Cool Trends :: Art

Sexy Robot Entertainers - Korean EveR1 and R2 (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) Another female android story… Aptly named after the first woman on earth, these robots are called EveR-1 and 2 after Eve and R (short for Robot.) The EveR-1 was created to entertain and educate, as pictured…
Fancy Headless Figurines - Yinka Shonibare's Faceless Art (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) When I was an art student, I always struggled to get the mouth to look right. It didn’t matter if it was oil, water color, pastels or pencil. When it came to the mouth, I was never satisfied. Like da Vinci…
Rent A Supermodel Yogi - Cameron Alborizan As Your Guru (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) OK, so I have strange taste in men and don’t find this man at all attractive, but I am strange, so normal ladies out there, this one is for you. Former supermodel Cameron Alborizan swapped the catwalk…
Recession Retreats - Top 10 Places to Escape The Credit Crunch (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) If a recession (or depression) really is on the way, where are the best places to hide without feeling the crunch? If you’re worried about forgoing your funds, you are far from alone, but there are things…
Insect-Inspired Pod Racers - The One-Man Scarab (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Here’s a concept vehicle from the mind of David Miguel Moreira Gonçalves. It has four wheels and a capsule to house a single passenger who will lean and twist to steer, all the while being provided with…
Bisexual Dating Shows - Ikki Twins In MTV's 'A Double Shot at Love' (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Step back Tila Tequila: here come the Ikki Twins! MTV welcomes the self-proclaimed ‘world’s hottest twins’ in their new reality show ‘A Double Shot at Love.’ The show is a spin-off of the ever popular…
Dramatic Weather Lamps - The RainLight (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Charles Kalpakian’s RainLight is perfect for anyone who relishes in inclement weather; its design looks just like the cartoon rain cloud that used to follow Charlie Brown around. The neon tubes that…
Real Furbys - Live Pygmy Tarsier Found After 85 Years (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Widely believed to have been extinct, the pygmy tarsier, one of the world’s smallest and rarest primates, has been found on a mountain-top on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. Until now, scientists had…
Retro Breakfast Exhibits - The Online Sugar Frosted Cereal Museum (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) At first glance at these images, you might think “same old, same old, Flickr poor collection.” However, you would be wrong. I feel that the rather peculiar online sugary cereal museum in fact reveals so…
Floral Fairy Lights - Frangipani, Cherry & Orchid Lighting (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) I have spent the better part of an hour trying to decide which one of these floral light strings to buy. They are all so beautiful, I simply had to feature them… and maybe readers will help me decide.…
Woven Steel Accessories - Ines Schwotzer's WIred Jewelry (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Ines Schwotzer is a freelance designer in Germany. She creates her jewelry and accessories from the most basic of materials; in the case of the pieces here, they’re made of wire. By using techniques associated…
Jewelry to Offend Vegans - The Pig's Ear Bracelet (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) They say you can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, but just try telling that to artist Arthur Hash. His Pig’s Ear Bracelet is an interesting take on the inventive use of unusual materials for jewelry. The…
Eco Cable Winding Gadgets - The Magneat (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Have you noticed how some of the best ideas are the simplest ones? Ideas where you find it amazing that no one has come up with them before, because they are – simply brilliant? Magneat is one of those…
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(TrendHunter.com) To prepare you for a year of dramatic change, TREND HUNTER Research has developed a cutting edge trend report methodology called Crowd Sourced Insight (tm). Here's how it works: As the world's largest…
13 Feathery Designs to Tickle Your Fancy (CLUSTER)
(TrendHunter.com) They say finding a white feather means there is an angel around you. Whether you believe that or not (I do), there is something very comforting in the aesthetic nature and feel of feathers, and not just…
Aged Animals to Sell Salad - Florette's Meat-Free Campaign (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) This Florette salad campaign features animals with an aged appearance, designed to promote the brand’s meat-free “Sealed Gourmet Salads” with the message that animals who desire to live a long life would…
Guerrilla Magazine Placement - 'I Left This Here For You to Read'
(TrendHunter.com) “I left this here for you to read” is an art project by Tim Devin. Every month, 50 copies of the magazine are printed and left in public places for people to find, such as on park benches, on buses, and…
Homosexual Media Celebrations - ‘Out 100’ Honors Gay Icons of 2008 (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Singer Katy Perry, Broadway star Cheyenne Jackson, actor Ian McKellen, designer Hermes Mallea and many more are honored in Out Magazine’s 14th annual OUT 100, the list of the “movers and shakers” on the…
Desert Superhero Fashion - Cat Power in V Magazine (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) V Magazine jumps on the superhero bandwagon with a Catwoman themed editorial in its V56 Winter issue entitled, ‘Cat Power’. However, instead of just one supermodel Catwoman, as we saw in recent shoots…
Fashion-Challenged Superheros - 'The Spirit' Wears a Business Suit (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) The Spirit is the comic book-inspired film starring Scarlett Johansson, Eva Mendez, Samuel L. Jackson, and Gabriel Macht. Directed by Frank Miller, the film was based on a character created by Will Eisner.…
Gothic Greetings - Alternative Christmas Cards By Night Moth (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) These cards are insanely funny, although seriously twisted. No disrespect to Santa, I have been a good girl this year, promise. I was searching for sexy Santas (no questions asked please) when I found…
Holiday Jinglevertising - The Gap 'Merry Mix Carols' (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) Always seeking to capture the imagination (and, of course, your shopping dollar) The Gap is no stranger to innovative advertising. Just in time for the holidays, their Merry Mix Carols, Tis the Season…
DIY Gifts for Geeks - From Keyboard Cufflinks to Cassette Tape Belt Buckles (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Shopping for your favorite geek just got easier with these DIY gifts made from retro computer parts and music accessories that have long since been made obsolete. For hipster music fans, there are the…
Urban Myth Confirmations - Hitler’s Token Testicle
(TrendHunter.com) Another urban myth was confirmed, and this is a good one: Adolf Hitler only had one testicle. FACT. This was confirmed by an almost-lost account from a German army medic who treated Hitler during World…
Clever Movie Poster Spoofs - If Cartoons Were Films (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) People are so clever when coming up with photo manipulation ideas. This contest includes entries of film and cartoon character mash-ups, and is a particularly fine example of photo manipulation, which…
Cardboard Box Beds - Nikolay Suslov Designs for Nomads and the Homeless (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) Hopefully you will never need one of these, but if you should find yourself homeless, or you are a traveling nomad, Russian designer Nikolay Suslov has a solution for you. Taking his inspirations from…
Giving Blogs Sexes - The GenderAnalyzer (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Is your blog having a gender identity crisis? Have you ever read a blog and wondered what the writer had in the basement? Do gender-confused blogs drive you wild with investigative fervor, making you determined…
Cosplay Kickboxing - Nagashima's Cartoon Fighter Suit (VIDEO)
(TrendHunter.com) Taking cosplay to a more aggressive level, an Otaku kickboxer, Youichirou Jienotsu Nagashima, crushed his opponent after entering the ring as cosplay character Hatsune Miku! In previous bouts, the bone-breaker…
Chest Charging - Bouncing Breasts to Power Gadgets
(TrendHunter.com) Aside from providing terraflops of images for Google to index, and providing sustenance for tomorrow’s leaders, boobs aren’t doing much to benefit mankind. Adrienne So, a writer for Wired, thought the…
Anime Army Recruitment - China’s Sexist Soldier Ads (GALLERY)
(TrendHunter.com) Judging by these ads, the Chinese Army is having trouble attracting virile young men (or lesbians.) On the other hand, they might be recruiting for officer training. These Chinese Army recruiting posters…