Artist Shauna Richardson has made it her aspiration to convince people that anything can be art. Her newest project, which she’s dubbed Crochetdermy, takes her ample crochet skills and applies it to a concept we usually don’t think of as art: taxidermy. Richardson’s creations are life-sized knitted animals, often photographed in the shadows where you […]

Dogtooth is like a backhand slap to the face after a night of heavy drinking: it sobers you up instantly. Greek Writer and Director Giorgos Lanthimos isn’t new to the festival circuit but certainly to the Academy Awards. The reason Dogtooth was nominated for best foreign film this year is due to the fact there […]

Designer Raymond Hau has created a line of iPad sleeves/clutches made from exotic skins, many sporting unique luxurious textures. The line includes genuine black python (above), hair-on calfskin, lizard, crocodile, ostrich and even shark leather, all featuring interiors fully lined with quilted lamb skin. The premium lamb offers ultra soft protection for your beloved Apple […]

Tokyo-born artist Takahashi Toshi (T Dog Junior) moved to London 11 years ago and began working at a Carnaby Street Jewelry shop. Since then he has been producing unique, handcrafted jewelry with precision and startling realness, and in 2004 launched Dog State jewelry specializing in modern skull and animal designs — along with some randomness […]

San Francisco-based artist Markus Diebel has created a line of jewelry that benefits a good cause: the manymals. The idea behind the design was to create animal charms that hang naturally from the necklace as they would in their indigenous habitat. Each animal is hand sculpted and scaled down, then cast in sterling silver. The […]

These finely detailed wooden sculptures bring home a taste of The Enchanted Forest to hang above your own hearth. It’s  a delicately hand-carved and easily mountable trophy head for your home, and the best part is that there’s no hunting or killing of majestic natural beasts required — no worries for forest life, cause it’s […]

As you can clearly tell, this isn’t quite the same crocheting as your grammy knitting a scarf. Shove Mink, creator of Croshame and a 2002 alumni of the California College of the Arts, is not limiting her artistic skills to the basic tenets of sculpting, drawing and painting. Her newest project, Croshame, consists of small […]