These giant daphnia are part of Hine Mizushima's 'The Unnatural History Museum' that showed at Gallery Hanahou in New York.

FEATUREDVast Canadian national parks, sandy dunes and underwater adventures are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

FontBook for iPad – not a book, but a typographic atlas, Facebook and Tweet the 620,000 font samples, the equivalent of 20 printed FontBooks.

The Controversial Wall Of Brainless Soldiers by Streetartist BLU.

Art meets fashion in time for Shark Week with Sarah Garzoni’s decadent installation, Breaching.

Solar Sinter by Markus Kayser is a 3d printer that uses the sun's energy to melt sand into glass one layer at a time. The combination of high and low tech makes for an inspiring fabrication process.

Take a peek into the Sant'Agata Bolognese Lamborghini factory. From prototypes to CNC machines, their design and fabrication process is impeccable.

nKline Revolutionizes the Throwing Disc with Launch of Hela.

DIY Bugaboo stroller repair thanks to 3D printing, a pocket knife and a bottle opener.

FEATUREDStudents at MIT have been teaching one of Willow Garage's PR2 robots how to bake cookies from scratch. It's a little heavy handed with the spatula, but the videos of it in action are nevertheless fascinating to watch!

Lego in space! Three LEGO figurines (Galileo, Jupiter and Juno) are headed for a five-year mission to Jupiter.

Collector Beastie Boys Action Figures. Produced by Nowhere Ltd. / Bathing Ape.

Trip View Bowl compresses the view of a specific Taiwanese landscape in a 12cm-in-diameter blue and white porcelain bowl.

The team at Deus Ex Machina designed and built a custom motorcycle with a surf rack!!

Packaging by House Industries for Heath House Number tiles.

Timberland Men's Radler Trail Camp ~ This lightweight shoe zips completely into itself

Amazon Sales Tax Map of the U.S. Interesting look at Safe, Neutral, and Bad states...

Deer head greeting cards from FrenchMelody.

Stunning home near Death Valley owned by Fabrizio Rondolino and Simona Ercolani by architect Peter Strzebniok.

FEATUREDThomas Pavitte turns Mona Lisa into a 6,239 connect the dot drawing~ nice video and pics.

The BMW Guggenheim lab has kicked off its 6 year tour in New York City's East Village.

Miansai Sterling Hook Cuff

VIDEOSummadayze Colourfornia by Nick Thompson - Beautiful video of girls in a slow-motion color fight!

8 bit Fashionary by Penter Yip.

Universal Cotton Shopcoat Fisher Herringbone - If you're going to have to wear a shop coat, this is a pretty nice choice ~ though for girls, i'd definitely take it by the tailor's.

Asymmetric Surfboards by Saturdays Surf NYC and Rick Malwitz available over at Awesomeville

This term's Art Center Advertising Graduates are an awkward family of sorts. Check out their portfolios here or at Art Center's grad night August 20th.

Z-Saw Cross Cut Blade and Puff Handle at Hand Eye Supply - by Okada Hardware which has been a leading manufacturer of hand saws in Japan since 1943...

The ICON A5 is what you get when you cross a sports car and a jetski and make it fly.

Iconic Birdwell Beach Britches have been made in Santa Ana, CA since 1961 ~ boardshort like swimsuits ~ beautiful in Federal Blue over at Saturdays NYC

VIDEOGame of Thrones ~ the show is beautiful, but even more amazing is seeing the before and after of the CGI effects. Two mesmerizing videos that will make you want to watch the show all over again.

Eric Staller built a bike for 8 as an art piece.

VIDEOThe birth of a state of the art, high-tech road bike from Holland Cycles. This film shows every step of the process that goes into production of these bicycles, using titanium tubes, and carbon fiber.

UM Project Milking Stools

Rethinking food labels. Here are four award-winning redesigned user-friendly nutrition fact labels, from a competition by designmatters Art Center college of design, Good magazine, and News21.

VIDEOMetal trailer for The Art of Flight, a new snowboarding film from the producers of "That's It, That's All".

Small Fanless Intel Core i5 Computer that uses the case as a massive heatsink - warming up the room but keeping the computer cool.

Mary Rozzi photographs the gorgeous La Perla: The Roaring Collection online lookbook.

Northern Hemisphere Star Chart print by Brainstorm is a two color 18" x 24" limited edition signed and numbered screen print. You can pair it with their Southern Hemisphere print for a set of all the stars in the sky!

Situ Studio rereads the space of the Great Hall at the Brooklyn Museum. Fascinating and bit wild, this installation will be there till 15 Jan 2012. Photo by Keith Sirchio.

‘Sacred Ink’ is a photographic and multimedia installation exhibition by Cedric Arnold.

PBS documentary on light painters Aurora Crowley and Patrick Rochon in an upcoming episode of the new Off Book web series.

35 Year Old Apple Tree Infographic by Mike Vasilev.

VIDEOGulp, the world's largest stop-frame animation shot on a Nokia 8 by W+K Aardman Animations.

YSY House by AUAU in Seto, Japan.

Yael Zwickel's Make-a-Table allows you to turn any surface into a table with adjustable cast metal legs.

Summer is the season for lawn bowling. Learn how Bocce balls are made.

The Hoxton Window project, a collaboration between unit9 and visual artists, invited to use the windows overlooking Hoxton Square.

The Momentus Project, a visualization of the most defining moments in US history curated by Evan Stremke and featuring some beautiful illustrations.

Yes, a Batman Equation actually exists, and once answered, the resulting graph looks like a real bat-symbol.

FEATUREDA sumptuous roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious offers inspiration for your kitchen.

French product designer Aïssa Logerot came up with the exceptional Spoon More, a chopstick and spoon hybrid that makes eating a bowl of your favorite ramen noodles or pho a breeze.

Nolanders the wooden and friendly citizens of our world, by Mani Zamani.

Check out this adorable sliding chalkboard door in Haus Hoffman, a retrofitted Wilhelmian townhouse in Hamburg, Germany!

A new experience of light and color from the Architects of Air and their stunning Luminaria.

Tree of Chair, interesting piece from Kado Bunpei.

Gorgeous animal portraits by Carli Davidson. This tree porcupine is from the Oregon Zoo series.

New work from Nike Schroeder. Lovely needlework on canvas.

Making Stands with Cardboard Boxes, cardboard modular design recyclable stand, by indissoluble.

Noain City Hall. The character of this Spanish municipal building by Zon-e Arquitectos will change as vines spread over the metallic latticework of the facade.

VIDEOFollow Your Passion is a video about professional kiteboarder Alex Pastor riding in the middle of nowhere in Brazil.

Samsung SMART TV Stare Battle. Players in this interactive game are challenged to stare at the new SMART TV for as long as possible without blinking. During the game, players take on internet sensation Keenan Cahill.

VIDEOAnimated film by four students of the School of Arts of Utrecht in the Netherlands that took nearly 5 months to make. Mac 'N Cheese is roughly two minutes of animation and will blow your mind!

VIDEOTime Print Machine by Paul Ferragut. A DIY printing system that uses a felt pen on blotting paper and Arduino.

VIDEOLongboarding: French Fries and Dogs Eyes. Longboarders Jackson Shapiera and Maxim Garant join together and burn urethane down a beautiful hill.

Do you know the colors of your cartoons? Beautiful color wheel that captures the entire spectrum of cartoons, from Slate.

Modern birdhouses by Nathan Danials.

Beautiful abstract paintings by Manuel Fernández.

Here's the Building Fashion 2011 winning design for a pop-up shop for Lady Gaga's Fashion Director, Nicola Formichetti. It will open in New York this September!

$20 Million Walmart Gift Makes Crystal Bridges Museum Free for Visitors, Forever!

Pepakura- electric guitar L paper model kit at Upon A Fold, designed by Handson.

FEATUREDTroika's All The Time In The World ~ 22m long electroluminescent wall “extends the conventional notion of a world clock in Heathrow’s Terminal 5 at the entrance to the lounges. See it in action...

Louis Vuitton has announced its release of the Louis Vuitton: Architecture & Interior book. This book showcases their foundations and structures of all of their stores worldwide.

One for the chromaphiles! Random, beautiful color palettes pulled straight from the COLOURlovers database and animated. Flash and JavaScript flavors shown here.

VIDEOMapnificent from Stefan Wehrmeyer shows you places you can reach in a city using public transport. Still in beta, but fascinating.

Holy architecture: the role of interiors in the work of artists and designers, and a commentary by Marco Sammicheli.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes raging children, never-ending mobius bracelets, a gallery of regeneration and more.

'Love for Games' poster by AXOR Heroes. Representing 30 years of video game history in a colorful and cute way.

A tribute to street artist shark Toof in time for Shark Week - nature will always win!

Harold and the Purple Crayon - Adorable app that brings a favorite children's book to life.

FEATUREDOperation Window Seat: LAX - PIT flying over vegas, colorado springs, kansas city, along the way... mesmerizing topography

House in Marupe, Latvia by Open AD featuring beautiful metallic grey timber beams.

Pantone's fashion color report for fall 2011 includes honeysuckle, phlox, nougat and quarry.

Mesmerizing work from textile designer Kaylee Hibbert.

'STAND!' tissue case, an elegant space saving standing box for your Kleenex.

Elise Morin's Waste Landscape, an installation in collaboration with Clemence Eliard at the d'Aubervilliers in Centquarte, Paris.

An electric tricycle, the Vienna Bike by Valentin Vodev.

Handbuilt archway with beautiful rainbow canopy that leads lucky festival goers into the VIP woodland, designed and built by The Halo Group.

Jack Chalkley's Timeline Tools considers the possibility of tracking the actions of tools, giving each tool in a toolbox the ability to log it's removal and return, and compiling them into a tweetable timeline.

Watercolor illustration by polish illustrator Ola Szpunar.

SIT is an established and successful Amsterdam artist - beautiful grayscale women and creatures.

Beautiful and unexpected Roof Garden Apartment above an old brick warehouse in Shoreditch, London.

New Soho Synagogue designed by Dror Benshetrit.

Test your eyes and your knowledge of 20th century chair design with this cute poster from Joel Pirela of Blue Any Studio.

A new never-ending Mobius bracelet from the 3d collection by Miette.

Charming Monster Coloring Book iPhone and iPad app designed by Twistcone and The Guys in the Booth.

Icon Magazine interviews Floris Hovers, the Dutch designer behind the boats, cars and other playful toys.

A look at the 'New Assembly Line' at the Ferrari Factory in Maranello, Italy.

The 'adhoc folding canoe' a collapsible design that folds into a backpack sized pouch. By Ori Levin of Studio Tsor Design.

TaylorMade's Ghost Spider Putter ~ apparently the white makes it easier to aim? It also has a pure roll surlyn insert and movable weight technology.

Cute animal ABC print poster by Helen Dardik.

FEATUREDPerry the Platy-BUS ~ amazing making of video of the conversion from trailer to platypus as well as looks into the impressively branded Phineas and Ferb booth and merchandise at SD Comic Con. (And awesome platypus stools! and limited ed. toys)

dSLR Camera Bank... yes, like a coin bank. Somewhere between the ultimate tease of a gift and a nice way to save up while you try to buy your dream camera? You're going to need a lot of coins to buy one though!

Robot Flaneur ~ another James Bridle project, allowing you to travel/navigate the world by strolling through Google Street View.

FEATUREDMy Name Is Simone, aka french designer, Caroline Castagna-Suarez, makes adorable hipster plushes. Particularly the new reversible, beach ready Patrice and Beatrice for Smallables!

House '500m² wohnzimmer', Wien, Austria - Caramel Architekten.

FEATUREDRobo Mimicry ~ Shawn Sims and Karl Willis at CMU turn a kinect into an eye for this large robotic arm allowing it to mimic his hand's motions in z-space creating beautiful light-writing. Imagine the possibilities?

Awesome new skate deck from Scumco & Sons - Riff-Raff Commander & Offspring, Skate Rocket #3

Tree of Life poster by Gary, Aaron and Khairul shows the rings of a tree composed by tiny animals. From degree.

FEATUREDRorschmap - James Bridle's kaleidescopic twist on Google Maps ~ letting you explore the globe through a lens unlike any other ~ let it simple "GO!" and it will mesmerize you as it flies through the world...

Squeeze box inspired folded paper Chocolate Truffle interactive box, by Design Packaging's Evelio Mattos.

FEATUREDSneak peek at PenGo's app and new BrushPen that allow you to sketch and draw on your iPad and Tablets with pressure sensitivity and various brush and pen tips!

Frederic Terral's latest print, "Roots" created with ink (using a quill) and watercolor on cold pressed 100% cotton, 24" x 18", 140 Lb paper.

FEATUREDGeneviéve Gauckler and Colette, have teamed up to change up the usual touristy Parisian monument postcards with a playful twist!

Canadian Whiskey bottle designed by Étienne Beaudoin-Vle at UQAM.

FEATUREDA peek inside the Scumco & Sons studio in pittsburgh ~ see where their letterpressed skateboard deck art comes from!

Printstagr.am will let you make tiny books, stickers, mini prints, posters and more from your instagram pics

Sea Shepherd flagship, Steve Irwin, as it sports a new WWI era dazzle camouflage paint job. Also, it's currently in jeopardy as it's being detained at a Scottish port.

This 1965 Mercer-Cobra Roadster has been given a modern interpretation of a Mercer Raceabout, built by Carrozzeria Sibona-Basano on a Cobra chassis.

Leonardo da Vinci's 'The Mona Lisa' reduced & remixed down into 140 exact circles of color.

Young designer and architect Antonio Pio Saracino talks with Lancia TrendVisions about the 'Leaf Chair' and his latest exhibition Unitas Multiplex.

VIDEOTrailer for "In Time": "In the late 21st century, time has replaced money as the unit of currency. At 25 years old, aging stops and each person is given one more year to live. Unless you replenish your clock, you die."

Audi Sails 14-Storey-Tall Supermaxi Yacht to Singapore.

Toyota Eco-Mobility Exhibition Building. Located under photovoltaic panel, surrounded by concrete pillars of complex geometry, the exhibition asks: How can we move today, tomorrow and in the future without harming the environment?

VIDEO'Don't Hug Me I'm Scared'. A new film by This Is It.

Pixels everywhere, on your phone, computer or camera. A pixel itself has little value, only the interaction with its neighbors gets real meaning. Jonas Vorwerk and Yoren Schriever explore this in the interactive installation 'Pixels'.

FEATUREDPressed Juicery has a truck living in Malibu ~ and in addition to my Greens 1 staple and other detox juices ~ they are even doing exclusive smoothies for your beachy pleasures! (+Beach shots too!)

Kansas City Zoo mark designed by Jerry Haworth in 1969 plus more in a round up of bold mid-century modern animal logos and trademarks.

FEATUREDYou had me at Brick Red + Pale Peacock ~ J.Crew's new Mona pumps have a simple round toe and are adorable in the cutest irresistible pops of color.

lomza niepasteryzowane - Polish beer that comes with minimalistic eco style package.

VIDEOThe perfect summer video set to the perfect summer song. This is 3 year-old Nicole's first time ever to the beach. The video is set to the song 'Beach 2011' by Vit Päls.

The dreaded workplace meeting brings all sorts of communicators to the table, and each has their way of making it through the meeting; whether it helps the discussion or not.

Hiromi Takizawa is a glass artist from Japan currently living in the U.S. Her work is very ethereal. Use of light and glass within her installations often leave its viewers mesmerized.

FEATUREDAnthony Lister kicks off Junk Food Clothing's Art House collection with fun tees, posters, murals, ice cream truck and more! Great opening tonight!

The Cardstick, a ruler for your wallet. If you've ever needed a ruler when out and about then this is for you, a three inch ruler vinyl sticker to attach to your credit cards or anything else.

The Soap Factory Gallery has a 2011 $99 sale includes an Artist sketch-off... Bring your pencil! (Kari Schuster's sketch is shown in the pic.)

New shirts from Aesthetic Apparatus.

So many great vintage-inspired packaging re-designs hitting the shelves lately. Take a look!

Iconfinder 404 error page! Awesome sad robot guy.

SexPlex concept by Scottish student Ruth Dowie. Could this really be the future of one-night-stands for the promiscuous urban dweller?

'Selected' is a series of animated gifs by Mike Guppy, in which the subjects of well-known paintings have been removed with a 'marching ants' outline similar to the ones you’d see in GIMP or Photoshop.

Solar Kitchen Restaurant by Martí Guixé e Antto Melasniemi will open in Helsinki on 04.08.2011.

Remodelista rounds up some gorgeous outdoor lap pools.

A community hammock by Numen/For Use mounted at Z33 - Huis voor actuele kunst, in Hasselt, until 2.10.2011.