Toronto-based Lateral Office proposes an Arctic city built on top of 4,500 wooden dowels. The installation is a part of Landscape Futures at the Nevada Museum of Art.

A glimpse behind-the-scenes at vistœ's London workshop.

Hasardfrom Smarin is a bench, a tablet and two shelves. It is a space, shapes, colors, rhythms eager to show their freedom, it is a storage furniture set. It is a tower, a folding screen, a coffee table, a bench, a tablet, a desk, shelves, a bookcase.

Keyhole House by EASTERN Design Office.

The Milking Stool by François Chambard from UM Project. A friendly nod to a universal design with a sleek finish and playful colors. Perfect as occasional seating or accent piece in any room of the house.

"Cay", a landscape for your livingroom by Alexander Rehn. The user is the protagonist, through his movement he changes the shape of the furniture. He is free to choose whether he wants to sit, lie down or relax on it with someone else.

Twenty designers put on paper a spectrum of opinions analysing the influence of design in society and environment in Hiatus Book conceived by Sanserif Creatius with Jasper Morrison, Xenia Viladàs, Luciana Silvares, Kristi Bernick, Li Edelkoort...

Rocking Light by Vasily Butenko.

Plywerk, an a frame-free ecoconscious way to exhibit artwork and photos.

Simple Harmonic Motion by (Memo) Mehmet Akten is an ongoing research and series of projects exploring the nature of complex patterns created from the interaction of multilayered rhythms.

Hard Graft launch new bags for fall including TheSquare1 Holdall, The Personal Pouch and a Dopp Kit.

A new gnocchi board from Williams-Sonoma gets put to the test with some beautiful purple potatoes!

12 posters inspired by the current political landscape by Safwat Saleem of A Bunch of Crock.

A Boatload of Inventors by Xperia Studio is a short film about a boat full of hackers, designers, and tinkerers playing with the new Arduino ADK boards which can be controlled from a mobile device. Looks like a fun place to play!

Action Painting Redux from Jeremy Rotsztain is a new take on Hollywood explosions and fight scenes. With custom software he turns movies into abstract art.

Discover a new interpretation of the Fairy Tales by Korean visual artist Chan-Hyo Bae, Elizabeth I meets Cinderella. Existing in Costume, Fairy Tales is on view at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris.

Terada Mokei make 1/100 scale sheets of tiny paper people. Their website is pretty awesome too.

Japanese Fountain With Collapsing Water Patterns

Elegant sports equipment by the Brazilian designer radicated in Sweden Ricardo Sa Freire.

Pakayla Biehn’s gorgeous double exposure paintings

Shane Holland's Ruray desk lamp.

Blast is a laboratory of ideas, where every topic is bound to develop new languages, different shapes and innovative solutions.

Laptop stand from Alice Rosignoli. The wooden base of discarded public school chairs is transformed into a laptop stand. The FabBot is used to carve elaborate ornaments which have also the function of cooling systems.

We make money not art interview Geneviève Gauckler.

'Inform: Turning data into meaning' an exhibition at the Adobe Museum of Digital Media curated by Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired.

This week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious include durian snowskin mooncakes, sweet summery watermelon martinis and a sumptuous blueberry and cognac pudding.

Hacking Nasdaq for a good cause: happiness up, greed down. Made by Dawn, Amsterdam

The Melting Chair by Philipp Aduat ~ beautifully sculptural, and so very terminator like with its liquid metal looking form.

nARCHITECTS built this pavilion in Taiwan out of green bamboo shoots. The Taiwanese president used the venue to give a speech about his vision for a low carbon future!

The Adastra Super Yacht is one of the most impressive yachts we have seen! Check out the super interesting images of the yacht being built

Mitchell Cooper, a young sculptor who has been taking molds of some of the up and coming runway models and turning them into completed pieces. This one is a full body piece of Kasia Struss.

Coverage of Seven Hundred Photos at Darlo Bar rooms in Sydney by Jesse Willesee et al. Seven artists, seven installations.

Brand new packaging for Nardini Grappa Riserva 15 Anni, design by Hangar Design Group.

Once upon a time, Ontwerpduo designed a room in a 16th century mansion. The result was 10 pieces all based on fairy tales. Beautiful series with photos by Reluct.

Island by Yutaka Sone at David Zwirner, a map of Manhattan carved from marble.

Desigboom visit '(Phantom) l'Opéra Restaurant' by Odile Decq in Paris.

Yoskay Yamamoto’s Picking Up Where We Left Off opened last Saturday at LeBasse Projects, Culver City.

Cottage Town by Nathan Wierink and Tineke Beunders (Ontwerpduo) turns pots into a village.

Stunning stencils by Dave Soukup.

Flexible formwork installation by Matsys (Andrew Kudless) now up at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Lovely design and branding work by Bless for Cool Chile.

The unexpected side of Frankfurt Auto Show - From Mercedes bobble dog to SLK Nail polish, Lotus Backgammon, Citroen weights, Maserati Ethernet cords, Bugatti Deodorant, USB keys, and more...

Divided and Conquered: How I Learned to Love the Museum of Mathematics.

BFI Master Film Store by Edward Cullinan.

Cars for Kids found at the Frankfurt Auto Show ~ toddler rides from Porsche, Audi, BMW, and Hyundai.

Mirror Lab from VAV archiects, a simple insertion into an old bridge adds a new dimension to the site, both inside the arc by doubling and inverting the space, and outside by capturing and framing the views.

Lovely branding for La Fromagerie by Yotam Bezalel.

A video and a series of photographs featuring black blobs. Shot in Bangalore by Matt Lee.

Up close with the life sized Bumblebee from Transformers at the Chevy booth at IAA Frankfurt Auto Show.

Japanese based design firm Nendo designed the new Puma House in Tokyo!