Amazing Japanese kitchen scrubs made from recycled corn cobs and peach pits.

Allison Torneros lets the paint do the 'talking', throws paint and other materials onto the canvas in an unpredictable manner and leaves it to dry overnight. Later, she begins drawing based on what she sees in the random composition.

Gorgeous leather and steampunk masks by Tom Banwell! Check out the unicorn masks too.

LIFE came across a fish hospital in India.

Roxy Paine creates stainless-steel trees, faux fields of poppies and mushrooms, and robotic machines that make monochromatic art.

Some really fantastic print and poster design.

Dubbed “The Shard”, also known as the London Bridge Tower, is a skyscraper that will stretch the imagination an astounding 1017ft tall when construction is completed in 2012.

Autonomous tram for Stockholm City, 2025- designed in a Scandinavian way, being clean, simple and bright at the same time as it is timeless, open and user friendly.

The idea of picking the droppings removes my eyes all the potential pleasure of the canine's friendship. Poupou Royal is a clean system for the urban dog walker developed by Jessica in my packaging class.

Joby GorillaTorch ~ close up with the tripod maker's new super bright (65 Lumens!) flashlight with magnetic ball socket legs ready to grab on and enlighten just about anywhere! (and teeny LED bulb!)

Jenga Pistol! It shoots... blocks.

Today is the 50th birthday of the Mini and BMW unveiled the Mini Coupe Concept.

Artist/designer, Leif Podhajsky, has a strange, yet compelling nature to his mixed media work. Implementing a cut-and-paste collage aspect into his geometrically inspired backdrops, Leif achieves an oh-so familiar look, with added flare.

Experimental photographer Paul Octavious does it again with the Black Sea.

Julien Renault, french graphic-designer, draws sneakers in an amazing way, and worth a look.

Photographer Carl W. Heindl unusual and captivating portraiture. Featured on Jeriko, a German language art site.

Duo converts laptops and monitors into tablet PCs

PS3 Slim Tear Down!

Housing project in Helsingborg by Wilhelmson Arkitekter where the windows have gilded frames

In uncertain times, creative strategy in business has never been more valuable. Reflecting the economic challenges on every firm’s mind, Lisa Tse Ltd has printed its own currency, Design Dollars.

New York photographer and mathematician, Nikki Graziano, has combined art and math in a rather simplistic and beautiful manner. Photographing the mundane, Nikki extracts the organically occurring functions found in and around nature.

Photographer Lou Mora travels to the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs for a photo-shoot. Here are a few samples from his blog. Enjoy.

BIG's winning proposal for the new National Library in Kazakhstan features an innovative design that mixes a lineal circulation to store the books, twisted as an infinite loop.

Vintage Movie themed photo-shoot. The year is 1971, the car a Buick Riviera. Dialogue Photography by matt taylor of devicious.

Beautiful grey felted laptop sleeves and denim printed pencil cases by Angie Davis of byrdandbelle

The British Steam Car just shattered the world record for a steam driven vehicle by hitting an average speed of 139.843mph!

Colorful interior courtyards with perforated volumes give character to the San Sebastian high school in Chile, designed by Tidy Arquitectos.

Isotrope Design's beautiful tables are influenced by landscape and topography.

ROBOX; a series of 9 storage boxes that can turn into giant robot in no time

Oh Incase ~ you guys and your awesome packaging... they've done it again on the packaging for the new Monochrome Slider Cases for iPhones that launched today! Check out all the details!

glass become couture for the home with the creation of these "soft boxes" and tubes from Tsunami Glass.

Mac Tablet Rumors ~ they are flying around constantly, and over at wepc we're discussing whether a touchscreen netbook would need a slideout keyboard...

Break-to-open Pygg Piggy Bank by Willie Tsang tells the story of our familiar piggy banks. The origin of piggy banks come from a mistranslation of an orange clay called "pygg".

A new contemporary arts program called ReMap is taking to the streets with guerilla-style artwork that blurs the lines between public property, commercial art practice, and vandalism.

The Wounded Artist Project supplies beginner drawing kits to wounded soldiers to help occupy their time while healing. They need donations!

Check out the great style, composition and urban feel of Jessie Douglas’ illustrations. She is originally from the Mediterranean islands of Ibiza, but now lives in plymouth, Devon UK.

JimmyJane's new Contour Q porcelain massage stone set... and it combines nicely with the Contour M as well... see closeups as well as a peek at some of their cheeky packaging...

Berlin-based photographer Giorgio Fochesato looks at America with the critical eye of an outsider, and the creative eye of a photographer, giving us a look at the iconic American road – Route 66

Kerin Rose made these pyramid stud sunglasses for Rihanna with her brand a-morir. You can actually see through them.

One of the pioneers of "Glass Art" at work. Watch Bert van Loo in Timelapse.

llustrator and graphic designer Juan Casini from Buenos Aires, Argentina just released his latest body of work, which features illustrations and designs in the shape of a sketchbook.

60 Foot Mural by Pixel.Tron & Karl Addison - two Seattle based artist. Squid VS. Whale Release Party August 29th @ The Twilight Exit - 6PM

What would you do with a kilomater of wood?
Designers, architects, carpenters and everybody else who had an idea what to do with unlimited amounts of wood and screws was invited to realise their proposals within three days...

Flickr set of awesome posters from graphic designer Jordan Michael Gray.