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This concrete nightlight has a delightfully bored face
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This Concrete Nightlight Has a Delightfully Bored Face

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But he’s incredibly charming, nonetheless

A modern gray sculpture resembling a stylized face with large, rounded eyes and a geometric structure.

Swiss designer Roger Reutimann’s YAWN is a hand-cast concrete nightlight with two softly glowing “eyes” — and somehow, despite being made of a material we associate with parking garages, it manages to feel genuinely alive.

A modern gray sculpture resembling a face, featuring cylindrical eyes and a geometric, abstract design.

Each lamp is cast entirely in Reutimann’s studio: custom molds, vibration techniques to eliminate air pockets, multiple rounds of sanding and sealing for those crisp, clean edges.

A modern, abstract lamp designed to resemble a face, featuring a gray base and two circular light fixtures as eyes.
A close-up of a modern, gray lamp with an abstract design featuring large, rounded eyes.

The “eyes” are diffused resin lenses with dimmable, smart-home compatible LEDs, cleverly buried inside the solid concrete body without compromising the structure or the silhouette.

A modern table lamp designed to resemble a face, featuring circular light shades as eyes and a geometric base in a minimalist style.

Yawn is a sculptural nightstand lamp shaped from strict geometry – stacked blocks, sharp right angles, and a cantilevered vertical that feels architectural. Cast in solid concrete, the form reads as heavy, precise, and unapologetically industrial, echoing the Bauhaus belief in clarity, structure, and material honesty.

 At the top, the severity breaks. Two recessed, softly glowing “eyes” sit beneath a thick, brow-like overhang, giving the piece an unmistakable expression. The posture feels tired, slightly slouched—more attitude than character—introducing a dry, understated humor that contrasts with the rigid geometry.

The result sits squarely in the Bauhaus spirit I admire: disciplined, functional, and stripped down—yet human enough to feel alive.“

Modern concrete lamp with a geometric design, featuring a glowing warm light, placed on a marble surface.
A modern lamp designed to resemble a face, featuring round eyes and a minimalist structure against a warm, lit background.

What gives YAWN its personality isn’t decoration. It’s geometry. The slight cantilever, the paired light sources, the proportion of the whole thing conspire to suggest a sleepy blink or a yawn through restraint rather than theatrics. Very Bauhaus. Very good.

Limited to 100 hand-made pieces. The kind of thing you’d put on your bedside table and feel slightly reluctant to turn off.

A unique gray sculpture resembling a stylized face, featuring two large rounded eyes and a minimalist geometric structure.
A modern, abstract sculpture resembling a face, made of gray material with large, white eyes.

Images © Roger Reutimann. See more on his website.

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Vanessa Mckeown’s Laughable Moments

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Smile more, will ya? 

That seems to be the M.O. behind Vanessa Mckeown’s delightful absurdity. Her mashup images combine objects in nonsensical yet logical ways.

From taps pouring pasta to skinny baguette legs, we see her creative and humorous range. Always cleanly created and beautifully photographed, there’s a studio quality that adds a plausibility to these moments. Thankfully she offers prints of her work, so you can add some needed levity and humor to your home.

See much more of her hilarious creations on her website and Instagram.

Images used with artist’s permission. 

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The Unnoticed

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In a clever ad campaign for Berlitz language school, we see people who have pretty much blended in/transformed into office furniture, going unnoticed because of their lack of language skills.

It’s a funny way to showcase the idea of going unnoticed, and is effective at making the figure seem unimportant and insignificant. Via Behance:

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When you don’t speak English, taking part in conversations can be hard and even more so in business contexts.

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Every Single Piece of Clothing They Own

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In a visually hilarious yet brilliant series, Canadian photographer Libby Oliver showcases figures wearing every single piece of clothing they own.  Entitled Soft Shells, the series is deeper than it might seem, as Oliver describes the thought process behind the seemingly lighthearted project. Both a reflection of consumerism and a way to showcase the elements of a person’s style, Soft Shells is more than just comically draping someone in piles of clothes.  The photos become reflections on personality, attainment, collection, and status, while also creating a sense of anonymity that hides the faces from view. Fascinating art, via Chew on This Art:

“Clothing grounds us to our notions of self and works to cue others to our chosen identity narrative.”

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“Our garments work to project the uniqueness of our identity while simultaneously seeking approval and acceptance into various social groups.

What we wear is thus both an exercise in our creative individual autonomy and a system of social surveillance and categorization.”

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Gluten Glow – Lamps Made From Bread

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Japanese artist Yukiko Morita has a funny and beautiful new concept with her “Pampshades”, lamps made from real baked bread. Using her experience as a baker, Morita bakes the bread, carefully carves out the interior, embeds LEDs and batteries, and then uses resin to seal the baguettes up, ensuring they won’t decay.

The result is a surprisingly beautiful glow, and the texture and form of the bread creates unique patterns and light that are one of a kind. Read more about these baked beauties on DesignBoom:

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Online Recommendations in the Real World

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This tongue-in-cheek project by Scott Kelly and Ben Polkinghorne takes beautiful natural places and other amusements and adds a physical recommendation board that mimics the kind of online recommendations you’d see when browsing places on the internet.

A giant wooden sign on the beach recommends additional beaches and waterfalls, just like a visit to Trip Advisor might offer you.

The result is obtrusive, foolish, and also clever, making people pause and realize just how pervasive the internet is in our lives. Via The Verge:

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Roots by Miguel Vallinas showcases models with huge bouquets of flowers for heads.
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Fashionable Flowers

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Roots by Miguel Vallinas showcases models with huge bouquets of flowers for heads.

Miguel Vallinas has a sense of style, and a sense of humor. It shows in his strange, funny, and fascinating series Roots, which showcase people in all manner of fashion with giant bouquets of flowers for heads. Set on an all-black backdrop, the figures stand with their hands behind their backs, posing upright for the camera. Huge, overflowing bouquets of flowers and grasses erupt from their necks, immediately turning this fashion shoot into something else, something that requires some abstract thought. And hopefully a smile. Via DesignBoom:

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Unsatisfying

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In an accurately unsatisfying manner, the actions included within this short piece are frustrating unfinished, or gone awry, in a way that leaves you wanting a different outcome. It’s a clever and goofy creative project, and leaves us wanting satisfaction with our actions. Via Colossal:

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Playfully Surreal Mother

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Tony Luciani created a very touching, funny, and quirky series of photos with his 91 year old mother. As her full-time caregiver, Luciani created a collection called The Strange Ones, allowing his mother to be playfully bizarre, and create a legacy of humor and fun, in the later years of her life, dealing with dementia. Via MyModernMet:

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Food Type

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Via Nuria Bringué Bergua:

Food Type (translated)
Designing a typeface for a specific project and their subsequent implementation.
The project is a collection of books on healthy eating. It consists of seven books, each devoted to a group of the food pyramid.
The font then is cut in foods from each group (cheese dairy, orange fruit, ice drink, onion plants, etc..). Notably, the typesetting are not retouched, but were in the same position at the time of taking pictures.
The result is an image that works on its own in each of the covers.

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Zombie Wedding

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Wedding photos, jeeze they sure get boring. No, I’m not hatin on true love, but people, those overly heart-throbby airbrushed galleries make us want to puke. Thanks to this couple for keeping some humor, creativity and originality alive, even on the day of nuptials.

Via YouMightLikeThis:

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Beautiful German Home Featuring Distinctive Fox

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The NY Times has an ongoing “Great Homes and Destinations” feature, and today’s home was from Berlin. A beautifully modern, restored space that served as a laundry for 100 years. I’ve known that Germans have a great eye for design, but perhaps not as much for whimsy or color. 

But this house scores on a number of levels, and wins big with a fabulous ‘Robin Hood Fox’ sculpture by painter Daniel Richter.  Just look at it! The fox has a couple of injuries that have been wrapped, and he’s using a stick as a cane.

His green cap is artfully perched on his head, with his face holding an expression of indignity and pride.  I love it.  He takes his place among beautiful hand-made couches that bring warmth and sensibility into the space.  Gorgeous.

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