Zara Picken has updated her website, which now includes a blog and a shop where prints of her illustrations can be purchased.

Cool Hunting have been giving away iPads in incredible cases made in collaboration with Speck. The custom PixelShields sport a Cool Hunting green-gray palette, though each piece looks a little different.

For the Cite Goes America exhibition during NY Design Week, Stanley Ruiz introduced a perpetual calendar that will last to eternity. Curated by Alissia Alissia Melka-Teichroew and Jan Habraken.

Project 10 Newspaper is calling graduate designers for a special issue that will celebrate this years best talents!

The ME & U swing from Softline is a perfect indoor swing for the entire family. The removable upholstered covers are great for cleaning and comes in great colors!

Project Diversities is a fashion/art project run by Off The Rakk Global Network™. They selected awesome illustrators - all with their strong and distinct trademarks, to create artworks out from the same object/ model. Awesome result!

The Hoverboard is a project by Nils Guadagnin, for an exhibition named "Back To the future". Integrated into the board, the plinth is an electromagnetic system which levitates the board.

Photographer Jason Travis asked random Atlantans to reveal the contents of their bags in this fascinating series of images, Persona.

Wisconsin native Kenton Sorenson [#26808]cuts and sews each natural leather piece by hand in his workshop. His iPad Portfolios are oiled and conditioned with beeswax and finished with a heavy linen thread side stitch.

Operation Window Seat ~ this time its LAX-DFW ~ an aerial look at the southwest! With winding rivers, the grand canyon, craters, coastlines and more!

"This is What Matters to Me" project, by KharmaNYC, unites 9 international designers with the causes that matter to them. Contributors include Mario Hugo, Non-Format, No Pattern, Emil Kozak, & more.

Frank Gehry's latest building, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, opened in Las Vegas last Friday.

If you recently purchased a Dell Inspiron Mini 10 or a 10v netbook, you may have noticed something different about your product’s package. It’s made from bamboo.

NEZU AYMO has been commissioned to design the renovation of the interior of a Japanese shop (Japanse Winkeltje) located in the centre of Amsterdam.

The CXXVI Scrimshaw Knife is hand etched in a small workshop in Maine, this seascape scrimshaw is laid into the bone with black India ink and sealed with a double dose of wax to protect the design and handle.

Located in NYC, Tokyo Bar is covered with Japanese Manga illustrations and neon lights. The little restaurant served Japanese comfort food, till it recently closed. Kashiwa Sato created the branding, love it.

The frozen food brand Bird's Eye has a new muse! AMV BBDO introduces a talking polar-bear puppet in new ads eerily voiced by Willem Dafoe in this U.K. campaign.

Pirata London keep coming up with the goods. Their new Pirata Boat Race app lets up to 10 players use their iphones as controllers using QR codes to row in two teams against each other.

RSAnimate is a collection of animated visualizations of talks which were presented at the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Ghost Girl is an icon, combines the female form and Ms. Pac-Man. Derived from Matt Siren’s classic 2D graphic representation, Ghost Girl comes to life in vinyl form as three dimensional character art.

Great shelf called 'Stacked' has a nice freestyle design. by Muuto.

A drop of water can turn into a flood on this micro-city coaster, Taipei to be exact. Designed by a Taiwan-based design studio, Megawing.

3D Wall stickers from Optimistic Living. Wall decorations from cute anime characters to typographic statements.

Dog mansions available in the antebellum-style Alabama, contemporary-approved Cubix, Ikea-like Lönneberga, and the fanciful Fairytale, Made to order from premium materials like varnished wood and break-proof window glass.

Spring sprouts! A new CuldeSac™ installation of spring reinterpretation. Galleria Jorge Juan reinterprets spring from urban values and formats.

Interesting concept from String Gardens

A book that unfolds into a poster displaying the history of the three main branches of Christianity in a visual map.

During the " designer's day" in Paris this year, Laurent Corio will exhibit a peculiar project at the Catberro Gallery (p.s. those are porcelain spoons)

Nine fish that use handlike fins to walk, rather than swim, off Australia, have been identified as new species. All of the world's 14 known species of handfish are found only in shallow, coastal waters off southeastern Australia.

Railway table by TOYO KITCHEN STYLE is made with old railway sleepers from Southeast Asia.

Another unique design from Tham & Videgard Arkitekter, this compact design of a restaurant box is located in Stureplan, Stockholm. It is a restaurant that can be transported using a truck.

Jenny Holzer's massive scrolling text display across the Aria Parking lot in CityCenter in Las Vegas... loaded up with 200 Truisms like “It’s not good to operate on credit.” See the video!

Boomerang Wok by Nikolai Carels

Startup Quotes ~ There's something elegantly amusing about the design...

McKay's has whisky barrel flooring!

Best Made Co now has Pocket Axes

10 creative uses of Twitter. Because creativity matters as much as self-promotion or business intelligence.

Thailand based NPDA Studio recently completed Brain Fit, a learning studio specifically designed to enhance brain function, imagination and co-ordination for small children. Incredible ceilings!

A UK-based company called Studio Myfirst has created a flat-pack DIY rotation molding machine called Myfirst RotoMoulder.

Two of mankind's greatest inventions, together at last. Note: this is an exploration of what is possible, not necessarily what is practical. Tweet from the street at your own risk!

An amazing series of images by LA based photographer Noah Abrams on the emerging skateboarding scene in Afghanistan.

'Disappearing-Pattern' bathroom tiles are decorated with patterns in thermo-chromic acid ink that react to heat, fading away reflects the spray and the intensity of hot water. Longer the shower, the smaller the decorations on the wall!

In celebration of Pacman's 30th anniversary, the Google logo appears as a playable game of Pacman.

A peek into Lufthansa's new first class bathrooms ~ they even have a separate changing area!