In Earth Engines, Barry Underwood’s staged surreal photographs, he combined electricity and nature for flashpoints of wonderment.

Julian Hibbard pairs his signature dark images with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet in his racy new abecedary The Noir A-Z.

Toyota Scion commissioned Friends With You to produce Skywalkers with a set of 18 balloons, ranging from 5 to 60 feet. The balloons dotted the Miami Beach sky.

Ryan McGinness is going renegade and taking back the 'middleman' from auction houses by hosting an artist-direct auction tonight, comprised of 16 lots by the likes of Eric Parker, Eve Sussman, and Spencer Tunick.

Union Square in Washington, DC, is showing off a shiny new Bike Transit Center that offers secure bike parking for 150 cycles, plus a changing room, lockers, bike rentals, and repair shop for commuters.

Comic book god Alan Moore (Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell) will collaborate with Gorillaz on a followup to Damon Albarn’s 2007 opera, Monkey: Journey to the West

The New York Public Library redesigned their logo and changed to a sans serif font. The video outlines the evolution of their logo.

A series of vintage and current tourism posters.

Pasta Sauna - Inspired by the Italian Futurist Cookbook, which condemned pasta as a food that made humans lethargic and overweight, Dutch “eating-designer” Marije Vogelzang uses the steam from boiling pasta to create a sauna.

Urs Fischer, Untitled, 2009 is on display at the New Museum. Can he save the possibly suicidal New Museum?

Russian constructivist architect and graphic designer Iakov Chernikhov illustrated 101 Architectural Fantasies, one of the only avant-garde art books published in the Eastern bloc during the Stalinist era.

Kevin Van Aelst photographs household objects to explain basic life processes.

system:system opens in the St. Cecilia parish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn putting 25 artists to work in a former convent.

Developers want to replace 1960's buildings with “greener” buildings. The Los Angeles Conservancy and the say the energy required to tear down the old buildings and start from scratch with the new is just as wasteful.

Photomicrography, the tiny photographs that result when you cross a microscope with a camera.

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With the Museum of the Phantom City tool, Apple phone users can scout over 50 unbuilt architectural sites around the city with a feature that describes each proposed project through the architect’s own notes.

Walton Ford’s paintings of wild animals combine the austere mastery of New England-style naturalism with a dark sexuality and satirical humor.

Vice has launched a Where the Wild Things Are site with 24 artists inspired by Where the Wild Things Are.

Poster Child Prints is the web’s first comprehensive site with a singular focus on selling affordable, high-design friendly prints.

In Boston, Howeler Yoon Architecture and Squared Design Lab have proposed Filene’s Eco Pods, a series of modular pods that harbor an algae bioreactor.

Photographer Richard Barnes reveals the artifice and strange beauty of animals in a natural-history museum.

Banksy's latest work. Out of the box ikea style "large graffiti slogan"? Has it become too cliche? Easy enough to put together with an instruction manual with no actual thought?

Commissioned by real estate mogul Aby Rosen, Barbara Kruger designed this bold, black and white lobby display.

Jim Lind, senior at the Savannah College of Art and Design, took the City of Exile series.

Dubai’s new metro that is 52 kilometers (roughly 32 miles) of track with 29 stations.

A runner-up in the Earth and Space category of the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.

From “Love Hotel,” a series of photos in clandestine pay-by-the-hour hotels in Seoul by Grace Kim.

French style publication Purple features a racy photo of Sean Lennon and his model girlfriend, Kemp Muhl, recreating John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s famous 1981 Rolling Stone cover.

Ikea Heights is a web soap directed by that’s secretly filmed inside of a Burbank IKEA.

Spring Gardens center is state-of-the-art homeless shelter in Lewisham, Great Britain.

Diana Al-Hadid, Tower of Infinite Problems

Roxy Paine creates stainless-steel trees, faux fields of poppies and mushrooms, and robotic machines that make monochromatic art.

A new contemporary arts program called ReMap is taking to the streets with guerilla-style artwork that blurs the lines between public property, commercial art practice, and vandalism.

Great Britain’s first living wall has died after three years shading the front facade of a DSDHA-designed £1.5 million children’s center. The 30 species of flora growing are now just a “host of brown, wilting plants.”

Graphic of Caffeine vs. Calories.

America’s most notorious crooked street got a makeover yesterday thanks to Hasbro toy company, in what one onlooker described as “capitalism meets childhood.”

French photographer Michel Rajkovic has thing about fog and pathways.

Detractors call the design to an “outhouse” and allege that the tower intrudes on the rural landscape of Hamarøy, the village where Hamsun spent much of his life. The architect describes the concept of “building as a body.”

The Alliance for Downtown New York came up with The Re:Construction Initiative, a project which recasts construction sites as canvases for public art.

Catherine Corman’s "Daylight Noir": Raymond Chandler’s Imagined City takes readers on a black and white tour of fictional private eye Philip Marlowe’s real world haunts.

Turkish designer Ersinhan Ersin recently presented to the typography community an alphabet made from cassette tapes. He cleverly calls the project Tapeography.

Jason Peters was commissioned by the Times Square Alliance to create a temporary sculpture out of the plastic lawn chairs in the pedestrian plaza between 42nd and 47th Streets.

Patrick Runte recreates scenes from old video games in his Oskar Schlemmer-inspired series Jump and Run.

Photo of AIDS activist Keith Harring by Dean Chamberlain from the series Pioneers. On display in LA now.

Austrian stylist/photographer Bela Borsodi for Wad Magazine’s “Dictionary”.