Teaming with the Art Production Fund, Target is selling 80" x 70" artist-designed beach towels for $50. Featuring pieces by Alex Katz, Marilyn Minter, Richard Phillips and Rob Pruitt, these towels are a great way to appreciate art off the wall.

float-a-pet. this system illuminates to help you find your pet at night and automatically activates upon hitting the water. perfect for the overly domesticated.

Artist Mike Libby's Insect Lab creates tiny insect/machinery/electronic mash-ups. Mounted in shadow boxes or glass bell jars...

beautiful and for a great cause... 'beads and pieces' designed by hella jongerius

Zara Phillips as the "first royal to be in an advert"... i just kind of like the juxtaposition that royals can get dirty too... and that dress look pretty interesting with that perfect mud splatter.

Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez aka DrLakra is a tattoo artist with a twist. his tattoos are drawn over illustrations from vintage pulp magazine covers.

Impressive beetle artwork in downtown Rio. *you know how beetles can't get up once upside-down..

The Design Disease. long but fascinating article on this very sad affliction

If you like mermen, unicorns and brilliant artwork with a humorous edge - check out artist Michael Hsiung. Tho his website is not up yet, prints, shirts, and bkmarks are available. I'm fond of his "Violence to Animals" Series.....

i love artlebedev. and i love the sonicum speakers. they are so "iconic".

We've seen pencil artwork here before, but the way this piece uses the ends of the pencil as well as the tip seems so much more intricate.

With a nod towards Notcot post on "Dirty Walls" (07/31/06), I proudly present Grafuck 2. Grafuck is an annual publication that features erotic work from a group of diverse emerging and established artists.

i dont usually go for pretty plates, but this spider plate featured in chow's design table settings article caught my eye.

Product of God. What a name. Deep breathe, once you're over the name... they have great limited ed prints! From artists like my fav Genevieve Gauckler!!

For your not quite starving artist friend, a real can of Campbell's Warhol Soup. $12 a can at Barney's

Limited-edition book called, Book, the result of 36 weeks, 4 artists and 2 continents.

Marionette Mac - most artistic use of the internal accelerometer i've seen yet

Someone's gone and done it - its like hot or not, for art... only prettier, you win money, and it got on techcrunch.

The Strandbeests are these incredible wind-powered robotic sculptures by dutch artist/engineer Theo Jansen

Joom is an artist, designer who makes pillows with a touch of asia

Ladies, protect yourselves with a stylish jacket! This article of clothing, when armed and grabbed, sends 80,000 volts of electricity through your attacker, while keeping you safe.

Every artist has a vision. For Momo , the vision was to tag the entire width of Manhattan.

Also over at the Zune Arts page ~ love Jeremy Fish's Antisocial poster.

mooncruise* magazine V2.05, featuring photography and music by international artists.

Great article about BOTERO's paintings depicting the tortures in the Abu Ghraib prison

amazing sculptures by a really talented artist, of other artists. this one of Tim Biskup is my favorite!

buff diss on the streets of melbourne.

*streetart by silis*

Love this feature at Wooster ~ The Star does a fashion layout infront of the artists work - then the artist creates a matching stencil after.

Colleen Baran is a Canadian, multidisciplinary artist (working in jewellery, photography and book-works)

The Optimus Upravlator is out... its cool but just one more tempting tidbit until the true Optimus keyboard arrives.

FEATUREDSO SO True. Currently obsessing about Artefacture Ts

Jonathan Harris (of We Feel Fine fame) ~ has a new project with Yahoo - Time Capsule - gorgeous site - really pretty/artsy UX - but not sure about the content

London's Rokeby Gallery exhibit features drawings made by trees (among other nonhumans). Artist Tim Knowles "creates drawings independent of his own hand, using elaborate apparatus or time consuming practices."

Learning to Love You More is a contributing site created by Miranda July & Harrell Fletcher. The artists give assignments & the public submit responses. Assignment #09: Draw a Constellation from Someone's Freckles.

artificial snow at home. now possible with this innovative product from switzerland. you can even use it as a pressure washer.

Rubber Stamp bracelet by Arthur Hash

FEATUREDWhat happens when designers/artists get their hands on the brilliant patterns of Deadly Squire? Find out this weekend!

thinking about Halloween...this is a cool print, and it's also available as a tunic and a hoodie.

Patrick O'Brien : Filmmaker, Artist, Visionary and he's slowly dying from ALS. He's attempting to create awareness for ALS thru the Patrick O'Brien Foundation and his documentary.

what do people think of denver's new art museum?

Gorgeous new power strip design - Rozetkus

the artwork of kurt halsey frederikson...im a huge fan! acording to the site, he just finished a project for urban outfitters

Tiny Showcase: A simplistic and affordable approach to finding new and inspired artists. Mentioned in past (.com) features, but never featured...

and just for good measure (i didnt realize there were so many on the market) here is another mug that holds your sugar