FEATUREDIncredible sculptures created using the wings of butterflies. Beautiful pieces from Anabela Chan at Show RCA 2013.
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New Baguette Bag by CYAN is available on the new pre-order fashion platform Wowcracy.
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Vintage children's pop-up book from cold-war era former soviet union.
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Minimalist representation of your old high school friend (TI-83 calculator) on a t-shirt, launched with Cotton Bureau. Go celebrate tactile interfaces by wearing one!
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Created by french designers Thierry Boltz and Claude Saos of BSG bikes, the 'WOOD.b' is born is conceived as a high-quality urban bike, influenced by a passion for cycling.
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Modern and colorful state prints via These Are Things in Brooklyn.
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FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Strawberry Margarita Jello Shots, Korean Bibimbap, Individual Cheese Fondues and more.
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A couple in Houston, TX restored a 1978 Volkswagen Bus and converted into a rentable photo booth on wheels.
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A 19th-century barn has been converted into an office, at Bavel in the Netherlands, to a design by the studio Arend Groenewegen Architect.
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Drum + machine is a digital art piece using a stereoscopic technique that working without any special glasses.
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New exhibition of site-specific installations by Aakash Nihalani at Signal Gallery playing with forced perspective and viewer interaction.
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Ceramic desktop speakers suspended on steel legs to step above the clutter of the desk below. Interchangibility of the top cone and colours allow users to have some create input.
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FEATUREDA steam bending Sweatshop from Joe Pipal at RCA 2013 that brings manufacturing to users with a minimum of mechanization.
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Hidemi Nishida's wooden cube installation "Fragile Invasion" permeates Galleri Fisk in Norway.
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The 10º Step Stool is an absolutely gorgeous, sustainable, handcrafted piece from nascent furniture outfit The Office for Lost Objects.
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Artistic Engineers have turned the FACT Gallery in Liverpool into an experimental Fracking Site.
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VIDEONomoon's retrospective of Vespas from 1943 to 2013.
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Ten explorations on the possible meanings of negative space showcasing new and intriguing perspectives.
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A theater made of recycled paper, bamboo, and cardboard designed by Studio Andrew Todd to be exhibited at the World Stage Design 2013 in Cardiff, Wales.
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House GePo in Belgium designed by Open Y Office. Simple steel structure, minimalist, creates an open space on the ground floor that connects with a wild garden.
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Walking Drawings: Coloured People by Evewright.
Evewright creates large-scale drawings on selected transitional 'sandscapes' using the British coastline as a canvas, with a combination of mechanical and freehand tools.
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Packaging design for BIO A+O.E. is an abstract, technical evolution of the Dandelion flower, a simple symbol of natural and timeless beauty.
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Naomi Vona is an italian artist who lives in Dublin, Ireland. She works on vintage found photos creating a new interpretation of the original shots, simply using pens, paper, colored tape and stickers.
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Project Loon is a Google X project with the aim of providing Internet access for the entire world using (believe it or not) balloons floating in the stratosphere.
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'Makarenko nursery school' by French architects Ellenamehl, in Irvy-sur-Seine, France.
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Miya Ando's Hand dyed, anoidized paintings on view at Sundaram Tagore Gallery NYC.
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A padded cell, with cotton candy walls, was created by artist Jennifer Rubell for the Performa Arts' Red Party.
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Food in my Beard plate series by designer Phil Jones.
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VIDEOA Rube Goldberg machine demonstrating the digestive system of a cow!
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Minimalist On a Roll tape dispenser from Black + Blum.
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The London Contemporary Orchestra head underground, filling abandoned tube stations with music in their Imagined Occasions series.
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Beautiful visual identity and packaging for Beurre & Sel bakery from Monument Partners.
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Taking Dr. Spiro Kostof’s dictum “To be civilized is to be urban” as inspiration, Studio Twenty Seven Architecture launches a series of installations to challenge urban norms and encourage non-standard thinking.
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Joseph Bowen's adorable little Micro Hatchet for Triple Aught Design.
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The 'Peace Pavilion' at Museum Gardens in Bethnal Green, London by the architects Atelier Zündel Cristea is the winner of the contest organized by ArchTriumph : 'Triumph Pavilion – Summer Pavilion 2013'.
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Antibody worked with the good folk from Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment to create the launch trailer for their terrifying new story world. This is Tom Clancy's The Division.
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Aspiro, the pendant lamp created by the Finnish lighting company Secto Design.
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Caste Projects are involved in design, branding, and interiors but what I'm loving is their needle felt polar bear.
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Hell is Other People, an experiment in anti-social media. It uses FourSquare to track your 'friends' and calculates optimal locations for avoiding them.
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Level coffee tables by Erik Remmers of Vandaag Design Studio.
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The Lomography Konstruktor DIY Kit, a build-your-own 35mm plastic SLR camera.
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New origami street art by Mademoiselle Maurice outside Montée St-Maurice as part of the 2013 ARTAQ Festival in Angers, France.
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Alacran showcases their all matte black tequila bottles in a video titled 'Big Bang'.
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'Living' greenhouses that are uprooting conventional spaces.
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Evil Spirits Vodka is the first offering from Evil Spirits Distillery.
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FEATUREDThe LA Natural History Museum had quite the 100th Birthday Bash, including the dramatic Otis Booth Pavilion unveiling. From projection whales that breach... to busting through to show off the whale skeleton in a glass cube...
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Like a giant strainer dropped into the river, + POOL makes it possible for everybody to swim in clean river water right here in NYC.
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The Maharam Shell Chair Project celebrates the 50th anniversary of Hans J. Wegner’s iconic Shell Chair in collaboration with Maharam.
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Gorgeous FallenTree Bench from Benjamin Graindorge.
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One Million Bones, a stark installation across the National Mall in Washington DC.
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Life, Philipp Meyer's tactile comic book for the blind.
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Mezzo is a small radio designed by Ionna Vautrin for Lexon Design.
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Besançon Art Centre and Cité de la Musique by Kengo Kuma and Associates.
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The Exbury Egg will be a temporary, energy efficient self-sustaining work space for artist Stephen Turner in the estuary of the River Beaulieu.
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The bench inspired by the bicycle chain created by the Danish designer Kerstin Kongsted.
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Rocking box is an easy transferable storage for children's toys, which consists of two half-round pieces and can function as a rocking plaything.
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Meld Wine Glass inspired by the interaction between glass and hand, merges them to create delicate interactive glass objects, from muzzdesign.
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The immersive and interactive installation 'Sonos Playground Deconstructed' at the Museum of the Moving Image.
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VIDEOLook what happens when you leave MortonUnderwood with a 3D printer for an afternoon; a working tuba mouthpiece, some Sabbath and slapstick comedy too!
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VIDEOBehind the scenes at the amazing Kernel Brewery in London.
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Spanish artistic group Luzinterruptus recently exhibited in Madrid a shining interactive installation made of 800 condoms.
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Cast Cutlery is a minimalist design created by Japanese-based designer Oji & Design.
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VIDEOThe video shows the first 3D augmentation ever made on the Coliseum in Rome. The technology employed is the ARmedia 3D tracker for Augmented Reality.
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Awesome installation for Secret Garden Party and Burning Man this summer!
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Becca McCharen's line of lingerie, swimwear and body cages, Chromat, studied the work of futurist architects from the sixties; exclusive interview with the designer.
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Bryant Austin's incredible images of whales. The exhibition even includes a stunning life-size image of a sperm whale.
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Tomoya Matsuura's bubble photography. Incredible images that remind me of baby squid.
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The NW3 speakers by Germany based interdisciplinary collective Neue Werkstatt are designed, manufactured and distributed in close collaboration with local craftsmen and businesses.
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A look at how Folditure make their Leaf Chair.
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Experimental long exposure photography with LEDs programmed to make patterns with movement. By David Cruz.
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The Lomography Film Scanner can scan 35mm film negatives and slides right to your phone.
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Italian designer Roberto Giacomucci created an amazing collection of small, functional, animated containers, more than objects, they are subjects, emotional entities ...
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The Lepsis is a terrarium for growing edible insects at home.
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Jim des Rivières's gorgeous photos of Canadian moths.
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Clear Lake Cottage by MacLennan Jaunkalns Miller Architects (MJMA), in Seguin, Ontario.
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A typographic tour of the custom Art Deco signage in Sydney's beautiful Potts Point neighbourhood.
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René Binet's Esquisses Décoratives & the Protozoic Façade of Porte Monumentale
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Ying Zhang and Ida Thonsgaard's Playtime, combining flooring, a chair and a table.
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Two interactive LED lit sculptures celebrate the identity, history and values of Midvale, Utah.
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VIDEOPlayful ad campaign from Ogilvy & Mather France for IBM. Posters with purposes as part of their "People For Smarter Cities" campaign.
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STUDIOKCA's “Head in the Clouds” pavilion made of more than 53,000 reclaimed plastic water bottles popped up on Governors Island this weekend.
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Gorgeous photos from Jared Lim's Urban Explorer series.
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Dutch artist Ingrid Siliakus designs and builds “paper architecture,” creating meticulous metropolises that layer paper silhouettes of buildings with their own cut-out negatives and the delicate shadows cast by their fragile facades.
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VIDEOThe making of Luke Stephenson and Liam Aylott's gorgeous lookbook for Agi & Sam for Topman featuring some gorgeous owls.
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Like a lamb to the gods, Thing Industries give you the Sacrificial Chair to sacrifice to your clothes. Available in graphite and off white.
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Labs can be pretty incredible places and Alastair Philip Wiper captures them beautifully in this series SOLAR / ANECHOIC.
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Silk Pavilion from Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab created using 6,500 live silkworms.
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Love hurts, so SVA grad Melanie Chernock created this gorgeous first aid kid for the brokenhearted.
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VIDEOEric Paré of Timecode Lab's 360° stop motion photography.
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LAIN is composed of only 3 shelves and 4 rods and 12 safety stops. This developed using an anchoring system based on the tensions exerted on the parts, avoiding additional fixing elements such as screws or adhesives and use of assembly tools.
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Suck Uk's Tab Notebooks: a set of 4 notebooks shaped with tabs that stick out for labelling.
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Poisoned Loaf Poster by Blackbird is beautiful. The basic illustration was hand drawn with a pencil and inked with Copic Multiliners.
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FEATUREDByrd's Cookies (since 1924!) + Cookie Jar come in a great box from Savannah, GA! Fun branding, delicious cookies, and "May your cookie jar never be empty." (Don't worry, you can gift people cookie subscriptions to keep it full!)
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Benchina is an architectural urban seat, that is made out of wood and marble. It is design in a way, that promotes people to communicate and share their interests as well as spend their time in solitude.
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