The concept characters seen here are for an Elastic Video project promoting an anti-cigarette campaign, and comes to you care-of Douglas Alves aka Nacionale, a Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles.

Omar Tehawkho showcases a set of five vertically designed posters outlining they keys to being a man.

Brooklyn-based illustrator Karolina Rojas showcases super-refined sketches in the PISTOLERA series.

Norio Fujikawa gets full-marks for this radical Jetscooter concept. The designer has a penchant for futuristic ideas, with retro styling, and transport innovation that might become a reality in, say 2025.

Bulgarian based industrial designer Yuliyan Mikov’s releases images of his latest piece, the Roots Chair.

Martin Böttger aka TSA Works releases images of his sculpture Dark Biwak. Produced in 2007 as part of Böttger’s final art school project, Dark Biwak is is made out of cardboard and wood at 5×12x6 meters.

Icelandic graphic artist Siggeir Hafsteinsson creates some fantastic digital art works as part of his Airvalance series. The pieces are basic and geometrical while at the same time appearing animated and tangible.

These “Suitcase Packs” contain bathing bags including: shaving cream, aftershave, body soap, shampoo, and body cream for 7, 14, or 31 days depending on the length of your trip.

Gareth James of showcases some fantastically gritty London street photography. Candid shots of what looks like primarily London’s lower-middle class are featured throughout the series which is completely in black and white.

Qaa’im A. Goodwin releases photos of an office calendar entitled T.I.M. A Compositional Calendar System, this piece is made out of wood with what look like stencil-cut numbers to denote the current month and day.

Designed by New York designer Harc Lee, Time Switch is a wall clock that was designed to resolve the designers own frustration with meeting deadlines and wanting to “stop time.”

French photographer Nicolas Everiste releases photos of his latest series entitled Dark Zoo. The series features animals including a cheetah, rhino, and giraffes in black and white.

Richard J. Evans exhibited at Free Range Graduate Art & Design Show. Some really great conceptual thinking on the part of Evans that will surely peak the interest of those who follow typography and sculpture.

British Designer Pete Dungey did a 2009 survey to find out who the most famous Alan (or Allen) is.

San Marco, an Italian manufacturer, has launched a collection of exclusive, limited edition bike saddles to honor five of the countries involved in the ninth annual Bicycle Film Festival.

Beginning June 20th 2009 is the Recess Lawn Series, a trio of monthly events, derived from the ideology that ‘play can draw up future visions and define realities.

Renowned painter Sam Flores showcases stunning new work.

Recently made popular by Dee and Ricky, lego accessories have been popping up everywhere from Marc Jacobs runway shows to Kanye West’s daily fits.

From Danish photographer Kim Høltermand's series “The Trees." A forest in fog shot an early morning.

Great new design from Nº 1 - a new unisex fragrance, with notes of cedar wood, cassis de bourgeons, Lime, Apple, Apricot and more from Six Scents and Alexandre Herchcovitch with Joachim Correll.

Formatmag.com celebrates International Women's Day with Issue #60, the All Female Issue, featuring Missy Suicide, Kid Sister, 55DSL, Dimepiece, Camilla D'Erico, Faith47, Aurora Robson, Sara Antoinette Martin ...

Dimesdaily.com presents the 69 Sexiest Rap Song Titles of all-time, featuring romantic ballads including 2 Live Crew's "Face Down, Ass Up",

Infamous London-based artist, Vinti Andrews, has developed quite a name for herself with switch-ups and custom apparel work. This time she’s created two life-sized pitbulls using Nike sneakers.

Brandi Milne always loved to draw, paint and color as a child, but her mom never thought she was anything special.

Format recreates over 20 Classic (and some not-so-classic) Hip Hop Album Covers in LEGO.

Toronto’s Resistor Gallery will open their latest exhibition, entitled “Domovo”, tonight. Featuring all-new work from artists Marek Colek & Pat Schewchuk, also known as Tin Can Forest.

Formatmag.com spoofs generic mixtape cover design with their Futurama release - a perfect parralel to what most of the artists on the CD are creating musically.

Love KAWS? Love smoking? If so, or just one of the two, super-mega-art-star KAWS has updated his online Original Fake shop with some goodies, including these ashtrays. The pieces sells for $95 USD

Lyle Owerko (well-known for his famous shots of the Twin Towers) speaks boomboxes, NYC, and why "cool don't pay the bills."

KaNO is a New York City artist who is quite the jack of all trades when it comes to design. His name has been attached to a variety of different projects including commercial design, graphic novels, animation and most recently, vinyl toys.

Ray Rapp is set to open his exhibition, “I Spy,” at the Black & White Gallery, NYC. The show features video assemblages meant to explore the illusory notion of one’s ’seeing something’ as a claim to one’s ‘knowing something’.

Sir X paints a rendition of Pablo Picasso bombing. Doesn't get much better than this.

Supakitch and Koralie are two street artists from France who have joined together as a power duo in their craft. Both heavily influenced by Japanese art, their work showcases images of geishas, dragons and other elements of the culture.

The NYC art scene is certainly in for a treat as Zaha Hadid, the mastermind behind the Chanel Mobile Art Capsule (which is currently on display in Central Park), has opened her own exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery.

The creepy “Black Gold” Bird Head Skeleton is the latest collaboration between Span of Sunset and Disney. The figure comes with two swords, based on the fearsome animatronic sculpture from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.

Upper Playground releases three new pillows from David Choe, Sam Flores and Morning Breath. All pillows are 20 inches tall x 20 inches wide and feature a printed case with a removable pillow.

Dan Witz hits new buildings in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as part of his Ugly New Buildings Series. A perfect series of pieces for Halloween

British art director, illustrator, and graphic designer Radim Malinic, better known by his pseudonym Brand Nu, is set to release his second book, “My New Book of Colours.”

Henk Hofstra returns to Rotterdam in the Netherlands for a new piece, Carcreditcrisis. Live from Ahoysquare, Henk spread and painted twenty cars, one in blue and nineteen in red to symbolize the worldwide credit crisis.

Maxalot from Amsterdamn teams up with MWM Graphics for a series of custom wallpapers.

Renowned jeweler Gabriel Urist, known for his sneaker- and NBA-inspired jewelry pieces, has designed this pendant to show his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

PaperMonster’s work is based around women in various states of shock, fear, or wonder. Every canvas is its own story.

New installation from James Jarvis at Nike London.

Photography and light graffiti from artist Vicki DaSilva.