YouTube has launched “The Screening Room”, which is a platform for short films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve.

PaperMonster’s work is based around women in various states of shock, fear, or wonder. Every canvas is its own story.

Lebron James teams with Ralph Lauren’s Purple Label Division on this limited edition signed basketball. 100% of net proceeds will benefit the LeBron James Family Foundation.

Typography and design experiments by brazilian art director Tiago Marcondes.

Squeezing out a space for a car on a tiny land is one of the most important tasks when designing a house in urban Japan. A nice design by Akira Yoneda.

Sneak Preview of BACKYARD: Pancho Tolchinsky and Catalina Estrada ~ Cati's mesmerizingly beautiful digital illustrations layered on the backyard photography of Pancho are just magical!

Véra Nováková creates metal jewelry with an organic feel - fingerprints, wood grains, etc are imprinted into her pieces.

Since they are constantly exposed to the sun, solar power satellites could provide the earth with a continuous stream of 5-10 gigawatts of energy each.

Interview with Dyna Moe, the woman behind the popular MAD MEN desktop & iphone wallpapers, prints, & icon sets.

Police in Mexico find private zoo at drug cartel's party house - from panthers to albino tigers to lions ~ they certainly looked like they were living a luxurious lifestyle... check out the slideshow

New installation from James Jarvis at Nike London.

Eduardo Berlin Razmilic's House 2 in Santiago, Chile. The house is excavated into the site, with the main facade appearing to be only 11.5 feet above street level.

Illustrations by Jim Mahfood

Anna Geslev studio came up with a fun and colorful project for igloo ice cream.

I am digging the very simple packaging by Due Mani Non Bastano for Pandora Design's cutlery (post 6429).

natural urbano, mexican designer, shows us granizo (hail) amazing table/sculpture

The Minox Agent M DSC DigitalSpyCam is a tiny digital camera - only 3.14" x 1.14" x 0.79". At 5 megapixels, it's a good little portable camera.

It's oyster eating season! Raw, fried, or smoked it all adds up to delicious. This Wellfleet Oyster Print honors this tasty time of year.

Great branding and packaging of McCraw's Confections by Craig Skinner.

City Escape illustration by Rozefire.

The Seoul Design Olympiad fuses together in 3-weeks a great mix of culture, architecture, graphic, culinary, product, industrial, fashion and textile design. Here are some highlights in photos...

Japanese brand Ambush presents the Beeeeethoven jewelry series. Hilarious!

The Big Picture covers World Animal Day. The narwhal is a crazy mammal.

Champion Graphics's cover design for a Monster Children notebook, produced by Penguin.

Cemal Okten's I ♥ VEGETABLES : Part IIA project - a project that explores our connection to food, desiring to bring the process of farming vegetables into the home. The final product is a selection of vases which support the growth of vegetables.

First REAL NOTCOT Video (in HD even)! We've seen the pics of Banksy's Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill, and some mediocre youtubes... since i couldn't go, we've commissioned Seth Brau to make a film to show us all the details and the full experience!

Lia Halloran- Photography exhibition at the Fredric Snitzer in Miami. The Light that is captured in the photograph, is the patterns she creates when she is skateboarding. Simply beautiful!

Bee Cool ~ a Liqurious Original by Anita ~ because we really are silly enough to take on a dare to invent a drink inspired by yogurt flavors.

The BMW Group is about to become the first manufacturer of premium automobiles to deploy a fleet of nearly 500 all electric vehicles for private use in daily traffic.

Moving forest.
By NL architets ... trees for everyone

JR - The French Master of Fashion Collage is bringing more than just AMAZING collage - He also offers the mp3 Soundtrack of EVERY single Runway Show

The new german design brand 'maigrau' offers their products via its brand new online shop ~ like this great coat rack!

The Car that Runs on Air and Magnets.

WTF? A green platypus tee... no clue why i'm wanting this tonight... also, i hadn't realized you can get Some eCards graphics on tees at busted tees!

New Synthesis reports on Visual Culture; design fashion art lifestyle interiors architecture technology innovation science ~ lots of links since

kokkugia is an international design practice based in london and new york that operates through design, research, experimentation and teaching.

Interesting travel hack: apparently packing a starter pistol in your luggage means you can lock it with a real lock and it might be tracked more closely by the airport. Could be worth a shot for those with a lot of gear.

Poster designs for the UK release of Oliver Stone's W., by Scott Woolston.

Nice teardown of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro by iFixit, who says "This may be the most beautiful laptop we've disassembled."

EDIN CROW: The New York based artist that has a well-known Disaster Series, a series of self-portrait photographs.

New Honda Accord spot from RPA and Motion Theory, showing how they put everything they know in one place.

NATHAN OTA has a new vinyl toy. His artwork transcends well to this platform. Incredible!

Dear friends, have a bit of fun with the latest collection of Tokyo Metro manner posters.

Ideographic Alphabet :Very specific chair with different letter form.

On notebooks and pens ~ here are some recent obsessions that came in the form of DWR Tools for Living Press Kit (best notebook!) and the Federated Media pen from the summit (it's a keeper too!)

Rapper.
Funny commercial from Fallon Mnneapolis for Hollyday Inn Express

The Wilson Bros. teams with Stussy on development of this limted edition white Brooks Swallow Saddle. The classic Swallow racer is treated with an excetional white leather finish. Imagine the patina on this saddle after a few months of use.

Beautiful stop motion animation using cut-out photos by Joseph Mann.

Kathleen Lolley - Solo exhibition at Art Star PA. Loving her dreamy worlds.

Tape Measure Project by Debbie Smyth - Incredible 3D geometric sculptures

Core77 highlighted the NEMO Recycled/sample tent pieces reusable bags

Men’s Vogue commissioned renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut to design this patriotic lapel pin. All proceeds benefit Dog Tags.

50 inspiring vintage advertisements

Gorgeous joints on the Mojo Dining Table by De Design Copenhagen

Nooka - trippy videos - The story unfolds as we fall through the universe and logic to discover time. Completely concepted, animated, directed and designed by yours truly.

Aveda Institutes Florida ~ fun look at the new building from sketches to final

Seoane has some beautiful tables ~ love the wood with a splash of color

Fun work of Layko

Animal Alphabet poster ~ Petit Collage, 2008 ~ Oakland, CA

Judy Hudson's Butterfly Necklaces at Barney's ~ i can't decide whether they are awesome b/c you can see the wings so beautifully, or if its grotesque like you ripped the arms off a butterfly...

Asako Narahashi: Kawaguchiko, 2003

HemeroscopiumHouse, Las Rozas- Madrid - Spain / Antón García- Abril - Ensamble Studio

1st the Water Cube in Bejing and now the Magic Box in Madrid. The size and scope of the retractable roofs are amazing!

The Urban Gridded Notebook - The modern city is controlled by the grid... we should not let it control our creativity. A blank notebook /sketchbook that is gridded with 125 cities from all around the world.

Production designers tour the crazy Tree House in "Crusoe"

this media center was built across from my own house! Absolutely beautiful from inside and out. the colored panels are actually stills of important moments on tv.

Bump Top is a 3 dimensional desktop, a cool way to interact with and organize files.

pencilworks are the mixture of pencil and ps work of images.

Showcasing a new business model for Graphic Design Studios.Far From Timid is a lifestyle design company that transforms original works of art into powerful surface patterns for use in home and fashion.

Boudicca Wode sprays on as a blue spray , and then fades into nothingness (completely invisible). And it comes in a pretty bottle that looks like a spray can.

In this video taken at MOMA, perfumer Christophe Laudamiel talks about the "Design for the Invisible."

A "musical component robot" that plays records, CDs and DVDs while looking impressively stylish.

Fuck&Love, 3 exclusive tools to simply express your emotions in all the situations !

Images of Japanese matchbox labels from the 1920s and 1930s

This is a Portrait of Paper Magazine blogger, Julia Frakes. The photo was taken by Garance Doré, and then Danny Roberts illustrated it, as part of his "Blogger Portrait Series"

The life of photographer Severin Koller in the mandatory military service in Austria. (Series > Mandatory Service)

The Interior Design Award Nominees for 2008

Dwight on The Office last night tried to destroy an Orbit Baby stroller in an "extreme road test".

The UK's Vauxhall Agila has teamed up with British accessories designer, Johnny Loves Rosie to create the first ever Car-sage - a giant flower corsage designed for your car. It retails for £14.99. The ultimate Christmas gift for a car lover?

Super-fab Bioscleave Fun House promotes play and snazzy colorful aesthetics as a way to increase one's life span and boost the immune system. Architecture as free-radicals.

Design Boom shows us "seoul design olympiad 08: sdesignunit" ~ prettiest EL Wire packaging and display i've ever seen

DJ Table by Cocoon for Red Bull ~ hilarious details tucked into this seemingly simple wood table

Some crazy new t-shirts by UK brand Cassette Playa. The prints are made of Youtube screenshots.

Penguin Wine bottle. Argentinian design group FUGAmania has some pretty cool stuff. This ceramic wine bottle tries to bring environmental awareness into everyday life, Oil dumped onto a redesigned local icon.

Cuscuzeira by Guilherme Batista.
New design for old pan to make brazilian cuscuz.
Cuscuz: typical food of Brazil.

Gaspirator, one half of the Justic music duo, has designed this new t-shirt for Sixpack. Love it!

yves behar has teamed up with french company canal + and designed 'le cube'.
it is a tv receiver box that has the same capabilities as cell phones, computers and the internet.

Round, hurricane resistant, green homes that are affordable? No its not BS. The interior is as impressive as the exterior. For those who want to live outside the box Deltec Homes

A sun seeking plant robot called PlantBot.
"Solar seeking botanical augmentation"

Credit Card Cutlery by Ineke Hans: must-have !

Two sweet looking deck available at Woestknap

THE ANIMALS - use your FOUND leash to help raise public awareness for animal adoption. (Stunning FOUND collars arriving November '08!)

Typeface, Kartemquin’s latest documentary in progress, will bring together a fascinating junction of historical and contemporary Graphic Design.

At Spring Mountain ski area, in Schwenksville, PA, you can catch a glimpse of the fall foliage up close in the canopy.

Quick experiment done with Processing: the first 3,000 characters of "Alice in Wonderland".

Sculpture from Joey Kirkpatrick & Flora C. Mace.

Taking a break from their product design chores
Harlem based SPYE adds this patterned tote bag into the mix.

Fridgehenge - Stonehenge Replica.

Jeremy and Claire Weiss, in an effort to return to photography with a more traditional process and feel, began taking portraits of friends with a large format Polaroid camera. The result: Day 19 Polaroid Portraits.

Palin as President! Made me smile. [Editor's Note: Regardless of what you think of palin, someone put some impressive time into the details of this silly flashy site]