Danielle Yurchinkonis has returned home to Baltimore with some incredible photographs taken during a 3 month period in which she lived as a vagabond in Latvia and Lithuania.

When I came across a sticker with his name in the subways of France, I freaked out. I love Matt Furie's use of color and the detail he puts in his creature.

A new "cabana" and access for an old country side house by Hidalgo Hartmann in Spain. The new volume blends with the old construction as an aging structure over the landscape.

NOTCOT Giveaway #7: Rocket World is giving away one of its latest Shag Master Creature Hoodies ~ part super hardcore technical fleece, part non-committal furry - with velcro on ears and horns!

These strange motion-sensor toys sculpted by Misako Inaoka are staggering.

Pandor Absinthe ~ beautiful labels on these new bottles!

Exit She Calls. A illustration by Davel F. Hamue for a local band of the same name.

Gorgeous PCs from Plush Department, including new limited edition Pure* Art PCs, with designs commissioned from Zender, Delft Blue, Mijn Schatje, Piet Boon (in concrete!), and Edward van Vliet.

Classical sculptures by New York based artist Nick van Woert.

Love these fig-shaped outdoor lamps by Parade Design, Lampe de Jardin Gonflable Figue.

Laisr has created a cool series of classic looking chairs out of carbon fiber and aluminum. (Laisr is Torgny Fjeldskaar and Javier Alberich.)

While in motion, the Helios is a sleek electric vehicle that is powered by solar energy, and when at rest it deploys a rather cool-looking fan that can absorb and store energy to power your house.

Food chain friends!

The Moment: Nice short film by Verena Fels and Csaba Letay.

Obamabats ~ for when you're speechless and can't type words.... congrats to our 44th president ~ Barack Obama!

Razionalismo Comasco - Como, with stunning views, Architect Marco Castelletti nods to 30's Italian architecture in a modernist house, proportioned and segmented with precision.

Potions ~ celestefrittata has some tempting magical notebooks inspired by the world of Harry Potter ~ her blog also has gorgeous walkthroughs of this marine bio student's bookbinding hobby

A stylish villa in Norway, by Saunders Architecture. Nice use of the volumes to frame the surrounding landscape.

Each poster has a single statement or sentence that is backwards, thus demonstrating and illustrating the problem, along with suggestions for change. Available as a set of three.

Artist Geoff McFetridge designed a new billboard in LA. Check it out on LaBrea!

Robin Rhode is a South African artist who creates beautiful street art by transforming simple shapes and objects into elements of narratives. (Thanks to szymon for this post)

brooklyn based nettleton hollow: home for all your super cool botanical needs. every piece is carefully edited and selected...

Modern, and nice, Arabic book covers from the independent Egyptian publishing house Dar El Shorouk.

Johnny Cupcakes now also making quality leather belts. As usual, the packaging is on point.

Vividly painted and highly symbolic entrances of the Nubian people houses in Sudan

The newest Sony Bravia spot, "Domino City", was shot on location in India and created by Bates Singapore.

Showing from October 12 through November 22 at Dover Street Market in London, comes their latest construct with Comme des Garcon, which shoecases the company's 40 years of vision in design. This window wrap is amazing in its own right.

The Sitscape by Hackenbroich Architekten is a custom seat that transforms across its span to accommodate a range of relaxation positions.

Delicate snow scarf - Handmade from a delicate blend of hand-dyed silk and merino wool felt, it can be worn long or draped around your neck like a delicate strand of dreamy cream rose petals.

Wow, content aware scaling, that cool intelligent image scaling technique from CES last year has already been integrated into Photoshop CS4. Check out the amazing video of some fun tricks you can do with it.

Louis XIII Cognac and Christophe Pilet ~ the latest luxury design collaboration: a crystal glass, a silver illuminated serving platter, a crystal candleholder and a display case.

Innovative fold out home theater system by Pinel & Pinel of France. The Movie Trunk, includes highly acclaimed Bang & Olufsen Beolab 6000 subwoofer, two Beolab 3 speakers, BeoVision 6-26 television, and DVD1 DVD/CD player.

Which? Magazine covers from the late 60's.

It’s hard to contain one’s enthusiasm for DeMaria Design’s Redondo Beach House. The beachfront residence is constructed with a combination of prefabricated shipping containers and traditional buildings materials.

Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture- Love this book! Great review on Core77!

B3 Designers' Cardboard Cafe - the interior design firm converted their studio into a cardboard cafe for the London Design Festival. I mainly just like the splash of color on the inside faces of the boxes that peaks out when the boxes are turned to complete a curve.

Formtank's stunning new tables are constructed out of a single sheet of industrial steel, minimizing waste to less than 4% per meter.

Blackberry Pearl 8220 Flip phone ~ i'm so torn, i loved my old pearl, and i loved flip phones as a kid... yet this phone looks/feels like a step back somehow!

Now everyone in Beverly Hills can have superman vision.

Dubbed “La Princess,” this 50 foot long, 37 ton art installation appears to be climbing a Liverpool high-rise to kick off celebrations within the city. La Princess is scheduled to 'come to life' on Friday.

Reef n’ Beef: Pig ~ advert from Saatchi & Saatchi, Copenhagen, Denmark.

These rings by Ohaly were carved out of an old painting table, taken from a children’s furniture carpentry. It takes 4 month of daily painting to reach this thickness, creating a new material to work with.

blogger hippie couture posted an amazing set of images of temporary psychedelic street carpets called "Alfombras" today... amazingly intricate!

Black Glass Widget for Mac OsX Leopard - fun new icon pack!

Mini Travel Towels at the Spoon Sisters - just add water and you have an 11" x 9” towelette!

Zoë Newsome interprets the natural into beautiful, wireframe jewelry.