It’s a Snail World After All

The minuscule worlds designed by Sam Copeland and Aleia Murawski are just like ours—only a little bit slimier. Creating small, nostalgic dioramas for the past few years, the pair has a robust collection of sets fit for their tiny snail pals.

 

Ocean Dioramas

Japanese artist Thalasso Hobbyer creates awe-inspiring resin sculptures that capture the essence of thalassophobia: the fear of deep bodies of water.

 

Tossed and Found

Since the mid 1990s, Yuji Agematsu has used debris from New York’s streets to create a series of dioramas inside the cellophane sleeves of cigarette packets.

 

Creative Bookends By Monde

Tokyo designer, Monde, has found his own way to take book-lovers to another world, it’s a whimsical art project called – bookshelf dioramas.

Unpacked: Refugee Baggage

Syrian-born, New Haven, Connecticut-based artist and architect Mohamad Hafez compiles found objects and scrap metal to construct miniature recreations of homes, buildings, and landscapes left by refugees in the Middle East and around the world.
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Snails Occupy Miniature Sets

Creative duo Aleia Murawski and Sam Copeland build elaborate miniature sets occupied by small, slimy actors.

 

Murder Is Her Hobby

For the first time all 19 surviving Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death are going on public view, with an exhibition opening in October at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery.
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Tiny Countryside Dioramas

Bonsai and trains, these two seemingly disparate things actually come together beautifully in small dioramas called Bonrama.

 

Miniature Dioramas

Bigger doesn't always mean better, as Japanese artist Tatsuya Tanaka proves with these tiny dioramas that he makes for his ongoing Miniature Calendar project.

 

Suspended Worlds

Dioramas by Francesco Romoli