Cutest recycling labels from Jinjerup. Download them for free and have a nice Earth Day!!

Campari Art Labels, three great label designs for Campari by the artists; AVAF, Tobias Rehberger and Vanessa Beecroft. They are from a limited edition series created to celebrate 150 years of Campari tradition.

A fun chart, The Trustworthiness of Beards, designed by Matt McInerney of pixelspread.com.

BMW, Flos lighting and Kvadrat fabrics teamed up to produce a sculpture called "The Dwelling Lab." BMW asked Danish textile manufacturers Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo to create the installation. We saw the preview in 29247.

Cast of Vices presents Bling for the Bad Guys, celebrating the inherent aesthetic of our vices and casting a critical eye on pop culture and our obsession with self medication and addiction. [see also #29251]
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Morphine Pillow -by Dan Golden- says: "Someone once said laughter is the best medicine - They’re wrong, morphine is the best medicine." I agree, absolutely...

Following the Colorize series, here comes amazing Rare Prints by artists Ames Bros, Aesthetic Apparatus, Matt W. Moore and Vahalla Studios for Ray-Ban.

Post Penumbra from the Upper Siz Hundreds, a new artists collective in Los Angeles create one of the most spectacular shows of the year using an open warehouse of 7000 sq ft.

Artist Jenny Mortsell translates Loeffler Randall shoes into fashion illustrations for their latest surreal campaign.

Pretty "Illustrated Cities" prints by talented graphic designer Blanca Gómez featuring three wonderful cities: New York, London and Paris, which one's your favurite?

Love Helmets is born, a new atypical brand that is going to make the difference. This young brand is the original idea to change the often monotonous concept and deprived of style helmets by making a revolution.

Indeed, with Love Helmets, you can change the style of your helmet thanks to a removable shell with various patterns in many colours and match it with an as fashionable neck cover.

To be made Love Helmets appealed to experts in manufacturing of helmets but also to designers. Today, the helmet combines security, technicality, modernity and fashion.

By introducing its collection to the event Bread & Butter in July, Love Helmets is hoping to change the universe of fashion accessories and people’s lifestyles … so Pimp your Head!



Website and on-line store www.lovehelmets.com

Yves Saint Laurent at work: Haute Couture Board, 1988

Amazing execution & post-production for the last clip of Patrick Jean "Pixels".

Check out Andrew Bannecker’s delightful ‘Mammoeth’ illustration for Russell Kostulin.

250 life-size, painted sculptures of the animal are being installed around London from May to July for the event Elephant Parade, a conservation campaign for the endangered Asian elephant.

Pretty nifty concept of the periodic table... of typography! [Editor's Note: We previously saw the last of these as #19585, but love the new additions!]

Standartarchitecture's Niyang River Visitor Center combines art and architecture perfectly. Those wonderful colors are created with traditional mineal dyes.

You can download and print these cute CD and DVD cases designed by Tomoko Suzuki from Canon.

Dog breeds as typefaces.

The project is a residence for two artists. Inspired by geometric arrangements of interlocking polygons, the new residence takes the form of a heptagonal figure. Design by Michael Maltzan Architecture.

The Spyropoulos brothers explore conversation through architecture.

Underskin, a human subway map, by Sam Loman.

Fashion illustration tips from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (part I)

The Hello Project is an online creative collaboration giving people the chance to say hi, hello, or hola on one of today’s most common yet neglected canvas: the Post-it®.

Oji & Design ~ love the merge of leather and metal in this washbasin combination

The first stamp in the form of a book has been designed by Richard Hutten for the Royal TNT Dutch post to celebrate the 75 years of Dutch book week. eight pages, contains a 500-word story.

Love these illustrations by Alex Varanese... [see also #28801]

It's a bed. It's a cradle. It's a cloud. Oh no, it's the Private Cloud, designed by Mkloker.

Evolution of Type Taste from Grade School to Present by Jessica Hische tells her typographic story. So what's your story?

It's a big dilemma: bottled water vs. tap water? The answer is: Bobble. Designed by Karim Rashid, Bobble is a filtered water bottle which makes tap water safe to drink. This means it's green, healthy and looking so cool!

The just-launched site, The Photography Post, has an amazing "live feed" aggregate that updates visual blog links every fifteen minutes.

Grass-shaped post-its that serve as page markers. Designed by Yuruliku.

Organic energy drink packaging with a post-it like sticker with a unique quote which can be pasted in your office desk. Design by Nimrod Gavish, a graphic design student in Israel.

Good Design Hotel, design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

Tristan Perich's "Interval Studies" play the notes between the notes, in 1-bit audio, all at the same time, in beautiful speaker arrays.

The Moleskine Passion Journals feature layouts oriented toward each of “life’s great passions”, with journals made specifically for wine, food, wellness, film, books and movies. [see also #25626]

Prints your current location inside of your letter’s envelope. Post it from the exact place.

Michael Johansson is better at packing than you. Much, much better.

Fascinating geometric sculptures by Antony Gormley

The Heinz Ketchup packet gets a new look and a complete packaging overhaul. "The new Heinz Dip & Squeeze product marks"first ketchup packet makeover for the foodservice industry in 42 years."

A wonderfully retro birthday invitation.

A simple yet beautiful video of a weekend adventure and the birthday of photographer, Allister Ann. The video was made with none else but the Canon 5D Mark II.

From the offices of Tadler Design, this interior for a Long Island apartment is clean cut, minimal, & beautiful.

A compiled list of the top 14 design books every graphic designer or aspiring graphic designer should read!

loving the light-pixel campaign for Shimano. Designed by Chicago artist collective REAKT the ads are featured in Decline Magazine.

An interior inspired by Legos, complete with a kitchen table covered in lego bricks!

Push your ideas! See this video for your daily dose of inspiration.

Les Dangereux is a ninja love story. Sweet!

FEATUREDThe Mercer ~ Soho, NYC ~ so many design details not to be missed in my room here ~ this is just one of many in the post! Love the way the bubble bath is measured in bubbles! See the key and magnets too!

An awesome dad hand paints these lunch bags for his kid during his lunch break at work.

Stunning post-apocalyptic landscapes by Perth-based artist Martin Wills.

Private house on the Langhe land, Cuneo Italy.
Design by Archicura.

Let it #uksnow, let it #uksnow, let it #uksnow. Truly amazing satellite picture taken 7th January at 11.50 UTC

"Jace, an artist from La Reunion, a small french island off of Madagascar, was staying with us a couple of winters back and asked if he could paint our garden." Awesome post over at brownstoner.

The Typographic Wall Calendar by Post Typography presents a different interpretation of the number “2010” each month with various illustrations.

It's amazing ads for Pantogar. "Pantogar revitalizer is your hair getting thinner?"

The MAXXI Museum previously seen at #26287 gets photographed by Iwan Baan. The views from the interiors are amazing.

The "Wall of Knowledge." A concept for a library in Stockholm, rendered by a group of students.

A new short movie created by Karl Lagerfeld showcases the story of the Coco’s unrealized dream to visit Shanghai.

FEATUREDUp close with the NAU Down Scarf i was curious about in #5115 ~ SO comfy! And it has pockets, perfect for stashing phones/cards/cash...

Tomer Hanuka’s post-apocalyptic visions are imbued with a real sense of pathos.

Artist Mark Giglio (notcot #19296) puts a modern and colorful spin on classic Japanese Kokeshi dolls. Two of his latest characters are available to purchase in very limited quantities.

The paper company Fedrigoni 2010 calendar- a post-it style calendar with a page-per-day, a color-per-month and the user can fold the day stand up everyday, for a whole year.

French brand Lanvin continues to celebrate their 120th anniversary and will be releasing official stamps in 2010 for the French national post - La Poste.

Design studio/authors Post Typography just released their new calendar "2010 By The Numbers" featuring 12 unique lettering and typographic approaches to the number 2010.

Sailing club in Versilia, Italy. Design by progettospore.

No doubt, nature paints the most impressive pictures. Here's a set of amazing photographs of giant icebergs from Antarctica and Greenland by master nature photographer David Burdeny.

Inspiring interview with fashion illustrator Nicole Jarecz, student in Miami at College for Creative Studies, fashion design section, on how to find your ideal fashion Internship while you're a student.

These WWI-era anti-aircraft hearing aids have such provocative designs!

Photographer Brett Arthur took his own vision of the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu and applied it during a personal photo shoot of his to hopefully use as an awareness tool for the serious effects of the virus.

CHANEL brings into the open "The making of a couture outfit"

Karl Lagerfeld drawing A Quick Sketch. Awesome!

Ryoji Ikeda's "Datamatics [ver. 2.0]" premiered in the US at Harvard last night. The beauty of lots of data!

Inspiring Interview with Leigh Viner on how to create successful fashion illustrations

Screw Me is a lighting concept by recent Art Center graduate, Jonathan Rowell. A simple twist of the threaded post allows the lamp body to adjust up and down.

"The clock I can't see" is a colorblind wall clock. If you look carefully you can see the numbers, or is that your brain playing tricks on you?

Last week, artist Karen O'Leary's NYC Map Cuts (#25841) were all the rage. Now she's back with another intriguing project: Paris In Pen and Paper. Check out an exclusive interview with her as well!

Forest Milk (or Shinrin no Gyunyu) is coming from a Japanese farm where cows are walking freely in a natural forest. Delicious, natural milk in a perfect designed bottle. I want some, please...

Dongyun Lee's exhibit 'Eternal Flow' is a compilation of ink & watercolor illustrations that look like a wild trip into the subconscious.

the Kurt Vonnegut backlist gets fresh new cover designs, incorporating an illustration by the author on the front of each book...

Beautiful poster designed by Cristiana Couceiro for the long waited documentary 'The Visual Language of Herbert Matter'.

Fabio Viale has crafted some amazingly technical pieces out of marble. I could have sworn these were Styrofoam. blissful. (he's also featured in #25774, but on a much grander scale)

Here is a 'closer' look at the Mini S customized by artist KR for his upcoming Hamburg exhibition (previously seen in #25854)

Inspiring Interview with Kathryn Elyse Rodgers on how to succeed in the fashion illustration industry.

Nice infographic looking at average internet speeds and costs around the world

This small goopy photographic series was developed during designer Paul Fuog's 2009 post at Stefan Sagmeister's Experimental Outcamp in Ubud, Indonesia. It goes by the name "Sea Creatures."

Mondrianum is a Mac plugin that allows users to access Adobe Kuler (#2214) for all applications and works like a system-wide color picker.

Through The Ages is a piece of time travel with Mini Cooper. An advertisement campaign by Am I Collective for Blackriver FC agency. Perfect visuals completed with perfect music.

Tviga Vasilyeva puts the sound of the forest back where the trees have been cut down.

CMYK broadens their audience and appeal with a fresh overhaul of the magazine (due out in November). Here's a preview of a redesigned cover...

Laser cut, RFID tagged paper radios by Matt Brown

Lovely layered wax builds up this work by Keetra Dean Dixon in collaboration with JK Keller called 'I've been thinking of you for a while.'

Two cousins (characters) from the video game Katamari Damacy, walking the Jacob Javits Center on September 26, 2009. Costumes made by Janeille Pita.

This is a must see, a great stop motion spot using yarn for Gravity Mobile co directed by Adam Avilla and Tony Benna, A brand new directing duo out of San Francisco. [also #25326]

VIDEOBison create a glitch-ridden, live performance video for Jon Hopkins using arm mounted cameras. All analogue post production; just an old TV, some VHS tapes and an industrial strength magnet.

At her 5oth anniversary, Barbie is opening in Barcelona her second shop, the first one in Europe. An exhibition will take place at the end of November. In the picture, Barbie, exhausted and post-party, with Carlota's selected work.

BumpTop is a graphical overlay for Windows-based operating systems. Check out some of the exciting new multi-touch gestures Bump Top is unveiling. Finally here after #15092

Coarsetoys vinyl toys have colorful, well-detailed packaging.

FEATUREDIn 2019 when you sip the Veuve Clicquot La Grand Dame ~ think of this post, and my hard work picking grapes to help make that batch possible... see everything from the picking to the pressing...

World Famous Design Junkies do an aesthetically informative photo shoot of an eyepatch packaging on top of a kittie scratching post. The patch is discussed, the post is not mentioned.

FEATUREDInside the Rickenbacker... MUSEUM! Final part of this post series ~ you know i couldn't resist showing you the first electric guitar, and the design details of vintage guitars as well as concepts that may never be...

On the 12th September the first live performance of Longplayer began at The Roundhouse, London. The full performance lasted 1000 minutes... this is merely a fraction of that, and an inconceivably small part of the full 1000 year long composition.

FEATUREDNightLife at the California Academy of Sciences ~ so i showed you the creatures in #24705 ~ but here is a look at the interiors and the night life scene!

This Pavilion is inspired by termites, and is modeled after the inside of a termite mound.

James May and volunteers are building a life-size house from Legos in the UK, which May plans to live in after its completion [for a few days].

Sil van der Woerd just wrapped up the second music video for Lolly Jane Blue titled White Swan. For this project, Sil collaborated with a group of Gnomon students to complete the post production.

Diana Al-Hadid, Tower of Infinite Problems

The Swedish Post is releasing a series of stamps to celebrate the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesangs second trip into space that is starting this weekend.

Hoot Nanny! its like a retro spirograph ~ with very fun pics and packaging!

Cool - Makedo is a building kit that lets you make things from whatever "found" materials you may have lying around.

The iconic post modernism housing complex Cube Houses in Rotterdam has been converted into an affordable hostel.

This clever set of chopsticks uses a small magnet to give you that satisfying feeling of pulling apart wooden chopsticks without the waste of trees. The woodpecker motif makes it even sweeter. Available from Tokyomade.

Italian pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai. Design by Iodice architects.

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown. See some amazing shots here!

Crafters.org cleverly rifted wry humor into their logo designs. I love how they pair brilliant copy with vintage-styled graphics.

Good ideas glow in the dark - the Adris Group annual report // July 2009

MyPressi Portable Espresso....designed by the guys @ Elemental 8 in San Jose, Ca! Well done E8, great design and product characteristics! [see also #21118]

Woodblock post it note "log"?

Ferrari Factory Store, Serravalle, Italy.
Design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

A brand new World Famous Design Junkies collection: Rally Cars from the early 1950s to the present; Get your speedy on!

The Claytable by Erwin Zwiers is designed so that users can leave their traces, as they play and mould the table's inviting clay surface.

While giving us a peek at Christmas In July ~ NYT's The Moment shares a peek at Marcel Wanders for Target coming this holiday season... a wreath made of gold jingle bells

A 26000 fine-stone encrusted collection of everyday objects in the mouth of a mushroom-tripping-cartoon called "Simple Things" - made by Artist Takashi Murakami and musician Pharrell Williams. [see also #22334]

MOS summer installation at the PS1 (seen in #23544 and #22870) finally opened to the public. Hut-like structures act like chimneys to cool down the area with air flow generated by the heat from the faux fur.

Blow-your-mind architectural concept from Magnus Larsson: use bacteria to create a 6,000km long wall to prevent the Sahara Desert from spreading further. Wow.

A vintage retrospective of 50's & 60's fashion and editorial prints by photographer Dan Wynn will open July 23, 2009 in Brooklyn, NY. This exhibit will highlight four parts of his career: Maidenform, Seventeen Magazine, Revlon and Esquire Magazine.

The train station in Britomart, NZ had its platforms covered in grass for a milk TV commercial. Nice surprise for the morning commuters!

Lynda, created by Sudtipod is just one of the eight new releases this July from the HypeForType Foundry.

Melbourne's Recital Centre featured previously as #22565, but this gorgeous piece from Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) architects deserves a second look.

VIDEOThis is the new video for the debut single by Sally Shapiro, "Love in July". It's direct by Paul Leeny & David Loom.

New York City tonight (Wednesday, July 1st), WK will be signing his new book from 6-8pmat the Jonathan LeVive Gallery and releasing 3 new prints!

Fun post over at Core77 on Car Interior Design Tricks ~ all types of brilliant space savers/creators

The century's most dramatic solar eclipse is coming up on July 22, 2009. We want to share it with the world (most of whom will not get to experience it) and have fun doing it.

This memorial for the 52 victims of the 7 July bombings will be unveiled in Hyde Park, London tomorrow by Prince Charles on the fourth anniversary of the attacks

It's the Summer of the SuperVillain! Name your nemesis and illustrator Len Peralta will draw his interpretation and even post a video of the process to YouTube.

FEATUREDHappy 4th of July! For the occasion, it seemed appropriate to check out the crazy packaging and typography of some roadside Fireworks!

Students of University Twente are also going to streak across the Australian outback for this year's World Solar Challenge. With their new tilting solar car the 21revolution. Direct competition for the students from Delft, see post 22897

MWM : Parallel Universe - Brazil Exhibition. ROJO Artspace Sao Paulo. June 23 – July 25. Art & Mural & Travel Photos.

The Anonymous Hugging Wall in London as part of Keetra Dean Dixon ongoing series METHODS & APPARATI for Social Facilitation and Mood Elevation

Traveling with your pets? Pet Airways starts up this July.

Headquarter building in Milan, Italy.
Design by Park Associated and Zucchi & Partners.

It's 200 years since Louis Braille, the creator of braille was born and to celebrate that the Swedish Post has released a set of stamps. The stamps are designed by Elisabeth Björkbom and say "See with different eyes" in readable braille.

Creature ABC ~ perhaps the ultimate kids gift book? Coming out July 22nd ~ the alphabet version of Andrew Zuckerman's amazing Creature book

The World Famous Design Junkies post an expanding collection of photographs of the most important card in the deck: the Ace of Spades.