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

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

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

Blacklist (a spinoff of the brilliant PsyOp) has a fantastic showreel, and a georgeous Ambigram as a logo

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

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...

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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)

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]

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

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.

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

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

Their other post office is on top of a live volcano

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Luke Chueh just sent a very cryptic message. Could this mean that his Possessed vinyl toy will be at MunkyKing in a few days?

Fake Edo era woodcuts advertizing Honda helmets

And the KAHLA Update dinnerware, tattooed and pierced.

Australian design classics #001
The fink jug by Rober Foster, in anodized aluminium.

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

#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.

#509 has nothing on these. a collection of Japanese Manhole covers, beautiful designs, enameled, no two are the same.

Biscotti greating cards

X-RAY, the amazing photography of Nick Veasy