Interesting travel hack: apparently packing a starter pistol in your luggage means you can lock it with a real lock and it might be tracked more closely by the airport. Could be worth a shot for those with a lot of gear.

Poster designs for the UK release of Oliver Stone's W., by Scott Woolston.

Nice teardown of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro by iFixit, who says "This may be the most beautiful laptop we've disassembled."

EDIN CROW: The New York based artist that has a well-known Disaster Series, a series of self-portrait photographs.

New Honda Accord spot from RPA and Motion Theory, showing how they put everything they know in one place.

NATHAN OTA has a new vinyl toy. His artwork transcends well to this platform. Incredible!

Dear friends, have a bit of fun with the latest collection of Tokyo Metro manner posters.

Ideographic Alphabet :Very specific chair with different letter form.

FEATUREDOn notebooks and pens ~ here are some recent obsessions that came in the form of DWR Tools for Living Press Kit (best notebook!) and the Federated Media pen from the summit (it's a keeper too!)

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Funny commercial from Fallon Mnneapolis for Hollyday Inn Express

The Wilson Bros. teams with Stussy on development of this limted edition white Brooks Swallow Saddle. The classic Swallow racer is treated with an excetional white leather finish. Imagine the patina on this saddle after a few months of use.

Beautiful stop motion animation using cut-out photos by Joseph Mann.

Kathleen Lolley - Solo exhibition at Art Star PA. Loving her dreamy worlds.

Tape Measure Project by Debbie Smyth - Incredible 3D geometric sculptures

Core77 highlighted the NEMO Recycled/sample tent pieces reusable bags

Men’s Vogue commissioned renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut to design this patriotic lapel pin. All proceeds benefit Dog Tags.

50 inspiring vintage advertisements

Gorgeous joints on the Mojo Dining Table by De Design Copenhagen

Nooka - trippy videos - The story unfolds as we fall through the universe and logic to discover time. Completely concepted, animated, directed and designed by yours truly.

Aveda Institutes Florida ~ fun look at the new building from sketches to final

Seoane has some beautiful tables ~ love the wood with a splash of color

Fun work of Layko

Animal Alphabet poster ~ Petit Collage, 2008 ~ Oakland, CA

Judy Hudson's Butterfly Necklaces at Barney's ~ i can't decide whether they are awesome b/c you can see the wings so beautifully, or if its grotesque like you ripped the arms off a butterfly...

Asako Narahashi: Kawaguchiko, 2003

HemeroscopiumHouse, Las Rozas- Madrid - Spain / Antón García- Abril - Ensamble Studio

1st the Water Cube in Bejing and now the Magic Box in Madrid. The size and scope of the retractable roofs are amazing!

The Urban Gridded Notebook - The modern city is controlled by the grid... we should not let it control our creativity. A blank notebook /sketchbook that is gridded with 125 cities from all around the world.

Production designers tour the crazy Tree House in "Crusoe"

this media center was built across from my own house! Absolutely beautiful from inside and out. the colored panels are actually stills of important moments on tv.

Bump Top is a 3 dimensional desktop, a cool way to interact with and organize files.

pencilworks are the mixture of pencil and ps work of images.

Showcasing a new business model for Graphic Design Studios.Far From Timid is a lifestyle design company that transforms original works of art into powerful surface patterns for use in home and fashion.

Boudicca Wode sprays on as a blue spray , and then fades into nothingness (completely invisible). And it comes in a pretty bottle that looks like a spray can.

In this video taken at MOMA, perfumer Christophe Laudamiel talks about the "Design for the Invisible."

A "musical component robot" that plays records, CDs and DVDs while looking impressively stylish.

Fuck&Love, 3 exclusive tools to simply express your emotions in all the situations !

Images of Japanese matchbox labels from the 1920s and 1930s

This is a Portrait of Paper Magazine blogger, Julia Frakes. The photo was taken by Garance Doré, and then Danny Roberts illustrated it, as part of his "Blogger Portrait Series"

The life of photographer Severin Koller in the mandatory military service in Austria. (Series > Mandatory Service)

The Interior Design Award Nominees for 2008

Dwight on The Office last night tried to destroy an Orbit Baby stroller in an "extreme road test".

The UK's Vauxhall Agila has teamed up with British accessories designer, Johnny Loves Rosie to create the first ever Car-sage - a giant flower corsage designed for your car. It retails for £14.99. The ultimate Christmas gift for a car lover?

Super-fab Bioscleave Fun House promotes play and snazzy colorful aesthetics as a way to increase one's life span and boost the immune system. Architecture as free-radicals.

Design Boom shows us "seoul design olympiad 08: sdesignunit" ~ prettiest EL Wire packaging and display i've ever seen

DJ Table by Cocoon for Red Bull ~ hilarious details tucked into this seemingly simple wood table

Some crazy new t-shirts by UK brand Cassette Playa. The prints are made of Youtube screenshots.

Penguin Wine bottle. Argentinian design group FUGAmania has some pretty cool stuff. This ceramic wine bottle tries to bring environmental awareness into everyday life, Oil dumped onto a redesigned local icon.

Cuscuzeira by Guilherme Batista.
New design for old pan to make brazilian cuscuz.
Cuscuz: typical food of Brazil.

Gaspirator, one half of the Justic music duo, has designed this new t-shirt for Sixpack. Love it!

yves behar has teamed up with french company canal + and designed 'le cube'.
it is a tv receiver box that has the same capabilities as cell phones, computers and the internet.

Round, hurricane resistant, green homes that are affordable? No its not BS. The interior is as impressive as the exterior. For those who want to live outside the box Deltec Homes

A sun seeking plant robot called PlantBot.
"Solar seeking botanical augmentation"

Credit Card Cutlery by Ineke Hans: must-have !

Two sweet looking deck available at Woestknap

THE ANIMALS - use your FOUND leash to help raise public awareness for animal adoption. (Stunning FOUND collars arriving November '08!)

Typeface, Kartemquin’s latest documentary in progress, will bring together a fascinating junction of historical and contemporary Graphic Design.

At Spring Mountain ski area, in Schwenksville, PA, you can catch a glimpse of the fall foliage up close in the canopy.

Quick experiment done with Processing: the first 3,000 characters of "Alice in Wonderland".

Sculpture from Joey Kirkpatrick & Flora C. Mace.

Taking a break from their product design chores
Harlem based SPYE adds this patterned tote bag into the mix.

Fridgehenge - Stonehenge Replica.

Jeremy and Claire Weiss, in an effort to return to photography with a more traditional process and feel, began taking portraits of friends with a large format Polaroid camera. The result: Day 19 Polaroid Portraits.

Palin as President! Made me smile. [Editor's Note: Regardless of what you think of palin, someone put some impressive time into the details of this silly flashy site]

VIDEOA F1 screensaver simulates a track. Made with 15 synchronized monitors.

Obama and McCain Tea blends. Taking orders until election day, ships inauguration week.

prague designblok 08: cohn studio ~ designboom has great coverage of their gorgeous glass

British Heart Foundation Online Annual Review 2008. [Editor's Note: bizarre UI! Fun to play with, a little hard to read]

Cork links from Philadelphia based freelance designer Brian Kelly is a wall organizing system that allows the user to create their own vertical landscapes.

Zaha Hadid and Patrick Schumacher are headliners for the Seoul Design Olympiad 2008 which runs through Oct. 30th. See pics of the Total Fluidity exhibit and exhibition catalog...

A flying steel covered volume is this house in Nagoya, Japan made by Architecture W. Take a look at the ground floor covered patio with the yellow stairs volume.

Among the more resent works of Imegadito we find a box to unfold, use and fold back again when it is not needed, A bottle holder to hold and beautify your ugly plastic bottle, and pot covers!

A colorful refurbishment of a '70s building made by Murtinho y Asociados in Santiago, Chile.

The typography work of Australian designer Luca Ionescu is on sho at their new studio website Like Minded

The Design Museum, London is showing a great Alan Aldridge retrospective, the psychedelic illustrator of the 60's and designer of the Beatle's famous Lyric book, Rolling Stones and Elton John album covers.

nice new clock from Peter van der Jagt... can not keep my eye of the scrolling second.

Interview with Michael Byzewski of Aesthetic Apparatus about the making of CAKE'S scratch and sniff album packaging. By KIDD of Urban Art Warfare.

This is an interesting way to work with fluorescent tubes.

Wagon-wheel HUMMER H3 as part of ZOO Art Fair in London

Came across this amazing lasered skateboard by DMOTE via FLICKR

Thomas Small and Joanna Brody's eco-friendly prefab in Culver City.

Combining the idea of a shopping cart and a bicycle korean designer jaebeom jeong has come up with 'cartrider.

In 1966, this small house built on a 220 square feet land inspired many young Japanese to become architects.

The presenter of children's programs Leon Krijgsman parade through the streets of Amsterdam with a Ferrari made of Lego, to promote the event Lego World in Holland.

grassland 'Pure' is a design object consisting of real dried grass grown on metal using only water & light to be hung like a painting on the wall. Over the months and years as exposed to light the color begins to change and form begins to wilt.

Vividly painted and highly symbolic entrances of the Nubian people houses in Sudan

Sa Dingding is not your average pop star. She sings in several languages including Mandarin, Sanskrit, Tibetan, a near-extinct tongue Laghu, as well an imaginary self created language to evoke the emotions in her songs.

The biggest spaceship structure in a small German city. It includes a laboratory, a 3-D cinema and a medical centre.

Container Color Systems Poster: The colourful big metall box poster. It comes five colour options on the limited canvas print & frameworks.

The San Francisco based design house, Office collaborated with 826 Valencia, a non profit tutoring center for youth, to reinvigorate its pirate supply storefront.

Pirsc has an incredible filigree porcelain skull!

Mini Fridge as booth storage space ~ prague designblok 08: 2GD studio

Incredible pieces of work, made from recycled guitar strings! Unique,eco-friendly and this artist donates 10% of proceeds to local artists.

beautiful spot for mattoni water... created by mpg srl. and produced by cow & boys...

A preview of "Second Nature" opening on Friday at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT in Tokyo. [Editor's Note ~ we got some peeks of it in making in #14877!]

San Francisco artist Gene Guynn's gorgeous new live sketch video on the amazing website Sketch Theatre!

Gatsby's latest hair wax product, Men's Non-no, almost as pretty as Japanese men themselves.

Jaqk Cellars - Great packaging design and when you buy a bottle, you get some wine with it.

Very nice laptop case from Philadelphia based freelance designer Brian Kelly. The laptop case is formed from two bend panels of plywood which slide along one another to encase the laptop computer.

The newest Sony Bravia spot, "Domino City", was shot on location in India and created by Bates Singapore.

Germville: For something as silly as an antibacterial, cleaning campaign, this is an impressive effort. A brilliant way to make a drab subject even MORE drab - but simultaneously enticing.

Drug Automat / Imbue Street Installation

Lovely chair design from French industrial designer Vincent Bobineau.

Loads of reports from DESIGNBLOK'08 PRAGUE which ended last week.

FEATUREDNew Macbook Pro and macbook in person! We tried to resist, but couldn't, so ducked out of an afternoon session and grabbed two! See pics of the details!

Browserbased audio production suite. Like Reason in a browser. In Flash.

New shirt from Ugmonk called "And Then I Woke Up" which plays off the classic ampersand shape with a twist of subliminal text.

12th annual Sculpture by The Sea taking place in Sydney, Australia. 109 sculptures, artists from all around the world till November 2nd.

The designer, Mac Funamizu, drew on the Nokia Aeon to design a phone he would like to have, complete with Apple’s standard livery.

35 feet of amazing typographic work called the "Gastrotypographicalassemblage." It was originally created by Lou Dorfsman and is now being restored.

All Day I Dream About Sneakers is a new collaborative project from adidas Originals and Lifelounge. Amazing!

Could it be? Actual art for McCain? From the artist - "-- POLITICAL -- I am registered independent and don't really endorse neither candidate. But you can read below as to why I decided to create this tribute to both McCain and Fairey."

'Typoase' aims to supply a public seating where people can sit and have a short break. Made from wood and stone topped with grass, the benches
spell out the word 'TIME'.

I was scrolling through A Shaded View, Diane Pernet’s blog, when I saw some incredible images of the SS09 Mathew Ames Collection shot by Sybille Walter and styled by Samuel Drira...

One single comma changes the whole story. Campaign by the Brazilian Press Association

Artist Julia Kuo illustrates, paints, draws, and designs. She is very talented and her artwork is whimsical and beautiful. Her website holds her portfolio and it has a link to her blog which showcases her newest work.

The Martyr lamp designed by the UK design group The Play Coalition. It is definitely a lamp "that's hanging on for dear life".

A great collaboration between illustrator Zach Johnsen and photographer Don Flood.

EDITT Tower - a paragon of “Ecological Design In The Tropics” by TR Hamzah & Yeang, will boast photovoltaic panels, natural ventilation, and a biogas generation plant inan insulating living wall that covers half of its surface area.

Designed by Mario Weiss and his team, the Dreamdive is a fashionable sleeping aid for commuters. It provides an intimate space in which you could take a catnap in public without embarrassment.

Design collective Krkurvacreated the La.ga bag, a paper thin bag able to carry up to 55kg

Jason Freeny has created the anatomy map of the Lego minifig.

Another Tomas Kral project - Upgrade - which uses traditional decorative techniques on glass
such as cutting, engraving and gilding to "upgrade" an existing industrial bottle such as milk bottles or jars for tomato sauce.

Hot new stop-motion video from Jemapur's "AANATT" created by Max Hattler with W+K TokyoLab.

Gorgeous Garden and Sea House by Takao Shiotsuka.

artwork of brazilian based illustrator julian gallasch, he makes excellent work with only a ballpen.

Gorgeous White light fixture by Winnie Lui for Innermost - "a chandelier in which objets trouvés meet bling and trash is made equal to treasure through the application of uniform colour."

Playful street photography by Matt Stuart (see 6895).

architect Emergent did a great change turning buildings inside-out and designed The Huaxi Urban Center for China. The Huaxi Urban Center externalizes all its “innards” in a morphology of shifting lights racing up and down its glacial-like hull.

Tomiko Konishi was a young girl the day the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima.

Interview with Ian Dingman, illustrator behind Wes Anderson's new Criterion Collection release of BOTTLE ROCKET.

hepatica, by david chavez, is an amaizing braille watch, winner of a spark award

Virtual Jewelleries! These really beautiful jewelleries are all designed by the Russian goldsmith Alexander Molyakov, but only as virtual 3d models.

Objet Geometries new, impressive Alaris 30 Desktop 3D Printer will print detailed 3D models complete with intricate moving parts. Quite probably the most desirable printer in the world.

The Audi O Concept is a design study for a vehicle focused on audio listening, inspired by the design of modern music players and by the brand's styling cues. The author is Czech student Ondrej Jirec.

Spore: Electronic Arts latest online video game is about to get a European marketing push using QR Codes.

Julian Wolkenstein's photographs of styled horses.

1950's advertising and marketing for Swiss pharmaceutical company, Geigy from an article in 'Print in Britain', 1958.

Christopher LaBrooy's Marble Lamp - with a gathered synthetic felt shade that creates gorgeous shadows!

Irena Zablotska has a great portfolio of illustration work.

some cute pieces over at eden and eden.

Plug - a light fixture by Tomas Kral inspired by a wine cork.

WiiWare finally has World Of Goo! And it got a 10/10 at wiiware world!

WrecordsByMonkey just released there "Heritage Collection". A unique combination of vintage imagery with recycled materials showcases another level of design style, and this collection is convincingly contemporary.