The Düsseldorf-based photographer uses a signature painstaking method to create varied, lyrical imagery.

le corbusier at the barbican.

Artist Helmut Smits has burned a 82 x 82 cm square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km. This wil be a dead pixel in Google Earth. Fantastic idea!

Portraits of famous artists in their studios by Shawn Mortensen.

ToyCyte is doing a report on blind box packaging of designer toys. It's a 5-part series interviewing toy companies, toy collectors, toy stores, toy artists and toy bloggers.

The 600 year old Kelburn Castle in Scotland, on the West coast, near Glascow underwent an extensive transformation. A part of Kelburn castle, became a canvas for four of the worlds’ top Brazilian graffiti artists.

Peter Urban is 21 years old and Coup de Soup is one of the items in his portfolio that he used when he applied to The Graphic Arts Institute in Copenhagen.
Not until May will know if he's been admitted or not. Keep your fingers crossed!

Surfer Kassia Meador made a photo essay about her trip to Morocco, where surfing is illegal for women (but she did it anyway)

Vehicle City-----cardboard carriage by Chicago artist Shannon Goff

The homepage of The Cracking Art Group who pioneer innovative use of different plastic materials that evoke a strict relationship between natural life and artificial reality.

Alessandro Bavari is an Italian Artist who studied scenography, photography, history of art and various other topics at the Academy of Fine Arts

Kohler Karbon ~ only having seen the Karbon faucet at trade fairs, it was exciting to geek out about it when it was on Numb3rs in a Smart House where it was not only fully articulated but robotic as well!

Philadelphia-based artist Larry West posted a bunch of photos of this adorable robot with a sign that says "The End Is Near!"

Altneuland by Ilit Azoulay, just one among many affordable prints at the new i-want-a-print site. It offers limited editions of prints, presenting artists from around the world, and various mediums.

Contemporary artists are breathing new life into taxidermy. Here are some more dead-on examples.

Artemide released a version of its famous dome lighting Mercury signed Ross Lovegrove

Glowacka Rennie redesigned the women's amenities at the Victoria Albert Museum, London. Swiss artist Felice Varini painted an installation after.

Power House, the $100 House featured on ABC's 20/20, is the vision of two Detroit artists intended to be a model of affordable living in current economic conditions as well as a social art project.

The artwork and architecture of Michael James Lewis.

For anyone who has been under a rock for the past 24 hours, Google StreetView is up for London and some other UK cities. Finally.

Los Angeles based glass artist Alison Berger has added a new light fixture to her collection, the Mirrored Pendant Chandelier.

Alexander Jansson is a Swedish artist who's mystical world is full of miniature houses placed on trees, elephants, and funny-looking characters.

An underwater volcano off the coast of Tonga has erupted, cool video of the ash and smoke.

The ultra-high precision scope mouse.

Great prints from artist Nanami Cowdroy, who has just done an exhibition in America, now back home in Australia.

Kaleidoscope mandala flash animation by artist Catherine Hubert. Please do enjoy!

"Wax and Wool Experiments" by Louise Loveridge; macro photography.

FEATUREDStephen Sprouse is a legendary fashion designer/artist ~ and when he couldn't pay for his 1 month stay at Chateau Marmont in '91, he paid with fashion sketches! We have an exclusive look at 1 of the 6!

Rosie Miller’s ‘Novel Vessels’ utilizes second hand books to create exquisite sculpture

Tudor watch Rolex Group brand, unveiled its new collection graphically dressed by the artist Ron Ferri opportunity of the evening TNight, organized last month in Paris.

Mark Clarke, a 3D narrative artist, inspired by historical and seemingly discouraging tales of scurvy and malaria, created a series of charming cabinets that convey stories of medicinal misfortune - with both sad and happy endings.

A virtual gallery showcasing Ana Bagayan's new portrait show that opened at Billy Shire Fine Arts last weekend.

miru kim and Naked City Spleen - new york city artist with a series of photographs in sites underneath the city in the nude

Loving Alex Game's watercolour style

The work if Maxwell Lord can be explained in one word, Amazing! the amount of detail that goes into his drawing and illustrations is something not seen in everyday artists.

For 36 weeks, this sketchbook travel more than 60000 milles. Each week one of 4 artists (2 in Brooklyn, 2 in Belfast) completed a spread.

"Coloured In" is a brand new UK collective of graffitti artists, designers and editorial illustrators.

Skins™ Sports and Electric Art’s shot realistic detail for the cuttings such as dirt mounds and cliff faces, and then all of the images were painstakingly comped together with minute attention to detail.

Some deliciously detailed illustration from Singapore based artist Caramelaw. Eye Candy!

Vague Terrain 13: citySCENE is a collection of work by new media artists and scholars with an urban representation theme. Subjective cartographies, visual data and experimental video staged in a number of global cities.

Awesome artist Frank Gonzales has some wonderful paintings with birds.

Great sneak peek into the home of artist, Christopher Bettig of The Mountain Label!... "look at the LA home of this frenchman (who grew up in nyc and ct and studied at mica)"

IAMPETH: The INternational Association of Master Penmen, Engrossers, and Teachers of Handwriting ~ the galleries here are incredibly inspiring!

Interesting new microsite from up-and-coming artist Justin Marazita.

A new comic book teaches women how to get iconic hair styles. Wonder Woman not included (sad!)

Beautiful new works from artist Shannon Bonatakis (as featured in post #5211) show at Rivet Gallery.

Nur Meta light by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide. Utilizing Artemide's patented Metamorfosi technology, users can customize ambient light color to create a specific mood by adjusting the intensity of the dichroic RGB filters via remote control.

Solveig- 10 year old graffiti artist from England.

amazing work from lighting to sculpture to art by American artist roger borg

Clever advertising campaign for the School of Visual Arts encourages people everywhere to “think” by giving them a place to write down their ideas.

Wonderful work by Artist Los Stencilistas.
A series of poetry stones left on a beach in Southsea, Hampshire, UK

Wonderful altered book sculpture by Jennifer Khoshbin part of an upcoming exhibition of 3 artists called Anatomy of a Book at 360SEE in Chicago.

This year’s Volta NY, perhaps its best ever, is brash, attention-grabbing, and unashamedly populist. More highlights here.

portfolio website of emerging artist Heather Wall.

An interview with artist Andrew Holder.

New York visual artist Reed Barrow works with light, smoke, video, installation, lights and magic.

Costume and Fashion designer Christina Joy (think - Yeah Yeah Yeahs) show "The Visitors Must Be Amused" is up until March 8 at Audio Visual Arts in Manhattan

Artist Ian Hamilton builds bowers stick by stick

great fabric illustrations by brazilian artist lilia trizotto. nice colors too.

The Armory Show's new satellite section, Armory Modern, is full of greatest hits, familiar faces, and plenty of surprises. Here are some highlights.

Marcus Sjögerén & Jonas Ohlsson designes a furniture collection is artisan made and that fits in a society that focuses on sustainable development. The furniture should be able to use tools and live long given both the design and form.

Sydney based artist Dean Christ created a new Cyborg Animals art series explores the concept of Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects.

Iconoclast opened a pop-up store in LA and it is open until April 11th. Lots of artist prints, books and more to purchase.

from 2005 but super cute by And Made - Lost & Found Stools!

Art producer Mothership produced this piece of art 'graffitibriljant' in Rotterdam (NL). The artists are the young illustrators Transister.

NL Architects proposed this design for the Taipei Performing Arts Center to host a variety of large-scale performances, including dramas and operas.

Lizzie Thomas is a UK-based self-described ‘artist & maker’ and an incredibly talented paper craftsperson and woodcutter.

A twist on the classic ~ Modernica Prince Charles Chair ~ Designer/Artist Peter Shire presented his new chair, a collaborative project with Modernica Studio ~ for their big 20th anniversary!

Supermarket is a concept store in Belgrade, Serbia. It is designed by "Mikser" team.

Custom made portfolio cases using plexiglass, wood, or Sintra that can be cut in any size or shape. The portfolios can be engraved, have cut-out components, or hinged and serves to compliment the artist’s style of work.

Strangely captivating text pieces by Dusseldorf-based artist Stefan Bruggemann

A bold and detailed piece of installation art that attempts to represent rainfall - drop by drop... By Installation artist Stacee Kalmanovsky.

With RC controls DJ´s can now literally fly over the tracks and by touching down, start the music; the quality of the USB camery is sufficient to determine exactly in which groove he or she wants to touch down.

This new 2009 painting from one of our favorite artists, Audrey Kawasaki was printed exclusively for the Outre Gallery in Melbourne Australia. Only 200 prints were created and they have sold out.

The non-profit project - the Watchmans Hut is a guest artist studio that gives artists the opportunity to commit themselves for a period of self-imposed exhile in nature - an opportunity for inspiration, tranquility and reflection in pristine nature.
The project addresses the dilemma of human inevitability of leaving traces in a nature one wishes to see untouched.

The objective is to create nine Watchmans Huts in extreme natures of Norway and Sweden (and perhaps other places?) and create spaces for artists where they can commit themselves for a period of self-imposed exhile in nature - an opportunity for inspiration, tranquility and reflection.

Beautiful new print by artist Edwin Ushiro. His unique style and imaginative story telling make his painting, "Birth of Unreckoning" the newest in a long line of works by him that we love.

A new set of edgy art was just released by London based artist Byroglyphics (aka Russ Mills).

Illustrator Oscar Woodruff is participating in the Sketch-A-Day Challenge. Through this, Oscar can visually communicate with other artists to enable them to experience his amazing sketchbook first hand.

Psyop goes to hell for Electronic Arts ~ Dante's Inferno game trailer

Upcoming show at the RWA (Bristol, UK) featuring a number of amazing artists such as Richt, 45RPM, China Mike and Mr Jago to name but a few. Put it in your calendar!!

Brooklyn artist Alex Holden reimagines the ubiquitous Heimlich poster.

Hilary Berseth creates sculptural honeycomb bee hives... and the bees do the work! "He constructs basic frameworks of wire and wax, then lets teams of tiny yellow-and-black art fabricators finish the job." See the slideshow!

Bill Zeman has a tiny art director living with him who mostly rejects his artwork. Cute!

inkdustrial has just introduced several great new limited-edition screen prints by Art Director/Artist Ben Kopf

On super exciting upcoming events ~ Knife and Fork for ENGAGEMENT PARTY, MOCA’s series of interventions by local artist collectives the 1st Thursday of every month! First up GOLF AND DONUTS!

Brand new website for the revolutionary and prolific nature photographer, Art Wolfe.

The beautiful portfolio of London based makeup artist Gina Kane

A new exhibit at the MOMA features 365 pictures of artist Tehching Hsieh, taken every day for a year. when he remained locked in this cage without anything to do, not even a toilet. From 1978-1986. It was one of 5 year long experimental art pieces.

Created by korean designer Jongho Lee, the "Invisible Streetlight" concept is a public light that can be perfectly integrated in the natural landscape.

Interview with London-based french artist Jean Jullien.

True Love - an Italian guy travels around USA to get tattooed by the best American artists. This is the photogallery of his first tattoo, a tiger, by Brian Bruno.
Stay tuned...video coming soon!

Cecilia de Val, a Spanish photographer of affected, anonymous scenes, gives tips on what to see during ARCO.

Here are some works from the Hirst's new retail store. This medicine cabinet-inspired bracelet contains 17 charms from cast pills. Each of the charms is notched and identified with clinical precision, screaming in pharmaceutical details.

Check out the work of New Zealand artist Fletcher Vaughan.

Over 2,300 photos of Moleskine sketchbooks that are participating in The Sketchbook Project, a touring exhibition.

"Hylozoic Soil" is an amazing, interactive artificial life installation from digital media artist and experimental architect Philip Beesley. It also won first place in VIDA's Art and Artifical Life International Awards.

FEATUREDUPDATED! You asked, and we found ~ close up pics of the Tord Boontje Artecnica Charming necklaces, they come in 4 sets, each set with 3 charms on a black string!

Some great wall drawings created by Genevieve Gauckler and other graphic artists for colette, as part of the Domestic series.

FEATUREDArtecnica 2009 has 4 great collections with Tord Boontje as well as the jewelry ~ more incredible lighting, candle holders, and the coolest recycled champagne bottle dish!

FEATUREDTord Boontje Jewelry!!! New from Artecnica, the Charming collection ~ a beautiful set of gold and silver charms...

Some fantastic and humorous artworks from Scott Campbell. Also has some great prints for sale.

Artist Rob Dobi has released Series 8 of Fullbleed.org- eight new conceptual teeshirts ripe for the wearing!

NYTimes prototype Article Skimmer interface is interesting

TheOtherStream is the online portfolio of Richard Roberts, a freelance graphic designer and digital artist.

Really like the prints that artist Evan Hecox created for the new Ace Hotel Palm Springs. They hang in the rooms and can be purchased at the hotel.

At the Swiss Expo.02 arteplage of Yverdon-les-Bains it was possible for any couple of people to get married for one day and exchange vows with glowing sticks.

Mod Squad presents the work of top Queensland designers who have influenced, impacted and inspired contemporary design in Australia. ~ here is Pure Gravity.

London artist SHEONE in collaboration with Montana Colours - Barcelona, present a limited edition of only 500 spraycans. Featuring the artists trademark graphics, and of course, the colour is black, Ridealone black.

The Logibot is a transporting Robot. In a system of corridors these logibots are traveling and transporting goods from house to house.

NYtimes article on Bionic Arm Woman. Creepy video of her psychic arm control too.

To mark the occasion a new horror video game is launching the world’s first ‘superstitious ad campaign’ - turning specially trained black cats into walking adverts for the launch of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin on the day itself.

Apparently people are extra vigilant about looking out for signs of bad luck on Friday 13th, so on that day a team of black cats (a traditional sign of bad luck) dressed in little F.E.A.R 2 branded jackets and cat harnesses, will hit the streets of London with their trainers hoping to capture the attention of superstitious shoppers.

Lights made of 35mm movie traileers, slides and negatives by Artist and Designer Michael Marcovici

Cute! Tweet cotton canvas feather-filled pillow, designed by French artist Chris Bettig in LA, with allover bird pattern. Removable cover with hidden zipper makes washing a breeze.

Hina Aoyama is an amazing Japanese paper cutting artist who uses scissors to create her elaborate designs. Her work is featured Gestalten Verlag's brand new book TANGIBLE: High Touch Visuals.

Art Rotterdam's intimate, convivial 10th edition drew good crowds and lots of collectors with recession-friendly prices. Here are some of the works.

Artist Kaws was featured on CBS News. Incredible how far the artist has come in recent years.

The Abalos + Sentkiewicz proposal for the Taipei Performing Arts Center reminds me of the Cloud City from the Empire Strikes Back. Stunning renderings.

A young artist, Akina, sits in her little studio handcrafting quaint little books. ‘The Little Mermaid’ is the third in line of previous sell out releases.

Human Emotion Project documented visually by international artists using film or video. Selected international artists for the first physical screening in Melbourne, Australia and launch of HEP – Human Emotion Project.

A new, smaller artonpaper magazine! Same content but less waste. Note: this picture slightly exaggerates size reduction.

Francesco Vezzoli's project Greed, a faux ad campaign for an imagined perfume. Directed by Roman Polanski and featuring Natalie Portman and Michelle Williams embroiled in a fierce battle over the fanciful scent...

Here is a nice illustration from the online portfolio of Virginie Maillard. She is a young french independent graphic artist and illustrator.

New work from ceramic artist, Jenny Hager. Her work is functional with inspiration drawn from nature.

2009’s first major test of the art market could set the tone for the rest of the year. Here are some works from upcoming art sales in London.

Inside the studio of incredible pop-up book artist Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart.

MrGo's deliciously dark illustrations at clickforart.com

Artist Inges Idée installed giant sized jewellery on the karlsplatz parking garage in düsseldorf, germany.

HHF Architects and chinese artist Ai WeiWei designed Artfarm, a gallery for a professional art collection. Amazing use of prefab steel buildings used commonly for agricultural purposes.

The Bungaloo is a pretty sweet new poster artist from St. Louis with a really cool style and really affordable and awesome prints for sale.

LEGO memories of NYC by artist Christoph Niemann.

Original Q&A style interview with "One of the greatest artist of our time," Mattias Adolfsson

Beautiful drawings by Dutch artist Tomas Schats!

Dustin Cantrell combines plasma globes and designer toys to make these beautiful, interactive Plasma Dunnys. Dustin is currently the featured custoMONDAY artist, which means you can win one!

Artists and designers from Meninos Studio created these wall-mountable magnetic photo boards that let you process your personal digital photos in real world using those familiar palettes from Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator.

Wow ~ fur upcycled into streetart... Neozoon's Furcoat "UpCycling"

A new Carbon Neutral master plan to develop the Zira Island in Azerbaijan. The proposal by danish architects BIG, includes 7 artificial mountains.

As part of the Lyon Light Festival in France, artists Benoit Deseille and Benedetto Bufalino transformed an phone booth into this amazing aquarium.

Art.Lebedev's "Skrepkus" is a new multi-layered take on the paper-clip.

iSteamPhone - A steam punk exploded view iphone design, Da Vinci style. By artist Kevin Tong.

Artwork from Aaron Hogg in Samantha Hahn's new Love book, a collaborative effort between 25 artists, including Hannah Stouffer, Lilly Piri, Dan Funderburgh and Lisa Congdon.

21,398 keys, 26 artist grants, one vision: The 823keyproject:amazing charity fund concept for artists and creators alike, with brilliant resolve. donate and receive a lovely vintage key, why not? its a super chic accessory too....

Swedish artist Moto Boy has released a musical box with the intro loop from his song A Room Without You. The musical box costs €20 but the MP3 is free to download. Awesome idea!

Circuitry Snacks.

Guilherme Marconi is a self-taught artist who has worked with companies such as Absolut Vodka, BBH UK, Nokia, Havaianas, MTV, Itaœ Bank, Tudo Agency, AlmapBBDO Agency...