Pini Leibovich is an Israeli born industrial designer whose work focuses on order and disorder. His designed systems are meant to reflect the nature of man’s curiosity. Leibovich’s own goal is to have viewers interact as much as possible.

Not only is the narrowest house in the world a thought worth exploring, it is being constructed now in Warsaw, Poland, in between the passageway of two buildings. Narrow doesn't even cut it. The space is 47 inches wide. Break that down, readers, and that is a major 3 feet, 11 inches of space you have to work with. Does Ikea make things for you?

We can't find much information about Vincent Mahé on the web, other than that he's a director, designer, and illustrator living in Jerusalem. We do know for certain that Mahé has some mad illustration skills, as he aptly demonstrates in this series of images based on the 7 deadly sins (with 5 sins down and two more to go). Be sure to check out more of his work on his blog, particularly his incredible sketches of people and places from around the world.

Some people collect old records, others make projects out of their record players. Israeli photographer Tamir Sher took images of past masters' artwork, and her son's toys, and placed them on her record player, played the images at different speeds, and captured the effects and movements, her way of changing the way we interpret phenomena.

Born in 1978 in Kibbutz Sde Boker, Assaf Benharroch is an illustrator, designer, and animator based in Israel who specializes in background and environmental illustrations. In his work, Benharroch endeavors to emphasize atmosphere, color, and light, using the limitations of scratchboard and silkscreen printing techniques to push himself creatively in both his traditional and digital designs.

January 2010 cover artist, Kehinde Wiley, has 4 paintings from his The World Stage—Israel series on display with Roberts + Tilton Gallery at ARCOMadrid in Madrid, Spain through February 19. You know what that means? You have time left to see it. The series continues Wiley's theme of documenting local residents of otherwise overlooked populations in the style of the great masters of portrait art.

(Guest post by An Amoeba) On this day of nationwide parliamentary elections in Egypt– following weeks of violence– one exiled Egyptian offers his perspective on Egypt's present crisis  

It's a start. But all Palestinians at home and abroad are still prisoners of Occupation. Free them all.  

French artist and TED Prize winner, JR, continues his marathon tour across the world, this time unveiling a new project as part of his Inside Out Project: Time is Now, Yalla!. The project is now underway in Israel (Tel Aviv and Haifa) and Palestine (Bethlehem and Ramallah).

I’m assuming after seeing the many pictures surfacing of Utah and Ether painting in Israel, that there is fairly liberal view on graffiti there.  Here’s a banger on the roof.