10 World Leaders as Modern Day Fashionable Hipsters

Abraham Lincoln

It’s hard to imagine Abraham Lincoln of Vladimir Lenin as fashionable, almost Hipster like characters. It’s good thing artists like Amit Shimoni do that creative thinking for us.

The Israel designer started HIPSTORY as a way of comparing Israeli leaders of the past with today’s leading men and women and also the different fashion trends.

The success of the project caused it to expand, and include other decision makers with a more global flavor.

Abraham Lincoln (United States)

Winston Churchill (UK)

JFK (United States)

Mahatma Ghandi (India)

Nelson Mandela (South Africa)

Margaret Thatcher (UK)

Mao Zedong (China)

Vladimir Lenin (USSR)

David Ben-Gurion (Israel)

Che Guevara

 

For more on world leaders going through an artistic makeover, check out these dictators with a touch of geeky art makeover.

Roto-a-Matic retro vending machine injection molds toys while you wait (video)

Roto-a-Matic retro vending machine injection molds toys while you wait (video)

The advent of 3D printing is most certainly upon us, and its helped injection molding make the crucial transition from dated tech to a retro novelty. The Roto-a-Matic has recently gone live in toy maker Rotofugi's store in Chicago, and will create a polyethylene plastic figurine for you in under a minute, provided you feed it a token. Rotofugi and product design company Squibbles INK have given the vintage Mold-a-Rama vending machine a new lease of life, and now they are looking for artists to contribute designs for future molds. Currently a one-eyed dragon designed by sculptor Tim Biskup is on offer for Chicago-based hipsters, but for the wind-averse, a token-to-toy video demo resides beyond the fold.

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