Weapon collages by Justine Smith. Kind of reminding Mandalas…

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Postler Ferguson is “a multidisciplinary design consultancy that explores issues of technology, culture and economics through design strategies based on thorough research”

Point & Shoot is an attachment for a gun which captures an image of the target and person firing the gun each time the trigger is pulled. This project constructs an objective history of violence, recording not only the more dire uses of a weapon but also the most banal [ … ]

The Death Machines Series bring the contradictory experience of weapons into the home; admirably designed and aesthetically fascinating and simultaneously terrifyingly in their lethality [ … ]

Robert Pruitt is an artist living and working in Houston TX. He makes drawings and sculptures about the complexity of black identity by combining contrasting signs and imagery of disparate Black influences and aesthetics. He layers Science Fiction, Hip Hop, comic books, and black political and social struggles into layered portraits of his friends and community.

The art of  Robert Pruitt.

The hand granade oil lamps are made from actual US Army surplus grenades and gilded in gold, silver, or left natural. Each gets its distincts shape from the job it was designed for – fragmentation (pineapple), smoke/flash bombs (lemon), or high impact explosive (ball). This ice breaker will shatter even the thickest weirdest ice.

By Piet Houtenbos, get them here.

You can turn your iPhone in a potential weapon with the Knuckle Case…

A young child wearing an Indian headdress hides in a coal hole as he takes aim under the watchful eye of a friend.
Photo by Thurston Hopkins (Getty Images).