The cube of happiness - this lump of stainless steel opens the door to Nike iD London

Step-by-step, James Jarvis reveals how his latest vinyl toy, YOD, came into this world

Interview with UVA - creators of spectacular light shows for the Chemical Brothers, Massive Attack and more

No design studio is complete without one: the history of the Herman Miller Aeron chair

At 800 pages, it's a big book on the Big Apple - New York by Gloria Publishing.

Presenting the General Carbuncle: one old Ford covered in 4500 toy cars

Presenting, thee Rubik's Cube Font Generator. Twist to create new letterforms and print using the rubberstamps on each face of the cube

The Nokia Almighty Music Headset Competition invited entrants to design a Bluetooth headset inspired by a favourite track: this one was inspired by R Kelly's I Believe I Can Fly

To mark the 150th anniversary of the bentwood classic 214 Chair, Thonet is producing a special edition, with a twist

MTV unveils a global rebrand today by Universal Everything that includes a set of charming films

The Crucifixion according to Google Earth: photographic project featuring four Biblical scenes as viewed from on high

New film Made In Queens documents the Trinidadian youths who trick out their BMX bikes with gigantic sound systems

4,200 windows lit with 150,000 LEDs make for one heck of a light show at the Dexia Tower in Brussels

Browse great paintings from the UK's National Gallery while you wait for the Eurostar at London's St Pancras station, all through a nifty table-top interface

Korean artist Osang Gwon creates life-size sculptures covered in thousands of photographs - in this case of the band Keane for their new album, Perfect Symmetry.

A new set of UK stamps celebrates British design classics

The cover of next month's Wallpaper* will feature Anthony Burrill's wonderful poster designs

Presenting, the Big Book of junk: spam has never looked lovelier

50 cars = 1 bus. Swedish agency Acne created this sculpture out of crushed cars to persuade drivers to take public transport

Beautiful typography in Non-Format's design for French magazine Very Elle

75% Complete by artist Dan Proops, one of a series of oil paintings taking technology and computers as their theme

Of All The People In The World is a touring exhibition in which the population of the US and other countries is expressed as grains of rice. One grain = one person

Mysterious flyposters are appearing all over London - little nuggets of printy goodness to peel off and take home

Tyler Brûlé and team discuss their redesign of chic Italian interiors magazine Case Da Abitare

Wallace and Gromit turn male models in DDB's fun new campaign for fashion store Harvey Nichols

As the Beijing Olympics gets under way, Jonathan Barnbrook calls on designers to Remember Tibet

Russian doll style model representing the technological progress (and miniaturisation) of mobile phones.

Awww, ain't this li'l lady cute? Hang on, is that Louis Vuitton she's wearing?

Overcrowding never looked so beautiful: graphic representations of the world's cities at Tate Modern

Seismic drone-rock band Sunn 0))) put out some surprisingly beautiful sleeves

Alison Carmichael creates beautiful hand-lettering for ad agencies and the occasional very rude poster

“The Apifera is a responsive window that takes inspiration from the science of attraction developed in flowers." And you can see it at Selfridges in London

This life-size skeleton made from plastic cutlery is one of the highlights of the New Blood show of graduate design work this year

This HSBC ad at Wimbledon uses images actually grown in grass - the natural photosensitive properties of the grass reproduce the images like photographic paper.

Forgotten design genius Will Burtin is celebrated in a new book, reviewed here by Rick Poynor

200,000 used Coke cans recreate a classic poster for the brand, all in aid of Recycle Week

Photographer Nadav Kander was commissioned by the New York Times Magazine to photograph Obama's People. The resulting 52 photographs are published this Sunday

Pentagram's Angus Hyland designed this free bag for CassArt - how many well-known silhouetted artworks can you spot?

The humble router re-imagined: Goldsmiths students have been looking at how to transform the boring old router into something much more interesting - like a clock

Hard-hitting new campaign by This is Real Art for Reprieve, the charity that provides lawyers for those in Guantanamo Bay and others facing execution.

Do these beautiful images from photographer Jason Tozer depict strange new alien worlds? No, something much more mundane

Manohar and Samir Manohar Mistry have been decorating Mumbai taxis with amazing typography since 1973

Cool illustration from the likes of Geoff McFetridge, Seymour Chwast, Non-Format and Mick Marston in new ad campaign for The Economist

London Life, forgotten magazine of Swinging London, featuring the illustrations of a young Ian Dury (yes, that Ian Dury)

Grace Jones in chocolate - how the album cover artwork was made

Artist Ben Long created this 35ft stag out of scaffolding poles. It's currently on show in London - on a building site, of course