Saluting Design: An Army Of Military-Inspired Products & Modern Art.

above: American Flag by Dave Cole, made up of thousands of plastic Toy Soldiers and acrylic paint.

In honor of Memorial Day, here's a collection of modern art and fun furniture, jewelry and home decor that incorporate military related icons such as soldiers, tanks, bombs, missiles and more.


above: Memorial Flag of Toy Soldiers by Dave Cole (photo courtesy of the artist)

above: Memorial Flag of Toy Soldiers by Dave Cole (detail) (photo courtesy of the artist)

above: Artist Dave Cole with his American Flag (photo courtesy of the artist)


above: the Army Men Alphabet was created by student Oliver Munday for instuctors Nolen Stals and Bruce Willen at the Maryland Institute College of Art (photography by Jay Zukerkorn)


above: Six thousand Parts by artist Valerie Leonard is made 6,000 melted toy soldiers (photo courtesy of the artist)

above: Six thousand Parts by artist Valerie Leonard (detail) (photo courtesy of the artist)

above: Globe made of melted toy soldiers by artist Valerie Leonard (photo courtesy of the artist)


above: Jason Baalman glued 1,500 toy Army men to a camouflaged board to create a portrait of a soldier when viewed from above (photos courtesy of the artist)


above: The Peace Collection designed by Biaugust is comprised of a ceramic bomb vase, a ceramic grenade bank and a ceramic helmet bowl.

Just click on any of the above images for information, images and links to purchase.

Designers, artists and jewelers for items shown include:
Frank Kozik
Pharrell Williams
Chris Collicott
Daniel Loves Objects!
Mosley Meets Wilcox
La Tete au Cube
Stanislav Katz
Art Lebedev
Melanie Favreau
Peas, Corn & Tomato Sauce
Reiko Kaneko
Dave Cole
Christopher Deris
28 Biaugust
Atlason
Valerie Leonard
Jason Baalman
Brad Sherwood for Joy Charbonneau
Joel Escalona

Happy Memorial Day!

Tanks cemeteries around the world

Iraqi tanks Cemetery

Afghanistan tank cemetery, rows of abandoned armored vehicles

The old tank in Afghanistan tank cemetery

Afghan army abandoned tanks

Afghan Tank Cemetery

The waste equipment in Afghan tanks cemetery

Angola tanks Cemetery

The abandoned tanks and armored vehicles full of cemetery

Eritrea tank cemetery, the Soviet-made military trucks.

Eritrea tanks cemetery

Eritrean army's abandoned chariots

Eritrean army marine equipments cemetery

Armored equipment abandoned by the Eritrean army

Eritrean tanks Cemetery

Tank Cemetery in Afghanistan

evil! the strange rotating running tank of Soviet

The rotating running tank of Soviet,very evil...

Surprise! Discovered the mysterious Unmanned combat vehicle on the street of Beijing

Unmaned combat vehicle in the street of beijing.

Most Charming T-90 tanks

During the Cold War, the former Soviet Union army had 50,000 main battle tanks as many as one of T-90 are served at the latest main battle tanks. Before it, the former Soviet Union have several main battle tanks are quite well-known, and among them more or less have some kinship, the basic shape is also similar.

The former Soviet Union, the first third-generation main battle tanks are T-64. This is an advanced advanced tanks, and equipment are the world's first self-loading machine tanks, is the world's first person to operate only 3 main battle tanks.