Norway has never been famous for their cars. TH!NK wants to change that with their lightweight electric cars. First inline to take over the world is their two-seater called City. Top speed 100 km/h and a range of 200 km on a full charge.

Colorful, handmade, knitted toys from dutch designer Anne-Claire Petit. The toys are made by Asian women in their homes, a way to generate an income throughout most of the year - something from which the entire village benefits.

Great ice cream packing from Danish, family run, Hansens Flødeis. The profile, somewhat based on PR-material from 1922, was created by Hansens Flødeis together with Danish designer Mads Berg.

In 1957 the Norwegian designer, Hans Brattrud, designed the chair collection Scandia. Now the classic chairs are back, manufactured by Fjordfiesta furniture.

The US Army wants to renew Baghdad and turn the green zone into a luxury area. The even want to build a golf course and country club called "Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club". The bunker on hole nine really is a bunker...?

Nice ceramic creations from Argentinean artist Lola Goldstein. I especially like the practical stuff like the egg cups and tea pot.

Trilight is a multi-functional lamp by Dutch designer Dave Keune. The lamp is made out of molded from semi-transparent polyethylene plastics and can both hang and/or stand.

Swedish Next House has a very nice line of modern, wooden, prefab houses ranging from 15 square meters to 188 square meters. All of the houses come with big windows allowing the light to flow through the house. And oh, most of the houses have awesome porches!

Inspired by the sea and surrounding scrub oak forest Architecture Research Office has design this modern beach house that updates New England’s rich traditions with glass, zinc, and an original clapboard siding scheme

With a top speed around 40 knots, the Fjord 40 Open is as powerful as it is beautiful. Designed by Patrick Banfield and Jim Wilshire for Norwegian boat manufacturer Fjord.

Great illustrations from Swedish Fredrik Tjernström. His style sometimes reminds me of Swedish/Swiss illustrator Hans Arnold and Swedish 70's illustrator icon Jane Bark.

Nice and clean packing from danish The Coffee Collective (TCC). The profile that circles around a simple and nice triangular pattern was developed by Hatch & Bloom in close corporation with TCC.

Golf 190 from Swedish Modern Living is a two story house with 6 rooms. The house is partly dress in ceder. Living and entertaining areas are designed to be upstairs and bedrooms and bathrooms down stairs.

Great and simple cabin from Eggleston Farkas Architects. The roof is designed to match the slope of the surrounding hills while the shape of it allows the snow to easily slide off.

Östra Kvarnskogen in Sollentuna, Sweden is a residential area with 40 buildings that almost floats in the air. It has been awarded the Wood Prize 2008 by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation.

Stack is a floating drawer unit designed by Shay Alkalay and produced by Established & Sons. A colorful and new way to think about something as boring as storage.

Trays can be tricky to carry. Danish designer Klaus Rath has for Stelton designed a very nice tray that could solve that problem.

Summer is almost here and what can be better than cruising around in a Askeladden Commuter 11!?! Commuter 11 is like a SUV of the seas. The design of the boat is a co-operation between Askeladden and the design studio Inventas.

Fair trade goods tend to look a bit cheap. Divine Chocolate is a exception. They make fair trade chocolate and packages it in a nice, posh, wrapper. It doesn't hurt that it also tastes good.

Swedish designer Monica Förster brings a bunch of new creations to Milan this year. Her furniture has a clean, modern Scandinavian style that reminds me a bit of Norways Says.

Swedish Proudly are showing at the Salone Satellite in Milan for the first time. With them they got two nice lamps, Wallop and Void.

Nice, social housing, neighborhood in Ghent, Belgium. Designed by Neutelings Riedijk. Great photos by talanted photographer Dajo Revyn.

Yesterday the new opera house was opened in Oslo. The opera is designed by Norwegian Snøhetta. The exterior and location makes me think of the opera house in Sydney. But the interior of the opera in Oslo is much more stunning.

Let 31 industrial design students work together but isolated - on the same project? Inspired by the folded sketch, a child’s game where you draw one part of a character not knowing how the previous or next person will draw theirs.

Swedish grocery chain ICA has released its own line of eco friendly products called I love eco. Clean and nice packaging by Identity Works.

Iris by Michaël Bihain is a coffee table that you can pile. It is made from a single sheet of steel and comes in black or white. [Editor's Note: looks like a lesser version of Ross Lovegrove's in #9166]

Tautra Mariakloster is a beautiful abbey on a island north of Trondheim, Norway. Opened in 2006 and was designed by award winning Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor. It has to be one of the most stunning abbeys in the world.

Starting on April 7, you can get your Volvo C30 with one out of 20 different patterns. If you live in Sweden that is.

Stefan Borselius chair Boo is designed to be stackable and easy to store. Boo is chair in molded felt and textile, with the material in the seat rim pressed to it limit and a stand of chrome-plated steel.

Danish Nobel Arkitekter have designed a very nice student housing complex that they call Signalhuset just outside Copenhagen. The house holds 288 student apartments that can be converted into 72 regular apartments if the need for student housing changes.

Taiki is a cool concept car from Mazda that, according to Mazda themselves, has “a design that visually expresses the flow of air”.

The Swedish Football Association has rebranded its logos for the top three Swedish leagues. Rebranding by Adamsson Appelfeldt Advertising, and motion design by Redloop.

Interesting looking housing project at Askøy, close to Bergen in Norway. The houses can come to house 170 apartments and was designed by André Reckewe and Link Signatur.

Swedish Sassabrassa has made something different with egg cups out of Sigvard Bernadotte classic Virrvarr-pattern. The cup also doubles as a napkin ring.

The Element house by Sami Rintala in Bisan Urban Natural Park, Anyang Resort, South Korea. The house is not to live in but for passers-by who wish to halt, rest and make their own understanding and use of a simple space made of matter and light.

The summerhouse is a seasonal hideaway for a Hackney-based family of four, designed by Ullmayer Sylvester Architects. Simple structure but the mirror siding makes the whole thing much more interesting, and helps to enlarge the garden.

Colorful renovation of a kitchen in West London, by Surface Architects. Great to see someone having the guts to use strong colors in a kitchen!

Residencial Alviento is a great building of a seven apartment building constructed on a plot of land located on the top of a mountain that overlooks the Bay of Puerto Marques in Acapulco, Mexico. By Mexican Bunker Arquitectura.

Matroshka must be the compact living lovers wet dream. It can become as small as 4 square meters and houses a book self, double bed, sofa, dinner table, four stools, desk, wardrobe and a bunch of storage. Cool concept from four Swedish design students.

Alaska is a nice and light chair design from Tanya Aguiñiga.

Peerutin Architects has design a 550 sqm luxury home in the affluent Cape Town suburb of Camps Bay. Clean and nice lines, and I love the pool.

Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos has created a stunning building for the Contemporary Arts Museum of Castilla y León. The building is made up of seemingly simple lines, but the building is, somehow, very inviting anyway.

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is now open for business. The vault is planned to hold "backups" of 100 million seeds from of all over the world. And it looks like a super villain hideout.

The AWARE Lifestyle Collection is a collection of thoughtfully designed energy aware products that fit into people’s everyday life, their personal needs and their different lifestyles.

Gorgeous house by Tom Kundig. The house is essentially a collection of attached wood boxes springing from three stone piers that bridge the natural undulations of a hill.

With the aim if designing a Swedish functional house, Landström Arkitekter drew the Swedish ambassadors humble abode in Pretoria. A great 700 square meter building filled to the brim with the best Swedish design.

The beautiful entrance pavilion at the Trumpf factory in Ditzingen is designed by Barkow Leibinger and the lightweight structure is by the master of lightweight structures Werner Sobek.