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

Strange, frame-like facade for the Observatory store in Athens, Greece, by Theofanis Bobotis Architects.

Beautiful photography portfolio by Michael Wolf. I especially love his series "Architecture of Density" from which this photo was taken.

Nice packaging design from Denver based designer Jim Hargreaves.

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

French artist JR has produced this inspiring public art projectin the favelas of rio beautiful, and sad at the same time...it's hard to look at them in the eyes...

Bucky (of those awesome buckwheat travel/spa pillows) now has pillow/toys for kids! Adorable and soft, perfect presents

I couldn't wait any longer to post this.... Helvetica Brooches by Zoe Ikin.

Macrame necklaces by Small Town.

The Third Space - an incredible installation put together by 52 German design students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich who created a gorgeous space out of 1.3 million cable ties. The project took 16,870 hours to complete.

Great stop motion movie showing Hamburg to the people. Also the two guys had a lot of fun doing this.

NEW SHOW at CoproNason Gallery with artworks by Martin Wittfooth (above), Michael Page, Travis Louie, Kris Lewis and Chris Peters. Previews are up!

PLAYPOWER! Our friends at the Game Libratory finally got their site up for the 12$ computer... magical 8-bit gaming that you plug into your TV in india...

Two Pro-Smoking designs that incorporate living plants into smoking accessories.

The new National Geographic website designed to get their best documentary photographers some commercial work. Check out the amazing stuff by Apple and Adobe revered, Steve Winter.

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.

live without consequences… mobile caps with unlimited content… beautiful spot for 3 Mobile... created by The Campaign Palace, Sydney...

Creative Contacts for your iPhone. A simple yet ingenius way to spotlight your friends in your address book of your iPhone. You can see the gallery and watch a video on how it looks.

Four bikes connected by the wheels make up the "Print bike" that Calle Enström and Johan Undén created as their final project at Forsbergs skola.

Hauntingly beautiful portrait photography by Andrzej Dragan. This artist has a wonderfully gifted mind with a PhD in quantum physics and an amazing eye for creating a story within an a single image.

Cool video of the Public Farm 1 @ PS1 in NY construction in stop motion.

Impressive looking digital ST-2 shooting simulator from Marksman Training Systems is the first shooting simulator for shotgun and rifle shooting designed specifically for demanding users/pros/etc.

Pallet housing is a sustainable & innovative approach to transitional relief housing for those displaced by disaster & conflict, like the millions displaced by the Chinese earthquake or the floods in Sri Lanka.

Happy 4th of July ~ here's a peek into my day off enjoying the fireworks in Laguna Beach ~ (guitar lovers must take a peek at the door handles picture!)

Armed with just a stick and a ton of patience, artist, Jim Denevan, labors for hours and can walk 30 miles while creating one of his giant free-hand beach drawings. Beautiful, calming art work.

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...

Help Firefox reach 1 million downloads in a single day! (I think their servers are already overloaded this morning)

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)

400, 000 hollow black balls dumped into the Ivanhoe Reservoir to prevent sunlight to react with the bromide and chlorine producing carcinogens!

My homage to Helvetica.
Happy Birthday Helvetica! Sorry if I'm a bit late!

the ultimate magic trick - making furniture disappear into the balcony - aka just really cool space saving design by Sandy Lam from Vancouver.

Harder Better Faster Stronger ~ this daft punk song has been the theme song getting me through the last few weeks of craziness... fun shirt by Monsieur Steve

Amazing trippy illustrations.

laser engraved natural wood skateboard decks with twin tip graphics by Piotr Woronkowicz

New Power Loaded Racquet Technology from HEAD - Crossbow and Airflow models...

As the ICFF/NY Design Week madness dies down ~ here's the sunset out of the bathroom window

Johnny Kelly, a former student at the Royal College of Art, created a unique animated video about Procrastination.

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

Mixko expands their line of Bone China rings ~ from an updated skull and barbie/ken inspired heads to 1D multi faceted diamond rings... check out the new collection!

WOW. amazing paper cutout slideshow by flickr user hinaaoyama1

Eva Mendez Vogue Italia photo shoot photos. Very artfully done. Classic!

Penang Global City Centre. An entire tech city built in the middle of the Malaysina jungle, with two skyscrapers, medical centers and tons of futuristic stuff...

Schmidt Hammer Lassen recently won the competition to design a hotel and conference center in Lund, Sweden. The building will be located at the city's highest point. This gives me a huge grin.

Changethethought's online portfolio features some great vivid blasts of color, like the one pictured.

Anyone else tired of the whole green-global warming movement? Two young creatives from London made this fake Anti-Green campaign for Hummer.

Stack is a floating drawer unit designed by Shay Alkalay and produced by Established & Sons. A colorful and new way to think about something as boring as storage.