This is the online portfolio of Bottega Fotografica, a fashion photographers based in Mexico, with great sense of fashion and art.

Happycentro is an Italian design firm based in Verona that has worked with the New York Times Magazine and Nike. Their self-initiated project “Paper Objects” mixes the art of origami with colorful and geometrically complex images.

Chris held of Portland-based Von Tundra created a piece that mimics the aesthetics of a Persian rug--except, in this case, on a dry-erase white board. Co-created with Andrew Vomhof, 'persian pallet' makes use of an industrial shipping pallet.

I caught PatrickGeorge's 'A Filth of Starlings' in a shop window. Such gorgeous illustration capturing groups of animals. His other book, 'A drove of bullocks' looks pretty amazing too.

"Finish Line" is Chris Ware's latest illustration for The New Yorker magazine's Summer Fiction issue.

Lys is a french art director. She makes these illustrations with collage.

Lotus is a reactive wall by Studio Roosgarde combining hundreds of smart foils, lamps, sensors, software and other media.

STAX O' WAX! A dope poster by stuffedcrust.net promoting Crate Kings exclusively vinyl sampling beat music mash up mix tape. Sure to please even the most discerning beat digger and designer alike.

Happy Go Skateboarding Day !!!

Dekar is free font which is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.

A nice hand-printed, minimalist bike poster. There's also a blog post link that shows how it was made.

Artist Carolina Andreoli made this chart of her 317 friends, ranked by importance and color-coded by location.

NOTEABLES: Handmade, repurposed, and just plain cool. These hand-stitched journals are made from the roof material of the former RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Developed by People for Urban Progress and Melissa Oesch.

Arbito's new Cosmic Hobo! Who knew a cosmic hobo could be so cute (though lacking bindle?)

Mugo, the first limited edition designer MP3 player and USB flash drive is finally here! 'Artist Series 1' has super limited designs by some of todays top urban artists, including Julie West, Shin Tanaka, Tougui and Yup.

If you mastered time travel and took some 2010 technology back with you, you'd have to redesign and market it to make it fit in...and make millions! San Francisco based designer Alex Varanese pulls it off.

Stunning digital art created by video game concept artist Stephane Belin.

Plastikman is the main recording identity for Canadian DJ/VJ Richie Hawtin. The visuals presented at his live tour are by far the most advanced techniques i seen used.

FEATUREDIncredible Handmade banknote by Xavi Garcia ~ Entirely drawn by hand, it features security measures common in banknotes such as watermarks, tactile elements, see-through images and invisible UV ink.

Sasquatch! Music Festival 2010 poster by Invisible Creature

FEATUREDJohn Woo, “He Wears It” : and illustration series where he has Darth Vader in Band of Outsiders, Scout Trooper in Viktor & Rolf, Boba Fett in Supreme, and more! See jar jar binks in maison martin margiela!

La Tigre presents a gorgeous infographic 2010 FIFA World Cup Calendar!

Beautiful Phish posters by The Silent Giants and Us & Them

Not the usual ceramics works that we have seen. Without the glazing and decorative painting, Maria's ceramics are colorful with its' curvy shapes- displaying the joy of the ceramics and its users.

The Geography of LOST: Retrospective is the result of a four year geographic study of the fictitious "ISLAND" from the TV show "LOST". This project was created by Jonah M. Adkins, GISP, Newport News. Prints for sale!

Goyard, in collaboration with publisher Devambez, announces the launch of the first book devoted to the legendary Parisian trunk maker. Presented within a made to order trunk the copies are numbered from 1 to 233.

MoMA Modern Play House -- Create a delightfully modern house with this innovative set of modular nesting boxes! Aspiring architects and designers of all ages can create modern spaces.

The National Design Awards were conceived by the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum to honor the best in American design. Creative Director Stephen Doyle is the 2010 Communication Design Award winner.

"We are nation' created the awesome Like and Dislike stamps. They believe the phrase is 'haters gonna hate'. The 'Dislike' Stamp is rubber (6.4cm x 2.4cm) on a pvc mount, with an oak handle. Produced and dispatched from the UK.

Scan Toys, an exhibition by visual artists Mónica Rojas y Hernán Eliaschev is currently showing at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, lets you peek at their guts.

Designed by Sigrid Strömgren and Sanna Lindstrom 'Grand Central' table is dramatic and poetic at the same time. The inspiration comes from a pop-up map of New York.

An amazing new integrated marketing campaign for Sherwin Williams features tv, print and online ads of a world made entirely of paint chips by paper sculptor Matthew Sporzynski.

Artist Justin Barry has created a beautifully intricate Phrenology illustration "Thoughts of Modern Man"

A magnified exploration of the honeybee and its anatomy as art. The BEE series of photographs by Rose-Lynn Fisher are available for purchase at the Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn. June 3 - July 3, 2010.

VIDEOThree Sided Football is a game invented by Asger Jorn, that he presents in the book "The Application of the Triolectical Method in General Situology", edited in Århus in 1964 by the Scandinavian Institute for Comparative Vandalism.

Here is a tutorial video, shot by Pied la Biche, about the rules of Three Sided Football : http://vimeo.com/12509689

Nice artwork by Scianca. Dress made with VHS bands.

Illustrator / animator Greg Peltz brings the steam out in Star Wars with three rather dapper Victorian portraits.

A re-imagined interpretation of William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay Dying, based on the idea of found objects by Tony Lee Jr.

This summer the Hayward Gallery presents The New Décor; an international survey of over 30 contemporary artists, including some of the leading sculptors of our time. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre. 19 June--5 September 2010.

Since no one buys CDs anymore EverReady Records and Rollin Rockers released their new LP on limited edition Pill Shaped USB drives with the LP, a mixtape of early material, videos and extra content.

awesome Goldbar design by Martin Saemmer.

This summer, dramatic, immersive installations by internationally renowned artist Ernesto Neto transform the Hayward Gallery’s upper galleries and its three outdoor sculpture courts.

Alternative Mean Streets movie poster for sale, 2 color screen print. Limited to just 50 copies and each signed by the artist Raid71. Print by the amazing Mat Daly.

L-E-D-LED-L-ED is the name of the beautiful installation created by Dilight, consisting of innumerable bead-shaped LED lights lined on wires and moving freely (like an abacus) to allow viewers to interact and modify the piece.

Pretty adorable little, petit, tiny birdhouse necklaces by Tom Frencken! Look at the colored ones as well!

Smart, funny Star Wars fashion illustration by John Woo.

Great animation of Dan Pink's talk at the RSA, where he discusses the surprising truth about what motivates us.

New postcard series by Pigeon Post created exclusively for the Art Gallery of Alberta to celebrate their upcoming exhibitions. The series include The Art of Animation and Prisons of the Imagination.

Breakfast NY designs an iPad controlled Blimp for the MunNY Exhibit 2010. The blimp flies around superimposing Munny Characters on people's faces using live video.

A little print paying homage to the systematic wonder that is the New York City Grid Plan.

Sea urchins have hundreds of feet: thin, muscular tubes with suction cups at the ends. Their tube feet, pedicellariae, and probably the shell itself—may function as a giant compound eye like that of an insect. Amazing Creaturecast video!

Dijital Fix presents the first physical gallery of Hipstamatic photos taken with iPhones around the world. Judged by IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT VP, David Bias and others. Coincides with Dijital Fix's second store in NYC's Lower East Side.

Graphic design artist Nikolay Bezhko goes by the aka name "Data Driven Decision Making" and creates design magic!

Sam Songailo’s art practice is heavily influenced by design, electronic music, technology, man-made/natural systems and aesthetic concepts of the future. Media Centre is Songailo’s first major installation project.

Swarm Light: a stunning chandelier made using 15,000 LEDs that mimics the movements of a swarm moving between three large cubes. Created by rAndom International.

Kult House is the selected work of Josh Rhode, a 25 yr. old Art Director who works primarily in interactive motion. Josh’s work is dynamic, richly illustrated, and technically engaging.

Documentarian photographer Christian Montone takes his crayon collection out for a nicely-lit photography session. Take a peek at all the extinct brands, obliterated by the king Crayola.

Concrete, in collaboration with Amsterdam’s Historical Museum, presents the brothel of the future.

French fashion designer Christian Lacroix has designed new decorative wooden panels for Marotte. Contemporary and sophisticated.

Beautiful drawings by Betsy Walton.

Nike builds World Cup sculpture out of 3,000 footballs. Dubbed Ballman, the sculpture is located in the atrium of the Carlton Centre shopping mall, Johannesburg

'Trensformer', is composed of eight different modules, which are connected by an interlocking
construction system to form a rectangular object. Martin Saemmer's unique prototype is available at the Next Level gallery in Paris until July 24.

Multi awarded duo Yael Mer & Shay Alkalay from Raw Edges Studio created a super nice series of 12 revolving paper trees planted on a non revolving paper and wood console Table.

Thoughtful, brilliantly executed and ultimately, truly inspirational, the London based duo of Mark Tappin and Simon Gofton, Tappin Gofton produce some wonderfully distinctive work....

Designer Tom Rowe used the magnetic liquid Ferro Fluid to create photographs for a series of 12 inch album covers with very pleasant results.

Amy Joy Watson is an Australian sculptor who makes hidden worlds out of wood.

Tomas Alonso designed limited edition V&A chairs are made from a single bent, powder coated metal tube around which a solid ash structure is made to support the seating surface made from reclaimed Victorian ceiling boards.

'Occult jam' by Bompas and Parr will be available to purchase from the Barbican Art Gallery Shop on June 24. Absinthe and pineapple with sand from the Great Pyramids is one of the jam flavors created for the The Surreal House exhibition.

UK Illustrator Ryan Chapman has recently released the Mystical Thinker, limited to just 10 each figure is unique and comes with a removable 'piece of mind'.

Amy Ruppel gets revenge on birds that have attacked her with her "Mean Birds" print series.

This isn't a photo, but a drawing. All made in full color with permanent marker on paper by designer/artist Hollis Brown Thorton. Part of an ongoing series.

Look familiar? Except, this fail whale is entirely rendered in CSS! It's also animated in Safari and Chrome! notcot says it's the new ascii art.

Cashback by Vincent Jacquier, part of the 'give me more' exhibition at DMY Berlin. A bill placed on the cashback glass reveals, a stripper who begins his/her provocative dance moves. The higher the note's value, the more 'content'.

Laurie Anderson’s Lighting the Sails projects gorgeous colors and patterns onto the Sydney Opera House. Lighting the Sails remains on view at the Sydney Opera House through June 20th.

FEATUREDSHAG's amazingly adorable kid sized mid century modern "Art Shack" at the Laguna Art Museum!

Very poetic cloud and bird mobiles for children and art work exhibition. By Guillemette Lanthiez.

"Radiation Chair" and a small table by Nocc Studio are showed in Gallery S. Bensimon during the Designer's Days 2010. A wooden chair with an oversized armrest and a strange homothetic table.

Real world tweet street (tree?) art in NYC!

The most adorable world cup supporters image by Susu!

Electronic Popables (MIT high-low tech ) integrated traditional pop-up mechanisms with paper-based electronics to create a book that looks and functions much like an ordinary pop-up with the added element of dynamic interactivity.

Emil Kozak's "The Ramones Saved My Life" solo show ~ awesome pics of the show, and fun video of it going up!

beautiful illustrations by matthew lyons [Editor's Note: AMAZING! So so beautiful!]

For ‘In Progress’ exhibition, studio Wieki Somers has created 3 still lives made of 3d-printed human ashes, that question the value of life and objects using the visual language that can be found in 16th and 17th century still life paintings.

Thinkspace is pleased to present a new deluxe print edition from Brian Viveros ‘The Last Round’!

tape installation' by design collective use/numen made of tendons of transparent multi-layered adhesive tape stretched between the columns
of an ex-stock exchange building in berlin. see previous coverage in post #31316.

VIDEO"Refait" is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany 1982. Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne, every aspect of the 15 last minutes of the match carefully reconstructed - players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc.

The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. A project by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus.

Love Space Invader? Love T-shirts? How about Sky Invader? Now T-shirt design up for scoring at threadless.com

An illustration depicting a divine intervention in the Gulf Coast - Chris Peel

This years "ARTWORKS" by Iittala. Oiva Toikka creates his own art made of glass. Releese in autumn 2010.

INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FESTIVAL BERLIN 2010 –
DMY. An account told through images of the main exhibition...

A letterpressed non word dictionary, created to showcase those words turned down from the Oxford English dictionary. Polkadodge - the dance that occur when two people attempt to pass each other but move in the same direction...

This is the Ferrari 612 GTO Concept from Sasha Selipanov, aka The Angry Car Designer. This is one of the most intriguing and creative renderings to date with some elements of the 458 Italia mixed in with a bit of Aston Martin One-77.

A review of the exhibition: Gino De Dominicis – L’immortale.

Urban art in Paris by Ox.

TSC, [Tunable Sound Cloud] an architectural application to tune the acoustics of your space in real-time with a unique style! [check the video in the post!]

BMW Z4 made out of stone and mortar was spotted in Beijing, China.

Surveillance Cameras: they are alive!!! by Ricardo Iglesias for Sonar 2010 involves the creation of a series of "living" robotic cameras that follow people. The cameras record visitors, projecting them in situ and on the Internet.

Exhibition by Alexis Rom Estudio Atelier Vostok lab in Milan

Joyas Voladores - art print (Flying Jewels)
18"X24" 3-color screenprint w/ metallic gold
On wood and on paper.

Super attractive drawers designed by Raymond Loewy for his DF2000 Serie X-line created in 1968. This one is available through Swedish gallery Modernity.

Using the landscape of the Museum as a test site, the V&A invited nineteen architects to submit proposals for structures that examine notions of refuge and retreat. Seven were selected for construction at full-scale.

Roma-Milano: a Stefano Boeri's discourse on the double opening of spaces dedicated to contemporary art in Rome

Beautiful characters made entirely out of paper by Sher Christopher.

Corona and HA Schult have created the world's first rubbish hotel (literally a hotel made from rubbish) as part of its Save the Beach campaign

Go with the Flow by Dean McNamee and Filippo Cuttica during the TUI class at Copenhagen Institute of interaction Design. It's a tangible user interface that allows you to visualize and filter incoming emails.

Bring a key switch a key leave a key, all of this is part of Andrea Hayward grids of keys installations: "Come Up To My Room", “USED / TNAW," and "PURE GOLD"

Judith Braun creates these amazing charcoal drawings using only her fingers!

The freedivers Guillaume Néry and Julia Gautier did an amazing "Underwater Base Jump" video in the Dean's Blue Hole, the deepest underwater sinkhole of the world.

Famous When Dead's live painted artwork from the 2010 Urban Paint Festival (UPFEST) in Bristol, England.

This huge ‘fan man’ made with 2,500 used Coke crates, stands 16.5 meter tall, located in Newtown Joburg at the fan park. By Crafetefan.

Heather L. Johnson references both anatomy and machine, using delicate embroidery and graphite drawing to consider movement, identity, complex activity and infrastructural space. Enjoy an Urban Omnibus interview with Johnson here.

A hardback book student re-design of Douglas Adams classic sci-fi series The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy

FEATUREDWow. Crayon Carvings of World Cup super stars! Diem Chau + W+K for the Nike Write the Future press kit! Beautiful packaging, stunning artworks!

Chrono-Shredder is a poetic time-object that reminds us of the volatility of the "now". With functions similar to those of a calendar and a clock, it shreds every single day in realtime. A concept by Berlin based Susanna Hertrich.

Flight patters from Aaron Koblin were part of a series of experiments for the project "Celestial Mechanics" by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne at UCLA. FAA data was parsed and plotted using the 'Processing' programming environment.

Arik Levy's work "Luminescence, between Fire & Ice" is exhibiting at the Santa Monica Museum of Art until August 21.

Arniko skateboards are made in Nepal in cooperation with small local enterprises using the traditional Nepalese art of woodcarving. A distinctive combination of craftsmanship and design evolves.

Since every piece of timber is unique, it gives the board a natural identity and makes every Arniko Skateboard a one of a kind.

The ethical issues and paranoia surrounding the law of photographing children in today's society is confusing and somewhat farcical. But at what point will the photography of children become completely forbidden?

British designer Mike Lemanski has a new site up, beautiful work.

Artist Addison's first installation of Zoo! Creatures Of Curiosity on the Urban Streets of Berlin. Zoo is an art installation of animals that never were. Bring wildlife back from the imagination.

Ordinary products- a chair, a pair of shoes, a pair of boxing gloves, a doormat and a chest belt-are supplemented with electronic digital counters that count peculiar interactions with their users.
Designed by Julijonas Urbonas at the RCA.

Living Light by The Living is a building facade of the future that displays air quality and public interest in the environment. It is a permanent outdoor pavilion in Peace Park, across from World Cup Stadium in Seoul, Korea.

An amazing collection of miniature sculptures produced in resin using stereo-lithography (3D printing)

JPEGASUS poster by Jamie Reed at Human Shaped Robot

The Battle of Trafalgar is an ambitious piece and Barnaby Barford's largest to date. Barford is an artist who works primarily with ceramics to create unique narrative pieces. For this big scene he has introduced concrete into his aesthetic.

Wedding invitation inspired by 1960s LP album covers and vintage bus passes, with handmade linocut block printed elements.

Jaime Hayon @ Belgrade Design Week. The best performer of the Serbian Week…Watch the video!

The installation “Chapter I: The Discovery” by Félix Luque Sánchez consists of a sculpture representing an unidentified object in the shape of a dodecahedron and a number of videos re staging the moment of its discovery.

An interview with James Powderly, part of Graffiti Research Lab and the team that developed Eyewriter [see post #31312], the eye-reading technology that allows paralyzed artists to "write" graffiti.

Eric Fischer created the Geotaggers' World Atlas showing the distribution of photos taken by tourists and locals in a number of cities.

Read our roundup of some of London's most talented young artists and designers at the Free Range art fair at the Old Truman Gallery on Brick Lane.

Preview of 3DFY, which creates 3D version of any photo or video in realtime using your webcam. The user can spin the 3D version in any angle, pivot, in front behind or inside the 3DFY version.

Carte Blanche is an art installation by Jean Shin using masses of blank rolodex cards to hint our life in the age of digital, the social network and our fragile existence.

Chocolate body parts by French "design gourmand" group Bouchees Doubles. Each part of the ""Mangez Moi" collection is made with a different, exotic flavor.

Belgian-Swiss-based design studio Big Game's project 'shapes', explores the automobile
as an elemental component of our society's quotidian existence.

Studio Printworks' Great Contemporary Artist series features Mark Fox's delicate script sculptures as a gorgeous wallpaper.

White Cube Mason’s Yard presents a new exhibition by Antony Gormley. The artist has created a major new site-specific installation and a new series of cast iron blockwork sculptures.

Sotheby’s first ever outdoor selling exhibition at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire is up and running. The exhibition, in association with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, presents 25 unique/limited-edition works of contemporary art.

VIDEOOne of the best video mapping outdoor installations created by Seep. "Battle of Branchage" projected on Gorey Castle is visually stunning.

An electronic device can predict an incoming bout of misery through statistical analysis of accumulated data. 'Happy Life' is a concept by Auger-Loizeau, part of the Impact exhibition, a unique collaboration between science and design.

Latest sketchbot by Steve Talkowski - "Sketchball & Refbot"

White Shadow is an interactive art installation created by Team 4040 composing a telematic sundial which connects people on two remote locations via a monument’s shadow.

Shopping Trophies by artist Pucci de Rossi are modern versions of wall mounted animal heads within whose stylized antlers are trademarks, logos and brand names like Nike, Gucci, Coca Cola, Prada and more.