Amazing photos from Burning Man 2011 by photographer Scott London.

This map from Derek Watkins taps into the names of places contained in the USGS National Hydrography Dataset to show how the generic names of streams vary across the lower 48.

Infographic on scent receptors in different species from the New Scientist.

A first look at SOME/THINGS magazine Chapter005. Each copy of the hardcover, hand-numbered edition of Chapter005 comes wrapped in 5 kinds of Rick Owens Cashmere, scented with a yet-to-be-released perfume.

Creative imaging portfolio utilizing stereographic projections created by Boston based Photographer Max Gordon.

Martelli has been making pasta in the small city of Lari, Tuscany since 1926. The pasta is of high quality and so is their packaging, designed by a family member over 20 years ago.

Night Bright by Design I/O is an interactive installation of nocturnal discovery where children use their bodies to light up the nighttime forest and discover the creatures that inhabit it.

'Wryneck' table by Léa Padovani & Sébastien Kieffer, the POOL design duo. This small coffee table seems to have been eaten by a beaver.

London based design practice, Jenner Studio has recently completed this interior design project; a new boutique in Singapore for the British fragrance house, Penhaligon’s.

'Playtime' concrete tiles for indoor and outdoor use by young designer Xiral Segard.

Coca-Cola – Experience The Great Happyfication

Dancing spiders, carved tires and an encounter with zero gravity are all part of this week at NOTCOT.org.

'Libero' is a children hut and maze by Jean-Sébastien Poncet for Edition Sous Etiquette.

How Not To Be A Tourist. An online street smart guide aims to rid the world of tourists - looking like tourists. One fanny pack at a time.

Unboxing the GoBandit HD Action Camera ~ a look at the packaging, hardware, and software overlays that allow you to visualize location, speed, and altitude throughout the videos.

Packaging design created by Jaeyoung Ha for tea bags T-Cup. A package that tries to tell visually the emotion you feel sipping the different qualities of tea.

Artist Nik Nowak came up with the 'Panzer' Soundtank, a 11-speaker monstrosity mounted on a flatbed.

Ever wondered what an 'Average Font' would look like? This is a font consisting of over 900 different typefaces.

In answer to the High Line, here is the proposed 'Low Line', an underground park planned for an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side!

Blueprint asked some designers, artists and architects to reinterpret the British road sign. Here are the results.

Inside our suite at La Residencia, Deia, Mallorca ~ from the amazing views, to the four poster bed (with tv that comes out of nowhere) ~ the huge bathroom to the donkeys, olive groves, and organic garden...

This collection of perfectly proportioned mugs has a distinctive key shaped handle: Easy to hold, great to look at and with a spectrum of colored handles. By Gary Birks, launching at 100% design this week.

Malta Design Week is Malta's first design week held on the island of Malta, Oct 1-8. A number of artists, creatives, architects and more taking part in a series of events, talks and workshops.

Discovering a little Cove hidden away in Deia, Mallorca, Spain ~ with cute little shore/cliff side restaurants, cats that hang out on the cliffs, and beautifully clear waters...

A global map of the world's submarine cables. Undersea cables make the Internet global, the most sophisticated ones capable of transmitting nearly 10 terabits of data per sec, compressed through a handful of fiber-optic strands.

Tokyo caught in slow motion by Alex Lee.

HI-MACS House in Bavaria, Germany, is a collaboration between architectural studios Karl Dreer and Bembé Dellinger Architects.

Vanity Charles by Minale-Maeda are rapid prototyped pendants.

Octfalls installation by Ryoichi Kurokawa. One of a thousand ways to defeat entropy.

The converse sak pro leather bag, a leather doctors bag from Converse First String in collaboration with designer Ryusaku Hiruma.

A work of craft art by Rafael Fagulha. Bent paper clips, staples handworked to form a true family of characters with their own style and identity.

Bas van Vraay of Atelier Vraay's Hybrid Barstool, part of his solo exhibition at Berlin's Schuessler Gallery.

Shape Is Use (SIU) is an extremely compact system that unfolds to provide light, and only the amount of light needed, best suited and required by the user. By Quentin Vaulot.

Conceptual nail packaging by Pier-Philippe Rioux.

3D printed blood vessels have recently been created at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany. There, researchers use rapid prototyping techniques for making organic biomaterials.

Today, on Forge de Laguiole's initiative, the French actor Alain Delon meets Ora-Ito: one of the most brilliant designers of his generation. From this meeting, a unique knife is born, 'le Samouraï'.

The Rishikesh House by Rajiv Saini + Associates.

"Les Perles" is a modular candleholder designed by FX Ballery, on which small pieces of wood can be slipped over a metal rod.

Extraordinary footage of the courtship of the peacock jumping spider in Australia.

Beautiful illustration by Dadu Shin.

A documentary about the island of Texel, its eccentric inhabitants and the strange things that wash up on its shores.

Arrested Motion filmmaker Carlos Gonzalez follows Portuguese-born artist Vhils as he completes his latest work on the streets of Venice, California.

Kinizi is a mashup of Hipmunk/Google Maps/Craigslist+Top 5 Rental Listing websites.

Booklet from Irish Civil Defence on 'Survival in a Nuclear War' with advice on 'Protection in the Home and on the Farm'! Some real gems in there and the illustrations alone are something to behold.