This video is crazy. It's a 30 second short shot by Martin Nordqvist and animated by Magnus Engsfors.

A truly bizarre collection of front covers from the satirical French magazine of the 1960s - Hara Kiri

Fashion Week Photo Diary: Team Lorick - A really fun behind the scenes look of ideas, prop pick up, building sets, and shooting!

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.

The Spizak.com is the “online” portfolio for Polish designer and digital illustrator Adam Spizak, who currently resides in London, UK.

The Pentagon Memorial by KBAS Studio will open tomorrow.

Matsui's self portraits incorporate seemingly irrelevant motifs such as toys, cosmos, mushrooms and such. Including herself, all the motifs are depicted as if they are something other than themselves, leaving powerful impressions to viewers.

Cowon has announced the new S9 Curve PMP. S9 features a robust 500 MHz CPU, Bluetooth connectivity, digital television tuner, and media player functions.

A fresh take on a classic - Roma Lubimov's CMYK pen.

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.

Noriko does amazing things with book carvings, something I wouldn't do with mine.

2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony

Fun packaging challenge ~ UGLY Pizza: looks aren't everything... taste is.

Doesn't this remind you of the iconic house by John Lautner in Hollywood Hills? Anyway, this new house is also sleek and lovely.

Fun video (with great narration) of some of the Monocle Top 50 Things To Improve Your Life ~ they certainly make you want to hop the first jet to Italy and Japan...

Hahaha, Mad Magazine apparently mashed Steve Jobs into some Calvin and Hobbes strips... creating the hilarious Calvin and Jobs!

Anni Rapinoja is a Finnish environmental activist and artist, whose project "Wardrobe of Nature" uses plants to make clothing, shoes, bags etc for people in a very beautiful way.

Favorite toys from SDCC ~ Rocketworld IWG's tiny adorable Zipper Pulls and Airborne Paratroopers!!!

Bespoke Saville Row tailor Richard James got together with Condor Cycles on a beautiful bike!

Latest packaging discovery ~ Pratima Ayurvedic Skincare ~ see the line and display ~ also the texture and process of the products are fascinating as well.

Chandeliers in the Met Opera lobby were recently dismantled so the 49,000 pieces of crystal can be replaced.

Great pictures of the Neue National Gallery by Mies van der Rohe in Berlin. Photos by Guillermo Hevia G.

The Department of Doing has canned some of their inspiration, a humorous way to pick up your design buddies on an ideas low. No better place for this than notcot

An archive of one of Melbourne's most important popular culture photographers, Rennie Ellis.

TAD Gear Glow In The Dark Ranger Eyes v3.0 ~ Charge it up with your flashlight and it will glow for hours similar to luminova...

Insurgents Wilderness Gruppo (IWG) ~ the super armed adorable creatures will be launching as tiny blind boxed zipper pulls and parachuters at sdcc! See all the pics!

Popagandist Ron English pasted up oversized images of his striking Obama-Lincoln fusion image in Boston.

Amazing images of art, text, fonts and words created from the kings of the animal world. Typography never looked so good. Can you guess the animal?

NEW RELEASE: Print Liberation shows you how to start screen printing today using the most basic elements. With tips and troubleshooting from Print Liberation, you’ll soon be able to print on the bottom of a ship in a hurricane.

LOL VOGUE? Jezebel gets all LOL Cats on Vogue... and while the captions could be better - we love the concept.

Oooh Makezine has some awesome how-to's on turn things like credit cards into guitar picks!

Sometimes what we all need to get some perspective is.... a drive up the coast, and a birthday party at the tip of Point Dume?

Need a chair? Robot chair follows you around using RFID technology. Designed by Jelte van Geest.

Cool New Belgium Beer ad on restoring the White Salmon River by removing Condit Dam. The 125-foot high dam is an impassable barrier and has limited salmon and steelhead to only three river miles.

Tr8Tool.com is a colorful database with Reuters, Bloomberg, ISIN codes and direct links to Financial Calendars of all major stocks. Simple and useful for those who need it, nice to see for those who don't.

A beautifully designed turntable by Avid that carries a hefty $24,000 price tag.

Another mythological creature of north america ~ manac trucking's Flying Moose! Which has a great legend behind its origin!

The New York Times officially launched their TimesMachine site that lets you see the original layouts of every New York Times paper since 1851. Check out the sinking of the Titanic (shown) and Lincolns assassination.

Coca-Cola has oversized robot vending machines lumbering around Tokyo pinching the heads of people who don't buy a coke.

Spout lamp by Eric Holzer just another lamp that show a simplicity in design. The Spout lamp build in flexible - where the flexible connection between the lamp allow for many custom setups from user.

The jewelery designer OctopusMe casts real shells, starfish, octopus tentacles, and other objects in silver and inlays them with precious stones.

For anyone who has even woken up in a strange bed and not remembered how they got there, "Walk of No Shame" is a hilarious new spot for Amp Energy Drinks from BBDO NY.

Nice ceramic creations from Argentinean artist Lola Goldstein. I especially like the practical stuff like the egg cups and tea pot.

Wow. An automatic Mahjong table... it automatically shuffles and builds walls for you! (I wonder if that means it can automatically rig a game too?)

Sweet Reusable Bag - and story! Target, Newsweek, and Terracycle team up to create these ReTote bags out of old Target Plastic Bags - which you can send in to get a coupon for a free bag.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the student & worker rebellions in Paris, Mai 1968. 40 iconic posters created during the uprising have been reproduced as handmade screen prints.