sculptures

Design

This Is Not A Photoshop Collage, It’s A Wood Carving

3:10AM Jesus Diaz | This morning, Ron van der Ende left me speechless with these tapes. They are not pasted in Photoshop. They are not giant three-dimensional tapes. They are bas-relief mosaics made with old wood cuts. His other gadgets are even more impressive. More »
Design

Quantum Physics Visualised

5:00PM Rosa Golijan | I wish that Julian Voss-Andreae had made some of these sculptures when I was in school. While we can’t really claim that they represent quantum physics concepts accurately, they still would’ve made reading about Bosons and Fermions more pleasant. More »
Design

The Pebro Bench Would Have Been Better As A Seesaw

8:40AM Sean Fallon | Sure, the Pebro Bench raises up to become a “sculpture” when no one is sitting on it, but I think the designers could have earned more fun points if they had gone full teeter-totter. More »
Design

The Living Light Sculpture

7:25AM Brian Lam | The Living Light Sculpture looks like a giant metal flower, or a man-made approximation of a jungle canopy with artificial sunlight coming down through its branches. It’s actually a digital map sculpture reporting air quality in Seoul, Korea. More »
Robots

Robot Flawlessly Builds 7000 Brick “Infinite Loop” Without Mortar

8:26AM Sean Fallon | If you happen to be on Pike Street In New York’s Chinatown between now and November 14th, you might catch a glimpse of “R-O-B” the bricklaying robot building a 7000 brick “Infinite Loop” sculpture along a pedestrian island. More »
Design

Life-Size Bronze Zeus Drops Lighting Rod For More Powerful iPhone

9:20AM Joanna Stern | Greek Gods? More like geek Gods. That is a life-size statue of the ruler of Mount Olympus with the God of all phones. But don’t worry sculptor Adam Reeder gives other large sculpted deities gadgets too. More »
Design

Papercraft Castle Is More Gorgeous, Intricate Than Most Real Castles

10:20AM Dan Nosowitz | This unbelievable papercraft project, by Japanese art student Wataru Itou, took over 4 years to create and features lights and a moving train. It’s probably the most stunning papercraft sculpture we’ve ever seen. More »
Robots

Japan Building Another Gigantic Robot, Tetsujin

6:00AM Mark Wilson | We knew this day would come. Japan builds one giant robot and, like a first taste of heroin, the country follows a destructive path of building opulent robo statues until there’s a 18 metre robot for every man, woman and child. More »
Design

The Man With No Shadow Looks Like Kirk About To Teleport

12:20AM Jesus Diaz | He’s the invisible man/ count the bubbles in your hand/ the summer sites/ And the southern skies. That’s all that’s left behind/ the skies, and a sweet caress/ he’s the invisible man/ catch him if you can. More »
Design

The Migraine Machine

10:52PM Mark Wilson | By artist Greg Brotherton, the same guy who gave us the vacuum-inspired minotaur robot, The Migraine Machine spins around its doomed pilot, who spins the opposite direction in dizzy delirium. [Brotron via Super Punch] More »