I stumbled upon this park in front of the Federal Building in NYC. Eye-catching and beautifully designed by Martha Schwartz Partners.

Jeremy Fish's pieces at Fecal Face right now are really cool up close ~ so surreally adorable?

J. Crew's March catalog features an unusual model: pop art painter Alex Katz.

Exhibition of "Little Golden Books" original illustrations.

Beautiful collection of dazzle camouflage designs over at the Rhode Island School of Design website.

A collection of retro future space illustrations.

Sydney based artist Dean Christ created a new Cyborg Animals art series explores the concept of Biological weapons delivered by cyborg insects.

Unique use of reclaimed beams from an old pickle factory to make a coffee table.

Iconoclast opened a pop-up store in LA and it is open until April 11th. Lots of artist prints, books and more to purchase.

Vanity Fair gives recognition to some of our favorite modern day comedians in their April 2009 issue. From Seth Rogen's Frida Kahlo to Russell Brand's Charlie Chaplin, an all star celebrity photographers captured a new generation of comedy legends.

Toronto illustrator Michael Wandelmaier updates with tons of strange new work!

Art producer Mothership produced this piece of art 'graffitibriljant' in Rotterdam (NL). The artists are the young illustrators Transister.

Custom Leaf Silhouette Portrait by Jenny Lee Fowler. You provide a profile portrait taken from about four feet away of the head and shoulders & Jenny will do the rest!

Chronicle Books adds "I Know a Lot of Things" to their library of reissued Ann and Paul Rand children's book collaborations this month.

A former game designer, Jay Horinouchi combines his abstract robot designs with traditional Japanese painting techniques. Solo show coming up this Saturday in Los Angeles!

Luke Chuech wanted to see what his creations would look like as Power Rangers, and the result is called POWER RABBOTTO!

Lizzie Thomas is a UK-based self-described ‘artist & maker’ and an incredibly talented paper craftsperson and woodcutter.

Luca "Bean One" Barcellona is an amazingly talented calligrapher, based out of Milan, Italy, with roots in street art culture, a true guru of hand-drawn letters

Photographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland spent four months living with the Eskimos in remotest north Canada to create her playful series of photos called You Winter, let's get divorced.

Oooh Brainstorm Print and Design has some gorgeous (+ affordable) prints for sale!

Custom made portfolio cases using plexiglass, wood, or Sintra that can be cut in any size or shape. The portfolios can be engraved, have cut-out components, or hinged and serves to compliment the artist’s style of work.

UK based illustrator Ben O'brien's overly vibrant portfolio will make you smile.

Strangely captivating text pieces by Dusseldorf-based artist Stefan Bruggemann

A bold and detailed piece of installation art that attempts to represent rainfall - drop by drop... By Installation artist Stacee Kalmanovsky.

Inside the brand new Porsche museum.

Images from the fantastic Maison Martin Margiela exhibition at the ModeMuseum Antwerp!

Noriko Ambe creates art by cutting out specific sections of book pages to create outstanding masterpieces.

This new 2009 painting from one of our favorite artists, Audrey Kawasaki was printed exclusively for the Outre Gallery in Melbourne Australia. Only 200 prints were created and they have sold out.

Sam Webber works predominantly in ink, water colour, and acrylic, which is then scanned and finished in photoshop. his works are meticulously detailed to create focus on certain elements, broad and generous in others. [Lots of new stuff since #1126]

James Sutton is a photographer, video director & digital retoucher, He lives and works in Coventry / London, United Kingdom.

The Buenos Aires based illustrator Max Dalton has a new wallpaper to download on his blog. Available for all screen sizes, funny and free!

The non-profit project - the Watchmans Hut is a guest artist studio that gives artists the opportunity to commit themselves for a period of self-imposed exhile in nature - an opportunity for inspiration, tranquility and reflection in pristine nature.
The project addresses the dilemma of human inevitability of leaving traces in a nature one wishes to see untouched.

The objective is to create nine Watchmans Huts in extreme natures of Norway and Sweden (and perhaps other places?) and create spaces for artists where they can commit themselves for a period of self-imposed exhile in nature - an opportunity for inspiration, tranquility and reflection.

Check out Willoughby Sharp's pioneering work on art and technology at Rhizome.org

Amazingly detailed 3cm tall dinosaur sculpture made out of a coke can. While you're there check out his robots as well.

Bedside Lamp by Matteo Cibic. The light turns red when the dildo is retrieved from it.

Francis Ford Coppola releases his new website for his upcoming film, Tetro. Be sure to watch as Francis filmed himself telling you a little bit about the film from his bungalow in Napa.

Say-Yeah: Motion, Art & Design meet Mobile Technology.

A clock for identity designers. Have you ever thought about how many brands you use in a typical day?

Zizzors are special Crankbunny scissors made out of paper that come with magical crafty powers!

Beautiful new print by artist Edwin Ushiro. His unique style and imaginative story telling make his painting, "Birth of Unreckoning" the newest in a long line of works by him that we love.

A new set of edgy art was just released by London based artist Byroglyphics (aka Russ Mills).

"Playful." Amazing work by Argentina-based designer Pablo Alfieri.

Toronto based sculptor/illustrator Jessica Fortner has updated with tons of new work. Fun, creepy, always imaginative sculpted illustrations. Check it out!

Amazing work by Mark Giglio called Forest of wood: Different types of scrap wood turned into a forest.

Some balanced and minimal new graphic works by Cristiana Couceiro.

A beautifully designed alphabet on scrap sheets of newsprint, by Phil Yamada.

This APAC-led campaign brings users on an experiential journey to raise awareness and lead the Touch leadership for HP. Wake up your feelings with the Power of Touch.

Died Young Stayed Pretty is a new documentary on underground poster culture ~ check out the trailers. The film is being screened at SXSW this year.

Bond Harrington Couture Wall Covering - The people who design this world, the movers and shakers, creating couture fashion and leading the trends - now those people can appreciate this stuff.

building smallings for a big movie. King kong Models ~ check out the other posts on their blog too!

Illustrator Oscar Woodruff is participating in the Sketch-A-Day Challenge. Through this, Oscar can visually communicate with other artists to enable them to experience his amazing sketchbook first hand.

Upcoming show at the RWA (Bristol, UK) featuring a number of amazing artists such as Richt, 45RPM, China Mike and Mr Jago to name but a few. Put it in your calendar!!

Panoramic photos from the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. [Editor's Note: WOW. Stunning!]

Poster Boy cuts up MoMA's Subway Ads.

Sean Brown...one of Toronto's upcoming greats. Keep your eye open for this guy.

"The Monsterologist Endpaper Stamps", one of he winners at the Society of Illustrator’s annual exhibit. By Adam McCauley.

Atmospheric Optics by Megan Jenkinson @ Stills Gallery

Give boring walls some flair with this unique set of 4 large metal filigree bird wall hangings.

South African designer, Haldane Martin, showcases his radical furniture design, inspired by the very best in nature and our incredible environment.

All the members of typefaces are done exclusively with typography. The method is simple, I take different sections of the characters of a specific typography and i put them together giving birth to different kind of creatures.

This kinetic sculpture were inspired by the ancient noria. The sculpture movement is produced by the flow of water. Designed specially for Carlsber. By sebastian and Mauricio Lara From eosmexico.

Stephanie Syjuco's project Towards a New Theory of Color Reading translates newpapers geared to limited audiences into a more universal language: color.

The poster for this year's Humana Festival of New American Plays is pretty sweet. Kudos to Actors Theatre of Louisville for commissioning art from Julien Pacaud.

Outside the entrance of Iceland's famously beautiful Blue Lagoon; just one of the sights from the 'Land of Ice and Fire'.

Eika Dopludo is in love. And I think I'm in love with her hand lettering.

Some fantastic new work by Andrew Holder.

This is a kinetic sculpture of a biker in Budapest on the Danube river. The wheels are moved by the flow of the water. Or at least, they are supposed to be...

Cut&Paste tourneys are touring the world — 2D, 3D and Motion categories! SF, PDX and BOS are next.

The Victorian World of Colette Calascione.
Inspired by books and images of earlier eras, particularly the Victorian era, Calascione invents a world that is her own.

PepsiCo caved into consumer pressure and is reverting back to their earlier Tropicana design. The 'hated' new branding sparked much conversation in the design community. But should designers have thought more carefully about what they wished for?

Periodic Tables of Keyboard Shortcuts for Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign arranged by by vent in the style of Dmitri Mendeleev

How to enhance old furniture?

Gregory Euclide's relief paintings are unconventional to say the least! I've never seen anything like them. [Editor's Note: his older works were seen as #984]

Street artist ABOVE just updated his website after a 24-month hiatus. This street artist has so many interesting concepts, and mediums and stories to tell. Make sure to check out the Travel Photo section as well.

Jeff Matz (Lure Design) asks designers to take 'A Simple Pledge' to avoid using what some deem forbidden typefaces, in a bold and quirky screenprinted poster, to be signed by each designer, accountable if the pledge is broken.

A simple but straight to the point graphic by Dan Meth. Do you agree with his opinion of these trilogies?

"Girls are Pretty" - the Stuntkid (13 Illustrations)

A book showcasing Pentagram's often-iconic identity work. Also "printed on French-folded bible paper, bound in a red, cloth-covered softback cover and includes five ribbons for bookmarking".

Brooklyn artist Alex Holden reimagines the ubiquitous Heimlich poster.

VIDEOFrom the team that brought you the delicious COW PR landscape of loveliness, a fast-paced show reel, with some tidy effects, and kicking soundtrack from ApertureAudio.

An original Harvey Milk speech is set to music and is put in motion with the use of simple graphics and expressive typography. (seems timely to watch after Sean Penn's Oscar win last night).

Hilary Berseth creates sculptural honeycomb bee hives... and the bees do the work! "He constructs basic frameworks of wire and wax, then lets teams of tiny yellow-and-black art fabricators finish the job." See the slideshow!

“Grass” squares are designed to give a natural touch to the office or home by placing them freely or according to feng-shui. Unlike ordinary flowers, “grass” is completely natural, a piece of earth, that grows indoors with minimal care.

Ian Fleming's Bond Modern Classics by Penguin Books. Attractive cover design. Between 1953 and 1966, twelve James Bond novels and two short story collections by Fleming were published.

Bill Zeman has a tiny art director living with him who mostly rejects his artwork. Cute!

The young freelance designer Laurent MEURGEY creates a beautiful porcelain plates.

Acrylic paintings by Michael Steele, these are in a set called the Cluster Series.

inkdustrial has just introduced several great new limited-edition screen prints by Art Director/Artist Ben Kopf

On super exciting upcoming events ~ Knife and Fork for ENGAGEMENT PARTY, MOCA’s series of interventions by local artist collectives the 1st Thursday of every month! First up GOLF AND DONUTS!

The 4th GizMag PDF includes Matias Vigliano (cover), Anna Anjos, Dave Hughes, Laura Serra, Shona McQuillan, PaperMonster, Yoko Furusho and Charrish Ferguson.

Amazing from Ryan McGinley, Sigur Ros photographer.

Jeff Soto is a visual artist from California who started out as a graffiti artist, and still is an active participant in street art.

Hùn Design - Romantisch - Romantisch can be seen either as the perfect spot for a romantic candle-lit dinner, or a poignant homage to the passage of time as your table melts with every meal.

If you have problems learning the multiplication tables, this monkey will be a great help. You have to place the back legs on the numbers below, and it will indicate with the forwards the multiplied number.

Four students at Ravensbourne College of Design have come up with a unique way to raise funds for their graduation show which sees leading designers customsing random objects which will be auctioned off in April.

A growing collection of vintage international postage stamps on flickr, first starting with Israel.

"The Big Picture" pictures of people at work in various places. Alan Taylor at Boston.com

More amazing, thought provoking work from Josh Keyes.

Another way to bring the great Canadian outdoor, inside your house is with those cool wood magnets by TaKtik designers from Montreal...

One from a new series of Tiki portraits from Chet Phillips created with Painter.

Beautiful vintage record sleeve collection! Love graphic design from this era.

A new exhibit at the MOMA features 365 pictures of artist Tehching Hsieh, taken every day for a year. when he remained locked in this cage without anything to do, not even a toilet. From 1978-1986. It was one of 5 year long experimental art pieces.

Foldable "lighthouse" for personal collections. 0-360°flexibility. Made of stitching strips, stretched from 2D into 3D structure and held in place by a metal belt. Folded view through the link.

Awesome illustrations from jolita

Milkfed Press, a letterpress and bindery studio based in Oakland.

Pravdoliub Ivanov's Confusion from 2002 ~ interesting way to add intrigue... especially to a tiny apt...

New York Magazine highlights four party photographers, and their takes on the modern scene.

James Jeans takes us behind the scenes of his incredible series of wine bottles for Grateful Palate which are now available...9 bottles in all, these are truly gorgeous collectibles!

Interview with London-based french artist Jean Jullien.

Jennifer Taylor makes some very alien sculptures from everyday items.

New Giclee print of Disintegration from Luke Chueh 25"x33" on sale now at Gallery Nineteen Eighty Eight L.A.

Cecilia de Val, a Spanish photographer of affected, anonymous scenes, gives tips on what to see during ARCO.

a series of gorgeous German charts and graphs from late 1800s-1930s from Interwar Red Vienna

1940's Color Helm based on Wilhelm Ostwald's Color System - “Your answer to every color problem”!

Tea V is a tea cup handmade by Jana Wallser out of porcelain. If you come closer and lift the cup and light shines through the bottom, you can see a picture of a woman in a television, who is drinking tea.

So talented! We love these illustrations by Denise van Leeuwen.

Here are some works from the Hirst's new retail store. This medicine cabinet-inspired bracelet contains 17 charms from cast pills. Each of the charms is notched and identified with clinical precision, screaming in pharmaceutical details.

Check out the work of New Zealand artist Fletcher Vaughan.

Suit Up - Custom playing cards show featuring nineteen Australian artists from Street Art, Comic, and Illustration backgrounds.

Over 2,300 photos of Moleskine sketchbooks that are participating in The Sketchbook Project, a touring exhibition.

"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.

Art or Idiocy? Erik Wenzel attempts to answer the question... "What is Art?"

The wraparound cover Fantagraphics' Paperback edition of the BEASTS! features a detail of a print by Jordan Crane. The cover was designed by Jacob Covey.

First collaboration of illustrator Stevie Gee and Death Spray Custom.

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

Candle Chair - Daniel Hulsbergen - Temporality sucks! is about the time aspect that furniture nowadays is undergoing. Like fashion it is going so fast that we don't appreciate furniture like we used to.

8,140 cardboard tubes with a total length of 10 kilometres and a weight of over 18 tons were stacked to form a single wall.

I am Osmand Nosse and this is my illustrations of my friends. I like: owls, words like ‘yachts’, skiffle music, taking pictures of clouds, marmalade and when dogs yawn and sound like they are saying something.

Matchstic Brand Identity House in Atlanta just launched a new Pro-Bono campaign, "On The House". Features over $80,000 worth of free work from various partner companies.

Some great wall drawings created by Genevieve Gauckler and other graphic artists for colette, as part of the Domestic series.

Another street art intervention in Portugal.

Some fantastic and humorous artworks from Scott Campbell. Also has some great prints for sale.

Giulia Santopadre is a talented up and coming designer with a passion for typography. She was born in Rome, but lived in the USA and UK for some time, she is now back to the UK after having worked for 2 and a half years at leo burnett in rome.

Egoiste Platinum ~ great pic from Zoe Ghertner

NY based architects Gage Clemenceau designed this complex heart for Valentine´s over at Times Square. A 10 foot tall landmark to celebrate the luvv.

Artist Rob Dobi has released Series 8 of Fullbleed.org- eight new conceptual teeshirts ripe for the wearing!

New works from TALKTOSAM - HORSE PARADE at the Athina Onassis Horse Show SP, by Momentum and Nestlé.

Untho, italian streetwear brand, is proud to announce an art collaboration with the street-artist: Obey!

The contents of Neverland are officially up for auction. Everything. Including these Edward Scissorhands gloves.

Fashion illustration from Peter Winnett with super beautiful women and sexy lines - did some work for DKNY Edie Rose line recently. [Editor's Note: i like his "most recent" and "highest viewed" sorting options]

Minneapolis firm CSA Design has crafted these beautiful new art prints as part of the new 2-color series, a series of prints made to promote the French Paper Co.

FEATUREDMike Russek's Art Gallery at Lucent L'amour had an amazing selection of pieces ~ see many of them here, including my favorite, John Park's Harlequin Ape ~ you've got to see it in high res!

TheOtherStream is the online portfolio of Richard Roberts, a freelance graphic designer and digital artist.

FEATUREDFlaming interactive pieces that respond to the music surrounded by massive bamboo structures at Lucent L'amour ~ check out the video to see it in action! mesmerizing...