Great paintings by Fernando Vicente, shocking but still aesthetically pleasing...

Obsessing over these METALLIC RuME bags ~ reusable bags to a new level ~ made of Satin?!?!? and so cute and even more multipurpose? Groceries, beach goods, laptop ~ and still folds up to tininess!

The Borealis lamp-shade is the result of experiments with computer design and CNC manufacturing. Each Borealis lampshade comprises machine cut components, which are assembled and finished by hand in the Lazerian studio.

Interview with KILLSPENCER bags designer, Spenser Nikosey. Spencer elaborates on brand strategy, eco-friendly design, and inspirations.

Secret garden, stone ruins, and uniquely dense archaeological sites, are most impressive at 'Kolumba' in Cologne’s city centre.

Adorable Shelf Snails! Also in brown and red...

PUNGA & SMITH will be displaying the Fruit Baskets fruit storage concept at Salone Satellite in Milan next week.

SKULLAVERA: Tote-bag made with Eco-Fi (high-quality polyester fiber made from 100% certified recycled plastic PET bottles). Lined with 100% organic cotton and embroidered with GUITAR STRINGS!!. For all you skull lovers!

Poly.Touch is a tangible synthesizer with sound modules ( cubes) and devices ( MTT Screen). The basic idea of this Synthesizer is that electricity makes sound.

Amazing video post-production by Takafumi Tsuchiya on Caelum soundtrack.

trio of tillandsia bromeliads. these beautiful plants flower and do not require soil!!! Also for 4/15 only ~ 50% off at Doe-SF with "taxdayblues09"!!!

Kid Koala and Nerdcore present: "Music to Draw to.......Los Angeles" 5 hour set of quiet time tunes to work to... Bring your sketchbook, yarn or that lump of clay and come on down and get some work done.

Graffiti in Daikanyama area of Tokyo

"Under the Knife": an exhibition exploring the art of cutting (through May 10, 2009.) Using saws, lasers, Xacto knives and scissors, the twelve exhibiting artists employ a variety of media to sculpt, paint, and draw with cut lines and forms.

Shinichi Maruyama captures the mixing of water and ink with high speed photography.

Awesome advertising move by BMW in Santa Monica.

The intervention “Raining Light bombs” was carried out using plastic bags into which we put our lights that we shaped so that they hat a threatening appearance.

On the theme of vintage school badges, my boss's sons run this little enterprise. There's one for every occassion.

MichelGondry.com launched today to coincide with his DVD release. He's offering hand drawn portraits for only $19.95

Brian Matthew Hart handles any light sources like a Jedi, doing really works of art with its extrapolations. The Force is strong with him.

Isaure De Casteja is proposing a second life of the package. The whole-wheat shaped package can become a piggy bank and be sent to charity organization.

Onzo's smart energy kit provides a powerful energy management tool for the consumer. It consists of a sensor, display and integrated website. The display interprets and delivers simple actionable information to users in real-time.

Photographer Peter Funch composites multiple shots of people from around NYC into clever photos.

New web site for design firm Great Big Circle, reads and navigates more like a narrative than a typical portfolio site.

The new Baxter of California Bravado #2 and #3 colognes have fun cardboard packaging with foil applications and NO GLUE! and NO INK!

Firefox add-on where you can replace the word crisis for opportunity on all websites, so you can start seeing thing from the optimistic side. Enjoy!

H-house, designed by Poland based architect, Tamizo architects group. Minimal design on the elevation as a result of complying the restrictions of the local law - maximum of 3 different materials on the elevation.

Rhizome is pleased to announce the launch of “Splashback: Rhizome’s Splash Pages, 1998-2002,” an online exhibition featuring the 39 splash pages commissioned over a four-year period. Above is splashart by Superbad, 1999.

Emily Valentine's otherworldly feathered dogs. The artist uses the feathers of the Indian Mynah bird, a registered pest, to create these amazing animals.

Incredible architectural installations by Ryuji Nakamura.

Chicago’s Millenium Park new pavillions by UNStudio & Zaha Hadid Architects. Open to public this 19th June till 31st Oct 2009.

Currently on display in Seville, Spain, David Blazquez creates furniture from naked bodies in his art exhibit, 'Human Furniture.'

TGM's (The Grafik Museum) prime objective is to find, collect and share the amazing creativity and talent from Australia and share it with the World.

An impressive building for Nestlé by Rojkind Architects in Mexico. The building was required to have a portico and arches, which were re interpreted by the architect as a series of colorful intersected spheres.

Friday night, Fred Flare opened its doors for a party at their flagship store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The occasion at hand was a reception for the closing of “Your Message Here,” an installation that has been livening up their storefront for the past 40 days.

Adorable Old School Star and Captain Badge Pins

Swedish company "emedius" launches a new product; an electrical cabinet that makes your house more colourful and interesting. Way to go, no reason for electrical cabinets to be grey and hidden away!

Lizzie Thomas makes these intricate and delicate beautiful papercut forests and worlds that pop out of tiny wooden boxes!

Design Tavern has a fabulous roundup of the visual design of the FroYo craze happening around the world

Archipelago Tables by Viable London. The idea of furniture as islands within the room. Strongly graphic it its design, archipelago extrapolates an irregular 2D form into 3D.

Oooh the adorable Red Ball Rocker by Knú is being reintroduced ~ adorably simple and playful!

Cloud - a magnetic floating sofa for ultra comfort and relaxation...

“Inside my Head” is a Cultural Design Statement, designed to be a stackable container in a shape of a head. By Joel Escalona for Imm Living,

Leandro Erlich's magical swimming pool, in which people can walk and breath, is on view at PS1 until October.