Scanned nails! looks like wax.

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

Threadless entry: Mercury Rising. So sad but so true.

Siri Brekke's fruit bowls are made out of ceramic and playfully take on the appearance both of a bowl and of the fruit they're meant to hold.

Frida Jeppsson’s Brilliant ring for the Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Awards. I love the ridiculous size and the way it references both a diamond and a cocktail glass.

extra cool look back at some BMW art cars - including this one designed by warhol!

Le Prisme is a colorful structure, a new venue for theatre, concerts, fairs and sports events. Designed by Brisac Gonzalez.

Hack a disposable camera to get super accentuated RED EYE Portraits!

Chris Gray of We Shall See won Freitag's Design-A- Truck competition. In keeping with Freitag's recycling philosophy, Gray's tarpaulin will be cut up and made into bags. 2nd and 3rd place went to André-Alexander Glesemann and Anna-Paula Henschke.

The Explora Atacama Hotel by German del Sol, chosen as one of the best hotels in South America by Conde Nast Traveler.

The Mayans and Egyptians constructed incredible feats of architecture able to weather the test of time, but they had no idea their pyramids would inspire the shape of the latest carbon-neutral super-structure to hit Dubai.

Animals Inspired Design #3 / Arty

British designer/director who goes by the name of Rob Chiu, but you may know him as The Ronin. Excellent motion graphics reel!!!

The Beauty of Package Design: Inspiration and Tips. This article encourages designers to step back from the screen and get their hands dirty.

Durat makes a dynamic and multi-use plastic from recycled plastic that can itself be recycled. Great designers, engineers & manufacturers looking for environmentally friendly matrials.

Nice packaging for Jeni's Ice Creams, that makes ice cream and sorbet per order. Packing, logo, etc. by Element. Makes me hungry for some ice cream!

cute wallpaper from tablefy.com

A gorgeous example of site-specific architecture, designLAB's IFAW headquarters cleaned up a polluted brownfield site to revitalize the area's native greenery.

BMW new 7 series... MOSCOW .. red square ... hourglass ...

one of many stunning images put together by the nyt from the hubble telescope.

Moss House | Private House by Japanese Architect " Nendo / Oki Sato ". This project involved renovating an old wooden house on the Shibuya River in Tokyo's Ebisu neighbourhood into a live-work space.

Cake Wrecks! the blog about OUTRAGEOUS cakes ranging from the hideous, the impractical, and the ingenious such as the Bond wedding cake pictured above.

The Lairesse pharmacy in Amsterdam has something more interesting than the green lighted interior.

Flat-panel displays might be all the rage, but at least in some situations, Microsoft thinks the shape of things to come might be a sphere.

Digital photomanipulations of a young Lithuanian artist. Just click a middle button of your mouse and move it.

Vanity Fair has launched Stick Shift: The Gay Car Blog. Because, “You might not be gay, but your car is!”

The recent gas prices have been fueling the fire to green up the airlines & environmentalists are fanning the flames, but there are some cool eco-friendly ideas on the horizon that could completely change the way we fly.

Wasp knife ~ as you stab the bear/shark/etc it injects a ball of compressed gas which automatically freezes an area about the size of a basketball...

Only 24 of the worlds 194 countries have forbidden corporal punishment of children. Save the Children in Sweden wants to change that. Lowe Brindfors have created a simple and genius film to highlight the issue.

Batman's tumbler as an autobot!

The NesTable is a clever update on the TV tray. Not only is the height adjustable, the angle of the surface is as well. It even promises to make working from a lounge chair or sofa ergonomic. Here’s to that.

Kim Jenkin's has the most adorable set of hand-foiled popsicle sticks to label your plants!

Nice, wooden, iPod docks from Japanese monoDO and Hacoa. The docks come in two sizes and in two different types of wood, American walnut or Scandinavian birch.

Wall-E's Eve ~ is a descendant of the iPod and the Automator... she too is a brainchild of Apple designer, Jonathan Ives.

A to Z Brand Project by Burak Kaynak - says;
TAGS are showing what i think about each brand. I broke each logo into pieces. Re-construct them from my own perspective...

So Chic new special bottles of wine. Fashion in a bottle.

The blog of St. Louis artist/graphic novelist Tim Lane is up and running, and already loaded with content from his editorial work and more.

Stina Perrson says her illustration style is basically about “finding the right balance between the edgy and the elegant the raw and the beautiful.”

These are the rest of the "Crying Men" portraits by Sam Taylor-Wood that shows Hollywood actors crying. It was first posted in #11253.

Perfect gift for Father's Day? Chanel now has a £9,170 Fly Fishing Rod ~ complete with Chanel Flies and a quilted black leather box... (ny-mag photoshopped this silly pic of karl)

There has been quite an uproar over the images snapped of the uncontacted tribe in Peru. Here is an update on whats going to be done.

What do you get if you take one of MC Escher's famous pictures and add the theme from Portal into the mix.

Ever felt stuck in your daily life? The animated character in this Lipton CLear Green website suffer from traffic jams, job stress and hang-overs. Until you refresh them.

Your Majesty Launches Level Vodka New Site.

The french fashion company hermès recently teamed up with eurocopter, the world's third largest aerospace group to create l'helicoptre par hermès, a luxury helicopter.

I Miss You by Colleen Baran. Ring individually handmade of a rubber stamp and sterling silver... little traces of love left behind.