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Instead of filling a recycling tub with empty PET plastic bottles, artist Veronika Richterová repurposes them into plant sculptures.
Using mostly the green bottles used to contain ginger ale and Mountain Dew, Veronika cuts and molds empties into wonderful sculptures of cacti, trees and other various plants.
The plastic lemon tree is particularly resourceful and awesome.
Now here’s a great way to get your fruits and vegetables, kids. Artist Al “Mode” Matthews creates the most adorable animal scenes, using various forms of produce.
The Organimals also receive an appropriately punny name… A Dolphinana, Applephants, and a Swalrus are just a few of the animal/produce hybrids. Check out more below and here.
[link, via Laughing Squid]
We’ve certainly seen our share of banana art. However, artist Stephan Brusche now appears to be the undisputed banana art champion.
Combining a number of techniques to design and manipulate the banana, Brusche creates 3-D masterpieces that are not long for this world. Check them out below and over at Instagram.
[link, via Bored Panda]
Israel ceramic artist Ronit Baranga is all about getting the awkward dinner conversation going, and has created The Feast.
The series of ceramic tableware features protruding mouths and fingers, that look as though your dinner might bite or grab you back.
The Feast was most recently part of exhibitions at Bet-Binyamini Contemporary Ceramics Center in Tel-Aviv.
When we think of chocolate, the words “yum” and “gimme more” often come to mind. However, when an artist such as Oki Sato designs a set of chocolates, they tend to say a bit more… but still “yum.”
When Sato was asked to design chocolates by Maison et Objet, the pre-eminent design show in France, he came up with Chocolatexture. The series represents Japanese words that are used to describe the way objects look and feel. It’s OK… I had to Google “onomatopoeic” too.
Four-hundred sets of Chocolatexture were created, and will be sold during the event in Paris starting Jan. 23.
[link via Spoon & Tamago]