Allow us to present the Solar Handbag from Danish design studio Diffus. It’s not the first bag with solar panels that we’ve seen, but it’s certainly the most beautiful. Other solar bags place function over form, and you wouldn’t want to carry them around. Diffus teamed up with a Swiss embroidery specialist to create solar [...]

This new Banksy sculpture was unveiled just yesterday in Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery. The artist is best known for his graffiti images and socio-political critiques. This piece is jestingly titled Cardinal Sin, and it’s been widely interpreted as a comment on the Catholic Church abuse scandal. The Church is alleged to have covered up abuse [...]

This geographically arresting photograph looks like a product of Photoshop. But Jim Sanborn had no digital help with this image. It’s part of The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series, the result of Sanborn’s wandering the world with a large-scale projector and a camera in the 1990s. He made a variety of geometric patterns on [...]

Today, we’re helping you escape the Monday grimness with Leif Podhajsky’s unashamedly trippy artwork. The Australian artist is best known for his album covers, which he designs for out-there bands like Tame Impala and Shabazz Palaces. Using reflection and cropping techniques, he abstracts familiar landscapes, like the desert or the ocean. Podhajsky also cuts and [...]

Today we’re featuring one of nature’s most amazing designs – the snowflake. Maybe we’re cheating, but just watch this video of David Attenborough explaining that no two snowflakes are exactly alike. Of course, we don’t believe that creativity ever runs dry. But it’s good to know that ice has an endless supply of stunning designs [...]

Like Christmas decorations? Then you’ll love DesignSponge.com‘s DIY pinecone garlands, a pretty alternative to fairy lights or paper chains. They’re natural and seasonal, and if you’re particularly shameless you can keep them up after December ends. Click here for full instructions on fashioning them, apparently you’ll need a “movie’s worth” of time! Enjoy.

Luca Molnar is one of blur Design’s most exciting members. Although she’s still a student, the Hungarian has designed for Ogilvy and Mather as well as MTV. In her own words, “My works have a very futuristic feeling most of the time. I find it fascinating to create images of something, which doesn’t even exists [...]

Rubber vases! We know these have been around for a while, but we couldn’t resist featuring them in all their brilliant simplicity. Rubbervase is the brainchild of Danish designer Henriette Melchiorsen for the Scandinavian company Menu. They look like ceramic but they’re flexible and unbreakable, the perfect gift for a family with grabby young children. [...]

b-uncut creative Cris Alex was inspired by Abarat: Absolute Midnight, the third volume in a fantasy horror series for children and adults. Abarat is a magical otherworld, an archipelago of islands populated by monstrous characters. Alex’s design depicts Christopher Carrion, also known as the Lord of Midnight, who’s out to capture the heroine of the [...]

French photographer Philippe Jarrigeon uses food to create contemporary, creepy still lifes. We love this eerie picture, with predatory swans picking their peer apart. It’s part of a series called Festin, which means ‘feast’ or ‘banquet’ in French.We love how the angles of the bread triangles contrast with the natural swan curves and those hungry [...]