Wow! That's all there is to say about Ryan McNaught's Lego Colosseum. The Certified Lego builder created this magnificent model out of 200,000 Lego bricks. Half is in its present day ruined form and the other half is the way it would have looked as originally built. It was made for the University of Sydney and is currently on view at the Nicholson Museum in Melbourne, Australia.
Hipster Branding is the brain child of Dave Spengeler. He took some of the most iconic logos in the world and re-branded them using a hipster's mentality. Read Fast Company's article for some of Dave's thoughts behind the logos.
Vlad aka Pixeldomestiko is a creative director living in Miami, FL who studied art in Peru and Brazil. He uses a mixture of modern and classical art styles in his work. He also happens to be the genius behind this epic collection of movie and pop culture paintings. His subject matter ranges from The Walking Dead to Back to the Future. Can you name all the ones here?
P.S. You can buy some of his art here.
Ricardo Martinez's beautiful scratchboard illustrations are highly stylized and extensively detailed, which leads to some very eye-catching work.
The yellow MetroCard is a staple of New York City, but if Melanie Chernock had her way, she would give it a major uplift. Her vision is creating MetroCards for different NYC neighborhoods and attractions. She wants to create around fifty of them and place them around the city as a promotional campaign. The designs are all hand made, unique, and representative of different aspects of the city. Check out more details about this awesome project on Fast Co Design!
If you liked Queen Elizabeth II of England's awesome rainbow color chart by Vogue, you'll definitely enjoy this collaboration by Pantone and Leo Burnett London. The two collaborated on this fantastic limited edition Pantone book of the Queen's outfits in celebration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, which honors 60 years since her cornation. The guide is numbered with PANTONE colors and has a reference to the date and location of each outfit.
Smug One is a British street artist who creates incredibly realistic yet highly stylized graffiti paintings. He creates some incredibly beautiful work of women, famous character portraits, and bizarre/humorous scenes. You can check out a large gallery of his work on Flickr.
Heather Sitarzewski makes these amazing lunches for her son and posts them on her Tumblr Lunchbox Awesome. Each one is in the shape of a famous character.
"I decided this past summer that I wanted to make a fun bento every day for my son's lunches this school year. I dug around online for a bit to see ideas and found some very fun sites that have recipes and tutorials for how to manipulate food into shapes and patterns that you don't envision initially when you think about it.
Day one I put together a cute, generic style bento. I knew immediately that I wanted to do Disney characters and other fun imagery. But little did I know, that crazy idea I had during the summer would be received so warmly with my Facebook friends. I started posting them daily there and got so many requests for a place to see them all at once. A book, a blog... a tumblog."
Some dads are cool, and some dads are super cool. Then there's Nathan Shields. The former math teacher and dad creates these amazing pancake artworks for his children. So cool!
