By Mi-Mi Moscow 'Siberian postman' 2005 ring, from the "Frog Can Fly" Series.

The surreal world of Jacek Yerka made me smile.

WOW. a page filled with tons of brilliant (designy) uses for the everyday things... like these fork/vampire teeth for halloween!

Remember Pop Cling's Flower Girl by Ben Collison? (if not go search for the review over at .com) - they've now added 5 more ladies to the bunch

'RealSnailMail' is a project in development by boredomresearch, employing RFID technology to enable real snails to carry and deliver electronic messages.

okay, james jean has been posted before but i love the hands in this illustration

For anyone that missed it ~ possibly the coolest business card i've ever seen. Functional lock picks.

Big iPod Case review day at NOTCOT.com - Brenthaven Flip Case, Podstar Diablo, and Vaja i-volution

Tom (myspace) and Craig (craigslist) make it into Vogue Italia? What is this world coming to?

True or false? Design Charts ~ the new weekly Top 40 of gorgeous design... or so they say.

Xerox develop MicroText font - 1/100th of an inch high.

cute marimeko mouse! and also bringing red.house up on the radar. =)

Hommage to Dr Seuss by Mark Ryden and others, at M Modern Gallery this weekend

Beautiful digital paintings over at Planet Detrus.

For those of you that have not seen it, the new nokia advert features three appliances blown up to create the new nokia phone.

Panoramas on steriods apparently - also the way the images are viewed is quite nice.

I need to research more about KITE AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY.

threadless has gone all Wonka on us... find the golden "tag" and win a free tee

Trainspotter Inc. - design blog i just sat and went through everything in... never saw it till now...

It makes your heart go pitter-patter.

the eyes have it

flexible cutting boards

an extremely thorough explanation of YUPSTERS and the death of the generation gap in NYC...

vertical image test

The Splitterbot is a cute little faux-bot that shares music from an mp3 player between two earphones.

Stevie Gee's first solo show VENGENCE IS COMING kicked off last week. Check out the pics for custom paint jobs to tomahawks, screen prints and T's.

Can we design hardware, like we design software? Thomas Lommée initiated the OpenStructures project: a website and exposition at Z33 (Hasselt, Belgium)

Helvetimail - minimalist Gmail skin from the Helveti-apps family

Noble M600's twin-turbo Volvo engine (producing 650bhp) allows this ride to reach top speeds of 225mph, 0-60 time of three seconds, and with the Stig behind the wheel, faster lap times than both the Audi R8 and Ferrari F430.

Loooooove these photos by Estelle Hanania.

Solar is already a source of power. Now some hope solar projects’ striking appearance can also make them a powerful marketing tool.

This is a video made for kids to teach them about the ancient Egypt.

Philip Bell, a recent MICA graduate portrays The Bill of Rights in complex radial patterns. Be sure to check out the motion video of the piece.

The final frontier of advertising: the Chinese food take-out box.

Another new project from tunertricks - a miniature backyard pool set in a skateboard deck complete with working pool light, diving board, drain, etc. For an art show in Atlanta this weekend.

Beautiful set of photos of Emily Blunt for May 09 issue of Vanity Fair.

An adjustable reading lamp by DAG-designlab

New web site for design firm Great Big Circle, reads and navigates more like a narrative than a typical portfolio site.

Very cool Vancouver artist Atomos does mini art.

Jason Thielke. Original line work using acrylic transfers. Beautiful.

Designed by McBride Charles Ryan. The reason why this building named “letter box” is the building begins as the letterbox and unfurls to become an irregular open verandah.

The Orphans’ is an art series by AT.AW. that involves adhering temporary paper drawings to enliven the urban environment.

Containing 55 shipping containers stacked up like blocks, The Lotto Turm would function as a mixed-use development with a sphere at the top, which would be used to announce Stuttgart Germany's lotto numbers.

Los Angeles painter and designer Clark Goolsby has his debut solo show in los angeles... opens next week at POV Evolving.

Another preview of the new Droog store in Soho. Opens today.

ORDOS 100 villa by japanese architects Atelier Bow-Wow. A series of arches create an inner patio, with an open-plan distribution around it.