The Japanese capsule hotel concept, where guests literally sleep in a space about the size of a single bed, has been given a classy make-over by Cubic Corp, who have recently opened a new style capsule hotel called 9 Hours.

Created by a designer with a very vivid imagination known as Nemo Ramjet, the fictitious planet of Snaiad boasts a very rich and diverse biosphere.
Snaiad is one of Humanity’s first off-world colonies, the jewel in the sky, the realm of the sublime. The hopeful colonists arriving from the war-weary Mediterranean found themselves not in a [...]

Launched in October last year, Re:collection is Melbourne based graphic designer Dominic Hofstede’s collection of graphic design works created in Australia from 1960 to 1980.

The Design Translator (aka DT), documents his efforts to create the perfect sketchbook, something that is just right for fleshing out his ideas.
I’ve changed the design so many times after learning about the manufacturing constraints and seeing so many other options I could use. In fact many things I thought I knew about printing [...]

I’ve seen the work of a few artists who craft sheets of paper into amazing artworks, and the paper creations of Sydney based paper engineer Benja Harney are just as incredible.
Paper is such a humble medium to work with. It inspires and challenges me every time I sit down at my cutting mat.

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A nice collection of movie and TV show characters inspired avatars for use on Twitter.

Take some time to check out the retro scratchy styled artwork and illustration of highly talented Sydney based designer Christopher Nielsen.

The leaves of the chinar tree, which are native to India, Pakistan, and China, sure make for great leaf carving canvases.
The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the outer surface of the leaf without cutting or removing the veins which add detail into the subject matter of the [...]

Using wavelet transformation processes, rather than more traditional Fourier transform methods, acoustics engineer Mark Fischer has found a new way of rendering eye pleasing representations of whale song.

Renaissance age master-of-all-trades Leonardo da Vinci at one point appeared intent on pursuing a career well outside of the arts, if a letter he wrote to Ludovico il Moro, the Duke of Milan in 1482, while seeking employment, is anything to go by:
I will make covered chariots, safe and unattackable, which, entering among the enemy [...]