Three free smartphone apps to help Milan Design Week visitors find their way around: Interni FuoriSalone, FUORISALONE.IT, and DesignIT guide from i Saloni, the COSMIT show at the Fiera exhibition centre.

L.A. bookstore Family and Absolute puts on a month-long extravaganza of art, music and literature. Set in a pop-up space in NYC's TriBeCa neighborhood, Thirty Days NY features a host of daily festivities.

Great images of sake barrel packaging from creative roots.

German Kreisel ~ Spinning Tops! You've seen my beautiful japanese wooden ones ~ but this assortment is even more fascinating in HOW they work! Particularly the metal ones... see the video!

The Structural Skull Ring by Bits to Atoms pushes 3D printing to celebrate the digital aesthetic. The structure is reduced to the minimum connecting lines to describe the form in a triangulated gestalt manner. Available exclusively through Shapeways.

Really striking animals made out of LEGO to raise awareness about endangered Species.

Playful mixed media series by artist/illustrator Stephanie Davidson.

tiny, cut and paste soviet concrete-buildings affixed to electric boxes and other geometric forms all throughout europe.

Suppose Design Office designed the 'House in Kodaira' that dilute the limits between interior & exterior with a tent structure covering a garden from the street view.

Repeat-x repeat-y is a collection of patterns from a plethora of designers/illustrators/artists.

So many random things encountered on a few hour wander of Milan today! From evil sheep to the milan marathon by the castle to linen designer lamps filling a street, and so much more...

Art Works by Harri Koskinen. Unique glasspieces from Iittala.

The making of the Radiolarian sofa by Lazerian

The Milan Via Spiga Hermés store has great fairytale inspired well dressed animal paper sculptures coming out of gilded frames!

Designed with both the typophile and card player in mind, Helveticards are the beautiful, usable alternative to the traditional deck of cards.

Moooi's new permanent showroom launches April 13th, with new products by Issey Myake, Nika Zupanc, Marcel Wanders, Maarten Baas, Raimon Puts.

At Salone Satellite, Salone del Mobile you will find two versions of the Different Angles Screen, the Imaginary Friend Children’s Stool and other new objects from Act. Go behind the scenes and have a look into our design process.

Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) had asked War Design to do an amazing promotional campaign to encourage students to get involved in a competition to design the Cockatoo Island Identity.

Jason LaFerrera creates beautiful collages of wildlife from cut up historical maps.

New ladder by Christopher Mark Johnson is a new look at the traditional step ladder. Made of beech and stainless steel, this ladder is super compact!

Lazerian exhibiting with designersblock in Milan

Moa is the so called new three-part basket-series of the German designer-duet Besau-Marguerre, which is molded from a unique textile network.

Dutch designer Laurens van Wieringen created the Furniture Ball and Bon Bons. Five seat sections all formed from a single sphere. Made from poly-urhethaan foam, resin and polyether.

US$73.000 bar tab: How do you make people think twice about driving drunk when they don't think its a big deal? Campaign by Ogilvy Brasil.

Incredible and bizarre hyper-real sculptures by Australian based artist Patricia Piccinini.

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

Art Space Tokyo, the guide to Tokyo's contemporary art scene, has been sold out for a year. It's being reprinted this Spring in iPad edition and a hardcover reprint.

Nike TPE 6453 concept gallery celebrates their one year anniversary with crazy over-wall painting and a party featuring DJ Mick Boogie.

Antique dealer Fred Nickson unveiled the world's oldest solar panel at yesterday’s Antiques for Everyone show at Birmingham’s NEC. The crystal-ball-shaped panel produces 1.5 volts of electricity, enough to power a digital watch.

This latest lego creation is dubbed 1:9 Supercar 2010. Created by the artist Marvin G, this SuperCar has a mid mounted V10 engine, five speed gearbox with reverse and fully independent suspension system.

MOS Architects prefab home strategy, called the Element House, is built from elemental modular housing unit and the growth of the home is based on the Fibonacci Sequence.

Tool, from the Diesel with Foscarini collection will be showcased at Superstudio Più in Milan this year.

NaoLoop the Magazin Edition ~ sure, its just a fancy elastic band for your cellphone, lipstick, sharpie, and whatever else... but its the packaging that makes it the most fascinating!

Plantas Nomadas: Water-purifying robot is part bot, part plant.

Kalon Studios is releasing a new product called the Hut-Hut (Giddy-up for Camels) which is a playful reinterpretation of the rocking horse. It will debut in Milan during the Salone del Mobile at the Posti di Vista 'green block' exhibition.

Business card design for Miner & Miner Management Consultants. Designed by Matter Strategic Design.

Iron Design Company wine rack, recently exhibited at the Architectural Digest Show in NYC. The fluid shape is made from steel and holds up to a half case of wine.

DUS Architects designed a wedding chapel with no less than two kilometres of white flexible ventilation tubes inside the Villa Escamp, the temporary city hall of The Hague.

How to Create Darkness? The Gradient Lamp explained by its creator, Camille Blin. With commentary from Alberto Meda and Pierre Charpin.

(Otokomae) Handsome Guy tofu's tofu package design might need a parental advisory! The Kyoto based brand features a man slamming 1.8L of sake.

Victorian Organ Command Desk compiled from authentic Victorian antiques. Features three monitors, printer, scanner and webcam, of course keyboard and other peripherals included.

IBM Color Sensitive Billboard: an interactive outdoor board that changes its colors based on what people are wearing.

Interesting interview with Starck's partner in crime: Eugeni Quitllet. Don't miss the exclusive images of his creative process.

Next week, FarmVille players will have the ability to grow peanuts, thanks to ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi and an Israeli candy brand. First time a crop is linked to a brand. Elite Taami Nutz is a peanut-filled Israeli chocolate bar.