A gallery of the illustrations, messages, and LOL cats that twitter uses when it goes down...

PK chewing gum gives fresh breath confidence to talk as close as they want.

Last week in Munich at the Optics Trade show, OPTI 2008, Porsche Design unveiled their new ultra light reading glasses, the P'8134. Colors vary from matte gold and matte titanium, Price: TBD. Pretty wild.

Smaller dysons are coming in March! A more compact version of the classic ball vacuum, as well as Dyson Baby the mini canister vac.

Finnish artist Ilkka Halso depicts a future where nature becomes an attraction due to its rarity.

Nice logo on the Whiskipedia page.... yes thats the wikipedia of WHISK(e)Y

Beautifully designed posters for the V&A's Museum of Childhood

a teddy bear that is part of the suitcase's interior appears when you open the suitcase.

a particular day-pantone autumn

Well said R Stevens. Actually it gets far better than this frame... read today's strip to hear all this social networking mumbojumbo put in perspective... yes that means myspace, friendster, orkut, flickr, metafilter...

I really like this image to promote the power of Slazenger Tennis Racquets in Australia. Idea by The Furnace, Sydney.

Zack Slow of the infamous $10,000 date with lady sovereign - has moved on... now he and his friend want you to vote for their WIVES (who will also win $50,000) cute site and crazy vids for The 2 Husbands

Opened gift bag, found this Maria White Mebane Porcelain Tealight, lit it with CITIZEN:Citizen matches... and i was mesmerized.

North Face's new 845 Collection is where "Artistic design meets extraordinary performance." And these sleek silhouettes for men and women can actually withstand all kinds of insane unexpected weather.

Boyfriends beware... fights with girlfriends just got a tiny bit more dangerous thanks to XKCD's love note concept that got made into a real "virus".

Toysrevil's Custom Black Ops Dunny is pretty cute

Frank Gehry is being sued by MIT citing leaks in $300m Strata Center... leaking and mold, and it was built in 2004.

strange faces origami uses mixed images of faces to fold into some odd looking characters. disturbing...

The ultimate mimobot for Halloween or holiday stocking stuffers... the RayD8 glows in the dark AND has an awesome alterego on the back.

Crackpot 2008 is here! Basically the best weekly dose of calendar art you can find...

Mike Mills' designs for Thumbsucker movie... so true.

Psycho Bunny has new ties ~ and the boys of NOTCOT and NotCouture surely need this black saftey pin tie... and perhaps the various bunny skull logo ones too.

I'm obsessing over Blu Dot's Bonnie And Clyde sectional ~ bonnie is the one with the two arms... and their nook bed as well!

We finally got to see the wood burning hot tub: DUTCH TUB in person! Unfortunately it wasn't filled, but some fun pics to share.

Loving this vintage wooden Danish-Modern reindeer!

This is a Motion Graphic and 8mm footage Musicvideo. "Back Among the living" is a song by Sebastian Sturm. Production by Smoco design 'n' motion.

Here's the 2GB Cassette Tape MP3 Player, anyone else getting warm, nostalgic feelings? (and yup, you can put it in a regular tape player as well)

"finessed but never fussy" is the very apropos way jeremy pyles, of new york's niche design, describes his elegantly minimal handblown glass lighting.

The new Roomba's seem all the rage today ~ with their new 500 series offering the "most efficient room-to-room cleaning"

Jenny Holzer-isms scrolling across Rome's monuments

Currently obsessing on the incredible fishtank worlds of Takashi Amano

the 2007 luxury fabric collection from italy's rubelli is richly decadent!

Impressive camping dome by Mountain Hardware "The Stronghold™ is our most impervious, double-walled, expedition base camp shelter for day-to-day use in the Antarctic or Himalayas."

How strong is your coffee? Apparently the NOIR COFFEE CRAVEROLANIS ARGENTINA is THAT strong.

Thank You - A brilliant advert for giving blood!

The Playground - first issue launches tomorrow night in NYC ~ $600 "magazine" with art pieces from many favs...

Via NotCouture - From Louis Vuitton to Lancome. Julie Verhoeven's work is printed on limited edition tubes of Lancome's Ultra Shiny Lip Gloss- she even chose Pink Muse!

NOTCouture ~ soft launching... fashion/beauty/etc ... take a peek? help us out? its been like our secret closet for the last week or so!

300 disposable cameras sent out to people around the United States. On August 25th, the thousands of pictures will be in a gallery show at Art House in Atlanta, Ga. Sign up to receive a camera!

Gorgeous new linear ad for the Audi A5 by London's The Mill

Kah Ra Shin: One of the great sites i have seen so far....

Fully interactive picture frame Tetris game for your wall! Made by the guys at Spark Fun Electronics.

The WMF1 coffee machine - perfect for those times when you're home alone, last night was a bit too big, it's raining and you'd kill for one good cup of coffee!

This Machine Kills, maker of wonderfully random things.

tofu design multimidia studio.

ZWEI - new bags from germany - combine fashion and function.