The new and incredible Ace Hotel in Palm Springs, photographed by Sarah Yates. The hotel is a MUST VISIT on any trips west of the Mississippi.

Emosi ~ adorable packaging for this playful little spanish creature

Oskar Zieta, designer of ‘Plopp’ and collaborator at the ETH Zürich, presented together with ETH students, an advanced design of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT), which was developed using the same ‘FIDU’ technology.

The beautiful knotted furniture of german designer Nils Holger Moormann

Red Tresses and Freckles, artwork of Junko Mizuno - Design Milk has a peek at the upcoming show at Narwhal Art Projects.

The latest performance by the French mechanical marionette street theater company Royale De Luxe - with some remarkable pictures of their latest creation.

Diving girl card ~ sure to brighten up anyone's day as it hangs with her floating from the balloon!

Here's a peek inside James Jean's new book Kindling! Beautiful as always! (Video flip through even!)

Skate Study House presents a new series of furniture made 100% of throwaway materials - The Waste Is The Best.

Beach! Sometimes its stepping out of the madness of city life helps you figure out what you should be doing! This weekend relaxing at the beach house in CT was totally inspiring ~ you've got to see the full moon!

Love this Christopher Uminga "Little Roosevelt" watercolor piece from 2008 ~ don't we all feel a little like this little guy some days?

"Jardins Jardin, Paris’ largest and chic-est gardening fair just opened in the Tuileries Garden" and The Horticulturalist has a nice look at some of the innovative displays! From grassy hybrid pillows to this gorgeous lamp!

The Berlin based designers Tom Kühne and Zascho Petkow strive to free themselves from traditional ideas of furniture designs and surprise again at this year´s DMY festival with their “wild” interpretation of interior objects...

Three new lamp designs presented by AAN-UIT durring the 100% Design fair in Rotterdam.
From left to right: Bronco (Castor Bours) - Roots (Marc Th. van der Voorn) and Liberté (Viktor Harmens).

Martin Ballendat created N@t: a Netbook-lounge armchair, for the Italian manufacturer Rossin.

When is a traffic jam art? When it is staged, flash-mob style, as an installation in the Pyrenees...

Irish college IADT is currently running their end of year Graduate show for 2009,here are the online portfolios of of the department of Visual Communications.

American street artist "ABOVE" installed and stenciled a wonderfully themed artpiece called "The naked truth" in the streets of Copenhagen, Denmark. Take a look inside the shower to learn more about "The naked truth."

Awesome video for I'm Over It, BY Dinosaur Jr.

Tom Andrews captures the timeless beauty of Catalina Island in these new photos.

Stool Qoffee a gigantic plastic cup manufactured by Artificial and designed in 1999 by Rainer Spehl. Qoffee can be used a stool but it can also be used as waste paper basket, container or even as a flower pot.

I really love the style of Boca do Lobo, they are brilliant in their way of mixing classical furniture elements with a really modern and almost avant-garde style

ABC YO-YO is a kinetic font created by yo-yo'ing. All visuals and sounds produced entirely out of yo-yos. A collaboration between Justin Weber and Marianna Ludensky.

Russian doll style model representing the technological progress (and miniaturisation) of mobile phones.

Paul Coudamy is an architect that works and lives in Paris. His work is a mash up of brilliance and inventiveness that creates a unbelievable end product such as the office called the Bears Cave.

for his exhibition in the british pavilion, steve mcqueen presents a new film entitled
'giardini' (gardens), referring to the area of venice where the pavilion is situated.

Schöpfer Yachts has just introduced the Infitinas, their second yacht design following the Oculus. Based on the infinity symbol, the yacht has a carved out stern and midsection which features a pool with a glass walkway.

New York based designer Evan Dewhirst has created the Buoy Chair.

Quite a variety of interesting work by a designer Amina Horozic.

It's a radness explosion! The beard championships in Alaska, as photographed by the super talented Matt Rainwaters. [Editor's note: LOVE the Beardfolio]

Designed by Bibliotheque for the Design Museum Shop for the opening of the Super Contemporary exhibition, choose, combine and arrange words to make your own statement.

DADA Partners have designed the B-99 house in Gurgaon, India.

Beautifully designed website for the Canadian documentary Waterlife. If you think you know water, think again...

“Digital Confetti” is a one night interactive installation that uses interactive maracas, a weather balloon, and projection to transforms the mid-century modern interior of the Four Seasons Pool Room with an interactive sound and light installation for the Metropolitan Home Magazine’s “Design 100″ party.

Christopher LaMarca in 2003 began documenting the activities of activists and loggers to provide a commentary for these tireless and committed groups.
Forest Defenders: The Confrontational Landscape, is a must see Book and Portfolio.

This exclusive birthday party took place in a temple lost in the Cambodian jungle.
Based at Siem Reap (Angkor Wat) HERITAGE ADVENTURES produces tailor-made tours & events.

Joao Paulo Alvares Ruas is a very talented artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Rob Matthews decided to press ‘ctrl + p’ and print 2,559 of Wikipedia’s featured articles. The result is this weighty tome of some 5000 pages.

Designed by Distill Studio, "Box Office" is a stunning piece of shipping container architecture that broke ground in Providence, Rhode Island this week.

A weird site but with some unbelievable photos of origami. Marvelous

The Barbie Suite was unveiled this week at the Palms Resort in Las Vegas as part of the continuing celebration of the doll's 50th birthday

Umbrella Chandelier by Shelly Sabel have been installed at two separate shows in 2009. They look simply divine!

Surrealist Architect Terunobu Fujimori. Compliments of Dwell Slideshow. Bonus: How to char cedar planks.

San Francisco has implemented a City-Wide 311 twitter program. Instead of making a phone call, members of the public can send a 'tweet' to alert the city about a pothole, or simply find out about the City’s green initiatives.