Sandwich Art

After age six, few people take the art of making a sandwich much further than a smiley face here or there, but these over-the-top examples of food sculpture spotted recently on Neatorama are ridiculously imaginative. Who knew bologna could be folded so neatly into mice, monkeys, frogs, cell phones, and scooters? For some great wallpaper-style images check out blowing bubbles. Or if you're ambitious enough …

Hope Gangloff

We love Hope Gangloff's pop culture-heavy designs for Built by Wendy and her subtly dirty illustrations for Sweet Action. Her offbeat, somewhat diaristic ballpoint pen drawings range from scenes of party life and debauchery to still lifes of roadside views and the contents of a purse. For her first solo show, she will exhibit a series of pieces in ink and a large latex paint …

Jeff Zimmerman: Soft Explosion

Inspired by Harold Edgerton's famous "Milk-Drop Coronet" image Jeff Zimmerman's Soft Explosion collection for Steuben Glass evokes the random beauty of natural phenomena. Zimmerman's coveted sculptures employ the techniques of advanced glassmaking and the defining properties of glass itself to create narratives of the explosive patterns that occur in nature that he calls "soft explosions." The artist's first work in lead crystal, the collection is …