The Blackwing 602--believed by many to be the greatest pencil ever made--has come back into production after a 13-year hiatus.

Kempt takes a look inside Germany's century-old Merz B. Schwanen factory, complete with rarely seen circular looms for knitting uninterrupted loops of fabric.

Dedegumo is a Kyoto-based shop that makes all their watches on site, including welding. Kempt takes a look inside their New York shop.

Fits.me is revamping fashion eCommerce with a mannequin that adjusts to your exact measurements - so you can see exactly how that polo would fit.

Hill-Side teamed up with UK dye company Tender Co. to produce a new line of scarves and ties with ancient English woad dye.

This CT Scanner in the Hope Children's Hospital in Chicago got a more kid-friendly look courtesy of Jeff Koons and RxArt.

Artist Carolina Andreoli made this chart of her 317 friends, ranked by importance and color-coded by location.

World Cup Team Italy's magnificent Dolce & Gabbana-designed “formal uniform” for their official team trips ~ a navy suit and aviators.

Drainspotting is a new book/iPad app exploring the Japanese penchant for artistic manhole covers.

Graphic artist Tavis Coburn has given five of 2009’s best films the 70s poster treatment, complete with Ben-Day dots and pop compositions.

These temporary tattoos recast phrases from Jenny Holzer's PROTECT PROTECT show. Available at the Whitney Gift Shop.

From the gift guide, this Temple Bags stocking stuffer bundles a few of their finer trinkets in a WWII-era military sock.

Burberry just launched a microsite called Art of the Trench, which rounds up as many street style trench coat pics as they can find, including some crowd-sourced snaps and some from The Sartorialist, Scott Schuman.

The Beatles recently remastered catalog is getting a flash drive release, packaged in a plastic apple.

574 Clips - For their latest limited edition collection, New Balance created a short video for each of the 480 pairs of shoes. Buy one, and you can put your name at the end of the associated video.

She Hit Pause transfers dismantled polaroids onto watercolor paper for a hazy, homemade effect. His work just landed in NY's Ace Hotel.

MoMA's "Into the Sunset" exhibit takes a look at the photographic legacy of the American West...and digs up some amazing pics in the process.

A look at the abandoned Lebow Clothing Factory in Baltimore, MD, with assistance from a fisheye lense.

Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor has just nabbed the Pritzker Prize, known to some as the Nobel Prize of Architecture. See some of Zumthor's work...

The LIFE photo archives offer a remarkable look at the '53 Le Mans race, which pitted drivers in a 24-hour marathon challenge without windshields or cockpits.

Kempt offers a look back at the text-heavy advertising of the past, with a little help from the LIFE photo archive.

J. Crew's March catalog features an unusual model: pop art painter Alex Katz.

New York Magazine highlights four party photographers, and their takes on the modern scene.

Email magazine UrbanDaddy just relaunched their site with a new design, map tools, and features to make their archive more interactive.

HDV photography of factory buildings has blossomed into a genre all its own.

The Czech design firm ruckl has released a set of glassware with measurements and specs etched in at the factory.

Weehouse is a St. Paul firm offering a range of minimalist prefab houses starting at $65,000. All the models are based on pre-insulated modules, which can be combined in various unexpected ways.

MK12 is the Kansas City-based graphics firm behind the titles for Quantum of Solace. They have also worked on Marc Forster's Kite Runner and Stranger than Fiction.

This "pipe cabinet" comes from woodworker Palo Samko. The four circular drawers are designed to accomodate differently sized pipes.