Remember ‘The Art of Chess’ exhibition from 2005? It’s back and heading to Milan, chocked full of ten outstanding contemporary artists and their re-imagined chess sets. Field trip, perhaps?

Clear perfume bottle by Nendo at Salone del Mobile 2010 – Galleria Antonia Jannone

Photographer Sølve Sundsbø has produced images of the new Nike soccer boot in his signature style. The outcome is very impressive, showcasing lots of details of the boot.

Mario Bellini reinterprets Steven Holl, who responds by reinventing Bellini in HORM's Design Exchange.

Head Porter Black Beauty - A very simple, yet functional and nice looking new DSLR camera case comes from Head Porter.

For his piece “Back to Futurama,” artist Jeremy Dean gutted a HUMMER H2 and revamped it into a horse-drawn testament to the collapse of the auto-industry.

Sam Baron and Fabrica designed these strange and funny wooden chairs for Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche parisian store.

Coordinated by the DMY Berlin contemporary design platform and Create Berlin, 7designers and creative labs create the collective exhibition “Made in Berlin – Open Process” presenting new prototypes and innovative concepts.

Awesome showreel by illustrator and motion designer Kristof Luyckx from Belgium.

The world's first 'tweeting balcony' has appeared in front of The Shakespeare's Head on London's Carnaby Street - it is a stunt supporting the first ever Twitter production from the Royal Shakespeare Company. Such Tweet Sorrow.

Jens Praet's Arctic collection is a reflection on the industrial revolution's major after-effect, the global warming. This project wants to reach the people's attention by creating everyday objects with a subtle environmental message...

A DIY project by graphic designer Chloe Fleury depicting various areas of San Francisco through 3D City Posters.

Amazing poster campaign for Billboard Magazine by award winning Brazilian design team, Danilo Boer.

I’m still pretty into mountain art, and Liesl Pfeffer’s latest work certainly fills that desire for geometric landscaping. Fantastic!

Seeing the process behind Seattle's Furniture Designer Andy Whitcomb of Whitcomb & Company.

Dutch company Thodio has collected an army of 50s style ammo boxes and stuffed them with high-quality Kevlar speakers. The A-BOX is functional and puts out a great amount of sound, even for a metal box.

PlusDesign presents new 2010 edition projects by: Massimo Barbierato, Camp ana BROT HERS , Lorenzo Damiani, Marina Fulgeri, Philipp e Malouin, Liliana Ovall e, Martin Saemm er, Oscar Tuazon, Walter Visentin, Robert Wettstein.

Cassecroute makes timeless picnic tables. For 2010 there are three new models next to the well-known Cassecroute Table: Beer Table, Field Kitchen and Carre.

The Mercedes-Benz Museum ~ a look at the amazing images the surreal juxtapositions of materials and unexpected curves in the architecture create! And the horse... an early predecessor to the automobile?

LIVING UNDERWATER Jacques Cousteau’s lifelong dream of living beneath the sea set artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi to thinking about artworks as relics of the future.

”Screw me” from Jonathan Rowell is, like the name indicates in the literally sense of the phrase, a lamp that can be screwed into the right height and position. Love the clean and playful design!

Caia Koopman's enchanting paintings seduce and unsettle

A peek at the new products by the BOUROULLEC brothers... launching at Milano Salone 2010

American band "Passion Pit" is set to re-release their award winning album "Manners" as a Deluxe Edition on April 13th 2010 with new artwork created by Robert Seidel.

Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart ~ Amazing scifi time machine pod like elevators ~ steel doors painted to look like concrete ~ and videos of the worlds largest artificial TORNADO (indoors!)

Three Northeastern University students have engineered a data-logging shirt for baseball pitchers that will not only help prevent elbow injuries, but also provide an electronic analysis of pitching mechanics.

Official details have just been released on the 2011 Ferrari 599 GTO, Maranello's fastest street legal car ever! This is also only the 3rd Ferrari in the company's storied history to wear the Gran Turismo Omologato moniker.

Operation Window Seat continues ~ this time with peeks at snow covered mountains at sunset on the way in to Milan ~ and at coming in to Stuttgart during the day...

New Heroes dolls from Momiji are realeased today. This one is named Yee-Ha! She likes watercress and Maya Angelou. Each one is packaged in an inflated pillow bag.

Shannon Rankin deconstructs maps, then forges new mountains, erupts volcanoes, cuts roads, peels back the world and then adds layers to reveal wholly different and much more interesting version.

Great infographic video about the conception of Wine by Tiago Cabaco.

Zeitraum will be bringing this 'Secret' desk to the Milan Salone this month, along with other sleek contemporary designs in natural woods by Nana Gröner, Merit Frank, Hertel & Klarhoefer, and Tina Bartsch.

The C-2 House designed by Curiosity is like huge abstract shape rising from the ground with its shaped angle following the steep angle of the land. An unexpected and refreshing house!

Here is an inside look into one of the most amazing industrial facilities on earth. Inside the House of Porsche.

The most Insane architecture project i've seen in a while: Seed Cathedral for the UK Shanghai Pavilion by Heatherwick studio

Take a look at the Jabuticaba. This bizarre tree grows it fruit straight off its trunk. Cool but weird!

Alvéoles Vol.1 & Vol.2 by french artist Jean-Pierre Attal. Some amazing and strange photographs about offices architecture, towers frontages and windows.

Japanese designers Tatsuo Yamamoto and Jun Hashimoto will be exhibiting at Salone del Mobile in Milan next week, where they will show off their latest creations, the Mozzarella and Net chairs.

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Yves Saint Laurent at work: Haute Couture Board, 1988

BVN Architecture have designed the Elysium 154 House in Noosa, Queensland, Australia.

Found these LunchPunch sandwich cutters after asking for child friendly sandwich cutters which are also 100% recyclable for both product & packaging.

Blake Fall-Conroy makes things that make a social or political statement. His new work-in-progress is titled Minimum Wage Machine, which actually makes you work for minimum wage.

One of the key new brands to watch at this year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Local is a new label from Dubai that sees designers and artists create outside their usual mediums…..