Amazing hand blown cupcake platter by up and coming artist, Amanda Goss. Brilliant!! You can vote for her and her design at Fred Flare - she's a finalist in their design contest!

A small spa at Las Palmas in Leyda, Chile. It has a wood skin that allows it to integrate with its surroundings while maintaining certain privacy. By Land Arquitectos.

A unique tandem bicycle, Bi-Cycle - Since both riders can steer and pedal at the same time, riding this bike demands a trust bond between the riders.

ThrICE Cubes by Henry Bagshawe is an interactive table light that combines a decorative lighting effect with a unique cube shape. The cube shape light can be located on their face, edge or apex to create seperate lighting effect and user experience.

check out the series of artist books by emerging book artist/ designer allison wilton. the books she has posted on her online portfolio all surround issues of contemporary web culture, and her design portfolio makes me jealous!

The Eleven Eleven Lincoln Road project in Miami, Florida. Designed by Herzog & De Meuron.

Craigslist ad: buy art--by the hour?

Cheeky video from Richard Hammond (of Top Gear) ~ promoting his new book "On The Edge" - love the roles his wife and kids (and dog!) play in it alongside the sleek cars.

Porsche design is releasing their first line of men's fragranced products this coming fall. "Essence" includes eau de toilette, aftershave lotion, aftershave balm, a hair and body shampoo and two deodorants in stick and spray form.

Tadao Hoshino Aphrodite Drawers - The Aphrodite is a highly original piece with cantilevered drawers, giving the illusion of instability.

Modular lighting so you can place these "lightballs" anywhere around your space. Ingenious.

School Canteen at Póvoa de Varzim by Cadilhe & Fontoura - The new cafateria of the Primary School nº1 in Póvoa de Varzim is a curved volume next to the old bluilding asuming his own autonomy

I can hear it now... "back in my day, before there was photoshop... this is how they made impossible images a reality!" See how this incredible image of Grace Jones was created...

Panasonic's World Wide Wave for the Beijing Olympics... cool use of webcams to bring together people's animations to create digital stadiums of waves. Love the illustrations of what you can't do...

There has been quite an uproar over the images snapped of the uncontacted tribe in Peru. Here is an update on whats going to be done.

dotdotdot for citroen c-design during the Milan design week 2008 at 31st floor of "Pirellone", 3d projection

Some impressive sculptures from the Superdome Art Show at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

A finely crafted Fabergé Buddha made from bowenite which was previously owned by billionaire shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Soon to be up for auction - estimate of £350,000.

Need a chair? Robot chair follows you around using RFID technology. Designed by Jelte van Geest.

All apparel at Departika on sale at up to 40% off, included the hit poster "Eagle," now in t-shirt form.

Desu Design has some beautiful outdoor furniture that incorporates rocks into the forms. This bench is called the SKEW and I think it's a stunner.

While wasp trap jars have been around for ages... this is the first gorgeously minimal yet designy one i've seen! By Pernille Vea for Menu

As a part of ANA Crowne Plaza hotel’s “Good Night Sleep” campaign, the hotel hung a bed suspended on the side of a tall building in the Ginza district of Tokyo.

Do these beautiful images from photographer Jason Tozer depict strange new alien worlds? No, something much more mundane

Taiwan’s first high definition station recently launched, and these abstract and dark idents for HiHD are meant to represent the “Lifeless, chaotic SD world” and its transformation into the “new era where a HD generation arrives.”

Life Fitness challenged designer to come up with an urban fitness machine... and gprero design won the competition by having it disappear into an Ottoman-Bench concept dubbed the "Otto-Bench"

Let your stress and your angry go out with the artistic project "Passive Aggressive Anger Release Machine" by yarisal kublitz

Jacqueline Colley and Heidi Coleman have worked a little 'Grand Designs' magic for Momiji. The girls handcrafted all the teeny detials. Domestic Bliss.

Cool New Belgium Beer ad on restoring the White Salmon River by removing Condit Dam. The 125-foot high dam is an impassable barrier and has limited salmon and steelhead to only three river miles.

Future Architecture : Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees

Leica D-Lux 3 | action of environment using 3D objects made of wood with small squares making allusion to the pixels that form a digital image.

They look like twins but to tell you the truth they aren't from the same family or country. Amazing work done by François Brunelle with people from North America and Europe.

Bamboo is one of the most versatile materials in the world. You can create more or less anything with bamboo. Finnish Artek has chosen to design a series of smooth looking furniture with bamboo veneer. The sidetable is my personal favorite.

A office desking system based on cognitive ergonomics, reflect the way you work

If you can't wait until July 11th, adopt the pretty cool iPhone 3G Paper toy created by the BigChief team.

The new UNEP Atlas provides striking visual evidence of the environmental effects of climate change by showing before and after satellite photos over a 35 year span.

"Big Buck Bunny" - The film of the second big open source project is now available!! An amazing & fun 3D movie. [The trailer was seen as #9457]

BMW: Gina Light, Body made out of cloth

Rem Koolhaas in Coolsingel, or shall we say Gordon Matta-Clark.

Leonardo DiCaprio is set to play Atari uber-nerd Nolan Bushnell in an upcoming biopic about the life of Mr. Pong.

Vienna's Museum of Modern Art has an exhibit called Bad Painting-Good Art devoted to bad art. They'll show paintings in various strategies of bad, ugly or malicious painting...that contain elements of irony, protest,trash, kitsch and shock".

Dan Hiller creates "altered engravings" of humans with tentacles... which can be found as prints, on wood, and even engraved on moleskines!

September 4th - 8th in fforest farm, Cardigan, West Wales ~ Howies will host 75 people with free food and accommodations at the DO Lectures... and you could be one of them!

Wonderful illustrations from New York based artist, designer, illustrator Marcos Chin. If you can name it Marcos Chin has probably done an illustration for it, products, advertising and fashion illustrations just to name a few.