Bay Area painter Yvette Molina creates work that is both a celebration of nature as well as an invitation to consider its fragility.

Designer Manish Arora showed this “visible human” outfit with Swarovski crystals” at the Swarovski Runway Rocks fashion show during London Jewellery Week. Surprise by the bones on clothes.

Li Wei is a Chinese photographer who creates crazy, gravity-defying images - without digital manipulation! He apparently uses mirrors, wires and scaffolding to create his work.

A battle between Italian papercrafter PHIL and the Japanese papercrafter Shin Tanaka has started with this one email Shin sent to all PHIL’s subscribers.

LEGO 3D runway from Fashion Designer Jean Charles de Castelbajac - So cool !

Beautifully designed ad for UNICEF, from the ad agency Luminus Creative out of Zagreb, Croatia and art directors Mislav Vidovic and Tonci Klaric.

On awesome box design ~ the way the Jurlique Biodynamic Beauty Serum literally unfolds and opens itself, presenting the gorgeous frosted glass bottle to you.... such a nice unboxing experience! See pics of the line, and box scans!

Founded in 2003 by product designer/carpenter René Mueller and forester Nina Griesshammer, Woodloops strives to “covey our original views to common behaviors, weaving known circumstances into new and curious concepts”.

illustrator Ryan Chapman's simple twist on Andy Warhols classic banana.

Guallart Architects created Microcostas Vinaròs out of hexagonal wood platforms as a series of micro coasts, forming islands on the beach

100 hand painted chairs, which show moods, emotions, destinies and ways of human life. There is a movie made with stop animation about one hundred chairs in stroll through my city and the book “100lica stolica”

The Monstera Pendant by Flame, must cast some great shadows...

Interview with Duty Gorn, one of the most important contemporary artist in Milan. His works are becoming well-known for interior design projects.

Israeli Military Photo/camera Bags ~ wow ~ KATA's 3N1-20 Sling Bag for photography gear ~ so awesome, Core77 has a nice write up on it!

Amazing jewelry by Anthony Roussel, who laser cuts and then layers sculptural jewelry pieces.

The Experimental Pavilion, pushes the limits of ultra high-performance concrete. The thinness and forms achieved contradict the heaviness and thickness that we think concrete is limited to.

Artist Brian Stauffer’s “A Very Long Tunnel” visually sums up this momentous week in American history.

More Mobile - Portable Architecture for Today ~ take a peek inside this awesome new book filled with the architectural solutions for us nomads ~ shipping container building lovers will love this one!

Here is preview of Turn, Italy's big annual art week, when the Luci D’Artista festival, the Turin Triennale, and the Artissima art fair all have their debuts. Includes works by Rebecca Horn and Olafur Eliasson.

Malmö Streets Project is a sweden group of artists that replaced the usual grey street tiles for beautiful and inspiring images.

This "pipe cabinet" comes from woodworker Palo Samko. The four circular drawers are designed to accomodate differently sized pipes.

Liquid Cardboard is an eco-friendly material developed by cardboarddesign, with a honeycomb cell shape that makes it durable and lightweight. Each piece can be molded into a variety of designs to create vases, bowls, votive holders...

Under New management! Obama 2008! Time to CHANGE your shirt! by the Print Liberation.

Boarding Pass Wines ~ they really do jump right off the shelf... if you're a packaging junkie! The fonts and graphics were too fun not to buy and take pics of!

Coöp designed a logo for 1:1 Architects. The logo incorporates a 3-D element and is meant to represent the process of architecture. The placement of the design in different settings emphasizes the human approach taken by 1:1 Architects.

A lovely short by amazing animator Kat Morris.

Love Joonhuyn Kim's take on the light bulb - the Flat Bulb is 1/3 the size of a regular bulb. [Editor's Note: their site seems to be over their bandwidth limit!!!]

CNN's Jessica Yellin goes holographic to chat with Wolf Blitzer in New York, from Chicago.

Fatih Baltas' variation on the traditional Rock Paper Scissors game.

Stop Motion Day Video by Micah Spear - with Notcot browsing inside!

Coalfinger ~ an animated bond-like campaign by Greenpeace - Along with his dopey sidekick Dr. Anthracite, Coalfinger plans to cover the world in coal-fired power stations and destroy the climate in Operation Browncloud.

ENESS takes a regular whiteboard, regular markers and plays PONG irregularly.

morfai "selections" Experiments with illustration. [Editor's Note: brilliant! you have to click and see it in action for sure]

Body Navigation is an impressive reactive floor projection designed for a dance performance. Collaboration between Ole Kristensen, Jonas Jongejan, choreographer Tina Tarpgaard, and the Recoil Performance Group.

Dioramas ву Laura Plansker.

Loving Ron English's new KISS inspired show at the Shooting Gallery. Old masters reborn!

Zipper jewerly by Kate Cusack.

Obamabats ~ for when you're speechless and can't type words.... congrats to our 44th president ~ Barack Obama!

1950's Gadget Movado Sliding Watch.

Flexible Faucet from Paini - Hybrid is LED illuminated

Fascinating wrapped/branded water towers

An amazing house by KWK Promes in Poland. A white volume over stone walls create a spectacular inner space.

Klaus Staudt is an internationally received artist who creates geometric abstractions with the focus on creating a sense of geometrical systematic thinking, within the constructivist movement.

Brian Jurgen created this collection of totemic representations of Native culture in Canada using iconic Michael Jordan athletic footwear to express and explore what he refers to his concepts as "Prototypes for New Understanding". This is #16