Bring some color and design to your drab living space with Nama Rococo Wallpaper Studio...

Colorful renovation of a kitchen in West London, by Surface Architects. Great to see someone having the guts to use strong colors in a kitchen!

Ultra's Space Station 6 - Cute tempting credit card filled with 6 tiny USB flash drives... 6 2GB drive is only 90$!

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

[via NotCouture #1680] Greetje van Helmond's home cultivated sugar jewellery. As a response to disposable fashion consumables Greetje designs unsustainable accessories made with banal materials.

Semiramis hotel in Athens by Karim Rashid

The 'Gömböc' is the first known homogenous object with one stable and one unstable equilibrium point. Check out the video...

Introducing the 3form bracelet made from 100% ecoresin™. Every purchase will give the environment a hand — 10% of this sale is directed to the Rock Mountain Institute.

Very cool idea from Creative Danes, Inc. Globe hangs from the ceiling or the wall on a powerful magnet.

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Bugatti have released a special edition Veyron designed in collaboration with Hermes.

We love the Monster Factory critters ~ remember that incredible Guster Music Video they made? Check out our visit to their "factory" in Toronto!

cleverly designed corner frames from german company, details, are offered in outside or inside angles to fit odd spots in rooms.

Great alternative to boring curtains, these stick ons make me you feel like you're looking into (or out of) a lacy garden. D Garden Collection.

The next time a kid asks "Where do lego bricks come from?" ~ show them this great slideshow from Business Week!

Custom made Spray Paint Lamps.

Beautiful and wearable cloths from Danish fashion house Won Hundreds spring/summer line. The photos aren't half bad either...

"Kids do try this at home" great ad from Ogilvy & Mather for Hot Wheels.

Holiday House in the Alps, Scheidegg, Switzerland. Designed by Andreas Fuhrimann and Gabrielle Hächler, this house has incredible panoramic views!

It's not JUST a stepper ~ but when hooked up, if you slow down or stop stepping your mouse and keyboard will stop functioning... so there's your motivation. Gamercize ~ also for video games, etc.

Check out the digital art, music and photography at evokeone

One of the standouts from the Tinlark anniversary show... getting to see Diem Chau's insanely cool carved crayons in person!

These animal electrical outlet covers are pretty cute ~ liking the sheep and elephant best. Best comment idea ~ someone should make skull and crossbones!

Can you imagine if this Vans iPhone Finger Fracture game got made? You could pull some pretty crazy skateboarding tricks with two fingers and your multitouch iphone!

This Punisher Ozzel is SO CUTE, and on top of being hand cast in resinplaster, hand finished, and hand painted... he even comes with 2 cute handmade pins.

Awdio beta ~ streams you live music from trendy hot spots across the globe ~ stores/clubs/etc... here's an invite code to try it now... kinda fun to listen to while working.

As far as campaigns go ~ obama sure has quite the group of designers (or designer supporters with free time?) ~ apparently he has a DIFFERENT logo for every "type"... and every state as well...

A Mug of Marvelous Design- Stephen Reed's Radiator Mug. The perfect combination of porcelain and industrial design. [Editor's Note - this was seen on the gift guide!]

Kenn Munk sent out some awesome DIY xmas tree snail mail cards this year!

a very interACTIVE xmas idea by gluelondon.com ~ encourage the live bike riders on as they try to make it to lapland!

Digital truly meets analog in these reused record and cassette tape ipod classic and nano cases ~ and naturally no two are alike. 45 iPod Cases

Jason Salavon, "This project, a large light box, contains all 374 pages of the 2007 IKEA catalogue, each simplified to a rectangle of pure color and arranged left-to-right , top-to-bottom."

Memo Cups, availabled in lined, gridded and dotted patterns from Fishseddy. Sadly no Doane paper option

A BASE Jump helmet design process step by step.
From sketch to final product.

Floppy disk CD-Rs!

How do you keep your tools? Tool Box Collection by Olivier Peyricot.

Gift Guide Day 28 - For Creatives - aka my collaged page of goodies that i either own or crave that are both amusing and useful?

SentrySafe has a fire and waterproof maxtor harddrive 160GB

Funny way for advertise a snowboard brand in Switzerland. Made by Advico Young & Rubicam, Zurich.

Bittersweets has managed to one up her incredible vampire bands.... by adding a diamond to their bite. Introducing the Vampress.

Montecito Residence, O.S.K.A. Architects - "Built in a fire-prone landscape, this house aims to harvest the climatic conditions which make the site so dangerous- the sun and the wind." Gorgeous, too.

Photojournalist James Nachtwey talks about his decades as a war photographer.

the Argyle Academy is having a caption contest, but you only have ONE WEEK to submit! One winner will be published on DCist.com, and get an argyle academy tee shirt!

Bent Acrylic Lamp w/ Birch Veneer

Wallpaper's latest online endeavor, their Retail Directoy, launches today with humble beginnings.... do love this shot of the LA Bisazza showroom

Concrete and Steel jewelry by Karen Konzuk available at mooncruise gallery [Ed. also seen as #1955]