Shoes as architecture. The conceptual collection by Gil Carvalho. Alloy, leather and elastic metallic thread.

Siggraph 2007: a few picks from this year's Emerging Technologies

Beautiful graphics for this guide to FUROSHIKI wrapping by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment . Personally, I would print it directly on the cloth.

Apple's sleek new wireless aluminum keyboard is pushing all my design buttons.

A quick post from Siggraph 2007, featuring RAYMOND, my absolute favorite short from the Electronic Theater. By BIF and THE MILL

ASTRONAUT this interactive music video grabs a different set of images from Flickr to match the lyrics.

WikiWorld is a series of cartoons by Greg Williams, inspired by Wikipedia articles.

Sketchpet by Maginwulf is a very different take on the notebook. I love the shape and the rubber closure

DCTO Jibun Project (Dream Come True Object) . Created by Chocolate Soop after the traditional Japanese Daruma wishing dolls.

Aaaah!! now i can't get the super-kawaii-cute I LOVE EGG song out of my head...

Swedish design studio Forsbergform has a whole series of concrete comic strip named Rip Kirby.

The bulky spacesuit is about to be replaced by the bio-suit, a form-fitting garment that looks straight out of Courege's Fall-Winter Collection from 1968

Skull-a-Day: Designer Noah Scalin promises to design and blogs a skull every day for a year.

Andrew English's wedding bands are delicately hand-engraved with the fingerprint of your partner and therefore completely unique to each couple.

For designers and other type addicts, Typografica.org just released a list of their 23 favorite fonts of 2006

Flocks makes single sheep sweaters, complete with the sheep's photo, bio and serial number.

Han Yajuan's paintings feature little chinese shopaholics

From the Apple I to the iPhone: the visual evolution of Apple design from 1976 to 2007

Lamp + Blimp = World View by Afroditi Krassa.

The Maniac by crazy French artist SKWAK has just been released as a vinyl figure.

My old company Animal Logic finally re-designed its website. Check out the showreels.

Designed by Guillaume Delvigne and Ionna Vautrin for Innotreal the Embroidery Bowl let's you stitch your own pattern on it.

Tomorrow (June 21) is LA FETE DE LA MUSIQUE (World Music Day) Don't miss the all day and all night party if you happen to be in Paris.

Perly Burly is a swirling almost wood pattern generator written with Processing by Dave Bollinger

1997-2007 the Art-o-mat is celebrating 10 years. The machine above is the one at the MOCA store in Santa Monica

GREENER POSTURE is "Hacking through the biodegradable, zero-carbon, ecochic overhype". I just hope all that stuff was greenwashed with lead-free paint.

Yeah, this is my next hybrid... presenting the Palumbo M80. 46Mpg and 0-60 in 3.9 seconds.

The Easy-Glider, winner of the 2007 ISPO BrandNew Award. Like a segway, but without the over-hyped geek factor.

Can you really make purses from recycled soccer balls? German company Abteil did it and other recycled designs

Alain Delorme's photographic series LITTLE DOLLS emulates that creepy baby beauty pageant Barbie look perfectly.

How NOT To Display Your Artwork On The Web. Great (if overly sarcastic) post on these impossible to navigate online portfolios.

Thanks to DRAWN! for posting the absolutely adorable work of Jeff Victor. This is from his bubblehead star wars series

32 Originals is the BMW America's Cup Sail auction. Pieces of the Sails are cut up, framed, and signed, the proceeds going to charity

Precious Famine, another design by accumulation of everyday objects, is entirely made from Cristofle silverware. By OBJECTION Design

Pigeon Fez cam: Using Processing to track a realtime fez hat on an unsuspecting pigeon... made be laugh

Graphite + masking tape + blue glass eyes +newspaper + steel + acrylic medium = the art of Rune Olsen

Who wouldn't want a matching Mini Cooper and Smeg refrigerator?

Here's a social networking site I could stick all those so called friends that keep pestering me to add them on MySp(f)acebook ... Welcome to MYFRIENEMIES

Jaimie Hewlett and Damon Albarn of Gorillaz fame, team up with Chen Shi-Zheng to bring the classic chinese tale "Monkey, Journey to the West" as a play.

A Chocolate Bar-Yoyamart Project. 10 artists and designers created the labels for these new chocolate bars. features Gary Baseman, David Horvath, Sun Min Kim, Dalek, Nathan Jurevicius) and many others

So Watt! is a design exhibition in Paris focusing on energy. A lot of the designs have been seen on .org before but it's nice so see all of them in one place.

Petit Jardin garden bench by Tord Boontje, featuring his iconic graphic forms laser cut in white powder-coated steel.

Momabomba handbags are made from recycled first-grader homework, filled with lettering and other exercises.

FredriksonStallard Pyrenees chaise are sculptedfrom foam rubber in the shape of the famous French mountain range.