While some parts of this bookcase may prove impractical for storage, its purpose for your life will always be clear. Kim Yokota spotted it in a department store in Stockholm.

Hi-Fructose, a quarterly art magazine founded by artists Attaboy and Annie Owens, have released their Hi-Fructose Collected Edition 3 Box Set with Last Gasp Books. It includes a 300+ page hardcover book featuring a selection of some of the best original material from issues 9-12, an introduction by filmmaker Morgan Spurlock and a lot of other goodies. A limited edition of the Hi-Fructose Collected Edition 3 Box Set is now available for pre-order.

Although not a new design, I just discovered it so it’s new to me! Japanese company BCXSY’s Seesaw bookshelf is a pretty neat concept. I bet you could put books you’ve read on one end and ones you’ haven’t read yet on the other. Which side would be heavier for you?
 

Like a traditional sculptor carving away at a piece of stone, artist Alexander Korzer-Robinson eviscerates text and whitespace leaving only the images. In doing so he creates entirely new narratives using only the pre-existing illustrations, charts, graphs and other visual elements printed inside of each book

The Miniature Book of Miniature Golf by Mike Vago is a working 9-hole miniature golf course in book form. Get ready to tee off on this wee putt-putt course with the little golf club and tiny golf balls that are included with the book. Vago has also authored The Pocket Book of Pocket Billiards.

Winchester, UK illustrator Olly Moss created the book Silhouettes From Pop Culture published by Titan Books that is filled with classically styled paper cut silhouettes of his favorite pop culture icons, which he spent many months creating. Many of the pieces could have also been seen at his Paper Cuts art show that he put on in May of 2011 at Gallery 1988. The book will be released on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 and is available to pre-order at Amazon.

Young Italian designer Marica Vizzuso has designed B-OK, a space-saving alternative to the usual bookshelf. Vizzuso asks, “Why do you place books in a conventional way when you can have both an amusing and aesthetically interesting alternative?” The shelving system is constructed like a giant tower, yet unfolds into a room divider. Instead of stacking books side-by-side, you pile books on top of one another into a variety of slots.

Sunflower Chair designed by He Mu and Zhang Qian from Shanghai University of Engineering Science. It is a sunflower-shaped chair that includes a round integrated bookcase. Sunflower Chair has won “Redtory Design Award” for the 5th “Design for Sitting” Grand Prix.

This hidden bookcase turned your home into a stealthy secret lair. The hidden bookcase folds in half by sliding on steel tracks embedded in the floor and built into the header panel, both of which are completely hidden when the bookcase is in its normal unfolded position. Fill the thing up with books, and nobody will know this secret book. It is available now for $3000.

Barcelona-based artist Nuria Bringué Bergua designed Food Type, a 3D typography book project on healthy eating. She cuts food to look like letters, stacks them and then photographs the result to include in the books.