Very fun Toy Characters come to life and follow an average guy on an average day in this video. Audio by Nylon. Directed by Jonathan Baker. [Editor's Note: adorable!]

The new Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision

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

Some Ecards: when you care enough to hit send.... this one and SO MANY more hilarious cards you didn't even know you needed.

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

Awesome site design combined with a practical idea. The Encylopedia of Life.

Nano Nano - Phone strap robots by artist Koichi Miyajima created the humorous and nostalgic figure of a human-like robot. Ironically made from the anonymous inorganic parts found in standard electronic goods

Fantastic pillows from UpperPlayground. I especially like the skulls and rabbits pillow.

Culture, art and experimentation for free. That's the balde. A basque-english speaking magazine.

Good vs Evil ~ FOOSBALL style ~ 20 tables made, 14,500 pounds each... who's side are you on?

fromthe "Street Art Sweet Art"collective in milan. check it out before april 7th at Pac (Padiglione arte contemporanea).

Contemporary approach to wedding stationery - Fine and Dandy.

this is what happens to a purse after the brilliant designers from Boblbee Japan are done with it.

UGH. I know we've all experienced a few of each of these... "8 types of bad creative critics"... this is definitely a "funny b/c its true"

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

Diesel takes on Global Warming in their latest campaign showing that it can't stop our stylish lives ~ incredible imagery showing the future of paris, venice, nyc, london, mt. rushmore, antarctica, etc.

A Very interesting and innovative reinvention of a conventional scooter... but whats with that name?

No cork or bottle stopper will ever seem nearly as cool after checking out these "Fresh Leaves" by Tineke Beunders.

I know I'm not fast like Ninja, but to pick up on the theme, here's a ninja themed restaurent in New York. I really want the ninja waiters to disappear in a cloud of smoke after serving me.

PEER PRESSURE ~ we've all felt it... so how about some devices that make you externally popular... like a phone that pretends to get sms', and headphones that play different music outside than inside....

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

Designers: DresserJohnson a design team responsible for the MOMA icons above and the BKLYNBUNNY blog. HOW magazine also had a nice write up about them recently.

Rockabye-Baby. A luxurious range of baby clothing with its roots in music, fashion and punk rock. For babies who are too cool for school.

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

"design is the new art" says the nytimes. their picks this week are particularly nice.

elvis impersonator wine caddy by artist Guenter Scholz

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

Brass knuckle necklace to match that classic brass knuckle purse

Hello Kitty-shaped muffler end.Via Boing Boing.

a bracelet made from chopsticks. kinda weird?

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

Styrofoam chairs!

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.

More Christine J. Brandt. The photography on her site is pretty slick too!

inverted cones for nutella. yum.

Here's my thought provoking - get off your ass - article for today. What type of genius are you? and what could you become... being over 25 is no excuse.

awesome rubberbands from MOMA

SHEEPMARKET - 10,000 online workers doodled sheep and you can watch them get drawn and/or buy them.... insanely weird.

wow. Brazilian firm, Platinum manages to seamlessly merge sea creatures and designer classics... some insane work in their portfolio

Loving McDonald\'s, 1998 - In collaboration with Jennie Idrizi, - ashtray made from unglazed bone china... we dont have these in the US, and they were so cool when i first went to milan.

are you down with the bise? my advisor has a tendency to grab and kiss me enthusiastically after we've spent a week apart...awkward much?

Nature has always inspired us with its beautiful manifestation. Taking inspiration from the house of nature, designer Vladimir Usoltsev has come up with the innovative dining table.

W+K's Timetable, displays the length of meetings through ten illuminated RGB LED panels.

New collection of artwork - TALKTOSAM.COM.
Must see.