For the typographile, a chat with the designer of the google logo.

I spent a bit of time on Seletti's website, thanks to e-cool's post #8098. Their World Dinnerware series includes some of my favorites: New York, Tokyo, Venice, Rome, Paris and London.

Mr Clement's Petit Lapin figurine is finally available. Love their cozy yellow and orange scarves, but what's the story behind the letter and the knife?

While I'm not ready to spend $350 on a pair of Jeans, I love the multi-layered drag and drop interface goodness of PRPS's website. [found after reading #7999]

I just got a big LEGO fix this morning, after discovering the Brothers Brick blog.

YEBOMAYCU is a Paper T-Shirt contest, created by Marko Zubak. Download the template, and submit your own design to the weekly competition.

A different color for everyday of the year. The 2008 Colour Calendar by Moritz Zwimpfer

Obscene Interiors by South African artist Von Brandis. Removes the naughty bits in the foreground to focus on the interior design in the background.

I just found out that I'm no better at Handbell Hero than I am at its inspiration. Still, Happy Holidays from VML Agency.

Bloom's fresco loft baby chair wouldn't look out of place next to Eero Aarnio's bubble chairs for mom and dad.

Nick Foley's Pear Light tree even lets you pick the magnetized fruits off their charging branches for portable lighting. The only thing missing is a robot partridge.

Fingertips is a typographic study by Jonathan Looman

Bug + Paint = Bug Art. Steven Kucher dips each leg of his miniature artists in watercolors, and let's them scurry allover the paper to create these abstract paintings.

Memo Cups, availabled in lined, gridded and dotted patterns from Fishseddy. Sadly no Doane paper option

Meet Lili, the little octoplush fairtrade webcam from United Pepper.

Christina Natsuko Paulos is a traditional animator by day, but paints whimsical characters with eyes that look just like my online signature. (oO)

Fernando Brizio's Painting with Giotto, uses a ring of felt marker that slowly leak onto a porous ceramic vase, meaking each creation unique.

Bel-Air is a plant based air filtering system designed by Mathieu Lehanneur. Great design, even if I'm sure the plants would do just as well without the little glass bubble.

Someone found this prehistoric piece of CG animation. What makes it notable is the fact that it also happens to be my first ever animation.

Supratherm is a radiant glass heater, but the slick design is raised to the next level by the amazing fire image printed on the panel.

Alex Cherry's painting are all inspired and named after song titles.

I wish +D had a non-japanese shop, so I could get some of their brilliant designs, like the PhotoHangers, which are paperclip sized hanger for pictures and more.

Art Asia Pacific sent a custom lego set to notable Asian architects. I almost want to order a box of the neutral grey bricks from myself.

Jung von Matt mixes Architecture and Typography for IKEA.

Zelda Bauchampet's Handscape puts an entire landscape on your fingers.

Paula Scherr's infographic maps are entirely hand-lettered. The result reminds me of a typographic equivalent to australian aboriginal art.

Orangina goes all naughty and furry thanks to the brilliant minds at Psyop.

I wish I'd noticed this sooner. Tonight was the opening of STUFFED, the Plushed Food show at Munky King in LA.

I <3 ARTREBELS the multi-creative Danish collective has everything from Music/Fashion/Visuals/Design and more.

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.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences just released the list of movies submitted for considerations in the Animated Feature Film category for the 80th Academy Awards.

We are all made of meat! And so are some of our iconic objects, according to Italian artist Simone Racheli. Here's the chair, but don't miss the other objects

WE ADD UP! Gorgeous set of icons for climate change awareness and the little things that add up to big changes.

Logo size is one of the main bone of contention in the client/designer relationship. But thankfully you can get the MakeMyLogoBigger cream...

Dominick Wilcox invented this sticker to use as an anti-theft device for his bicycle. Just peel and apply for instant shabbyness

Absolutely breathtaking gigapixel image of Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper, and you can zoom all the way down to a 5cm x 5cm area of the 8m wide masterpiece.

The Virtual Water poster shows the total water footprint for everyday consumables like a cup of tea (90 L) or a beef steak (4500L)

Another alphabet for our growing collection. This time, design icons, from A is for AALTO to Z is for ZEISEL. By Blue Ant Studio

Ezri Tazari's coffee table seems to be made from hundreds of photos, and yet feel more like a study in UI design than industrial design.

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.