dianne y. cheuk put together her monologue of psychedelic mushrooms, women, and flowers, and water colors. Mushroom Girls Virus - in a silk fabric bound cover by die gestalten. beautiful.

MoMA's latest, Comic Abstraction ~ makes you rethink comics... particularly SPEECH BUBBLES!

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"

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

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

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

Sometimes it really isn't about WHAT you say, so much as HOW you say it... TypeTalk fonts - thesis project is a fascinating look at how context can change everything... "typography as visual pronunciation."

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.

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

Extreme Whiteboarding - this is some intensely mesmerizing whiteboard stop (and non stop) action animation

Smith and Hawken - glass rain drops... pretty...

Illustration by Toyin Adutola

That's Bill Murray as reproduced thru the hands of John Kascht. John's another illustrator who can create gentle colorful caricatures or very bold symbolic ones with just a pen stroke...

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)

The My China Emperor Rim line from Sieger by Furstenburg

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

0ne of many adorable cards at tall cow press.

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.

While i hoped to share some amazing dresses - Ted Baker's US and UK sites are down, but this corner graphic is gorgeously playful

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

Camp Apparel: home to small bags that are big on color and fun. oooh.

The art of Ray Ceasar. (via Why Not?)

Hello Kitty-shaped muffler end.Via Boing Boing.

One light, multiple uses!

Nissan Terranaut : Talk about futuristic, even the name is from like 3010, (I almost said 2010 and thought, that's in 3 years... no futuristic enough.)

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

I AM NOT A TERRORIST shirt

Now you can cut out ANYthing

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

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were such a silly part of my childhood - but wow. what a makeover they've gotten since those days.

I have mixed feelings about the Kate Spade line, but these are too clean/sleek/cute to pass up posting.

Just when some aspects of the "blogosphere" start to take itself too seriously ... jeff pirillo and brad fitzpatrick start bLAUGH to remind us to laugh at it all a bit more. Daily comics about the blogosphere.

i need a new travel bag. i want this one by Parcel/Loop.

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.

The Sfera building in Kyoto has an unusual leaf-patterned facade that filters sunlight and creates a distinct leaf-patterned shadow into the interior of the building.

The idea for a nomadic tipi-like home came when John was reseraching and living in a tradiational yurt, a type of nomadic home which is designed originally by different indigenous peoples...

A 6-storeys sustainable living apartment specially built for the exhibition 'Habiter Ecologique' in Paris by Mario Cucinella Architects.

The newest addition to a haven for cyclists for the winter. Ray's MTB is the hot spot for mountain biking and BMX riding, in Cleveland. Check out the wild new stuff for this season.

Le Vigne is a new wine shop designed to be similar to navigating an Italian vineyard.

Italian pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai. Design by Iodice architects.