So you remember the cover of the New York Times where there were two giant fingers crushing a red gummy United States? That was made by none other than the artist we’ve got here today: Kevin Van Aelst. He’s got big ideas and he illustrates them teeny tiny or just basically small items he sees everyday. From a keyboard made out of children’s letter blocks to a USB video tape, here’s to QUITE the illustrator!

My color photographs consist of common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled, and constructed into various forms, patterns, and illustrations. The images aim to examine the distance between the ‘big picture’ and the ‘little things’ in life—the banalities of our daily lives, and the sublime notions of identity and existance. While the depictions of information–such as an EKG, fingerprint, map or anatomical model–are unconventional, the truth and accuracy to the illustrations are just as valid as more traditional depictions. This work is about creating order where we expect to find randomness, and also hints that the minutiae all around us is capable of communicating much larger ideas.

Splendid mathematical manifestations galore!

Below you will find a collection of peculiar objects, all illustrations by our man in question. You will see a ying-yang made of Oreo cookie: this is easy to understand. A little bit further down the specialized understanding map is the pumpkin carved with a Beta-Carotene Molecule, or the cake decorated with a dragon curve. But you don’t need any degree or specialized study to see the beauty in these objects, especially when you have such perfect splendidness as the logarithmic milk spill.

This post is part of the World Famous Design Junkies gridwork category. Such weird prefection isn’t often found outside of nature, lemme tell ya that.