Embark on a spurt of guerrilla gardenening

Steve Wheen alters potholes in east London using plants and miniatures to create natural sanctuaries in broken urban spaces.  Guerrilla gardenening seems to date back to a school group in the USA some years ago and since then there have been various other similar projects. Part art project, part labor of love, part experiment, part mission to highlight how bad roads are, Wheen came up with the project as part of his university course and created his blog to log his gardening activity and take some photographs, as a creative outlet.

So locate a pothole. Till some soil. And add dash of growing color to create your very own hole of happiness. Then lurk around to capture and appreciate the astonished responses.

An Imaginary Pop-Up Department Store

Trend forecaster, Lidewij Edelkoort has announced new ways to shop, better ways to serve, creative ways to install and original environments in which to retail. In which we will be lending space to the inner human, making room for intimate well-being, building up a greener society and travelling to a future mentality, as if streaming in a physical way. TrendTablet's Imaginary Pop-Up Department Store is designed to let us dream of different, more courageous and engaging concepts, of another era in store design and packaging, of a consumer-driven environment full of life and wonder.

Make It Yellow - And follow the trends

Is yellow the new pink? "Yes, as well as Gold. These colors symbolize immateriality and light  - the lightness if being." - Renowned trend forecaster, Li Edelkoort

Update an old accessory with glossy yellow spray paint.

Subjective Creative Thinking

Based in emotion and personal reference, the subjective is instinctive and intuitive. Let your work be informed by your distinct background. Assert your unique quality. Add your individual story. Include your own leitmotifs and personalize your entrepreneurship.

Dedicated to "the eternity of trees" John Houshmand's low organic  table with a glass leg is made from maple. According to the architects the beauty in a single piece of wood facilitates the creation of each individual design.

Find the Work You Can't Not Do?

I highly recommend you watch this TEDx talk from Scott Dinsmore for some inspiration to believe in yourself … it’s the best 18 minutes you could invest in your life right now.

Scott Dinsmore's mission is to change the world by helping people find what excites them and build a career around the work only they are capable of doing. He is a career change strategist whose demoralizing experience at a Fortune 500 job launched his quest to understand why 80% of adults hate the work they do, and more importantly, to identify what the other 20% were doing differently. His research led to experiences with thousands of employees and entrepreneurs from 158 countries. Scott distilled the results down to his Passionate Work Framework - three surprisingly simple practices for finding and doing work you love, that all happen to be completely within our control. He makes his career tools available free to the public through his community at http://LiveYourLegend.net

2012-2013 Color Palette: Three Colors Grey

Complementary colors are defined to mix to grey, either additively or subtractively. Most grey pigments have a cool or warm cast to them, as the eye can detect even a minute amount of saturation. Yellow, orange, and red create a warm grey. Green, blue, and violet create a cool grey. When there is no cast at all, it is referred to as neutral, achromatic or simply grey. Mirroring the silvery, shiny fur of its namesake, this season's silvermink is an endlessly versatile rich mid-tone grey.

Belgian fashion designer, Natalia Brilli, is based in Paris where she creates leather jewelry, accessories and objects. Monochromatic yet weightless, her pieces are freed from unnecessary embellishment. Brilli's inspiration follows the natural rhythm of the seasons without ever forsaking her signature "pearls" and her color range. Limited in the beginning to black, green and purple, it now includes pastel tones with natural or metallic finishes.

Portland based, Heather Gabriel, uses primitive methods to form and fire her work. Making objects that can't be reproduced glaze is used sparingly, allowing the clay and flame to speak for itself. Fired with wood in her ClayWoodStone ceramic studio, every fire ishttp://obviouspath.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=2698&action=edit different according to the fuel used, the time lapsed, the patterns of stoking and rest - each leaving its unique mark on the work.

Inspired by nature South Africa's, Ronél Jordaan, playfully infuse contemporary interiors with the beauty, simplicity and serenity of the outdoors. Her 100% wool, hand dyed, hand felted gorgeous pouffe is the net result of following her own creative instincts which led her to explore the possibilities of turning fine gossamer threads into robust felted forms  by patiently rubbing and coaxing threads of pure wool into eo-friendly shapes.

Audacious Design Fiction

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

American Computer Scientist Alan Kay

Be presumptuous. Cheeky. Or defiant. And take surprisingly bold risks by designing a magical product with no concern of actually producing it. Embrace the impossible. Aim for an ideal goal. Disregard reason. Ignore feasibility and have fiction foreshadow fact.

Fusing the worlds of fashion, technology and the body, Lucy McRae's Swallowable Parfum is an artistic provocation. Working from the inside out fragrance molecules are excreted through the skin’s surface during perspiration leaving droplets on the skin that emanate a unique odor; thus enabling the skin to become an atomizer.

Design Inpsired by Grandma

Remember the stand-out white crochet lacework doilies that decorated sofa arms and coffee tables. during the 50's. Australian Designer Henry Sgourakis' Nook chair has forever changed the perception of cheap and tacky doilies with an inventive approach to furniture design and an original take on the contemporary armchair. The Nook is both functional and beautiful. The flexible fiber molds to the body to create a comfortable armchair which can withstand all weather conditions.

So identify a technique. Perhaps something old. Almost extinct. Translate it into a contemporary material and create something modern. Unique. And comfortable.

Growing Jewelry - Hafsteinn Juliusson

Growing jewelry is Icelandic product designer Hafsteinn Juliusson's redefinition of modern values. Described as a clash of jewelry and gardening: couture and organism, rowing jewelry has become the ultimate metropolitan accessory. An experiment in drawing nature, the presupposition of life, toward man. This hip micro garden needs tending and watering to be sustained.

So make a presumption. Come up with an assumption. Create a preconception. Hypothesis. Theory. Or postulation. And turn it into product.