I Am 8 Bit news ~ mini canvases by various artists are spread around the city ~ find them and bring them to the show for lots of goodies... great concept! (except that you take the street art down)

I Am 8 Bit opens thursday ~ and they have collectible fliers that turn into adorably cool paper toys around the city!

"Move To The Radio" by Sang Hoon Lee - using car "movement" concept and approach to control the volume and power of the radio. Pretty much same as Avian Radio by Mikel Silvanto. Check out Notcot post #11633

Some great new vinyl figures by Hong Kong artist Michael Lau have been released today.

DGPH created some great inflatable characters for the Nike Sportswear launch.

Nice typography work with sugar by Marian Bantjes for Stefan Sagmister's "Things I have learned in my life so far" series.

Rich People Rooftops NYC . Just Amazing. Thanks Pancho!

This is sand. Click to release the sand; press C to change the color. Have Fun!

Jaime Hayon for Champagne Piper-Heidsieck - an incredible champagne bath/lamp piece that may be my new favorite piece by Jaime yet... wow.

Didac Catalán of Lowink Studio packages the last cigarette you'll ever have.

This panorama of all five NYC boroughs at the Queens Museum of Art is bigger than my entire apartment!

German del Sol is a chilean architect that gets the most out of local landscapes. On his geometric hot springs, he enrouted a natural source of hot water with colorful architecture and green roofs.

Waves - gorgeous letterpress print collaboration between Lena Corwin and Port2Port Press.

A campaign about the power of reading. Printed on paper bags of a bookshop.

Ooooh ~ turn that iphone 3G matte black! New slider cases from incase just dropped ~ there's also gloss white, and more colorways coming in the future

Peared is the work of recent Syracuse grad Conor Hagan. Gorgeous bottle form and brand design.

"Sometimes 'going up in smoke' can be a good thing" Here's an incredible roundup of smoke imagery.

HEINEKEN = Watering + Ice Bucket

Brit loses her iphone in a cab in spain and shares the story via comic!

Absolutely amazing video of all kinds of traffic, as seen from space. From the BBC's "Britain from Above"

Dos Mas Uno Arquitectos designed this amazing social housing complex in Spain.

Students at Stuttgart University recently perfected a vehicle propelled by nothing more than three wheels and a 6kw turbine.

invisible... the new ad for peugeot 307... brilliant execution... created by Euro RSCG Argentina...

The Third Space - an incredible installation put together by 52 German design students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich who created a gorgeous space out of 1.3 million cable ties. The project took 16,870 hours to complete.

Japanese company WASARA makes an incredible set of disposable paper tableware. College parties will never be the same.

What I don't know about space at Museum 52 sees Esther Stocker transform the gallery into a three dimensional graph with only some cardboard, gaffer tape and sticky back plastic.

Zaha Hadid Architects will create an installation at Palladio’s Villa Foscari near Venice this autumn, to coincide with the Venice Architecture Biennale.

A explosive mash-up of american icons, comics, street sign and pieces of books. The Greg Gossel's artworks.

Shepard Fairey's studio ~ we were lucky enough to visit his studio during Simple Pleasures ~ and you wouldn't believe how incredibly inspiring the space is... wall to wall inspiration and quite the library

A look at the industrial surrounds of Cockatoo Island, one of the venues for the 2008 Sydney Biennale.

Visual sneak peek inside the world of Obey Giant, Studio Number One, and the Subliminal Projects Gallery

the nytimes takes a look at opening ceremonies fashion. great images of olympics through the past.

*NEW* Video for Kanye West's "Champion". Just in time for the Olympic Games.

Just what we all need in summer ~ playfully refreshing Missoni prints ~ Missoni Columbia Halter Bikini and the Missoni Corinto Silk Kaftan.

upcycled and recycled detritus turned into a slobot for the lift detroit munny show. check out the hair!

COSMIC MOTORS has a new book.

Eames., the duo that brought us molded plywood in every shape and form - That aesthetic could be translated into a Prosthetic Leg - concept by designer Joanna M. Hawley

This is a time-lapse Lego visualisation of Radiohead's House of Cards video that has gotten a lot of play in the blogosphere . Nice rendition even if I'm not crazy about Legos.

Cool Noir style animated commercial for... of all things, a pest control company! Nice lighting and a good example of a simple idea executed well.

Not many companies (if any that I've seen) put this much energy into making their online retail stores so beautiful. Thank you Fawn & Forest for making it such a pleasure to browse and shop online!

Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is finally here!!! On wiiware and pc ~ 5 episodes will launch over the next few months! (i've been playing with the demo, and its awesome)

the 2008 Diesel Wall in NY is now up ~ and the winner is Artist Jonathan Sandridge's 'The Good Life' ~ a giant cheeseburger ~ check out the video of the installation!

3 color Screen printed Poster for "Partisan The Sea - A Politically Charged Poster Show" in September by HALFTONEDEFSTUDIOS.COM of Jacksonville Fl.

Anne Smith's robots have no lack of imagination in them...the horse animates online to show a full range in motion...mechanical yet organic and very playful.

King Of Games makes the best shirts/hoodies from old games ~ here's the Famicom 20th Anniversary shirt, and the retro game boxes as packaging is brilliant as well!

Pauline Baynes, 1922-2008 ~ apparently she was for a long while the only Tolkien illustrator, and her work was even approved by Tolkien himself!

In Vino Veritas by Matali Crasset ~ impressive collection of wine inspired glassware that changes your perspective a bit

Eselkunst has quite the flickr collection of found object insect creations... fascinating how simple yet intricate these are compared to many that have surfaced here

2x4 by sand_box is what it sounds like - a light made out of a 2x4.

bubbles... spot for the new kia sportage with 7-year warranty...