Stills from a sci-fi film? No, just regular old billboards. Photos by Branislav Kropilak.

Beautiful, ugly, or just plain peculiar according to individual reactions, this pink see-through fantasia is a swimming sea cucumber seen about 2,500 meters deep in the Celebes Sea.

“Through The Green Fuse” is series of photograms by Robert Buelteman.His technique is based on Kirlian photography.

Simon Chénier-Gauvreault packaging system to replace all these ugly and dangerous blister packs.

Stuents at Delft University recently revealed the Nuna5, a solar powered race car set to streak across the Australian outback for this year's World Solar Challenge.

Acclaimed photographer Ryan McGinley helmed a new Levi's ad campaign, 'Go Forth'

Underground DJ/graphic designer Mike Davis and the peeps at Kidrobot have created these awesome alphabet zipper pull keychains.

Over 400 umbrellas covered a pedestrian mall in downtown Talca, Chile, resulting in a colorful public space.

House in Kitakamakura, Japan - suppose design office

Official Posters Set of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Paris based Laurent Champoussin has some amazing photographs of his 'Cardiovascular Paper' concept

Red Plastic Plates is the newest 20x200 edition from painter Ann Toebbe. Each limited edition prints comes with a Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist. Sizes range from 11"x8.5" up to 40"x30", and cost as little s $20 each.

General Projects releases their first iPhone app: Allergies!

Matt Brown's 'Food and the Future of it', final project for his masters in Interaction Design, envisions that food in the year 2040 would be synthetic and programmatic, made using 3-dimensional printers and lab-grown meat.

Love Sid Wichienkuer's entry in to the competition for a new TU Delft School of Architecture, after a fire destroyed the original architecture building in 2008. Love the topographic, layered facade.

Incredible look at coffee culture by shenkar academy of design, tel aviv - this is c8- h10- n4- o2 by gilad davidi (see the others too!)

Wall Socket USB Hub ~ in black and white! by Elecom

Design Sponge has a gorgeous roundup of Bar Carts!

At the Standard Grill ~ under the highline in the Standard Hotel NY ~ the floor is tiled in pennies!!!

Looking for a new car? Perhaps something sporty, great for the city and just a little bit eccentric? Arden has customized the Mini for it's 40th anniversary, the perfect car for this summer!

Never-EverLand by Atelier Van Lieshout.
Mini Capsule Hotel was bought by actor Brad Pitt, who apparently plans to install it on his private beach.

Noguchi ReINstalled marks the first time the Noguchi Museum's permanent collection is on view in its entirety since the spring of 2002.

This life-size skeleton made from plastic cutlery is one of the highlights of the New Blood show of graduate design work this year

I Hate to Love You. Artist Devin Dailey at Merritt Studio put his love hate relationship with San Diego sport teams into his art. Also check out some of his other amazing posters.

Forget the boombox, this is the summer of vinyl! This inexpensive portable record player hooks up to your computer and comes with a handy case for travel.

Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna is host to a fascinating series of temporary art installations by Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf.

The World Famous Design Junkies continue to collect with this Kindra Murphy-inspired set of vintage clothing tags from a list of contributors.

The now iconic iPod "Lego" Speaker has just released a new set of Silver & Gold Metallic speakers!

The Opposite House Beijing is designed by Kengo Kuma and features a 22metres stainless steel swimming pool.

hallelujah! mDodnada´s launched new site, with two pahts to choose and discover his incrediblecolorfullmagical world (and other words you must invent)

You HAVE to check out these amazing pin hole cameras. Abelson Scope Works has revolutionized the pin hole scene. Beautiful cameras and stunning images. Check him out!

MOS's "weird furry factory" at P.S1--the thatch-covered pavilion uses the chimney effect to draw cool air through the space.

Extreme Photoshop: the new Fall 2009 Ad Campaign From Louis Vuitton features a photoshopped-beyond-recognition Madonna, originally photographed by Steven Meisel!

JoCo Library in KS takes some classics to the streets with the help of Barkley Ad Agency. Reading is awesome!

The Scottsdale Museum of the West by Jones Studio will offer a unique sense of place that celebrates the past, the present and the future... a place where the Old West meets the New West.

SMILING
coffee spoons, mirror stainless steel 18/10, 5 pieces, one for every working-day
(limited edition)

Jean Marie Massaud tells about his very own creative process

Great interview with Ryan Cox over at ComputerLove

Artist Aleksandra Mir. piled 2,529 sporting trophies all into one room. It may not sound like much of a spectacle, but look a little closer and you find an intensely personal, and poignant message in the glimmering piles of metal.

For his Degree 2009 Project, Designer Elijah Stillson decided to do something for his ilk. He designed a mask that is comfortable to work in, while modeling his works.

HP Turns their classic finance/scientific calculators into iphone apps! And they are pricey! but so retro geek chic...

ic! Berlin x Freitag Trucker Sunglasses ~ awesome collaboration! The sunglass design was developed by Daniel and Markus Freitag, inspired by seventies aviator shapes.

How exciting to see that my retro radio collection has inspired Shelterrific to start a collection too! Her first find is adorable!

American Apparel has branched into SHEETS! Made of the same super comfy fine jersey as the classic tees ~ sadly, only in grey and white so far...

maigrau presents the leaning lamp 'luca' at Tendence 2009 in Frankfurt am Main.
Have a look at 'luca' in Hall 6.1, B59

Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s work, ‘Box in a Suitcase (o.1938)’, the proposed "Box in a Crate" project acts as a giant, portable, pop-up art gallery.

Start is a design collective specializing in Typography, Art Direction and Motion Graphics. Phil Robson and Mathieu Carlot have embarked on Loudmouth which is made by laser cutting, varnishing, gluing, layering and framing.

ENZO TRIKE : The Roddler Chassis

New series of biomorphic drawings by Seatte artist Chad Wasser

MWM : Parallel Universe - Brazil Exhibition. ROJO Artspace Sao Paulo. June 23 – July 25. Art & Mural & Travel Photos.

The amazing charcoal renderings of Mr Robert Longo.

First leaked images of the up-coming Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2

Fresh triangles for Austrian-based "Designmonat Graz" aka "First Design of the Month"

Puma and Ducati teamed up for a new racing sneaker. The Panigale II, styled after their Knight campaign, which features a racing seat pattern, transparent sole with a Ducati motorcycle and engine structure, highlighted in red.

Gorgeous alternate poster for Kevin Spacey's Shrink, drawn by the amazing James Jean.

Spezify: New search engine any Notcot fan should try.

Get your walls ready for summer with this popping new range of art prints from Ben and Fi at WYWH!
This print titled "Smoke Like Ribbons" is 1 of 10 new art prints just launched!

Denmark's national broadcasting corporation has released a video site called Pirat TV. The site is a mix between new productions and the best from the TV archives. The target audience, teenagers.

Chris and Ruby made these personality socks for table legs, simply to spice up you furniture!

Everything you want to know about the amazing Grand Prix advertising winning film for Philips tv, Carousel. The video, the making of and behind the scenes.

"Turn off the TV - Live your life"
Street art spotted in Valparaiso, Chile.

A small and comfortable tea house in Prague, designed by A1 Architects.

Barcelona based ruiz+company have a stunning portfolio of nicely done packaging design. Each piece of work is so simple & clean!

We have seen the future of product design! If you can imagine it – you can have it!

Cubic - The Fontfabric type foundry released this great typeface for free download. Geometric letterforms - very combinative and clean designed.

Here are the 12 best racing simulators that will make sure you enjoy the thrill of speed at its fullest.

Material ConneXion presents the winners from I.D. magazine’s Annual Design Review. This year’s best in design will be on exhibit at the global material consultancy’s NYC showroom through August 21.

Interact with the components of sustainable architecture through JSVIGs Anatomy of a Green Building. Excellent resource for eco-building applications.

These sustainably-built bamboo butterfly huts were designed by humanitarian design organization TYIN Tegnestue to provide housing for 24 orphans in Thailand

LolrioKart: made by MIT students, it’s powered by aircraft NiCd batteries, a 15hp motor, features regenerative braking and goes 45mph.

For this panoramic view of NYC's Highline (shot for New York Magazine), Stephen Wilkes set up a rotating camera on a cherry picker at Tenth Avenue and shot throughout one day, from noon till 9 p.m.

55DSL SURVIVAL KIT. Summer has finally arrived and this year you will probably survive the next summer festival [Did someone said EXIT?]. 55DSL is taking camping out to a new level!

The Romanesque Chandelier is constructed of paper clips and deconstructed steel by ReDesign Technologies, a Canadian laboratory dedicated to modern art and the natural sciences.

Still life photographer Jamie Chung has updated his portfolio with images of crushed bugs, exploding flowers, and delicious kale...

The starting point for the planning of the house was the goal of coupling the residential quality and the topography of the idyllic orchard lawn with the living rooms of the house

Photographer Joel Micah Miller's latest personal project "Monumental" features beautiful images of people at national/international monuments (Eiffel Tower, Washington Monument, etc.).

What's it? Car or Motorcycle? It is Laverda motorcycle sidecar, a supercar sidecar, including gulfwing doors.

Finland based artist Kate Alexandra´s blog with her nature inspired drawings & illustrations.

Claire Scully AKA ‘The Quiet Revolution’ is part pf the Wandelrust 333 Exhibition online now for 33 days only.

Made by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Noah's Tree is an art sculpture made to encourage people to subscribe to gas billing on the internet so in a way they will be "planting a tree".

Close up with some of Megan Whitmarsh's tiny silver+gold canvases with embroidered little neon folks and geometric goodness

Beautiful and addictive music quiz for the iPhone with a really nice website too.

A Michael Jackson Facial Evolutionary Spiral?

PAD Outdoor's Inflatable pool lounger/chair prototype spotted at Dwell on Design at Ford & Ching

Even better in person ~ the Credit Card Bottle Opener ~ perfect corporate gift once engraved? Now if only i could just transfer my cc mag strip to it!

On how a remarkable piece of engineering bridges the eight story gap between two waterways. The only rotating boat lift of this type in the world, the Falkirk Wheel must be seen to be believed.

Synth by Moritz Wolpert for all you knob tickling aphids.

The NON SANS RAISON team, french publisher of the white gold from Limoges, is keen to present its tableware collections Avant, Ici, Maintenant and Chronos

Platform made of 1500 beijing grey bricks and 1500 red chinese plastic stamps placed on it. Stamps are used to confirm agreements and validate actions. In a certain way loosing your stamp is like loosing your own identity.

Junko Mizuno’s Red Tresses and Freckles Solo Show will be up at Narwhal Art Projects - a first look an interview at Spanky Stokes

Artist Shepard Fairey interprets one of the largest big wave surfing reef breaks in the world: JAWS!

A recent Doomsday installation at Wild Project, in Manhattan, by artist Ryan Wallace. Each window has a work in it that includes the predicted date of the end of the world, from the distant past to the near future.
As sunlight shines through the work, it begins to fade, and eventually vanishes all together.

Great tool for volunteerism designed for the Presidents United We Serve campaign. Well designed... well played...

The 1st issue of Clog Magazine by Sam McPheeters. Truly hilarious, off-kilter stories. Includes a mini book called Puny filled with classic McPheeters drawings.

A new L.A. restaurant, Street, designed by Neil Denari takes its inspiration from street culture.

Mega churches by Christoph Morlinghaus
His ’straight photography’ of empty spaces often leave a mystical and surreal impression, even though Christoph declares not to use any additional light...

Behold the concept art for the video game version of Terminator 4: Salvation.

Dwelling-workhouse is design by Hoogte Twee Architecten. It located in Nijmegen Area, The Netherlands...

Sinfonia 14 by Moda is subdivision of the Italian design group Di Loddo & Perego, which specializes in production of unique furniture with creative designs.

The Coco-Hut is a whimsical structure made of recycled and FSC-certified wood. Looks cozy!