"the fig leaf', made with hand painted enameled copper leaves by tord boontje ~ designboom has a preview of "meta: masterpieces and materials past and present" that will be in design miami

Angus Hyland and assistant Fabian Herrmann have designed the hardback edition of Quantum of Solace: The Complete James Bond Short Stories. The book collects together all of Ian Fleming’s Bond short stories in a single volume for the first time.

Love Joseph Riehl’s Alright rocking chair.

Beautiful light fixture installations at Designers' Saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland. 'Underwater World' was designed by Aqua Creations and installed in the Création Baumann textile factory.

The new number of Be|Different Magazine. An amazing Italian e-zine compleately downlodable!

Fun little bottle for Yaoki sake - Yaoki comes from the Japanese proverb "Nana korobi yaoki", the apparent literal translation meaning "Stand up on the eighth attempt after falling seven times" or "Never give up!" The shape of the bottle reinforces this idea.

Pierre Vanni's mulitfaceted bunnies are awesome

The solar-powered off-grid cabin is owned and designed by Maartje Lammers and Boris Zeisser of 24H Architecture as a family summer vacation retreat in southern Sweden’s Glaskogen nature reserve. Dubbed Dragspelhuset or Accordion House by locals.

Beautiful wire frame rocker by Egg Designs.

A touching story about the strongest earthquake in human history (1960, Chile). Consider this a gift for all Spanish readers in NOTCOT! Video produced by Constanza Justiniano y Tomás Velásquez.

Interactive virtual march for charity ActionAid in support of their work with the Indian Adivasi people. Users make their own character, personalise a message and join in. By Chroma London.

Rubikon comes after 25 years to be a reaction to digital technology... Download, print & enjoy !

Hans Zwimpfer's 'Pile up' facade is a bit of a one-liner, but I love the sectional view articulated in the facade.

vampire bats are just one of the nyt's featured phlebotomists (yes, thats a blood sucker).

Cemal Okten's I ♥ VEGETABLES : Part IIA project - a project that explores our connection to food, desiring to bring the process of farming vegetables into the home. The final product is a selection of vases which support the growth of vegetables.

Irena Zablotska has a great portfolio of illustration work.

This is really design with attitude! This shopping bag was designed by Thomas Wilder, for a baby store named Rockin Rattle!

Genius design and modern appeal, Matthew Izzo's Son of a Bench features interlocking loops of hot-rolled steel creating an intriguing form of mass and negative space.

Adorable! Speechless! Breathtaking!! A poster by Paul Grabowski for the Type Directors 54th TDC Show. Also see the ornamental type examples.

MC Escher-esque illustrations by Sacred Mtn.

I love that Adidas is embracing people's trend to blog their Stella McCartney line by adding "Blog this" options for instant cut+paste code and high/low res image downloads!

Love the pretty shape of Jirachai Tangkijngawmong's Leaf Bench.

Awesome HRD how-to. This tutorial by Dave Hill will show you how to make simple photographs and make them HDR on Photoshop! Can make any noob photographer almost an HDR expert.

GTA for Intellivision?

Stockholm Design Lab's battery for the Japanese company Askul - the prettiest little battery you ever did see.

Full coverage of the Pictoplasma Festival in New York, including photos from Friends with You, Tim Biskup, Tokyoplastic, Fons Schiedon, and more...

Adorable animation - Oktapodi

Cammeo, by Louise Campbell - a collection of bone china jars, held together by colorful rubber bands, designed for Kähler.

Fascinated by 20 yr old french blogger, Pandora, who takes inspiration from paintings for her fashions...

Casa Deck, Alto Rungue, Chile / Assadi + Pulido

Sweden’s public television broadcasting company, SVT, is updating its channel profiles by replacing its three mayor channels logos.

800,000 begonias carpet the centre of Brussels, but only for a few days!

"Be Inspired Always" - meet "Tavi - the new girl in town" - fascinating blog of a 12 year old in the burbs and her explorations and observations in fashion - fun read!

Chueh Lee of Samsung China designed the Touch Sight - the first digital camera for the visually impaired. Features include 3 seconds of recorded sound as an image reference, and a flexible Braille display sheet that displays a 3D image.

Photographer Eugenio Recuenco shows us what happens when life imitates art. He used real models to recreate the Parthenon frieze. Lovely.

Nick Baxter's amazing tattoos of classic chairs. See more of his work at nickbaxter.com.

Pixel Junk's PS3 downlad game Eden ~ is gorgeous, and interesting gameplay, but i'm hearing its a bit hard to get really into.... so pretty though!

Some beautiful works of the young Australian artist Courtney Brims.

BARQO: image bank of chilean architecture.
You can find more than 2500 photographies of the best architecture works of Chile.

Awesome sand sculptures by the King Sand collective.

Minimal & Stylistic calendar / time screensaver from DestroyToday - apparently mac only

beautiful illustration of adrian johnson for vodafone ad... simple and great colour pallet...

Stunning visual campaign for WWF by Carioca photo production house based out of Bucharest, Romania.

Some amazing Streetrods at the 2008 GoodGuys Nationals in Columbus Ohio

Coming from Rocketworld in Nov 2008 ~ Women's Polar Bear Creature Hoodie and includes IWG Henson Polar Bear Zipper Pull Danglie! (made in CA at one of the Core-Outdoor Technical Apparel shops)

Exclusives first pictures of the new Guerlain "Homme" Fragrance & Jean-Paul Goude's ad making-of !