The Ikea Foundation has been working with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), to create flat-pack designed refugee shelters.

IKEA x Swedish House Mafia OBEGRÄNSAD Bag. For anyone who likes the super useful IKEA bags and blacked out goods... this is my favorite from their collab. A 13.75" cube of a bag that fits records perfectly (but also cake boxes and so much more!)

"When Basketball Inspires" runs Feb 8-10, 2019 in Paris. Stunning art exhibition by Trajectoire Studio featuring 30 artists. Particularly loving "Wireframe" by Town and Concrete.

FRAME takes a closer look at Filling Pieces' amazing sneaker landscapes at Paris Fashion Week

BOOOOOOOM: An Interview with James Jean — Creating Posters for Blade Runner 2049 and the Year’s Most Anticipated Films. (I can't believe his sudden foray into movie posters were all a coincidence!)

VIDEONIKE Unlimited Stadium in the Philippines. Beautiful running track design inspired by a shoe sole and infinity symbol, but more interesting is the digitized version of runners that run alongside (and challenge) the real runners.

Runamok Barrel-Aged Maple Syrups. Aged in Bourbon, Rye Whiskey, or Rum barrels. Great bottle shape too!

GearJunkie takes a first look at Crescent moon EVA Foam Snowshoes - super light, rocker-shaped, and apparently responds more like a running shoe than a traditional showshoe.

Winners and runners-up from this year's record-breaking 12th annual Button Badge Design Competition run by London-based graphic art label and online boutique Stereohype.

Skala - From Swedish design & animation studio Tenggrenska comes a different runner-game. With inspiration from Bauhaus and Kraftwerk they combine sophisticated simplicity with analog imperfection.

Shoe bike created and showcased by Continental Tyres UK at the Prudential RideLondon, a world-class festival of cycling in London.

Progress shots from Charlotte Dutoit’s 2016 Unexpected gathering in Downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas. The immersive street art festival runs until the 11th of September 2016.

Climate Inaction Figures - toy-inspired likenesses of prominent public figures who claim, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that there is no reason to act. They are the brainchild of creative directors Cabot Norton and Arturo Aranda.

Max Mertens "Swings" - an installation with 450 swings hanging above the Rue Philippe II and the Avenue de la Porte-Neuve in Luxembourg. Installation runs until August 2016.

University of Manitoba Active Living Center with a 12-metre climbing wall and an elevated 200-metre indoor running track by Cibinel Architecture Ltd+ Batteriid Architects.

Fob Ruler is a leather fob for your keychain, combined with a 6-inch ruler. Fob Ruler is made in the US. They are produced in small runs and individually numbered.

Nervous System is working with New Balance to develop functional 3D-printed midsoles for performance running shoes creating proprietary systems to generate midsole designs from pressure data from runners.

Houe CLICK Rocking Chair designed by Henrik Pedersen. Black plastic lamellas. Armrests, and runners in bamboo. Legs are gray powder coated metal. Also comes in gray, white, multicolored.

To recruit runners for The North Face 100 Ultra Marathon, Fred & Farid Shanghai created The Warm-Up Cup, and gave it to finishers of a competitors's marathon. The message? Great Warm-Up. Now sign up for a real race.

FEATUREDLaser cut interlocking wooden boxes - a new alternative to wood crates? And they can easily turn into coffee table or kid's play tables upon unboxing! Fun packaging from Front Runner Outfitters for their vehicle drawer systems.

Just released: winners and shortlist with runners-up and stats of Stereohype's 10th anniversary doodles only button badge design competition – bringing the collection to a total of 1030 individual button badge designs by over 300 international talents.

Tripod, new installation by LIKEarchitects, a tribute to stairs and balconies.

The Running Rabbit Bracelet is inspired by Italian Futurist. The idea was to record several phases of movement in wave-like trails on one surface. The Running Rabbit Bracelet looks to capture the beautiful rabbit running in motion.

Narita International Airport Terminal 3 opens with running tracks and Muji furniture.

Hello Kitty does cosplay in an exhibit showcasing Japan's regional charms, in collaboration with Tokyo's Fukoku Life Insurance Company, running through June 30.

We've always wondered what it would be like to go for a run around the world. So we did the next best thing: New Balance #SeeMyRun is an interactive site that captures what running looks like in cities all over the globe

Icebreaker Oasis Leggings. After living out of these for nearly 2 weeks of Alberta winter - running around the cities, ice climbing, dog sledding, and more. WOW. Love the merino warmth (without being too warm), and they even fit under skinny jeans!

Mike Bain turns airport runways into abstract art.

LIKEarchitects designs wonderWALL, an exhibition space with 20,000 fabric strips, to host Jen Lewin’s interactive light installation, ‘The Pool’.

Ty Foster's Hecksher Farm livestock portrait series was a collaborative effort with the Stamford Museum & Nature Center that runs the farm. Love the images, especially the highland cow!

LIKE architects‘ playLAND is a set of three bouncy and colorful spatial interventions set for children in the public space of Paredes de Coura, Portugal, using beach floats as construction module.

Philips Hue Tap - the wireless smart switch to control all of your Huge lights. Four buttons - for your favorite scene, light recipe, switch some lights off, etc. Runs on kinetic energy - so no batteries needed!

FEATUREDThe NOTFZJ80 Project: Update II! Debadged, detailed, removed running boards, visited Oakley, got Warn Winch, ARB Awning + Roof Top Tent, Snorkel, Rotopax, etc and installed the Roof Top Tent!

FEATUREDRock Creek, Mammoth Lakes - a look into disconnecting and hanging out in nature. Bucky's first time in snow and running through the creeks and meadows in the Eastern Sierras. Also jerky, pie, flying carrion, and more...

FEATUREDThe NOTFZJ80 gets equipped with the super modular Front Runner Slimline II Roof Rack - as well as a camp table that slides in, shower arm, ratcheting shovel mount, tie down rings (that are hammock perfect!) and more!

FEATURED"Go to extremes. Bring back proof." Fantastic ads from Front Runner Outfitters. They are the go to for everything your adventure vehicles could need! Also love "Home is where you make it."

Runbell is a fashionable, stylish, lightweight running accessory, for both men and women that provides frustration free urban running.

Front Runner Spare Tire Braai/BBQ Grate - Laser cut stainless steel grill on solid steel legs that hooks right over your spare wheel.

A third running of ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved' print by Rachael Sinclair.

VIDEOFINELL's Join silicone placemats work three ways: They can be used as individual mats, aligned to create table runners, and work great as heat-resistant trivets. Shown here in black Facet.

Muni Power! A hacked Toyota Prius in San Francisco pulls its power from the MUNI overhead lines! (Too cute an april fool's not to share)

iHeart's latest work displayed in Stanley Park Vancouver.

Boeing Black ~ "Security, modularity and productivity delivered – all in one trusted mobile device." That runs on Android, layers of encryption, and ready for all kinds of add ons and sensors...

Deer with headlights? Glowing antlers as the The Finnish Reindeer Herder's Association reportedly improve nighttime visibility of their herds.

Fendi teams with Google and Parrot to use drones which will fly along the catwalk and capture their latest runway show.

Latent Productions' "Belly Blocks" are cinder blocks made from molding concrete in 50lb flour sacks for Gowanus bakery and restaurant Runner and Stone in Brooklyn.

Running Through by François Xavier Saint Georges - ice cold vodka running through lemon, pure shot of citric good.

Character & costume concept design from the Xbox One's Ryse: Son of Rome by artist Kaija Rudkiewicz.

Wolf Pack and FlatPack Storage Box from Front Runner Outfitters - Motus World has a nice close up look. Love their detail shots.

FEATUREDA close up look at Bruce Lee Playing Cards by Dan & Dave. "The faces of the cards were inspired by the iconic tracksuit he wore in Game of Death, and feature a black stripe running through them, “like water”."

VIDEOAn utterly breath taking video of professional Parkour free runner, James Kingston, shot from a point of view perspective.

Orange Mud's HydraQuivers! Single and Double Bottle designs allow for "Ultralight, ultra running, no bounce awesomeness!"

Juan Sebastián Rodríguez Moranta goes running every morning for two years to watch the sun rise over the Barcelona sea. When he reaches the shore, he stops and takes another photo, grey and minimalist = Silence Is Grey.

Cyclemon is a series of very successful visual imagining types of bike users. From the gangster hipster to the runner, fantastic creations Thomas Romain and Bourdieux Pomarelle.

Run, Freak, Run! Grim fantasy comic set in the high point of the European inquisition. Each page hand drawn with traditional inks. By German artists Kaija Rudkiewicz and Silver Saaremael.

Adidas introduces Springblade, the first running shoe with individually tuned blades engineered to help propel runners forward.

Bjørn Jørund Blikstad makes a extraordinary furniture piece, called Imeuble.

VIDEOBrilliant Nissan Self Healing Paint ad that runs on the iPad... painful but poignant.

APEXvj 2.0 - Visualize your favourite tunes online. Next level music visualizer that runs on Chrome and uses WebGL and WebAudio. Official release track : Subsquare - Broken (feat. Jane Dawn)

Ltd ed KIT KAT White 4 finger bar was running out. JWT Sydney and KIT KAT have created The Final Fifty; 50 exclusive pieces of poster art made entirely from the final 50 bars in the warehouse. Each poster has been hand crafted + signed by Mike Watt.

Okkle Runts Series Zero are coming - adorable set of 5 animals...

VIDEOOrchestra Da Camera, a musical installation in which the 40 elements of the chamber are mice running on their wheels. Each wheel its connected to a carillon and when it turns the carillon starts playing its musical note.

Phillip Ronnenberg's Open Positioning System, a proposed alternative to GPS using seismic frequencies, produced by generators in power plants, turbines in pumping stations or other large machines running in factories.

Burger King Grill Spatula Door Handles - Mechanical engineering grad runs into his first project out of school at Burger King months later.

FEATUREDYankz! and variations on elastic shoelaces for triathlons, running, laziness, and more!

1,200 bulbs light up Lisbon at the 'LEDscape' installation, a bright collaboration between LIKEarchitects and IKEA.

FEATURED#GoVOTE !!! The #GoVote Campaign is a non-partisan artist driven project that runs through election day. Hundreds of artists are tweeting and adding original works to tumblr and pinterest with the hashtag #GoVote.

FEATUREDRunning around Tuscany with the Mercedes Benz CLS Shooting Brake, we discovered the most magical tree lined road ~ Località Lilliano near Poggibonsi, Siena, Italy. The trees are incredible!

The Röhsska Chair by Claesson Koivisto Rune celebrates the centennial of the Swedish Design Museum and will debut at 100% Design in London.

FEATUREDBeautiful packaging, branding, and use of patterns for the new minimal Skora running shoes.

VIDEOHilarious Foot Locker Tear Away ad - "James Harden likes to keep his Approved Foot Locker gear fresh. Russell Westbrook tests the limits of that dedication"

Emergency food kit for Refugees in Dadaab-Africa that would help them to grow their own insects as food.

Learn the rules of the sport with Curly's pocket guide to running, jumping, cycling, riding, kicking, lifting, poking, hitting, rowing, firing and throwing things. Developed by Wilson Fletcher and illustrated by Ryan Todd.

Nike’s incessant drive to push creative limits has resulted in their partnership with creatives at Hush and architecture firm Skylab for the creation of 'Camp Victory' at the Olympic Running Trials in Oregon.

Dr Bird Ceramic Juicer by Imm Living

Check out this 360˚ panorama tour of the Ganter Brewery in Freiburg, Germany. Traditional and modern methods mix to make great beer from the edge of the Black Forest.

You change the speed of this fan by running your fingers along the pole base. Beautiful and simple work by Gerhardt Kellermann.

Smart Bookcase features a built-in ladder, an integral part of the design, where the rungs line up with shelves. Makes it easy to reach items on top shelf.

FEATUREDHave you ever seen ducklings swim underwater? Our tiny baby mandarin duckling dives and swims (eyes wide open!) under the water. She also makes a bit of a splash and while water runs off a duck's back, she still get very wet!

Radiators in colors Le Corbusier by Runtal.

Fluidity by DesignLibero uses runoff from your drying racks to water the houseplants.

This beautiful armchair 'Mammoth' designed by Knut Bendik Humlevik and Rune Krøjgaard, with the potential of becoming a modern classic.

GoogleBBS, from MassWerk, allows you to surf Google as if it were the 80's and running on the old-school Bulletin Board System.

'In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan' an exhibition of animal artwork at The Morgan Library running until May 20.

FEATUREDFun to see the design/inspiration behind the new Nike Free Running Shoes. There is awesomely glowing photography of them (they remind me of nudibranchs!) as well as videos with designer Mike Miner.

FEATUREDPear Sports Square One Unbox! This new system puts a super-smart running coach in your ear. A coach that's tapped right into your heart and foot sensors and responds accordingly to motivate you!

FEATUREDClaesson Koivisto Rune Tiles - gorgeous casa and dandelion patterns!

The Research Agency's new office definitely tops our list of spaces we would love to work in! Architect Jose Gutierrez turns a rundown old space into a bold new workplace!

City Peaks, a fun project from Digit that encourages us to take the stairs. It allows you to track our stair climbing over the course of a day by tapping your Oyster card. You can then compare your ascent of the Gherkin to the likes of Ben Nevis.

FEATUREDRunning elephant shrews, the 'James Bond Theme' played by quadrotors, and the modern story of the three little pigs are all a part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOThis July, Nike will be releasing the Flyknit Racer. The new running shoe model will weigh in at just 5.6 oz for a size 9, almost as light as an iPhone 4S.

Italian designers Luca Pevere and Paolo Lucidi are likewise mixing the industrial with the artisanal in their latest design endeavor Boiacca, a long, slender table shaped from fluid cement

Obama puts together a 28-track playlist for his official campaign that sees the likes of Arcade Fire and U2.

Le3 invites you to discover 'Golden Tiger'. An amazing running tiger blending into the lights of the streets of Paris during the night. On the video, a motion street mapping with no post production FX.

Wall Coaster Extreme Stunt Kit - "interchangeable parts so kids can build all sorts of rolling marble runs up to 13 feet" ~ made of ABS plastic and reusable adhesive.

Great fire escape slide at the Lego office in Denmark by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord.

Runway print series by Jerome Daksiewicz of Nomo Design.

Cork Planter bookend set from Nicole Runde.

VIDEOInspired by the look of 1950s Alpine glacier goggles, Mykita & Moncler created innovative and technologically advanced sunglasses Lino and Achille, for downhill runs and also as classic sunglasses for everyday use.

Here is a bourbon I created, designed, and packaged. The Kentucky bourbon is inspired by the the bootleg runners during the prohibition era. The packaging includes shot glasses, coasters and key chain tags.

VIDEOIndiGo - the airline that brought you amazing on-time performance, hassle-free service, fabulous inflight snacks and always affordable fares - now introduces another category breakthrough: the world's first Runway Musical!

Portal cookie cutters! Portal, Turret, Running Test Subject, Falling Test Subject, Companion Cube (the cube is 4 cooke cutters!)

Through his large-scale animated graphic projections, artist Peter Kogler likes to absorb or change architecture while evoking emotion from the viewer.

Yuri Landman crafts awesome handmade guitars for the likes of Sonic Youth, Liars, HEALTH & more.

Christopher Russell's scratched photographs from his most recent series, 'Runaway'.

Sensorium, the world's first pop up scent museum that engages all five senses. Runs through 27 November 2011 in New York.

This study shows how a super-entity of 147 companies (less than 1% of all the companies included in this study) control over 40% of the global economy. This time the facts are with the 'conspiracy theorists'.

Tag Heuer new Mikrotimer watch beats 3.6 million times per hour, blink and you'll miss it -- literally. The Mikrotimer Flying 1000's watch movement runs at 500Hz.

Rune Guneriussen is a young Norwegian photographer with a beautiful series of photos of lamps.

FEATUREDCar as smartphone? ~ Mercedes-AMG SLS browses the web, becomes WLAN hotspot, runs android (so you can write apps for it?), has a G-meter, race mode, and more...

Mitchell Cooper, a young sculptor who has been taking molds of some of the up and coming runway models and turning them into completed pieces.

VIDEOGorgeous animation for 'Only the Brave Foundation' from Brand New School and Antidote, featuring some stunning artwork from the likes of Sol Linero, Damien Correll and Stephen Kelleher.

Inkling bridges the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital development by capturing a digital likeness of a pen-on-paper sketch.

Greg Kessler's first installment of his new beauty series Macro-Morphosis. This is the mouth of Estonian model Merilin Perli from barefaced to runway ready.

Running Alphabet. Spanish Graphic Designer Joan Pons took it upon himself to create an alphabet by running the letterforms and tracking his ways!

Chris Jordan's Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture. This wave depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, the estimated quantity entering the world's oceans every hour.

VIDEORoss Ching's Running on Empty, a re-edited version of "LA with no cars" set to Wim Merten's Often a Bird.

An aerial fortress to halt the construction of Heathrow's Third Runway (2 yrs ago). It's a weightless attempt to both block the sky routes and to materialize the environment on the ground with helium balloons, by Paisajes Emergentes.

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

This line runs on all surfaces of the room and punctuated by the placement of orange blocks. Three storage units. Exhibition at the VIA, Paris 2008. By Jérémy Guénolé.

This animated needlework is amazing! By Aubrey Longley-Cook.

VIDEORunning on empty. A new video for the song Life is Life by Noah and the Whale. Directed by rock and roll photographer Autumn de Wilde.

Coffee table Bye-Bye Bird Design by Runa Klock of Frøystad + Klockis. The table is made of brass, inspired by old classic wire furniture, but with a humorous and functional twist!

Eagle Creek, a runoff of the Columbia River Gorge, as photographed by Megan Kathleen McIsaac with her Mamiya C330.

The Corporate Runaways take off on a motorcycle trip across the americas ~ and write a really comprehensive round up of the gear that worked, didn't, and shouldn't have been brought. Great read!

The traditional water cooler + a bench = the Cooler Bench! One of the RIT/Wilsonart Metroproject01 runners up at ICFF.

Workshop Diary, the Christian Vivanco's "Making Off" is running now! from sketches to prototypes + some random insights! Enjoy!

FEATUREDPinch Food Design creates "Food Furniture" of sorts ~ creating the ultimate multisensory experiences you can barely liken to catering.

VIDEOMiniatur Wunderland unveiled its $5 million miniaturized replica of the Hamburg airport that has 40 model aircraft take off and land, and 90 vehicles that move about runways aided by computers.

Gorgeous aluminum and teak runabout day boat from Vienna based ArgoNautic.

Beautiful drawings by Stuart Kerr, who runs studio Stuco.

Fun collaboration between Nike+ and YesYesNo plots data from runners to create beautiful three-dimensional visualizations.

Meet the KnightHawk 3G, a network in a box. The self-contained WCDMA network runs over the 2100MHz spectrum. Incredible, but a hefty 45 pounds!

An interview with Timothy Karpinski, who runs Together Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and is currently showing 'This Is Forever' with Dan-ah Kim at Thinkspace Gallery.

The Grand Derby - Osa the Armadillo Jockey by Flora Lam. Fun plates ~ also in ostrich and kangaroo models!

Michael Eden’s ‘Grey Bloom’, part of the14th annual SOFA (Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art) Fair, which runs from April 14 through April 17 at the Park Avenue Armory.

Dark Matters (Lasse Andersen & Rune Brink) create classic computer effects in this video without computers using strings, nails and lights.

Portfolio Update 2011 of Andre Smatik Ljosaj. The image shows the new SeaLife running shoe from Monie Love Shoes. OsmoseTech cushioned running sole. 100% biodegradeable materials. 100% water resistant.

FEATUREDIt’s Friday! Where will you be getting away to? Running through Bordeaux? Enjoying the local delicacies in Hong Kong Or walking through a New Zealand glacier? This week has been full of inspiration from NotVentures.

An interview with model turned illustrator Molly Crabapple, who runs the burlesque life-drawing class Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School.

Artist Brian Viveros has a new work titled 'Bull-Headed (The Taurus)' showing at Copro Gallery. This piece is part of beinArt International Surreal Collective group show 'Dystopia' that runs from 3/19-4/9.

A pictorial History of Rum Running in Vancouver.

A charming resin statue of 'Sozi' the newest character from illustrator Rilla Alexander. Sculpted by Rune Spaans, produced by Bigshot Toyworks.

The Nobis Hotel, Stockholm from Claesson Koivisto Rune.