Canadian product designer Kitmen Keung has created a modular hexagonal mat called Hexis that brings together the convenience of a coaster and a resting place for small utensils.

Iron Design Company wine rack, recently exhibited at the Architectural Digest Show in NYC. The fluid shape is made from steel and holds up to a half case of wine.

Colleen Baran's Ring a Day project is one surprisingly creative treat after another. The project will be about ideas and fun more then commercial work using a variety of materials.

Phaidon has released a brand new app of their Design Classic for the iPad. Phaidon’s famous three-volume Design Classics set contains the history of products designed from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution to the present day.

Bodum’s 1986 kettle design comes back to life with the the re-release of an electric version of Ettore Sottass’ spirited design. Comes in a variety of powdery colors.

COMA, whose name is taken from comma (the punctuation mark) is made of two modules that can be arranged in different positions by means of a metallic structure covered in wood paneling. From Sanserif Creatius.

Herman Miller announced five new colors and two new bases for their Eames Molded Plastic Chairs. I'll take an aqua sky rocker, please.

Successful Living From Diesel has partnered with Foscarini in a series of lamps featuring shades that tell a narrative through DJ decks, pilots’ cockpits, and other patterns.

From the Portuguese Piodao Group who make rugs for Moroso, Moooi and Rolf Benz comes the new brand Tufted, launching their first collection in Milan. This is the Pixel rug.

The Bufa Chair from MOWOstudio is inspired by attire and tailoring detail: puff and pleat. It is an attempt to find furniture pattern and a search of the new solution to replace the traditional upholstery.

In her graduate project, 'The Possibilities of Parts', Lotte van Wulfften Palthe utilizes both found and bought personal objects and materials to create large-scale worlds that take on an unique existence of their own.

OOW (Out of Work) holds your beer glass, allowing you to carry both dish and glass with just one hand. By Giovanna de Ávila and Joan Sunyol.

If you're headed to SXSW check out the Kimber Modern hotel in Austin - it's retro-meets-palm-springs.

Studio Octopi has created a beautiful modern addition to an old Victorian London home.

Aspiral makes handmade clocks that slowly move throughout the day, using a ball rather than clock hands to tell the time.

I love the work of Ji Lee and I was excited to see a new project from him called Parallel World. It involves the construction of miniature versions of rooms (or “parallel worlds”) and placing them on ceilings.

The individual chocolate “pegs” can be arranged in a box to form a word or short message that is printed on the top inside of the box (thanks to chocolates with a low melting point which allows the chocolate to melt even in room temperature).

These laser cut radios by Matt Brown are systems that use radio-frequency identification speakers and chips to provide people with a better connection to the artists they choose to listen to.

Take a look inside the bizarro pod-like bathroom of The Flaming Lips' frontman Wayne Coyne.

Terrariums from Litill Ltd. are as cute as they are lovely.

Beautiful and affordable Pinch and Splay lamps -- see how they're made too!

WOKmedia's Between the Lines bookshelf asks you to place your books inside their maze of words. In other words, what you're reading is between the lines.

American designer Jonathan Nesci presents work at Chicago's newest design space, Volumes Gallery.

Hungarian artist Lajos Major plays with the alphabet in the perfect mix of typography and photography.

Austrian outdoor designers Viteo are known to have just a short collection of designs that are all very desirable. This applies to their swing, which exists as part of a whole set.

Mercardo Negro is a twelve-week project by Ramon Coronado that deals with transforming an everyday object into a completely new one.

Oooms Studio designed this piece to have at least one drawer that will always stay slightly open while the other drawers are closed. In addition, the way to open a drawer is to hit or kick the one next to it.

This former washing machine drum is now a lovely lamp from Reestore. It produces an ambient light from the top and shoots beams of light from the holes in its body.

Deskology makes desk accessories that match your Mac spot on. Great for Mac addicts!

Lex Pott combined these industrial, geometric forms with the original, organic structure of a tree in a series of items of furniture.

The Stalac coffee table is based on the idea of taking a rectangular section from a cave ceiling and using the stalactites as the table legs.

Awesome creations made from using books.

From John Harrington Design comes a chandelier that looks like an explosion of glasses falling from the ceiling.

Gecko has launched some really neato sticker kits that actually function, including lamps and tables.

Applying wallpaper to walls has never been so fun. With this perforated “tear off” wallpaper from ZNAK, you can customize the appearance of your space by tearing off the pieces as you please.

Bathymetry is a new series from OddHero, inspired by the oceans of the world and the concept of paint chips.

The bristles on this brush furniture by jason taylor look like raw pasta at first glance.

Chilewich and Griffin have collaborated on some killer iPhone cases.

Art director and graphic designer Allan Peters does wonderful and simple design work for advertising, logos, and so forth.

Ron Arad designed this United-States-shaped bookcase. This makes for an interesting way to unite books.

Frog Queen, or the Prisma Engineering Headquarters, in Austria looks like a pixelized cube - making for an interesting, eye-catching appearance.

Find out what it looks like to live in a former cement factory. The Cement Factory loft is Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill’s legendary and unusual live/work complex in Barcelona, as well as offices and a venue for exhibitions, lectures, and concerts.

Will Holman makes chairs and tables from tennis balls, shopping carts, crutches, and oversized books.

Trunk books are a new series designed like a treasure, just like an old "trunk" in the attic. Each will focus on a part of the human body & include writing, art, & photography. The first is HAIR. The next one is BLOOD & they're currently accepting submissions.