Smashing magazine has a great roundup of free fonts available this month!

Marie Antoinette inspired hair salon complete with cupcakes? designed by Scott Weston

I Feel Golden ~ tee by Brooklyn Industries ~ i'm so sad that there is no women's tee for this! My love of the golden ratio is crushed! Perhaps a good sleep tee?

Field Notes are expanding into mini 18 month calendars!

Porsche Design launches some of the cutest designer kids toys for the holidays! Here are just a few of my top picks from their new collection!

"The world, justified" by Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain. Typography meets cartography.

Twitterview with S.A.R.A.H. ~ the Eureka self actuated residential automated habitat is now up! Including some special sneak peeks of the set, blueprints, early sketches and more!

The Immaculate Threads ~ by Dominic Wilcox... his visual interpretation of Steve Jobs ~ the uniform perfectly laid out in iPod-esque boxes! [Special piece commissioned for Esquire]

I couldn't help taking apart the limited edition E-Ink Esquire 75th Anniversary Cover ~ see video and pics and scans of all the guts and the screen in action!

Martin Nicolausson's Seesaw Bench ~ supposed to facilitate conversation..... or launch strangers?

Memorex SingStand - speakers, microphone, stand, and your mp3 player plugs right in!

On silly NOTCOT firsts... TWITTERVIEW! With the Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat (SARAH) ~ from Eureka. We might even get some sneak peeks of the architecture... (mon 5ish pst)

Nice peek into the car grad show projects by Kimberly Wu, i'm smitten with her illustration/paintings (as well as design!)

hilarious video from Slate ~ what if viral/guerrilla marketing got to the point of...... your boyfriend dating/breaking up with you as a viral campaign... for a movie?

Amazing Feather Typeface by Lily Piyathaisere

Even Phillips is getting into the designer sex toy market ~ with products for "Relationship Care"

Stunning update to the classic Bubble Chair ~ Rousseau and INSA welcome you to view their first collaborative work at designers block 2008.

Incredible page on Curta Calculators

THINGS by Culture Code for Mac ~ i wonder if this pretty little app can really help get me organized, i can't wait for the multiple mac syncing

Zirh Warrior Collection ~ interesting idea... making men want to smell like Julius Caesar, Charlemagne, Ulysses, Alexander the Great...

Klok ~ another little mac app i was just introduced to thats great for tracking your time ~ whether its freelance projects or email vs design time... and it makes gorgeous pie graphs!

Arkitip + Incase (limited edition boxes) + Ryan McGinness?!?!?! Signed and numbered edition of 2000 ~ issue number 48 is a must have!

Gorgeous typography and imagery by brandon lesley

The UCSD StarCAVE at CalIT2 ~ The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens surrounding the viewer, and onto the floor as well.

Nice packaging on this Max Longin Float Bed

Back Side Flip 360° by O-S Architectes - cardboard boxes with a golden lining - temporary installation at Hotel Saint-Côme in Montpellier, as part of the Festival des Architectures Vives 08.

melli ink editions - cramer + cramer, geneva - september 19 – november 7, 2008 - Glass emulating bone, in these incredible glass skeletal sculptures

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day ~ now you can even have your google language of choice be... PIRATE!

Microsoft Ads: Bug or Feature ~ nice article at Portfolio ~ was it viral attention grabbing genius? or a huge failure? Must say i hated the seinfeld ads, love the new "i'm a pc" spot...

Congrats to our friends at Cool Hunting on their NYT Slideshow (go to the main article to see picks from Design*Sponge, MocoLoco, Apt Therapy, Un-Beige and more!)

Vitamin Living expanded on the I.V. Plant Pot ~ with the Bio Logic Collection ~ "Smart Ideas for Plants" ~ see the full line of brilliantly functional and well designed new homes for your indoor plants.

Fun portfolio of Schtock

We really are kids of the digital age through and through ~ love this image by italian design group, Volk

Dangerous Curves: Mastering Logotype Design by Donald Young ~ Take a peek inside, this book looks beautifully inspiring!

Parking Day LA is tomorrow! (sept 19) ~ here's a map of some parking spots that are becoming parkified...

Update ~ added the time lapsed video of Toyota Project Chief Designer, Ian Cartabiano, sketching the Venza on Paper! Fun contrast to the sketch demo in photoshop.

DWR Tools for Living ~ love the invite that came in the mail.... black (and one red) iconic + simply silhouettes on cardboard... see the full scan!

Griffin's Clarifi iPhone case has a close up lens you can easy slide on and off! Apparently ideal for things like business cards?

Mauritian Sunset ~ by Sandy Smith ~ a gorgeous display of colors, check out the back to see all the cables/monitors as well!

Portal Prelude gives us a peek at the new game trailer!

Rotofugi: The Collectors ~ an incredible animation where many of our favorite toys come to life and collect... PEOPLE!

Atari-ified modern video game posters ~ so fun, they have them for everything from portal and gta to bioshock, halo and more

Oh Microsoft, this is really your press kit for IE8? Wait till you see what's inside...

Adorable Vertigo flyers ~ woody domokun?