Brooklyn-based designer Kiel Mead brings us "Landline", a charm that was, not long ago, a true mainstay in our lives, and privacy meant dragging a 6-foot-long phone cord into the next room.

Color Changing Mood Light by Shiu Yuk Yuen is a lighting based concept for color therapy. The light can range from dim to bright, creating a pleasant color tonal effect.

The Puppy Vase by Jeff Koons is being re-released by Gagosian. Limited to 3000 pieces and priced at 7500 USD.

The Minneapolis based family company Tank Goodness makes cookies on order. They package it all very nicely in boxes designed by Spunk Design Machine.

Watch The Joker Fatality in "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe". Cool!

Kathe-Kruse's Rainbow Babies are a great addition to the new babies gift list ~ they come with a bees waxed beech wood ring that is perfect for grabbing/teething, and you can wash the doll easily!

Rain Jackets refashioned into Reusable Bags ~ by the City Bag Trade ~ see the NASA one i picked up at Outside Lands! And there are even patterns to make your own... lightweight, with functional POCKETS!

Great photo series by Wouter@par31 for AAN-UIT. Center of attention: TURN-oN lamp by Marc Th. van der Voorn.

Liqurious Happy Hour ~ a little late this week, but hey! its the weekend! Anyhow, check out some of the fun drinks people had this week

Erwin Bauer has redesigned Zulls graphic profile and some of their wine bottles. Playful design for something stiff and serious as Austrian wine.

Niagara Falls with beautiful lights! Amazing effect!

New online game from Puma to honor the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, winner of the 100, 200 and 4 x 100 meters in Beijing Olympic Games.

Maclaren has been making baby strollers (or pushchairs as they call them in the UK) for decades. But production of this special edition black leather and gold plated stroller is limited to ... 20

New TED video ~ with photo director for National Geographic, David Griffin - who knows the power of photography to connect us to our world.

Chase DeForest is an artist designer who lets her pastimes of gardening and the outdoors meld with her work, the result... Hoseware.

The Cans Festival: Part 2 - more of the new work! Artists include: Conor Harrington, Shok-1, Xenz, Word to Mother, Maus Maus, V-hils, Sickboy, Zeus, Waleska Nomura, Banksy, Copyright, The Krah, Pure Evil, Busk and more

Complete image gallery from the completely redone Cans Festival in the Leake St tunnel, London.

Santa Fe, Argentina: "La Colectiva", a yearly gathering of artists and photographers "intervened" the city of Rosario with stenciled images and pictures decorating the city streets.

« Voie Lactée », a baby grand piano designed by Andrée Putman for Pleyel. The designer imagined the piano as a traditional music box.

Goldbar NYC, amazing !

As a response to a fan video from Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, Tiger Woods and EA SPORTS demonstrate that the "glitch" found in the game, is not a glitch at all.

Blinkink and CHI & Partners from London in this cool illustrated this Carphone Warehouse spot.

Mark your calendars! September 19th 2008 is Park(ing) Day, a project aimed at redefining urban space and bringing awareness to the need for green in our cities.

Jeremy Kennedy's small-sized canvas paintings of vintage cameras in the 'Luvs' series . This one is of the Polaroid 180...

iHologram - This cool iPhone app concept uses the accelerometer to make an animation look like it's popping out of the screen into 3D space

First images of the upcoming Karl Lagerfeld x Steiff Teddy Bear. The old master is once again on top of things! Love it!

Unbelievable wallpaper by Danish company ferm LIVING.

A series of notebooks for Left-handed, Right-handed and Ambidextrous People

Furia created a giant Nike shoes/tobogan and placed it on the stairs of the Abasto shopping in Buenos Aires which is a meeting point of 'floggers'.

bathroom tiling designs inspired by pixelizing art

Great lighting collection, designed by Swedish graphic design Studio Dizel & Slate, produced by Bergo Belysning.

Cheekeyes makes an adorable wooden arctic iceberg!

The Wrinkle Chair by ditte hammerstrom

Coilhouse Magazine's Premier issue just went on sale. Don't miss it!

Super Soaker Bottle Shot reviewed! You can attach it to any bottle up to 2L, and it shoots an impressively powered stream! Now you know what to do with all those old water bottles you're not supposed to have.

Get behind the wheel of a true Italian icon of style - a vintage FIAT 500 - for a unique and genuine adventure in Florence, Italy.

The Diver's view inside the Olympic pool. The view is from the 10-meter diver platform.

The Tenfold Collective designed the USA Swimming sponsor brochure for the Beijing Olympics.

Tamsin van Essen's Contamination cups are a little on the gruesome side - each appears to have been infected by a different bacteria type, bringing the microscopic to the macroscopic level.

Valerie Hegarty takes a counterintuitive approach to art - recreating and then destroying famous works of art - burning, ripping, shooting and otherwise destroying the work of her hands.

Sebastian Gronemeyer's Orchid Chair.

The Big Picture's beautiful look at the Large Hadron Collider.

Fragile Lab is an apt name for this retail showroom by Import/Export Architecture. The facade appears tenuous with its off-kilter columns. Designboom has some great interior shots.

Hanna Nyman's 3-D wallpaper invites the user to peel off the outer layer to expose the design underneath.

Citizen Cube is the work of artist Brenda Guyton, who creates sculptures from found computer parts.

Great toy for kids and grown-ups! Hassock DOC by Vreemde-Vogels [nl]

British filmmaker Peter Greenaway's projection onto Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan was unveiled in that city for one night only on the occasion of Saloni 2008.

Blogger Sean P Aune finds an interesting viral card from the mysterious activists of "Anonymous".

Starling - part of the new Dutch designlabel Odesi

The UrbanMax is basically an Intel computer concept that "includes an 11-inch (1,366 x 768) display, a slide out QWERTY keyboard, a minuscule optical mousing device and Windows Vista behind the scenes.

Skateboard Do it yourself, inspired by the amount of waste produced due to growth of consumerism in Europe

The Aston Martin One-77 (£1 million), UK automaker's latest flagship model, boasting 7.0-liter V12, carbon fiber chassis, handcrafted aluminum body, with performance to match — 0-60 in 3.5 seconds, top speed of over 200 mph.

Handmade cameras and a eye for the darker, more crude aesthetic; The work of Czech photographer Miroslav Tichý.

Inspired by retro memorabilia of the 80s, Jonathan Ball crafted this super cool Ms. Pac-Man poster with Blender.

New ibride trays. So beautiful and gaudy - I got to have one (or two).

Installation artist Andrea Canalito plays with propositions of nature and vulnerability, exploitation and hope, victims and victors regarding the complex relationships between the human and the animal.

The fuel flexible Lotus Exige 270E Tri-Fuel can use Gasoline, Ethanol or Methanol and now Lotus is developing the Omnivore, which as the name suggests, will be able to consume almost any type of fuel!

Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince of Ecotricity and engineer Richard Jenkins are setting up on the salt flats at Lake LeFroy in Western Australia, hoping to catch the right breeze and make history in their sleek wind-powered vehicle, the Greenbird.

Can't remember how to set your table when entertaining guests? Well Elise Rijnberg has just the tablecloth for you featuring a graphical pattern using subtle embroidery. Thanks to the Style Files!

Parisian filmmaking duo : Jonas & François, for Nike Streetswear.

Beautiful animation in Processing, inspired by the Boards of Canada track 'Music is Math'.

Anita Fernandez Artist Girl in Love

L. Bates Jaffe's "One Pill Makes You Smaller" and "Animal Cracker" prints are unique and funny!

Image Metrics create incredible realism. With a new technology it's possible to make photo-realistic characters like the one above. Check the video

Nice motion work by Suryummy, an impressive VJ from San Fransisco.

All 26 finalists in Peugeot contest for Peugeots of the future metropolis.

Photosynth goes live!
Automatically reconstruct a three-dimensional space from a collection of photos of a place or an object.

GUI magnets for sketching on whiteboards or just for fun on the fridge.

Only using glue, packaging cardboard and a scalpel as his tools, Chris Gilmour must be loopy.

A pretty sweet collab between David Choe and Upper Playground, showcasing yet another inspiring set of Obama prints.

The Panhandle Bandshell in San Francisco’s Panhandle Park is an amphitheater built from nearly all reclaimed/repurposed materials. Recycling, while creating a free performance space.

The frellstedt lightbench looks great both indoors and out and is available in just about every color in the rainbow.

Lensed by photographer Craig McDean these superheroines are not just about spandex, they're all about haute couture style.

Along the lines of post 13070, Designboom has a nice round up of some designer yachts. Above is Mael Oberkampf's Raven

The OBLO by Marko Pavlovic is a 3D puzzle for kids composed of spherical elements of various sizes, shapes and colors. The pieces must be twisted against a central axis in order to be disassembled or assembled. A Rubik's Cube for kids of sorts.

Animals Inspired Design #3 / Arty

Kim Beck's A Field Guide to Weeds "masquerades as a 19th century pocket guide, but a guide in which the weeds themselves have taken over."

Artist Nedko Solakov's new book, 99 Fears, is a collection of drawings, each of a personal worry or general anxiety. Cheery stuff then? Well, actually, it’s all very funny...

KDDI au recently unveiled the conceptual PLY Mobile Phone - a tabbed phone/printer/digital projector/game controller all-in-one. Each tabbed layer has its own distinct function.

Nice Wiggle vase by Marc Th. van der Voorn! Use it horizontally or vertically.

Henrietta Swift's Letter Envelopes - a playful take on the traditional security envelope.

Hourglass salt and pepper shakers by Vitamin.

Loop denotes the interlinking between the present and the future. Loop concept stands for Peugeots green thinking for worldwide Mega polis of tomorrow.

Apparently Neckface's new exhibition might have an age limit - nobody under 17-years-old admitted because of its adult content.

Don't Ban the Can. New laws mean that if you are caught simply carrying a spray can, you can be fined up to $550. It's going to ruin Melbourne's graffiti culture.

Awesome portfolio of music gig posters by Sarah Blacksher.

Mexico City > Nestlé Chocolate Museum, rojkind arquitectos

Cool Works of the swiss photographer Nils Riedweg. Not just horses... The Black and White Series are great. But look for yourself...

New spot directed by Manny Bernardez, Nike Design Director, to present the new Hyperdunk. Featuring Kobe Bryant and the Fly Wire technology.

The amazing work of So-Cal illustrator George Fuentes.

British designer/director who goes by the name of Rob Chiu, but you may know him as The Ronin. Excellent motion graphics reel!!!

A new pet bed from designer Kenneth Cobonpue, called the Operetta Pet Lounge.

Rachel Papo's "Serial No. 3817131" is a photo series sharing the world of israeli 18 year old girls going to their national service duty

Concept for the Volkswagon T6 "office on wheels." Great. Now you can work on the way home from your 12 hour day at the office.

Harry Allen's Walnut and Peanut bowls...a non-perishable delight. Made of indestructible nuts. Literally.

The energy for tomorrow's miniature electronic devices could come from tiny microbatteries about half the size of a human cell and built with viruses.

Drip Ruff. just like the cloth from mid-sixteenth century in western europe. Fancy.

The Mighty Bearcats' Skin Series Bud Vase looks like porcelain but it's actually made of a soft and flexible plastic.

Coolest old school GPS ~ like a watch, you swap in mini scrolls that tell you where to go - one scroll per route

san francisco artist pascal campion washes our senses over with the rich colors and lines in his illustration work.