FEATUREDTom Back's Thrive Hive and Ben Fursdon’s High Rise Wormery bring bees and worms to urban balcony gardeners! Great pieces featured at New Designers.

Dana Tanamachi - New York based graphic designer and custom chalk letterer. Dana creates large-scale chalk installations. She also applies her chalk lettering to a wide variety of uses for publications, packaging, and apparel.

Beautiful outdoor lighting by .PSLAB for Iris, a rooftop bar in Beirut.

FEATUREDLeontine May's 'Animal Mineral Vegetable' show opening at Gallery 1988 tonight ~ gorgeous show, the details are stunning!

Great student packaging design by Felia Devi.

The X Tent debuts at the EMU Music Festival and proves to be an adaptable eco shelter made from bamboo and other good stuff.

Wow, next time I need to grill some meat, I'm going for Bear Paw Meat Handler Forks.

Remember the future with these stunning gadget ads by Alex Varanese.

nonLin/Lin Pavilion - at the FRAC Centre - is THEVERYMANY's latest experiment into dramatic changes of morpholgy: from structural network to surface condition.

VIDEOWhat if the films of Alfred Hitchcock were approached as recipes? Great graduation project at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover.

Peoplemovin, great visualization of human migration flows across the world by Carlo Zapponi.

Dallas artist Pinky Diablo, aka Tom Sale takes vintage silverplate and sterling silver spoons and creatively turns them into Skull Spoons of various sizes and styles, all of them eerily beautiful.

This concrete and copper structure by Berrel Berrel Krautler is the only marker of a massive underground reservoir, in Basel, Switzerland.

Martin Guixe's Candy Restaurant in Tokyo. A restaurant that serves candy and nothing else!

The Mural of Memorable Moments in Dance - poetry installation by Daniel Patrick Helmstetter at The Governors Ball 2011 - with time lapse video by James Ogle.

Out of Proportions by Tuan Le is an amateur comic about life in advertising. Download the jpeg without dialogue and write your own.

This is an exact 1/16th scale model of a 5230 B front shovel. Constructed from cherry and walnutwood, this award winning piece has over 4000 individual handcrafted parts and took over 3000 hours to complete. Woodchuck&Company.

'Le Nuage' (the cloud) is a playful and poetic micro-architecture shelter made ​​of wood and Plexiglas that sleeps 7 people. By Zébra3 / Buy-Sellf, an artists' collective based in Bordeaux, France.

FEATUREDOn pop up trends - Dessert HOUR with Chef Moody at Scoops in LA ~ from a few hotplates come Jack infused deliciousness on Banana Bread Pudding, Almond GNOCCHI, and more!

Sustain is a soap made from 100% sustainable palm oil. Other bars that use unsustainable palm oil are destroying habitats that are home to some of the most endangered species on our planet. Packaging design by Treasure.

A new aerospace technology on processing drinking water is released by NASA. This technology is inspired by the army technology on processing dirty water to produce clear, safe drinking water when soldiers are in a barren area.

Opening pics of Tahiti Pehrson's Theta Pegasi at EVER GOLD.

Rosy Lee’s Remarkable Remedy soluble tea pills, illustrate the medicinal qualities of tea. Lovely packaging by Kylie-Ann Homer, Sadie Hines-Dedman and Senwelo Foster and great hat tip to a bit of rhyming slang!

VIDEOAugmented Reality Cinema, great app that shows you movie scenes from films show where you are standing!

Nifty Clear Cot by hubabub.

Beautiful Kanazawa Umimirai Library by Coelacanth K&H Architects.

Stipee, cute sticky bookmarks.

David Bowen's Tele-present water, an installation that draws information from the intensity and movement of waves using data collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy station 46075 Shumagin Islands Alaska.

Chimecco, an interactive art installation in Denmark by Mark Nixon, uses 600 wind chimes to turn that spring in your step into a song.

Installation view of Takashi Murakami's exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, London.

Tiny brontosaurus in a bottle from etsy seller tinyworldinabottle (Akinobu). Amazing stuff.

my love for you takes a peek at Anthony Sneed as he gets ready for his upcoming show, Grand Illusion at The Shooting Gallery.

FEATUREDIt’s Friday! And time for your travel roundup from NotVentures. Will you be swimming with the fishes, indulging in deep fried tarantula or escaping on a Swiss chocolate train?

Liam Brazier is a freelance illustrator and animator whose talent lies in creating pop culture icons like Superman or Darth Vader in a beautifully striking way.

Photo Jojo's iPhone SLR mount.

FEATUREDSneak preview into the deliciousness that will be the LA Street Food Fest! From NaanStop, to Picca bites, to Hendrick's Cocktail, to Beachy Cream ice cream sandwiches and more!

Making of the General Motors Holden Colorado Concept launched at the 2011 Australian Motorshow

Great images from photographer Joachim Shmid show how unused space in Brazil is turned into football fields - regardless of shape!

The Riot Grrrl movement was more than just music. Seattle's Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery hosts 'Quiet Rrriot' a Riot Grrrl art retrospective featuring Nikki McClure, Stella Marrs, and Megan Kelso.

Junya Ishigami with his first UK installation 'Architecture as Air' in the Curve at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, thru Oct 16. Steel columns supported by 2,756 pieces of thread!

This colorful youth center in Merida has it all: Skatepark, concert area, ballroom, climbing wall, and more. Impressive design by Spanish firm Selgas Cano.

The Odd Luminary is a new online curio shop, shaped around the the travels of a fictional Edwardian gentleman and his pet owl, Bubo.

Jonathan Yeo's wallpaper for Soho House looks like a pretty print, but it's actually pretty saucy...

VIDEOAudi's recent victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2011 did not come easily. This inspirational video shows just how much work and emotion goes into this grueling race.

FEATUREDFortress of the Bear - Sitka, Alaska - my dad sent some pics of the adorable Sitka browns (who were once polar bears? who were once browns?) from this awesome non profit.

Cute compass rose tote bag from These Are Things. Good for traveling around the world or for just down the street.

Poster design for upcoming Robots Love Ice Cream indie game for the iPad. This is one of the Kickstarter rewards being offered. The creative for the game is heavily inspired by vinyl toys.

The Aston Martin V12 Zagato will officially head to production lines. The collaboration with the Italian design house Zagato and will be limited to 150 units.

FEATUREDPoppin - Office Supplies. Reinvented. ~ or perhaps repackaged? So many packaging details worth taking a look at here... and cheeky copy/branding all around.

A new way of biking has arrived, the Shadow eBike by Daymak combines biking with the emerging hybrid technology. Wireless, electric, sustainable, providing greener transport in cities.

To announce the release of Tweason'ale, a gluten-free brew made with strawberries, sorghum and honey, Dogfish Head partnered with Cinemagraph artists Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg to create animated gifs of the brewing process.

FEATUREDBeautiful work by graphic designer Dave Raxworthy at part 2 of New Designers. Raxworthy has done some stunning work while at Nottingham Trent University including the promotional materials for their degree show.

Do bad guys ever sleep? Trulia looks at the temporal pattern of crimes across US cities.

VIDEOCurriculum Vitae campaign for Skoda by the agency Leagas Delaney Praha. Directed by weareflink.

Infographics from Collaborative, a fund that focuses on collaborative consumption and an emphasis on values.

VIDEOTesco Homeplus now runs a virtual store in the subway of South Korea!

Smith & Milton's packaging design for Bulmer's Woodpecker Cider featuring a beautiful woodcut by Andrew Davidson.

FEATURED'Keep calm and stay creative' a cute screenprint reminder from New College Nottingham at New Designers 2011.

Woof vs Meow. What do your furry friends reveal about you? Infographic from the Hunch Blog.

'Stellar' an animated gif campaign by Ignacio Torres for TheOnes2Watch.

Lisa Schneller's convention for villains, titled Marvelous Mischief Makers, essentially ComicCon for the bad guys with great packaging!

VIDEOA short film about the grassroots art, design, music & lecture event called Weapons of Mass Creation Fest.

Shintaro Ohata is a Japanese artist who combines 2D paintings with 3D sculptures. Neat!

Serious skill is required to navigate the asteroid fields of employee management. Mastered the art of the Jedi Mind Trick or would your employees sooner follow instructions from a Wookie? your management skills can benefit from Jedi training.

Glodos Bit Bike ~ nice curved laminated wood and big wide colorful wheels to get your kid rolling!

Sick of the mailman reading your postcards? D-BROS 'Hide your message' masks your message from prying eyes.

VIDEOWatch the sun rise on downtown Chicago the entire month of June in this lovely time-lapse video by Craig Shimala.

Located just an hour north of NYC, the 500-acre Storm King Art Center is home to more than 100 pieces of sculpture and land art from the most renowned post-war artists, like Mark di Suervo.

FEATUREDYuki 7 is BACK! And this time with her gadget girls ~ here's a sneak peek into the new book and DVD ~ stunning illustrations and animation once again!

The cdock by Hatchet Goods combines an iPhone dock and clock. Born out of necessity, many a prototype and some late nights, the solution has arrived. Now the mobile buddy has replaced the watch, and the alarm clock.

FEATUREDBourbon Bacon Caramel Corn ~ Just one of the draws at the funky downtown Los Angeles hang out Villains Tavern!

Believe it or not, this hyper-modern new gallery space by Aranguren + Gallegos Arquitectos is actually woven into an old red-brick brewery building!

Conceptual package design by Jonathan Davies (Incipere Design).

A 3D printer that uses chocolate has been developed by University of Exeter researchers - and it prints layers of chocolate instead of ink or plastic!

VIDEOGIF SHOP, the animated .gif maker for your iPhone. Easily create and edit looping animations, upload to Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr all on the go!

Slow and Steady Wins the Race's classic leather kraft carrier bags.

Skull-A-Day's Noah Scalin just finished the first 25 of his 100 Painted Skulls series that he is working on this year.

Albion skateboards by Hani Abusamra.

David LaChapelle's "Eve, Swimming Under a Microscope 'Plague of an Ancient City'," 2011.

This 28 metre-high steel sculpture of the Jaguar E-Type car was designed by Gerry Judah for the Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in Sussex, UK, last weekend.

Fisherman by Mattias Ståhlbom, for Zero.

Illustration/house by Michael Julings.

VIDEO『Fun Fun Fun』with music by Spencer and visuals by usagiingen based in Berlin.

Designers Andy and Chris Vernall of London based studio V2 imagined the 'Knot Pendant Lights'.

VIDEOThe Roots perform an exclusive track during the John Varvatos Fall/Winter 2011 Campaign shoot at Republic Airport in New York. Incredibly all in one take...

An exhibition by architect Jun Aoki and design collective Mongoose Studio to investigate the nature of a movement..

FEATUREDGet your fashion fix with a roundup from the ever stylish NotCouture. With crisp linens, sleek garter belts and turbine necklaces, this roundup has a little something for everyone.

Raid71 has release a set of limited edition prints with all profits going to the hospital that is currently treating him for cancer.

VIDEOWAR-TOYS is a documentary film that follows artist/toy-photographer Brian McCarty as he works to complete a new project in the Middle East.

Corum is a modern, single family home, with the simple form blending into the beautiful rural landscape of Iowa. By Paul Mankins. Firm of record: Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck.

Dog illustrations by Eszter Csokas.

The Italian designers Paola Argine and Cristina Alzati (double-ei), are back creating with cardboard, a new furnishing madness, FanTubes: two tables and three chairs, composed of about 300 cardboard tubes of various heights.

FEATUREDSurface textile designer Francesca Baxter-Hunter creates these beautifully detailed wooden panels with undulating relief that highlights the natural grain of the wood and mirrors the coastal landscape.

Habitus looks at 8 favourite glass designs, inclduing the Kink Oil bottles by Deb Jones and Glass Studio of Australia.

VIDEOThe D*Face spray paint skateboard interface uses high-tech remote controlled spray cans on the underside of skateboards so that every skater can contribute to the pool of art.

Suwada bonsai shears.

FEATUREDFrüute ~ A brand new mini tart speciality bakery in West Hollywood, featuring beautiful tarts and some interesting flavor combinations, like yuzu and wasabi!

MAP (Manual of Architectural Possibilities), a publication aiming to merge the fields of science and research with that of architectural design.

VIDEOThe 2012 Lamborghini Aventador design & assembly at the Sant'Agata Bolognese factory is a beautiful process full of digital and analog tools.

The elegant Hario Cold Water Coffee Dripper.

VIDEOInspired by the light trails left by cars in long exposure photographs, this new spot for Volkswagen Canada exhibits a 'painting' created by the headlights and tail lamps of the Jetta GLI as it streaks around a darkened parking lot.

Notable Instruments of the Beatles poster series

Patkau Architect's Linear House just won a 2011 AZ Design Award for Residential Architecture.

The Rothschild Foundation recently moved into a beautiful new facility set within a renovated dairy farm at Windmill Hill in Aylesbury, UK designed by Stephen Marshall Architects.

Kikkerland Design's Music Branch is an awesome headphone splitter. The three way splitter allows you to share your music generously.

FEATUREDBeer Belly ~ A new Los Angeles gastropub in K-town featuring all Southern California craft beers off the wall culinary creations like mac n beer cheese and deep fried twinkies.

Carlo Bernardini creates spatial drawings using optic fibers adding another dimension to darkness.

Elastic band packaging by Ric Bixter.

These Vuerich Brothers sunglasses are a new spin on uses for recycled skateboards.

VIDEOFung Kwok Pan's 'The Color Of ' is a system created to find out the color of anything, by querying and aggregating image data from Flickr.

Educate yourself on the bodies natural pressure points through this gorgeously delicate screen print by award winning illustrator, designer and filmmaker, Heather Tompkins.

VIDEOAlex Cherney's Ocean Sky combines 31 hours of images during six nights on Southern Ocean Coast in Australia.

Black Walnut Wooden Bike by Lagomorph Design.

VIDEOMaking the steelman, a 10 m high concrete bear with pillow under it's arm situated at the Staalmanpleinbuurt, Slotervaart, Amsterdam (NL).

'STP Traffic Junction' project currently in progress in the north of Stockholm. Created by BIG, a giant reflective / photovoltaic film covered sphere 'reflects' the city into an artificial valley.

A bit of Bompas & Parr inspired how-to for fluorescent gin and tonic jello!

Alex Suarez created the project Space Pockets during an invited CAD/CAM residency at the European Ceramic Work Center in Den Bosch, Netherlands.

Norah Jones poster from the Greek Theatre LA 2010 ~ adorable Peanuts tribute...

VIDEOMusic video for Vaud and the Villains by Steve Petersen.

The Knot by Jenna Postma is a shoulder-bag made of just one material: leather. By knotting the connections of the shoulder strap it does not need any metal pieces.

For Samsung's Nexus S Android phone launch, Google has created the Nexus Contraptions puzzle game. Much like a Rube Goldberg Machine you must bounce, float, and explode your way through to win.

Birth by Design is a simple, interactive flash demo. a nice idea! try the drawer handle...

VIDEOMore is more, a look at the work of Alex Trochut.

Card Speaker, a USB speaker the size of a card-case.

Light painting with Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners.

VIDEOAwesome 3d Video with Kinect and iPad from Laan Labs.

Toyota opens a Window to the World. The concept re-defines the relationship between passengers and the world outside, transforming car windows into an interactive interface. By TME’s Kansei1 Design Division and CIID.

FlowerTag - Tag your dreams by Kenzo.

Awesome or creepy? Custom pet nose necklaces...

VIDEONot Working Films re-imagine Pac-Man as a grimy, tense chase movie.

Breakfast NY's The Verbalizer ~ An open source board to use with Google's Voice Search for Desktop

VIDEO"It's better with springs" ~ for anyone who loves to JUMP on beds ~ this is such a cute ad (especially when it gets to the foam mattress moment) for Sealy Mattress.

Sea No Evil Jeff Soto signed and numbered edition of a 100, FSC Certified Wood Prints

Niklas Roy's Electronic Instant Camera, combination of an analog b/w videocamera and a thermal receipt printer.

BLACK SHEEP (white light) known for their 'Eco-Friendly' Icelandic Sheepskins, is now offering sustainably sourced Reindeer Hides!

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org features embroidered toast, bite-sized mixed media, human hair necklaces and more!

Laser cut wedding invite for a wedding followed by a riverboat reception. Designed by Dave Koehler + Dylan Cole.

FEATUREDTarget's Make Summer Funner campaign is awesome. Larger than life sprinkler in Houston and iconic turtle sand box in Chicago bring out the childish grin in all of us.. see the timelapse making of vids!

'Mind Control' is a hypnotic new print by illustrator Zara Picken.

Nature meets Op Art - a collaborative assemblage by nocturnal leaf-eating beetles and Kangaroo Island artist Janine Mackintosh.

VIDEOVisiting the Koenigsegg factory in Sweden, where they build the fastest sportscar of the world.

A young Chinese designer Yunfan Tan comes up with ‘Magic Emotion’ concept, an eyewear which helps people in expressing their emotions and brings some fun to face-to-face communication.

Watercolour illustrator Daniel Mackie wins Best in Book in the Creative Review Illustration Annual 2011.

This week was the official launch of Written Images, by Martin Fuchs and Peter Bichsel. A ‘programmed book’ continuously regenerated for the digital printing process, offers a unique experience of the 70 works of art.