The Menu Feeder String - The cord has hard plastic tips, making it easy to thread balls or other foods, such as apples, onto the cord. Interesting alternative to standard bird feeders...

Inspired by Eadweard Muybridge + Theo Jansen: Solar powered kinetic paper animals... You can also order the kit to make your own! Bizarre video...

On more innovative gift card design by target... for Speed Racer, it has a built in USB... with a mere 62.8 MB - but comes with coloing pages, a coupon, wallpapers, and a special code for the Wii game!

What is Exhibition Design? by Lee Skolnick, Jan Lorenc, and Craig Berger... Another book for the wishlist...

A Poster from the Godfather created using the ENTIRE movie script. (The website has a larger poster, where you can see it better)

Oooooh the wallpapers from the Veer - Very Secret Order of Creatives Understanding are gorgeous!... and available in every imaginable size if you solve the riddles...

12 Bridges Gin Packaging - One of Portland's bridges (Hawthorne bridge pictured) is screen printed on the back of each bottle. Over time, all 12 Portland bridges will be featured.

ROADTRIP! Ok, so editing got quiet today b/c my quick drive to SF from LA got sidetracked... by insane ostriches, danish pancake balls, tiny cliff hanging roads, pirateship treehouses, otters, and more...

From Musical Furnishings: The Musical Rhumba Series. Design your own personal drum table with interchangeable percussion inserts. Site has 2 vids to help you choose which modules you desire. WANT!!!

Based on a 1947 design from Milan, Italy called the Atomic- La Sorrentina Coffee Makers remind us of Frank Lloyd Wright's quote, "Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one- joined in a spiritual union."

NOTConcept 001 - the 3D renders are here ~ if someone would build it, we could grill NOTCOT logos into food! See the full product shots, and shots in context of some very cute balconies...

House kn by Kochi Architects Studio ~ i love the way this courtyard's walls are sliced and lit

This GIANT fish Q-BA-MAZE installation at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is made from those marble/maze blocks i reviewed a few months ago... see the video of this piece in action!

Those nauseatingly sweet Raphael angels have been put to work by LILA, an Italian AIDS awareness organization

The Journey ~ Art Director, Justin Young's PSA ~ a lovely animation taking you on the journey of where your tap water comes from...

Doonesbury ~ where politics and comics are mixing, this recent thread on the "Poetry of Barack Obama" and "The Prose of Hillary Clinton" classes causing a stir on the fictitious Walden campus are quite amusing.

Artist Pete Fowler works with English label Boxfresh on a capsule collection. His designs appear for the first time on clothing! Cannot wait!

Get ready for the TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON!!! Weds night February 20th, 2008 ~

Whitevoid Application : an unbelievably cool interface design in Papervision 3d.

Ford's Filling Station catered the FORDBRADY Dwell event ~ and i love their branding and use of the wood boards for menus

Who's behind all the magical fun product design that comes out of Fred? Jason Amendolara - Check out their design director's freshly launched blog

British street artist Banksy has been in LA recently and took it upon himself to decorate. The question still remains to whether these will fall victim to the buff or the capitalists?

OMA reveals design for large-scale Residential Complex in Singapore

the new Swing wine glass from Gumdesign ~ don't worry it won't tip over, but it sure does look fun to swirl around

Incredibly fun *free* weekly calendar from CIA ~ Covent Garden’s illustration agency!

the smallest permanent pneumatic roof of the world… by 5elf , location: Berlin

Beautiful new identity system for British architects Faulkner Browns

This is Bjorn Johansson's Anatomy of a Typeface ~ Can you imagine if this bony font had flesh and faces as well? I think i imagine these to be the skeletal system of the "Sesame Street is sponsored by the letter ____"

Strange ~ but bizarrely funny ~ for those who like LOLcats ~ there is a LOLinator that translates your page into LOL both visually and textually. Here's a reason to hug a designer today.

The Design Museum announces its choices for Designs of the Year - some obvious, some pretty quirky

This plate looks like an ordinary plate, but the bottom is printed with undeniable, provocative, bitter and indigestible sentences about hunger statistics in the world in heat sensitive ink.

Negativity Refuse Bags ~ a new way to literally THROW OUT your ex, your anger, your baggage of any sort emotional or otherwise....

The Buccellati Millennium necklace has over 1290 diamonds in it totaling over 104 carats, only one has been made and it costs $2.6 million.

this special basketball item is made for celebrating the 23rd generation of air jordan

Gift Guide Day 3 ~ Musical Gadgetry to accompany the many mp3 players everyone already has...

Impulse buy of the moment ~ $5 on Sonic the Hedgehog for my ipod! Ahhhh nostalgia.

Web agency AKQA has created a live Xmas card for 2007 featuring a large neon sign powered by 2 festive hamsters.

An NYU photography student, Dan Sakamoto, has an eye for great pictures

Sexy wallets/billfolds made from recycled vintage ties, so every one is unique. Don't know what that has to do with whales, but cool nonetheless. by Narwhal

Day 29 of the gift guide is all about some of the most eco-friendly, let luxurious feeling wallets (with great packaging, so they look great as gifts) by db clay... there are even 500 one of a kind wallets!

perhaps the most amazing ring ive ever seen! Flutter Bye by Helpless Romantic

On great new tote/reusable bag options, Silly Thing's upcoming Chapel of Dawn-line of Canvas Tote Bags featuring a hilarious James Jarvis-creation

paper carrier bag design for Olympic Games

Self Healing Tape ~ by Draw Me A Sheep

Keyport ~ the first keyfob for all your many keys is FINALLY shipping in two weeks with its limited edition Slide... check out images of the first ones.

Beautiful new photographic series from William Hundley of 'Jumping Sheets'.