watch your empty wine bottles transform into classical urns with these printed felt covers from tokyo's furnish, available at Molla Space.

Beautiful Angela Noonan print which is "an attempt to preserve and showcase the humorous sayings that add richness to Newfoundland culture and tradition." Stay where yer at till i come where yer to.

For those who camp - or use tent pegs - and need a bottle opener... here is a Tent Peg Bottle Opener from the kids at Red Flag Design

"My son had ideas of his own. Obay put a stop to that. From the makers of WhyBecauseISaidSo." - ads have been inescapable in Toronto! and thanks to a submission i found out who is behind it while i was posting pics!

Anneke van Bommel - i discovered her adorably cheeky 'Canadian' pieces at the freshly launched Souvenir Store in the painful "Come Up To My Room" event at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto

Papercraft Howl's Moving Castle. + various links to other sites to helping to stretch your papercraft bone.

Hansen Living introduces three new eco-friendly solid wood kitchen designs by architect Knut Knapper. Handcrafted, warm, all-natural modernism at its best.

Pi10k - This experiment attempts to convert the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence. you pick the scale or ten notes of your choice and watch it go.

To disclose the Renault Scenic which comes equipped with a portable PSP, the Publicis of Rome developed the printed showing the 'indecision' of the driver: either he plays or he directs!

Gorgeous house by Tom Kundig. The house is essentially a collection of attached wood boxes springing from three stone piers that bridge the natural undulations of a hill.

WIS design's Twine Tables - inspired by one of the oldest ways of attaching – with a needle and thread. The wire is twined through the table top, and becomes legs as well as upholding construction.

Passive Aggressive Notes - painfully polite and hilariously hostile writings from shared spaces the world over.

It’s name is “hybrid tea set”, designed by Ronit Baranga from israel for the “dining in 2015″ competition of designboom

“The Graphics of Japanese Dog” by Kazuya Takaoka and Sachiko Kuru shows off the brilliance of the Japanese bred dogs that playfully narrate this very visual book.

This cabin in Normandy by Lode Architects looks ordinary enough from the outside, but the inside is something else.

Remember London based artist INSA from #2471? He's back with a new exhibition called BUY MY LOVE

Graphic, acrylic jewelry from Paraphernalia. Made from vintage images, this is not your grandma's jewelry.

I love the portfolio/blog of Miss Tigri

"How can we be creative when there is so much red tape in Singapore?" - Innovative products from Singaporean designer &Larry.

Hand-painted Hellenistic High-Tops!

Culinary Alchemist John Truex creates sugar blocks (cubes are so yesterday). And he demonstrates that his concoction is also functional in a cup of tea...

1 Nintendo DS + 2 Apple iPhones = iBand.

Monochromatic Fashion. NY Times article about people who like to wear the same color everyday, and none of them wear black...

I like these angel and demon salt and pepper shakers from Russian designer Yar Rassadin for Koziol

Porridge Paper's Plantable herb paper at Etsy. Love the subtle embossing!

Less than 5 days left to vote for your favorite cities to be part of the new Monopoly World Edition

Absolut Machine. Amazing robotic, web connected ping-pong tossing musical instrument, a large-scale electromechanical sculpture built by Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman for Absolut.

To promote in Russia Gmail, Google along with the agency Saatchi & Saatchi, manually created a giant gmail interface in stop motion.

Dubai...where it came from....and where its going. An interesting photo essay

About Above by The June Fox. Solar-powered cardboard planetariums hung up in various public places in Sydney.

The Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer creates new typefaces using a Moog-like analog control interface.

a 1 Minute Movie highlighting the migration from hand written letters to the internet and social networking.

KA-BOOM! Cai Guo-Qiang's gunpowder drawing.

With the aim if designing a Swedish functional house, Landström Arkitekter drew the Swedish ambassadors humble abode in Pretoria. A great 700 square meter building filled to the brim with the best Swedish design.

The map of social networks around the world more updated.

I've always held Luigi Colani's eccentricities, progressive and nature based design forms in high admiration. His website chronicles 5 decades of his work.

Embrace Lounge by Tanya Aguiniga.

3 posters by the multi-disciplinary collective We are not you.

Construction progress of the new Oslo Opera House by Snoetta Architects. The project is based on slopes, converting the roof in a massive public space.

The Sirch Babybett Suiko can be used as a rocking cradle, crib, or toddler bed. The only piece of furniture you'll need for your baby's first four or five years.

Aquala Bath Caddy designed by Luciano Lorenzatti for Umbra. Made from totally sustainable Bamboo, and has an ingenious slide-in tray to hold a glass of wine or champers while you take a bath.

Really clever ads for Right Guard from Creative Director / Photographer / Art Director: Wongi Ryu. Man he just did everything for these ads.

Piclens - FF extension for browsing images (like cover flow) on popular sites. This should be the death of the traditional slideshow.

a walk in the books up in the sky
staircase
bookcase

Lime Studio’s coffee table looks impossible from the first angle. A metal coffee table exploring triangular shapes creating a piece of expressive furniture for the domestic interior.

ARCHIZOOM presents: Julius Shulman Photographe, "A Life for Architecture", an exhibition at the Frankfurt Museum of Architecture.
February 21 - April 4, 2008.