Pottery Barn has "Smart Technology" now... basically think their stuff with embedded speakers, power strips, cord management holes...

Sisley`s "Fashion Junkie" Ads

I think this is truly the saddest Babushka i've ever laid eyes on. and i want it. By Princess Tina

The Human CD holder. I'd need like hundreds of these for my CD collection. Can be ordered from wrapables.com

I Love New Work! Cool collective of young people working in New Media

Nike Pro Athlete series of vinyl created by master toy designer Michael Lau. The figures stand 20" tall and are wearing authentic 'Pro' fabrics. They will not be for sale though, instead the toys are being auctioned off for charity in Hong Kong.

Absurdly cute vandalism by Gouzou

Two Faced: The Changing Face of Portraiture.
This book is a celebration of portraiture in the 21st century, Two Faced unfolds over two sections and offers an interesting, unique and often amusing look at the art form.

Calling all artists we want YOUR MTV. This project is called MTV Hats (Header Art Treatments), and we at MTV.com plan to wear many of them.

Download the template, design, and submit!

It's not a photoshop joke.
The Tunnel House is a real installation made by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck. Check these incredible images!

The Louis Vuitton store on Rome's Via Condotti recently got a face lift that included the installation of plasma screen stairs that play technicolor games.

Charlie Mewshaw's SaucerNauts - so cute.

Like Breathing
Sterling silver, plastic, pigmented epoxy resin.
Margaux Lange Jewellery

The new Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

Beautiful work, and nice pictures by Jean Yves Lemoigne.

He is Otto, a free paper toy... print it, cut it, paste it and take him for a trip. The objective is that Otto goes around the world.

Portland-based Esque Studio makes mind-blowingly beautiful booth and blown glass.

QUICK! VOTE! Please? We have till noon eastern time tomorrow to decide which design gets shown in the apt window during ICFF... i'm sure you know which i like

Highspeed oliedruppel

'the italian alphabet' by olivier quagliotto, a shortlisted entry to the 'FIAT 500 wants you competition' in the lifestyles category.

Plant ovary cross-sections from the Harvard Botanical Museum's Blaschka glass model exhibit. Fertility in fossil form?

Curious Fork / Furious Cork... i am floored by the brilliantness of this name... and loving the logos as well...

I can't stop staring at the latest toys on Vinyl Pulse... its those anime tv head looking guys... Proto Monday brings us : Toy Tokyo Exclusive FLCL Canti x Tristan figures from Kaching Brands

CRAVE has this great video of wii play in the penthouse suite at the Hotel Gansevoort. I'm jealous. But for all you kids who want to wii, maybe you need to check ourself into a boutique hotel instead of waiting outside target.

Unfold: the second episode of Backspace by Stephen Watkins. Beautiful. Via Wooster Collective

B/c your Wii can be a weapon and when you become a Wii pirate i guess your controller is an Arr? Skull and Crossmotes Tee by Huzzah Goods

Blow Table Lamp by Studio Italia Design, a Pio and Tito Toso design. Beautiful encapsulated glass design... makes you think about light differently...

Great article about BOTERO's paintings depicting the tortures in the Abu Ghraib prison

@ LACMA next week - Magritte and Contemporaries ~ Treachery of Images. From then till March its all about the Surreal.

Happy FIREFOX 2.0 launch! Now with Spellcheck! Better tabbed browsing! Suggestions as you search! AND i beg any of you on IE - please get firefox 2.0 - (this site looks better on it)

Pete Fowler's new TRWG! (pronounced troog) is the go-to expert and insider on all manners of music produced on Monsterism Island. Coming in 10.5" vinyl in Nov.

elvis impersonator wine caddy by artist Guenter Scholz

New Beck Album "The Information" might be worth buying just for the designer stickers...

just noticed this on reddish. i think ive posted bathtub chairs before, but this one is so freaky...too much like a toilet?

The illustration and animation of this site is fun to navigate.

One light, multiple uses!

Surreal flash design with a twist

powerful images from beirut. but its nice to see graf with a positive message of hope.

Continuing the skull fetish - its cross stitch! on a button! and it GLOWS IN THE DARK!

Styrofoam chairs!

SHADE ELAINE i'm calling you out for this competition. *wink wink nudge nudge* - DRAGONS & KNIGHTS!!! Dragons should win - and the competition has been extended.

Fake ticket generator...

On Good Design vs Bad Design, in the ethical, not esthetics sense. Great read.

GLOM. it takes modular shelving to a new level with the use of industrial grade VELCRO. Now imagine if you had velcro walls too.

stumbled across this gorgeous series and just had to post. so clean, so simple, and breathtakingly gorgeous!

Exactitudes, similar to tokyo fruits, thousands of pictures of people in the street, all classified by style and color, just like a butterfly collection.