borrowing from the language of film, dai oinuma's intensely lit images seduce the viewer with abandoned urban environments inhabited by lone figures drenched in glowing hues.

'a Pencil & a Magazine' by John-Paul Thurlow
Sketches / re-compositions of Magazine Covers

Tomorrow Barney's will open a seven-floor, 90,000 square-foot, LEED-certified space in Chicago—complete with a plant-laden "green" roof that absorbs heat in winter and reflects it in summer!

Visit this beautiful apartment in Paris, entirely renovated by the agency LePlanB and the designer Damien Gires.

Designed by Stephanie Bellanger, the Mobile Mini House is a house on wheels! Each room is separated by partitions - there's the bathroom, living room, bedroom, kitchen and an office all in one.

Premiering at this year's ICFF in NYC, the Flow chair by Jennifer Tran explores material, form, and function using 3form's Varia Ecoresin.

impressive guangzh culture center by the japanese architecture firm shuhei endo

Steve Lambert, who worked on Add-Art, has created a fantastic new productivity tool called Self Control. Use it to block websites and email for specific periods of time. Just don't block Notcot.

Colin's House, Girona (Spain) / ARCHIKUBIK - Marc Chalamanch – Miquel Lacasta – Carmen Santana

The art of Susana Romao. - Very nice painting and engraving works.

Bracelet made out of various bullet casings, by Astali. Bullets were shot at a shooting range - no drive-by required.

Designer Will Staehle incorporates beautiful, historical typographic treatments into much of his work...

Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan Appears Over River Thames in a giant water projection.

New Bard's Beer Packaging by Minneapolis Ad Agency Hunt Adkins ~ really fun website too!

Max Wanger Photography. All kinds of awesome, beautiful locations and brilliant results. A broad range of subjects, especially loving the wedding photography - brave and inspiring!

Our friend Jonathan Brown has an awesome picturebook-esque review of Heston's Little Chef! The design details, games, decor, and especially the tiles and singing in the bathroom make me want to check it out!

Ex-Psyop CD Mate Steinforth for T. Rowe Price ~ INCREDIBLE ink drawings coming to life... who knew a financial ad could be so inspiring

A toothbrush in popsicle. Brilliant idea by Colgate.

Picture of the amazing and controversial coffee shop inside of what used to be a chuch in Netherlands. One of the several churches 'converted' to something else (bookstore, disco, restaurant, hotel...)

Award winning House M by Marc Koehler. A black heavy volume on top of a transparent public area. Simple and stylish.

Edgar Muller's latest creation. Impressive !!

Beautiful Ocean print from Little Robot

Eyebrows Dancing: Cadbury's Dairy Milk try to repeat Gorilla success. And yes, they will achieve.

The "BarackBerry" revealed.

Behold the Converj, Cadillac's sleek new foray into the electric vehicle market.

Orla Kiely & Target launch an affordable housewares line February First!

Delicate minimal spaces are a tradition among portuguese architects. This is shown once again at the Ilhavo City Library, a renovation done by ARX.

The Louis Vuitton Soho flagship store gets the Stephen Sprouse make-over. Here a first look at the exterior.

Nice package designed by Annick Bouchard for fair trade tea: «half for me half for you.»

Fotoopa, flickr user from belgium, shot highspeed photography of water figures, captures water dropping and splashing in perfect frozen detail. vivid colors. action frozen in mid-splash.

Swedish architectural firm Thorbjörnsson+Edgren has designed the HQ for the marquess and jalousie company Riviera. I especially like the big windows and the simple red logo above the entrance.

RosOne is an elegant wall clock made by a polystirene ceiling rose usually employed in interior decorations.
By the italian ZPSTUDIO.

Nail File of Natural Stone from the Pyrenees Mountains, with case - by Lime. 3 very smooth sides for smooth finishing and real control with 1 coarse side for filing down.

Came across these very awesome Anything Scissors by Michael Sodeau for Suikosha via the Core 77 Gift Guide.

A concept of playfull kitchen objects. Maraka is currently on display in an exhibition DAS Designers after School in Rome. Designers are Zeljka Kavran, Andrea Corteggi and Katia Mattiolli

Nobu has recently opened a new restaurant, this time in Dubai, with an interior designed by the Rockwell Group.

Very interesting roofscape at the Future House by Innovarchi architecture - love how the roof becomes the ground of the courtyard between the two volumes.

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.

Galactic Mail : Fedex vs UPS. Produced by The Mill.

David Downton Fashion Illustration are a mix of Trash with sweetness and Curves... Beautiful

New home line Filz Felt also sells their PMS matched German felt by the yard. Mmmm.... those colors are just delicious....

Pandor Absinthe ~ beautiful labels on these new bottles!

Classical sculptures by New York based artist Nick van Woert.

Arkhefield’s modern, sustainable interpretation of a Bahaman cottage capitalizes on its site and celebrates volume, but is also capable of isolating, re-orienting and shutting down against inclement weather when necessary.

New T1 from Carga Bags!

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