First images of the upcoming Karl Lagerfeld x Steiff Teddy Bear. The old master is once again on top of things! Love it!

Coilhouse Magazine's Premier issue just went on sale. Don't miss it!

The Tenfold Collective designed the USA Swimming sponsor brochure for the Beijing Olympics.

Tamsin van Essen's Contamination cups are a little on the gruesome side - each appears to have been infected by a different bacteria type, bringing the microscopic to the macroscopic level.

Valerie Hegarty takes a counterintuitive approach to art - recreating and then destroying famous works of art - burning, ripping, shooting and otherwise destroying the work of her hands.

Hanna Nyman's 3-D wallpaper invites the user to peel off the outer layer to expose the design underneath.

L. Bates Jaffe's "One Pill Makes You Smaller" and "Animal Cracker" prints are unique and funny!

Animals Inspired Design #3 / Arty

Kim Beck's A Field Guide to Weeds "masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over."

Henrietta Swift's Letter Envelopes - a playful take on the traditional security envelope.

Awesome portfolio of music gig posters by Sarah Blacksher.

The Alex Dukal's funny works. Young digital painter and illustrator from Argentina.

The Guilty yacht was designed by superstar artist Jeff Koons.

Loving the new snowboard by artist Krink (KR) for Monument Snowboards. Its coming out this Fall/Winter season.

Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been celebrated and ridiculed- by world-famous artists such as Fernando Botero, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, Rene Magritte, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and many others.

Animals Inspired Design #2 / Concrete

Simple. Direct. Classic. What's not to love about this vintage book cover? Even the price was right: 50 cents.

An original handpainted artwork with new Pritt correction roller.

Animals Inspired Design #1 / Silhouettes

Sweden’s public television broadcasting company, SVT, is updating its channel profiles by replacing its three mayor channels logos.

Julien Breton photographs incredible "light calligraphy" images. I wish I knew more about his process, because it boggles my mind as to how he does it.

Mariana Tocornal created the Beecups Project as a way to investigate our emotional attachment to objects. By using an unconventional material with a conventional form, our understanding of the preciousness of the teacup is challenged.

Fantastic new Goyard trunk in collaboration with Assouline book publishers, comes with a nice collection of luxury books, 100 Memoire photo-biographies...

Zoo York presents a nice artist deck series, with 5 recognized artists with a Cockroach theme.

Luca Ionescu's Laser Etched Poster for Refill 7 (see also 3453 for their gorgeous laser cut skate decks).

Zoë Newsome interprets the natural into beautiful, wireframe jewelry.

Beautiful type design by Marian Bantjes (yet again). This time integrated in a book cover design...

Action in the bus shelter to promote Kung Fu Panda.

Think, The Real World meets Graphic Designers. "Engine Room” is a new MTV series which will will follow teams competing for a chance to win $400K in cash. They are in the filming process.

"DrawBone" pen by Ming Tong. This bone shape highlighter pen can be joined together to create a "longer bone".

800,000 begonias carpet the centre of Brussels, but only for a few days!

Tokidoki co-founder and Creative Director Simone Legno— in an informative interview going behind the scenes of the Tokidoki brand, recent collaborations, design process, and upcoming projects.

Ban’s beautifully crafted work features elephants and human figures floating against Japanese washi paper backgrounds or in front of candy-colored stripes. “These things are like talismans. Elephants make me feel safe. They have saved me many times."

On the occasion of the launch of Dorophy Tang's collab with Lomo a quick recap of some of her outstanding work

Artist James Jarvis gives NikeTown London a new look. Love it!

August 15th marked the 41st anniversary of Belgian Surrealist painter Rene Magritte's death.The animated short film "This Is Not a Film" references over 40 of the surrealist master's paintings.

A clever, multi-language, 12-month calendar designed by Marc O’Brien. The calendar is divided in half (northern and southern hemispheres) and shows photography of the respective clothing for each month...

Litracon makes light transmitting concrete - I'm waiting for this to become a more common building material...

Ring Sight / As well as design / Increase your HandGuns aim with a ring sight.

See The World By Balloon... retro-style poster for Pixar's new movie UP by Eric Tan... hand numbered limited edition printed...

The Endoskeleton Skull from The Terminator and T2 has been turned into a DVD Player.

David Maisel's beautiful and haunting photos from his Library of Dust project (the book is coming out in a few months). Each corroding canister holds the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. BLDGBLOG has a great article on the project.

For the Elevator Girls series, identically clothed female models pose within surrealistic architecture where anonymity and interchangeability echo their own psychic predicament.

Nice packing for Nudo by Madeleine Rogers. Nudo is an olive grove. Adopt one of the olive trees and get the oil it produces!