Trailer for Valerie Reid's "Sand Dancer," a short film that showcases Peter Donnelly's sand art in New Zealand. He creates vast works of art on New Brighton Beach with only a rake and a stick.

Selected large scale sculptural installations using various fabrics by artist Craig Fisher.

Seven350.com- A little inspiration goes a long way. Everyday I See My Dream. This is a 14″ x 18″ canvas, spray painted sky blue with cloudy white type.

naoto fukasawa + patricia urquiola: panasonic at milan design week 09

Adorable v-day gift ~ indoor porch swing! And the cushions are hand made from old (canvas?) tote bags!

My Flickr Photos from an awesome art exhibit in Austin called Bodies in Urban Space!

Google goes Morse coded.

Showcasing at Via Carlo Botta 8, Milan this week has been Love Design, an art and design project that has fun with the concepts of affection, desire, pleasure and romance, but also jealousy, distance, separation and pain.

rolf's furniture massacre at milan design week 09 - rolf is a furniture transformer. by cutting away parts and by adding new ones a piece of furniture gets a new span of life. See his process in the pics!

The Bacone: A bacon cone filled with scrambled eggs and country gravy topped with a biscuit.

The illustration and design of Borja Bonaque

Long Table Bangkok is claimed to be the longest dining table in the world. With an impressive 24 meters teak dining surface, long table seats around 70 peoples at one time.

The physical involvement of the spectator finds a resonance in the ephemeral existence of light particles.

Beautiful set of photos of Emily Blunt for May 09 issue of Vanity Fair.

Belvédère (2008) - This seat or rather perch is on the borders of urban areas where the view should be raised. Wink to the referee or lifeguard chair, to the observation post for hunting, it offers to the pedestrian a new viewpoint/

At salone satellite Pour les Alpe are showing the three chests of drawers ‘Ehrfurcht’, ‘Neugierde’ and ‘Sehnsucht’, witch are the perfect combination of product design and traditional craftsmanship from the Swiss Alps.

How To Make A BABY! Absolutely adorable stop motion video over the course of 9 months...

Stylist Pontus Djanieff creates a set with "Space Odyssey meets interior design"-feeling.

The Georgica House by Bates Masi architects is a monochromatic cube shaped home with great white blank interior spaces. The walls were left blank at the request of the homeowners to make it seem like a gallery for their artwork collection.

Get a better look at all the 2009 Wallpaper Design Award Winners here. Lots of extra photos of each winner from each category.

The Mill House designed by Gert Wingardh from Wingardh Arkitektkontor is not only a family vacation house but it is a manifestation of the Swedish ritual of sauna and bathing.

Type Nesting. Do birds have a favorite font?

Here are the first High-res pics of the new and very limited production Ferrari 599XX, which, according to Ferrari, “incorporates the most advanced technologies resulting from Ferrari’s road-going and F1 research.”

Selected works of Nam: Japanese Graphic Collective.

Just found this dope new site called Borgger, a place to develop ideas and connect hands with minds to make them happen.

Insane default wallpapers to be featured in Windows 7.

Annenberg Community Beach House opened in Santa Monica today! First city-run public beach house of it's kind on the cali coast ~ and there were even cirque du soleil girls in giant beach balls in the pool... tons of pics!

a collection of various tree trunks close up

Svanen (The Svan) is a a new conference center, hotel, apartment and office building, dynamic 150 meter tall, to be built in the Swedish city of Gävle. Designed by Petrén Merom Arkitekter and Scheiwiller Svensson. Arkitektkontor.

daily dose of imagery's Sam Javanrouh takes beautiful photos that capture Toronto. here is a chandelier made up of thousands of recycled plastic containers.

Using a "square style" that he developed on his own, Robert Doesburg's paintings exude a great amount of color and almost look like they're sparkling.

Shokotan is a multi-talented entertainer with a thing for wearing dead cicada in her hair. At the end of her performances she takes them off and tosses them into the crowd.

Notes from a Petri Dish is an introduction to cell swarming by Roman Popat, published in Working Title for the Milan Design Festival. Photographed at intervals over a period of 36 hours. This strain is genetically engineered to produce light.

Amazing wood sculptures from Ricky Swallow

Frank Chimero Interview on The Shiny Squirrel part of The Little Interview series

Wonderful hand made screen prints from Early Griffin. Designed by various artists and printed in small quantities - Giant Bear in a Tiny Villiage is by Edinburgh based artist Lizzie Stewart.

Paula Scher's submission for Ravensbourne College of of Designs fundraiser: teapot with laser cut wood steam

Succulents Part II! Amazing patterns, colors, and details ~ here is another batch of different succulents freshly acquired and planted!

3 Numbers is a steampunk traveler's multicalculator for the iPhone.

The Robot Underground News Network. The news for Robots, by Robots.

Recent design project: Audi in cooperation with the Munich University of Applied Sciences challenged students to design 'human mobility solutions' to address plausible future transportation conditions.

"It’s not a pretty building, but it is heroic and dramatic." Andrew Melville Hall, design by James Sterling which has aged and weathered well with overgrown moss and lichen, had survived 40 years of age after it was completed in 1968.

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Loved discovering the designer behind the fresh "LA Bearded Mafia" logotype I've seen around Los Angeles. Designer Eli Sipsas has other sweet logos up on his blog too.