What is starting as a personal gift- a cupcake print has travel the world, popping up on blogs everywhere from Spain to Australia. The Anatomy of a Cupcake, an art print from Allen Hemberger and Sarah Wilson (Small Batch) for their friend Lesleigh's birthday in New Zealand has captured the curator of I Love Chart, which subsequently featured on the Forbes website.

In addition to the print, you can see the process of making this poster here.

Stunning photos captured by British photographer- Simon Byrne deep into the secret place of Arizona desert.

Described as one of the 'most beautiful geologic formations in the world', The Wave is a staggering 190 million-years-old sandstone formation in the Arizona desert located somewhere in the 112,500 acre Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness

The phenomenon is made of sand dunes that have turned to rock. They are stacked one atop another and the dunes have calcified in striking vertical and horizontal layers. 

Seldom we saw a really nice and quality packaging design come from a far country, small producer such as Serbia. The brand’s name, identity and packaging was developed by Prague-based design firm Kitchen.

We have seen many honey bottle packaging employed a minimalist style but this one, the Volim Honey really make me warm from the heart. Probably because the honey is from the small country of Serbia, the illustrations remind me of all the fairy tales origin from all the far reach Southeastern European country. The hand drawn cartoon-feel illustrations successfully sending a warming and seasonal message to the shoppers. Overall, the packaging help to create an original and distinctive identity, with a hint of freshness for a small honey producer.

Gold and silver prices are sky rocketing, but owning them isn't a dream anymore.

Designed by Arik Levy, these gold & silver paperweight or doorstop shows complete carelessness with money. Show them you are just above it all. Leave what's left to your dog. After all, only the little people pay taxes.

An ongoing project for designer Riccardo Bovo, the intention behind Digital Morphologies Chair was to create a contemporary piece of furniture, influenced by technology developments in fabrication methods and computational strategies.The goal for this project was therefore to get rid of old archetypes influenced by well known methods of furniture making.

In order to achieve the goal, Riccardo has been working with digital technology that allowed him to explore novel shapes.The outcome is also the result of practical experimentation with digital fabrication technology such as CNC and other more traditional upholstery methodology. 

A new collection of all-natural range of pasta sauces and pesto with the motto 'nothing to hide', Zest introduced a fresh and free styles of packaging seldom see in a natural produce market.

Designed by London based Designers Anonymous, the packaging range features naive 1950's style illustrations of male and female naturist characters each proclaiming the 'free from artificial anything' message, whilst preserving their modesty with a key ingredient. The characters are found again on the back of the jar, this time displaying the complete list of ingredients, proof that that there is nothing to hide.

With each of the characters appear distinctive and holding a sandwich board with the speech bubble, the artwork very well reinforce an informal yet important message across, that is all natural and nothing to hide ingredients. 

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2012 going to be a great year for online shopping. With exploding buying from the past few years, retailers of all types (especially the traditional business) eager to get a piece of online sales that estimated to hit more than £50bn in 2012. It’s getting harder to tell pure play Internet retailers from the bricks and mortar shops with online portals, and all of them are reinventing how we’ll shop online in the future. Over the last five years internet retailing has improved substantially thanks to the use of affordable 'always-on' internet connections, simple and secure payment systems and the increasing popularity of mobile devices, combined with the growth of mobile-based retail sites.

Here are the top 5 trends to watch:

1.In-store pick up. More shoppers choose to pick up themselves in-store, the reason: to save on the shipping cost and easy product inspecting.

2.Pick up depots. With increasing sales, many retailers may open pick up kiosks for goods ordered online. Such as French retailer chronodrive.com

3.Mobile Apps. The vastly use of smartphone and tablet with WiFi & 3G made it easy for shoppers to place goods online.

4.Social networking. Facebook and Twitter are the two most common platform for retailers to launch their sales & promotion strategy. It's easy to get million of Facebook users to know their deals.

5.Daily deals and flash sales. Mushrooming site such as Groupon Inc provide daily great discounts to shoppers. The discount not only limited to F&B anymore, but all kind of deals.

It is widely acknowledged that the recession has boosted the appeal of online retailing and UK consumers are more determined than ever to make every penny count.

Natural wood is a precious resource in design. A good design should minimize the waste, a great design will use the waste to create something aesthetic & useful. That what Japanese designer Mikiya Kobayashi done for the wood Clock.

This clock was made out of small pieces of woods that are reminded in the production process of other wooden products. Enjoy the unique expression of this clock with wood rings and colors, shadows appear in the inter-space.