Husky safaris, ghost towns and Italy’s macabre past are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

There are those who grow bacteria to prepare yoghurt or study new drugs. Erno-Erik Raitanen uses them to compose graphical works, bacteriograms that would give elaborate digital images a run for their money, in fact…

Introducing the Totem stool, the debut product from Sydney based design studio Anaesthetic. Totem stools are cleverly designed to stack in a unique way, instilling fun and creativity in the user.

Evil Robot Designs' Bespoke Toy Lamps ~ your toys, merged into a lamp base, and painted in high gloss white, red, or black.

Christian Lessing's Math Tree – a mathematically inspired light installation.

Philippe Starck redesigned the Kawasaki W800 with the help of Design Boxer.

Elephant sculpture by Ben Blanc captured in stop motion by S. Ewen's.

“Theatre for One” is a portable performing arts space for one performer and one audience member, that turns public events into private acts, making each performance a singularly intimate exchange.

Check It...MiiR's sexy new matte black bottle. Every bottle provides one person with an entire years supply of clean water. one4one

Damien Hirst was commissioned to create two paintings, ‘beautiful sunflower’ and ‘beautiful fractional sunflower’ both featuring dozens of watch components from Panerai timepieces.

The New York Times, 36 Hours: 150 Weekends in the USA & Canada, a great book of travel inspiration from Taschen.

Foster + Partners have released an ambitious, multimodal plan for modernizing Britain's transportation grid.

Mathieu Lehanneur's Island Mister, a mister that operates using ultra pure sea water for Airmineral.

Simon Gardiner uses vortography to create this stunning vision of Paris.

The Jawbone Up, a wristband/iphone app to track your activity, allowing you to monitor your health.

Research team mimic gecko feet and create a robot that sticks to a wall without suction or residue. With further work it could end up cleaning the windows of skyscrapers or checking out dangerous buildings by climbing walls.

The complexity of drug offerings captured in a beautiful infographic.

Amazing 3D photographs of sites around the UK by Jason Hawkes.

Richard Sabbath's Mekkanika typeface.

Simply do the best you can... is an experimental piece of artwork/home decoration from Stellavie. Precisely cut from 3mm MDF, backed with black unprimed 300g/m paper, the letters and words appear sunk-in. Limited edition of 100.

Menagerie, a new book of beautiful photographs of animals by Sharon Montrose.

Mady by Hand meets writer turned knife maker Joel Bukiewicz of Cut Brooklyn.

Cool Hunting interview artist Travis Louie.

Beautiful Daines & Hathaway Triple Bar Set ~ a close up look at the leather case and metal flasks and shot glasses as spotted at Stitched at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.

'In the Eyes of Others' by Jodie Carey.

Lomokino, Lomography’s very own 35mm movie camera.

'ALESSI PISELLINO', a cute cotton swab container.

IwamotoScott's beautiful warehouse conversion for Obscura Digital.

Toast Design's packaging for The Grown Up Chocolate Company.

Through his large-scale animated graphic projections, artist Peter Kogler likes to absorb or change architecture while evoking emotion from the viewer.

Globe-Trotter & Fox Bros. for Liberty National Treasures.

Luke Jerram's Tōhoku Japanese Earthquake Sculpture is a sculpture created using a seismogram of the earthquake.

TOR by Lambie & Van Hengel is a side table that does not need a fixed location. It is designed to be moved around.

The e-volo personal helicopter, an electric multicopter.

Facebook recently commissioned artist Aakash Nihalani for tape installations in their new office in New York.

Here is ‘one piece, one edition’, the project mischer'traxler realized ad hoc for the 18th edition of Artissima and presented at the gallery Novalis Fine Arts, from November 6th to December 6th.

The Calligraphy Necklace by Brevity - each custom necklace is hand lettered by calligrapher Crystal Kluge, creating a one-of-a-kind necklace as unique as the wearer.

Need a sewing machine for a few hours? A new concept store has opened in Barcelona, bringing the art of crafting and sewing closer to everyone.

Bespoke Innovations, Inc. was founded in 2009 by an Industrial Designer and an Orthopedic Surgeon whose mission was to bring more humanity to people who have congenital or traumatic limb loss.

At the Maris College (The Hague, Netherlands) Bisscheroux & Voet designed world's largest school bell, WOOFAH.

The poetry of the object in Mario Dal Fabbro is a long journey from craftsmanship to design and then sculpture. If you're looking for his artistic pieces, you'll find them at the Johnson Trading Gallery in New York.

Coming soon a nice documentary movie, the first to be released since their deaths, about the life and the work of the Eames. On premiere in New York, Los Angeles and other US cities on november 18th.

Beautiful vintage modern United Nations postage stamps from the 1960s to 1980s. This 1980 stamp issued by the Vienna office commemorates UN peacekeeping operations.

London based architects 00:/ fund, design and operate new laboratory for changemakers seeking to take ideas from action to impact in Hub Westminster