New York Times tech writer Nick Bilton and artist Simon Denny took a light-hearted approach to Big Data, creating DrawTheNewsFor.Me, a website that allows you to source out individuals via TaskRabbit and hire them to translate today's headlines into drawings. Responses ranged from pie charts, to napkin sketches, to this emojicon translation. Photo courtesy Rhizome.

The Watch Me Wall Clock is an unmistakably vibrant addition to any room. Designed by Rasmus Gottliebsen for Normann Copenhagen, its powder-coated aluminum pieces feature rich saturated colors in bold rectangles along with black and white hands.

Sir Norman Foster goes high-tech at the ME by Melia, which debuted in early 2013 with 157 sound-proofed rooms, some stocked with play stations, personalized iPads, and terrace fire pits, and others swaddled in luxurious Egyptian linens and marquina marble. Rooms from $390.

Herem's Draw Me a House published by Cicada Books is an interactive coloring book that features architecture such as New York skyscrapers and Malian houses.

Old T-shirts become new tents in Endo’s Ka Me Ki Chi project.

At ICFF, Duravit will present ME by Starck, a collection of sleek ceramic sinks, toilets, and accessories designed by Philippe Starck. (Javits Center, Booth 1724)

Georgia. ME Speak Design produce raw furniture and objects inspired by Japanese minimalism. Replacing rice paper with steel, wood, and brass, this table tamp from their Oleole Collection is a distinctly Southern take on Japanese design.

This display porcelain dolls by Friedericy Dolls reminded me of a Tim Burton.

The olive wood collection is made by hand from sustainably certified olive trees. “Give Me Some Sugar” bowl and spoons, shown here.

Patterned shirt by Print All Over Me Print All Over me is "like a really high-end café press," Singer says. "You upload any kind of pattern you want and they print it onto clothing blanks, like cute shift dresses and blankets, not just baseball caps. We’re doing their first ever furniture collaboration. We paired furniture designers and illustrators, so it will be a chair by Fort Standard with a printed leather seat by Damien Correll."

Stripping paint to reveal the beautiful riveting and aluminum was one the hardest but most rewarding tasks. To me, revealing the structure and construction honors the original craftsmanship that went into this trailer.

This print of San Francisco landmarks on maple by Petit Collage also came home with me.

The fruits stands particularly fascinated me with their colors and variations lined perfectly.

Artist Christopher Florentino created this studio to be a source of inspiration. "This space is for me as an artist—to create in, to keep me inspired," he says. "I don’t think there are many spaces that have a Keith Haring and Shiro Kuramata chair in the same space. I’m trying to show who I am as a designer and as an artist."

Swedish design by Metagram art AB, www.metagram.se

The living room, opposite the kitchen, provides a lounge area outfitted with a Womb chair and ottoman and Tulip coffee table by Eero Saarinen for Knoll and a Delano sectional sofa by Sphere Designs. Photo by Sharon Risedorph

The leftmost cabinet above the Duravit bathtub (equipped with KWC fixtures) occupies the space where a doorway once lead into the living room, creating unnecessary traffic from the home’s public spaces through to the master bedroom.The new bathroom features a minimal palette of white and teak. “It’s able to hold up on boat decks so is good for a bathroom,” Klug says. It also makes the heated floor that much nicer to walk on in the morning. Photo by Eric Roth

"I never thought a house would teach me so much,' Luisa says.

The 510 Cabin is one of Leggitt's designs, executed with the help of student apprentices.

“This house for me is about contemplation,” says Adrian. “You come here from the city and the place is saying, ‘Hi, meet yourself again.’”

Another collection from Kaamos, the porcelain Feed Me Pitchers by Vesa Kattelus, have a yawning aperture and a variety of body shapes.

Parked for lunch were Torchy's Tacos, Man Bites Dog, and Holy Cacao.

She showed me these very early handmade models, "made by me without any care, just to figure out better what I had drawn in my sketches."

Botanical Carden by Postcarden

Bag by Chester Wallace.

Photo by Ty Cole.

The Magnolia Handbag by Alchemy.

These knitted owls were oh-so-precious. Unfortunately, the name of the crafter escapes me!

Matthew Hoffman, Come here and let me hug that negativity to death On display at CHGO DSGN

Handle Me, a collection of cast iron cookware, by Angel Wyller Aarseth.

Schaffner told me that this image is the first of Kalman's published work. It's from 1978.

“I studied architecture as an undergrad, and even though I’m in interiors now, that education of not overpopulating spaces, of letting the building be seamless, has always carried through for me,” says Caroline.

A private residence in San Francisco, California, designed by Kennerly Architecture and Planning, winner of the New Practices San Francisco 2009 competition.

"A lot of people thought we were crazy to put in a fireplace in a Florida home, but the biggest surprise for my wife and me has been how much we use it,

Style: "Color tone - cool"

Y's Store (2003)Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art