Bekky is another lego inspired design. The modular rubberized foam pieces can be assembled into various sofa shapes

Wondering where the graphic design for Adobe's Acrobat packaging came from? Welcome to the wonderful world of CAMERATOSSING (yes it's exactly as it sounds...)

Grandfather clock at Spring. This would look great with a few different slices side by side to make a world clock

One Shot stool by Patrick Jouin for MGX. The stool is made in a single piece using laser syntering, and opens and closes like an umbrella.

Japanese artist Sayaka watercolors seem very romantic, until you notice some decidedly naughty details.

Invited Home table by Kajsa Oberg, Four places have been set for a family dinner of stew and potatoes, with salad, drinks, salt and pepper.

I just found out that Google Book Search now shows every place mentioned in a book on a map. Here's Around The World In 80 Days

The Object Frames, designed by Steven Haulenbeek are the illegitimate children of a Picture frame and a shelf.

Perfect for notcot + tastespotting, the cooking/designing objects. The bread knife is also a ruler, and the board has a chopping side and an x-acto side.

Sketchfighter is a game designed to look just like those little doodles of spaceships you used to make in the margins of your notebooks in school. Brilliant!

Nathan Sawaya is a Certified LEGO Professional which means he builds things out of Lego for a living. Here's his lifesized Han Solo in Carbonite sculpture.

a series of portraits by second-life photographers Eva and Franco Mattes.

A La Lata Lounger made from 3000 aluminum pulltabs and plastic twist-ties by Colombian designer Carlos Alberto Montana Hoyos

a miniature deserted island in the middle of your dining table. The art of Michael Samuels

this is what happens to a purse after the brilliant designers from Boblbee Japan are done with it.

Interchange Tiles, based on satellite imagery of major highway interchanges.

The Internal Watch is encased in leather, rendering it non-functional as timepiece.

Another Baroque mashup: ANT'IQUE is a wallpaper by GamPlusFratesi. Look closely the pattern is made from thousands of little ants.

Honey by charles kaisin is yet another honeycomb seat. with Molo and FlexibleLove this is starting to be a crowded field. Who else is there?

Limited edition CopyAndPaste chair by Sigurdur Gustafsson for Kallemo

Another baroque furniture mashup, the Lego inspired CEO desk by Staffan Holm and Johannes Tjernberg

rubberized baroque furnitures, from Fantastic Plastic. Love the primary colors

Thomas Allen makes dioramas from old pulp novel cutouts

DWR 2007 Champagne Chair winnner: Cantilever Block by Adam Weisberger

Random printing press art. These are setup sheets, which are used to test and tune printing presses. The resulting overlays of random images are fascinating

Jenny Dutton's serpent shoe

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

a table called Dance by Thai designer Duangrit Bunnag for ANYROOM

Tortoise, my fav store on abbot kinney has this white rabbit and tree trunk in their shop window. Turns out it's made by japanese artist/designer GELCHOP

Only a few days left to get in the proper mood... take a look at the Australian stop-motion short GLOOMY VALENTINE

Amy Crehore is only one of the many artists participating in the Painting By Numbers charity show. Don't miss the before and after pictures

Another Gelaskin post, just because I knowAudrey Kawasaki is a NOTCOT fav...

Streetwear from RADIOACTIVE found while in Kuala Lumpur. My favorite is this shirt with the overstitched monkey on it

Play with negative space in this series of foam furniture called FILL IN THE CAT

I found the portfolio of Russian Photographer DOU fascinating

Stephan Bucher records himself drawing a new monster everyday, and posts the results on YouTube. I love the sound of markers squeaking on paper.

The Island of California and other cartographic oddities, real or imagined, can be found on Strange Maps

Japanese backpack from ISABURO 1889. Love the different strap options.

Tiny HeartHead by Sam Millen

KuKula's Sunday Morning Wounds exhibition opens this Saturday at Copro-Nason

Plastique Monkey is Yuka Yamaguchi's art blog. I love this drawing called New Heartbeat

While you're in Barcelona, grab an EstrellaDamm, designed by Custo

Audrey Kawasaki has 2 new pieces at the Copro-Nason 15th anniversary show. sadly both are sold, but there are great pieces from some amazing artists.

Wish I could go see Insa's sneaker fetish exhibition at Best (london). love the wireframe sneakers over bare feet.

Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez aka DrLakra is a tattoo artist with a twist. his tattoos are drawn over illustrations from vintage pulp magazine covers.

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