Pile of dirt? Nope, five spice powder. A balancing act to find the perfect harmony between the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.

These massive falling Tetris block sculptures might be found somewhere on the streets of Australia.

Jorine Oosterhoff's playful Mad Hatter tableware. Love the oversized lids.

The Church of the Holy Cross is beautifully minimalist building by KHR Arkitekter in Jyllinge, Denmark.

Nanotube sheets produce sound.
I'd like to sleep in sheets playing ambient music.

The Puzzle Calendar lets you build 2009 like a Lego Castle - and tear it down anytime your plans change. See this and more Nylon calendar picks for 2009!

Sweet Gifs are fascinatingly mesmerizing... just can't stop clicking through them...

I love the videos and float from Cartoon Network with the Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends at the Macy's Day Parade!

Love Steven Holl's intervention in the stairwell at NYU's Philosophy Department - an exploration in porosity.

Wow. Amazing screen printed gig posters from Micah Smith for 10$ ~ gorgeous and ready to frame, that's quite a holiday deal

Here is a look at the new redesigned Gatorade packaging.

Maria White Mebane's Trunk Show at A+R today!!!

Hald Engel and his team have designed a classic looking visual identity and labels for Danish micro-brewery Indslev Bryggeri.

The 8bitpeoples - The 8bits of Christmas ~ i'm not a big xmas music person AT ALL, but these are amazing... i can just imagine pixel santa dancing on rooftops with his pixeldeer...

Light Play, an urban art installation for Luminato 2008, Toronto’s annual Festival of Arts and Creativity, played on the concept of a 1950’s dance hall.

Design Milk's "I Like to Rock" eames rocker poster is just too cute... who doesn't smile looking at it?

What do you do when Heineken asks you to design their first shop? Do you place furniture and displays into a given space? Or you pour furniture into a building in the heart of Amsterdam, as if we were filling a cold fresh glass of X-tra cold Heineken?

Patrick Leger's old styled illustrations are so mesmerizing ~ my favorite is his After The Heist promo image

Belvedere : the new helmets from Ateliers Ruby. Really classy !

Awesome Food Chain skull poster of animal silhouettes by Mark Forsman Design

Gareth Pugh created a neon bulb christmas tree for the Topshop Oxford Circus location!

All you need is a picture of a key to instantly make a duplicate of that key. UCSD - "Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show"

Loving Ron English's new KISS inspired show at the Shooting Gallery. Old masters reborn!

Loving the Evils illustration by Yee Ting Kuit in the portfolio section

This antique Skippy Racer is absolutely beautiful.

Toby Ziegler's geometric sculptures reference computer mapping programs with a figurative element.

Christopher David Ryan's desktop wallpaper for Kitsune Noir's Wallpaper Project is gorgeous!

While watching Chuck tonight, i was smitten by the black/white/green decor and furniture picks - check out the headboard!

“By writing thousands of protest letters every year, Amnesty International Malaysia has played a role in freeing dozens of political prisoners. But really, it’s just a drop in the ocean. There are still dozens more still being wrongfully imprisoned for their opinions.find out how you can help, log on to http://www.aimalaysia.org/ to become a freedom writer. Amnesty International. Write for freedom.”

Katrin Olina creates “fantastical worlds of multilayered imagery and ethereal characters.”

Concepts for a new skincare line.

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

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

Paris/First look at Tim Biskup’s “O/S OPERATING SYSTEM” at Addict Galerie ~ one of the coolest parts is how the paintings are presented ~ fun stands!

A collection of Autochromes. The man behind this project was French banker Albert Kahn, who documented life in 50 different countries around the world between 1909-1931.

Some pretty interesting sculptures assembled entirely out of typewriter parts.

Akira Sakamoto is known for his clean and modern design. But that's not all...

Kyle Bean's A Guide for the Unlucky - an amazing pop-up book centering around superstitions.

ad campaign by 123 klan promoting the grand opening of the first Nike sportswear store in Mexico City…

I love Debbie Smyth's series titled 'Pins and Threads' - drawings of electrical pylons made with thread and pins. I like how the lines are continuous giving you insight into the construction of the drawing.

Globetrotter and maharishi get together on a luggage collection. Unfortunately it will only be auctioned and will not actually go on sale. The military green with dark brown leather handles looks fantastic.

California leads the way in the U.S. with it's very own High-Speed Rail.

Bobby Neel Adams, an american photographer, uses photography to explore the human body and the aging process.In this work, Family Tree, he explores also the semblance between parents and their children.

Each of the 4 shop windows is allocated to one designer or studio. Instead of usual shop windows, ILT has small galleries of design.

Inspired by Japanese design methods and informed by warm California modernism, the Leura house embodies a new and decidedly Australian brand of contemporary sustainable architecture.

Nokia release a new 8800 model called Carbon Arte. Engineered from carbon fibre, titanium, polished glass and stainless steel, the Nokia 8800 Carbon Arte is for individuals who appreciate uncompromised high performance.