Artist Turns Household Items Into Spaceship Designs That Are Out Of This World
Most people open a kitchen drawer and see utensils. Eric Geusz sees the fleet of a distant galaxy.
One imagination, an entire armada. Eric Geusz, a software engineer and lifelong science fiction fan, has been making spaceships out of Legos since he saw Star Wars in 1997. That childhood spark never dimmed. It simply grew a hull, thrusters, and a warp drive.
Armed with an eye for the extraordinary, he turns household items like potato peelers, bottle openers, trimmers, and game controllers into stunning illustrations of spaceships, rockets, and space stations. A Sriracha bottle becomes a rocket mid-launch, rooster logo and all. A fidget spinner unfolds into a tri-ring orbital station. A corkscrew transforms into a battle cruiser trading fire with a squadron of X-wings.
Eric’s work is inspired by great artists of science fiction like Chris Foss, Ralph McQuarrie, Moebius, and others, and it shows in every rivet and thruster. Check out some of his best designs below.
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What makes these work is how much of the original survives. A logo here, a texture there, the exact silhouette of a bottle cap or a whisk — Geusz keeps just enough that you can always spot the everyday object buried in the spacecraft. And once you’ve spotted it, good luck unseeing it. Your kitchen drawer will never look boring again.
