The MANTRA by Mr Jones is a watch with alternating positive and negative comments like "you are amazing" or "nobody likes you". Sadly the model is sold out but there are others

Airtight's TILTVIEWER is an absolutely gorgeous 3D interface to Flickr. Wow!

For Me For You by Insight Outsight. Based on the observation that when couple walk together, one often borrows their partner's back pocket. Very Cute.

From Smanks Design Studio, the neo rococo line is created from the pixelated outlines of baroque furniture. It reminds me of the collision bounding volumes we use in games.

Custom52 takes the user-submitted design principles from the likes of threadless and others and applies it to the humble deck of cards. First set is out, submit your designs for the second.

I just found out about Geeks In Love, a geeky web comic in the tradition of XKCD, but with a French twist and a much better drawing style.

America + Metric = Ametrica! I love the visuals for Amy Wang's graduate design thesis

Books to Go by Rose Cobb, is a modular transportable bookcase. I love the little wheels and the handle that doubles as a book end.

I wish I could have attended Baby Tattooville 2007, along with Gary Baseman, Luke Chueh, Frank Kozik, Lola, Tara McPherson, Jeff Soto, Tim Biskup and many others.

The FleetHorse is a prototype Horse/Electric hybrid. No really, there is a horse inside, on a threadmill, which charges the batteries. Whaa?!?

The Moleskine Project is looking for user submitted artwork, so go scan a page from your moleskine notebook and send it in...

Suzuki's concept X-Head, also known as TONKALICIOUS

How adorable are these Tansitossut? The felt shoes are designed to encourage Father and Daughter dancing.

I just noticed the addition of BBtv, part of the ever expanding Boing-Boing universe. [Editor's Note: they look kind of creepy on that moving red background!]

Mike Leavitt's Art Army is expanding to include Audrey Kawasaki, Travis Louie and others. Opening Dec 8 at Copro-Nason gallery in Santa Monica.

the APTERA electric car is a contender for the Automotive X-Prize. Unfortunately their website was designed by someone that usually deals with prescription drugs companies

From Balenciaga's Fall/Winter 2007 collection. Perfect match with a brand new Bumblebee yellow Camaro.

I wish that Hero carry-on suitcase from Alexander McQueen for Samsonite existed as a backpack.

The Electrobike. Cooler wheels for a warmer planet, and available through DWR for barely less than Arne Jacobsen classic Egg chair...

Clever use of GoogleMaps as the web page of design duo James&Joe. And I love their I<3MY MUM T-shirt.

You can always count on ATYPYK for a clever design pun. Learn The Basics [via SwissMiss]

Hot Rod + Stroller = The Roddler by Kid Kustoms. Almost makes me want to have babies (or at least borrow one as an accessory)

I found out about Scott Radke's marionettes on Juxtapoz. I'll be looking forward to his exhibition in LA in February

Skull-a-day just released the absolutely yummy Skullphabet as a Truetype and Opentype font.

Marica from WhyNot? found this gorgeous zipper ring, designed by Liron Braker, and winner of the ITS YKK award.

The very cute, but Politically Incorrect Alphabet, from A is for Atom Bomb to Z is for Zombie.

Aibo robot dog + Mp3 walkman = Sony Rolly? What a bizarre little offspring...

I love the photography of these Kiri-Origami or cut and folded paper insects by Japanese artist Taketori.

CRANKBait! is another "get 20 artists and give them a random thing to paint" event. This time the poor hapless object is a wooden fishing lure.

Little Otsu's non-planner datebook for the semi-organized people. Sure, you could create one yourself, but someone else's scribbles are always more fun.

Audrey Kawasaki posted some of the life-drawing sketches she did at Dr Sketchy this weekend. Makes me want to attend one of the life-drawing sessions we have at work.

If Apple made Biscotti, their packaging would probably look like this. Cantuccini from Deseo Prato

The Blab Show opens next weekend at CoproNason gallery in Santa Monica. This year features more paintings by the usual suspects and a devil theme

Ashley Wood, who's my new comic book hero for putting new life into Tank Girl, is tempting me with these amazing limited edition robots from the Zombie vs Robots series

Using surgical tools, Brian Dettmer removes paper from books like an archeologist releasing a fossil from layers of sediment, thereby unveiling connections between words and images hundreds of pages away from each other.

Also on VEER, the delicious Candy Cushion, featuring Alejandro Paul's Candy Script typeface.

I'm inspired by Joshua's Petker day-glo portraits this morning.

Howtoons are great cartoons showing how to make cool stuff, from a zoetrope to a waterbottle submarine. Think MAKE:Comics

Grindhouse Cereals. High in pulp, low on moral fibers.

Another art/rapid protoyping project. Geoffrey Mann takes the outline of a bird landing, and extrudes it into these amazing sculptures

Sakuran is the directorial debut of famous Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa. Think Memoirs of a Geisha meets Tokyo Fruits.

A Dozen Pencils by Yuta Watanabe. 12 deconstructions and reconstructions of the humble writing instrument.

The Arrival by Shaun Tan is a picture book written entirely without words. I love the illustration style, and their use as rich sepia-toned pictograms.

Corriette Schoenarts mixes fashion photography with cartography.