These prints—by graphic artist Bedelgeuse—are weird and magical and beautiful and I want them on my walls. The technical term for this style of art is up for debate—is it collage or illustration?—but you definitely can file these prints under "can’t stop looking."
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It’s been five months since one of the greatest shows ever to grace the small screen has gone off the air, but if you’re one of the many rapt Breaking Bad fans, you’re probably still pretty deep in mourning. Fortunately for you, Hungarian designer Zsolt Molnár (Zsutti) decided to pay homage to the meth-loaded masterpiece by designing a poster for each of the show’s 62 episodes. And each one is absolutely fantastic.
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How many rappers can possibly have a name that’s anchored by the word big? Or lil? Or fat? Or slim? Or any other adjective used to describe size? The answer is a lot, and if you don’t believe me, check out The Massive Map of Hip Hop Monikers—an extensive visualization of names in hip hop from Pop Chart Lab.
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In New York City, you can cross the street and then—bam!—you’re in a completely different neighborhood. But those exact boundaries are hard to pinpoint, and they’re always changing. These minimalist maps by Archie’s Press condenses them into simple circular designs that convey the way neighborhoods overlap.
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Toys are supposed to serve as an escape for real life, worries and limitations don’t exist when you’re just playing around. But artist Santlov imagined a harsher reality for toys, one where they live lives just as boring as ours. In these prints, Santlov puts your typical toys and action figures in mundane situations that people would go through. You gotta admit, it’s quite funny to see a toy Joker listening to music or toy Woody and Buzz getting drunk out of their mind.
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You’ve seen Andy Gilmore‘s art before—you might just not know it. Gilmore’s colorful kaleidoscopes have adorned everything from magazines to album covers to snowboards. And now, thanks to a collaboration with the Ghostly Store, these hypnotic prints can also deck your walls.
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Retro game art specialist James Bit made this set of canvas prints that will be familiar to anyone who’s played Super Mario Bros. 3. It’s the spade panel minigame! These prints won’t net you extra lives if you match them accordingly, but at least they’ll take you to a more youthful state of mind.
Each print is stretched on a ready to hang frame and measures 10″ x 8″. According to James Bit, it’s made from wood, canvas, ink and – the magic ingredient – pixels.
The Mario Match prints cost $200 (USD) per set. Grab your Tanooki Suit and fly to James Bit’s Etsy shop to order.
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Nerds have been decorating with the periodic table forever, but let’s face it: it’s never looked good. This lovely minimalist interpretation does the impossible and actually makes it mesmerizing to behold, if just slightly less informative.
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Digital cameras are great and all, but it’s OK to miss good old fashioned film if for no other reason than it looks nice in canister form. This lovely digital print by Peter Hamilton shows off some of the best old-school beauties in all their antiquated glory.
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From New Year’s Eve 2012 to New Year’s Day 2013, Facebook users uploaded 1.1 billion photos. Which is something absurd like two photos per active user. But don’t think that people haven’t always been people. Even before smartphones and digital cameras, consumers were out there taking a lot of stupid photos just for fun. And given how relatively resource intensive it was for people to own cameras, buy film, and develop photos it’s pretty amazing to see how many prints came out of "the old days." Enter The Photo Man.
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