DNA 11, the creative company known for transforming your personal DNA into custom works of contemporary art, has set up their first pop-up gallery in a house on the West Coast. Starting today visitors can set up an appointment to take a stroll through the Hermosa Beach residence where one-of-a-kind art from DNA 11 will be on display. Company co-founder Adrian Salamunovic will be on hand to guide customers and explain firsthand how these works come to be. If you’re interested in having your prints printed, check out the DNA House site for more details and make an appointment.

Sure, your genetic code makes up the building blocks of who you are, why you’re balding, were never good at sports, and will probably die some time in your mid-forties … but beyond the science and premonitions of doom, what has deoxyribonucleic acid done for you lately? Has it provided bedroom wall art? If it hasn’t, you better take a look at DNA 11. The medical maestros who decoded our art appreciation gene with a personalized DNA portrait are now further customizing with their GenePak. Isolate specific traits, such as Sport, Brain, Love, Gender … or just frame your anal retentiveness or inability to finish anything, and hang it up for all to see. When you buy your very own visual representation of your genes at DNA11’s Website you can honestly say that you have a personal portrait in your home.

Our Friends at DNA11, who have made their name creating custom portraits from DNA and fingerprints, recently paired with MAC Cosmetics to bring you the KISS Portrait, a modern and personalized art piece whose purchase benefits the MAC Aids Fund. Kiss Portraits, which became available today, are created through a fun, interactive process that relies on the involvement of both buyers and designers. The process begins when customers receive a MAC VIVA GLAM lipstick in the mail and get to work capturing the perfect pucker on accompanying KISS sheets. Once a satisfactory smooch is produced, customers send the lip print back to DNA11’s designers, who hand-trace the image, customize it to the customer’s size and color specifications, print it on high-quality canvas, then varnish and frame it according to the order. The completed piece is then returned to the owner, ready to modernize and sexify a bit of very lucky wall space. DNA11’s new site, which also launched today, offers shoppers thousands of choices to aid the creation of their KISS Portraits, as well as newly updated pages for the DNA and FingerPrint Portraits (both of which we’ve told you about before). If you’ve yet to check out this company (or the great concept behind it, From life comes art), be sure to do so; we’re big supporters/followers of what they do, and we’re betting that you’ll join the fanclub once you take a look too.

Flipping through the channels last night I got hooked into an episode of CSI New York– which I’ve been known to do from time to time. I was excited and surprised to see the DNA Portrait play an important role in the episode. Not until this morning did I get to my inbox to see a message from the guys at DNA 11 giving us the scoop about the episode, and I thought it was kinda neat that I had seen the show first. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen CSI NY use ‘things we like’ on their show– last fall, they did the same thing with edoc’s coded t-shirts.

By now everyone is probably familiar with the borderline genius products from DNA 11, the memorable tag-line is one of our favorties: From life comes art. It’s truly an inspiring product, a rare occurrence where art and science meet gracefully. To the point, they just made giving DNA 11 products a whole lot easier this holiday season with these slick looking Gift Box’s. You choose whether you want it to include the DNA or fingerprint collection kit, and depending what size you choose the recipient gets all the information necessary to place their order online.

Art is generally a difficult thing to buy for someone else–but hopefully narrowing down our favorite posters, affordable sculptures and limited-edition prints from the vaults will help make that purchase for friend or family easier. Enjoy!

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Our friends over at DNA11 continue to live their mantra “From Life Comes Art” with their latest product: Fingerprint Portraits. It’s as simple as sending them your fingerprint with their easy to use kit– your fingerprint is then scanned, hand traced, and then customized to your color and size choice (blown up to as much as 4000% at 40″ x 40″). There are 15 different color styles and 3 canvas sizes, and pricing starts at $190. If you’re not satisfied with their pre-selected colors (clay shown here) you can create your own combination with their new ColorMatch tool. A wonderful and unique gift, if not something you get for yourself to show your individuality in your own home. Beautiful work guys, keep it up and congratulations on the new site!

I recently received my DNA 11 artwork and I’ll be doing a more in-depth review with pictures when it comes back from the framers next week. The results are absolutely amazing, it’s truly an incredible piece of art. The guys behind this company are borderline genius– “From life comes art” is such a wonderful concept. In the meantime I wanted to give everyone a heads up that they’re offering the DNA 11 SplitScreen portrait now with free shipping until February 12th. I think it’s the ultimate Valentines Day present for that special someone. The SplitScreen is a two person DNA portrait, with two DNA representations set side by side and it’s available in 3 color combinations.

I’ve seen this make the rounds over the past few weeks, and I really like what I see. DNA 11 is a service that creates an abstract and original piece of artwork from a simple sample of your DNA. The work starts at $390 for an 18×24″ and the largest size they offer is a 36×54″. You simply fill out a few questions, and send them a small sample of your saliva in a provided test tube. (The quickest and easiest way to get a sample of your DNA). There are 7 different styles to choose from– as far as color hues. Of course each artwork will come across as completely original, a unique genetic fingerprint. I can’t think of a more inventive way for original and “limited” edition artwork. Each peace is guaranteed unique, unless of course you have an identical twin. When asked “who is the artist”, you can say with quite certainty “I am”. The folks at DNA 11 were recently commissioned by Absolut Vodka to create a custom art piece– way to go guys!