Sonya Rykiel reveals for the first time her drawings in pencil, markers, pastels, private sketchpads and notes for an exhibition and private sale held in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Pres.

VIDEOTroika 'Light Rain'- UK Pavilion, China-. From a drizzle to heavy rain, light raindrops enliven the space, creating a beautiful environment in which to reconsider the importance of one of the most simple and essential natural phenomena.

A sculptor is using 80,000 sugar cubes to recreate London's Tate Modern and its adjacent development for London Festival of Architecture.

Upon exit of the Seed Cathedral, Troika's last installation (Living City) presents a giant green river of plants bursting through the canopy of the last walkway, showcasing some of the most useful plant species for the future of our cities.

Presented at Shanghai World Expo 2010, Firefly is an interactive lighting that reacts to human behavior like a cloud of glowing insects. They wriggle, light up and scatter in response to the motion of visitors. From Kkristen+v.Moreau.

Last April UVA (United Visual Artists) created "Speed of light" for Virgin Media to celebrate the tenth anniversary of broadband in the UK. One of the several light installations featured a mesmerizing laser living room.

The Croatian/Viennese team For Use/Numen uses nothing but packing tape to create huge, self-supporting cocoons that visitors could climb inside and explore.

Lumix launches new digital campaign in partnership with street artists promoting freedom of creativity. "Shoot The Rules" wants to prove that anybody has the right to create great art!

The amazing "Eyewritter" team was awarded a Golden Nica and grant to further develop their technology. Their new site has some quite inspiring material.

This fashion victim is a cigarette dwelling sax genie. Influenced by genie in Aladdin and short film 'The Cat Piano', this piece is made from a combination of photoshop masks and Indian Ink textures. BY Mete Erdogan.

Everybody knows the great pixelart of eBoy (eBoy FixPix). Now there is their first iPhone App available: Tilt your iPhone to explore eBoy’s mind-boggling art and find the right angle to solve the puzzle.

Take our photo tour of Governors Island's Building 110 — an exciting new studio, performance, and exhibition space from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

REFRAMESF takes you around the city in the ultimate photo scavenger hunt! Armed with film screen-shots, teams set out to capture photos of San Francisco filming locations and contrast the cinematic past with the present.

A nice touch of color on Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier's Wardrobe, (1956-59) Available at Galerie Patrick Seguin.

Two hand built school chairs that explore the relationships and connotations of an early childhood memory through their connection to one another.

"The Society of Sinister Simians" is part Victorian, part Steampunk and all monkey evil. 122 page limited edition book written and illustrated by Chet Phillips.

Simon Birch, Hong Kong-based artist created "Hope and Glory", a mix of 20 different installations in a 20,000-square-foot space. One full-scale room is designed to look like a 3-D rendering, until you realize, wait, it's real.

Brain Farm is making some of the most incredible films today, partly because of their vision and partly because of their incredible camera technologies.

Bing Destination Maps is an interesting way of rendering geographical maps in a more visually simplified way. The 'Cool' feature allows the selection of a visual map style such as 'Sketchy', 'European', 'American' or 'Treasure'.

Christian Germanaz colorful chair "Half & Half" designed in 1964 and available through Demisch Danant.

Car parts can be beautifully engineered bits of techie car art. Here's ten Jalopnik commenter-suggested car parts that'll make your inner technophile swoon.

A year ago someone decided to test the image and sound degradation that occurs when you upload a video to YouTube, then download the YouTube result, and upload it again. He did it 1,000 times, with trippy results.

Fun vase “Painting with Giotto #3” by Fernando Brizio is available at galerie Kreo. Limited edition 20 numbered and signed pieces.

Understated Coast Modern stunner designed by BUILD. Spanning the coast from Vancouver to Los Angeles, this slice of design heaven will jump off any wall.

"Tourbillon" vase by parisian designers A+A Cooren. A glass vase whirlwind shaped, which remind us the cycle and movement of water.

GREG “CRAOLA” SIMKINS Article on The Citrus Report
An Outsiders Guide to The Outside By j.frede

The Corpora is an algorithm and a virtual living mechanism at the same time,using data collected from hundreds of sensors, it builds up a ‘harmonic’, ideal environment based upon the results. It is augmented reality architecture.

"Left shoe!!! Right shoe!!!,” by artist Liam Gillick consists of a pair of sleek black leather brogues with perforated holes in the toe-box. Done in collaboration with traveling boutique Clemens en August

artist Paul Ramírez Jonas created a Key to the City, part scavenger hunt, part introduction to overlooked city monuments, from cathedral to neighborhood soda fountain, the project unlocks private rooms and displays in random locations .

Next-generation artificial intelligence, synthetic biology, and interactive technology create an environment that is nearly alive. Hylozoic Ground by Philip Beesley is an immersive, interactive environment.

FriendsWithYou brings color and festivities to Toronto for the Wish Come True Festival in what will be their largest interactive installation to date. June 10th - 20th, 2010.

Graphic design and poster printing team Aesthetic Apparatus have their 10 year exhibition and art show 1 year late - showing the entire month of June, 2010 at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

POSTMONUMENT - The XIVth International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara.

Simon Spilsbury takes on the Lions of Bath project. Look out for 100 lions in public spaces around Bath this summer. Spilsbury's Lion ‘Killerbite’ sponsored by Backup Direct can be seen on platform 1, Bath Spa Station.

Coast Modern Poster. Original artwork and poster design from Byron O’Neill—mixed and pulled by master printer Matt Mayer and team over at JDK.

Polo Jeans Co. Ralph Lauren commissioned over 50 of Europe’s most exciting young contemporary artists to customize stars made from the finest American denim. This piece from French artist L'Atlas is one of them.

Created by John Christenson, Nuzzles® are custom designed handmade wooden name puzzles, each with its own unique typographic style. Every puzzle is crafted from a single block of wood.

San Francisco based Botany Factory makes amazing succulent terrariums in hand-blown glass vessels. Their production is like a science experiment, albeit one conducted with color, texture and visual composition.

This beautiful Lightcatcher for the Whatcom Museum was designed by Olson Kundig Architects. This project was to add an iconic object for the museum to make the museum’s exterior as active as the interior.

Critical Practice just completed this installation made of 4200 milk crates at Chelsea College, London as part of Parade [#30782]. The project explores the layers of predetermined design and spontaneous space creation.

A re-look at Anish Kapoor first works done in 1979-80. 1000 Names was very much influenced by his journey through India in 1979 where little piles of pigment sold for cosmetic and ritual use at the entrances of temples.

What Google Creative Labs' Ed Kim is wearing, illustrated and posted each day on his Tumblr blog.

It's been a fabulous trend over the past few years or so to take photos of Star Wars Stormtrooper action figures in compromising positions. Lots have done it, only one, Stéfan Le Dû, did it 365 days in a row with a storyline attached.

9th Annual Lebowski Fest poster by Bill Green, printed by Louisville's Hound Dog Press, perfect for your special lady friend or whathaveyou.

With their "Diffractions", french artists Etienne Rey and Laurent Le Bourhis from Voss Studio play with glass, lights, reflects and spaces. Poetic and colorful.

Aakash Nihalani's latest piece of street art; geometric sculpture additions to a Brooklyn stop sign.

For its 25th anniversary, the French magazine Intramuros has collaborated with DuPont™ Corian® and invited the designers who have been featured on the cover of the magazine to transform an A4 sheet of white Corian.

Hide and Seek photo series by Frederique Daubal features models wearing masks created out of pages from fashion magazines.

inland is a series of illustrations by artist Dan McPharlin reminiscent of the 70’s Sci-fi

Created by UK artists Rob and Nick Carter, the RN754 is a unique color changing light box with 15 concentric circles of neon and a fully programmable color changing sequence.

Students from the BA Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College will be running a pop up shop named '2060'. Second years students have designed and produced objects for sale. June 1-7

Sad to have missed the "Three stars bomb!" candles designed by Ted Noten for the "Saved by Droog" event in Milan. These bomb shaped candles light up to slowly reveal three hidden bronze stars. Nice ephemeral packaging!

Amazing retro illustrations of space travel from the 1954 book 'Speeding into Space' by Marie Neurath - a real snapshot in time.

Bonsai-inspired Electree by Paris-based industrial designer Vivien Muller charges mobile devices with solar energy.

Lantern floating, a Memorial Day tradition at Magic Island, O'ahu. Thousands of lanterns each covered with messages of hope and remembrance are set adrift in the ocean.

Massive soundwave sculpture by media artist James Clar in the lobby of Rolex Tower in Dubai.

Argentina celebrated 200 years of the May Revolution on 25th May with a 5-day parade. With 6 million attendees, it became Argentina's history most convocating event.

A stunning short film by Brad Kremer, entitled Hyaku:A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan. This is as close as you will get to a declaration of love for a country - it is simply exquisite.

Beautiful "Steam_11" walnut chair by Korean artist Bae Se Hwa will be part of Gallery Seomi's exhibit at Design Miami Basel 2010.

j.frede's Case Study Nest ; A Photographic Study of birds nests - April 2010

Conflict Kitchen is a take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries that the United States is in conflict with. The food is served out of a take-out style storefront, which will rotate identities every 4 months to highlight another country.

Steve Jobs offers iPad users “freedom from porn.”
And yet the iPads’ measures will offer an unprecedented porn experience. Great ad-busting from Berlin Mitte.

Amazing 3 dimensional typeface by David Pidgeon. One Point Typeface explores the form of a six side cube from a single perspective.

The Saatchi & Saatchi Nothing is Impossible Challenge presents work from aspiring film directors around the world. Watch them online!

Parra's Not So Happy Birds

Here are some beautiful artwork illustrations by Meri, also known as, Kasiukasiu. Each of her illustration captures an emotional state.

VIDEO24 Hours in 19500 frames filmed with a Canon 5D MKII camera of the 2010 Nurburgring 24 Hour Race. Won by #25 BMW Team Schnitzer M3 GT2.

Relive the your childhood memories from the 80s, where for me it was all about Saturday morning TV. How many do you recognise?

Designer and typographer extraordinaire Mico Toledo reinvigorates some heavily inspiring artist lyrics in the typography project “Music Philosophy.”

Tiny Showcase released a limited edition screenprinted She & Him poster by Jesse LeDoux of Patent Pending Industries

VIDEOTake a peek at the production of the new line of posters for 826 Boston—designed and hand-silkscreened by Continuum.

Castello in Movimento restores Fosdinovo Castello to a meeting place of artists. From the end May to end September 2010 based on the project by a young couple, Pietro Torrigiani Malaspina and Maddalena Fossombroni.

Thou shalt not fail to kern display type. Limited-edition signed letterpress posters expounding the 34 most horrific Typographic Sins known to humankind. Perhaps you need to go see a typographic priest. By Jim Godfrey.

French designer Matali Crasset has created some new blown glass glasses and carafes to taste olive oil. These creations will be displayed at the exhibition "Inner Nature" which will be held at the Espace d'Art du Moulin, La Valette-du-Var.

Zara Picken has updated her website, which now includes a blog and a shop where prints of her illustrations can be purchased.

Project Diversities is a fashion/art project run by Off The Rakk Global Network™. They selected awesome illustrators - all with their strong and distinct trademarks, to create artworks out from the same object/ model. Awesome result!

"This is What Matters to Me" project, by KharmaNYC, unites 9 international designers with the causes that matter to them. Contributors include Mario Hugo, Non-Format, No Pattern, Emil Kozak, & more.

Ghost Girl is an icon, combines the female form and Ms. Pac-Man. Derived from Matt Siren’s classic 2D graphic representation, Ghost Girl comes to life in vinyl form as three dimensional character art.

3D Wall stickers from Optimistic Living. Wall decorations from cute anime characters to typographic statements.

During the " designer's day" in Paris this year, Laurent Corio will exhibit a peculiar project at the Catberro Gallery (p.s. those are porcelain spoons)

FEATUREDJenny Holzer's massive scrolling text display across the Aria Parking lot in CityCenter in Las Vegas... loaded up with 200 Truisms like “It’s not good to operate on credit.” See the video!

10 creative uses of Twitter. Because creativity matters as much as self-promotion or business intelligence.

Beautiful street art from Steve Locatelli in Antwerp, Belgium

Made of laser-cut etched acrylic, this model is part of a graduate architectural thesis project and the result of an exploration of reconstituting the sections produced through tomography.

That master of Propaganda, Ron English, has struck again, subverting some of the corporate world’s most recognizable symbols with his inventive, witty and incisive form of artful anti-advertising.

Rub Kandy created some amazing perspective Urban Art that comes just in plain white

The DesignBuzz present 10 Awesome Free Fonts by Fontfabric.

FEATUREDDominic Wilcox's Pre-Handshake Handshake Device was one of my favorite pieces in the Uncomfortable Conversations show

A private visit in the Berluti's workshop, Paris.

When typography mixes letters and meanings it gives amazing art work. These are signed by Peter Kay.

A series of Lost posters based on the Dharma Initiative stations, to celebrate the finale. Designed by websitesarelovely.

Weather Beacon: Kinetic outdoor sculpture by Eric Guzman translates weather data into art.

After the fabulous Patrick Jean's shot film "Pixels", here comes a short documentary on Pixel Art made by Australian animator Simon Cottee. From A to Z, discover this stunning art.

Water Imprint by Yaslab. Most plastics are made from oil derived liquid with no original shape. We only see plastics in artificial molded shapes.That makes us to feel "it is not natural". What might a natural form of plastic be?

Perrier and Moleskin have joined together to create a new special edition Moleskin in honor of Perrier’s new lifestyle blog Société Perrier, that aims to provide night life events.

This weekend, the mythical Avenue des Champ Elysées was transformed into a small forest by artist Gad Weil. 8 000 plots of land, 4.2 million euros and 2 M visitors. See pictures and timelapse.

The Million Dollar Man was designed by Jim Shore of St. Augustine Florida from one million dollars of macerated money.

Process blogspot of Toronto based illustrator Alice Blastora

Christian Boltanski’s No Man’s Land installation is one of the largest ever seen - it features 30 tonnes of discarded clothing, 3000 used biscuit tins and the sound of human heartbeats.

London-based A2/SW/HK has done some great work including these unified book covers and bespoke typefaces for the complete works of Samuel Beckett. The design matches the 1960s covers in their "bold typographical approach".

Check out this series by Julia Fellner. The ceiling lamp “yes!” remembers, when you jump for joy. Its paper lampshade is perforated with a triangle structure. More to be presented on DMY10 in Berlin. Starring the whole superéquipe Team.

About 500 red ants are spread in the city of Drachten, The Netherlands. Most of them came together in front of the theatre De Lawei, to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Multidisciplinary studio TODA designs a gorgeous hands-on exhibition for AIGA's Design Journeys: You Are Here. There is also a painted mural by Rafael Esquer from Alfalfa Studio, and to which viewers can contribute.

Artware editions is presenting a small selection of artist deck chairs featuring the work of Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Sir Peter Blake, Keith Tyson, Marc Quinn, Sam McEwan and Rob and Nicky Carter.

The Animal Series is a collection of drawings inspired by the trend in recent years for bands to have animals in their names. The results are both literal and lateral interpretations by Illustrator - Okayboss.

Baltimore Print Studio's popular Strategic Plan posters are back in stock, this time in two colors. Grab one while they last!

Bnko's latest piece is called sharptrooper, member of the trained nursing staff. He's entirely assembled through friction fit and screws, no glue involved.

I Met The Walrus, an amazing film made from an actual tape interview of John Lennon. Stunning visuals and an interview of the Beatle. Directed by Josh Raskin with penwork from James Braithwaite with illustration by Alex Kurina,

Forget what you know about mythology. Mythfits is a great web comic created by Justin Winslow.

Vintage plates are cut with industrial processes of waterjet cutting and laser marking to create patterns and text. Designer Cj O´Neill collect plates from second hand shops and car boot sales.

A do-it-yourself approach to "pimping your reading glasses," resulting in eyewear worth a second glance.

Remember Little Golden Books (The Poky Little Puppy, The Shy Little Kitten)? Pixar's Josh Cooley created Movies R Fun a Little Golden Book-ish take on movies that are definitely not kid-friendly. Beautiful and fun!

Visit Microsoft's Studio D in Washington and you will come face to face with some of your favorite Star Trek characters. This amazing art work is rendered from translucent beads by Devorah Sperber.

Catherine McEver's line of false products you can't buy includes a Bottled Emotions Kit with the warning: "Not suitable for children or emotionally labile adults."

Sandra Suy is a Spanish Illustrator working in Barcelona. Admire her Fabulous illustrations and read an inspiring interview.

Reid Nystrom and Scot Bailey designed and fabricated this installation with their thesis class to display the 2d work of the studio.

Mark Ryden's latest exhibit “A Gay 90’s Old Tyme” can now be seen in NY and references the idealism of the 1890s while addressing the role of kitsch and nostalgia in our current culture.

20 different Spoke Cards have been designed especially for Love Your Bike Portsmouth on 30/5/10. I Love Dust, Farkfk, LEX, Sifer, and many more artists and students across the city.

In these pieces I hope to document the energy of raw graffiti like 3D structures tearing apart visual space and reclaiming urban environments.

Drainspotting is a new book/iPad app exploring the Japanese penchant for artistic manhole covers.

Derick Melander is better at folding than you.

Amazing paper plane instillation by Dawn Ng.

A stunning collection of over 50 vintage tin lunchboxes from the 50s, 60s and on.

Unique street art by the German collective known as Herakut.

Imaginary posters from the streets of Jeremyville, to help us daily to be more alive, more real, and hopefully better people.

"Rational Exploration of the Undersea" photo series by Philippe Ramette, who turns his self portraits into surreal situations.

Absolut teamed up with artist Dan Tobin Smith to offers us a beautiful video featuring a cathedral of glass which in flows the precious liquid, delivering his message with the states of the fluid (gas or liquid).

The Virtual Water Project by german Timm Kekeritz would like to show the world how much freshwater is used to produce selected products – hoping for people to rethink their consumption patterns. And yes, it looks damn good too!

Yin Xiuzhen's incredible stretch bus!

bitMAPS is a custom tile system created by vacuum forming over a variable mold. This application integrates many of the functional elements of the bathroom.

Vintage packaging galore! A free form group of Bay Area designers scour off some old sketching tools like Berol Prismacolor to bring new art to life.

From ICFF - an incredible 'spring dress lounge' sculpture forged from reclaimed upholstery springs via brooklyn-based artist susan woods.

Immerse yourself in this Cold War-era bunker built in the San Francisco Bay Area. Photos courtesy of explorer/photographer Mike Hows.

With scraps of muscles, claws, capes and armor, Aaron Noble pieces together super-hero collages. His paintings look as if the characters from comic books were rearranged in an anatomical disarray.

Jamboree by David C. Roy is a freestanding flower-shaped kinetic sculpture that touts varying motion patterns as one changes the perspective.

The creator of Rocko's Modern Life is trying to start an all web cartoon channel, KaboingTV.com, and needs your help!

As part of their 4th anniversary celebration, Orginal Fake teamed up with Bicycle to created limited edition playing cards.

Pictures from the model citizens show, during ICFF

"Two Spirits" by Mia, now on view at the Bristol City Museum's "Art From the New World" exhibition through August 22nd.

Woodsculpter / Painter Anthony Santella presents a mask in wood. Blank stare outside, hinged inside with a lovely skull. Not for your everyday masquerade.

Illustrator Lauren Monaco has created a beautiful handmade book of haiku by Jack Kerouac.

Muti Randolph is one of the world's top audio-visual artists. In this video he shares what's behind some of his most famous creations, which meld architecture, industrial design, music, and engineering.

Where the cursors come from? Finally, a good explanation, coming us from artist Nathan W. Pyle.

Toothpicks become the soul of world’s most recognizable architecture replicas by Stan Munro.