If Bucky Fuller had gotten into the chalet business, he would've built something a lot like the Whitepod ski resort. The resort -- on a slope outside Geneva overlooking the majestic Alps -- includes 15 private pod-like tents, whose aesthetic owes more to Fuller's futuristic geodesic domes than to the cozy Swiss chalets breathless travel writers are always going on about. It's the perfect ski getaway for design-obsessed cool kids too hip for all that Heidi stuff.

Artist Matt Shlian is great at screwing up. A self-described papercraft engineer, Shlian designs stunning 3-D paper sculptures that fall somewhere between origami, pop-up books, and Minimal Art -- many of them happy accidents.

Sometimes "I begin with an idea for movement and try to achieve that shape or form somehow," he tells us. "Along the way something usually goes wrong and a mistake becomes more interesting than the original idea and I work with that instead."