färskt.com did a quick little feature of Andre Michelle's tone matrix. Check it out. Its kind of addicting!

Beautiful video of Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world

Gestalten has published the first monograph for
Oded Ezer, Israeli typographer and graphic designer. Oded Ezer: The Typographer's Guide to the Galaxy takes a close look at his often experimental typographic work...

Designer Matt Robinson illustrates the amount of ink left in your cartridge after using any of the most popular fonts in the world. Conclusion? Never, never use the font named IMPACT.

Unrelated artists Peter Prcilio and Suzan Fellman both had the idea to bling out animal skulls with Swarovski Crystals. One on the skull, the other on the horns.

New site and showreel from graduate Joe Phillips.

For the 2012 London Olympics, Jen Lamb, working with True North, created these typographically driven single-word billboards made up of tiny rings made of the names of the countries involved!

Keeping Mercedes’ sandwich floor concept in mind, the BlueZero’s structure allows for three different platforms to be realized: an E-Cell with battery, E-Cell plus with battery and gasoline, and an F-Cell with hydrogen.

A whistle stop tour of some of the most spectacular radio telescopes in the world. On almost all of the continents these giants command the landscape as they survey the skies.

House in Nagoya by Suppose Design Office

Some beautiful images from The House Of Viktor & Rolf. The exhibition is now installed in Utrecht.

If you've ever watched Loony Toons, you know that the best way to observe someone undetected is to use shrubbery. The Porta Hedge is the souped up version of the basic bush camo getup - offering ropeswings, chalkboards and a even birdcall device.

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.

Pictaculous - Ever wondered what color to use with an image? Upload an image - get a color palette!

"Drawing Light" a series of lamps designed by Sara Ivanyi of Form Follows Freedom. The lamps are constructed from coated metal and rubber.
The forms appear like 3D line drawings of floating cloud-like forms.

Kingston University graduate Michael Antrobus exhibits a range of stationary made of steel bars.

Welcome to Crazy4Cult - a now annual show featuring characters like those beer lovin hosers you see above, Doug and Bob McKenzie, along with many other cult classics in fine art form!

SHAG will be on hand for a special meet & greet and signing opportunity as we celebrate the release of his "Haunted Mansion" inspired artwork created in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Haunted Mansion.

This exclusive Pink Babo Kaiju Toy will be available at the 2009 SDCC at the Giant Robot Booth. Only 20 will be available.

Bombs Away Shot Glasses!

"Give Up" by Seattle Artist Karl Addison - Closes August 4th 2009 - Retrofit Homes - Seattle, 1419 12th Avenue, Seattle, WA

Moroso's New York City store featuring Patricia Urquiola's Tropicalia Cocoon.

This incredible work from mexican artist Dr. Morbito is a real mix between tradition and pop culture. It’s all there. An amazing way to explain the mexican wrestling phenomenon.

Artist Catherine McEver has created art prints of a series of little shoes fashioned from unlikely materials ranging from bologna,lettuce,cabbage, corn husks to tortillas. Shown here, a tiny fashion pump made of Swiss cheese with a lettuce buckle.

My Moleskine 2.0 Exhibition will showcase the best ideas from international submissions of My Moleskine 2.0 competition on using and hacking your Moleskine notebook to improve your life.

Anima Mundi: The largest animation festival in Latin America has started its 17th edition in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil! 2009 Visual identity by Andreas Hykade

Discover the new Jaguar XJ described by the Jaguar engineering team !

A contemporary 5-star hotel featuring touches of whimsy, the unique façade changes colour, texture and tone to reflect the memory of the site. Designed by Warner Wong Design | WOW Architects.

Video à la Carte are ultramodern, tailor made video-collages. They could be a business card, a spectacular portfolio, a love declaration, a gift, a greeting card, a timebox, or just wallpaper...

Jun Yasumoto's Phyto-Purification Bathroom is pretty interesting... although not sure what type of wildlife might move into your shower...

HTC Hero hands on ~ while it's a white labeled version ~ no proper "unboxing" ~ but you have to see the details of this stunning design object! And a peek at the gorgeous UI as well... mmm phone lust.

Magnificently crafted "infra-ordinary" furniture from The Office for Lost Objects™

iKey AK-39 - a rugged ARM keyboard! (does it remind anyone else of that one from Chuck?)

New SyFy logo idents, a collaboration between Proud Creative and ManvsMachine.

DLF.TV releases one high quality video profile a month on a creative person. This month, profiles sculptor and fine artist, Jim Shrosbree. who creates wall-based sculpture, utilizing many different materials, shadows, and reflections.

Two typographers (Pleaseletmedesign) and a pro race pilot collaborated to design a font with a car. The car movements were tracked using a custom software, designed by interactive artist Zachary Lieberman.(openframeworks.cc )

Amazing graphic photoshoot by Romain Lenancker and Sebastien Bocos for the magazine D(X)I and the special Explosion issue.

The legendary architectural photographer Julius Shulman has died at 98. Here's a slide show of some of his most remarkable images.

Emiliano Godoy's Knit chair just shouts good design! Small wood pieces are held together with strings to form the chair and it's possible to develop in various shapes & designs.

DELL's answer to the all-in-one for today's business sector. Unfortunately, Americans won't get to purchase until August but check out some photos of the all new VOSTRO on DELL's flickr.

Jason Thielke's solo exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery opens this evening with all new works including laser cuts and Laser etchings with lacquer, aerosol and ink.

Icelandic graphic artist Siggeir Hafsteinsson creates some fantastic digital art works as part of his Airvalance series. The pieces are basic and geometrical while at the same time appearing animated and tangible.

This new mosque in Abu Dhabi gradually changes colour with the moon: it is illuminated bright white at full moon and lit deepest blue by the 14th day of the cycle.

Bela Borsodi glues together art and fashion photography.