These 'Flower Mats', by Melbourne design studio Bonnie and Neil, are a great way to sneak a small-scale garden into your home.

Macarons displayed in 'break glass in case of emergency' boxes, a dessert 'sushi train' and macaron wallpaper inspired by Willa Wonka, from Luchetti Krelle design for the new Adriano Zumbo patisserie in Sydney.

Australian artist Nicholas Folland makes incredible installations out of chandeliers found from thrift stores and eBay.

Australian artist Wendy Fairclough does haunting things with furniture for the 'Still Life Still' exhibition in Adelaide.

An artist who can turn books into jewelry, lamps, mobiles, shelves & even birdhouses: gorgeous work of Lisa Occhipinti.

Francisca Prieto is an artist who does amazing things with typography, spare envelopes, sheets of music and the odd asterisk.

Illustrator Lehel Kovacs has come up with a series of sketches of cities, as depicted through looking up Google Street View.

Amy Joy Watson is an Australian sculptor who makes hidden worlds out of wood.

Sydney duo Lola & Bailey have come up with a cute range of cuff-links, all inspired by the childhood trick of making shadow puppets.

A sculptor is using 80,000 sugar cubes to recreate London's Tate Modern and its adjacent development for London Festival of Architecture.

Redecorating bus shelters, turning bike-handlebars and fire hydrants into flower vases ... Mark Reigelman is a cool designer.

Scott Campbell creates cool tour posters inspired by retro paperback covers. Bands featured include Chairlift, Midlake, Andrew Bird and Yacht.

Australian designer John Quan has made a Slinky-inspired magazine rack, "Sexy Explosions" out of colour pencils and produced a new way of serving Vietnamese rice paper rolls.

Breathe Architecture have created a cool cardboard pop-up boutique for fashion label Lulamae.

Australian painter Joanna Lamb has created a series of works where she repaints the same high-rise building in different colour schemes.

Melbourne artist Miso transforms a gallery into her home city of Kharkov, Ukraine, using paper buildings, signs, portraits and more.

London's Studio MS have created some cool 'bookish' lights, among other stylish designs.

Book designer John Canty has come up with a cool look for the contents pages of Stephanie Alexander's Kitchen Garden Companion cookbook.

A little series of photographs on Paris' shop signs.

Stylist Vanessa Colyer Tay and paper artist Jo Neville collaborate for a great-looking Christmas shoot for Inside Out magazine.

Australian artist Sebastian Di Mauro makes art out of astroturf and is the subject of a new exhibition.

Mozi produce lovely homewares and stationery designs - and now have a new store in Melbourne!

Kevin Burnett is based in Melbourne and makes beautiful staircases.

How do you create a 'portrait' of an architecture firm? That's what the new 'Portraits + Architecture' exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra tries to do.

Mr Sparrow is a cool homewares/accessories/garden store in Perth that focuses on handmade and eco design. The plant displays in bathtubs, in particular, are pretty awesome.

An interview with Melbourne artist Emma Van Leest, who makes staggeringly intricate and very beautiful paper-cut works. Also shows a gallery of some of her stunning designs.

These cool wall decals by Australian designer Mae are inspired by vintage fabrics.

The incredible work of Australian paper artist, Benja Harvey, who has made portraits, animals, fashion magazine pop-ups and 3-D food.

Notemaker has added cool colouring-in globes to its stationery range.

Architects and foodies create edible building models for Melbourne's State of Design festival.

The incredible work of Australian artist Laura Adel Johnson, who creates amazing portraits with fairy lights.

Interview with Cyril Genty about his blog, Un Jour A Paris, daily photographs of Paris avoid the obvious tourist-friendly imagery, aiming for fleeting everyday instances across the city's many arrondisements.

Australian artist Michael Doolan takes images of fairytales and cute animals and gives them a radical, fun twist – as part of a new show at Adelaide's Jam Factory.

Australian artist Paul Davies creates beautiful, wistful paintings of modernist houses and has a new exhibition opening soon.

Australian artist Lizzie Buckmaster Dove takes a knife to book pages, photos and paper to create gorgeous artwork about the country's landscape and history.

Sydney artist Lisa Tilse turns Easter eggs into portable little chalkboards.

Five leading architectural firms make houses out of Lego bricks, as part of Scottish Design Week.

Australian artist Victoria Reichelt makes photo-realistic "portraits" of people by painting their bookshelves.