Nike SB teamed up with Concepts to release this awesome Lobster inspired shoes! They even come with rubber bands and butter colored laces.

Lorenzo Damiani Mondo Rug - This rug unites the past and present: the continents, made in pure wool, recall the most classical Persian rug, while the sea, contrasting in viscose, has a more modern image.

Beautiful house by Portuguese Arquiprojecta. The house has huge windows that lets in light from both sides and gives the house a 360 view of the landscape.

Nifty concepts of graphic design for cans of Nestea ice teas, developed by the agency Letters-Numbers, which brings a more sophisticated form and suggestions of new visual identity.

One of the U.K's emerging talent's 'T.Magic' hits up the streets of London with his most recent stencil 'Art Is My Hustle'. I can see some Warhol influence in his slogans.

The ‘Cloud’ Lamp shades are made with recycled paper, they can be flat packed, and sold with a milky white energy saving bulb. Cloud Lamp is a simple and sustainable approach to add magic and intimacy to domestic lighting.

Even the smallest printing flaw can contaminate your whole job. Ad campaign for Mais Printing Services.

Very simple and intelligent idea by italian designer Paolo Ulian for a perfect project that reflects about wood waste

The Campaign for the Government of Catalunya to keep the Mediterranean sea clean by Klas Ernflo is cute and creative, and it gets the message across really well. The rest of his pieces are great too!

The new Peter Dass Museum in Alstahaug, Norway, is placed inside the cut on a big rock over a great view of the surrounding landscape. By Snohetta.

Cool ad by Mango Fashion Awards. The Jean Paul Gaultier puppet kills me. :D

Harvard Graduate School of Design students Kiduck Kim and Christian Stayner have conceived of a Floating City for New Orleans that will “rise safely in an Archimedean liquid landscape.”

I would like the Squirrel do please. Although the Walrus is solid as well. Beautifully executed animal hairstyles.

Polyface Farm ~ once you hear how they run their fully sustainable farm, and you taste their chickens/pork/eggs/etc ~ i dare you to try and eat industrially farmed animals again...

Spear Collective Artist Jefrey Lacson takes playing with toys to some other dimension.

Tracing western civilization collapse with Jell-o Ads.

This foldable Greenhouse concept by Daniel Schipper is a folding frameless modular plant growing heaven made out of recyclable plastics.

Dream like photos for Aquino House by Augusto Fernandez in Mexico. It reminds me of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture.

Virginia has some impressively fesity wildlife ~ check out the toads, canadian geese goslings, huge snakes, chickens, and more found on this little NOTCOT "vacation"

Wired Science has a great video interview with science photographer Felice Frankel. She recently had work included in MOMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition.

2008 Pritzker laureate Jean Novuel, just won the competition for the new Tour Signal tower in La Defense, Paris.

Goldsmiths graduate exhibition 2008 takes place in London. Unusual installations and artistic ideas are presented here in vast variety.

Goodbye Yves Saint-Laurent... just passed away on sunday at 71

ASKO Creative Laundry - a new designer range of modular integrated laundry products that are made for "designers and architects" ~ hidden behind cabinets are washers, dryers, drying closests, and more...

House in Tunquen by Rodrigo Aguilar. A sleek concrete house by the beach in the chilean coast.

To commemorate George Nelson’s 100th birthday, Vitra has released a limited edition of the Pretzel Chair (orginally designed in 1952). Though Nelson is known for his furniture design, he was a well-rounded designer who explored working in many disciplines.

Even Batman drinks milk. The Dark Knight is latest to ask, Got Milk?

Why are the Swiss always cooler? the humble allen wrench is elevated to a staff of style at colette

Prince of Persia : Next Gen. Beautiful concept art !

This month, 1134 NYC teams up with NYC Art Toy Brand Thunderdog Studios to release the first ever graffiti based, wall mounted, vinyl toy. The toy was designed by Mint & Serf. Really nice!

New works by Dan May, Nathan Spoor and Brandi Milne at CoproNason Gallery opening June 7th. Previews are up and are looking good!

Rail Rider, a bicycle and an old train rail is the perfect combination to create the newest attraction all over the world. Oil free!

Simpleformsdesign was distinguished with the RedDot Design Award Winner 2008 with Cork Collection, a 12 cork pieces elegant collection.

In less then a month, Spain Expo Zaragoza 2008 will open doors. Check the amazing pavillions you will find inside the expo!

Cork is not only used to isolate sound and build cork stoppers. Check the 1st cork stamp in the world, made by designer João Machado. Portugal is responsable for more then 50% of world cork, just in case you want to know!

What do you get if you take one of MC Escher's famous pictures and add the theme from Portal into the mix.

Concert, plywood and a few colored walls make up the Mon Lou Lou hair salon in Asagaya, Japan. Very clean and nice interior, and I love the front door. The interior was designed by Assistant.

the ultimate magic trick - making furniture disappear into the balcony - aka just really cool space saving design by Sandy Lam from Vancouver.

King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture by Snøhetta

There are only 1300 tigers left in India. A fresh perspective on the problem

19 skydivers spelled out the word Honda in three minutes and 20 seconds for UK’s first live tv promo, inspired by the car manufacturer’s new advertising strapline: “Difficult is worth doing”

By simply pointing their mobile phones at blotchy black-and-white newspaper ads, consumers could bring to life colorful 3-D animals during a campaign by Wellington Zoo in New Zealand.

Which would you rather have trailing behind you: carbon monoxide or BUBBLES? BLOOM is another cheeky entry from the design21 competition, where the bubbles contain spores/seeds that sprout where it lands. The video is cute too.

Christie's will be holding a Pop Culture Auction next month. Some great stuff in there, definitely worth checking out!