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

Death to Helvetica Tee: Get spat on by people in black skivvies with this response to the prevalence of Helvetica.

Fake riches, turn everyday plates into heirlooms

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.

I flashed over Jacco Maris' MONTONE light, made from a scribble of coiled stainless steel.

Fun handbags from Barcelona-based fashion designer Alyona. I like her Yoshi character who seems to be a cross between The Little Prince character and a dinosaur.

I don't believe the rumors that "sprout" will be Kid Robot's first TV commercial. Love the 3d animated Munny (munnies?)

Google Earth added Panoramio to their new Geographic Web layer, just in time for my trip around the world!

More lace, this time for the Lehti tray by Maria Jauhiainen

Working SteamPunk styled laptop by Ironworks.

Barrier + Bench = Barrier Bench. Created by Philippe Million

a few animated shorts from SIGGRAPH06 electronic theater...

The ghost of houses past, now a pool on flickr. [via ektopia]

Oona chair prototype from Paolinet, made from a single sheet of polypropylene plastic which is cut, folded, then held together by rivets.

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

Girls and Octopus on a swing. The art of Fuco Ueda

R.I.P. Plastic Pink Flamingo 1957-2006

And the KAHLA Update dinnerware, tattooed and pierced.

to22's martini glass, needs an olive as a stopper

Hussein Chalayan's robotic transformer dresses at the Paris Fashion Show

The Cone takes a different look at the shape of things to come. (mildly NSFW)

Cuda by David Tsai. Made from a single piece of folded metal, and somehow reminds me of a contorsionist.

Hairy Chair by Charles Kaiser. shredded paper covering an old chair. watch for paper cuts.

Vanuatu's underwater post-office. Where sea turtles recieve postcards from their squirrel friends?

I love SUPERBROTHERS aka Craig D. Adams' awesome minimalist pixel art

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.

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

Each room in the Kunst Hotel is different. This one is toon shaded, with a thin black line painted on all the visible edges.

5x5 = 25 artist collaborate on a patchwork (seen at Drawn!)

Pitgreen Micro Golf. I hate golf as pseudo-sport, but I love the clean design of that little toy. [Editor's Note: this was featured on NOTCOT.com when they have the competition at the 2006 Salone]

#670 and #667 reminded me of a another fantastic sculptor I saw in a robot book I got for my birthday last year. I just love how shiny and sleek his robots are.

Another one for the World Cup, a different football for each of the 32 qualified countries

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

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

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

Not to forget the ESCAMA bags, made in brazil from recycled beer tabs.

Their other post office is on top of a live volcano

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.

Steve McDonald aka RamblinWorker "paints" with an old Singer sewing machine on gold canvas. Read the excellent interview on Razor Apple.

Geek design chic. a usb drive enclosure that looks exactly like a naked hard drive.

Fake Edo era woodcuts advertizing Honda helmets

Who needs drugs when you can have the wonderfully bizarre art of Naoto Hattori?

C'est fantastique! Tintin figurines from the classic early albums.

X-RAY, the amazing photography of Nick Veasy

The Google logo has been LEGO-ified this morning, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic plastic brick.

And if donating a few grains of rice is not enough [see #7136] the you can always loan a few dollars so a farmer can buy a bag of seeds to grow his own. The best thing is that they will pay you back! Kiva Charitable Loans.