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Design in Stitches: 45 Artistic Embroidered & Cross-Stitched Creations

This is definitely not your grandmother’s embroidery. It’s stitched into the helmets of soldiers, onto car doors and fences, producing cats that pop out of shirt pockets and portraits so ...

Please Touch the Art: Tactile 3D Portraits Let the Blind See Themselves

“My nose isn’t that big!” protests portrait subject George Wurtzel as he runs his hands over his own image, rendered in paint on thousands of screws raised from a wooden board in a relief ...

Stellar Caves: Illuminated Underground String Installation

Eighty-two feet under the surface of the earth, hidden within the cellars of the Maison Ackerman winery in Saumur, France, an eerie blue-violet wonderland blooms in carefully constructed ...

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, ...

Not Photoshopped: Distorted Images are Actually 3D Objects

This skull is a three-dimensional object that you can hold in your hand, not an image that has been stretched and distorted in Photoshop. It's one of many visually confusing sculptures by Robert ...

Solar-Powered Art Etched with a Magnifying Glass & the Sun

Magnifying glass clutched in his fist, Jordan Mang-osan uses nothing but focused rays of sunlight to burn detailed drawings onto panels of wood. A native Igorot from the Cordilleras of the ...

Robotic Printer Creates Artist’s Portrait Using His Blood

Blood streams from Ted Lawson's arm into a CNC printer, which uses it like ink or paint to robotically create the Brooklyn-based artist's image. 'Ghost in the Machine' is a life-sized nude ...

Loaves of Art: Classical Works Revealed in Slices of Glass

This loaf of colored glass may not look like much from the outside, but slice into it and you'll find an incredible recreation of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Virgin on the Rocks. Self-taught glass ...

Sci-Fi Staple: Star Wars Mosaic Made of Surprising Material

Virtually no artistic medium has gone unexplored in the quest to celebrate the continuing legacy of the Star Wars series. There have been life-sized X-wing fighters made of Lego blocks, edible ...

Adventures of Double-Faced Girl: Surreal Photography Series

It's amazing what a few strokes of a black eyeliner can do - like create an unsettling optical illusion that makes it seem as if a girl has two faces. The 'Doublefaced' project by Sebastian ...

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