Mother's Day at, Earnest Sewn, in the Meat Packing District! Campbell will be designing a series of traditional “mom” tattoos for the day at $100 flat –- a nice discount from the $1,000/hour rate.

The New Organic is a design collection that celebrates the handmade aspect in modern design. To be launched by Stanley Ruiz at the Designboom Mart, ICFF New York, May 2008.

"Vitruvio & Sons" is an architectural studio making their best to create a superb image on St. Petersburg streets. Amazing projects and a strong concept!

Very unique music video for The Birds and the Bee’s song “Again and Again” using the mac OSX desktop by a digital filmmaker named Dennis Liu.

Opal is a portable ceramic light that can be used wirelessly in any room of the house. It can be sat on the table, held in the hand or suspended on the string provided. The translucent bone China shell emits a warm glow similar to that of a candle.

BRD - a bird feeder and a bread cutting board, to share your crumbs with the birds.

"First Paperless Architecture Book EVER: Piel" was what the email subject line read, and while skeptical, i was actually impressed with this digital book that even lets you jump right to google map views of the locations.

Witness Print Liberation’s totally wacko trailer for their book The Screen Printing Primer which will show you how to screen print.

beautiful organic creations in porcelain from uk-based artist claire palastanga.

Illustrator Dave Franzese has put up his new site. Really clean style, all done by hand. He'll even make you a hand-drawn t-shirt if you mail him one in your size.

CTRL+Alt+Del shaped black licorice candy. At ctrlaltdel.org

Direct Designs's Notebook Portable Grill is finally available in the USA, after being blogged to death last year! Fold Flat grill at an under $50 price tag.

Extremely cool pedal-powered Wire Lamborghini

Panadol Menstrual: Situation ~ advert from Olgilvy, Singapore

Hermes jumps into the DIY Paper Craft world with their pdf of the classic Kelly bag - simply print, cut, glue, and you have your own!

D.L. & Company has some gorgeous black reed diffusers that i ran into at Fred Segal yesterday ~ part of the Art Nouveau collection, my favorite is the Belle Of India pattern

an antiques roadshow evaluation kickstarts an action-packed experience...
new ad for BBC HD created by fallon...

Beautiful and interesting video: Excerpts from 8 videos done for the RSA conference at Moscone Center. About the life of Alan Turing, the inventor of the computer. Client: Halloran Associates Design Company: Cyberia

Curly-Sue is a distinctive and innovative desk lamp designed by Wendy Tytherleigh. The lamp has a collapsible and spiral shade which allows the user to achieve varying light levels without the use of a conventional dimmer switch.

Zoomdoggle ~ Fun for Fun's Sake! A cute new site taking on something fun and crazy daily - check out the A-team post-it mural (first post ever)

"See your world in a new light." I really like these ads for Earth hour from the advertising agency Leo Burnett out of Sydney, Australia and art director Nils Eberhardt, simple yet very effective ads.

For anyone who has even woken up in a strange bed and not remembered how they got there, "Walk of No Shame" is a hilarious new spot for Amp Energy Drinks from BBDO NY.

Top It Up - blog: Illustrated fashion advice with a lot of sense plus a healthy dose of nonsense.

Working with paper and much more! A dress by Heidi Elizabeth Rodriguez

Dave Devries is a New Jersey based artist and illustrator that has a very unique way of creating his art. He takes little kids drawings of monsters and superheroes and brings them to life in his own style.

Winners of the 2008 Nespresso Design Contest. Brice Genre & Hanika Perez made judges go crazy! What an awesome design. Wish I had one in my wall!

Japanese American graffiti artist, Gajin Fujita’s paintings are elaborate fusions of contemporary urban street life and traditional Japanese iconography.

Fascinating read in the New Yorker - Pixel Perfect: Pascal Dangin’s virtual reality. by Lauren Collins - Incredible story of a legendary retoucher (he even did the Dove "real women" campaign)

How would Sonic look like, if he were a real hedgehog?

A house with a stone basement on the chilean deep south. Amazing views and blending with the surroundings.

NES controller coffee table - that works! and is a storage trunk for games as well...

Made from lightweight neoprene and breathable air mesh, our new ultra-slim backpack streamlines the transport of your laptop and accessories. It accommodates 12-17inc models. Built NY.

"Not every action movie needs to be a major production." These are just too cute, great ad campaign from the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi out of Sydney, Australia and executive creative director Steve Back.

As i'm sure you've seen by now, i've been on a bit of a research project on bird feeders this morning, storing my finds on notcot.org ~ and the full roundup is now up ~ should we design our own for NOTConcept?

This video of sea-like creatures created from various parts of eyeglasses is both eerie and beautiful. The project is a collaborative effort between Important Looking Pirates and Oscar Magnuson Spectacles.

Examining post mortem issues ~ Nadine Jarvis' bird feeder is made from bird food and human ash! "The person is reincarnated through the life of the bird."

Eva Solo still makes some of the simplest prettiest feeders ~ including the award winning Birdtable (also comes in mini form) - that resembles a decanter flipped upside down.

The Menu Feeder String - The cord has hard plastic tips, making it easy to thread balls or other foods, such as apples, onto the cord. Interesting alternative to standard bird feeders...

War tech phones? No, it's just the new Sony Personal Field Speakers. Sound loud and around! You can even feel the bass in your brains!

Erick van Egeraat unveiled the design for a new iconic incineration line in Denmark

Adorably simple (and slightly deathstar looking) Birdball peanut birdfeeder from Green & Blue - Slipcast in clay. Stainless steel wire. (also in lime and blue)

Also from Perch ~ this is Amy Adam's 2007 bird feeder design "Lunchbox" ~ also made with low-fire ceramic - and a sturdy nylon ribbon in light blue, brown, or orange.

Birdfeeder handmade by Perch! in Brooklyn, designed by Amy Adams out of low-fire ceramic, non toxic glaze, and natural leather cord... designed in 2002

That's one of the new "I love NY" logos announced by Governor Paterson. The plan is to increase tourism from 155 million visitors in 2006 to 200 million by 2020.

Arcamita's "feed" is an adorable woody bird feeder for small songbirds

Check out these dimensional Wall Tiles from Inhabit. Made from bamboo pulp. Beautiful and eco-friendly.

"One click could change your future. Belt up. Drive safe. Arrive safe." Spectacular ad campaign from the advertising agency Marketforce out of Perth, Australia and art directors Steve Lorimer and Andrew Tinning.

cantina bird feeder by flo viererbl - made of fine porcelain with steel accents and a 34" cord

The cover of next month's Wallpaper* will feature Anthony Burrill's wonderful poster designs

Penang Global City Centre. An entire tech city built in the middle of the Malaysina jungle, with two skyscrapers, medical centers and tons of futuristic stuff...

Here's some good news, a baby Jaguar was recently born in captivity at a zoo in Lima. It's the third Jaguar to be born in captivity in Peru.

Sears Craftsman 80th Anniversary 3/8 in. Full Polish Next Generation Ratchet - This may be the most stylish, beautiful ratchet to ever grace this planet (if you're into that sort of thing).

Lily Lace - Lace Chair - Designer: Dror Benshetrit

Tuka Tuka Land is an amazing kindergarten designed by Baupiloten.

Iron Man's end titles sequence goes retro wireframe. Produced by Prologue.

Whoa. Sex sells. "Sensation" is an extremely unsubtle new French Schweppes ad from FFL Paris and Stink.

Mekanism Skateboards got together with American painter Thaddeus Strode on overall 40 individually numbered and painted skatedecks. Super nice and available now for purchase!

Brilliant retro poster designs from The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, TX.

PSP transformed into a tennis court. Or vice versa.

Beautiful limited edition print of 25 ~ Scott Belcastro - "As Blue As My Soul Will Go"

Tongue Sucker: A Participatory Project by Zarah Ackerman - Sugar, corn syrup, flavour, colour, artist’s saliva. Cast from the artist’s tongue in a limited edition of 250.

ANIMAL analyzes some of the newly designed "I Love NY" ads designed by Saatchi.

Level Vodka invited Hussein Chalayan to design The Level Tunnel... a 15 meter long, 5 meter high, traveling installation that captures the essence of Level Vodka, that is currently in Mexico City.

Madly lusting after this new Tumi Townhouse Wardrobe Trunk ~ complete with three pull down drawers and a space for hanging clothes as well...

Beautiful Rhino piece by Scott Wilson for the HumanScale auction - Investment cast, solid brass, polished chrome plating

Vivien Muller's Octocube is an interesting approach to modular radiators ~ ending up looking like a cube brain made of piping...

Sket One takes on the board game world with his latest Dunnys for his Snake Eyes installation for the Kidrobot Room @ CiRCA in Toronto

Marks when they are powerful, even changing some aspects, they still there in our minds. These tables bring some modifications that leave our head in a confused moment ...

Norm 03 steel. New lamp from Normann Copenhagen

A simple animation for Say NO on Prop 98 campaign.

the nytimes takes the latest waterproof backpacks for a spin.

Rainbow ~ a classic wood toy from Naef ~ that is party building blocks, and part musical instrument - and definitely a great desk toy for all ages!

Beautiful, eerie fashion spread from the latest metro.pop, by Tamar Levine.

the 3D video exploration of the painting guernica by Picasso by Lena Gieske

A beautiful rendering of the mineral content of the moon. The image is a compilation of 53 photographs taken in 1992 by the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft.

Swedish designer Olof Hansson has produced a series of carbon-neutral writing paper - WhiteLines - that puts white lines against a grey background, instead dark lines against a white background.

Flight 404 contribution for the Radiohead "In Rainbows" music-video contest

Makoto Shinkai has published an anthology of his anime background art.

Haha - great ad for child obesity warnings... watch this ad that starts out like watching someone play an FPS... then comes the heavy breathing... and looking down...

its a great example of the visual inspiring the audio as vinroc re-scores an original short by Hanna Abi-Hanna.

The Gift Cycle is a cross country cycling project that carries works of art as gifts from local artists of one town to local artists of the next town along the route---a 3,000 mile journey uniting 12 plus communities.

The Uno is a segway/motorcycle mashup. Technically it has two wheels, but they're right next to each other and it does balance on them under its own power.

Vision of an updated, redesigned Nintendo NES by Javier Segovia.

For the hungry fencers in your life - BBQ Sword - the perfect saber for roasting anything from marshmallows to hotdogs - or skewering your foe.

Artifort Portable workstation. Wish I worked in one of these!

The US Army wants to renew Baghdad and turn the green zone into a luxury area. The even want to build a golf course and country club called "Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club". The bunker on hole nine really is a bunker...?

The desire to interfere as little as possible with the visual topography of the landscape prompted to attach the house to the ground and find façade and roof solutions with a direct relationship to the surroundings. OS House by NOLASTER

Yes yes the Sears Crasftman 1470 piece nearly $9,000 tool set is incredible, but have you stopped and looked at all of the product photography for all of their sets? Someone took a LOT of time to lay it all out...

Dr Martens is having a design contest where you can vote on boots designed by fans. This one by Ellen Webb caught my eye.

Jose De La O ~ has this gorgeous Anti-Fly Sphere Device - alternative to a plastic bag full of water hanging from the ceiling of several taco kiosks, a traditional way to scare flies away in Mexico.

Nice ceramic creations from Argentinean artist Lola Goldstein. I especially like the practical stuff like the egg cups and tea pot.

I love the simplicity of these wood baby rattles - i wonder if grooves would help for grip - filled with lentils or beans and finished with natural bees wax - in walnut, myrtlewood or curly maple. by earnest effort

Part of Mathieu Lehanneur's brilliant design for Paris' Flood restaurant is 100-litre aquariums filled with micro algae that release fresh oxygen into the air while people are eating.

Attus Apparel takes douchiness to a new level... Planet Douche - because popping 23 collars makes it hot? Couldn't stop laughing when this showed up in my inbox...

Ok, so now you've seen the images of the insanity of Banksy's Tunnel of Stenciling at the Cans Festival... here are high res scans of every page of the "official" program/zine

An animated micro-musical about the one thing in life more important than love. Literally.

The Joshua Tree, designed by the Italian firm Hangar Prefab, is described as a 'mountain refuge', and has a steel skin and wooden interior. Gorgeous.

France is making a fuss this week over Richard Serra, the 68-year-old American bantamweight who fashions elegant, gargantuan art out of steel.

RUGenius made it over to the Banksy Cans Festival where over 600 stencil artists took on a tunnel below Waterloo... and luckily for us she took hundreds of pics to share with us... mind blowing stuff.

Wow. An automatic Mahjong table... it automatically shuffles and builds walls for you! (I wonder if that means it can automatically rig a game too?)