Venice gallery Punta Della Dogana has reopened after 14 months of restoration. It looks stunning.

Art teacher, Chuck Dillon, shows us sixteen different types of art school students. Funny!

Charlie Harper's ABCs ~ adorable gorgeous book of classic illustrations in board book form!

James Provost, an illustrator from Vancouver, attended Maker Faire, and it inspired him to create a sweet set of "DIY spot illustrations"

Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types By Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss ~ on upcoming kids books ~ typography + animals!!!

Dwell Studio's LOOK ~ a board book coming in Sept ~ more potential perfect gifting for the newborns coming up! (Also keep an eye out for What Colors? and Touch and Feel Farm)

Magritte's imagination ~ a board book by Susan Goldman Rubin!!! Next time i'm shopping for toddler gifts, this is top of the list! You're never too young to get a nice dose of Magritte!

Adorable Moose Peeking card from Linda & Harriet

People love to cut butterflies out of things.... we've seen maps and soda cans... and now Magazine Covers from Peter Wuethrich

3D modeler Fred McCullough's online portfolio is, ironically, almost completely hand drawn! Full of adorable animated sketches and little clickables. Especially the contact page.

The World Famous Design Junkies post an expanding collection of photographs of the most important card in the deck: the Ace of Spades.

GrowShelter, winner of the Schuylkill Environmental Education Center Sustainable Design/Build Competition designed by Brooklyn-based design collaborative XLXS, Julia Molloy and Taka Sarui.

Mechanical Engagement ring. Opens to reveal diamond.

Attaboys new Winged Shmee Custom is now available for preorder... A super limited run of only 8 hand painted customs with a print that comes with each one.

Ink painting by Lucie Beranger, delicate and chic.

Famous When Dead's live painting from UPFEST 2009 - The Urban Paint Festival held in Bristol.

A sculpture by Danish designer Henrik Vibskov for the upcoming DDC exhibit during Copenhagen Fashion Week.

Scott Caan, the actor, actually makes a pretty good photographer. There's a lot of cool meta stuff ... like this pic from the Cannes Film Fest.

Paintings by Los Angeles artist Nate Frizzell

Giant chewing gum sculptures in Venice. Artwork by Simone Decker.

AJ Fosik's new art show “There’s Aliens in Our Midst" at White Walls Gallery in San Francisco. This entire show is made of paint, wood, and nails!

The latest in lomography, the Holga 120-3D Stereo Camera is twice the fun (with twice the lenses)! Now you can develop your own retro 3D photos.

Sandra Chui Huynh's take on street art. Graffiti with balloons!

The first monograph for Dutch superstar Marcel Wanders is now available from Gestalten. His expansive range of talents are difficult to summarize --- resulting in his elegant and prolific works...

Awesome! Turntable hand built from wood, work of a bangkok artist.

The Guggenheim Museum and Google's SketchUp and Virtual Earth has a new design competition. You create a shelter design with Google SketchUp, choose where on earth it is to go on Google Earth and you're entered. Learn all about it here.

Amazing piece by SF illustrator Jenn Burkhardt. Great use of space and perspective.

Close up with The Dragon Scout and his Girl Scout... Love this new series from Amanda Visell and Switcheroo! Take a peek at the tiny details!

The new claymation film from director Tatia Rosenthal and writer Etgar Keret, $9.99, hopefully will make its way to a theatre near you soon. Trailer looks amazing...

Creative sculpture designed by Mike Ross is built from two repurposed 18-wheeler tanker trucks.

Stages of Decay by Julia Solis-- beautiful photographs of abandoned theatres, ballrooms, movie palaces, and other such monuments to life and pleasure, now ravaged by time.

Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7 ~ Take a peek into the upcoming book from Fleet Street Scandal ~ Kevin Dart has joined up with his friends to flesh out this incredible persona. (+ i'm the quote on the back cover!!!)

Graduation show of Royal Academy of Arts, Ghent opens on June 24. Check some art work of the students on the special website.

A great video giving a first look at the upcoming works of Banksy for his Bristol museum show.

A very unique portfolio design, and hand made to boot! Designed and manufactured by Nicholas Wilson.

Photographer Dina Goldstein shot “fairy tale characters in modern day scenarios” for this “Fallen Princesses” series.

23 year-old designer, illustrator and animator Matthieu Bessudo aka McBess produced this awsome music video for the band The Dirty Pirates.

The Doodle Bar in London is a bar where you draw on the walls, the floors, the tables, the chairs, the bar staff... everywhere. Marker pens are provided!

Krzysztof Wodiczko's Goście/Guests, 2009, on view at the 53rd Venice Biennale, reviewed in Rhizome.org

Fast Food Nation meets Shipping Container Nation in a brilliant concept that not only looks amazing, but probably tastes just as good.

The Urban Gridded Notebook is back and now available in High Quality Print at Walking Chair...
The modern city is controlled by the grid. We should not let the grid control our creativity...

Banksy's show in Bristol opens tomorrow. According to the artist: 'This is the first show I've ever done where taxpayers' money is being used to hang my pictures up rather than scrape them off.'

pretty wild subway animation as seen from the q train. hard to capture in a still, but well worth checking out. Update: identified as Bill Brand's Masstransiscope from 1980!

A mix a Japanese traditions and modern style, Shohei Otomo (Hakuchi) manga illustrations are pretty amazing !