The Boston Public Library's Print Department has a stunning collection of vintage travel posters ~ a time when their designs were filled with wonder and possibility. Take a peek at my favorites!

The Thing Quarterly #16: Dave Eggers... Published on a shower curtain, with the idea that one would read it while showering, this issue is a monologue told to Dave Eggers by his shower curtain.

Amazing vintage map of Great Britain ~ you have to see the huge version to appreciate the tine details ~ like the sheep! and engineering and such...

Ikoso Omniball Atom - Create a “bumpy” atom using paper and glue. Kit comes flat packed.

Dudebox x Pete Fowler & Fiends design contest... and new toy! Peter Fowler and Fiends, the platform style project will feature 3 shapes, each with interchangeable heads + horns/ears.

Check out this video on the artist that did the Planet of the Apes mural! It's a pretty awesome piece of street art.

"Young Mexican artist, dedicated to animation, design, illustration and the ways that the force and the art will afford him"

Gorgeous glass and porcelain work by Shan Anabelle Valla.

Morphology, lovely claymation by Peter Sluszka.

Column Five has created an interactive coffee poster in appreciation of their clients and partners to share in the love of two important things: caffeine consumption and data visualization. C5 will also be releasing 500 limited prints in their Five-&-Dime.

Instant Skyline Workshop by Kacey Wong.
An interactive installation art project that allows participants to construct their mini skyscraper sculpture out of recycled wood..

Fuck The Crisis: Generator greeting cards anti-crisis - That is, what is it? The new project of Retrofuturs is to provide a new kind of greeting card creator. A simple, minimalist, the greeting card anti-crisis.

Raw wood version of the upcoming Wild Heads objects series by Bongo Design.

Peter Marigold's Shop Sign Bird Hoses created for the charity auction 'The Birds, The Bats & The Bees' held at Phillips de Pury & Company held in June 2008.

Lumi have developed photographic print process for textiles and natural materials. Inkodye uses sunlight to expose the dye.

Vancouver Aquarium's Jelly Swarm from Tangible Intervention and origami artist Joseph Wu.

David Cole, who creates taxidermy style animals out of Lego, interviewed by the NYtimes.

The new project on Baghdad by Antonio Ottomanelli and Giovanna Silva will come to the exhibition SAO PAOLO CALLING in March. Antonio Ottomanelli tells us about it from the beginning in a series of posts; here is the second one…

We skipped the gingerbread men this year and decided to make some cookies a little closer to home. City dwellers will be familiar with these gingerbread bodegas.

A 3-D portrait of Albert Einstein that transforms into a portrait of Marilyn Monroe! 'Conversation' a 3-D printed shadow casting panel installation by Drzach&Suchy.

Fade Away 1 performs a twitter search for the term "Fade Away" and uses an ultra violet laser diode to write these tweets on a phosphorescent surface. They eventually fade away.

Maya Shleifer’s “In The Train” doodles.

Orlogin, Ben Broyde's grandfather clock inspired series of clocks.

Ethics for the Starving Designer, a social project promoting the dialogue on ethics and responsibility within student and professional visual communicators.

Incredible book sculptures by Guy Laramee.

Designer Cameron Booth transforms the US highway system into a subway style map.

“Little Shining Man”, a kite with 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric. Conceived by Heather and Ivan Morison, designed by Sash Reading, engineered and fabricated by Queen & Crawford.

“Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990” is on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A review by Pietro Rigolo.

Beautiful new site by Mike Kus, animated using CSS3. Cutting edge, beautiful web design for a young app design team in England.

'Ville vs. Vélodrome' series by illustrator Guilherme Henrique.

New Winter Solstice infographic design by BrainstormOverload - download the free holiday card version.

This is an impressive vertical interactive dance performance! 2 dancers with bungee ropes fly and 2 depth cameras track them, a system on processing send real-time generated visuals to specifically touched point by the dancers.

Zachary Abel's mathematical sculptures include this Paperclip Snub Dodecahedron.

The Institute for Computer-Based Design and the Institute for Structural Engineering and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart have collaborated to create this Research Pavilion - introducing biological patterns and formations into architecture.

Eyebombing is the act of setting googly eyes on inanimate things in the public space. Ultimately the goal is to humanize the streets, and bring sunshine to people passing by.

NaughtyBox is a playful device that represents ambient sound with physical movement. By putting four tiny magnetic cubes inside the box and singing, the cubes dance and bounce in response to the sound.

ART+COM from Berlin created an elegant Kinetic Logo for Deutsche Bank

Creative Applications Network names the Best and Most Memorable Projects of 2011.

ink&paper. In 1929, the Los Angeles City Directory listed 42 letterpresses and 17 paper companies in Downtown. Now there are only two.

'Arts & Business Awards 2011' by Nick Ross and Fraser Reid are inspired by the trophies of ancient Greece.

Until 3rd February 2012, the Media Lab Complex in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA) hosts “Disobedience / An ongoing video archive”, an exhibition curated by Mark Scotini.

New pencil and hand embossed paper works by Jacob Dahlstrup for the upcomming show at Munch Gallery, New York.

"Nazca City" is a land art project, using an autonomously moving robot to create the drawing of a true scale map of an imaginary city onto the surface of the Peruvian desert.

Math meets art with Comali. Give some light to your wall with this lighted frame, holding a tessellation made by only one folded sheet of handmade Japanese washi paper.