Surge Calendar 2012

Made from one sheet of paper, SURGE calendar becomes three dimensional when assembled to look like an architect model. Simple but sophisticated structure creates impressive silhouette with blue shadow through slits. {via}

Telephone Book Hive by Kristiina Lahde

Artist Kristiina Lahde created this towering paper sculpture using delicately folded phone books. 

High Speed Liquid and Bubble Photographs

German photographer Heinz Maier says that he began taking photographs less than a year ago in late 2010. He claims to not know what direction he’s heading in just yet, right now he’s experimenting with macro photography, mostly insects, animals, and these delicate high speed water droplets. See much more of his work here.

Lovely Illustrations by Tatsuro Kiuchi

Tokyo-based illustrator Tatsura Kiuchi started out as a biology major but pursued his true passion at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He now illustrates children’s books, as well as doing work for editorial and advertising clients. 

The Fighting Cholitas

Have you heard about the Lucha Libre wrestlers from Boliva? The sport is huge out there and now that women can participate, which was an exclusively men’s sport Bolivia is getting its deserved attention.
The Cholitas as they are called have received international recognition, many of them are wives and daughters of wrestlers. Once a week the women train hard so that they can fight ever Sunday with men in a group called Las Diosas del Ring (The Deities of the Ring) Photographer Daniele Tamagni took some amazing images of these women. Also worth checking out is the Mamachas del Ting trailer. {via}

Sushi Ladies

I am in love with this Sushi Ladies by Malaysian designer Chow Hon Lam aka flyingmouse365.

Magnetic Typography

UK designer Dominic Le-Hair made this slick magnetized poster by cutting rubber magnets into letters with an x-acto knife and sandwiching them between sheets of paper before dusting it with iron fillings. See more of the project here.

Amazing Photography of Arno Rafael Minkkinen

I can't get enough of amazingly awesome work of Finnish photographer  Arno Rafael Minkkinen. His work explores an uncanny juxtaposition between the human body and landscapes, where body parts function as integral parts of trees, rivers, skylines, and rock formations. Many of his photos require extreme physical risk, dangling his body from cliffs, holding his breath underwater, or at times facing his greatest psychological fears. Check out his new website here.

T-Shirt Sketchbook

Fun. A sketchbook for the t-shirt geek!

Bubble Tank

The Bubble Tank by Richard Bell, Thomas McKeown and David Powell of Psalt Design is made to look as if the aquarium is moments from precariously dripping off the edge of a counter top. An alternative name could be the Anxiety Tank. (via juxtapoz)

Jing Zhang’s Industrial Typography

UK-based graphic designer and illustrator Jing Zhang is currently working on a beautiful series of isometric letters, rendering typographical forms as small industrial buildings, machines, factories, and landscapes. {via}

Glow-In-The-Dark Day and Night Poster Reveals Crime, Sex, Guns and Zombies

This is a hand-pulled 9-color screen print including two different layers of phosphorescent inks printed on 100 lb. white stock, signed and numbered in an edition of only 60(already sold out). By Jason Dean's.

A Suspended Glass Greenhouse Lamp

Greenhouse by Czech designer Kristýna Pojerová is a suspended glass domed lamp with an inner gutter for growing herbs and other small plants in urban environments. The lamp is for sale at Art Light and retails for approximately $1,900. (via designboom)

Type in Comments by Mark Weaver

Type in Comments is a personal project by Mark Weaver where he explores objects that look like letters.Mark is a freelance graphic designer & illustrator in Atlanta, Georgia. {via}

Artichoke Road Map Pendant Light

Amazing pendant light by Allison Patrick from New York City.

Brushless Paintings by Amy Shackleton

Twenty-five year old, Toronto-based artist Amy Shackletonpaints these lusciously drippy paintings without use of a brush or fingers, instead she relies on good old gravity (and occasionally string as a guide) to move the paint slowly across the canvas in delicately controlled pours.

Avantgarde

Wooden typographic sculpture of the typeface Avant Garde (entitledAvantgarde) by artist Damien Roach. via {typeverything}