AAARRR!!! Studios Classic Pirate Dice Game. Re-released today.

Sweet little Babushka lights by Mathmos.

Designboom's coverage of the Chilean pavilion at the Venice Biennale - I love the jellyfish-like pedestals, and the idea behind fetishising architecture in tourist trinkets.

I love the playfulness of these jewelry pieces by jacob lewis

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day ~ now you can even have your google language of choice be... PIRATE!

To show their work to clients, Sydney creative collective Happy Soldiers had a bit of fun on stage with a human website.

Microsoft Ads: Bug or Feature ~ nice article at Portfolio ~ was it viral attention grabbing genius? or a huge failure? Must say i hated the seinfeld ads, love the new "i'm a pc" spot...

Imagine the Peugeot in the worldwide megalopolis of tomorrow. Here are the finalists of the Peugeot Design Contest 2008

Great on-street bike parking continuing to grow in Portland, Oregon.

I love the Japanese design of Stoneware's sugar container. I just picked up one for myself, a beautiful example of how design can be traditional and contemporary at the same time.

Are you ready for International Talk Like a Pirate Day? RedBubble has a ton of art for you yellow-bellied sapsuckers - and a boatload of contemporary art too.

Congrats to our friends at Cool Hunting on their NYT Slideshow (go to the main article to see picks from Design*Sponge, MocoLoco, Apt Therapy, Un-Beige and more!)

The only thing i love more then these Brogden Leather jackets, are the images that UNICA shot of them !

Mars is launching the new spot to promote its Mars Planet chocolates with a robot-inspired animated TV ad...

Think twice next time before you take a bite into that yummy, fleshy meal. Remember these "mystery meat" macro photographs. GROSS!

California leads the way in the U.S. with it's very own High-Speed Rail.

Vitamin Living expanded on the I.V. Plant Pot ~ with the Bio Logic Collection ~ "Smart Ideas for Plants" ~ see the full line of brilliantly functional and well designed new homes for your indoor plants.

Fun portfolio of Schtock

Durham University in the UK - "interactive multi-touch desk" is a major part of the SynergyNet framework, an interactive classroom environment based on a gaming engine called jMonkey.

We really are kids of the digital age through and through ~ love this image by italian design group, Volk

Dangerous Curves: Mastering Logotype Design by Donald Young ~ Take a peek inside, this book looks beautifully inspiring!

Parking Day LA is tomorrow! (sept 19) ~ here's a map of some parking spots that are becoming parkified...

Update ~ added the time lapsed video of Toyota Project Chief Designer, Ian Cartabiano, sketching the Venza on Paper! Fun contrast to the sketch demo in photoshop.

DWR Tools for Living ~ love the invite that came in the mail.... black (and one red) iconic + simply silhouettes on cardboard... see the full scan!

Beautiful mid-century inspired cabinets for vinyl junkies. Offers multiple configurations for just LPs, or a mix of singles, CDs, etc.

Animation clip for Kap10Kurt. Tells the story about a super-hero in a world without music. Good 80's references.

Griffin's Clarifi iPhone case has a close up lens you can easy slide on and off! Apparently ideal for things like business cards?

The Ladurée Bar : the french House of macaroons deals with ancestral and futurist design for that new trendy place.

KITT got jacked. An infinite resource of cutting edge technology and he's still missing.

Great colored pencil and ink work from self-taught Melbourne artist Scarlett Cat.

Really nice packaging design from Atlanta based designer Anwar Pack for the Mister Nesbit grooming kit. The grooming kit is made to have an old school feel but still appeal to a more youthful audience.

Images from Salzzeitreise, a museum located deep in a salt mine in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation designed by Chicago-based architecture office Ross Barney Architects. The building just received a LEED Platinum certification.

Kawasaki recently announced that it is developing Japan's fastest high speed train! The “Environmentally Friendly Super Express Train” will propel passengers along at 217mph, besting the record-holding Shinkansen’s 186mph.

Mauritian Sunset ~ by Sandy Smith ~ a gorgeous display of colors, check out the back to see all the cables/monitors as well!

Beautiful Anemone Shade by Heath Nash for Artecnica. The honeycomb shade is made out of Tyvek.

Recycled glass bottle utensils by Laurence Brabant, just one of many amazing products.

I love Francisco Mangado's spanish pavillion for the 2008 Zaragoza Expo. There were 750 clay columns that provide a modern take on greco-roman temple architecture.

Amazing photos of Socotra Island, located off the coasts of Somalia and Yemen. The tree above is called a Dragon's Blood Tree, and the island features around 700 rare species of flora and fauna, 1/3 of which are found nowhere else on earth.

Artek and Marimekko have an exhibition - Be Honest! - going on at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo, featuring interventions by various designers on Alvar Aalto's iconic Stool 60. The exhibition is on until 09/23.

Ward van Gemert deconstructs an old chandelier and reconstructs it into a more modern form, resulting in the Exploded Chandeliers series. Debuting at Mint Gallery in London today, 09/18.

5.5 Designers redesigned Baccarat's luxury Harcourt glassware into a more accessible line. The traditional Harcout silhouettes have been superimposed onto simple glass forms.

Beautiful Light Frame by Stephen Burks for auction at Philips de Pury & Company next week.

Is this stop-motion? or not? Cute animation for BC Dairy Foundation by Bent Image Lab. Directed by Jun seo Hahm.

Portal Prelude gives us a peek at the new game trailer!

Rotofugi: The Collectors ~ an incredible animation where many of our favorite toys come to life and collect... PEOPLE!

Atari-ified modern video game posters ~ so fun, they have them for everything from portal and gta to bioshock, halo and more

Using a simple piece of cardboard without any gluing, this coffee cup holder offers a nice service to the user carrying the standard milk cups and protecting the hand from the heat of the cup.

Oh Microsoft, this is really your press kit for IE8? Wait till you see what's inside...

Adorable Vertigo flyers ~ woody domokun?

Heath Ceramics coming to LA! "at 7525 Beverly Boulevard (at Sierra Bonita Avenue) in the central Los Angeles design district"

Plenty of reef creatures fluoresce red, even where seawater absorbs red sunlight

Crafterall's topo art cards are mesmerizing, too fun to send, so tempting to frame

Fascinated by the new Graham & Brown wallpaper patterns design*sponge pointed out

Typolade ~ chocolate type faces, perfect when paired with chocolate sauce for chocolate printing?

Genevieve Gauckler ~ limited edition of 50, screen printed BOOK!

Philips Lumalive combines colourful dynamic light with textiles !

Bubbles, Jazz, Moustache: In Slow Mo, need I say more.

Barcode, by Vitruvius. Unusual shopping mall in St. Petersburg Russia.

A truly bizarre collection of front covers from the satirical French magazine of the 1960s - Hara Kiri

For the full break down of the upcoming Canon EOS 5D Mark II ~ dpreview has pages and pages of details!

The new Canon EOS 5D shoots 1080p VIDEO ~ here are links to video samples from their korean site.

The Bubble Process makes such fab prints, as you will see here!!! (They are also pretty inexpensive for those of you want to art your walls.)

DZ Nuts - a high viscosity chamois cream that features green tea, evodia and masterwort designed to prevent friction in unfortunate places.

Cupcake Design Competition held at Ignite NYC. Organized by Bre Pettis.

Sponsored by Design Observer, Design/ers for Obama is a community art project for Obama supporters, to aggregate and rate Obama art that is available for download + printed by anyone.

The Ygne summer house is situated on the island of Gotland, one of Swedens most popular summer holiday spots. The design ambition was to build a house that would recess into the natural environment. By Sandell Sandberg.

insert the parking ticket ... only in this way you can know the effects of Pfizer

Gallery of sci-fi inspired concept ships.

Love the cityscape that is rendered through lights in facade of Bjarke Ingels' Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010.

Love the packaging design for Woolrich Woolen Mills by D-SIGN.

Asaf Yogev | Swan Hanger made of wood

Great insight into the process of the incredible up and coming artist , Brandon Friend. Video filmed in the studio with the Queens based artist during the completion of 2008 show : IF YOU'RE NOT ONE OF US, YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.

I just discovered i need a car mount for my camera... see how this incredible mini was shot... and how all the pieces come together

Bandai’s Luminodot is like a Lite-Brite on steroids, with space for up to 3500 pegs on its 70×50 screen.

' Paper-Brick House' by Li Xinggang Atelier from China, made of paper boxes, paper tubes and transparent adhesive tape at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition on September 12, 2008 in Venice.

While at Calty Design Research, Toyota Project Chief Designer, Ian Carabiano gave me a little demo of his impressive wacom tablet car sketching... all shading/rendering by hand... see the video!

Interesting Geo Washplane sink by Omvivo. I love the clean lines, but would be curious to use one myself to see how well it functions.

New film by Heimat Werbeagentur GmbH for the Audi TTS. Production by @radical media, Sydney.

Ecosistema Urbano's Ecoboulevard in Vallecas Spain. This award winning public structure is able to control the nearby temperature trough a passive strategy.

Lebello's Chumy chaise lounger - love the clean lines and the colors, plus there's space underneath for towels or magazine storage.

"You are what you touch"

Great ad from the ad agency JWT out of Sydney, Australia and art director Michaela Brown.

Jonathan Ben-Tovim's Encoder Rings allow you to encode a secret message up 64 characters long in binary code on your ring.

Scott Dukes ~ loving (lusting?) this gorgeous automotive driven photography portfolio - check out some of the infiniti/lambo shots...

ABnormal vodka is the first in the world bottle without the neck. Design of the bottle for ABNORMAL Vodka received get the "GRAND PRIZE - best packaging design" in Cannes.

Adorable animal Matchboxes designed by Cruz Novillo + Olmos

Inside look at Toyota's Calty Design Research ~ i even got a hands on session with their clay modelers, and my own block of clay to turn into a "car".

Beautiful Constellation Chandelier from Studio 1 Thousand with lots of little LED lights.

This commercial for Swedish whisky made with a phantom camera is really nice! It was made especially for a limited edition of 'extra smoky whisky' by Birth, a webstudio in Stockholm.

Wood tables with ceramic tops by Hanna Ehlers.

Love these cork and felt Spiral Stools by Viable London. The rest of their work is just as beautiful.

Tabula Rossa soaps by Megan Cummins - "You smell...like a lemon." I like the play on Tabula Rasa, "clean slate" in Latin.

Sneaker Case, by Nike Skateboard.

Created by WHITEvoid, Polygon Playground is a large interactive video projection installation commissioned for Denmark's SMUKfest. Sensory technology moves the projections to match people's body movement...

HILARIOUS commentaries on MySpace messages. Just a taste of what some people will write to "get" with someone.

Morgan's Hotel in New York : french agency Trafik creates a dazzling ceiling composed of 4,000 lights allowing the guests to set designs and change the mood of the lobby.

HL23, New York / Neil M. Denari Architects

15 Free Hi Res Skull Photos for your designing needs!

The ‘Lotus’ room, designed by Zaha Hadid Architects is currently on view during the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale. Today some photos from THE REAL THING, by the photographer Luke Hayes are available for your eyes only!

Interesting new mash-up from the 16 year old who started his own environmental group. Allows kids in New York to adopt buildings and campaign to convert them to low energy lighting solutions.