Paula Tantsurina is a Tel Aviv-based toy designer. For years, knitting has been her greatest passion, but she found a demand for her goods not so long ago. As she says: ‘There is nothing in the world that can be compared with making toys. It’s not just creating a doll, but creating a whole world around it’.

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CRUX is a personal USB library that brings greater ease and convenience to the storage, usage and management of multiple USB thumbdrives. It integrates the functionality of a multi-USB hub with the charm of craft and fabric to bring you a techtile solution.

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This project arises from the need to highlight the sensuality from another point of view: audiovisual. An uncensored view of aesthetics and visual artists Sebastian Romero and Juan Ramirez show how women think and managed to capture it in a 40-second video.

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The Grabit Robot Multipurpose Holder was inspired by the world of art toys and minimalist design. Grabit is the first creation by husband and wife team Leo and Angie Fajardo, and it’s now live on Kickstarter. This little robot is not only cute but also functional: it can keep your toothbrushes free of germs and help you keep your desk tidy. You can make this robot a reality by pre-ordering it here.

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There’s a new type of ‘ruin porn’, and it doesn’t involve decaying urban centers. Usually, when a virtual world of MMO is abandoned, the servers shut down. Not so for Second Life, the open landscape, open format virtual world; as its population dwindles, things just keep going – sans people.

Its servers now exist as graveyards for the complex and beautiful landscapes, islands, structures and constructions of its former userbase. It’s a place full of unanswered ambition and intention, a place where the only destruction and decay has been deliberately designed and included through models and textures.

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It’s back to basics photoshopping skills with the use of Microsoft Paint and Powerpoint for these self-portraits from Manila-based artist, Leonard Andrei Corcuera. While referencing different works of art, from Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth to Madonna’s music video, Bedtime Story, to Frida Kahlo’s Wounded Deer, these surreal art/photographs also pay homage to Leonardo da Vinci’s sketches.

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Painter Jason John works in the style of Psychological Realism to explore the complexities of identity in relation to memory and ones social world. John’s extraordinarily detailed figures caught in dramatic environment of uneasiness and spatial fluxes are attempts to accurately reflect deeper psychological realities. Oftentimes, figures are partially concealed, thus taking away any personal relationships the viewer might expect. John’s new body of work will be on exhibit in eyeCandy at WWA Gallery, Culver City, until April 27.

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Did you ever use an empty bottle to make a shaker or a toy as a kid? What about a boat? 600 littered plastic bottles were used by Tom Davies, a New Zealand native living in Fiji, to create this boat. In Tom’s tests, the boat can hold up to three big Fijian men. The plastic bottles were glued together to a layer of foam underneath. The boat measures 4.5 meters long and 1.4 meters wide. Now if only we could turn our landfills into raft making factories.

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Chilean designer, Alexandra Guerrero, found an interesting use for the thousands of wasted cigarette butts found on floors, streets and beaches, turning them into colourful, retro-styled and wearable clothing. She later founded Mantis, inspired by this new discovery, which aims to spread this recycling ethos, putting an emphasis on the message that one person’s trash can be another’s treasure.

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Samy Sfoggia is a visual artist who shoots with film cameras and primarily with black and white negative film. Her work refers to criminal mugshots of the 20s and have a distinct vintage atmosphere.

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Dylan Garrett Smith is an artist/printmaker. Growing up in the punk and hardcore scene of Northeast Pennsylvania, he began exploring forms of printmaking at a young age to create shirts and patches for friend’s bands, as well as his own, using cardboard stencils and spray paint. Through this basic method of image making, he was able to teach himself crude, basic screen-printing. Since then he has earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts with a concentration in printmaking from Pratt Institute of Art in Brooklyn. Smith’s current work is made primarily through drawing techniques, using ashes, chalk lead and ink, exploring occultism and solitude, as well as the relationships, and continually growing distance, between humans and the natural world.

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In a project that lasted for two years (2009-2011), Italian photographer Marina Rosso captured the slow-paced daily life of Licia and Ryan; a married couple of 57 years. With these personal and intimate portraits, the photographer managed to emphasize the value of love and commitment. Despite the slow monotony aging can bring, the series shows that we should treasure and appreciate the small beautiful moments in life.

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ANIMATSUDA is a pixilation animator and illustrator. I have made a series of 10 short animation to send cheer to people who were affected by the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami of March 11, 2011. The project is called Pixilate to Heal Japan Tsunami Appeal. ANIMATSUDA is raising money for Save the Children: Japan Earthquake Tsunami Relief.

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Marna Hattingh is a Cape Town-based artist, active in the art world since 1999. She is also a well known children’s book illustrator. As a contemporary South African artist, Hattingh works forms part of the new school of expression. There may be elements of an African-ness in her work, particularly the use of colour, but she operates outside of any category. Her daily life experience of living in Cape Town is what informs her work. And her comments are subtly embedded in a deeply layered style. She works in a range of media including drawing, painting, print making and sculpture.

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Jennifer Bruget is the epitome of the twenty-first century photographer: passionate and driven, she assumes the creative roles of director, photographer, make –up artist, stylist and model … all at once.

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Melbourne-based Lure Graphics is a graphic design studio with an uncommon approach. Founded by 23-year-old graphic designer Melissa Pepers, their effervescent and successful concepts are inspired by life. The eye-catching logo featured here, designed for vending machine company Candy Solutions, demonstrates Lure Graphics’ avant-garde process. Beginning with handcrafted letterforms created from toothpaste, the company’s monogram is transformed into bold 3D-style candy typography.

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The Irregular Polygon rug is designed by Michelle Weinberg. It is hand-tufted of wool and silk, measures roughly 7′ x 7′, and is manufactured by Odabashian. The design of Irregular Polygon is inspired by Weinberg’s painting PreFab2, and it appears to shift shape when viewed from varied vantage points.

The rug, in turn, inspired an installation at Dorsch Gallery in Miami in May 2012, titled Splinters and Polygon Projections. Which subsequently inspired a collaboration with dance/theater artist Octavio Campos – you can see where this is going.

Rug fabricator Jaime Odabashian makes a cameo appearance in the short video, which also can be seen here. Irregular Polygon is one of several limited edition rugs that extend this painter’s vision beyond her studio and out into the world onto surfaces for interiors and architecture. Vivid backdrops for human activity.

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Queue forever, fight to the bar, squeeze onto the dance floor and try not to throw up in the taxi on your new found soulmate. Techno and ecstasy has had a formal replacement of chart music and jagerbombs. A sure-fire winner if you need to blow off a bit of steam because the bartender at the pub wouldn’t let you finish your pint of Stella. This body of work is a small insight into the booze fuelled atmosphere of modern UK club culture, a culture we always seem to forget in the morning.

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Jonathan Zajdman is an illustrator based in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. He’s worked for a handful of ad agencies and small publishers, but it’s his portraits and story book-styled illustrations that are really worth checking out.

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With the increasing technology and many with a decent camera at the convenience of their mobiles, almost everyone can claim to be a ‘photographer’. It is in this digital world that Paulius Rudokas challenges this orthodox. At only 18 years old, he is unlike many of his age; prefering to use black and white film and develops and prints his photographs in his bedroom (he is not yet able to get a dark room). He believes that film forces the photographer to make every shot matter which is reflected in his prints; though not perfect, often filled with charming character.

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