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By artfully manipulating sunlight through a hole, and carefully positioned mirrors in a fog filled studio, artist James Nizam captures geometric beauty in stark monochromatic prints.

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Tomás Saraceno makes amazing bucky ball like structures with black string and lots of imagination.

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Andrew Myers has a wicked sense of aesthetics, and an even more wicked sense of humour.

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Yan Lu designed a tank that deprives a goldfish of life-giving water everytime you wash your hand, serving as a slightly macabre reminder to the effects of wasting water. Don’t worry, the fish get’s his water pumped back to him once you switch the tap off.

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Daniel Eatock cheekily combines two independent objects into a new one, and in the process, imparts a certain Dadaist quality into our everyday objects.

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With some tinkering, Christophe Guberan coaxes his inkjet printer to print a special mix of ink and water, onto seeming ordinary paper. The magic happens when the water mix begins to dry and self-folding origami starts. This is one you have to watch the video to understand the process.

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I love snakes. I love how they move, seemingly with magic. I love their bright colours and scaly skins. I love them even more when photographer Guido Mocafico placed them in boxes and made geometric sense of their chaotic twists and turns.

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Art collaborative John Wood and Paul Harrison put sanding machine to a pile of paper and gave us this hypnotic, watch-over-and-over-and-over again video.

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I have always loved myself a mash-up anything so the hybrid china collection by CTRLZAK for Seletti is right up my alley of irrelevant fun!

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Chicken or the eggshells? By Kyle Bean. See more of his amazing work here and here.

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Creating the effect of breaking open huge boulders to reveal their shiny chrome insides, Jim Hodges merged stainless steel with raw rock in a most mesmerising way. via Walker Art Centre.

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Select any part of any part of the world and the good people at Woodcut Maps will laser cut them into beautiful pieces of artwork in different combinations of wood grains.

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By carving bowling balls into trophy architecture books, artist Eddy Sykes makes a comment on how most coffee table books are made for display and not for reading anyway. Wouldn’t you just love having these gently rock away on your bookshelf?

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Repurposing two old record machines, Robert Howsare created his own spirograph machine, generating endlessly mesmerising single line drawings that reminds me of that old school windows screensaver.

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More of our favourite German artist Olaf Hajek, this time available for sale at Thumbtack Press. All that’s left for you to decide is how you want your print to be delivered… Will that be stretched canvas or framed print for you sir?

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Brian Ulrich captures the empty shells of malls way past their heydays, documenting the weather stained walls that lets you almost make out the sign that used to proudly shout its name, and the ghostly interiors you could almost imagine yourself shopping in.

 

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MIND. BLOWN. I’ll like the Inception soundtrack to this please.

 

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Dukno Yoon creates the most magical jewellery that behave more like puppets. Wriggle your finger or raise your wrist and make them fly.

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Moscow based artist Uno Moralez uses simple black and white bitmap to introduce us to his surrealist world of monsters and creatures and things that go bump in the dark.

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Created by Phil Cuttance, Faceture is a machine/process that provides all that its users need to create his own faceted vase/lampshade/sidetable with fast-setting resin. Watch the video to even get a hint at how cool this is.

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