The Ballandean House by Arkhefield not only shows a strong contrast with the plain surroundings through the different planes, but features several sustainable techniques.

"Fermer les yeux pour voir" proposes a new tactile and graphic language which takes everybody’s needs into account : blind people, partially sighted people and sighted people.

New TV spot for Rexona: Toys. "Makes bacteria totally harmless", showing bacterias just like toys and teddy bears.

Kim Rugg's alphabetized newspaper front pages meticulously compiled with a razor, steady hand, and plenty of patience.

The most famous rabbit characters in design -- Part 2

Melbourne Illustrator Sarah Hankinson creates feminine her illustration style is elegant, youthful, and strongly fashion orientated...

Portfolio of motion graphics designer Will Goodan based in Los Angeles.

"the fig leaf', made with hand painted enameled copper leaves by tord boontje ~ designboom has a preview of "meta: masterpieces and materials past and present" that will be in design miami

100 mansions to be built in Inner Mongolia by a coal and dairy tycoon. Kind of a self-indulgent idea for the current economic situation...but still wishing their official website would put up images already.

Angus Hyland and assistant Fabian Herrmann have designed the hardback edition of Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories. The book collects together all of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories in a single volume for the first time.

Beautiful light fixture installations at Designers' Saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland. 'Underwater World' was designed by Aqua Creations and installed in the Création Baumann textile factory.

The new number of Be|Different Magazine. An amazing Italian e-zine compleately downlodable!

Cute new Vespa ads remind potential buyers that the motorbikes can zip through the narrowest of passageways and get you there more quickly.

Fun little bottle for Yaoki sake - Yaoki comes from the Japanese proverb "Nana korobi yaoki", the apparent literal translation meaning "Stand up on the eighth attempt after falling seven times" or "Never give up!" The shape of the bottle reinforces this idea.

Beautiful wire frame rocker by Egg Designs.

Daniel Love is a Singapore designer that clearly has been inspired by nature and animal-life to a lot of his work....

Pizzerias, in close proximity to large college campuses, were supplied with Economist-branded pizza boxes. Each one reinforces the “Get a world view” platform with a pie chart that applies to pizza consumption.

Beautiful Cubematic Max graphic by Eric Carl.

Alife, New York-based streetwear and branding innovator, staged its Los Angeles debut with a year-long retail intervention at 222gallery.

This is an interesting way to work with fluorescent tubes.

Genius design and modern appeal, Matthew Izzo's Son of a Bench features interlocking loops of hot-rolled steel creating an intriguing form of mass and negative space.

MC Escher-esque illustrations by Sacred Mtn.

Mark Wagner spares no expense on his cashed up collage.

Volvo launches the market’s first commercially viable hybrid bus. The lower fuel consumption of the Volvo 7700 Hybrid reduces the emission of the greenhouse gas CO2 by up to 30%.

Love the pretty shape of Jirachai Tangkijngawmong's Leaf Bench.

Pieter Hugo's "The Hyena & Other Men" - a series of portraits of a band of Nigerian men and their domesticated hyena.

Love the graphic cuts in the walls of Shanghai's Super Sense Spa, designed by KUU. The wall cuts become recesses for lights.

Belgium-based Draw Me a Sheep upholstered their Nature v2.01 chair in real tree bark.

Dutch design duo Idiots (their term, not mine) are the latest incarnation in a long line of taxidermy artists, and when I say “artists” I do not mean the nefarious creators of jackalopes, etc.

W+K Amsterdam has cooked up something sweet for their latest Nike campaign.

Casa Deck, Alto Rungue, Chile / Assadi + Pulido

Impressive showreel of Mark Coleran : visual designer specializing in the design of interfaces for film and television.

Super Soaker Bottle Shot reviewed! You can attach it to any bottle up to 2L, and it shoots an impressively powered stream! Now you know what to do with all those old water bottles you're not supposed to have.

Chronophotographie (fragments). Day made in Nancy: nice execution of stop motion.

Pollaro Custom Furniture, makers of museum quality furniture, fitted cabinetry, and fine architectural woodwork. Incredible stuff.

PLT Studio's collection of photographs taken to tickle their friends. It's also a growing roster of hooligans and riffraff from Orange County (Little Saigon), California.

Chueh Lee of Samsung China designed the Touch Sight - the first digital camera for the visually impaired. Features include 3 seconds of recorded sound as an image reference, and a flexible Braille display sheet that displays a 3D image.

Photographer Eugenio Recuenco shows us what happens when life imitates art. He used real models to recreate the Parthenon frieze. Lovely.

This is sand. Click to release the sand; press C to change the color. Have Fun!

Nick Baxter's amazing tattoos of classic chairs. See more of his work at nickbaxter.com.

Sigur Rós - Shot live at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Icelandic Independence Day

Festroia International Film Festival poster made by designer Ricardo Guerreiro.

Some beautiful works of the young Australian artist Courtney Brims.

The world's first sand castle hotel has recently opened at Weymouth beach in the seaside town of Dorset in the UK. The hotel was constructed from approximately 1000 tonnes of sand.

pen on paper art. Nice type.

Fireplays : stop-motion and spectacle of lights, on a soundtrack by Mgmt.