Arts & Design

Germany took some serious damage in WWII. Just because they were kicking some ass for a few years doesn’t mean they didn’t get what was coming to them. To this day, many German buildings show the damage they sustained during the war. Jan (pronounced “Yahn,” I suppose) Vormann’s project Dispatchwork has been showing itself, piece by piece, throughout Berlin, in ...

Touch? Touch is new school and us steampunk aficionados don’t like no stinkin’ touch! This old school iPod features the steampunking work of one Neal Bridgens. Adding wood, brass and copper to the device, he transformed Apple’s beloved music player into an ancient creation. It was created from scratch and if you have enough cash, Neal will whip one up ...

Now that you’ve gotten your fill of Bethesda’s post-apocalyptic Fallout 3, why not take the action out of the living room and into your local park. Wander the playground with this homemade steampunk raygun. It shoots radiation shots of some sort and may or may not give you throat cancer. If you want to make your own, it’ll take awhile ...

LEGOs aren’t reserved to building cocks and sunglasses, you know. The latest series of building bricks revolved around architecture at its finest and begins with the new Frank Lloyd Wright collection. In case you forgot, Wright is that camous contemporary architect who did the Fallingwater house. Look real closely at the above image and it should start to all make ...

There’s no rule that says your house has to use some standard font when it comes to the numbers that hang on your door to identify your address. So spurge a little and plunk down $6 a number for these pixelated, gamer numbers from Art Lebedev. Great coloring completes the look and even from afar your house will already look ...

The concept was pretty simple. Take a bike and turn it into a drum kit. It sounds simple enough. But who would actually think of doing such a thing? David Osborne’s traveling drum kit takes about 20 minutes to transform from a bicycle into a… drum kit bicycle. The kit contains 5 cymbals, 3 snare drums and a foot pedal. ...

Industrial designer Eric Frietas’s designs intricately composed and complexly designed wall clocks. The steampunk edge inspired into his work is clear and concise. The clocks appear to be living breathing beings, except these beings won’t shit on your carpet. Although the designs are rather complex it feels as though every part has been placed in the right place, essential to ...

You don’t need a degree in economic theory to feel the strain of the economy. Just check your mutual funds. Check your stocks. Hell, check your damn wallet. The strain is bound to make our hair fallout. Seems like our currency has felt it the most. Even the images of our forefathers are looking a little stressed out. Need some ...

When I first saw the these renderings of the Kvant Motorbike, sort of a cross between a snowmobile and a motorcycle, my first thought was “Wow, those really would have been a convenient way for the Rebels to get around Hoth. The tauntauns just didn’t seem to be cutting it.” Wouldn’t most people be dreaming about owning one of these ...

I gotta tell ya. I keep getting more and more convinced that I should take up knitting or sewing, or maybe both. But then I remember that I don’t wear my hair in a bun and my bowel movements are still consistently solid. Sorry, grandma. This awesome Shark Attack Hat makes reality look like a scene out of a low ...