Ceramics by Sabri Ben-Achour
Like traditional Japanese ceramists, Ben-Achour strives to create mostly functional pottery in earth tones and earth textures with a sort of calculated simplicity, aiming to capture the organic nature of the clay and other materials. His quietly beautiful works include pod and shell-shaped stoneware pieces; rounded Rak...
Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram
Viruses are conventionally considered to be dangerous, eerie and scary enough to stay away from them for the sake of our own health, but Luke Jerram does not see them as such. Since 2004, Jerram has been turning viruses and other pathogens into stunning glass sculptures that are just as eerie as they are beautiful as p...
Paper Play by Maud Vantours
Created by designer ‘Istvan’ of Chaotic Atmosphere, these computer generated insects are a beautiful exercise in fictional biology, code, and digital illustration. The collection of nearly 100 organisms with day/night variations is titled Biotop from Polygonia was made in Cinema 4D using random values within parameters...
2D/3D by Yizi Zheng
2D/3D is a set of posters, each containing a three dimensional surface, but built from a single sheet of paper. They explore the notion that while such a surface can be viewed from...
Sisyphus Table by Bruce Shapiro
Artist Bruce Shapiro worked in designing kinetic sculptures for the last 20 years. Shapiro worked on motion-control technology to find a way to combine science with his art. Finally, he built CNC art tools and designed the Sisyphus, a completely functional coffee table. Shapiro describes the Sisyphus system as an instr...
Layers of Glass by Ramon Todo
Tokyo born artist Ramon Todo splices pieces of stone, volcanic rock, obsidian, fossils, books and even pieces of the Berlin Wall with translucent layers of glass. Taking raw chunks of natural material and adding highly polished bits of glass, he creates sculptures that are unstated and surprising. By combining these di...
Woven Image by Benjamin Hubert
Benjamin Hubert's London studio Layer has designed a modular screen system made up of triangular hemp tiles for Australian textile company Woven Image. The Scale system relies on a hexagonal framework that is constructed from individual three-pronged thermoplastic sections. These join together to create a base for the...
Glass Rivers by Greg Klassen
Talented artist and furniture-maker Greg Klassen’s beautiful river- and lake-like desks and tables that straddle the line between furniture and art. He sees every piece of furniture he creates as a piece of functional art, and himself as a creator rather than a producer. Due to his relationship with a local sawmill, Kl...
Paper Sculptures by Rogan Brown
Rogan Brown's work is inspired by the tradition of scientific illustration and model making; detailed observational drawings based on patterns and motifs found in nature are transformed into incredibly detailed, delicate relief sculptures made from layer upon layer of either hand or laser cut paper. Some of the hand cu...
The Lost Triangle of Pythagoras
Artist/engineer Gregg Fleishman has been working with slotted plywood and geometry for over 40 years to create fantastical objects that span the worlds of furniture, vehicles, and large scale structures. During that time, he happened upon a previously unrecognized key to spacial geometry - what he calls the Lost Triang...
Plankton Art by Louise Hibbert & Sarah Parker
The microscopic drifting organisms that populate the oceans and great lakes, the plankton, are...
Gourd Artwork by Mark Doolittle
With a Ph.D in cell and molecular biology, Dr. Doolittle has become increasingly involved in wood and gourd sculpture over the last several years, employing his unique vision of...