I need to go read this later. Interview with Liisa Puolakka - Head of Brand Visual and Sensorial Experiences

GIANT stick-it notes

Yale Press Retires Paul Rand-Designed Logo; Chris Rubino Brokers Compromise

A video about letterpress that feels nearly as tactile as a final printed piece. Visceral and nostalgic and all together lovely.

Japanese architect Chikara Ohno of the design firm Sinato, has designed the interior for a
Patrick Cox shop in Tokyo, Japan.

The Alliance for Downtown New York came up with The Re:Construction Initiative, a project which recasts construction sites as canvases for public art.

This 'Frequency, lounge' by designer Ross McLeod is featured in the Cicely and Colin Rigg Contemporary Design Award, Australia's richest design award.

WK Interact does not cease to impress with his latest work in Ancona, Italy. Making his name with big productions like this, is not an unusual affari for the French bred street artist.

Wonderful bits of illustration work mixing cut paper and embroidery by Alycia Garcia, a senior at Massachusetts College of Art. I love the textures created from the handmade paper and threads!

High res "seven deadly sins" images taken from the book "The Frenchmen and the Seven Deadly Sins". These are fun woodblock illustrations with a pretty dark theme.

Natural History meets Eco Fashion in this unisex bracelet made from recycled snake vertebrae and leather, by Astali.

An unofficial blue plaque unveiled at the home of the British Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith.

Daimler today has just unveiled the F-CELL Roadster, a wacky-looking vehicle that is a ‘hybrid’ in more ways than one. F-CELL can reach 15 mph and achieve a range of 217 miles.

Deck House by Felipe Assadi, a wooden folded plane encloses a simple house, but with one of the best terraces i´ve seen, the perfect platform for a pool in front of the landscape.

Seattle based production team That-Go wins grand jury prize at sxsw for thunderheist - jerk it music video.

For photographer Leanne Eisen's series "Play" she reconstructs a brothel, a strip club and other sex trade sites in dollhouse scale, then photographs and enlarges those scenes.

Barbie's ultra tricked out customized Volkswagen has a vanity in the trunk (among other things) that pops up.

Excellent list of amazing wine label designs. These aren't your father's wine labels!

This backyard roller coaster was built by Jeremy Reid in Oklahoma. Check out the videos of it in action!

Shrink plastic earrings featuring an MRI of the brain. New, for the neurology enthusiast!

Luca "Bean One" Barcellona is an amazingly talented calligrapher, based out of Milan, Italy, with roots in street art culture, a true guru of hand-drawn letters

James Clar of Dubai's Traffic Design Gallery and his Rat Race series. The idea that we are all rats in a competitive race to the top is a befitting theme for Dubai.

Diane von Furstenberg gets shot by Terry Richardson for the latest issue of French Purple Magazine.

A young artist, Akina, sits in her little studio handcrafting quaint little books. ‘The Little Mermaid’ is the third in line of previous sell out releases.

Erwin Olaf, Dutch fine art and commercial photographer...

Design Within Reach Champagne Chair Contest voting is now open.

Book Ring

Grecia 3191 building, Buenos Aires / DVS, AA - Díaz Varela Sartor, arquitectos

casa suntro by mexican architect jorge hernandez de la garza

Australian jeweler Julia DeVille is inspired by "memento mori" from past centuries, and her pieces involve taxidermy and/or cast bones, as in this striking silver talon ring. Not practical but stunning!

Awesome new illustration work from pposti! This one is for Paste magazine

Encyclopedia Series by Brian Dettmer.

Accident Report Cards by Crowded Teeth - at least SOMETHING will be pretty about that fender bender. Cheap, too!

A pedestrian bridge in the chilean countryside, with an interesting shape that can be seen as a tipsy boat in the bay, a beauty queen tiara, or an archway to town... by Enrique Browne.

Amazing Pixar short film about a robot called Burn-E based on the movie Wall-E.

liu jianhua's first solo show 'dream in conflict' at galleria continua in San gimignano ~ includes dice and poker chips stacked in the outline of shanghai!

Link's lifesized hat/hair in papercraft pretty much blew my mind when i first saw it ~

Holiday season on Main Street is not complete without humble animals and bales of hay, the l.a.Eyeworks stores on Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue turns up the volume on a stable of seasonal sentiments.

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

Sissi Edholm and Lisa Ullenius from Edholm Uilenius created this amazingly beautiful chocolate packaging for the gift shop in Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

'Drawdio' created by adafruit and jay silver is a pencil that lets you draw with the music. The kit is an analog synthesizer circuit that straps to any soft-leaded pencil, and lets you crank out electronic sounds while you sketch.
sketch.

photographs of poinsettia greenhouses outside of austin in seguin, texas. really beautiful, and neat to see the nurseries getting ready for the holidays

Japanese architecture Shuheu Endo strikes another amazing project with Rooftecture, a house built on a small strip of land on a hill facing the sea.

An impressive sports centre in Bakio, Spain by ACXT

1956 Flying Plane Car, so awesome!

Tweetdeck ~ while i'm still not totally sold on twitter (but playing with it more lately - yes, i'm notcot on twitter too) ~ tweetdeck has a pretty sweet UI! (Also i love the dock icon ~ looks fun next to my adium dragon-duck)