Incredibly large (and regularly updated) gallery of vintage sardine and squid packaging!

Fabio Cuttica photographed the annual Miss Prisoner pageant at the Good Shepherd Prison in Bogota, Colombia, a beauty pageant held in honor of the Virgin of Mercedes, the patron saint of prisoners.

Peel... the new spot for NikeLab... created by W+K Tokyo... produced by A52... inspired in Neill Blomkamp’s Evolution spot...

Colorstrology (from PANTONE) formatted for the iPhone. You get a color to go with your horoscope! Kinda scary how accurate they are...

Comedy video about a boy turning into a sheep. The film was put onto VHS then re-digitized to give it an authentic 1982 look.

Scala is a youth choir in Aarschot, Belgium, roughly sixty teenage girls, conducted by Stijn Kolacny and accompanied by Steven Kolacny. The video has been directed by Steven Huybrechts.

So, maybe i do need some help as things have been growing... want to be my intern? Looking for good design loving internet junkies!

TikiTags ~ make rfid links out of your real world stuff

I love the Roto family by motion designer Yann le Coroller. See his other sweet character, Carl, on post 5439.

Nice packaging design from Denver based designer Jim Hargreaves.

A flourescent tube light casing made by recording and graphing 1 second of the familiar buzzing sound the light makes. By Matthew Plummer-Fernandez.

Hidden Radio - Australian designer John Den Nieuwenhuizen based in SF

Moss graffiti by Anna Garforth.

Tamsin van Essen's Contamination cups are a little on the gruesome side - each appears to have been infected by a different bacteria type, bringing the microscopic to the macroscopic level.

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...

airship... it's a beautiful spot for stolichnaya vodka... to promote the new flavour blackberry... produced by psyop...

Katrin Schacke's Stanley series of photographs - a lovely and odd collection of photos. I especially love the photographs with objects in motion.

A slight modification to an "ordinary everyday" shovel turns it into an elegant coat-stand. The "Stiller Gefährte" by David olschewski.

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.

A look at the industrial surrounds of Cockatoo Island, one of the venues for the 2008 Sydney Biennale.

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

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...

Brilliant French Pepsi ad with Beckham as Indiana Jones, Thierry Henry in a tuxedo dribbling the ball in the jungle, Messi in a space suit, Ronaldinho, and other soccer superstars doing crazy stuff.

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.

Awesome Royal Botania Hammock! Compact stainless steel frame hammock with batyline cloth and attached pillow.

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.

A great piece by Torafu Architects; the renovation of 3 rooms in the boutique hotel, CLASKA, in Tokyo. There is a unique cubby hole for all your belongings!

Recycled Dumpster. Sip Waste by Oliver Bishop Young

Besides iPhone shots being the trend, it seems couples have a different perspective from their mom and pop predecessors. From converse shoes for the bride and groom, mini cooper limos, to live webcast of the ceremony.

Golden Shellback ~ awesome new technology that will coat anything (your electronics - inside and out- or even ancient scrolls) ~ to be completely waterproof and still function. Watch the videos!!

PAN_07 chair has often been described as the the first cantilever chair epitomizing the 21st century post industrial age. First introduced during last year's salone del mobile it has won multiple design awards.

In a world without graphics or motion, emerges PAC-TEXT!

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

17 Cool Speakers Designs that Look Better than They Sound

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!)

Picked up this Electrohome Circa 711 "Saturn" record player from Prototype in Austin. Works!

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

Photographer Sam Taylor-Wood shot famous movie actors with heart-felt sobs for her "Crying Men" collection.

Life Fitness challenged designer to come up with an urban fitness machine... and gprero design won the competition by having it disappear into an Ottoman-Bench concept dubbed the "Otto-Bench"

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

Amazing trippy illustrations.

Panda nerds can be stylish. Small pic doesn't reveal the full furry goodness offered by Nike as part of their Tokyo Dunk series.

Some awesome renders mixed with some top notch photography.

Over at Unbeige they are speculating that sunglasses dipped in viscous liquids are a hot new trend in the making... what's next?