Examples of large bead pictures made with PhotoPearls software and mounted with double-sided adhesive sheets.
2005
Made with intuitive by Björn Malmström and students at Örtagårds elementary school (Rosengård, Malmö, Sweden).
2008
Made by students at Fryshusets Gymnasium (Stockholm, Sweden).
2009
In the year 2009, about a thousand fourth-graders from nearly all U.S. states participated in creating the President Obama picture made with beads.
The Big Picture Project was assembled in Westerly, Rhode Island, and shown to the public for the first time at CHA Summer Super Show in Orlando, with the Orange County Mayor Richard T. Crotty present.
The day before the president’s birthday, The Big Picture Project was displayed to the public and some of the project participants outside the White House.
2010
Made with intuitive by Brian Flood and 62 students at Baltinglass school. The bead picture is registered as a world record by Guinness World Records.
2009
Car tuning with BEADS! PR event for the launch of the Forza Motorsport game for XBox at Fryshuset in Stockholm together with Microsoft and Audi.
2011
About 1,000 students and educators at the preschool have added 450,000 beads to recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting The Last Supper. With its 1.5 by 7.5 meters, it is one of the world’s largest beaded pixels art.
The painting can be seen in Önsta Gryta church, Västerås, Sweden.
2015
The world’s largest bead picture (2015) created by students at Väringaskolan in Sigtuna (Sweden).
The bead picture is registered as a world record by Guinness World Records. The world record can be seen in the departure hall of Terminal 5 at Arlanda (Stockholm, Sweden).
2018
The project is made by Michael Faurby Hansen and bead picture can be seen at Sportscentre Herning in Denmark.
Follow Michael’s fantastic work at perlerekord.dk or facebook.com/perlerkord