Cool film with Landscapes and Japanese electronic music by Ametsub

From sketch to Hint Mint tin... fun look at james jean's process

Salami Advent Calendar! by Butter in Germany for Koenecke

Beautiful piece on ikuikuiku's livejournal

The Lost Art of Type Spec-ing

Ong & Ong renovated an art deco house in Singapore, creating a stunning new interior, complete with a pool.

World Famous Design Junkies creates a graphic-design master set of the many wild and weird ways a person can hold their own poster. Hold it yourself or bring a friend!

An interesting round stage for the Austria Pavilion at the Zaragoza World Expo, by Solid Architecture. Note how the mirrors extend the performances.

Rocket World is trying to decide on what the 2010 Creature Hoodie should be... and they want your help! Help them out by sharing your opinion and get a chance to win prizes too...

Stunning artwork using flamingo graphics by Cassandra C.Jones.

Out of creative inspiration (and to quit smoking), this artist Patrik Bundeli transforms ping-pong balls into fine art.

Meredith Dittmar's 3D dioramas are human-animal-plant-energy amalgams that express deep levels of union across themes of biology, technology, and consciousness.

Truck Farm is a living, mobile garden inside the bed of a 1986 Dodge half-ton pickup truck which grows tomatoes, broccoli, arugula, and parsley. As a bonus all the Truck Farm activity is being recorded for TV too.

Australian artist Buff Diss trademark style of 100% legal masking tape street art

826LA and the Echo Park Time Travel Mart are proud to premiere the second collection of original time travel themed posters designed by Los Angeles-based artist, Amy Martin.

Each poster promotes a civic message for good citizenship in the far past or distant future, transforming the predictable aesthetic of the WPA poster with ironic sloganeering such as "Fire Good...But Also Bad" and "Robots! Clean Your Drives Daily", coupled with clean, retro graphic design. They are on sale now for PRE-ORDER (shipping starts on September 14th) at http://www.826la.org/store-sundries/#time-travel-posters

Each poster is $19.99, or you can buy a set of 4 for $69.99. All proceeds go to 826LA, a nonprofit dedicated to helping students 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Last year's popular Time Travel Posters raised over $30,000 for 826LA's programs.

Purchase them in person, and meet the artist at The Echo Park Time Travel Mart at 1714 W. Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, CA 90026. 826LA and Stories Books and Cafe will be hosting an open house with music, art, food, and drinkon September 12th at 7:30 p.m.

You can find preview images at the end of this email, and you can click on each for a larger version. If you'd like more information, please visit www.826la.org or contact christina@826la.org. For more information about Amy or to contact her, click here: http://design-book.blogspot.com/

Brain Patter skate decks by Emilio Garcia and Arts Projekt

By Architects Pedro Pacheco + Marie Clément, Luz Cemetery is located in Luz, Mourão, Portugal.

Love the way these glasses stack to make perfect sense...

8x10 art print featuring bright rain clouds that shower down beautiful rainbow raindrops.

Cute COREtoon about how a creative director works...

Total Crisis Panic Button, a terrific culture jam created in Los Angeles by Jason Eppink.

Inspired by Escher's "Waterfall," Dyson's "Wrong Garden" incorporates a clever design to create the illusion that water flows up.

Mixko "Here Comes the Sun" necklace ~ with a dove leading a rainbow across your chest, and the last crystal raindrop on your back... so lovely!

The world as designer Justin Gorman sees it, including gigantic asterisks and footnotes!

Brand identity, logo, character & packaging design concept for Zürcher, a Swiss family chocolate producer and takeaway confectionery based in Zurich. By Prague based Stas Sipovich.

Fun at the workplace! That the thought when Fredrik Mattson designed NOMONO workstation. NOMONO is an office that is as simple to keep in order as possible – and give you more energy for the fun things to do.

Exclusive Banksy vs Bristol microsite from the team at UK Street Art

Pastiglie Leone ~ fun to see one of my favorite candies celebrated in the Fara Collection SS2010

Parking Lot Art Show 2! Coming to LA tomorrow ~ artists showing inside trucks at the Cafe Stella Parking Lot

amazing audiophile work !!!

Nothing is more amusing than a time-lapse video documenting the evening of a man in a gorilla suit. Great score, absurd premise and worth the watch.

Brilliant print ads by Saatchi & Saatchi in China for Ariel laundry detergent that show food bravely fighting back.

Chicago designer, Garrett EB Smith, repurposes a faucet ball valve as a Dreidel for Delta® faucet's Designers of Tomorrow Contest.

Murano blown glass animals with small spots of coloured glass and goldleaf. Design by Ferro Lorenzo Murano.

Portfolio website of graphic designer jonathan arena. Includes featured project 2009 RISD yearbook.

beautiful, fetishistic vintage typewriter repair kit

Pretty cool website trying to stop the use of "Performance Enhancing Apparel" in sports.

Duracell's MyGrid is a brand new drop-and-go charging pad for all of your wireless devices without the mess of multiple chargers.

SEVRES VASE CLOCK has an adjustable hammer that gently knocks on any vase you place on the stand on the hour, every hour. Different vases produce different sounds.

Kids playing Sportpong, a multiplayer game. This sporty arcadegame ist the ultimate fun-tool for kids and their parents. interaction is physical, the game itself is virtual.

Custom skull Vans slip-ons with inter-changeable tongues from Toronto artist, Dan Springer

Awesome flickr set of Les Animaux Tels Qu'ils Sont ~ one of those old simplified "how to draw" books

Red Bull put a little bull in the pull tabs on the tops of their energy drinks. Where do all the bull cutouts go? answer here ...

Designer Wyatt Turner’s Ironcat concept is a high-performance car with looks inspired by the Porsche Carrera GT and power coming from a twin-turbocharged 5.6-liter V8 engine.

RRA Architects finished another section of the National Tourist Route in Norway. The selection of the materials create a slight contrast with the landscape. Amazing views!

MENU ~ the carafe with smart lid designed by Jakob Wagner

Matteo Grassi's Loom Armchair designed by Franco Poli

Tuft vs. Turf (Fire Escape) is an installation made with zip ties by Brian Jobe.

Keep Cup! A new aussie reusable cup to replace all those coffee cups and bands that get wasted...

Amazing concept of a laptop made for designers and illustrators, including a Graphic tablet on the other side of the keyboard. Too bad it's just a concept.

Ralston & Bau made their first redesign series:
"Tekannelampe" (tea pot light) with the cable flowing out from the spout and the handle as invitation to carry your lamp around.

America’s most notorious crooked street got a makeover yesterday thanks to Hasbro toy company, in what one onlooker described as “capitalism meets childhood.”

Camera with body made out of recycled paper. Concept by Amos Woo and Sharon Ng.

Astrid Krogh's latest neon light installation is ‘Flora’, a decoration for the Nikolai Quarter in Kolding, Denmark, which was commissioned by the Commune of Kolding.

Ryan Frank, a London based designer, created these clothhangers entirely from reclaimed British newspapers.

Ceramic slip cast jug/mug range that makes you look twice. Designed by Kristy Whyte.

Disney recreated "Alice in Wonderland" in San Diego, Comic-Con.

Toy camera maker Superheadz has managed to make a digital camera that still captures the lomography for which its original cameras are so beloved.

Modernism is for the birds with the Birdbottle as their new home. Available at Blend Design.

Beautiful new poster by The Silent Giants.

French photographer Michel Rajkovic has thing about fog and pathways.

The Xeros residence in Phoenix, Arizona, is a experimental housing typology for dry environments. The materials used age during time, blending the structure with the landscape. Designed by BLANK Studio.

Detractors call the design to an “outhouse” and allege that the tower intrudes on the rural landscape of Hamarøy, the village where Hamsun spent much of his life. The architect describes the concept of “building as a body.”

Medio día Chair: This piece is a reinterpretation of the traditional beach chairs found on the coasts of Mexico. Medio día can be part of the most pure and demanding decoration.
Design: Sebastian Lara

In a stunt to raise awareness of the car scrappage scheme, Vauxhall covered an Astra in £2000 worth of real coins which the public were then invited to remove - getting to keep all the money they removed from the car!

All in One from Bulgerian Dragomir Winery Estate has a clean Art Nouveau label designed by talented designer Jordan Jelev.
If you should drink, drink in style...

Estimated age of universe, earth and mankind…in pixels.

Cool - Makedo is a building kit that lets you make things from whatever "found" materials you may have lying around.

A set of 8 monsters and animals temporary tattoo.

Beautiful insipration from Hiroshige and Klimt in this upcoming children book 'La colère de Banshee' (Banshee's anger) by talented David Sala.

Nervous System Cell Cycle jewelry ~ rapid prototyping at its wearable best! Close up with my new Wave Bracelet!

Beautiful, hand carved Yamagiwa lamp called the Moonbird designed by Yukio Hashimoto.

Inside the packaging is printed the Charter of human rights. What a good excuse for the overpackaging. On the pen packages: this is a weapon, this gives freedom, this is vital and this is a voice.

Bethalynne Bajema does absolutely gorgeous illustrations in sepia tones... in a twisted baroque style.

i-Bum automatically scans a persons bottom and prints out the image when they site down. By Tomomi Sayuda @ KithKin Presents 09

ROCK Radio, extreme top heavy minimalist radio

Pete Fowler unleashes a monstrous new mural at the Truman Brewery in London

Secret Agents unite! Designer PURDEY has created a cypher for us all to write beautiful, super-colorful coded messages in!

22 year-old, Romanian designer István Vasil presents Paper Hills – a paper sculpture for an art book accompanying the snowboard movie, Jolly Rogers. Produced by Pirate Movie Productions.

The Gaudi Stool by Bram Geenen benefits from the beam-grid substructure-style that support its thin carbon fiber shell.

The Waterpod is moving around NY, between the East River and the Hudson, showcasing artworks, performances and such.

The third prototype for Astrobotic Technology’s lunar robot has innovations that will enable it to survive the blistering heat at the Moon’s equator, which is the robot’s destination in May 2011 when it will visit the Apollo 11 site.

A colorful installation at the gardens of the Cornell Campus in Ithaca, done by Pezo con Ellrichshausen and a group of students, creating a grid of red sacks filled with straw.

Nike works with 2x4 Design Group in Beijing to create sustainable recycled cardboard packaging for its clothing and sneakers!

Design duo Aki and Arnaud Cooren creativity: The Darts coat hook look like a group of missiles booming your living room wall.

Wow. Blazer Optimus Cigar Torch Lighter and Guillotine Cutter ~ all in one... pretty.

Cool Hunting has a look at the new Areaware pop up shop in NY!

If you happen to stop on by Minneapolis any time soon, if you'd kindly keep the spitting to a minimum, that'd be reel appreciated. Thank you.

According to Flickr's statistics, the iPhone is neck-and-neck with a Canon digital SLR as the source of most of the site's picture uploads.

An interview with Veronica Hebard, artist and co-founder of the new Robo Picto Art Market.

PICK UP WOOD. Those special hanger hooks require you take a walk in a natural environment to complete the object with some fallen branches. Designed for the brussels based non-profit organisation Les Petits Riens.

The new Bill Amberg Skiff bags are a good-looking new addition to the Monocle shop. They even come with a stencil set to personalize your bag with your initials.

Spanish UO! Wines is a line of three wines created with homosexual men in mind, and its descriptions, packaging and website imagery were all tailored accordingly

IOC new spot called All Together Now promotes the Olympic spirit through six giant 3d athletes. Really nice ilustrations.

The Playboard Magazine Skate- & Snowboard Design Book has been digitalized for a digital version of the book available for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Lomography introduces the all new Diana Mini 35mm film camera.

Creative Grab Bag is a book about exploring your creativity with contributions from 101 artists world wide. Created by author Ethan Bodnar, a second year graphic design student.

Interesting mix of Japanese and Italian Art Puzzle by Pasta de Waraku

Monocle's Bill Amberg Skiff bags are an absolute delight. Comes with patches and stencil so you can apply your initials on the front of your bag.

Wooden Forest Apartment in Tokyo, by
Ikeda Yukie Architects.