Ephemeral Architecture: 27 Paper Buildings & Pavilions
A study in opposites, paper architecture renders what is normally solid and durable in delicate, temporary form, whether recreating intricate silhouettes of miniature cities or building ...
Category: Sculpture & Craft
From public works to private masterpieces, here are some of the most beautiful, strange, surreal and sublime sculptures and crafts in the world.
Beautiful Bacteria: Infectiously Intricate Paper Cut Art
Few people outside of research scientists are quite so well-acquainted with the bacteria that grows inside the human body as artist Rogan Brown, who spends up to four months studying, cutting and ...
Put a Miniature Diorama On It: Amazing Tiny Ring Box Art
A vendor at a market in Paris handed artist Talwst an antique ring box and said, 'I want to see you do something with this.' From that chance encounter has sprung an entire collection of tiny ...
Itty City Blocks: Build Your Own 3D-Printed Physical SimCity
At a scale of 1/1,000, these beautiful little models bring famous buildings to life but can also be fitted into whole blocks or assembled to form micro-metropolises. Car fanatics ...
Candy Carpets and Chocolate Skulls: 13 Edible Designs
Would you walk up to a gallery wall made entirely of sweet-smelling dark chocolate and lick it, Willy Wonka style? These 13 (more!) edible art creations use colorful candies, tomatoes, ...
1 Building Per Day: Crafting Paperholm, a Working Micro-City
The individual structures are impressive as is the fact that they have moving parts, but their rate of construction is particularly compelling: the man behind this project is creating an ...
Photoluminescent Furniture: Filled Wooden Voids Glow in Dark
A pair of crafty carpenters have separately arrived at the same conclusion: glow-in-the-dark resin is a really neat way to fill cracks, gaps, splits and other natural or accidental voids ...
Vacant Buddha: Intricate Paper Sculptures Seem to Disappear
Deceptively solid-looking when seen from either side, the delicacy of these paper sculptures is revealed if you simply shift your position to view them straight on. Korean artist Ho Yoon Shin ...
So Metal: Intricate Sculptures Made of Nothing but Nails
Most people use nails just to hang art on the wall, but Maine-based sculptor John Bisbee collects thousands of them to craft incredibly intricate sculptures into spiked balls, undulating waves, ...
12 Scientific Sculptures: Intangible Data in Physical Form
Mathematical theorems, the physics of an object moving through space, and intangible scientific data are visualized three-dimensionally and made into works of art in these 12 sculptures and ...
