Fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura creates knitted art pieces by masterfully coiling the wires, cables, plugs and small gadgets together. Whilst we’re just about able to wrap our extension leads away for storage, Tsumura is a little more adept at creative-looking sculptures.

Via Japan Trends

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Takayuki Shimada creates artwork inspired by Japanese and American pop culture. His canvases are really colourful and vibrant! Less zen and more Harajuku we thinks.

See more work from Takayuki Shimada

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If you’re still reeling from the previous post Largest Pokémon Collection Record broken by British Girl, then you’ll probably love this traditional Japanese art piece featuring Pokémon. We think this is pretty cool and done very well and to get a closer look at the full piece, you should check out this page.

Via Kotaku

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Hubei-born artist Li Xiaofeng created an artistic line of “clothing items” out of Porcelain fragments from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Via LostAtEMinor

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More Banksy than Futura, Singapore-based Trase uses shadows and physical surroundings in the execution of his full-time street artwork. From graffiti writing to fine art, his unique style has him regarded as one of the leading young artists in the local graffiti art movement.

Shadows & Scars 1, 2 and 3

More on Trase’s website

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Artist AJ Fosik is Philadelphia-based and we post his wooden sculptures here as blog LostAtEMinor rightly pointed out that his worked resembles Indonesian gods. Albeit “guarding an intergalactic temple built by time-traveling monks“. Nevertheless, we feel there’s an ethnic flavour perfect for your inspiration.

More on AJ Fosik’s photostream

Via LostAEMinor

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Korean artist Paper Blue (that’s all I could find out) has an amazing fantasy landscape style. Check out the work below.

Via Magazine13

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Hokusai’s extraordinary Great Wave art piece has become iconic and subsequently popularised to death! However, Levi’s did do a slightly different take with their 3D jeans poster advert.

If your memory needs a nudge, see the original below, along with another rendition with an eagle.

See more Hokusai Great Wave designs on Designer-Daily.com

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For the arty amongst our readers, have a go at painting this awesome red assassin following the steps outlined in the Pixel2Life blog.

Red Assassin Digital Painting Tutorial

See other painting tutorials at Pelfusion.com

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Zhu Li from China has some amazing, conceptual fantasy artwork. His pieces explore standard fantasy character fare such as warriors, sorcerors and others, though its not surprising to find an eastern touch to his work.

The Design Inspiration feature more of his work together with a short interview with Zhu Li.

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