Artist Ara Peterson creates wicked 3-dimensional optical illusions utilizing repetition in colors and patterns.

The project, entitled The Flowing Gardens, was inspired by the convergence of the different types of expertise that will be brought together by this event; principally horticulture and technology, and landscape and architecture.

Wow ! What an amazing Editorial collaboration with amazing Finnish fashion illustrator Laura Laine ! Shoes, Bags and Illustrations...

The Düsseldorf-based photographer uses a signature painstaking method to create varied, lyrical imagery.

The Icon Lamp is the latest creation from V12 Design for the Italian lighting manufacturer I TRE.

The Dongzhong (literally meaning "in cave") primary school, at a Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China's Guizhou province, is built in a huge natural cave

Andy Kehoe's work reminds me of Where the Wild things Are!

The 730 designs awarded each year are published for free in the design and design book of the year released every january.

Wow Delicious Design League you have done it again!!

Finally, a lamp that generate flashes of ideas. Design by Holger Volk, this HOLON lamp is a smart design using only an ordinary 15 Watt light bulb with an outline around signaled a bright idea.

Trader Joe's Culinary Compendium ~ the cutest junk mail i've ever scanned and posted! See some of the great pages/graphics inside too!

Antrepo asks the question: What is the colour of the Internet? Not an easy question to answer, is it?

le corbusier at the barbican.

Two words: absolute booklust. Jovencio de la Paz has come out with an entirely Vegan friendly series of notebooks. Vegan leather, soy waxed linen thread and some sexy spine shots? Ohh what more can a girl ask for.

Wow, these are some of the prettiest sugar cookies i've seen...

Awesome box! Disney x Span of Sunset – Goth Cheshire Cat

itay ohaly: interlock ~ made from an acrylic sheet and wood.

Hysterical insert in the Criterion Collection release of Wes Anderson's Bottle Rocket.

Ben Tour is a vancouver-based painter and illustrator—who has forged a successful career translating his fascination with human behavior into beautifully dense character portraits.

Artist Helmut Smits has burned a 82 x 82 cm square, the size of one pixel from an altitude of 1 km. This wil be a dead pixel in Google Earth. Fantastic idea!

Envision Solar is a San Diego based company that turns parking lots into Solar Groves creating architecturally iconic renewable energy.

Portraits of famous artists in their studios by Shawn Mortensen.

The new + impressive 2009 interactive demo reel for Fake-Up Studios is up.

We all know that Jupiter is out there, but where? The Humble Telescope solves that by bringing the wonders of space down to earth and letting
us know exactly where we are. an installation by ENESS.

Wooden hammock "Flux Chair". Simple, sleek design by Eins Design.

MIT's SENSEable City Lab monitors tourists via Flickr, creating visual representations of their presence, showing their travels and interests.

2009 NOTCOT Survey! Please please please help me get to know you with this survey! And i'm doing a drawing from the surveys to giveaway my latest obsession: the Logitech Squeezebox Boom too! THANK YOU! (Ends Sun, 3/29/09)

This spaceship & alien juicer makes me giggle! What a fun design for something that is usually so mundane!

ToyCyte is doing a report on blind box packaging of designer toys. It's a 5-part series interviewing toy companies, toy collectors, toy stores, toy artists and toy bloggers.

MacHeist time! Discover some amazing new software. Support independent Mac developers. And make the world a better place.

A fine wood work by finnish architects SARC, for the new METLA Forest Research Centre. Amazing wooden structure within.

Toronto's Jessica Fortner makes creepy cute 3D illustrations. She is giving away a one-of-a-kind Furry Friend to the person who best names the set. Contest ends Sunday!

Iconic sustainable designers Scarpile made custom end tables for the Smart Home at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. Now available at sustainable minded art and design gallery 360SEE.

The gorgeous Barn House by Buro2 architects. I also really like the Flash navigation by Wallpaper*

How China sees the World, one of the most amazing covers of The Economist I've seen.

Frame Bar - impressive bar by tsigos design. white thermo-formed plastic strips morphing from chairs, to stools, tables and even stairs creating a surreal interior

Daimler today has just unveiled the F-CELL Roadster, a wacky-looking vehicle that is a ‘hybrid’ in more ways than one. F-CELL can reach 15 mph and achieve a range of 217 miles.

Paul Loebach's new painted wood side table design 'Gradient Table' will be showing at the Architectural Digest show at pier 94 in New York City from March 26th-29th.

Sachiko Kodama ferrofluid interactive sculptures

Selected projects by Colombian architects Paisajes Emergentes. This practice takes landscape architecture way beyond. Nice renderings and representation!

Pretty handmade spacious cat homes by German Home Basic

Theremins are so cool. It's hard to believe a handsfree electronic instrument was invented in the 20s. Interview with head of Moscow's Theremin centre about the mad inventor and his life in the KGB.

Where the Wild Things Are Trailer!!!!!! Maurice Sendak's classic book comes to the big screen in this Live Action Adventure!

As the package reveals the three pieces of chocolate, a questionable but funny therapy is proposed along the detachable thread.