Designers and Love. They go together like a wall of fists against the ravages of the elements. That, in fact, is exactly what is happening. For Japan, it’s a time which we, displaced by cappuccino, movie nights and trimming small hedges, can’t quite grasp. Hundreds of thousands across the country were evacuated and many are still homeless.

Enter, Stuart Fingerhut, a designer from Los Angeles. He’s put together the Designers Love Japan charity auction to aid the earthquake and tsunami victims in northeast Japan. Designers around the world are joining in to support the effort. How are they helping? How can you join in? This is how…

Tilted back amongst the reeds, the DAR Unit blinked. It was quiet. A deep vibration rippled through the water and ninety mechanical arms unfolded themselves from the unit pushing it toward these links. Pascal Campion – His illustrations are crisp, clean, and tell an entire story in a single image. Simply beautiful. Ramen Hack -…

Avert thine eyes!!! No wait, it’s okay to look. The discomfort will only be temporary… and then the eye-blinding awesomeness will melt hot, molten modo directly onto your cornea… which sounds way more painful, but really, is quite the opposite.

Adam Ohern of CADJunkie has put together yet another tutorial stepping you through the process of applying the modo craft to your design tool portfolio. This time, he takes on the challenge of creating sunglasses, all in context of a dismembered human head…

The insipid clicking of the rattler faded into the gears crunching against one another. Could it truly be that nothing was there? No… It was there. The shadowed ease of its oily mass moved closer. Slowly, the blades emerged covered in the flames of these links. Balloontree – The art of Marcin Jakubowski. Beautiful, epic…