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Akie Nakata follows the natural shapes of river stones to paint tiny dogs whose faces and fur seem to emerge from the rock.
There is a tiny dog hiding in this stone.
A month-long game jam grew into Peak, whose upcoming PS5 release will let friends climb together across platforms.
A mountain climbed through friendship.
Sewell Killingstad turns flowers, found textures and personal experiments into distinctive lettering and music merchandise.
A clover can become a letter.
Simple round and sheet cakes become a winding dirt-bike track and a number-four golf course in this illustrated decorating guide.
Two plain cakes become a miniature dirt-bike track.
GlassTENG’s experimental sensors turn facial movements into electrical signals, pointing toward lower-power glasses-based monitoring.
A blink powers its own detection.
Eternal Family’s curators pick cult-film posters whose lurid colors and strange compositions match the movies behind them.
The poster is only the first strange scene.
A two-tone dough technique makes Halloween-ready black-sesame-and-orange spirals and a chocolate-vanilla version from the same basic formula.
Roll two doughs together and slice into spirals.
David Smalling’s polished still lifes turn mattresses, brass instruments and ribbons into quietly disconcerting arrangements.
Look again at the luxurious still life.
Michelle Lopez revisits a childhood Filipino dessert with a small-batch date-and-walnut blondie recipe and practical texture photos.
Meet the date-and-walnut bars called Food for the Gods.
Quarantine Zone’s free Miami Zero expansion adds unpredictable weather, new survivor personalities and a brighter setting for its outbreak origin story.
Sunshine meets the zombie checkpoint.
Caroline Tremlett revives elaborate antique jelly moulds with colorful, carefully layered desserts.
Dessert takes an architectural turn.
Vicky Champagne pairs expressive dog portraits with playful first-person stories built from their families’ accounts for the third Who’s Your Doggy book.
Every dog portrait comes with a personality.
A newly opened ESA archive traces the decisions behind Horizon 2000, the long-term plan that helped shape missions including Rosetta and Herschel.
The old blueprint for Europe’s space future.
The 2026 winning photographs range from microscopic slime molds to animals sharing a watering hole.
Nature’s smallest details hold their own.
Editors demonstrate autumn lip combinations through close-up before-and-after photographs.
A small change with visible impact.
Sony’s October catalog announcement pairs Mafia and Horizon with Mycopunk, detailing the month’s staggered additions.
Mafia, machines and mushroom-blasting robots join October’s lineup.
Inside-out totes, shredded velvet boas and dramatic rain hats turn small runway details into the main event in this playful S/S 2027 accessory edit.
The accessories are stealing the scene.
The Haas Brothers fill an Austin exhibition with fantastical creatures and furniture that seems to have its own personality.
A bench with eyes and a tongue.
Zero recounts an Alpine-to-Mediterranean ride that took a production DS with its optional Power Tank 436.5 kilometers on one charge.
Three electric bikes set out; one reached 436.5 kilometers.
A rescued Jean Prouvé house finds a second life on the French Riviera, where a metal shell, glazed walls and warm interior materials offer a close-up lesson in modernist living.
A second life for a modernist house.
Sarah Carniaux’s photographs follow Rodrigo y Gabriela’s acoustic guitar performance at The Eastern in Atlanta.
Two guitars take the spotlight.
New Mars Express views reveal wind-carved ridges and lava-smoothed terrain around the immense Amazonis Mensa landform.
Mars’s winds have sculpted a table mountain on a colossal scale.
Diamonds meet mushrooms, carrots and jars of preserved food as Juergen Teller places Sophie Bille Brahe’s Tangerine Sky collection in refreshingly ordinary surroundings.
High jewellery, unexpected company.
A slow-cooker dinner combines chicken, broccoli and rice with cheddar, illustrated from preparation to the finished bowl.
From green florets to a cozy bowl.
Brick lanes, old workshops and new interiors reconnect in Jingdezhen’s Zhuozhuo Community, with photographs moving from intimate courtyards to rooms overlooking the city’s ceramic heritage.
Old brick, new connections.
Joseph Klepeis’s photographs capture brass bands, colorful performers and spontaneous dancing at Somerville’s HONK! festival.
The whole street becomes a dance floor.
Large timber planes lean into a light, angular shelter in Matsuyama, where a ceremonial pavilion designed for disassembly explores how its panels could serve another purpose.
A timber pavilion designed for another life.
Trumpeter Laura Bibbs shares her onstage beauty routine.
Curls, glitter and a trumpet.
NASA reports small prototype solid-state batteries working at minus 80°C with reduced performance, a laboratory step toward powering future Moon missions.
A tiny battery faces a very cold test.
Peter Morris gives a London home scalloped pink walls, turquoise accents and a rooftop terrace with a sense of play.
A pink cloud on a London street
A tray of broccoli gets a crisp, garlicky topping of toasted breadcrumbs and cheddar.
The crunch is the point.
Gran Turismo 7’s October 14 feature details six additional cars and Sportsland Sugo, alongside the limited-edition controller’s design.
From a futuristic Xiaomi to a classic racing Civic.
Ann Toebbe bends perspective and layers intricate patterns to turn buildings and familiar rooms into emotional landscapes.
Rooms built from feeling
Apple butter and grated apple make a soft spice cake finished with a thick layer of frosting.
A slice of apple season.
Newly published field notes explain how NASA and Nuiqsut partners installed an Arctic river-monitoring station after erosion removed its planned site.
The riverbank changed before the scientists arrived.
Tag Christof photographs the changing lives of desert modernist buildings for a new exhibition timed to Palm Springs’ autumn design celebrations.
Modernism under desert light
Sidewalk Specials’ before-and-after photographs show dogs finding health, confidence and homes through community care.
Look what a second chance can change.
The October 13 Helldivers 2 preview shows long-range equipment, foliage-inspired armor and camouflage in Scope of Authority.
Helldivers is taking cover in the foliage.
A Slovak design duo reworks Pohoda’s twin-baby emblem into glossy 3D forms and a boldly colored visual identity.
A festival mascot enters three dimensions
A crowdfunded power-bank design uses a removable lid and replaceable cells, with supplier images showing how its modular pieces fit together.
What if replacing the batteries didn't mean replacing the charger?
André Britz gathers intuitive landscapes and collages into a loosely bound book whose changeable pages echo the instability of memory.
A book you can rearrange like a memory
A wooden birdhouse becomes a tiny Halloween scene, complete with a petal-tiled roof and ghosts made from a dried wipe.
A birdhouse gets a spooky makeover
From a spiked chamber to simulated launch noise, Griffin-1’s test campaign shows what a lunar lander must endure before leaving Earth.
A Moon-bound lander faces its Earthly trials
Pneuhaus turns 221 lenses and an inflatable room into a sun-powered kaleidoscope that visitors can walk inside.
Step inside a camera with 221 eyes
Smoky sausage, red potatoes and cheddar become a creamy soup, with photographs following it from the pot to the bowl.
Dinner turns into a bowl of comfort
Warframe asks players to fuel a journey to Tau in a time-limited cooperative event, alongside a permanent cinematic quest starring the Lotus.
A community powers the trip to Tau
A buried blue doorway, giant recycled-material worms and a tyre-built palm turn Regent’s Park into an unexpected sculpture trail.
A doorway disappears into the lawn
A London rescue keeps Star and her five kittens together, turning an exposed garden-fence beginning into a playful indoor life.
From a fence line to a kitten pile
Baltimore’s photo gallery follows hard tackles and locker-room celebration from its 30–23 overtime victory in Atlanta.
An overtime win, frame by frame
BAAO layers olive doors, a red stair runner, richly veined stone and a snug library into a revived Brooklyn brownstone.
A brownstone finds its colors
A fresh interview visits the screen-used Galileo shuttle in its starfield-lined New York display and traces the fans’ effort to give it a lasting home.
The Galileo has a new docking bay
Spinnaker and seconde/seconde/ hide luminous ghosts in the Crazy and Quiet watch dials, turning low light into a tiny Halloween reveal.
The ghosts come out after dark
Three original makeup looks explore soft neutrals, autumn-leaf color and smoky shimmer using an enthusiast’s existing palette collection.
Three ways to wear fall eyeshadow
Choreography director Estelle Manas explains how movement, costumes and colorful worlds turn six decades of music into a playable dance journey.
Time travel through dance
Raoul Gottschling shows how discarded adverts, subway lettering and hand-drawn experiments can become distinctive typefaces.
Everyday lettering becomes new type
A cracked bat-shaped clay tray finds a second life as a hand-painted black cat in this step-by-step craft rescue.
The broken bat became a cat
Plaid, floral appliqués and precise seams give familiar Dr Martens silhouettes three distinct London design perspectives.
Familiar boots, unexpected details
Stylists explain five fall haircut directions, from airy shags to softer bobs, with images showing the shapes and movement.
Fall hair gets a softer edge
ESA’s rover twin rehearses its crucial first descent on simulated Martian terrain, with tilted ramps, obstacles and reduced-gravity support.
Practice the first few metres on Mars
Pierre Guignard turns salvaged materials and everyday encounters into playful figures whose rough edges remain part of their charm.
Scraps become a cast of characters