Not quite satisfied with his first homage to the deck, “Disposable: A History of Skateboard Art” (which we covered here), skateboard artist Sean Cliver spent the past two years hunting down collectors, former professionals and long-lost planks to compile a…

Striking a deft balance between sports mag, arts journal and lovingly-crafted ‘zine, Embrocation Cycling Journal addresses the world of bicycling like never before. Founded in January 2008 by avid racer Jeremy Dunn, the bi-annual journal covers road racing, touring, cyclocross…

Next week, Brooklyn artist Stephen Floyd’s first solo show in New York, “I Love America and America Loves Me,” opens at Heist Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The exhibition includes sixty-four works, curated by the artist’s friends Valentina Angeloni…

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While skateboarding’s history has been well-documented, we’ve yet to see a published dedication to the sport’s most essential piece of apparel, the skate shoe. “Made for Skate,” a hefty archive of skateboard footwear, changes that with nearly 400 lavishly illustrated…

Active Furniture, a project by Spanish designers Virginia Pol, Ferran Lajara and Cristina Guardiola, uses counter-intuitive design as an antidote to our increasingly sedentary lives. The three objects—a floor lamp, a desk and a wall hanger—each require a level of…

Adding a touch of playfulness to interiors, Myvinilo specializes in vinyl wall decals. The Barcelona-based company, which recently showed at the Feria Valencia during the Ideas y Pasión tradeshow, produces a wide array of wall treatments ranging from the purely…

During this year’s Ideas y Pasión trade fair at the Feria Valencia, a new commercial show dedicated to kitchen design featured a wonderfully experimental exhibition entitled “Papila,” curated by the Spanish designer Alberto Arza. A cultural initiative by the International…

“The Map as Art,” a new book edited by Katharine Harmon from Princeton Architectural Press, richly surveys today’s artistic landscape and its relation to the map. Perhaps it’s no surprise that the map has inspired artists throughout history. Today though,…

“No Echo, No Shadow,” Anton Ginzburg’s first solo show at Moscow’s Galerie Iragui, straddles the boundaries of cultural and political epochs with its collection of objets d’art. The works—a mask, bronzes, works on paper, neon text—make implicit reference to the…

Let the mass media say what it will, Newwork Magazine, a large-format biannual publication dedicated to art, design, fashion, culture and politics, proves the ongoing relevance of print yet.

The product of Fashion Institute of Design students Ryotatsu Tanaka, Ryo…

Specializing in art, thought and literature, Valencia’s Libreria Valdeska is a bibliophile’s dream find. Tucked away on the narrow Calle del Mar, just west of the Jardín del Turia, Valdeska embraces the bookstore as boutique approach, offering a tightly-curated collection…

Would you like to own a record of the most successful grassroots campaign in presidential election history? A sprawling collection of art from the historic campaign, “Designing Obama” features over one hundred artists whose works contributed to a nationwide branding…

Andrea, a natural air purification system, looks like a futuristic prop in Steven Spielberg’s A.I., not something you’ll soon be able to purchase online for the cost of an iPod Touch. Created by industrial designer Mathieu Lehanneur and Harvard professor…

An intelligent riff on kitchen textiles, Gry Fager’s Mormor collection of tableware for Normann Copenhagen combines modern form and traditional pattern with the most gratifying results. Mormor’s distinct patterns—a graphic interpretation of the typical blue and white tea towel and…

The indispensable design blog Core77 just launched an exhaustive help section called Hack2Work: Essential Tips for the Design Professional. Divided into five sections—Clients, Office, Staff, Process and Promotion—each contains dozens of tips, tricks and lifehacks for people who work in…

A delightful collection of paper airplane designs and their accompanying stories, “The New Millennium Paper Airplane Book” by Klara Hobza documents her art happening at the New York Hall of Science in Queens last fall. The New Millennium Paper Airplane…

Jennifer Anderson’s “Mud Series” collection translates iconic chairs into steel and mud. The studies of classics—an Eames LCW, a Thonet Café Chair, a Wegner Wishbone Chair—resemble the artifacts of an architectural dig, their once flawless surfaces marred by the cracked…

During last week’s New York International Gift Fair Alessi debuted roughly 200 new products and expanded families across the company’s three brand divisions. Choosing favorites isn’t easy, but check out a few selects below.

Gabriele Chiave’s “Apostrophe” orange peeler (above)…