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With a career that began with acclaimed children’s books, surged into iconic 1960s protest posters, blossomed into lavish books of erotica, and included dalliances with architectural design, advertising and sculpture, Tomi Ungerer evades easy description. The Alsatian-born illustrator gets his close-up in Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story, a documentary that opens in New York and Los Angeles this month, with more cities to follow. Says director Brad Bernstein, "Once you start digging into Tomi's personal history and then start studying the body of his work, you realize quite quickly that he has visually captured on paper every moment his eyes have witnessed."

Nearly 40 years have elapsed since Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Erno Rubik invented his famous cube, and we think it's time for an upgrade. Behold the X-Cube, a shape-shifting logic puzzle for the 21st century. Developed by budding inventor and entrepreneur Dane Christianson, a sophomore at the Illinois Institute of Technology, the X-Cube has 52 moving parts, 102 stickers and 125 decillion possible permutations. Before you can figure out how many zeroes that is, check out Christianson's Kickstarter campaign to bring the puzzle to mass production.

Take a break from the 3D printing craze with the 3B Printing Project, a buzzworthy initiative of Dewar's. The whisky brand is promoting its new honey-infused Scotch with the help of 80,000 bees. Tune in through Sunday to watch live as they make hives ("honeycomb sculptures"). The bees are provided with a kind of blueprint that mimics their natural environment, but allows them to buzz about freely to gather the raw materials needed to build their honeycomb, according to Dewar's. Sweet on this idea? Visitors to the site can enter to win the honeycomb-covered models.

Fueled by her love of travel, places, people, art and fashion, Venezuelan-born Maria Gabriela Brito brings a fresh eye to living spaces, whether designing a room based on the life of Frida Kahlo or mixing the work of leading contemporary artists with thrift shop finds. "Life is not a box limited by four sides," writes New York-based Brito in Out There, new from Pointed Leaf Press. "We don't live in compartmentalized areas, and people's homes should not be, either." The coffee table tome is not only an exuberant introduction to Brito's life and work but also a colorful primer on collecting art and creating vibrant interiors, complete with a global "go-to guide" of top shops, hotels, websites and more.

"Type Lettering. All shapes and sizes, colors, and styles." A 12-member scouting team serves it up hot and fresh on Type Everything, an ever-growing showcase of lettering at work. Pick your platform -- the flagship Tumblr, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook -- and prepare to get lost in exotic and amazing font feats, from slick commercial work and breathtaking drop caps to calligraphic street art and experiments that push the boundaries of typography (and readability) to their limits -- and beyond.

Got a story to tell? Put down the pen and pick up a camera, because today the New York Photo Festival launches My Story, an international photography invitational. Open to photographers from all backgrounds and working in a variety of photographic media, the competition has lined up a judging panel that includes photojournalist and VII co-founder Ron Haviv and New York Times photographer James Estrin. Up for grabs is $2,500 in prizes and the opportunity to exhibit this summer at the Powerhouse Arena in Brooklyn. Get your narrative juices flowing now, because the deadline for submissions is June 30.