Rune Fjord and Rosan Bosch (the former Bosch & Fjord)'s design of LEGO's development department in Billund.

Philippe-Albert Lefebvre's 'Hublot Sledge' combines ash wood for the structure, hand-sewn leather for the seat, carbon fibre for the handles and steel for the runners. "Engineered Craft"

Cécile Colle and Ralf Nuhn's ‘Exit-Wall’ is a modular installation comprising of 200 illuminant exit signs that mark the entrance to the Kinetica Art Fair, which runs from February 4th-6th in London.

IGNOBLE has just released the Mona Cocoon Backpack, quality made in the U.S.A. and hand assembled in small runs.

Zoom, an exhibition dedicated to Milanese photographers Aldo Ballo and Marirosa Toscani Ballo at Vitra Design Museum. The Ballo’s archive tells an history about the italian design. The exhibit runs 26.03.2011 to 03.10.2011.

Electric colors explode from black backgrounds in Maya Hayuk's psychedelic murals. Vivid abstracts mandala-like with their symmetries. 'Heavy Light' runs through December 22 at Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn.

Dutch writers Willemijn van Herwijnen and Anneloes van Gaalen wrote a book which features failures and design by the likes of Stefan Sagmeister, Atypyk and more.

Carsten Höller's Soma at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin runs until February 6th, 2011.

Currently running at M+B Gallery in LA is 'Locals Only' - a great exhibition of photography taken in the 70s by Hugh Holland, capturing the burgeoning skate culture.

Sportiva Hobnails ~ Screw in/out high-end metal studs for traction in icy and snowy conditions for your running shoes/etc - inspired by rally car tires!

The winners (and runners-up) of Stereohype.com's 6th annual button badge design competition winners were announced/released. The overall collection now consists of a whopping 567 individual button badges from designers and artist from around the world!

Autum Straight Jacket ~ is this the macbook air case i've been waiting for? Also for iPads. Simple leather sleeve, limited production runs of 50, hand made in the USA

Philips recently launched Econova, a green TV with a remote that runs on solar power. Only available in Europe.

Sou Fujimoto likes clouds but he makes buildings. The results are incredible.

Fishing for compliments by Jan Bernstein, Max Kickinger, Woeishi Lean and Sebastian Neitsch. The 36 poles react to eac other and users, running servo monitors and producing distinctive sounds to form a chord.

Nike hired illustration team Brosmind to create a campaign to promote running awareness in Spain. The 19 designs show characters in a variety of activities - everything from running errands to running from someone trying to steal your wallet.

A master-work of typography by Joby Cummings, wherein each of the seven deadly sins are woven into the unmistakable likeness of a skull. The best t-shirt we know of for tracking how to avoid eternal damnation.

Core77 has a look at Buro North's Tree Like Wayfinding Signage ~ which receives an AGDA Award!

Jim Campbell's "Scattered Light" installation turns Madison Square Park into an amplified version of a Lite-Brite, illustrating figures running through the park- Magical!

Milky Star is a ceramic wardrobe formed in the likeness of a natural model. Star-like pads, some with and some without hooks, interlock like fingers of two hands. Milky Star is a single unit working as a wardrobe for a wall. By Pudelskern, Austria.

'Grid-it' by Cocoon is a threaded mat made of rubber-threaded bands running vertically and horizontally allowing you to keep your gadgets neatly organized inside your bag or office.

Claesson Koivisto Rune collaborate with J. & L. Lobmeyer to create these gorgeous carafes for Vienna Design Week, 'vindobona'.

Having produced elegant responsive lighting installations for the likes of the V&A and Massive Attack, London based collective, United Visual Artists, have unveiled their first permanent public artworks in Toronto

'ecooler' by mey kahn + boaz kahn ~ beautiful screen is a system of hollow ceramic tiles that cools a room by running water through its channels.

What happens when all the oil runs out? Take a trip from 1900 to 2080 and beyond to see a possibility, based on the Hubbert Peak theory on oil.

alessiTab by stefano giovannoni ~ runs on android 2.1, 1GB internal, Wifi, DVB with antenna, mic + camera, HDMI/USB/SD, digital frame...

An Interactive Infographic about the famous Munich Oktoberfest by Students of University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in collaboration with Bayrischer Rundfunk.

The Dell Inspiron Duo tablet. Impressive hybrid that is part netbook, part tablet with a 10-inch screen, dual-core Atom N550 and running Windows 7 Premium.

Tongues is located at Theobaldgasse 16 in Vienna and must be one of the coolest music and delicatessens I've ever seen. Interior design by Peter Fehringer and his wife Gabriele (who run the del) with Christopher Schweiger (who runs the music section).

Amazing spot for "Mini Countryman" using new methods in CG technology. Directed by Brian Beletic. Love how its runs all over Milan!

Gallery Orsta from Claesson Koivisto Rune is a glowing gallery in Kumla, Sweden.

'Phasma' by Takram Design engineering is a hexapedal running robot that can run dynamically like a living organism.

Porsche 918 Spyder | Will "The Eco-SuperPorsche" make production? ~See video of car running on it's own power for the first time!

LIKEarchitects' 'BusStopSymbiosis' is one of the five artistic interventions selected by Scott Burnham to emerge in downtown Porto, Portugal as part of Bairro Criativo.

Photo by Manuel Archain, one of the photographers of the gallery of contemporary art Pabellon 4. The exhibition "As I was saying." runs August 31 - October 2.

Like Butters’ Light MKI have a distinctive, industrial arm-shaped design. They’re designed to be mounted ‘pretty much anywhere you can put a screw or a little g-clamp’, be it ceiling, wall or desk.

"Sculptural gestures in air" by Cocky Eek.

Duffy London love to play with seemingly impossible configurations. I love this runner table that will be launched at London Design Week 2010.

Swiftpoint is a new mouse that is held like a pen and has a very gratifying scroll wheel that can be used by tilting the mouse and running it along a flat surface.

Cute 'Belly-Up' salt and pepper shakers by Imm Living.

Superheadz have designed a digital video camera that shoots “Super 8 like” videos – the Digital Harinezumi 2. And now you can also have this limited edition artist versions by Ed Templeton and Mark Borthwick.

The Stallion Wine of Angelus Estate's label depicts a running horse with gloss puff-up varnish contrasting with a black matte finish. The logo of Angelus Estate is printed with matte copper hotfoil symbolizing the mountains, sky and soil.

Claesson Koivisto Rune created this series of shelves called Hillside. Going up and down in bright colours these furnitures are really artful pieces for room decoration.

ElliptiGO - Elliptical bicycle delivers fun workout experience that closely mimics outdoor running.

Eric Joyner's exhibition “Donut Logic” replaces human life with metallic robots acting like regular humans. lt runs from August 14th to September 1st.

Stella McCartney's Fall/Winter 2010 collection for Adidas includes a range of glow-in-the-dark apparel—perfect for night runners and cyclists.

Ad aired on Emirates in-flight movie screens at exactly the same time as the plane was accelerating down the runway. It allowed viewers to watch the car screen speed up and experience the closest feeling to an actual test drive. By Impact BBDO

Likea is a pinhole camera made to look like a Leica camera.

It isn’t just the clothing that’s a piece of art in this boutique- the Runway boutique in Ho Chi Minh City designed by CLS Architetti is dedicated solely to LUXURY and this interior almost puts the clothing itself to shame.

In addition to running HungerGatherer, NY designer Todd St. John has some really amazing experimental & non-commercial work on his personal site.

'Primary Shakers' by Imm Living, this trio of salt, pepper and sugar shakers impart a new inspired setting for mealtime.

Castor + Pollux on Brighton seafront are holding the first UK exhibition of illustrator Charley Harper's work! Private view is Friday 2 July. Exhibition runs 3 July - 5 September 2010.

W101, the first table lamp made from paper of Claesson Koivisto Rune for Wästberg.

Sotheby’s first ever outdoor selling exhibition at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire is up and running. The exhibition, in association with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, presents 25 unique/limited-edition works of contemporary art.

Students from the BA Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College will be running a pop up shop named '2060'. Second years students have designed and produced objects for sale. June 1-7

The 2010 RZ Ultima Concept by Racer X Design is a car intended to rule the tracks. Based on the GTR, the concept does not alter the chassis or running gear of the vehicle, but concentrates on the more aggressive, supercar look.

Everyone likes to show off how traveled they are, so why not show it off in style. Scratch off where you've been on this gold Scratchmap to reveal a different image underneath. Designed by Luckies of London.

A lake house by Claesson Koivisto Rune is located near the Drevviken lake with its own little cove.

Milky Star is a ceramic wardrobe formed in the likeness of a natural model. Milky Star is a single unit working as a wardrobe for a wall as well as a repeatable object that can be assembled to a larger area. By Pudelskern.

Amazing paintings by Norwegian artist Jørund Aase Falkenberg.

24 hours, 40 areas and London become a life-sized playground on 23.04.10 with Nike Grid. Runners register online to "claim your streets", running between phonebooths to score points.

New Heroes dolls from Momiji are realeased today. This one is named Yee-Ha! She likes watercress and Maya Angelou. Each one is packaged in an inflated pillow bag.

A collaboration between 3 architects, a glass artist and a painter, an abandoned old schoolhouse has been turned into a Swedish retreat that fit for a King, the Råman House & Studio by Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR).

In the Rodarte S/S 2010 Collection runway show, the models wore body art applied by a Sharpie permanent marker, as well as couture.

Matt Pyke is the head of Universal Everything, a creative studio. He runs the studio with over 26 participants from all over the world from a little garden shed in Sheffield, UK. Talk at the Creative Summit NRW of the ADC Germany.

Offering the likes of scones, brownies, muffins, biscuits and, of course, the ubiquitous cupcakes, Outsider Tart is a wonderfully chic slice of American indulgence in West London....

Amazing images of the making of the last creation by Studio Glithero exhibited for Design by Performance.

With art from the likes of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Julian Opie alongside public submissions, Michael Landy's 'Art Bin' is a comment on creative failure... see it soon though, it's set to be destroyed at the end of the week.....

A team from the BBC1 science programme 'Bang Goes The Theory' has unveiled a car that runs on coffee. Car-puccino, the car is actually a modified version of 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco.

This futuristic fitness center by 4of7 Architecture features 390 backlit panels in different shape and size suspended from the ceiling, fulfill the client request of a ‘cloud-like’ interior.

FEATUREDWorking out while looking down the stunning NY views... running while staring at the teeny tiny statue of liberty in the distance... check out the stunning gym at the Standard NY

Adidas Originals shows more love for geeks and launches online trailer for ZX Runner, an 8bit video game offered with each pair of ZX 500!

One of the upcycled couture gowns from Gary Harvey's New York Fashion Week runway show comprised 30 copies of the Financial Times.

MWM : Crystals & Lasers Exhibition. Since Gallery. Paris, France. Huge Geometry and Color in this series of 17 canvases and Mega-Mural. Exhibition runs through March 12th.

The »Temporary Museum for New Design« Exhibition by Vicente Garcia Jimenez, Milano/Italy, runs from Apr 14 2010 thru Apr 19 2010.

Puma produced a fun video with Japanese designer Miharaya Yuhiro. Pumaneko runs through Tokyo!

»The Essence of Things« Exhibition by Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein/Germany, runs from Mar 20 2010 thru Sept 19 2010.

VIDEOTitle sequence for the popular, long-running Dutch children's programme, Het Klokhuis, directed by Johnny Kelly at Nexus Productions.

FEATUREDMacallan Ice Ball "Machine" ~ runs on gravity and the frictional heating capacity of copper at room temperature with the icea... within moments perfect spheres!

Berlin based designer and director Timo Boese updates lowerground.com. New motion and static projects for Nike, a-ha and Lamborghini. The site is running on cargo.

Bjørn Jørund Blikstad's stunning optical illusion of a shelving system

From the company that brought you Shepard Fairey's Obama hope stickers, comes the "Pop Culture Parody Pack," with Don Knotts, Rod Serling, Priss form Blade Runner, Frank Booth and more. Sweeeeet!

Wooden SuperCar Maniwa is a street-legal car in Japan, and runs at the maximum speed of 90km. It is on sale for about US$ 44,000.

FEATUREDHave you seen the White Rabbit all over NYC today and last night? At the office, in the park, ice skating... awesome video of it projected and running across building even!

A collage of fantastical imagery brought to life in layers of cut paper and wood, The Way of Flow features artist Patrick Gannon. C.A.V.E Gallery, Venice, CA opening Dec 4, 2009 7-11pm. Runs until Jan 2, 2010. With group show.

Fashion zombies, robots, and monsters as part of Fashematical, a new Australian comic book about spooky, scary runways!

Rifle Paper Co. ~ illustrated notes calling cards ~ "Custom illustrated portraits on flat note cards and calling cards - Whimsical portraits painted in your likeness by Anna herself. Hand lettering available."

Lord Likely’s Extra-Ordinary Inter-Active Moustache-O-Rama, created by Michael Whaite for lordlikely.com

VIDEOTo kick off the first day of McDonald's Free Coffee promotion (running November 16- 29, 2009), McDonald's created a unique Stop Motion video showcasing an artist's troupe building a mural made entirely out of McDonald's coffee.

Ryan McGinness is going renegade and taking back the 'middleman' from auction houses by hosting an artist-direct auction tonight, comprised of 16 lots by the likes of Eric Parker, Eve Sussman, and Spencer Tunick.

Amazing photos of coiled snakes by Paris-based photographer Guido Mocafico, whose work has appeared in Numèro, Paris Vogue, Big, The Face, and Wallpaper.

The 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009 currently at Makuhari Messe, Chiba City. Wow. Nissan Land Glider. The 2-seated fully electric car meant to be an urban runabout, thus extremely narrow in size to ease congestion...

Renowned photographer Rankin talks about his new charity project and the art of being destroyed by the likes of Beck, U2, Damien Hirst, Marianne Faithfull, Jarvis Cocker, Ian Brown and more.

What do you do with an old Vespa motorcycle? Turn it into a Vespa Rocking Horse of course.

Urban Sketchers is a collective of artists from around the world who draw what they see on the streets. All countries represented. The likes of Tommy Kane. Gabi Campanario, Simo Capecchi and many more.

Ralston & Bau was commissioned by Figgjo to make a permanent installation in the reception hall of The House of Food in Stavanger, Norway. A central wall that runs three flights high was transformed into a generous, vertical feast table.

an awesome exhibition currently running in Japan: 33RPM | My Favorite 12inch Records Exhibition in Gunma Vol.01...

“_______ I Met And Liked” notebooks available through Archie Grand are modern and minimalist, yet colorful and clever.

Graphic designer Maria Papadonikolakis of Brooklyn, NY, has designed this first-aid kit with the likeness of former World Heavyweight Champion Muhammad Ali.

A runner-up in the Earth and Space category of the Royal Observatory’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest.

Perhaps my favorite Hello Kitty figure yet - Hello Kitty x Caperino & Peperone Figure - as hello kitty mania runs rampant, love that cap and pep only appear when glowing in the dark!

AMY CASEY "Flexible Bridges" new paintings
being exhibited in her Solo Show "Uncertain Times" at ZG GALLERY, Chicago. Artist Reception, Friday September 11, 2009 5-8 runs through October 2009

Patrick Runte recreates scenes from old video games in his Oskar Schlemmer-inspired series Jump and Run.

Ford trucks with Dewalt - now keeping a running tally of what construction tools are back on board and which may have been left on the job site. It's part of Tool Link, a $1,500 RFID tag option for Ford trucks.

A sneak preview of Ron Arad: No Discipline, Arad's first major retrospective in the US. Running at MoMA from August 2 - October 10, 2009.

10 Graphic Designers to create a postcard inspired by the newly opened High Line Park, which is a reclaimed elevated railway that runs along the west side of Manhattan that has been transformed into New York City's finest public space.

New Nike+ website, plus new SportBand. Nike really did make running much more fun. The sportband comes in yellow, pink and red.

Transformers tees ~ as much as i'm mixed on the film, i've been loving this super buttery soft tee when running around in a "don't bother me" mood...

The Target bookcase from Arketipo provides plentiful space for those heavyweight, hardbacked fashion and design publications from the likes of Phaidon and Taschen.

A few of us know that singer Bryan Adams is also a great photographer. His portraits includes the likes of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mickey Rourke, Victoria Beckham, Cindy Crawford, Heather Graham...just to name a few.

FEATUREDFresh from London ~ Hands on with the new HTC Hero ~ running HTC Sense/Android. It is looking pretty awesome, particularly the way it deals with Contacts and syncing based on people across flickr, fb, email, etc...

Göteborg want their citizen to ride their bikes and has therefore been offering free bike service and is currently running a cute ad on TV. The ad was produced by Kristofer Ström and Varelsen.

Designer Casimir was inspired by the ladder’s original form and function – a movable stairway – and an immovable shelving unit have now been merged one, by extending the ladder’s rungs into shelves and cases of different sizes.

Irish college IADT is currently running their end of year Graduate show for 2009,here are the online portfolios of of the department of Visual Communications.

REPLAY is Reynier Molenaar's international-award-winning short film about a free-runner who who has exactly 4 minutes to catch a mysterious thief.

Vitaminwater are running a design competition to create a huge poster to be wrapped around this building in central London. $800 cash prize plus festival tickets.

Very talented Ann Wood offers a full DIY project as a guest in D*S : little cardboard horses running through walls !

May 10, 2009: The Hubble community bids farewell to the soon-to-be decommissioned Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In tribute to Hubble's longest-running optical camera, this is WFPC2's final "pretty picture."

Pixel City is a procedurally-generated city by Shamus Young. For the non-coders out there, this essentially means that based on a certain set of rules, this 3-D city is generated dynamically each time the program runs.

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's Prada Transformer opened on April 25th, 2009 in Seoul to host Miuccia Prada's nomadic "Waist Down" exhibition, an inaugural exhibition featuring the skirts of Miuccia Prada, running through May 24.

Talking Gadget Theater ~ a scene from Blade Runner, starring the Kindle 2 and iPod Shuffle...

A great little animated movie has been produced by UK character artist James Jarvis for Nike running [Editor's Note - brilliantly done!]

The 43rd edition of Art Cologne, which runs from April 22 through 26, is the first under the director Daniel Hug. Here are some works from the fair.

The recession's effect on art. Here is a running roundup of layoffs, budget reductions, exhibition cancellations, deaccessions, admission increases, and closings caused by the economic downturn.

Recently made popular by Dee and Ricky, lego accessories have been popping up everywhere from Marc Jacobs runway shows to Kanye West’s daily fits.

Running Fools - Put your camera on a 2 second timer and then just run as fast as you can and as far as you can.

Beyond how cool this Erin Fetherston’s exclusive jumper from the Spring ’09 runway at New York Fashion Week is at Revolve Clothing's one of a kind The LIST ~ i love the photography!!!

Coffee Top Caddy by Josh Harris is designed to help the coffee runner with people’s orders. Coffee accessories now can be placed onto the tops of the coffee cups.

Claesson Koivisto Rune designed this BELLE- a wine decanter look-alike ring holder cum jewelry box for Swedish company Skultuna.

A time lapse video of stills from google street view, crossing the golden gate bridge. Gives a fun impression of what it would be like to sit atop a street view car as it drives.

Proenza Schouler teamed with Knoll Textiles for an interiors textiles line that reflects the fashion house's signature style. Here is the fabric collection, held against pieces from the boy’s Fall 2009 runway presentation.

runner up in mexican architectural awards 'premio CEMEX' by anonimous-led

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Paul Hoc is not a robot, it's a drawing machine imagined by Objetgraphik ! Like any ice dancer he runs a program. Paul Hoc is not a printer, it wanders through the paper to write his own movement like a seismograph.

The US Army M110 Sniper Rifle and mounted iPod Touch running the Bullet Flight external ballistics calculator create this amazing shooting game.

FEATUREDWishbone Bike ~ a sustainably friendly woody lightweight 3 in 1 starter bike for kids that evolves with them! From a trike to pedal-less runner, to a standard bike (up to 5 yr olds!)... super cute product shots too!

Rain water collection concept. The rain water will store in many standard plastic bottles, you can use it water your garden or washing your hands!

David Lee Roth "Runnin' With the Devil" Soundboard.

Love this giant pixelated facade on a parking garage in Adelaid - so much more fun that Times Square's typical jumbo screen. Each of the 748 square panels of the Rundle Lantern are lit by two LEDs.

Each transformers is packaged in a nike shoe box. Inside the box the toy looks like a typical nike running shoe, however once you start playing around you realize that the shoe is actually a transformers toy.

White Fruit Radio - Made of wood and controlled by running your fingers along the surface we love this new concept!

VIDEOlarytta - souvenir de chine - video directed by körner union ~ so bizarre, so fascinating, like a giant kaleidoscope, only with huge mirrors and live mice and various birds running around terribly confused.

Innovative and environmentally friendly packaging for Newton Running.

Of the countless trains running on Japan’s 12,000 miles rail network, a few are decorated with images of anime and manga characters, colorful ads, and designs by notable artists