stunning portraits of celebrities, animals and scenery via varying the solidity and shading of nails. Originally an architect, Foster’s love of technical drawing has matured into using just hammer and nails stippling to create shadow and light. The level of realism Foster achieves with the nails is unbelievable. Each piece begins with a photograph, which Foster reproduces in ink stippling. Then he enlarges the drawing to use as reference of nail position, and starts hammering away. Nail by nail, dot by dot. Taking just a hammer and a box of nails, Foster slowly builds the pointillist images across the canvas. The whole process is really time-consuming and needs tremendous patience and skill. Check the video at the bottom to see how Foster create his nail artwork in action.
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Covering 100.000m2, Desert Breath is an impossibly immense land art installation located in the eastern Sahara desert bordering the Red Sea in Egypt. As a collaborative site specific project created by D.A.ST. arteam – installation artist Danae Stratou, industrial designer Alexandra Stratou, and architect Stella Constantinides, it was meant as an exploration of infinity against the backdrop of the largest African desert. Photo by D.A.ST. Arteam courtesy the artists Its construction consists of the displacement of 8.000 m3 of sand formed so as to create precise positive and negative conical volumes. The conical volumes form two interlocking spirals that move out from a common center (a large central pool of water) with a phase difference of 180 degrees in the same direction of rotation. When asked why “D.A.ST. arteam” want to create this installation, they said “It comes from their common desire to work in the desert where one experiences infinity”. The construction of Desert Breath began in June 1995 and was completed in March 1997. Although it’s in a slow state of disintegration, Desert Breath still remains view-able. You can learn more about the project hereor see it in satellite images taken from Google Earth.
Voice-Recognition Grocery-List Organizer: It's a voice recognition grocery list organizer; all you need to do is just push the record button, say the name of the item you want on your list, and the gadget does the rest. It comes with 2500+ items in its library and automatically organizes your list into categories; makes visits to the store more efficient. Baggler: This unique device allows you to manage and transfer your bags with ease. It keeps the handles secured without getting entangled or items falling out of the bags. Grocery Bag: This grocery bag is made from British heavyweight cotton with leather details. It measures 40cm x 30cm x 30cm, features a magnetic closure to compress and store the bag into a cube. Onetrip Grocery Bag Holder: This simple device lets you transfer multiple bags all at once. Kraft Paper Grocery List: It's a simple and easy DIY project; the kraft paper grocery list is going to look perfect in your kitchen. Folding Shopping Cart: The VersaCart can transport up to 120 lbs with ease; it features a waterproof removable heavy-duty nylon canvas bag that is water-proof and comes with handles and a built-in cover for privacy. 6-Wheel Shopping Cart: It can hold upto 70 lbs and folds for easy storage; it features a rear-wheel design that easily maneuvers upstairs with little effort.
With the help of 3D printing, artists Linlin(Chinese) and Pierre-Yves Jacques(French) are able to create their sculptures on a new dimension. Linlin and Pierre-Yves’ yearning to mix their cultures and desires gives birth to unexpected works that are full of meaning. They have used 3D printing techniques to develop the wall sculptures out of white polyamide and gloss paint. In their latest “Animal Lace” seriers, they created head of dear, bear and elephant which protrude out from the wall in a decorative display. By night, lights glimmer through these spectacular wall sculputure and a dynamic energy radiates from the complex lace patterns in unexpected formations along the wall.
Greece-based artist Charis Tsevis is a brilliant visual designer who is renowned all over the world for his creative minds and has done work for companies like Nike, PepsiCo, Toyota and IKEA. “We are living in a wired world. No matter how wireless technologies have developed. We need those cables, lines to transfer electricity and data”, said by Tsevis. Due to his fascination about this wired world, he created intricate illustrations feature a maze of wires tangled together to form people and animals. Those perfectly arranged wires, from cord to cable, are snaking out towards the edges in his illustrations and magically create a sense of motion. Tsevis says, “All of them have to do with the relationship between the network and the human body and spirit.”
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