Since most designer shoes that women lust after online live beyond the realm of reality, either due to price or availability, it doesn't upset me that the Shoe Fleur series of fantasy footwear are merely conceptual. Designer Michel Tcherevkoff's non-existent inventions are stunningly beautiful and remind me of the flower girl Thumbelina with her floral attire.

No, this isn't a tutorial for making your own dice for Magic the Gathering, although I guess it could be, if you're into that sort of thing. Designer Dave Hakkens has brought you an easy, homemade alternative to your piles of memo-pads, sticky notes, and I bet, the list apps in the "Productivity" section of the App Store which you guiltily perusedafter downloading every version of Angry Birds. Ahem.

We can finally say goodbye to all those useless greens we have sitting around the house. This electric bonsai, or "Electree" takes in sunlight to perform functions such as charging phones, charging tablets - well, charging in general. Designed by Vivien Muller, this attractive hybrid of technology and art has been in the works since 2008. The project hopes to be completed with the help of Kickstarter.

Hermann Zapf (born November 8, 1918) is a German typeface designer who lives in Darmstadt, Germany. He is married to calligrapher and typeface designer Gudrun Zapf von Hesse.

Zapf's work, which includes Palatino and Optima, has been widely copied, often against his will. The best known example may be Monotype's Book Antiqua, which shipped with Microsoft Office and was widely considered a "knockoff" of Palatino. In 1993, Zapf resigned from ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) over what he viewed as its hypocritical attitude toward unauthorized copying by prominent ATypI members. via Wikipedia