Kevin Van Aelst photographs household objects to explain basic life processes.

Floral foam (usually used for arranging flowers) shaped as a vase. another beautiful idea by designer Shay Shafranek.

Amazing Life Size Catalog Flagship store by Danilo Leonardi, Joana Pais, Hafsteinn Juliusson and Rui Pereira

'Interaction' is one of four contemporary installations at H&M Sweeden’s HQ. The giant wooden display unit is 34m2 -full of pulleys and levers to operate like an analogue search engine.

FALTJAHR 2010 is a nice pop-up-calender by Johann Volkmer. The architecture behind this complex thing is amazing

Cartoonist Chris Ware designed the November 2nd cover of The New Yorker. It shows children happily trick or treating while their parents huddle on the sidewalk, basking in the ominous glow of their iPhones. Scary, but true.

Renowned photographer Rankin talks about his new charity project and the art of being destroyed by the likes of Beck, U2, Damien Hirst, Marianne Faithfull, Jarvis Cocker, Ian Brown and more.

KITA Design completed this Forest Classroom pods for a prep school in Windermere, UK. Made from English Chestnut shingles and a ribbed timber frame, the 2 pods are connected by a deck constructed of timber and recycled plastic milk bottles...

A range of bottles with collapsed bases!!!

SuperFoam is a re-creation of naturally occurring reticulated foam structures through a casting process that facilitates designing the properties of the foam itself.

Inside Norway is promoting Norwegian furniture design abroad. They asked StokkeAustad to design the Norwegian stand at the 2009 IMM furniture fair in Cologne. The concept of StokkeAustad was to create an abstract apple garden.

Awesomely affordable glow in the dark Vestal Datamat Watch calculator.

Designer Clémentine Tantet takes Paris's name "City of Lights" and redesigns it's Underground map with the aesthetics of a map of the stars.

Nice installation in Paris "The cloud" : an atmospheric event occurred during the Nuit Blanche 2009.

Map of New York City that's literally cut into paper. Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx fit together like panes of a window, revealing the city's intricacies only when placed against a colorful backdrop. Paris also available.

Hommu Everywhere wall murals collection demonstrate work of the emerging talents from the world of graphic design and illustration, like the ‘Plin’ collection, brought to life by illustrator Cristobal Schmal (Nomono).

New artist themes for Google’s web browser are
promoted in this interactive video with a surprise
ending. Watch to the end to get the full effect.

Discover Marseille with this collection of 3D replications of iconic buildings and everyday items from the city by designer David Lasnier.

This small goopy photographic series was developed during designer Paul Fuog's 2009 post at Stefan Sagmeister's Experimental Outcamp in Ubud, Indonesia. It goes by the name "Sea Creatures."

The How Not to Cookbook by artist Aleksandra Mir. Rave reviews of the First edition by non-profit Collective Gallery in Edinburgh, 2000 copies. Second edition by Rizzoli is in the making.

Cutaway of Lexus' new LFA supercar at the Tokyo Auto Show made to look like a CAD rendering.

Cool stairs in Wuppertal. Acrylic paint on 112 steps. Each color expresses a different emotion.

Skulls Unlimited create non existent and hard to find skeletal structures such as this centaur made from half horse half human remains

Never did know what to do with lots of tea towels, but always want to buy them... love the Aesthetic Reverie's idea to turn them into throw pillows ~ how cute is this one???

'Neurath, Bliss and Language of the Pictogram', an essay by Phil Patton: Otto Neurath's Isotype and Blissymbolics in perspective, or how to go past the failings of language inventing a new -graphic- one. A must-read!

Italian design graduates Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma present a series of baked objects at an exhibition in Eindhoven this week.

Noted Japanese architect Scu Fujimoto built a full-size Lexus LFA out of transparent acrylic boards that were sanded and polished. This see-through supercar sculpture made an appearance at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show.

system:system opens in the St. Cecilia parish in Greenpoint, Brooklyn putting 25 artists to work in a former convent.

Torino, Italy-based artist Fabio Viale makes sculptures out of 100% white marble. His collection includes a video showing his fully-functional marble motor boat in action.

KAWS contributed his work for an editorial called 'Graffi-Couture" in the upcoming November issue of Vogue Paris.

These LED eyelashes - designed to 'make your eyes look bigger' are just crazy. We're not sure they make your eyes look bigger but they definitely make an impression!

Through The Ages is a piece of time travel with Mini Cooper. An advertisement campaign by Am I Collective for Blackriver FC agency. Perfect visuals completed with perfect music.

Equine health lectures that uses real 'painted' horses as live anatomical text books

Stunningly simple pendant light made from a solid block of walnut.

Nice work by Manue Arranz. A very talented creative work with a fun concept.

While most manufacturers are packing new cars with as much as they can find, the Daihatsu Basket is extremely minimalist.

Brooklyn based urban designer is optimizing efficiency of your limited space in the big city.

Biosphere home farm concept by Philips, stacking mini eco-systems together to enable at-home farming in your apartment.

The talented author & artist of The Art of Wooing: An Email Tale of Modern Courtship is teaching mixed media classes at Hands on 3rd, a very cool new spot in LA that functions as a public work space for artists at all levels.

Using Styrofoam scavenged from the dump, American artist Andrew Junge sculpted a Hummer to highlight waste and consumption in North American culture. 17ft (5.2m) long, 6ft (1.8m) high and 8ft (2.4m) wide.

Kidimo is a new shop online that sells vintage shop signs...

An international scavenger hunt to see how artists from around the globe visually interpret the same items, which are then documented in a book and exhibitions.

This vision for the New Bouwkunde architecture school resembles a swooping solar skateboard ramp.

Solar-powered concept car MINILUX provides renewable energy to the grid when it's not being driven.