Curio: Coin Characters

Alexa here with your weekly art break. Brazilian-born, Frankfurt-based graphic designer Andre Levy uses his free time from his job in advertising to create more personal work.  One of these projects has gotten a lot of attention on the internet: entitled "Tales You Lose," the project has Levy transforming coins into portraits of pop culture icons. 

Amelie, Bride of Frankenstein and more after the jump

He has taken coins from around the world and transformed them into an array of characters as diverse as Albert Einstein, Karl Lagerfeld and Snow White. Levy description: 

Painting the coins was a way to give those metal pieces some room for interpretation. The pop characters where a way to bring in narratives as strong as the original ones and enable the new stories when people relate both characters.”  

 You can see the entire project on his tumblr.

Comments

[Sonja]

Wow, they're just great!
Really original.
I'd buy the Catwoman coin. <3

[NATHANIEL R]

love these so much. especially Bride of Frankenstein

[Sonja]

I'm always just stunned of what ideas of great original art people come every day...