Los Angeles artist Joe Mckay creates clever and thought provoking collages with a bare bones aesthetic. Sometimes quietly serious, many times funny.

Fascinating interview - Chicago cabbie Dmitry Samarov draws around the Windy City - see the world through this art school grads eyes and sketches...

Antoine Corbineau is a young french illustrator/art director based in Paris and available for freelance jobs anywhere.

"The future lies in the FREITAG Agenda F26 MARTY! At least a year of it. 365 days held together by a compostable ring binding system that makes futurologists jealous and LOHAS happy."

A collection of vintage octopus pulp covers

Spore Doorbells

vis/res is a new publication produced 6 times a year to showcase emerging talent in graphic design and illustration. Each issue has a central theme and features contributing work from 10 designers & illustrators.

vis/res aims to bring something fresh to the zine market with an emphasis on crisp, clear design & beautiful print finishes. When you add to that a range of talented and exciting image-makers contributing to each issue, vis/res is a compelling new publication.

Award winning Nestled House- a private residence in Tokyo designed by Milligram Architectural Studio.

Remember Paper! Beautiful image filled site reminding you to do just that!

Italian furniture manufacturer Poliform has created an inspirational residential interior project called “My Life in 80m²” to show that the quality of a living space does not depend on the size.

Interesting work of a young french designer, Jules Charbonnet, who makes installations with natural elements.

Oval table by Tord Boontje for Moroso. Love the hand sketched look!

The Wardrobe, by Canal +

On beautiful blogs to LISTEN to ~ Left As Rain is pretty amazing and slick UI as well ~ can't stop listening now...

Eclipse and other works from Nick van Woert

They won Time to design 2009 – new talent award with their winning project “SPAZIALE SERIES: New expressions of skin and structure”. See the final result.

No Love Lost, blue paintings by Damien Hirst at the Wallace Collection London. Hirst returns to painting, referencing his own and the art world's history. You'll either love them or hate them.

Remarkable convergence of Steam Punk, Green Thinking and Old School Terrariums. What a great gift idea. Bought one already, from SteamedGlass' shop on Etsy.

Like ‘Liquid’ jumping out from the River Thames, into the Design Museum entrance space…. Liquid Winter’ celebrates water and the views, in, around, above the Design Museum London.

I love the milk carton packaging of the Mimijumi baby bottle and nipples. I wonder if the nipples will come in brown, or will they just be Barbie beige.

Love this new clock by Dripta Roy. His new studio in London has some beautiful pieces. The Lotus clock is such a beautiful and user friendly piece.

"The Book of domesticated monsters", by Heliana Rotariu, is a collection of 23 annoying monsters that surely visited you at some point. Do you recognize monsta Tangle-Hair or Can't Find my Socks monster?!

Mini Monsters now available from the good people at Urban Outfitters USA

A Northern Ireland storybook, covering areas such as the arts/food & drink/landscapes/heritage and people to be proud of.

Blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior, Lance and Nicola Herbst have become the masters of the simple, elegant, functional beach house.

Visit Norway tempts adventurous tourists to Northern Norway, with the magical Northern Lights. The user can draw his own personal aurora, and share it with their friends.

3D inspired hand printed laptop skin by Kimiaki Yaegashi, Japan.

FEATUREDSpecial Holiday Feature + Giveaway!!! Scott Hansen from ISO50 gives us a close up look inside his studio and printing process ~ as well as a giveaway of a bundle of posters + t-shirt + record + buttons!

New spacetastic music video for the Bravery's Slow Poison.

Beautiful hand painted El Capitane track bike

Discover the work of Antony Gormley, artist who performs for over 25 years of facilities to revitalize the image of man in the sculpture.

This outstanding music visualization by Peter Menich emits millions of particles to the different piano key strokes. And was created with the After Effects Plug In Particular.

Absolutely astounding Crewdson / Liebowitz-esque photography of The Washington Ballet. 'Wonderland' by Design Army + Cade Martin.

Gino Joukar’s Toy Art Gallery (TAG) is a treasure trove of vinyl, kaiju and contemporary art. Lust.

The socket table by 45kilo is an oversized power strip on which up to 4 persons may work.

White lines! tennis lesson by urban artist "SpY"

Limited edition series of posters evolving around the world of coffee by artist LMTL75.

Thursday was the opening party for Monki store in Oslo and here are some photos from the party as well as the new collection...

Popshot is a lovingly designed bi-annual magazine in which poets compose a piece based around a given theme and artists are invited to illustrate the pieces through their own interpretation. Beautiful.

Mirror, cutout stickers. Stunning! Project by Emocja studio

National Technical Library in Prague (NTK) has been nominated for The Great Indoors Award 2009.

Colorful psychedelic art by illustrator Douglas Bicicleta

Parra and Stones Throw are hosting a mobile Rockwell pop-up ice cream truck that will be cruising around LA this weekend.

dataMorphose is a spatial information visualization created by Christiane Keller. Three beautiful data sculptures represent information by the shape and motion of sail-like tensile structures.

Nice interview with UK artist/illustrator Guy Mckinley on his techniques, inspiration an his last show 'Tiny Diamonds' at Milk gallery in Istanbul

High-Tech horse training means faster steeds and fewer injuries. This car paces with the horse monitoring its performance, heart rate, and oxygen intake.

Group Two Design's LED Chandelier, made possible by the malleable nature of a particular LED Linear lighting strip cast into translucent resin.

All dark, gothic and so traditionally Norwegian but with a dramatic contemporary chicness that belies it’s ‘Design Hotel‘ status, Grims Grenka, Oslo's first boutique design hotel is just what you'd expect.

Inspiring honest interview from illustrator Stevie Gee. Personal and professional ups and downs of a modern day illustrator, as he says keep on keeping on.

Vertical is the latest innovation in garden architecture. A fiberglass vase with spiral-shaped vertical lines that unfold, capturing light and shadows. By Twentyone studio.

In case you ever wondered how a Damien Hirst designed Louis Vuitton trunk looks. A beauty!

A 32 page small press, small format book that contains images from 26 emerging artists from around 10 different countries including Italy, England, Columbia, Russia, Serbia, Vietnam, Belgium and more.

Japanese luggage label Porter has worked on a Star Wars collection. The Stormtrooper and lightsaber all-over designs look super clean.

Unprecedented door-opening kinematics on Renault Megane Coupe Concept Car

The day to day activity of tenants become the 'performance' of a set design approach created by designer Gray Puksand in the refurbishment of 31 Queen Street.

Fantastic and simple piece from Kikki and Polly

Illustrator Bill Green of Lebowski Festival poster fame has an online store (finally!) of posters, prints, greeting cards and t-shirts just in time for Black Friday.

Deep under the Antarctic ice, a rare, colourful burst of starfish and 3m-long monster worms has been filmed by a BBC camera crew. Incredible footage!

these box jellyfish are just one of the many features of this week's nytimes science slideshows.

Hanging stained glass lanterns by Steve Halterman

Paintings (sepia watercolor) of Paperclips by Dan Golden...Each triptych represents one individual’s efforts.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on devices constructed from silicon and silk which have the ability to carry light emitting diodes (LEDs). and only 250 nanometers thick.

Vino XL- a chandelier using wineglasses.

A collective of photographers who call themselves 'DuckDuck Collective'. They seek beauty of collaboration in order to achieve the highest form of art. This is evident in their unique approach to photography & videography.

The re-branding of Ireland’s biggest olive wholesaler- Love Olive. The packaging is plays with earthy colours and textures associated with olives.

torn and overprinted bookpages that double as haptic-enhanced and one of-a-kind, diy, cheap flyers. when the people gather at the bookstore they stand for, the book is -hopefully- again complete!

Screw Key! So simple. So elegant. Screwdriver tips on keys for your keychain!

Berkeley Repertory Theatre tweaked their logo for Thanksgiving.

a glass bubble hair brooch that's inspired by shampooing.

These are tea sets using Japanese traditional wooden design of spin forming. These can be piled up to place.　They offer not only function as practical tableware, also the presence of artefacts to view.

Colin Lin's used recycled newspaper to create an environmentally friendly ballet flat that are crafted from recycled Chinese language newspapers that are woven into a lattice pattern, then dipped in plastic for weather protection and durability.

Red Bird Fly ~ loving the duality and simple photocentric layout of Meredith Peck's blog

Set amidst Park Duranne’s landscape of large mature trees is the boxy form of this nursery school by Ateliers Fernandez & Serres, shortlisted in the AR Emerging Architecture Awards 2009

Katherine Snelson is a photographer from the UK obviously heavily influenced by photographers like Martin Parr with her heartwarming documentary photography portraying english life.

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Esty Gertzman is an artist, who works with unusual fabrics like plush and wool to create toys.

'Lola', coffee table inspired by Vladamir Nabakov's Lolita. Made from salvaged antique yellow pine, incorporates letterpress inlay from the first line of the novel, and hidden drawer lined with an original photograph. by Jesse Hooker

Norwegian interest group Brød & Korn (Bread & Grain) has a beautiful and playful profile based on a font made out of bread. Design by Commando Group.

FEATUREDInvisible Creature for Target ~ The Winter Fishing Hole Game! Gift card that unfolds into a beautifully illustrated playful board game ~ see the closeups of the details!

pretty impressive shadow art by Niloy J. Mitra and Mark Pauly. The film produced "Silhouettes of Jazz" was one of the three nominees for the Best in Show Award of the SIGGRAPH 2009 Computer Animation Festival.

The Katakana Lounge Chair is the latest addition to the Dare Studio collection.

The Paris and Vienna based Dietmar Feichtinger Architectes recently finnished the new sales and financial centre for voestalpine in Linz / Austria.

Together these funky landmark matchboxes form a small, illustrated city, rich in architectural history and points of interest. The landmark matchboxes are sold at the gift shop in the Swedish Museum of Architecture in Stockholm

Hanged for the iPhone and iPod Touch merges art, narrative, and classic gameplay to create a haunting classic hangman game experience. Featuring artist Patrick Dorian's signature style in captivating stop-motion animations.

Michæl Paukner’s Flickr stream has a nice collection of posters and infographics created by him. A mix of science and astronomy give his work a unique feel and definitely recommended.

These chic swine flu masks are printed with thermochromic ink, which changes color when your breathing temperature rises to serve as an alarm to other people.

FEATUREDTarget Gift Cards ~ can you believe there are 4 in that picture? A wind up dog, a beautifully illustrated board game, bath salts, and a box of crayons? There is even a viewmaster and a reusable bag and remote controlled mouse out there!

The french snow,skate and culture Desillusion Mag can compete with design magazines as far as graphic design and photography is concerned. The 20th issue comes with a lenticular image as cover.

FlexVaas by Vij5, with three interchangeable vase tops to create a new look with each flower arrangement.

Yoli // The first frozen yogurt shop in Berlin

London's Studio MS have created some cool 'bookish' lights, among other stylish designs.

A new, two-color letterpress print by Dan Funderburgh - Optimist Club / Midwestern Can Snake, depicting a fancy snake involved with plastic six-pack rings. Benefits Transportation Alternatives.

Everybody who works in a creative business or wants to do it should watch the interview with Eike König. Eike König is the owner of HORT, a creative studio in Berlin. Much more inspiration is rarely possible.

Paul Smith and Japanese bike saddle maker Kashimax team up to support the Bicycle Film Fest, with this unique saddle in classic Paul Smith multistripe leather.

Istanbul based architects Superpool designed the Open Library. The spatial configuration turns the interior into a public space for social interaction, away from the old individual library approach.

Ben Wilson's awesome Artikcar bike is surrounded in a bright, bubbly neon light.

Here is the packaging used by Amon Clothing to send his T-shirts.

Wonderful photos by Chris Edwards of vintage toys. I would love a series of these to hang in my studio!

Designed for small digital cameras, the Hard Graft Base Camera Case not only protects your camera from bumps and scratches, it also features a clever leather handle to keep the case to your hand whilst you take the photos.

Greek design studio Kanella presents this "Happy and Sweet 2010" calendar: 12 chocolate bars, to be eaten each month. Minimalist design classic inspiration.

Eden Falls is a proposal for a vertical zoo in Buenos Aires that transforms a pile of rubble into a towering pillar of falling water.