Designer Gas Masks by Diddo Vilema. Look great in the summer while you stroll around the streets of NYC! Avoid the offensive urine-garbage-BO smell! You might get a bit sweaty but it’ll look so cool.

Ladies, consider the line of  luxury tampons available

I LEGO N.Y. (read our extensive entry by Caleb here) is one of my favorite entries on Abstract Sunday, a New York Times blog by illustrator extraordinaire – Christoph Niemann. Christoph Niemann spoke at Creative Mornings a few months ago; Maria Popova wrote a great post about the event at Brain Pickings. Neimann talks about his life, work and happiness in this video- accompanied by his charming illustrations and magnetic personality. Remember, YOGA WILL DESTROY YOUR DESIGN CAREER.

Christoph Niemann from Creative Mornings on Vimeo.

“In order to have creativity, you have to allow dead ends to happen.” – Christoph Niemann

The I LEGO N.Y. board book is available for purchase at Amazon.

THE STANDARD HOTEL LIGHT SHOW for TARGET from POSSIBLE

POSSIBLE teamed up with Bionic League, EightVFX, Mother, Ryan Heffington, LEGS, and Squeak E. Clean last year and produced this amazing light show at The Standard Hotel for Fashion Week. Take a look behind the scene with at POSSIBLE with Creative Director, Michael Figge.

There’s an air of anticipation in New York City – summer is coming to an end (it’s DEVASTATING) and it’s almost the fall fashion week. Again.  The Mercedes-Benz Fashion week begins on September 8th, and designer Kevin Wang brought to my attention the Fashion’s Night Out app he worked on (available on both iTunes and the Android market). Now, unlike Mr. Wang, I am not remotely fashionable. But there’s still plenty to do for all the foodies, broke-ass college kids, crustypunks, everyone and anyone! Here are a few events in New York that  caught my attention. I apologize for not being able to link the events directly, but most of these events do not have a dedicated website – please check out FNO’s website for exact time/location.

• Watch the canine fashion show at Bergdorf’s (LOLOLOLOLOL).
• Get some henna tattoos at Bloomingdales inspired by Diane Von Furstenberg. She don’t design no henna tattoos.
• James Murphy of the LCD Soundsystem apparently is performing at the Howard x Mercer Block Party, hosted  by VPL,  Agnes B., 3×1 and Nike. Last year there was a block party (via racked.com) thrown by Phillip Lim and Rag&Bone – there were burgers and cocktails and someone named Halle Berry there.
• At alice + olivia is going to host a carnival! You get to play games and eat cotton candy and sno-cones.

More events are announced everyday on FNO’s website. Take some time to plan your night of debauchery – if it all becomes too overwhelming, find a dive bar.

Enjoy this wallpaper design from illustrator Nick Iluzada, presented by The Fox Is Black as part of its Sights & Sounds series. The series will involve different artists/designers creating desktop wallpapers inspired by Animal Collective albums. This one attempts to capture the spirit of 1999′s ‘Spirit They’re Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished.’

Theophilus London’s new video for “Girls Girls $” is a wild and hilarious cartoon romp through NYC streets (Look! A corner bodega! And over there — Gray’s Papaya!), with animation that reminds me of the first cartoons I ever drew in MS Paint and learned to program at computer camp.

The Chance pop-up store is open now through the end of June on Elizabeth Street, and they’re featuring limited-edition prints of portraits created by Mary Matson depicting the season-appropriate striped shirts owned and loved by six creative women. Proceeds from the sales of these prints will benefit the Japan Earthquake Relief effort – visit the pop-up if you’re in the area or purchase online. Seen on Hi + Low.