The Alliance for Downtown New York came up with The Re:Construction Initiative, a project which recasts construction sites as canvases for public art.

WK Interact does not cease to impress with his latest work in Ancona, Italy. Making his name with big productions like this, is not an unusual affari for the French bred street artist.

Wonderful bits of illustration work mixing cut paper and embroidery by Alycia Garcia, a senior at Massachusetts College of Art. I love the textures created from the handmade paper and threads!

Photography by David Black. The Daft Punk ones are totally awesome!!

High res "seven deadly sins" images taken from the book "The Frenchmen and the Seven Deadly Sins". These are fun woodblock illustrations with a pretty dark theme.

An unofficial blue plaque unveiled at the home of the British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith.

Jean-Nicolas Duval dark beer concept in my packaging class.

Daimler today has just unveiled the F-CELL Roadster, a wacky-looking vehicle that is a ‘hybrid’ in more ways than one. F-CELL can reach 15 mph and achieve a range of 217 miles.

Deck House by Felipe Assadi, a wooden folded plane encloses a simple house, but with one of the best terraces i´ve seen, the perfect platform for a pool in front of the landscape.

Seattle based production team That-Go wins grand jury prize at sxsw for thunderheist - jerk it music video.

Christoph Niemann on "My Life with Cables."

For photographer Leanne Eisen's series "Play" she reconstructs a brothel, a strip club and other sex trade sites in dollhouse scale, then photographs and enlarges those scenes.

This backyard roller coaster was built by Jeremy Reid in Oklahoma. Check out the videos of it in action!

Shrink plastic earrings featuring an MRI of the brain. New, for the neurology enthusiast!

Luca "Bean One" Barcellona is an amazingly talented calligrapher, based out of Milan, Italy, with roots in street art culture, a true guru of hand-drawn letters

James Clar of Dubai's Traffic Design Gallery and his Rat Race series. The idea that we are all rats in a competitive race to the top is a befitting theme for Dubai.

Diane von Furstenberg gets shot by Terry Richardson for the latest issue of French Purple Magazine.

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.

Erwin Olaf, Dutch fine art and commercial photographer...

Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Contest voting is now open.

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

Book Ring

LEGO memories of NYC by artist Christoph Niemann.

casa suntro by mexican architect jorge hernandez de la garza

Cute new episode of My Cardboard Life. Cardboard Colin tries out a geeky new look.

As if the watch named "Horological Machine No.2" wasn't extreme enough, the guys at Maximilian Büsser & Friends decided to make it out of ceramic as well.

I've been a big fan of a local artist, David Baker, for a long time. His figures are beautiful.

Australian jeweler Julia DeVille is inspired by "memento mori" from past centuries, and her pieces involve taxidermy and/or cast bones, as in this striking silver talon ring. Not practical but stunning!

Copenhagen has been recovering the waterfront with a series of projects. This public bath by JDS+BIG (former PLOT) invites citizens to use the fresh waters, amazing result! (see #17148 also)

ALEATORY COMPOSITIONS BOOK by Hoagy Houghton

Awesome new illustration work from pposti! This one is for Paste magazine

Encyclopedia Series by Brian Dettmer.

Love this simple Grid Builder tool ~ beautifully simple UI too...

Accident Report Cards by Crowded Teeth - at least SOMETHING will be pretty about that fender bender. Cheap, too!

A pedestrian bridge in the chilean countryside, with an interesting shape that can be seen as a tipsy boat in the bay, a beauty queen tiara, or an archway to town... by Enrique Browne.

Amazing Pixar short film about a robot called Burn-E based on the movie Wall-E.

liu jianhua's first solo show 'dream in conflict' at galleria continua in San gimignano ~ includes dice and poker chips stacked in the outline of shanghai!

Fascinating to see what inspires those who inspire us ~ check out Audrey Kawasaki's Ffffound [might lean on the NSFW side]

Bacolicio.us ~ we got BACON'd!

TV spot for NAB (Norwegian Association of the Blind), created by Try. "Don't disturb the ones working", talking about the dogs that help the blind ones.

Holiday season on Main Street is not complete without humble animals and bales of hay, the l.a.Eyeworks stores on Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue turns up the volume on a stable of seasonal sentiments.

Monkey Balls! Surprise birthday floral arrangement just came, and i'm totally mesmerized by these things... what IS it?

'Drawdio' created by adafruit and jay silver is a pencil that lets you draw with the music. The kit is an analog synthesizer circuit that straps to any soft-leaded pencil, and lets you crank out electronic sounds while you sketch.
sketch.

Japanese architecture Shuheu Endo strikes another amazing project with Rooftecture, a house built on a small strip of land on a hill facing the sea.

1956 Flying Plane Car, so awesome!

Tweetdeck ~ while i'm still not totally sold on twitter (but playing with it more lately - yes, i'm notcot on twitter too) ~ tweetdeck has a pretty sweet UI! (Also i love the dock icon ~ looks fun next to my adium dragon-duck)