From Follow Me - a site showcasing sculptural creations by Indonesian artist Faisal Habibi.

Tattoo artist Yann Travaille has made his name in the over populated field of tattoo design with these astonishingly refreshing designs.

Amazing photographs from the International Space Station of Sarychev Peak on Matua Island erupting. The cloud shows the impact of the initial eruption hitting the atmosphere and creating that mushroom effect.

Twenty-one artists, dealers, curators, and bloggers weighed in on what artworks should grace the Obamas’ White House walls. See all the works they picked here.

Photographer Rankin captured British artists for the new Oxfam climate change campaign with the slogan ‘Demand action until you’re blue in the face’

Artist Ruben Toledo redesigns the covers of classics like The Scarlet Letter (above) and Pride & Prejudice for Harcourt Brace. If only I'd had these in high school, I might have actually read them!

Capacity is a close-knit team of passionate artists and thinkers. They like to call themselves brand guardians.

Damien Correll provided some art for a De'Longhi espresso machine that will be auctioned for charity. Classic sobriety, yet designer touch indeed.

AkzoNobel Car Refinishes creates art with Lewis Hamilton's Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 car.

Curated art wallpapers from some of the world's premier emerging and underground artists - all free from SF's START Mobile!

New artwork from S.3

Campaign for Tibits has these giant forks attached to trees around Zurich which create an artful sight gag.

Artist Hiroshi Sunairi is sharing Hibaku seeds -- literally, "A-bombed trees" that survived Hiroshima -- with people around the world. His show documenting their growth will be exhibited at the Horticultural Society of New York this winter.

Austrian artist Willi Dorner squeezes human bodies into nooks and crannies for his Bodies in Urban Spaces project.

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

Central Saint Martins degree show 09 in Central London.

Interesting sculptures from artist David Wagner dealing with form and how it's perceived.

David Mascha is a Vienna based artist and designer. Since 2005, he has been working for several design studios in Vienna and developing projects for international clients, fashion and design labels, print magazines and books.

"GrandPapier", a base camp for daily comics and drawings, with more than 160 artists contributing. What a daily dose of doodling !

Artist Collective O.H.W.O.W. has launched the Greasy Spoon pop-up gallery and store in Athens. The space was designed by Architects At Large.

Awesome video of the making of Boxis "to die for" seen on the streets of athen

New artwork from Famous When Dead

Loving this new vodka brand by Moscow based designer Arthur Schreiber.

Sequences is a real-time art festival in Reykjavík, Iceland hosted annually by the Living Arts Museum. The poster art — typography from milk in mid-air — is a collaboration between Jónas Valtýsson, Siggi Odds, Sven and Mundi.

NELSON beer and The Temper Trap have banded together to produce a new label design for Batch #19 of the new lager. The Temper Trap teamed up with artist/friend Reece Hobbins to create the latest limited release label to adorn the NELSON beer bottle.

Artist collective FAILE releases several new pieces of work in their comic inspired "Lost in Glimmering Shadows" art series. Three screenprints, three fine art pieces, and a bronze sculpture!

An abandoned church in Spanish Harlem is serving as a backdrop for this new group exhibit aptly titled: “Sacrosanct."

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of La Maison des Petits (“House for Children”) at the centre for artistic creation and production 104 CENT QUATRE in Paris-France.

A volume mandala built from folded paper by italian duo Jekyll&Hyde... then swept away ! Thought as an epitome of the irony behing clever graphic design artifacts soon 'becoming the tomorrow garbage'.

Check out this cool new skate park shelter in Wolverhampton, England

Scott Caan, the actor, actually makes a pretty good photographer. There's a lot of cool meta stuff ... like this pic from the Cannes Film Fest.

Paintings by Los Angeles artist Nate Frizzell

Giant chewing gum sculptures in Venice. Artwork by Simone Decker.

Awesome! Turntable hand built from wood, work of a bangkok artist.

The Swiss designer Olivier Sottas presented at this year´s DMY Festival in Berlin ‘Plié’, a series of floor lamps. The lamps are composed of a paper lampshade, which gets its structure and stability from the artful folding...

Graduation show of Royal Academy of Arts, Ghent opens on June 24. Check some art work of the students on the special website.

Banksy's show in Bristol opens tomorrow. According to the artist: 'This is the first show I've ever done where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off.'

Japanese designer store Tokyocube stocks up with loads of cool new merchandise. Pick up limited edition artwork from Tokyo-based creative agency Loworks and super rare vinyls toys...

Electric Mountains, a new project by Swiss-born artist Thomas Kneubühler...at the ProjexMtl Gallery in Montreal. Really stunning work, well worth the trip.

This Sunday sees the Art Car Boot Fair in London. Artists such as Gavin Turk, and Sir Peter Blake, sell pieces directly from their own car boots at bargain prices.

Venice Biennale's main exhibition, "Making Worlds", is reviewed by James Westcott for ARTINFO and includes many images from the intense exhibition.

Gorgeous slideshow from the NYTimes on the 2009 Venice Biennale.

On awesome beach towels - This Raymond Pettibon beach towel is part of Art Production Fund’s WOW (Works on Whatever) project. a unique collection of everyday items designed by artists. from The Standard Hotels!

Make your very own contemporary art masterpiece! iArtistLondon is cool new brand with a series DIY art kits from artists such as: Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Marc Quinn and a Banksy vending machine.

British artist Andrew Davidson has designed some really nice covers for Naomi Novik's books about the dragon Temeraire.

Carlos Owens had handled all kinds of machines as an army mechanic, but he always dreamed of using those skills for one project: his own "mecha,” a giant metal robot that could mirror the movements of its human pilot.

BRAINY echidnas? check out this NYT article on recent research on monotremes.

Kevin Van Aelst is a contributing photographer to the New York Times Magazine who uses "common artifacts and scenes from everyday life, which have been rearranged, assembled, and constructed into various forms, patterns, and illustrations."

The new Marimekko wallpaper collection features some of the most well-known Marimekko patterns as well as a number of more recent designs from young, popular artists. [Editor's Note: i had this print on towels/placemats/etc as a kid!]

Sébastien Preschoux ([Hu] Man vs. Machine), is a brilliant french artist who mixes up the mediums of his works between acrylic and string installations. His art mostly consists of various vivid, eye popping lines that are simplistically fascinating.

Reebok Vector O Bat ~ apparently this new high tech bat reduces drag, has one of the stiffest handles around, uses a special alloy/composite performance matrix, and has an extended barrel profile...

Keeping London's landmarks visible. Boris Johnson publishes new draft guidelines.

designer Angela Voulangas' portfolio includes the beautiful book 'The Handy Book of Artistic Printing: A Collection of Letterpress Examples' which she coauthored and designed with Doug Clouse.

Art Basel Preview: Quality of the art at the 40th edition of the mother of all art fairs is as solid as ever. Here are some of ARTINFO's Editor's Picks from the upcoming art fair.

The NRW-Forum in Düsseldorf questions the differences/similarities of contemporary design-art with works by designers/artists like Ron Arad, Hussein Chalayan, Liam Gillick, Marc Newson, Franz West... 23 May until 5 July...

Red Tresses and Freckles, artwork of Junko Mizuno - Design Milk has a peek at the upcoming show at Narwhal Art Projects.

Love this Christopher Uminga "Little Roosevelt" watercolor piece from 2008 ~ don't we all feel a little like this little guy some days?

Stool Qoffee a gigantic plastic cup manufactured by Artificial and designed in 1999 by Rainer Spehl. Qoffee can be used a stool but it can also be used as waste paper basket, container or even as a flower pot.

Joao Paulo Alvares Ruas is a very talented artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Rob Matthews decided to press ‘ctrl + p’ and print 2,559 of Wikipedia’s featured articles. The result is this weighty tome of some 5000 pages.

Bay Area Sketch blog goes LIVE! Join the crew from the blog, along with other designers/ artist on a SF Zoo Sketch Crawl!

Gyula Kosice's HYDROSPATIAL CITY, a fascinating exploration of space architecture 25 years in the making, goes on display June 7 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Los Angeles Unified School District's newest school campus is causing major controversy with its architecture, cost, and bureaucratic mess. Like it or not though, it's a bold, gutsy design.

We love this charming and clever 'Deskhouse' from Ninetonine design - it doubles as both playhouse and desk / drafting table for arty kids. Wish I had one when I was a kid!

I just love everything about artist Nemo Gould's kinetic sculptures. My favourite one is the one of the Praying Mantis.

Love the art of Small and Round.

Princeton University has announced the winners of the 2009 Art of Science competition. First place this year was awarded to Celeste M. Nelson for this gorgeous, bright field micrograph of squid embryos.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art MoCCA's Festival 2009 will be held June 6th & 7th in NY City. The poster brought a smile to my face.

These beautifully futuristic low-cost business units have been designed for sixteen start-up arts enterprises for Aberystwyth Arts Centre, part of the University of Wales Aberystwyth.

'Terrible Yellow Eyes' : a growing online collection of artworks as a tribute to 'Where the wild things are', an initiative by Cory Godbey.

Artist Sara Brum creates with tape and ink, lifting fibers and debris to build layer upon layer of color and texture.

ROSS LOVEGROVE teams up with Artemide to produce the Cosmic series of digital light fixtures--the metallic, tessellated skin is like that of a large, amorphous sea creature.

Karim Rashid presents its latest lighting for Artemide, entitled "Dorice...

An interview with artist Frank Chimero.

Photos of Vivid Sydney, with art projected on the Opera House and light-related artworks around the city.

Absolutely wonderful ceramic bird houses from Denver based artist Michael McDowell.

Building review of 'Chips' by Will Alsop. The architect says he drew inspiration for the Manchester project from some chunky chips piled ontop of each other

Interview with Shigeru Ban. The Finnish manufacturer Artek presented the new '10-unit system' (#21751) by the Japanese arcitect. We had the pleasure to meet Shigeru Ban in Milan...

Jim Stoten, one of the creators of Boing magazine, freestyles an amazing drawing in two hours (sped up to two minutes).

Virginie Maillard online Portfolio update. Virginie is a young talented French Computer Artist from Burgundy. New logo, web design and illustrations.

Seriously amazing paintings by Jeremy Geddes.

Rachel Clark created these Pod Egg sculptures from polystyrene balls mixed with black Acrylic paint. They were part of a London Fashion Week window display competition in Mayfair, London.

Fascinating Prawn Bracelet by David Bielander, part of an international exhibition of dynamic Jewelery.

Brock Davis, talented American artist/Illustrator, shows us how ordinary objects that usually do not shatter, would look like if they were shattered on the floor.

Paul Normansell creates dot portraits. He also is the artist behind The Killers album cover, called the Best Album Artwork in the World for 2008 by Rolling Stone Magazine.

Provocative paintings and photography by controversial artist Gottfried Helnwein.

Stencil artists Broken Crow + Over Under depict giant porcupines, bears and rams on a 70-ft. mural in Northeast Minneapolis. Video with soundtrack by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

An amazing step by step explanation on creating three dimensional ceramic letter forms by artist and designer Lestaret / Chris Skinner.

Barbara Siegel’s latest solo show *ROCK STARS* has its opening reception this Thursday at the A.I.R. Gallery in Dumbo, Brooklyn. The work displayed in *ROCK STARS* was inspired by the mineralogist extraordinaire Clifford Frondel.

Beautiful fashion concept with balloon by japanese artist Daisy Balloon.

Johannes Kuhnen is a pioneer of the anodising and colouring process of aluminium.

The Cluster Series by Mark Steele. These all came from influences from various avenues, such as the media, memories, people, textures, technology and so on. Awesome!

the torch of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic games was created to resemble snow, ice, skiing and skating - or a toke?

Supermodified studios is the brainchild of Nick Mannion. Mod1 is his first product, an articulated 7" stylised robot figure that is available in a variety of cool colour schemes.

Wow! Almost 200 models in the shape of children’s TV favourite Morph arranged in a terracotta army outside Tate Modern to honour the memory of the late TV artist Tony Hart.

The Brooklyn-based artist, Glen Baldridge, explores consumerism, desire, and even mortality in witty, pop culture–infused works.

The Metropolitan Museum’s newly reopened American galleries look fantastic and include 20 period rooms, a glass court and full-fledged sculpture garden.

The Black Beauty is back! In the midst of Polaroid instant films extinction, these darlings emerged - carefully collected and refurbished for your pure analog pleasures.

Leo Villareal is a very talented Light artist born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1967. Lives and works in New York City.

The 21 year old Los Angeles based photographer Arturo Oliva Pedroza shoots dream like portraiture of friends in Southern California. Hes featured here on Icon ology once for his black and white work and a again for his color work.

Contemporary Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso will be a participant in the upcoming 53rd Venice Biennale. Much of his recent work is filled with colorful pop culture graphics, but deserves a deeper look...

The Spanish design agency Moruba has created the visual identity and packaging for Winery Arts company: Originality, Creativity and Innovation.
This label has proved the winner of the Best Awards Pack'08 and Laus'09

Charles Simonds (New York, 1945) creates little fragile worlds out of clay. The focal point of his artistic activity lies in the research of archaic civilizations. Simonds explains that these creations belong to "little people" as he calls them.

Endeavor has set up a page where their arty wallpaper designs can be downloaded.

The Art Institute of Chicago's new Modern Wing succeeds most of all in getting out of the way so that visitors can look at the art.

Louis Vuitton's new show at Hong Kong Museum of Art begins May 22. 'A Passion for Creation' comes during the 17th French May Arts Festival The facade of the museum is 'wrapped' with the 'After Dark' series by Richard Prince.

Three young French designers hatch an ingenious plan to use existing infrastructure to create clean energy.

Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program partnered with The Design Center at Philadelphia University to wrap 10 Trucks with bold graphics inspired by historic textiles.

'InDisposed' is a not-for-profit exhibition in NY this week, aims to create a dialogue around sustainability and wastefulness. At the end, all projects will be sent to the trash as a testament to the designers’ belief in disposability.

After pulling a marginally controversial painting of Barack Obama, artist Michael D’Antuono released this much safer work titled '…What I Meant Was…' in an attempt to answer some of the critics.

The German artist, Gregor Hildebrandt, investigates the passage of time with contemporary materials and a hint of irony.

FEATUREDDJ Kreemy aka Karim Rashid spun at his own Artemide party in soho last night ~ check out hiw pink outfit ~ the grassy window ~ super tight I <3 LED bartender tees and more...

The Yas Hotel features a fluid skin of diamond-shaped glass panels which was influenced and inspired by speed, movement and Islamic artistry. Designed by Asymptote Architecture

Sim Chan is only 21 years old, but his paintings seem well beyond his age. He paints large scale cityscapes that are disorientating yet stunning...

One of the best modern office interiors I've ever seen. Rottet Studio designed these interiors for the San Francisco offices of Artis Capital Management.

Fashion illustrations and streetart work of Monsieur Qui, a french illustrator, based in Paris.

FEATUREDShigeru Ban Artek 10 Unit System chair ~ i first saw many of them in person on the rooftop of the Standard NY ~ then got to take this modular wood-plastic sustainable system apart in a shopping container... awesome *zine* too...

FEATUREDØrgreen Optics and Artsee's "Playground: Where Danish Design Meets Japanese Perfection" = black, silver, hot pink BALL PIT!!!! You know you want to see the pics...

Spirit of Forest and Horses - online exhibition
Artist Jenni Tieaho - Environmental Art Sculptures
Made of willow and birchbark

PaperMonster, a talented graduate from Drew University, describes himself as a stencil graffiti artist.

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.

totally awesome new exhibit called Extreme Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History. and incredible coverage by the new york times! check out the interactive!

Absolutely loving the illustrated posters of Idaho based artist and designer Ben Wilson.

The first issue of NYLON Magazine ever, from April 1999, is now up online in its entirety. Helena Christensen shot most of the photos, including this one of Liv Tyler at the beginning of her movie career.

Beautiful disjointed tree illustrations by Vin Ryan

Film maker Gary Hustwit of Helvetica fame talks about his new film about product design, Objectified

Curious and enchanting sculptures by artist Geoffrey Gorman made from lost and found objects.

On an artistic level, Lani Imre's lifestyle visually unfolds as a sexually appealing fantasy world depicting elements of the natural world as well as exuding stylistic features of media and urban culture.

Vivid, complex and magical, the works in Phantasia abandon the traditional realm of the photographic (the real world) to conjure images of the fantastical.

Yuta Onoda is an artiste and illustrator with really beautiful works.

Bruce Nauman has cut his own path and taken it at his own pace. And while he is among the most respected artists internationally, he is as quintessentially American as Pollock or Warhol.

Some amazing pieces done by Cleveland based artist Chris Ryniak.

VIDEOJust Landed - A video by artist Jer Thorp showing tweets containing "just landed" and their location pre- and post-flight. Fascinating stuff. (As seen on Gizmodo)

Simon Schubert is a German-born artist whose two-dimensional works are created entirely by folding sheets of paper… Yes, no pen or pencil, just folds!!

Disturbing visions in the upcoming exhibition Colliding Worlds...

VIDEOAs part of last week’s live This American Life event, comic artist Chris Ware created this Quimby The Mouse animation featuring the song “Eugene” by Andrew Bird.

News Projects announces the release of At Mount Zoomer, the second album by Montreal’s Wolf Parade, Limited Edition Double Picture Disc featuring the collaborative work of visual artists Elizabeth Huey and Matt Moroz.

Adam's Lowe's illustration plays with and within the rarefied space that is fashions stylistic trump card, working the push/pull friction of surface and depth, control and impulse, line and shape, romance and sex.

joana vasconcelos is a paris born artist working in lisbon who creates sculptures and installations by applying white crochet patterns to objects like computers, sculptures and pianos

“Lilliput” includes artwork in all media that is no larger than 1.5 inches in any direction. Visitors to the gallery will be provided with a magnifying glass to view details of the artwork

ROBOTA from France with their creative artistic images and architecture designs takes us to the world of tale and future. Of course the famous names as Rem Koolhaas, Portzamparc and others are involved, too.

Koosuke Ikeda's new artwork displayed at the living room. All his artworks are related by his theory "irKt"[individual relative contradiction theory].

Incredible work from Berlin based artist Eno Henze.. this in particular is his Human Factor Collection.. Truly amazing.

Richard Hatter describes the design process behind the Vancouver Alliance for Arts & Culture logo.