The Tutu Project

Talk about using your design talents to do good. Photographer Bob Carey started The Tutu Project in 2003 to raise awareness for breast cancer...and to give his wife, who was battling cancer at the time, something to smile about. Since that time, the project has produced both stunning images and smiles on thousands of others.

Below is a segment that aired on NBC's Today Show:

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Defying gravity with Natsumi Hayashi

Japanese photographer Natsumi Hayashi not only sees the future, she lives it by defying gravity on a daily basis. Her authentic (not photoshopped) levitating self-portraits (and her cat) have become quite the internet superheros. Follow Hayashi's daily posts on her blog, yowayowacamera.com. Find great articles on her work here (MSNBC) and here (io9).

Snowflake snapshots

The striking and graceful images of turn of the 20th century farmer and scientist Wilson Bentley have become the latest rage. There are many museum and other websites devoted to his work and a recent exhibit of his work at Chicago's Carl Hammer Gallery is listing his works at $4,800. Bentley's work proved as far back as the 1800s that art and science can coexist.

Design Notes - Kazuhiko Kawahara

Japanese architect and photography Kazuhiko Kawahara puts a new perspective on things with his far-out-of-the-box kaleidoscopic architecture.