Sam Wolfe Connelly's contribution to Follow the Leader - an ongoing collaborative project with Sub-Studio featuring 6 drawing "seeds" and your drawing skills!

Marlon Blackwell's Moore Honey House - set in the woods near a residential projects for the same client, the honey house serves as a car port and simple shed for the making and storing of honey.

Love Sid Wichienkuer's entry in to the competition for a new TU Delft School of Architecture, after a fire destroyed the original architecture building in 2008. Love the topographic, layered facade.

Masimilano Fuksas' Cave Painting Museum entrance - no more than an entrance to a museum, emerges from the cave to the valley below. It is sympathetic enough to its context in form, material, to both conceal and reveal itself.

Sub-Studio's brand new nursery rhyme print series inspired by our favorite childhood rhymes.

Visiondivision's Secret Sauna - a nondescript building facade opens up to reveal the sauna inside...

The 'New York Street Advertising Takeover' project happened over the weekend, with 120 illegal billboards in and around NYC being white-washed and then painted over by about 80 different artists.

Schemata Architecture's Paco cube - a 3x3x3m portable home for transient living.

Interesting take on all of the reusable bags out there - a tyvek duffel bag by Stefan Diez - tearproof, lightweight, waterproof and recyclable.

OMA's Milstein Hall in jeopardy. Designed as studios for Cornell's architecture students, some faculty are objecting to the aesthetics and sustainability of the project. The loss of Milstein Hall also jeopardizes accreditation of Cornell's architecture programs.

Kenji Miyazaki's EAT wallet for Erect - helps keep the environment clean by providing portable storage space your cigarette butts, until you can dispose of them permanently in a garbage can.

Artwork from Aaron Hogg in Samantha Hahn's new Love book, a collaborative effort between 25 artists, including Hannah Stouffer, Lilly Piri, Dan Funderburgh and Lisa Congdon.

Engrave Your Book is back with new artist's series Moleskine jackets - designed by Justine Ashbee, Dan Funderburgh, Option-G and Jesse Hora, to name a few.

Shoot The Baddies target practice boards by Olly Moss...

Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten designed the Dornbusch church in Frankfurt. The old church facade is reflected via spatial subtractions in the new facade. MSWA has some great images of their creative process on their website.

Part 3 of 3 of the Big Picture's 2008 Year in Photographs.

Hyun-Woo Sim's KeyLamp is turned off and on via the turning of a key. Also innovative - the shade is just a cloth hung over the bulb.

Leah Evans is a textile artist doing some innovative quilting. Each quilt features a map with intense, hand-sewn details that create abstracted patterns. The quilts map out imaginary places.

Cool...Crayon Rocks!

Cameron Moll designed this crazy letterpress poster of the Salt Lake Temple using bazillions of tiny letters to create the image.

Judith Seng's body of work embraces and highlights flaws and imperfections - her Hide and Show Clothing framework turns your clothing into part of the furniture's aesthetic.

Morph's gorgeous Bread Bin.

Hans-Christian Schink's Verkehrsprojekte deutsche Einheit project includes beautiful portraits of mundane urban structures such as bridges, highways, etc.

Burton Machen is a photographer documenting urban decay in his "Urban Evolution New Orleans" series.

Love this zebra print by Richard Wilkinson.

JLCG Arquitectos' School of Music in Lisbon - each practicing student is on display.

Stefan Diez's 404 F Chair is made from molded plywood. Nice, simple form.

REX continues to propose unconventional building forms with their proposal for the Kunsthaus Zurich. David Chipperfield's proposal actually won, but I like REX's better...

Project 7 - addresses seven critical areas of need in the world: Build the Future, Feed the Hungry, Heal the Sick, Help those in Need, Hope for Peace, House the Homeless, and Save the Planet. 50% of profits are donated to charities addressing these issues.

Part 2 of 3 of the Big Picture's 2008 in photographs.

Torch is a light bulb inspired flashlight from plusminuszero.

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen designed the newly relocated Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, Idaho. Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, the building is designed to integrate into the woody surroundings.

Love Hatch's holiday promotional card - Jumping JAQK marionettes.

Studio Voortman & Girod created Ssstoell and Kkkrukk - a chair and stool designed to look like multiple iterations of the same object just repeated and slightly shifted - a comment on digital copying and pasting.

Poor Design came up with several adaptations to the clothespin. My favorites are the Pencil and the Bedside Lamp.

Interesting umbrellas by Ofess - the 0%Graphic is simply black with one triangular color. But the best part of Ofess' umbrella line is the hard shell wine bottle type packaging that the umbrellas come in.

Charlotte X. C. Sullivan mixes ink with soapy water and allows the bubbles to dry on paper. I like how you can sometimes see the burst bubble.

Check out JJ Sulin's photography portfolio - full of interesting, off-beat photos of life in America.

Terrain: loenhart&mayr designed a new Olympic ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The jump has three competition decks and a 100 meter, cantilevered track that is accessed by 332 steps or a diagonal elevator.

Wow - Julien de Smedt Architects' crazy proposal for the Mondri and Elano Hotel in Las Vegas. In most other locations it would be inappropriate, but in Las Vegas it is reminiscent of the big top circus tents and fits right in with Vegas' surreal architecture.

The Big Picture chronicles 2008 in photos. This is their first installment of three.

Love this giant pixelated facade on a parking garage in Adelaid - so much more fun that Times Square's typical jumbo screen. Each of the 748 square panels of the Rundle Lantern are lit by two LEDs.

Mr. Moustache - Sirena con Jersey's screenprinted tote bag.

Malus Communis is a shelf designed by Defact Studio - a vine-like shelf for cds and dvds that crawls up the wall.

Interesting ship-like interiors at the Berge Guesthouse by Nils Holger Moormann. Backpackers can stay in "‘sleep cells" - essentially rooms designed just for that, with a communal space that includes a library, kitchen and gathering area with a fireplace.

Hanna Backman designed the visual identity for these wines by Mont Tauch.