China's new great wall - article from Time on the Greenpix - Zero Energy Media display.

Alice Wang's Grass Scanner device measures how green your grass is and outputs the result as a Pantone colour code. You can then compare with Royal Parks in the UK using the PARKTONE cards!

New Fiat Punto campaign Always In The Lead that includes tradicional media, web 2.0 elements, street art sponsorship and two funny virals.

The new Carafe N°5 by Etienne Meneau, made of borosilicate glass in limited edition ~ 8 numbered and signed and 4 artist proofs.

Amusing remake of retro gaming on real backgrounds.

you've got to love the hats at ascot. the nytimes captures some of this year's finest.

Pictures of Corbusierhaus, one the housing complex done by Le Corbusier. This one is located in Berlin, Germany.

Amazing hand blown cupcake platter by up and coming artist, Amanda Goss. Brilliant!! You can vote for her and her design at Fred Flare - she's a finalist in their design contest!

Strata Hotel: The latest from London-based Plasma Studio.

In Boston a hotel has been transformed from a prison - the outcome is the very impressive Liberty Hotel!

Virginia has some impressively fesity wildlife ~ check out the toads, canadian geese goslings, huge snakes, chickens, and more found on this little NOTCOT "vacation"

Flute Handles: brillant idea of bicycle accessory, by Joseph Kim.

In the video for their latest single "Gobbledigook", Sigur Rós teamed up with amazing photographer Ryan McGinley.

Siamese Towers - Alejandro Aravena / This building in Santiago, Chile was made with several skins, each one of them taking care of one issue at a time

Great Karma graphic tee from Entropy Apparel ~ what comes around really goes around and might smack you in the back of the head?

I found the Egg Soldier Eggcups by Reiko Kaneko at the ICFF designboom mart! And they are even more adorable and ready to wage war on your bread egg soldiers in person!

A new floating home in Seattle, Washington's Lake Union. Designed by Vandeventer+Carlander Architects.

Nike has presented their new Sportswear Fall '08 collection at a massive Beijing event these past days. The Dunk shoe gets its own video presentation. Really like the curtain idea in the video!

Glass plate collection 3X3-3X2-2X2 by Martin Žampach, photo by Marek Bartos.

A white forest in a grey field, Junya Ishigami’s university project space in the foothills west of Tokyo is a building designed to almost disappear.

Beautiful picture of Buddhists hanging pieces of paper containing prayer wishes on lanterns during a prayer meeting celebrating the birth of Lord Buddha on May 12, 2008

Povl Kjær's Rocking Sheep are once again part of the Danish Crafts Collection and will be at ICFF again... but now in hot pink! (and black and brown and grey)

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.

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

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...?

A''Victorian All in one PC'' From Steampunk check out how it was done.

This house, by Sebastian Irarrazaval in Chile is a mix of volumes, patios and ramps, allowing to integrate or segregate different spaces by a variety of mobile elements.

This is an ad from Ligy Laundry Powder from the advertising agency WhyCreative out of Beijing, China and creative directors DongHao and Kelvin Lai. How freaking over the top is this.

Not cool Cynthia Rowley/TARGET ~ what were you thinking?!?! Ripping off and cheapening an already affordable product - Fred's extremely popular Ice Kabobs???

As if things couldn't get worse in the world - one of my favorite clothings companies is closing its doors. Goodbye for Nau.

Smitten with #10303 ~ i couldn't help featuring the adorable wallpapers and calendars that go along with The Animals Save the Planet.

THOUT's UtiliTILE: Forked Up piece is a useful tile for storing your utensils in a fun and space saving way, as if hurled into the wall by a knife thrower.

The awesome reactable collaborative sythesizer now has an open-source alternative: Psychosynth. No multi-touch verson yet, but that's on it's way as well...

Jaime Hayon Works ~ launching at the salone... i'm already desperately coveting this new book by my favorite spanish designer...

Designer Diddo Velema produced some high-fashion gas masks. Pretty awesome. [Editor's Note: these are not associated in any way with any luxury brands, etc]

Is Valve's cult game, Portal, really about Bondage and Assisted Suicide as far as the main machine/AI, GladOS, is concerned? Fascinating visual and literary analysis...

Adobe Photoshop See What's Possible Challenge, a competition in partnership with Cut&Paste, announce the Grand Prize Winner.

Nice animated and funny identity created by Mutado creative studio for MTV's new show called Mtv “The Most"

Kitsune Noir turned 1 year old!
So in honor +KN is giving away a new Mcbess wallpaper! Yay for presents!

Paul Robertson's (of Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006) new pixel-art film Kings of Power 4 Billion %. 12 minutes of painstakingly animated insanity.

History of the Argentina bus tickets.

Print campaign to homage classic Atari. Since 1972.

David Reimondo, like Rodrigo Bruna #6620, does some incredible art with TOAST! from the map of the world, to a giant keyboard, to a fingerprint mosaic...

Sphere 2003 is a sculpture by Olafur Eliasson located in the Fünf Höfe shopping mall in Munich, Germany.

National Cryptologic Museum, an institution devoted to two contradictory human impulses: keeping secrets and telling stories, funded by the National Security Agency!

The purCushion connects with your mobile phone using the wireless Bluetooth technology, and enables you to pick up the call while relaxing on the soft and ergonomic cushion.