Yeah, but does it move me?
Remember the 80s and how awesome the Lite-Brite was? They still make those but if you want to bring pixel art to the current century, the PIXEL is a LED light frame that will display a number of beautiful works, even the ones you make yourself.
So paint isn’t usually something to get worked up over, especially not black paint. But this paint is special. This is BLACK 2.0, the world’s mattest, flattest art material. Which is to say, if you want to paint something really black, this is the stuff you need.
We can all use a little culture in our life from time to time. Poets have been sharing their words of wisdom for centuries and thanks to modern technology, you can get them all in one place. Using the Poetry from the Poetry Foundation app, find the prefect words for every occasion.
In the digital world, fonts are a big deal. The way we display words is almost as important as what they actually say. So picking the perfect font is an important part of design. What if your font changed as you type to give you the most pleasing look possible? Futuracha Pro is a dynamic font that shifts as you type to give you the best look possible.
Dying your hair is a bold statement that says a lot about how you feel about the world. But maybe how you feel changes with the weather. Wouldn’t it be nice if your hair color changed that way too? F I R E dye will make your hair change color like a mood ring.
Marble is a timeless classic when it comes to building materials. When iyou want to show off your class, marble fixtures and statues. That’s great for your house, but how will people know you’re classy when they look at your phone? If you have an iPhone then good news, cover it with the CLIC Marble case. The case made from marble.
3D pens are a great deal of fun, all the joy of 3D creation, none of the waiting for a printer to spit out your idea. Although they can take some getting used to, once you’ve got the technique down, you’re in for a world of creation. The 3Dash adds a new dimension by skipping the need for different filament colors, instead, it mixes the colors for you.
Air pollution is terrible and in some cities, it’s just overwhelming. It’s mostly caused by car exhaust in cities that have very high populations and older model cars. Now you can use that nasty pollution to make art with the AIR-INK Markers, the art tools made from air pollution.
When was the last time you looked a clock? Most of us keep time with our smartphones because they’re easy and always at hand but they fail at being decorative, our smartphones, not actual clocks as the ETCH Clock proves. This clock looks as if the time is carved right into the face.
Facial recognition is something that is spreading through our technology. Facebook uses it to make tagging photos easier, surveillance technology uses it to track people. If you’re worried about your privacy, the Hyperface Project may put you at ease, in theory.
Wood burning a great way to make art or personalize wooden pieces. There are lots of tools you can buy that can help you learn the practice or you can skip all that, go outside and harness the power of the sun. Febo is solar powered (hehe) wood burner that you can use to make, well anything you want.
You probably took a thousand pictures last weekend and will likely take a thousand more this weekend. Why not do a little something different with them? Download the Prisma app and turn them into almost recognizable works of art.
Mostly outdated technology ends up in a landfill but sometimes they become cool art installations with the help of a little bit of modern technology. In this case, an old payphone became a boombox that will play some of the hottest jams from the 90s because life is wonderful that way.
Sometimes you see a product and don’t know how long you survived without having it in your life. The Fondoodler is that product for me. If you like crafting and food and want to put them together, the Fondoodler will combine your dreams into a delicious reality.
So, in 2016, the art on our game boxes is generally just grabbed from the game. There’s no real difference between what we see on the package and what we interact with on the disc (and if there is, that’s generally a problem). That wasn’t always the case, back in the day you had to imagine what the characters looked like, based on the box. Art of ATARI is the book that collects all that iconic art into one place.
