In my next life, the one that will be spent in a daze walking lazily up and down the hipster dome of Brooklyn’s Bedford Avenue, high fiving passing musicians, and eating cheap noodles from the local deli, I’ll have one connect the dot tattoo that spells out the name of my band. And another with the name of my ex-girlfriend. Ah, yes. That will be cool, indeed.

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Busy P is the man. This design pays homage to one of the world’s most enigmatic pop-culture mavericks. The French maestro is almost single-handedly responsible for the success of both Daft Punk and Justice. The Midas Touch design references this with the golden robot (representing Daft Punk) and the golden cross (representing Justice) — the idea being that everything Busy P touches turns to gold.

Will Oldham fans rejoice. To mark the release of the new Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and The Cairo Gang album, The Wonder Show of the World, you can pre-order one of 150 Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy bottle stoppers, individually hand carved by artist Scott Millar. Bingo! All orders of a bottle stoppers will be accompanied by an email to download all the album tracks on the release date, 29th March.

Netherlands-based, Studio Ditte, sought out forgotten buttons for their newest wallpaper print. The result? Well, it’s as cute as a button, really!

With a magpie-like obsessiveness, Melbourne-based designer, Suzie Stanford, collects vintage tapestries and tea towels from auction houses, curio shops and flea markets. She then retells their unique histories by creating vibrant patchworks for her one-off furniture pieces.

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Currently a fellow at MIT, Neri Oxman is an architect, designer, ecologist, computer scientist, and the winner of the first ever Earth Awards. She is innovating the way we design and build things by creating energy efficient materials that mimic biological tissues, and believes strongly that function should precede form. Her innovation will see buildings and structures come alive — literally — by breathing, moving and responding to the environment.

Everything is a canvas these days, even kitchen gloves. This work by Nicole Steen is a saucy pin-up on colourful latex gloves framed under glass.

Some fun illustrative typography from Australian-based creative designer Luke Lucas. Check out more Australian design at our sister website, The Colour

When I was a kid, I used to love watching behind-the-scenes documentaries about my favorite movies, showing character designs and initial scene paintings. Animation art designer Samuel Michlap posts his sketches and discusses his processes on his blog, making for fascination reading for anyone interested in the industry.

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Open-source digital artist Tom Beddard creates crazy looking images via complicated codes and programs. The 3D Mandelbulb Ray Tracer he’s been using most recently (which you can download and play with yourself) involves a lot of math and programming that’s way over my head, but the resulting 3D fractals look like an electron microscope photograph of God’s colon.

Look Hear is a free event taking place at the Newcastle Art Gallery in Australia from March 10, and running until the end of the month, at which a selection of designers and artists will present a series of talks about their creative process, methods and techniques, as well as discuss the inspirations behind their creative careers.

Combining gift and greeting card, Postcarden is a wildly brilliant pop-out card that transforms into a mini living garden. It’s available in three charming designs — a city, botanical garden and allotment.

French installation artist Baptiste Debombourg made this mural of Icarus using 35,000 staples as a comment on American power.

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Josef Schulz draws out the strange forms and shapes unique in an urbanized, suburbanized world. His most recent series consists of digitally manipulated photos of billboards and signs with the text removed, resulting in beautifully minimalist and abstracted images.

While I might be more good girl than gangsta, I am loving these hangable hip hop posters. Courtesy of Paper Jam Press, each hand pulled piece is limited edition and features words to live by.

On his website, Amazing Paper Airplanes, designer Kyong H. Lee gives a simple ste-by-step guide to constructing this realistic looking Concorde Paper Airplane. And guess what? There’s no security screenings before you board the damn thing.

First there was the real rife spoof of the classic Simpsons intro, now comes a real life version of the iconic Simpsons homestead. Situated in Henderson, Nevada, the house is a shrine to everything off-beat, off-colour, off-the-planet cartoon-y.

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Ring out the bad, and ring in the good, Yessir, these Happy Day and Crappy Day rings are just that: a jolt of brutal realism cloaked in saccharine sweet colourings.

Mad Max meets windmill meets brilliant engineer that goes by the name Theo Jansen? Right. Oh boy, to be on the beach and watch one of his creations go by would be one of life’s true artistic pleasures.

Snaiad is the the obsessive hobby of a designer going by the name of Nemo Ramjet. Ramjet has, over the course of several years, created an entire alien world with detailed maps, history, and a wonderfully illustrated array of creatures complete with an intricate catalogue and explanation of their morphology and evolution.