SquidFire is a small t-shirt and design boutique that just launched this past week by Jean-Baptiste Regnard and Kevin Sherry. Each image is hand designed and given individual attention, making the t-shirts like wearable pieces of artwork. The images are very simple-- but totally clean. What makes these so...

sixspace in LA June 11th-July 9th. via Boing Boing...

We're big fans of everything Protein is doing-- and the new Protein DPM Series 1 canvas series is totally hot. They're a range of eight Disruptive Pattern Materials designed by William Rowe-- only the first few styles have been released, and they look great. The digital prints are signed,...

This deck was created exclusively for Art Prostitute by Evan Hecox and Cody hudson for a show they held recently in Texas. The board marks the first occasion these two artists have shown in Texas--in an exhibit called "Waiting Room ", and the first skateboard Art Prostitute has ever...

I'm a big fan of Puma's summer line--the designs are totally progressive, and they're trying new stuff--which is admirable. All shoes and clothing aside, their Summer 2005 eCatalog is just brilliant. It's easy to use and works from the point of view as if you were reading the catalog...

Dopefiend has some great visuals of the Neck Face Exhibition at dpmhi, in London. It looked like an awesome event, crazy colors, murals, embroidered camouflage canvases-- and even a candlelit room in the basement of dpmhi decorated by neckface himself. The canvas pieces made in collaboration with Maharishi are...

Werkburo is a Canadian site that is currently selling a nice line of t-shirts from a small group of independent artists from all over the world. Artists like Michael Place and Basit Khan came together to make up the first artist series. This shirt design by Khan is a...

Exhibit", where they're featuring photos, designs and artwork from up and coming or already established artists around the world. This work is by Carole Debois from Biarritz, France. They're looking for submissions, so if you're an artist, illustrator, or photographer looking for some exposure give them a shout....

The History of Sampling is a visual map compiling the history of music sampling from the jazz greats through the latest hip hop sampling, and everything in between. The interface is pretty impressive, it's all an interactive timeline and you can mouse-over albums to see the links between them....

The team that created Guess-the-google reverses the process by picking the keywords for you, and then you have to guess what keyword made the image up. It's totally challenging, and quite fun....

This is D3 Designs Vase Deferens, indeed a very different vase, designed by Clive Solari and David Francis. It gives any flower the freedom to sway in the wind, sitting in only 35ml of water. The design was awarded a DesignMark at the 2005 Australian Design Awards. It's more...

Laboratory5 is a husband and wife team that makes a nice line of progressive greeting cards, stationary, note cards, and other hand made and unique goodies. I particularly like the note card set "urban pursuit," which is a line of comic like note cards. They're very crafty, and clearly...

Project FOX, is an event in Copenhagen promoting the newly released Volkswagen Fox. For the occasion they created a hotel, a club, and a studio all in downtown Copenhagen. For the hotel they took an already pre-existing hotel, and combined the talent of 21 artists to re-design the interior...

I don't think I've ever really owned a quality umbrella-- or an umbrella at all for that matter. If I were to get one, I'd naturally want to get a quality one, and Pare's new Spring-Summer collection definitely gets my nod of approval. Natural Pare is out of Seattle,...

London based Depecht Clothing has a nice collection of t-shirts, clearly inspired by street culture and graffiti. Lots of turntables and scratching references, graffiti hand styles and more. I think this "Scratch" shirt while very urban, is simple clean and effective. Also, they are offering free shipping on all...

There isn't much you can say about this collaborative art project called "The Zoom Quilt", you just need to see it for yourself. Take a look, and you'll be impressed, and you'll understand why it's so hard to describe. The project allows you to zoom in and out of...

David Choe is showing this Friday 22 April, 6pm at the Power House Gallery in NYC. The show is entitled "Tokyo Prison Art" and will feature sketches during his bid in a Tokyo prison last year-- where he landed himself for 3 months. It's no doubt going to be a...

SFMOMA has a stellar exhibit going on right now for the 2004 SECA award winners. The artists who won the honor to show in MOMA are all extremely talented--and range from very detailed ink and gouache drawings like this to a 30-foot wide installation made up only of small loops...

Shift Bicycle was designed by Scott Shim, Ryan Lightbody and Matt Grossman, and it won them top honors in a bicycle design competition held by the Taiwanese Government. The technology is simple, the back paired wheels come together by an articulated hub when the bike is in motion--but when...

Whether you're a Trent Reznor fan or not, this is a pretty damn inventive way to release a single. We now know Trent Reznor is a Macintosh user, because he has released a single as a GarageBand file, for personal remixing. This is a promotion for the Nine Inch...

YouWorkForThem has a great selection of design, art, and very hip books and magazines. This is a book entitled "All You Need is Sticker Graphics", which takes a look at the culture of stickers as an art medium. Stickering, has always been a fast and covert way for graffiti...

In my mind this little utility is simply just a genius mix. The cross pollination of two of the best resources available on the internet-- Google's new mapping service, and the classified listings page, Craigslist. This utility lets you surf both at once-- you can select city, price range, and...

Studio Massaud, clearly have a wonderful imagination. These are computer generated images of a new soccer stadium set to look like a mexican volcano--they won a competition to design this new stadium. Advertisements will be projected on the "cloud" above, which will be made of stretched fabric to protect...

Catch--a seafood restaurant on Market--and I was extremely pleased. Fun and casual atmosphere, a tasty menu, and a wonderful staff. Eating there was an absolute treat--great fish, oysters, and more. If you're there on a nice day, try to grab a table outside on the street--I had a lot...

Freebord (covered witness both the old school and the new school--one guy riding a larger board in flip flops and another riding a smaller board with bindings. It was wild, to say they were "bombing the hills" would be an understatement....

Automata Design with the basic mission to design a range of high impact contemporary light shades that are accessible and affordable. This model is called the "Novalite" and is one of the more complex pieces. It's constructed of 72 interlocking pieces. It's inspired by snowflakes, sea urchins, and complex...

HUF is like a must stop destination. There are now three HUF stores in San Francisco, one on Hayes St, and two on Sutter Street-- the newer one on Sutter they're calling "Sutter 816," and is full of hot clothing from folks like Stussy and Alife. They have books...

Tes One's works is a combination of his past ten years as street art in Florida and his current life as a graphic designer in the digital world. He says his work is a direct representation of his surroundings and how he sees them. It's is a cross between his...

Art Prostitute is raffling an original hand silkscreened piece by Ryan McGinness. We all love Ryan McGinness, his unique work has made him an internationally recognized artist. This piece is from a series entitled "Fabricated Cultural Belief Systems". A portion of the proceeds for each ticket sold will be...

The-Glade....

iXi Bike seems like the most convenient, and highly designed collapsible bike on the market. It collapses with a patented interlocking system that seems extremely simple to use. Starting at a little over a grand, it's a bit pricey-- but that's what quality craftsmanship costs these days. It boats...

Vault49 has some awesome work and a serious name dropping client list to go with it, including folks like MTV, Nike, Honda, and Levi's. Their clothing collaboration with Roule is everything you would expect from such a high quality company. This t-shirt was done exclusively for TODAY--a cancer research...

JUNRO is a very simple online boutique of modern design--with some very elegant and minimalistic products. They're not huge, which is to say they're selective about what they carry and feature, like this sleek Epistola Letter Scale--your outgoing mail can be weighed in easily by using a pencil on...

INDVSL is an independently owned and operated clothing company . They were founded with the focus on bringing together independent artists' work across "multiple creative platforms including fine artists, photographers, designers, musicians and writers." All of the products are limited edition and sweatshop free. The clothing line extension is...

OK47, were founded in the spring of 2000, and have quickly evolved from selling just a small set of t-shirts to a full line of mens and women's clothing and accessories. Ironically they operate out of the top floor of a converted sweatshop in Toronto's fashion district--but all of...

Times Online has a wonderful article about the Aichi Expo in Japan... Wondering what it would be like to star in a film before you see it? You can go to see a special animated film at the expo, and you will be asked if you'd like to take...

Thwart Design is an art and design collective, with an interesting line of products. Their aim is "to generate an assortment of projects from conceptual to marketable, our mantra being the pursuit of raw creativity." It's all in their effort to break the mediocrity of commercial art forms. They don't...

This unusual work is made by Jared Tarbell, an artist and programmer from Albuquerque New Mexico. These graphics are all created through computer programs he creates. He says "With an algorithmic goal in mind, I manipulate the work by finely crafting the semantics of each program. Specific results are pursued,...

If you haven’t given Android 8 a peek yet, do so, it’s a must see. It’s a new online store featuring limited edition and designer work by people like Brendan Monroe, Luke Chueh and Rustboy. It’s all run by a very young and entrepreneurial east coaster— and that hits...

HORT has a set of solid t-shirt designs, like this one "Wild At Hort." They also have a book on the way, self titled, called "Hort". The book contains a bunch of their designs for some of their corporate clients, including Sony and ESPN. Founder Eike Konig says "our...

The work of street artist, graffiti writer, and over all mischievously impressive prankster "Banksy", never ceases to amaze me--but this time he really hit a home run. Banksy hit New York's most famous museums, dressed as a British pensioner. He entered the Brooklyn Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (shown...

Blame Clothing is a relatively new design collective, founded in the Summer of 2004. It's made up of three young individual artists all looking for a creative outlet. I think this "I love my iPod" shirt is totally great. They also have a few belt buckles and buttons--they're still...

This image is from a large series of interactive animations in a set called Modern Living by Han Hoogerbrugge. Most of the animations work by moving your mouse over them to activate specific parts of the image-- making the character move and respond to his sorroundings, or sometimes even...

Hint Fashion Magazine, has a pretty solid line up of designer and limited edition T's in their online shop. They have a neat 'King of Rock' T-shirt, by Ken Courtney from Ju$t Another Rich Kid, a Patrik Rzepski design, and more. The design that caught my eye though was...

Miskan--except it's photography based. Photo-blogging is getting bigger and bigger, but making the commitment to really do a photo a day is different. All the photos are from the eyes of a Lebanese Junior Art Director at a local ad agency in Kuwait. The aim of the project is...

SoCity is a small design studio based in NYC. They founded themselves with the simple mission of creating design work that makes a true connection with the viewer. Along with freelancing design for others, they have a pretty solid line of t-shirts, hoodies, and bags--like this awesome Sneaker Battle t-shirt,...

The World Chico is an online store stocked full of some really good independent clothing design. The UK based shop recently launched a new T-Shirt line called Punk MC--and the designs are all pretty fresh. This shirt is a design called Airport '77, with some intricate and witty illustrations. The...

If you're in Chicago and are a fan of graphic design and typography--I'd head over to the Foundation Gallery to check out their latest exhibition called Ascenders/Descenders. I wish I could go and check it out. The exhibition draws together a collection of artists whose work is influenced by typographic...

Los Angeles based designers Michael and Laura Leon of Stacks, have released their spring line of T-Shirts. They work on the idea that t-shirts can be used as simple conversation pieces, even valued as precious souvenirs. Their conversation edition spring T's are simple, original and thoughtful....

Wooster Collective has just launched "Wooster Mobile", a gallery of images for mobile phones wallpapers from artists featured on the Wooster Collective site. The project provides artists with a new market, as well as royalties for every download of their work. All the additional revenue is being donated to...