Bio-inspiration, or 'Nature As Muse' is a way of viewing and valuing nature. Embracing bespoke re-invention to create a unique experience, BrowneHsieh & Sons is pleased to present MothEaten™ Lights.

Since governments have begun to phase out incandescent lightbulbs they have taken on new mystique. "Like a moth to the flame," describes moths' inexplicable attraction to bright lights. Similarly individuals are now attracted to the charm of incandescent lightbulbs. MothEaten™ tells the story of the amalgamation of culture, nature and technology where these extremes co-exist. Moths, with their survival instinct, and artisanal uniqueness, have made a pact to survive, in the same way that incandescent lightbulbs will continue to glow.

Hand finished, each MothEaten™ light comes with its own idiosyncracies, language and tactile personality.

Ceramic origami ~ by Ann Van Hoey

Definitely eye-catching Salsa packaging for an unknown brand to establish credibility & distinguish itself from the rest. Designed by Moxie Sozo, the packaging hand-drawn illustration is inspired by Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada.

Erik Jones Tattoo inspired artwork is amazing

The NYtimes go inside Peter Buchanan-Smith's Tribeca Design Studio to discover the urban ax and other products and inspirations from the designer. Nice article on the story of Best Made Co.

Canadian blacksmith & artist Stefanie Dueck's tabletop sculpture titled "Iguana Box" is one of two pieces to be included in an upcoming Chicago show at 360SEE. The piece opens and is lined with black faux fur.

Nike & (RED) create an exhibition of artwork for their Tied Together campaign. Marc Wyndham Bass's skin distortion shows muscle tissue, veins, arteries and bone on one side of the body. The piece will feature life size on a light box.

Squirrel-powered kinetic sculptures run on peanuts and birdseed. Creations by Bill McHugh have great names too, like Swirl-A-Squirrel and Squi-Rel-A-Tor.

The Loyal Subjects and artist Joe Ledbetter are proud to announce the release of PICO AND WILSHIRE.

Interesting Renders for Camper shoes (Hybrid)
By 3D artist Emilio Gomariz.

Workers put finishing touches to 1,000m high AlpspiX Alpine viewing tower. Situated in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen region of Germany and provides panoramic views of surrounding Hoellental and Garmisch. Opens July 4th.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1290637/Don-t-look-Workers-finishing-touches-1-000m-high-Alpine-viewing-tower.html#ixzz0sMNSdgv5

Artifical Flowers by French designer Sascha Nordmeyer. A range of hand-crafted complex shapes made out of colored, printed, punched and cut paper in order to set up an artificial foliage delights the mind.

The new Black Bird Laguiole by Arto! Beautiful hand made knife art work.

The table O0803 is made from reclaimed scaffolding boards. With great patina and traces of wear. By german manufacturer Bauholz Design.

Oscar Santillan's light sculpture. Currently attending the Sculpture MFA program at VCU (Richmond, VA) and Skowhegan artist-in-residence.

Theater designed by Studio Gang Architects for Rock Valley College to replace an existing outdoor venue. This is a theater for the performing arts.

VIDEO'Exploded View' by artist Jim Campbell. A sublime reduction of vision into rhythm.

Chris Burns of World Famous Design Junkies reviews one of the new Vannen artist / designer watches from their Series 2. Designed by the infamous comic style graffiti artist Bigfoot!

The Lyon House museum is a private house in Kew designed as an art museum by Melbourne architectural practice Lyons.

Brooklyn based artist and designer Tonky picks apart AT&T's recent plagiarism of Christo & Jeanne Claude's intellectual property. See video and full text after the jump!

From July 16h till August 8th, rotofugi gallery in Chicago, will host a retrospective of sculptures, paintings and photography by Coarse.

Artist Ron van der Ende creates fantastical works out of wood, foreshortening the world for a clearer vision. Also he's got a great manifesto on taking control of you internet identity as a self-employed artist!

With the AirPenguins, the engineers from Festo have created artificial penguins and have taught them "autonomous flight in the sea of air". On display at London's Southbank Centre's summer science festival until July 4th.

This summer, Smirnoff Red creates the event in collaboration with Vitalic, the French artist of the electro scene, to revamp its famous bottle.

Artist Fielding Archer adds furniture design to his portfolio with the introduction of the Heron collection of outdoor furniture. Stunningly beautiful and Made in the U.S.A.

Queens-born urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, and then deposits them in random locations around the city.

This is maybe the first museum built as a passive house. It is a new building for the tourist office and the city museum in Ulricehamn, Sweden, created by Kjellgreen Kaminsky Architecture (KKA).

Apu means „help“ in Finnland. Designer Hanna Ehlers is half Finnisch and sthe designed the Apu occassional tables for german Label Zeitraum. The ceramic part can be used as a table, a plate oder a vase. It´s removable.

The Soratama lens allows you to find out what the world looks like through a marble.

Truncheon is a series consisting of a suspended tube light, an articulated task lamp and a freestanding tube that rests against a wall or can be mounted in a stand. By NYC-based studio Commonwealth.

Artist Liubo Borissov hacked Chatroulette into a digital police interrogation mirror, and turned it on the population of Chatroulette in the same random manner its users meet each other. On display at Eyelevel Gallery starting June 26 (NYC)

West Elm offers a new collection of gorgeous silhouette prints and patterns from artist Mike Miller.

Bruce Munro installed his new artwork ‘CDSea’ in a field near Kilmington, UK, over the past weekend. An inland sea made of 600.000 CDs which are dazzling like mirrors reflecting sunlight and moonlight.

Handmade Rian RTA Artist Series stool - First in series features Mike Perry's surf-themed design. Perry illustrated 20 stools with 15% of proceeds going to Surfrider Foundation.

Artist Carolina Andreoli made this chart of her 317 friends, ranked by importance and color-coded by location.

Mugo, the first limited edition designer MP3 player and USB flash drive is finally here! 'Artist Series 1' has super limited designs by some of todays top urban artists, including Julie West, Shin Tanaka, Tougui and Yup.

Stunning digital art created by video game concept artist Stephane Belin.

Scan Toys, an exhibition by visual artists Mónica Rojas y Hernán Eliaschev is currently showing at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, lets you peek at their guts.

Interactive artist David Bowen has created the Tele-Present Wind installation that sways with wind outside.

Artist Justin Barry has created a beautifully intricate Phrenology illustration "Thoughts of Modern Man"

Artist Joe Papendick creates stunning sculptural bird feeders that are as affordable as they are unique.

Nice artwork by Scianca. Dress made with VHS bands.

This summer the Hayward Gallery presents The New Décor; an international survey of over 30 contemporary artists, including some of the leading sculptors of our time. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre. 19 June--5 September 2010.

This summer, dramatic, immersive installations by internationally renowned artist Ernesto Neto transform the Hayward Gallery’s upper galleries and its three outdoor sculpture courts.

These space theme chocolate was inspired by an astronaut who took packages of Artisan du Chocolat’s chocolate-covered ginger to the International Space Station with her.

The category is artificial intelligence. This question-answering computer system (IBM Watson), is ready to challenge some flesh-and-blood “Jeopardy!” champions.

To promote the Gillette Mach 3, the interior of an elevator was completely covered with artificial beard. Cool!

Graphic design artist Nikolay Bezhko goes by the aka name "Data Driven Decision Making" and creates design magic!

Zerotracer is a fully-enclosed electric motorcycle by DesignWerk.

Thumb War card designed by artist Christopher Lee.

Beautiful drawings by Betsy Walton.

Nike builds World Cup sculpture out of 3,000 footballs. Dubbed Ballman, the sculpture is located in the atrium of the Carlton Centre shopping mall, Johannesburg

FIFA World Cup 2010 hospitality pack uses Burgopak slider box to hold official event tickets, venue information and accompanying products.

The next time someone tells you to show ‘em the money, turn them on to Tine De Ruysser’s artfully folded origami necklaces and bracelets—made from actual banknotes.

Augmented Shadow is a tabletop interface on where artificial shadows of tangible objects displayed. By Joon Moon with openframeworks.

Amy Joy Watson is an Australian sculptor who makes hidden worlds out of wood.

From A-Z by german Sascha Grewe and his label artcanbreakyourheart are typographic stools made of plastics. All letters are available in 147 different ultraflat colours. A smaller kids version is available as well.

This isn't a photo, but a drawing. All made in full color with permanent marker on paper by designer/artist Hollis Brown Thorton. Part of an ongoing series.

Look familiar? Except, this fail whale is entirely rendered in CSS! It's also animated in Safari and Chrome! notcot says it's the new ascii art.

Love Space Invader? Love T-shirts? How about Sky Invader? Now T-shirt design up for scoring at threadless.com

This years "ARTWORKS" by Iittala. Oiva Toikka creates his own art made of glass. Releese in autumn 2010.

Super attractive drawers designed by Raymond Loewy for his DF2000 Serie X-line created in 1968. This one is available through Swedish gallery Modernity.

Corona and HA Schult have created the world's first rubbish hotel (literally a hotel made from rubbish) as part of its Save the Beach campaign

Famous When Dead's live painted artwork from the 2010 Urban Paint Festival (UPFEST) in Bristol, England.

TUME (Top-up mobile electricity) can reduce gang controlled electricity; stop the risk of electrocution and allow fair competition with local established businesses by making an electricity grid accessible to people on the streets.

The V8 Hotel is named after the famous eight cylinder engine. and is located in an old airport area near to Stuttgart in Germany. In every room you will find a lot of automobile nostalgia such as the Route66 room, a drive-in-movie-theater room or the car wash room.

FEATUREDWow. Crayon Carvings of World Cup super stars! Diem Chau + W+K for the Nike Write the Future press kit! Beautiful packaging, stunning artworks!

Bricks by Remember Products is a game, an object, a puzzle, a sculpture, artwork, a building set, a model, simply ingenious. For young and old and tall and small. Bricks are eighteen handmade colored massive beech wood bricks.

Over the course of one week, photojournalist and California Institute of the Arts alum Michael Underwood laboriously documented over 250 local medical marijuana dispensaries.

Living Light by The Living is a building facade of the future that displays air quality and public interest in the environment. It is a permanent outdoor pavilion in Peace Park, across from World Cup Stadium in Seoul, Korea.

An amazing collection of miniature sculptures produced in resin using stereo-lithography (3D printing)

The Battle of Trafalgar is an ambitious piece and Barnaby Barford's largest to date. Barford is an artist who works primarily with ceramics to create unique narrative pieces. For this big scene he has introduced concrete into his aesthetic.

This kitchen design was designed by Poggenpohl in collaboration with German architect, Hadi Teherani. The kitchen will be available at retails in January 2011.

An interview with James Powderly, part of Graffiti Research Lab and the team that developed Eyewriter [see post #31312], the eye-reading technology that allows paralyzed artists to "write" graffiti.

Read our roundup of some of London's most talented young artists and designers at the Free Range art fair at the Old Truman Gallery on Brick Lane.

Preview of 3DFY, which creates 3D version of any photo or video in realtime using your webcam. The user can spin the 3D version in any angle, pivot, in front behind or inside the 3DFY version.

Studio Printworks' Great Contemporary Artist series features Mark Fox's delicate script sculptures as a gorgeous wallpaper.

Students of Potsdam polytechnic college engineered a collection of metal products for german manufacture Hugo Bräuer. Main target of the project is to bring the artisanry of metal production into a new public awareness.

White Cube Mason’s Yard presents a new exhibition by Antony Gormley. The artist has created a major new site-specific installation and a new series of cast iron blockwork sculptures.

Sculptural furniture from chopped pine by Jae Hyo Lee

Sotheby’s first ever outdoor selling exhibition at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire is up and running. The exhibition, in association with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, presents 25 unique/limited-edition works of contemporary art.

Shopping Trophies by artist Pucci de Rossi are modern versions of wall mounted animal heads within whose stylized antlers are trademarks, logos and brand names like Nike, Gucci, Coca Cola, Prada and more.

The modern and simple H House in Maastricht was designed by Wiel Arets for a couple of artists, a dancer and an actor. This design provide maximal surrounding views by its glass walls.

A sculptor is using 80,000 sugar cubes to recreate London's Tate Modern and its adjacent development for London Festival of Architecture.

Last April UVA (United Visual Artists) created "Speed of light" for Virgin Media to celebrate the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. One of the several light installations featured a mesmerizing laser living room.

Take our photo tour of Governors Island's Building 110 — an exciting new studio, performance, and exhibition space from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

Simon Birch, Hong Kong-based artist created "Hope and Glory", a mix of 20 different installations in a 20,000-square-foot space. One full-scale room is designed to look like a 3-D rendering, until you realize, wait, it's real.

Roll-it: a moveable unit by Christian Zwick + Konstantin Jerabek.

GREG “CRAOLA” SIMKINS Article on The Citrus Report
An Outsiders Guide to The Outside By j.frede

"Sorry, You're a Rockstar Now" Check out this funny commercial for the AdBand festival and find out what your life should look like if you ever take part of this experience...

"Left shoe!!! Right shoe!!!,” by artist Liam Gillick consists of a pair of sleek black leather brogues with perforated holes in the toe-box. Done in collaboration with traveling boutique Clemens en August

artist Paul Ramírez Jonas created a Key to the City, part scavenger hunt, part introduction to overlooked city monuments, from cathedral to neighborhood soda fountain, the project unlocks private rooms and displays in random locations .

Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley is an immersive, interactive environment.

Terrariums are making a real comeback, they even have their own article and slideshow in the NYTimes this week.

Coast Modern Poster. Original artwork and poster design from Byron O’Neill—mixed and pulled by master printer Matt Mayer and team over at JDK.

Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Lauren commissioned over 50 of Europe’s most exciting young contemporary artists to customize stars made from the finest American denim. This piece from French artist L'Atlas is one of them.

Billy Joel probably didn't have piano gloves in mind when he first crooned the song "Piano Man." A student at the Motion Design program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle designed a pair of digitally enhanced gloves...

With their "Diffractions", french artists Etienne Rey and Laurent Le Bourhis from Voss Studio play with glass, lights, reflects and spaces. Poetic and colorful.

inland is a series of illustrations by artist Dan McPharlin reminiscent of the 70’s Sci-fi

Created by UK artists Rob and Nick Carter, the RN754 is a unique color changing light box with 15 concentric circles of neon and a fully programmable color changing sequence.

NOTCOT on Small Business ~ lately i've been writing for Amex Open Forum ~ sharing small biz stories ~ the latest? My little rant on what to do when your hobby becomes "work" - Find Work/Life Balance, NOT a Hobby

Massive soundwave sculpture by media artist James Clar in the lobby of Rolex Tower in Dubai.

Beautiful "Steam_11" walnut chair by Korean artist Bae Se Hwa will be part of Gallery Seomi's exhibit at Design Miami Basel 2010.

Macally's Bookstand for the iPad

Here's the 1st interactive 3D billboard in Asia. This beamvertising by BMW was realised by Publicis Asia.

Here are some beautiful artwork illustrations by Meri, also known as, Kasiukasiu. Each of her illustration captures an emotional state.

The Museum of London launches an iPhone app "Streetmuseum" that makes use of its extensive art and photographic collections. Through geo tagging and Google Maps, it guides users around London allowing them to look into the past!

Designer and typographer extraordinaire Mico Toledo reinvigorates some heavily inspiring artist lyrics in the typography project “Music Philosophy.”

The Carrot Slayer is the only 100% vegetarian toy, designed by Mauro Gatti for Very Bravo.

Simple and friendly leather bags are hand-crafted in LA with love. By KimKim Artifacts.

Castello in Movimento restores Fosdinovo Castello to a meeting place of artists. From the end May to end September 2010 based on the project by a young couple, Pietro Torrigiani Malaspina and Maddalena Fossombroni.

Designed by Patrick Jouin, the Bloom.MGX light has an articulated shade that can be opened or closed like a flower,

Ferrari Art.Engine speakers from the DW Collection are gorgeous. The 47" speakers use dual speaker arrays composed of 18 drivers, four 200 watt digital amps, wireless signal input and a proprietary digital processing.

Project Diversities is a fashion/art project run by Off The Rakk Global Network™. They selected awesome illustrators - all with their strong and distinct trademarks, to create artworks out from the same object/ model. Awesome result!

The frozen food brand Bird's Eye has a new muse! AMV BBDO introduces a talking polar-bear puppet in new ads eerily voiced by Willem Dafoe in this U.K. campaign.

RSAnimate is a collection of animated visualizations of talks which were presented at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

That master of Propaganda, Ron English, has struck again, subverting some of the corporate world’s most recognizable symbols with his inventive, witty and incisive form of artful anti-advertising.

Water Imprint by Yaslab. Most plastics are made from oil derived liquid with no original shape. We only see plastics in artificial molded shapes.That makes us to feel "it is not natural". What might a natural form of plastic be?

This weekend, the mythical Avenue des Champ Elysées was transformed into a small forest by artist Gad Weil. 8 000 plots of land, 4.2 million euros and 2 M visitors. See pictures and timelapse.

MTV lauches 3 tv commercial against the Fifa world cup. Very stupid and very fun, the protagonists are put in crazy situations that would have never happened without football broadcasts on tv.

Artware editions is presenting a small selection of artist deck chairs featuring the work of Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sir Peter Blake, Keith Tyson, Marc Quinn, Sam McEwan and Rob and Nicky Carter.

Hyundai and the agency Innocean Worldwide realise a spot for the ii45. The concept: a real water wall symbolizes the many tests run by Hyundai. Looks like the Solidarité Internationale's water wall. Amazing.

Remember Little Golden Books (The Poky Little Puppy, The Shy Little Kitten)? Pixar's Josh Cooley created Movies R Fun a Little Golden Book-ish take on movies that are definitely not kid-friendly. Beautiful and fun!

The non-profit website of KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center offers 7 walks in Budapest and 4 in the city of Pécs for the lovers of contemporary architecture.

20 different Spoke Cards have been designed especially for Love Your Bike Portsmouth on 30/5/10. I Love Dust, Farkfk, LEX, Sifer, and many more artists and students across the city.

HP assures cow manure, digested farm waste could power a 1,000-server data center. (Design in a picture)

Drainspotting is a new book/iPad app exploring the Japanese penchant for artistic manhole covers.

Amazing Ikea's contest: the winner had to leave his/her hand on the objects for 9 hours!

Imaginary posters from the streets of Jeremyville, to help us daily to be more alive, more real, and hopefully better people.

Absolut teamed up with artist Dan Tobin Smith to offers us a beautiful video featuring a cathedral of glass which in flows the precious liquid, delivering his message with the states of the fluid (gas or liquid).

Yin Xiuzhen's incredible stretch bus!

Brain City Lab. Wolf D. Prix, Design Principal and CEO of COOP HIMMELB(L)AU will give a lecture ‘When will it finally stop lasting? The possibility of the impossible’ at University of Applied Arts Vienna' to open the Brain City Lab.

From ICFF - an incredible 'spring dress lounge' sculpture forged from reclaimed upholstery springs via brooklyn-based artist susan woods.

The „Swan“ is a combination bathtub and shower made of Corian. It was designed by Peter Martin for german manufacturer Hasenkopf. The design reminds me of an old wash tub.

Muti Randolph is one of the world's top audio-visual artists. In this video he shares what's behind some of his most famous creations, which meld architecture, industrial design, music, and engineering.

Where the cursors come from? Finally, a good explanation, coming us from artist Nathan W. Pyle.

Amazing animation and stunning visuals for this new Tostitos advert proving commercials can still be a great playground for talented artists.

The agency Scholz & Friends creatively show us what the world would look like without craftsmen. A beautiful post apocalyptic video.

Famous insurance company Aflac joins Pixar to promote their 50th commercial. For the occasion, the famous pissed-off duck sympathizes with the toys of Toy Story in an absolutely amazing commercial !

The ceramic series "paperline" by Tanja Niedermann for ASA selection looks really cool in a very hot summer.

Netflix is coming on the Wii. To promote their VOD service, the ad agency has inlaid wiimotes into old movies. Nice and creative.

Michael Kutsche is an award-winning Conceptual Artist/ Illustrator and 3d Artist located in Los Angeles who has worked for the vfx industry since 1998.

Images from Belgian-artist Roa's solo show at Factory Fresh, Brooklyn. Huge spray-painted animals with skeletons & vascular systems exposed.

Contemporary artist Titus Kaphar makes canvas cutouts of European and American portrait paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries to alternate their historical message.