Gabriel Dishaw’s Junk Art

Hubcap Creatures by Ptolemy Elrington

Junk art often evokes nostalgia — a vintage refrigerator door used in a sculpture can suggest loss, passage of time, and distant memories. By using hubcaps from more recent car models, however, British artist Ptolemy Elrington creates futuristic-looking creatures that look like the exoskeletons of hi-tech robots. Read more

Emily C-D

Baltimore-based artist Emily C-D assembles gorgeous, colorful installations and sculptures out of rusted metal, discarded machinery, old snow shovels, and whatever discarded junk she can find, wiring it all together mostly with found materials. She often incorporates painterly components to these pieces, channeling her abilities as an illustrator to add little flourishes — stylized figures, flowers, butterflies, and abstract textures and shapes — to change the nature of the dangerously gnarled materials she works with. C-D also works in inner-city communities around the city, often collaborating with children to create similarly motley murals that often spill off the walls onto the streets and pavement. Read more

Milk Gone Bad

Two different artistic experiences come together in this project. Anatomicfactory’s objects meet Bombo’s illustrations, giving us food for thought on the ambiguity of products that often have a hidden second nature. Read more

Yigal Ozeri’s photorealistic paintings

Israeli-artist Yigal Ozeri’s provocative photo-realistic paintings of young women in nature look like a large format photographs, but are actually the work of minute brushstrokes laced together. Inspired by the Pre-Raphaelites, the paintings are exotic portraits of woman enraptured by nature, caught in the lens of the artist’s eye. Ozeri’s inspiration lies in Carl Jung’s concept of the Anima, the psychology of the female’s true inner self. Read more

Anti-Theft Lunch Bags

Tired of having your food stolen by sticky-fingered coworkers or roommates? Bullies taking your kid’s lunch? Well, worry no more. Anti-Theft Lunch Bags are sandwich bags that have green splotches printed on both sides, making your freshly prepared lunch look spoiled. So don’t suffer the injustice of having your sandwich stolen again!

Creative advertising packaging

Despite the intentions of many, it’s not so often that advertising — as an industry — truly thinks outside the box. Yet, when executed well, clever eye-catching advertising actually works. It does. As these examples will attest to. Read more