Swedish Stina Wirsén is a talanted illustrator most know for her editorial work for newspaper Dagens Nyheter. I think her portrait work is most special, my favorite is her illustration of Woody Allen.

A few weeks I was given some Earl Grey flavored chocolate from Dolfin Chocolat. I was hooked from bite one. Good chocolate and nice classic packing, lethal combo...

Vitamina Well is a health drink company from Sweden with nicely designed bottles and website. The bottles were designed by Waters WidgrenTBWA and the website by Tewonder.

Brunopasso PD-1 is a pod espresso machine. designed by Tadahito Ishibashi for deviceSTYLE. Beautiful machine that reminds me of 60s roadsters.

I've always been a fan of Monopoly (the board game). Now I can display my love with a Monopoly Umbrella from Brollies of London.

Small update of the classic Swedish painkiller Treos packing. Design by Stockholm baseed BVD.

Nice, wooden, iPod docks from Japanese monoDO and Hacoa. The docks come in two sizes and in two different types of wood, American walnut or Scandinavian birch.

Mirador in a Madrid suburb (designed by Dutch studio MVRDV in collaboration with Spanish architect Blanca Lleó) - it has a incredible void used by the residents as a meeting area and playground.

Max Lamb has made a cool exercise in seating by casting two pewter stools directly in the sand on Caerhays beach on the South coast of Cornwall.

Beautiful retro DAB/FM-radios from British Roberts Radio. I understand why they have two Royal Warrants of Appointment from the British royal court...

Nice radio, with cast aluminum casing, from Dualit. Functions both with DAB and FM and has AUX in, stereo & & optical output and comes in four colors.

Furniture that has something in common with a Star Wars vehicle. AT-AT by T.N.A. Design Studio (for Röthlisberger Kollektion) made from pear trees, shares name and clean shape with the All Terrain Armored Transport.

Cool looking learning centre (Aleksandria) in central Helsinki designed by Davidsson Architects. New part completed in 2003, old part from 1907 and originally designed by Gunnar Stenius of Lindgren & Stenius.

Leif.designpark, Marina Bautier and Studio Hausen have designed some great, solid furniture for Atlantico. My personal favorite is the the bench/sofa with a built in pot (seen above this text). The rest of the 2008 collection after the jump.

Denmark isn't famous for cars, but that is about to change with the Sondergard kit car roadster. The brainchild of danish business man Ricky Søndergaard and designed by the BMW designer Jesper Hermann

Woodenlegs is a nice, solid lamp by Belgian designer Benoit Deneufbourg. Also check out is two wooden coat hangers, 120° CoatHook and 120° CoatStand, after the jump!

Open Box is a lamp for public spaces and offices. Designed by Propeller for Fagerhult.

Bamboo is one of the most versatile materials in the world. You can create more or less anything with bamboo. Finnish Artek has chosen to design a series of smooth looking furniture with bamboo veneer. The sidetable is my personal favorite.

Jeff Miller has designed some beautiful plywood furniture, Little Big Chair and Big Bend Table, for Baleri Italia. There is something special with plywood. The adaptability is endless and if you ask me, Mr Miller is doing the material justice!

Interesting looking lamp called Big Bang made up irregular and apparently random sections of plastic planes. Designed by Enrico Franzolini and Vicente García Jiménez for Foscarini.

Cool lamp from Spanish Merry, Kawamura & Ganjavian. The lamp, Plug On, comes in different formats such as a column or a table top, onto which the electrical accessories can be attached. And don't miss their solar powered laptop charger...

Norways is the country that has most the Sámi. They also have the coolest looking Sámi Parliament. Designed by Stein Halvorsen and Christian Sundby, the building looks like a mix between a traditional Sámi goahti and a concrete fortress.

This weekend Euro 2008 kicks off in Austria. Some matches are going to played in Innsbruck. I hope some of the players/spectators take a tour and checks out Zaha Hadid's cool looking cable train stations.

Beautiful house by Portuguese Arquiprojecta. The house has huge windows that lets in light from both sides and gives the house a 360 view of the landscape.

Concert, plywood and a few colored walls make up the Mon Lou Lou hair salon in Asagaya, Japan. Very clean and nice interior, and I love the front door. The interior was designed by Assistant.

Nice record covers with clean typography and colors from Swedish Rollerboys Recordings. Designed by Filip Kleremark.

The two Amsterdam animal refuges in Amsterdam have been amalgamated: the new-built is the largest pound in the Netherlands. The result is a green, playful animal refuge center. By dutch Arons & Gelauff Architecten.

From Chen & Karlsson come Peeandgo, a golden urinal for women. The urinal is inspired by traditional Asian squat urinals.

In the small Swiss village of Vnà lies this stunning, concrete, vacation home (Haus Presenhuber) by Gabrielle Hächler and Andreas Fuhrimann.

Below The Clouds gets a face lift, search function and English/French/German translations (thanks to Google Translate).

Hand painted Stan Smith sneakers from Swedish Look Down (Johan Nordström). If you don't like their current styles, contact them and they will design you something unique.

Andrew Neyer has designed the coolest looking zine ever. Space Junk 2 comes packaged in a cornflakes box and is handprinted by Andew. Get your copy now, he only made 150 of them...

Modern, classic pottery from the Japanese company with the short name J. (J-period). My favorite is probably the Yokei tea pot made out of yakishime (unglazed natural clay).

Colorful and retro looking packaging by Stockholm based Amore for Swedish dairy producer Skånemejerier.

Lovely wooden furniture by award winning Matthew Hilton for Case Furniture. I really enjoy his tables and the bed in the Valentine series.

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.