"Hylozoic Soil" is an amazing, interactive artificial life installation from digital media artist and experimental architect Philip Beesley. It also won first place in VIDA's Art and Artifical Life International Awards.

Presented by SHOWStudio and shot by Sølve Sundsbø, "Parroquet" is a stunningly beautiful series of videos and photographs of the long-tailed parroquet - a breed of parrot.

"Advanced Beauty", the exploration of digital soundscapes curated by Matt Pyke and Universal Everything, has finally been released and the HD-DVD is up for sale around the world.

New York-based design shop Adolescent are the retro masterminds behind "Mogura", an awesome 8-bit inspired animated vid featuring a pink cupcake playing Dig Dug. It's as rad it sounds...

California architect Greg Lynn won a Golden Lion for best Installation Project at the Vienna Architecture Bienalle last weekend for his recycled toy furniture.

D-Pad Hero is a brand new NES emulation game that converts Guitar Hero into old skool 8-bit Nintendo. Plus, you can play it to Michael Jackson. It's unspeakably awesome.

The over-sized hardcover book documenting David Maisel's brilliant "Library of Dust" has finally been published by Chronicle Books.

In a very cool colour project for Walrus Magazine, designer Todd Falkowsky created Pantone palettes out of the most prominent colours from nature and landmarks in each Canadian capital city.

At his "Body Bakery", Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom sells
edible sculptures of dis-membered human body parts made from bread.

"Voxel" is a stunning 3D animated short, created by Not To Scale's London-based duo Ubik. It was their submission to the recent F5 conference in New York, and it's seriously kick ass.

Directing duo Terri Timely created "Synesthesia": an incredible new video that visualizes the neurological phenomenon of the same name, where one of our physical senses is experienced through the psychological means of another.

"Patachromo" is a beautiful, chromatherapy-based LED installation from France's Superbien.

The incredible 8 minute stop motion vid "Looking Thru The B-Sides", commissioned by Fuel TV and created by Saimon Chow and Golden Lucky, has finally been released after the trailer announced it last September. Ass kicking!

"Explosure" the latest exhibit from acclaimed (and sometimes controversial) photographer Tierney Gearon, uses double exposure as a device to create haunting, thought-provoking images.

Eerie, disturbing work from New York-based photographer Alison Brady.

Paramount and Sony announced that principal photography has begun on live action Tintin feature 'The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn', director Steven Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson, shot in 3-D motion capture.

"Forever" is a stunning constantly-changing videowall installation at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, created by Matt Pyke, Karsten Schmidt, and Simon Pyke at Universal Everything.

Boundary-pushing installations and sculpture from American artist Benjamin Jurgensen. The only thing better than the works themselves are their titles...

"Peripetics" is a mind-blowing CGI short in six parts. Created by London-based Zeitguised, with sound design by Michael Fakesch and commissioned by Zirkel Gallery. Amazing...

A huge range of clever and beautiful installation works from Scottish artist Sandy Smith.

"No Room For Gerold" is an amazing 3D animated short from Film Bilder, directed by Daniel Nocke. This tale of four roommates - a crocodile, a rhino, a wildebeest, and a hippo - is shockingly... human.

Help is a totally fresh take on pharmaceuticals. If you thought bandaids and aspirin couldn't be high design, enviro-friendly, and hot enough to show off... think again.

Big time controversy and calls for a boycott after Absolut runs an ad in Mexico depicting the country's borders prior to the American-Mexican War of 1848.

"Shakerboys" is a totally slick new animated experiment from West London collective Viewmanoid.

Designed by Fabric, "Perpetual Sunshine" uses a wall of glowing infared bulbs to imitate the exact temperatures and intensity of light from tropical locations around the world.

Illustrator and Graphic Designer Hoagy Houghton created "Aleatory Compositions": a book of musical works, unwittingly written by people filling in colours onto a grid which was then translated into musical notes.

For his final project from the Glasgow School of Art, designer James Houston wired obsolete computer parts to play a full remix of Radiohead's "Nude". Complete brilliance.

Karni & Saul mixed stop-motion, CGI, and live action into an amazing video for Celtic-punker Flogging Molly's song "Float." Epic.

In a very smart guerilla campaign, created by Satchi & Satchi LA for Surfrider Foundation, garbage from actual beaches in California and Texas was packaged like food and sold at local farmer's markets to highlight the importance of clean oceans.

As explored by brilliant poet-scientist Gaston Bachelard in "The Poetics of Space", a desire path is "a term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn't designed but rather is worn casually away by people finding the shortest distance between two points".

In 'Things For Sale That I Will Mail You", artist David Horvitz offers a long list of tasks he'll do for you - ranging from taking a picture of the sky to sending you envelopes of "star sand" from Japan.

Amazing images of the animal and human worlds quietly merging, from photographer Mikel Uribetxeberria.

In the brilliant Phillip Toledano's latest exhibition, "America The Gift Shop", he examines the last 8 years of American history and the presidency of George W. Bush with the stereotypical "souvenirs" we have to remember him by.

"lucyandbart" is a disturbing and fascinating collaboration between artists Lucy McRae and Bart Hess, exploring our own ideas of physicality and art in their depictions of mutated and evolved human beings.

DHNN (Design Has No Name) created "Beck 8 Bit Variations", a kick ass concept packaging design for a Beck re-mix CD.

Hot new stop-motion video from Jemapur's "AANATT" created by Max Hattler with W+K TokyoLab.

Totally hot brand identity work designed for Naturaleza Digital by Buenos Aires shop NNSS.

Cute new ads for Hansaplast by TBWA Barcelona.

"Solar Collector" is an interactive outdoor light sculpture, powered by solar energy and with a continually evolving light show programmed online by the public from anywhere in the world.

For the amazing opening sequence to his latest series, "True Blood", the creator of "Six Feet Under", Alan Ball, headed back to Digital Kitchen.

"Make Yourself" is a very cool + colourful new promo spot for PUC by Santiago-based design/animation shop DAf.

Kick ass animation in "3650", an awesome spot for MTV's environmental awareness campaign Swtich. Directed bu Ubik for Ogilvy & Mather.

New York-based artist Maya Hayuk does everything. Literally... from paint to murals to photography to graphic design to print to product design and way more.

"Drawing Room" is an awesome new spot for the Playstation Network from Terry Hall and the Love Commercial Production Company.

In the final build-up to the opening of Beijing 2008, two wonderful and anticipated new TV spots - Coca Cola's "Bird's Nest Stadium" and Adidas' "Countdown" - were finally aired this week.

"Nudist Typeface" from UK designer Craig Oldham. Notice the pixellated naughty bits!