Best ad this year

It's an installation out in Canada. “a poster billboard” filled of vacuum and air, by the studio Lead Pencil.

Mike Ballard - he had his jacket nicked

"I woke with a bolt this morning. I had been dreaming about the night my jacket went missing. I could see it all in the dream. Where everything and everyone was in the pub. M and E were sat at the table as I got up to goto the loo. My jacket hooked over the back of the chair. As I enter the loo, M goes to the bar, and starts chatting to two girls, while he’s waiting to be served. Elliot goes over to join hime (sic) and help with the drinks. In that split second A guy moves over to our table, squeezing through the crowds, grabs my coat and is out through the door, all while I am still pissing. It is the night everything changed"

Mr Ballard has taken his revenge and lifted 200 other jackets from around London. They are now all hanging on display in at Walker's Tailor, 157 Robert St, London, NW1 3QR
8 – 23 October 2010.

See more here

What a naughty man.

Smart building

In Tuscany, Italy by Italian architect Massimo Mariani...



Read all about it here

Underwater sculptures

Check out the underwater sculptures by Jason deCaires Taylor over at If it's hip it's here

Here's a taster...

Digital Orca

Lovely... positioned in Vancouva by Coupland

The art of Cosmogramma

Short film by Flying Lotus about the sleeve art of his latest LP 'Cosmogramma' which was done by artist Leigh J McCloskey

Anger Release Machine

Stressed? Smash something. Lovely installation by Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal





Spotted over at Urban Prankster

Urban forest

'Unlimited Urban Woods' is an urban installation in the centre of Amsterdam... inside, one tree in a mirror reflects into an endless forest. Lovely...







By DUS Architects

CDsea

Installation in Wiltshire by Bruce Munro using 600k CDs...





Few more pics over on De Zeen

Nike 78

Nike 78 is the result of a design project initiated by soon-to-be LCC graduate Paul Jenkins.

He gave 78 pairs of Nike shoes out to designers and creatives internationally and asked them to "challenge the function of a pair of Nike shoes". The results are now up in an online gallery.

Here's a few responses - but check out more images on CR Blog and different ones on If it's hip it's here

Stuff you can't have

is a blog by Catherine McEver. It includes stuff like:

Star Trek art

Yep - it's made from beads!! More here

Car as brush

Last week a group of cyclists dumped 13 gallons of paint on the road at Berlin’s busy Rosenthaler Platz, creating a series of colourful lines as cars drove through.





Check more pics and words here

Shadow art

Drzach & Suchy have created Shadow Casting Panels that appear as one image in the morning light and another in the evening light.

Marilyn Monroe becomes Marilyn Manson:





The Pope becomes Yoda:





Cool.

See more here and read about how it's done.

Ghost in the machine

is a wicked set of portraits by Erika Iris Simmons...







View the full set here

Repeat X Repeat Y

Repeat X Repeat Y is a collection of patterns from a plethora of designers, illustrator and artists:







View and submit here

The secret life of a fly

By Nicolas Hendrickx - seen here

Crayon Zodiac statues

Diem Chau has carved the 12 Chinese Zodiacs out of crayons.





More on this project here or her other work here

Lovely robot with LED skin that changes colour by German architects Maurer United Architects. Loads more pictures and the words about what and why are here

Love letters

Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program... love letters and murals all over town, each numbered. Impressive stuff.