Lusciously dark and elegant paintings by San Francisco artist Gene Guynn.

British artist Roger Hiorns filled an abandoned apartment with 80,000 litres of copper sulphate solution. The resulting crystallization of the whole interior is his new installation - "Seizure".

Truth in Hydration - A blog about bottled water... run by a company selling NY tap water in a bottle... that's filling people's spent bottles to spread the word.

Gorgeous paper dresses by Valerie Hammond - part of her new exhibit at Garson Baker Fine Art that opened yesterday, 9/11, in NYC.

My Adidas My Code My NetworKing.

Lime Studio, Shortlisted for The British Design Awards 2008, has worked with Levantina since 100% Futures 2007 exploring new materials including a porcelain ceramic tile to develop innovative furniture concepts.

Queen of the May - Pen and ink that makes my mouth water.

Incredible incorporation of shadows in this Lithuanian street art...

Love this illustration, Sweet Talk, by Oscar Maia, AKA ~criminalart. Lots more great work to be found in his portfolio.

The Eat Better and Drink Better bowls by Victor Lee encourage good eating habits for your dogs by slowing down their consumption. Eat Better divides food into three areas, while Drink Better reduces the amount of drinkable water available at once with a floating disk.

Urban Fiber Flotsam turns street debris and vegetation into spun gold. Artist Abigail Doan drifts the streets of NYC this weekend for this urban mapping project at Conflux 2008.

Roger Hiorns’ installation Seizure is just amazing: 90,000 litres of copper sulphate solution, filling a flat from floor to ceiling, creating millions of blue cobalt crystals… check the effect!

PenSol Precision Synthetic Oiler Kit ~ there's something tempting about having such a precise drop by drop oiling "pen" as part of my tool kit...

Harry Allen's new Blockade Shelf is interesting in its the topographical nature. The shelf is made of laminated wooden blocks arranged within a grid-like structure.

Beautiful porcelain tableware by Claire Coles - love the delicate, lace-like impressions.

you've gotta love these clever organizer tabs from korea's j'story. the collection includes bears, funny faces and everyone's favorite - ninja bunnies. goodbye post-its!

Project: Iceland is the first showcase of contemporary Icelandic art, fashion and musical talent and gives significant insight into this outstanding creative community.

Sony released the newest gadget in their Odo line of green products - the Twirl n’ Take camera - a digital camera that is powered by kinetic energy! Roll the head for 15 seconds in order to generate enough energy to take a picture.

Sidewalk psychiatry graffiti in NYC

Art war in Sao Paolo ~ graffiti artists vs street art - "a group of 30 Pixadores stormed the Choque Cultural Gallery in protest against the "marketing, institutionalization and domestication of Street Art" by the gallerys and media."

Netflix origami!

veer's kern arrows zip-up: "a classic revisited" featuring arrows from 7 different typefaces and a sweet arrow zipper.

Lovely illustrations on vintage book pages by Annette from Norway. Very unique and childlike.

of all the fashion week buzz, my favorite posts have come from greg kessler's model morphosis photo sets for the nytimes. it's incredible how versatile these models can be.

the collectors... funny spot for rotofugi... toy art store of chicago... created by country club chicago...

I wish there were more puzzles. Artist Penny Stotter has made her prints into puzzles. Cool big pieces. Surprised no one has made a puzzle of the worlds countries... I bags to do it first.

The unique work of Russian illustrator and photographer, Dmitry Maksimov, is filled with imaginary characters placed into real-life settings. The feel of his work is reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki...

"Thanks for nothing" (ie: thanks for nothing... you're blocking my driveway) letterpress cards designed by Luke Williams.

This is a still from a Documentary of Danny Roberts Illustration Process.

Advertisements for old computers.

Innovative and addicting movie quiz. Guess the title of the movie by the snapshot.

Photo gallery from the new Paul Insect solow show in Kings X, London

How to Cool a Planet: Futuristic ways to fight against the global warming. (NY Times old issue - 2006 - but worth reading!) Click to see the full graphic!

The new refurbished Los Angeles Mondrian hotel is now open and Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz' touch of Hollywood glamour has revitalised this iconic LA hotel..... beautiful!

Grow your own food at home, even if you don't have time to that. The Prepara promess make it easy with its Power Plant.

Adam Haynes (Post #11821) just released a print over at POVeditions.com - Thanks to NOTCOT for introducing us to his work! We invited him to our print project after his worked was submitted here.

Low impact woodland homes

Karma from Fisker Automotive is a hybrid car with a Q Drive engine by Quantum Technologies. The hybrid engine gives you 80 km of zero emission driving, if you want to go longer it is a hybrid or you can get a solar cell roof for the car.

I appreciate the whiteness of Fabrica's new object collection launched for the 60th anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim collection. I especially like how color surprises you when objects are opened or more closely examined.

Dosh has introduced two new all-polymer wallets. They are more compact than the original wallet (post 5492) and come in an expanded colorway.

Beautifully rustic Butler's Sink

Student Maxime Harvey-Carière designs a corrugated board calculator in my packaging class at UQAM.
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Mark Boyce's interesting new book, Sizes May Vary. The book references the varying standardized formats and systems used within graphic design and is part sketchbook, part reference book and part notebook.

Beautiful photography portfolio by Michael Wolf. I especially love his series "Architecture of Density" from which this photo was taken.