Beautifully absurd knit credit cards made of yarn by artist Dimitry Tsykalov.

VIDEOBrown University researchers take a closer look at bat flight and discover that bats fold their wings on the upstroke, saving energy.

Sound sculptures and futuristic paintings by Hank - Los Angeles based Experimental artist.

"Royal Guard" Skullendario Azteca - Brought to you by two artist powerhouses Huck Gee and The Beast Brothers in a unique collaboration.

Fashion Victim, installation and art/fashion concept, is part of the international exhibition opening April 27 at Eagl Gallery, Berlin.

The Dragon Skin Pavilion is an architectural installation designed and built for the 2011-12 Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism Architecture.

Three 3d printed nylon rocks on a delicate flat cable chain from thefuturefuture. The 24 inch chain hangs mid-chest. Each rock is custom generated and unique.

Cavern Home I See You Wallpaper

Adorable dome terrarium that consists of a petri dish with dome cloche.

Project RE_ by Samuel Bernier. 3D-printed Jar Adapters, a fun way to up-cycle those old containers and cans.

Martime S is an extension of the timber Maritime chair Launched in 2011. The new version offers soft upholstered panels inserted into the distinctive timber framework. The padded areas are available in both textile and leather options.

Wrenz Speakers by Gavio look like tiny bird sculptures.

WHITE Installation: The Biggest Comfortable Hammock

Spherovelo, a super cute bicycle for kids.

'Dove House' in Balham - London by Gundry & Ducker Architecture.

Weekend is a collection of outdoor furniture designed by Caroline Ziegler and Pierre Brichet.

The Yakiniku Master Japanese Barbecue Restaurant in Shanghai, China designed by Beijing-based Golucci International Design.

La Cornue's W stovetop, designed by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte.

The Modular Paint Brush is made up of sectioned-off bristles that are easily attached and detached from the expanding metal handle. Designed by Virang Akhiyaniya.

Noddy Boffins State Legs reminds us of the dramatic 'negative space' in which we identify shape and form, and it also works to entertain our eyes...

FEATUREDDogs with monocles, ants in a scanner and a water drop for a macro lens are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

Steaming food has been an integral part of Chinese cooking for hundreds of years. Office for Product Design have reinterpreted the classic Chinese steamer giving it a modern functional twist.

FEATUREDUp close with Incase's DSLR Sling Pack and DSLR Pro Sling Pack. When having trouble picking between the two tempting camera bags, we show you all the details that helped us decide!

Just in time for Earth Day, Brooklyn Industries launches 'seed bomb' bracelets!

The double barrel marshmallow shooter, when one barrel of marshmallows just isn't enough.

Lovely illustrations from the portfolio of Jace Wallace.

VIDEOMicro Empire from Clemens Wirth & Radium Audio.

Missoni's splendidly zig-zagged stripes invade Slovenia for a month-long exhibition.

Jack White releases new single Freedom at 21 by launching 1000 balloons with Flexi Disc attached from Nashville.

iPod-box, a boombox style docking system for your iPod from Konstantin Grcic.

Beautiful sketches by Tati Ferrigno.

Gerren Lamson's Woodland Creatures series.

VIDEODouble Helix house by Onishimaki + Hyakudayuki Architects.

VIDEOPablo Garcia's "Machine Drawing Drawing Machines" - CNC draws twelve drawings of historical drawing machines in ink on Stonehenge artist's paper in editions of 4.

genis carreras' simplified philosophy poster series

FEATUREDSkittles Easter Eggs ~ announced via Easter Basket! These easter eggs are digital surprises hidden in some of their Skittles Touch YouTube videos... like the Goodnight Werebaby book...

Funhouse-style installations by Danish artists AVDP that challenge normal perceptions with their spatial construction.

Luna lamp. A hovering brass disk reflects the light which is embedded in the base unit. By Knudsen Berg Hindenes.

FEATUREDDiscover top spots for high tea in London, exploring the diverse habitats of Chile and the picturesque town center of Bodrum with this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

Illustration work from South African creative Dustin Holmes.

Joel Seigle's CPH 15 is a chair made entirely of beech and maple veneer. Repeated elements form harmony between the solidity of the structure and the graceful sense of comfort provided by the soft and rounded forms.

The guys at 'Kudu magnets' found an easy and cool way to completely change the atmosphere of any kitchen. They created/designed magnetic panels that cover the whole fridge.

Wood'Insane revisits the shelf and table plants, with the new Wendy. Thanks to a clever mechanism you'll be able to play with your plants with gravity!

A collection of gorgeous animated typefaces designed by Calango, Nicolas Lichtle & Oliver Dead.

Huawei's sculpture at MWC was a Pegasus made of 3,500 smartphones!Crafted by London's Machine Shop. Nice making of video as well.

Solar Winds Desert Power Plant to harness clean energy for local grids

Neat DIY on using a water droplet as a macro lens for your camera phone.

Gunnar is chair with a hard maple seat made by Felicia Hung, RISD Furniture undergraduate student, while studying abroad.

Toy Photographer Brian McCarty's latest postcard #87: features the great "Black in White" rabbit toy designed by Luke Chueh. Perfect for Easter weekend...

Standing Broom is designed by Malaysia-based designer Poh Liang Hock.

Brother Hubbard is a new speciality coffee shop on Dublin's northside, every element of the interior was designed and built in Dublin by Designgoat.

VIDEOSilent World by Lucie & Simon is an eerie depiction of typically crowded cities with no one in it.

Colors Magazine presents 'Happiness and Other Survival Techniques' at Design Museum, London.

The 26 ingredients that go into a school lunch burger include chemicals, blue stuff and ??

A series of posters-riddles each presenting a TV show through three icons from re:design.

Researchers at Keio University are creating interactive plants, enabling them to display emotions and communicate with people.

A interactive pavillion made by students of the Technical University in Delft

How a Green Wall designed by Shift_Design is Shake Shacking things up in Philly.

After London and New York, the Pavilion of Art and Design, or the PAD, is back in Paris at the Jardin du Tuileries. The exposition is devoted to design, the decorative arts/interior designing, and 20th Century paintings and sculptures.

Lovely illustration by Simon Prades.

VIDEOFrançois Vautier scanned an ant colony he set up in a scanner once a week for five years. This is the impressive result.

SOL Rocking Chair designed by Constance Guisset for Molteni&C.

VIDEOLuminaris by Juan Pablo Zaramella, a beautiful stop motion short.

A glimpse into the work of Craig Redman and Karl Maier who run Craig & Karl, a multi-disciplinary design studio that operates in New York and London.

Raphael Volkmer's 'Calories Bomb' for Easter.

Typogami: An Animated Typeface Inspired By Origami. Adjust the color, light, shadow intensity, or fold angles, with the free download. Designed by Calango.

Race Sounds - soothing sounds for car aficionados.

The LA Times has a look into the interiors of Mad Men's Don Draper's new digs this season... down to the sourcing and inspiration of the furniture, kitchen and more!

Kevin Weir's GIF collection is full of classic photos with a spooky and fascinating twist.

The Roppongi Art Night hosted Floating Instrument by teamLab and Hideaki Takahashi, which is a sound and interaction based installation with colorful inflatables.

FEATUREDJim Dunlop's Tortex guitar picks turn 30 this year... and the packaging redesign turns the iconic turtle logo into a sticker!

The newest Pavilion from EmTech (AA) + ETH is a light timber sun shade for the grand stairs in front of the architecture department of the ETH.

VIDEOMoscow Design Museum is 'the first museum in the world - on a bus!' with great design from Lava.

While the DEA and the IRS raided herbal pharmacies in Oakland this week, a continent away, Spanish street art collective, Luzinterruptus, set up an herbal pharmacy of their own in Madrid.

Milking Stool Noddy Boffin. “All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow” – Grant Wood.

Idol lamp by Peter Toronyi and Eliza Mikus

After the huge success with Heritage Cabinet and its honor to the hand painted tiles Portuguese history, Boca do Lobo, Limited Edition now presents an Heritage Sideboard.

Spingtime is here; pin your walls pretty, with FlowerNail!

Stacking solid ash chairs design by RISD student Jonah Willcox-Healey while studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark.

VIDEOBeautiful secret life of plankton captured by marine biologist Tierney Thys.

Pommel bench - outdoor bench with a geometric and intriguing typology. From young designer Virgile Thévoz (CH)

The Thermosaurus radiator by Art Lebdev. Because nothing's hotter than a T-rex?

Kitmen Keung's Dual Kit, flexible furniture system created by splitting a raw rectangular foam block with only two L-shaped urethane cut lines. The result can be used as a one seater with a side table, a chaise lounge or a corner table.

Porcelain and Gradient lamps from Studio WM (Wendy Legro and Maarten Collignon) that are height adjustable using simple pulleys.

Great NYtimes slideshow on the bounty prodcuted by chickens in your backyard.

Incredibox, the fun, music-making application from French design studio So Far So Good, and musician Incredible Polo, is back with a new, more robust version 2.0.

VIDEOEdding 850 Font by Büro Destruct is a downloadable font made for the marker company. The endless sketching led them to a remarkable font and interface.

The Kronleuchter lamp by Denise M. Hachinger.

The Peacock Pinot Grigio package design by Malia Carter

Poster Cred, great street art project by Joseph King. The hands placed throughout the city are "a commentary on a popular style of poster presentation in contemporary design, and the implicit credibility it seems to suggest".

Keep the real champion ‘masked’ as you unravel your physical energy

VIDEOAlex & Steffen's collaboration between Adidas and Foot Locker, by Creature of London, creates world of neon electric auras.

The fully rustproof M2 series by Vanmoof in partnersip with Phillips also boasts a fully integrated lighting system for safer riding in the city.

Handmade Carved Oak Rope Swing - made in upstate New York from reclaimed oak dunnage, the wood used to line ship holds. Crafted by Dzierlenga F+U exclusively for Kaufmann Mercantile.

ENESS bring snow to life at X Games 2012

Elementodiseño's furniture system for UTFSM (universidad Federico Santa Maria Valparaiso) consists of a cleverly stacking suite of tables and chairs.

Project Glass, augmented reality glasses, unveiled by Google on a new Google+ page.

Inventables' Shapeoko - DIY CNC Mill Kits with open source solutions for all your needs.

New Squadt Germ S002 [Born Wrong] from Playge, complete with SM4 rifle, sMK23 pistol, and tanto knifes with a faux leather jacket and integrated heather hoodie.

Ceramic Boat Cleat coat hook by Delong Ceramics

VIDEOHitch; Rear Window Loop by Jeff Desom is a visual stitch of Alfred Hitchcock's infamous film. The installation loops the entire courtyard's action from one view.

Vita/r75 Table by Florian Saul.

The Aleatoric Series from paper artist/engineer Matthew Shlian and artist/graphic designer Michael Cina.

US (Christopher Barrett and Luke Taylor) created Benga's new video for I Will Never Change using 960 separate pieces of vinyl that were measured, cut, and animated to create a waveform.

Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo announces the birth of a tiny new baby of the world's smallest antelope species, the Royal Antelope.

Screwdriver inspired Phillips Table from Curtis Popp's CPOPP workshop.

The Doggie Fountain is a cool solution for keeping your dogs water supply safe, fresh and readily available.

The Oatmeal's love affair with Sriracha continues with this signed print of the Sriracha Flamethrower Grizzly.

Bounce chair by Pedro Gomes Design derives from a reflection about the equilibrium between product design and its responsibility to provide the improvement of the human condition.

VIDEO'The Joy of Books' by Sean Ohlenkamp, beautiful books come to life at Type bookstore in Toronto.

FEATUREDA look at the design details of TaylorMade's golf clubs - the R11S driver and new Rocketballz... armed with a torx key you can easily customize the loft, face angle, and flight path in an instant!

"Rolling Words", Snoop Dogg's Smokable Song Book with rollable smoking paper pages, hemp covers and a built in matchbox from Pereira & O’Dell. .

VIDEOVernissagge's preview of the new Damien Hirst Retrospective at Tate Modern, London.

The Torso Table by Ora-Ïto for Roche Bobois.

Cool Hunting take a look at Alex Johnson's new book, Bookshelf, which captures a wide range of beautiful designs.

The Hultafors Adjustable Wrecking Bar 209 SB, a more ergonomic crowbar by by Ergonomidesign.

VIDEOInsects! by Tor Even Mathisen, a great macrovideo offering a super up close look at arthropod lives.

Mecedora Acapulco - a rocking chair variation of the 50's classic Acapulco chair.

Woodcut by Bryan Nash Gill - a book of beautiful, detailed prints of woodcuts cross sections through trees telling their unique stories through the details.

Fun office board rack, part of the modular Turnstone Bivi Office Furniture.

Dogocle - a monocle for the dogs.

VIDEOIncredible fly-through of the Linear Coherant Light Source (LCLS), a free-electron laser facility at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.

The recycled aluminum trees, "Cité Internationale du Design de Saint Etienne", designed and erected by the French architect and designer Didier Muller, seek to blend furniture so neatly with art.

FEATUREDWatermelon kegs, Blue Persian Salt Caramel Sauce and art in food waste are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Phosphorescent painting on concrete wall in Paris by Noémi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto.

I-House is located in Nagasaki, Japan, and designed by Masahiko Sato from Architect Show.

The ARKEG from custom arcade manufacturers, Allstarcade, brings friends together through a retro-look, modern-convenience innovation. Complete draft system integrates pouring cold beers and playing classic games with friends.

Hyper-realistic paintings of mosh pits - human and otherwise - by New York artist Dan Witz.

2012 March Madness winners based on team colors.

Designer Octavia Xiaozi Yang's "Joinery in Jewels" series. Beautiful work as part of her MA Fashion Artefact at London College of Fashion.

Amazing billboard realised for Burger King's Hot Sauce in Turkey by Young & Rubicam. It has been made of 2548 real packages.

The Maarten De Ceulaer’s new experiments between form and matter debut in Milan.

"Ilot Urbain" urban furniture by French architects 4point5 at La Défense - Paris.

The company behind Karpo restaurant and the Megaro Hotel commissioned a huge 450 square metre mural immediately opposite St Pancras International station in London.

Illustrations from graphic designer Budi Satria Kwan.

Great series of ads by NAM for Harbour City Chocolate Trail, a project for the Hong Kong Blood Cancer Foundation.

Arizona Arena Bifold Picker’s Wallet a bifold version of hte wallet with a compartment just for your guitar pick.

FEATUREDOur look at 'Animal Inside Out' at the Natural History Museum in London in collaboration with Body Worlds. When else will you have a chance to see trisected horse heads, a capillary shark and plastinated elephant?

Filthy Luker's Space Invaders, the street artist's retro-arcade installation brings Space Invaders to life with roadwork equipment.

The Spar Junior Lamp by Jamie McLellan for Resident.

VIDEOJohn Wood & Paul Harrison "One more kilometre". Beautiful short film of a sander and a pile of paper.

Amazing proposal to cover the roofs of NYC's big-box stores in a giant artificial mountain that offers ski slopes in the winter and verdant hiking trails in the summer.

Static stick figures made up of LED tubes, and choreographed to music, appear to be dancing in Groupe LAPS's installation 'Key Frames', part of the iLight festival in Singapore, last week.

FEATUREDTrampolining elephants, The Dark Knight rises in LEGO and how Aeron chairs are built every 17 seconds are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.