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Pixel States, A T-Shirt Design Series Featuring Pixelated US States
Pixel States by the design / development collective and t-shirt shop Pixelivery (who also runs United Pixelworkers) is a series of t-shirt designs that each…
Imagine, Destroyed Guns Reborn as Working Musical Instruments
“Imagine” is a set of 50 fully functioning musical instruments that were made out of destroyed guns. The guns (some 6,700 of them) were destroyed…
Angry Birds Star Wars Has Been Released
Angry Bird Star Wars, a game created in collaboration between Rovio Entertainment and Lucasfilm, has been released and is filled with new features, special powers…
Plexus no. 19, Thread Art Installation by Gabriel Dawe
“Plexus no. 19” by Gabriel Dawe is a beautiful thread art installation at the Villa Olmo in Como, Italy. The installation consists of two colorful…
Soulver, A Clever & Simple Calculator App
Soulver is a clever calculator app that can solve math problems involving both numbers and words. For instance “$100 a night x 2 nights” yields…
Karateka, Modernized Remake of The Classic 8-Bit Video Game
Prince of Persia video game designer Jordan Mechner released a Sandwich Video produced extended director’s cut launch trailer for his new Xbox Live Arcade game…
We Are What We Pretend to Be, Group Art Show at WWA Gallery
Who Made Who by Vincent Cacciotti We Are What We Pretend to Be is a group art show titled after a quote by writer Kurt…
Topographic Food Art by Stefanie Herr
German artist Stefanie Herr depicts styrofoam packed foods as topographic maps in this series of sculptures. Herr made the sculptures by hand out of layers…
PBS Arts: Off Book – We Love Retro Media: Vinyl, VHS, Tapes & Film
We Love Retro Media: Vinyl, VHS, Tapes & Film by PBS Arts: Off Book explains and shows how some almost forgotten media formats from the…
Potion Overdose, Two Wizards Battle & Drink Way Too Many Potions
Potion Overdose by Niko Pueringer and Sam Gorski of Corridor Digital is a short video that follows two battling wizards in an alley as they…