ICON developed its Vulcan I 3D printer over a period of about two years. The gantry-style printer on rails is mobile and weighs about 2,000 pounds.

Instead of splurging on expensive framed art, Susanna tapes postcards and images cut from magazines to the wall. They're bright, colorful, and easy to swap out as she likes. Read more about this compact Finnish household here.

Endless colorful tubular type, part of a "growing collection of projects and experiments centered around typographic illustration."

Alphabet and poster design, with wording form the Bowerbirds song 'Bright Future'.

A closer look at the typography.

“The Low Poly Pokémon project started as a challenge,” says their designer Flowalistik. “I wanted to try to transform the low-quality graphics the first Pokémon video games had into a 3D model." The resulting forms can be printed in a wide range of materials—it depends on your local 3D printer—though the plastic seen here is most common.

Typography is an oft-forgotten but effective tool in facilitating creativity and inspiration. Whether the purpose is to enhance a written message with the right font or be used as a message itself, typography has a firm place in modern design. See more typography by clicking here.

Twelve letters get objectified.

The holiday ornaments from font foundry House Industries are defined by their graphic composition. Crafted from anodized aluminum, each ornament in this limited edition series celebrates a treasured typographic symbol, including ampersands, arrows, and the letter X. These ornaments make treasured keepsakes that can be used year after year. Available in Arrow, Koi Fish, Double-Dagger, Pen Nib, and X models.

Sleeping nooks that look like the grooves in a block of cheese.

For their 2012 'Best of Boston' issue, Boston Magazine commissioned the designer to create a toolkit, which included various sub-section headers, opening DPS, and lock-up for the table of contents.

Where does it begin and where does it end?

"Shane enjoys both cooking and entertaining so we maximized the counter space to make meal prep and hosting easy," Priftaj says. "It was also very important that the kitchen include a gas grill so he could quickly and conveniently grill without having to climb up five flights of stairs to use the bbq on the patio." Priftaj selected high-gloss acrylic white cabinets from bulthaup's b3 line with an aluminum backsplash and b3 prism drawer system to keep things tidy. A Wolf hood and gas cooktop with chargrill give Carslake the flexibility he desired for indoor grilling. The counters are polished white quartz.

Made from ABS plastic, a common 3D printing material, the Bristol Chair capitalizes on the complexity possible with additive manufacturing. "When talking to designers," says Bitonti, "I try to impress that [3D printing] has its own unique materials and process... they try to design for injection molding but they need sensibilities and knowledge appropriate to this medium. Additive processes are their own thing with their own advantages."

A passage between the walls for hide and seek.

The first room of the project, currently a three meter-high, 180-kilogram sample, is on track to be completed this summer, and the entire site is open to the public to view the progress and welcome ideas. Photo courtesy of DUS Architects.

Despite the cast-on-site concrete dividers, there's still an airy sense of space; the dividers support, instead of overwhelm. This approach came from the architects' constant sense of experimentation and playfulness, a deliberate approach that helped them find new ways to use recycled and salvaged materials.

Details, details.

The back of one of the four photography promos sent to us by Toby Burditt

An experimental type design with wording from Bright Eyes' song 'No Lies, Just Love.'

"It was supposed to be as naked as possible," says Alexandru Popescu, one of the members of R3Architetti who helped design and build the 3 Vaults apartment. "The furniture is absolutely included in the architecture; it’s more like an indoor landscape instead of a typical open plan." The kitchen exemplifies their approach, with textured concrete walls contrasting with wood panels and salvaged industrial lighting. The table, custom built by R3Architetti, is made in part from pipes procured from one of their fathers, a plumber.

'New Bulgarian Typography' at Vivacom Art Hall highlighted the work of designers Ilya Gruev, Philip Popoff, prominent members of the Art Directors Club of Bulgaria, as well as new typefaces from TypeDept and Ivan Hristov. Photo courtesy of Sofia Design Week.