Monkey Balls! Surprise birthday floral arrangement just came, and i'm totally mesmerized by these things... what IS it?

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!

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

Merchant 4 has some beautifully functional kitchen accessories like the charcoal cube/soap, woody spoons, knife sharpeners and more 10% off!

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

The newest trailer for J.J. Abrams' Star Trek

Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome has designed the watches which made from moon dust, parts of the Apollo 11 rocket and bits of spacesuits.

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

For the Hi

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"

morfai "selections" Experiments with illustration. [Editor's Note: brilliant! you have to click and see it in action for sure]

Swedish Karin Robling uses a .44 Remington Magnum to design her furniture. The inspiration comes from a detective novel she has written.

At the Psycho Buildings exhibition at the Hayward Do-Ho Suh stretched sheer red nylon to create a false ceiling with a set of stairs suspended from the centre looking like an entrance into an invisible attic.

Print called The Voyage from Erik Otto. Limited edition of 100 6 color screen print

General Mills recently redesigned a few of their cereal brands - Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry. I like the clean design and the close-up of the characters.

“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.”

Asako Narahashi: Kawaguchiko, 2003

pencilworks are the mixture of pencil and ps work of images.

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!

This is the latest creation from LA artist Damian Francis Wagner for Dola a public garden space dedicated to the arts. The piece will be on view at Dola 1423 1/2 Abbot Kinney Venice Ca. thru Nov.

Some pretty interesting sculptures assembled entirely out of typewriter parts.

Great illustration by Jen Wang for the Penguin Classics cover of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which will be a movie starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett coming out in December)...

There's a lot of cool works at Cerasoli-Lebasse. Melissa Haslam is a new favorite of mine!

Japanese architect Shuhei Endo designed this bubble-like structure, called Bubbletecture H, housing an institution and exhibition for earth environmental study.

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

In Portugal, pavement is synonymous of art. Being usually used in sidewalks, it's in plazas and atriums that this tradition finds the deepest expression.

Stefan Glerum's gorgeous drawings about the obsessive nature of crate digging/record collecting.

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.

Tap'dNY is a bottled water for the new age: an honest and local alternative for all New Yorkers. They purify and bottle New York City's famous tap water, leaving out the malarkey and far journey included in other bottled waters.

Audrey Kawasaki's solo show in ROME! See pics of the new pieces ~ and some great close ups too...

Interesting wood structure for this centipede like pavillion in Portugal by Guilherme Machado.

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.

Image Metrics create incredible realism. With a new technology it's possible to make photo-realistic characters like the one above. Check the video

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.

"DrawBone" pen by Ming Tong. This bone shape highlighter pen can be joined together to create a "longer bone".

The Pollen light by TwoCreate - check out their website for other gorgeous products...

Bring new meaning to the term "shotgun wedding" and get married literally ANYWHERE. All you need is some witnesses, a church official and your very own $50,000 inflatable church.

Melissa of Brazil's latest collaborations including those with Zaha Hadid, Disney & The Little Prince as well as other special editions and the 2009 collection completely redefine stylish, ecological and plastic shoes.

Liqurious Happy Hour time ~ what we've been drinking with our eyes, the best are all rounded up to help get your weekend started!

"Alcatraz" is a prison-themed restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. The patrons are escorted to their "cells" before they are served cocktails named "Lethal Injection". Weird.