ZSL Whipsnade welcomes a tiny new baby pygmy hippo!

A pretty look at London's Vintage Underground posters.

The Pit House renovation in Okayama by UID Architects.

Animal Alphabet Tee by bioME 5: Workshop - organic children's goods with a modern take on the traditional animal alphabet.

Black & White (in Color) by Eran Amir is a black & white video created by painting a whole room (including myself) in shades of grey. All footage captured on camera in color and no color correction was used to alter the footage.

Guide to the 50 most influential architectures built in Istanbul since the Eighties. A project for the first edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial Istanbul, Oct 13 - Dec 12, 2012.

Rain Rooms, kite-making and hot tub boats all feature in this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

Architizer launches A+ Awards, a major new architecture award program. 200 jurors, 50 categories, and a killer statuette by Snarkitecture.

UFO by Ross Lovegrove now hovers above rail passengers at Lille Flandres station.

Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Woody-Tailgate Trailer by Brad Ford - sleek leather furnishings and wood finishings (reclaimed Bulleit Bourbon casks), elegant glassware, and a full entertainment system, and 1year supply of Bulleit Bourbon and Bulleit Rye.

'Before The Rain' retrospective exhibition about the London designers from Random International in the Carpenters Workshop Gallery.

Retrofit of a B&B bungalow on the island of Mallorca made space with a converted shipping container placed on the roof.

'Partir' (leaving) from Joanna Lurie, a short film about two characters who follow each other beyond the walls ...

Dear Design has created a stadium like design for the new Munich shop in Santiago, where the space is flooded with light and the shoes are hanging from a white metal structure.

International Cephalopod Awareness Days, a five-day celebration of more than 700 sea creatures that make up this class of animals. Wired Science share some of the weird traits that make octopodes and squid loveable.

Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto's fun exhibition at Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo is an amazing hanging canopy that visitors can walk along and get great views of central Tokyo.

Catherine Petter's beautiful packaging for De l'Aubier.

Robe Rope - 4 meter rope with 5 internal hooks, which can be moved and arranged the way you like as a coatrack.

What it is to be an Industrial Designer Infographic

Sam Weller's latest project, the Snelson Stool

Papagio, a mechanical glass and bottle sweeper for hard-to-clean bottoms of bottles and glasses, designed by Hakan Gürsu/Designnobis.

Heritage Hen Farm - Bespoke Versailles-inspired Le Petit Trianon house for your hens and chicks in the Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. (includes a library and raised garden bed!)

Circuit Board sculptures from Peter McFarlane.

Stuck Chair by Stefan Tervoort and Pim Snijdoodt of Oato Design.

The Emptyful Sculpture by Bill Pechet with Chris Pekar of Lightworks and Lumenpulse at the Millennium Library Plaza in Winnipeg, Canada.

A human-powered freerunning Rube-goldberg machine!

London-based artist Marc Hagan-Guirey has created a highly interesting series called Horrorgami, papercraft artworks dedicated to those haunted houses we all grew up watching.

The Red Bull Stratos Mission takes place Oct 9th when Felix Baumgartner will jump from 23 miles up near the edge of space and reach speeds possibly exceeding mach1 making it the highest and fastest jump ever.

A look inside The Book of Barely Imagined Beings by Caspar Henderson and illustrated by Golbanou Moghaddas. It captures real creatures that are more bizarre than the fictitious creatures of medieval bestiaries!

South African artist Kronk serves up 'The Saddest Summer Ever' skateboard for the AIGA Colorado Bordo Bello 2012 exhibition. Available for a limited time only by way of bidding on eBay, all proceeds to affiliated charities and programs.

Lazarides Gallery in London is set to take over the Old Vic Tunnels underneath Waterloo Station with Bedlam, an interactive, site-specific installation coincides with the Frieze Art Fair.

Italian designer Alessandro Busana - Hole Design studio, has developed a new nomad mirror family for Normann Copenhagen.

Ocean Table by Gaetano Pesce at the David Gill Galleries.

Foekje Fleur's porcelain pieces inspired by discarded plastic bottles.

The new 'National Centre for Contemporary Art' by French architects Philippe Bona and Elisabeth Lemercier in Chatou, France.

Skylights: Dumbo is a sculptural pavilion that utilizes ambient lighting within Brooklyn Bridge Park to show star constellations on the ground via cast shadows, poetically addressing the side effects of light pollution in urban settings.

Brazilian artist Geraldo Zamproni's large-scale inflatable red pillows get squeezed under the most unexpected places. This week there's one in NYC as part of the Art in Odd Places festival.

Beautiful illustrations by Raymond Biesinger.

Ben the Illustrator has released The Fluid Animals Calendar for 2013, bringing together twelve of his most popular fluid animal artworks.

Tea Egg from Normann Copenhagen is a functional tea infuser made of silicone and designed by the Danish design company Made by Makers.

Glassblowing the Brooklyn Way with Alan Iwamura and David Ablon.

Multigrater by Jordi Milá

Gloam, a short film by David Elwell & Gareth Hughes about a solitary creature wandering in the dark forest as it encounters something unknown with only curiosity to lead the way.

Pixel State t-shirts! From the Pixelivery