The Skateboard Museum in Stuttgart will rock your vans off.

NYC soho store Uniqlo enlisted this robot named wakamura to meet and greet customers, telling them about special promotions, and leading the staff in morning exercise. Awesome!

Interesting workshop, 'Darkmark', on experimental type, run by the Dutch design studio Underware. Attendees were asked to create type with shadows, with lots of interesting results.

Lost in a wood in south-east Berlin suburbs, the Baumschulenweg crematorium is an impressive and inspiring building.

Signorrasore's take on green design..

Really gorgeous furniture from Hiromatsu.

Gig posters from Andrio Abero of 33RPM.

The Nisha Bar Louge in Mexico City features colorful interiors.

The frellstedt lightbench looks great both indoors and out and is available in just about every color in the rainbow.

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.

The Jean Jullien's funny works for the Reflet exhibition [Editor's Note: see #12602 for jullien's portfolio]

Ever wonder what font a certain logo or type treatment was? Here is Whatthefont.com A website that allows users to upload JPGs or GIFs of the typeface in question and it will match results. Also, a nice forum for professionals to help free!

Dapple Grey's new One Trick Pony line of jewelry - with clever integration of the chain into the design!

Acronym creates really nice reclaimed wood furniture. I love the mixture of hardwood and concrete.

Nomade Yachts offer ultra-exclusive luxury cruises through the lagoons of French Polynesia. Ever whim is catered for..... in style.

London had the Crystal Palace, Paris had the Eiffel Tower, and now the Zaragoza Expo 2008 features amazing pavillions by Zaha Hadid and the talented spanish architects. Photo tour at ArchDaily.

The Royal College of Art recently revealed a rousing rally of auto designs that match sleek profiles with cutting-edge concepts in sustainability.

The Umbuster is a combination compact umbrella with brass knuckles as the handle. Designed by Sruli Recht of Iceland, you need an actual weapons license to carry it in some countries!

Created by Lina Meier, Ollo Eatingware reinvent fooding in front of the TV !

DEMOCRATIC DESIGN? Philippe Starck’s Designer Wind Turbine

Ad campaign where clothing detergent samples were sent in a bot wrapped in a white tshirt, so when arrived it was perfectly dirty to test the sample on!

Cash Money Clips ~ made with duct tape and magnets, or epoxy... or DIY "kits" ~ hehe.

Jeans + Helium + Duct Tape... the latest in the genius Levi's viral vids ~ and i've also linked Guys Backflipping in Jeans, and the Monkey doing Hollywood to catch you up.

Fallen : An existentialist animated HD short by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert.

Beautiful photographs made by burying film in the ground and letting bacteria do their work

Future Architecture : Floating Ecopolis for Climate Refugees

The result of a brilliant DIY to transform a single umbrella in a firmament of stars.

Brand new poster print by Supermandolini™. "Shooting Target" more than just a fun design carries under the surface a more serious message open to interpretation.

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

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.

King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture by Snøhetta

This multi-blade knife makes short work out of turning veggies into noodles.

Hotel Boat that travels river Amazonas, starting from Iquitos, Peru. Luxurious rooms with a 180ª vision to the exterior. It even has a boutique on board...

Artist Chiharu Shiota uses miles of string in her work to suspend objects in space and time.

Jonathan Adler's Squirrel Ring Boxes are adorable!!!

Tiji TV: Children ~ advert from DDB, Paris, France. Imagination is a powerful thing...

This small hotel made by Sami Rintala in the North East Norway, houses just a single room, a double room and a lobby for sailors, fishers, hunters, backpackers and fortune-seekers. Small and useful.

Play the Next Track has some new illustrations up for their latest chapter.

Adorably simple (and slightly deathstar looking) Birdball peanut birdfeeder from Green & Blue - Slipcast in clay. Stainless steel wire. (also in lime and blue)

Arcamita's "feed" is an adorable woody bird feeder for small songbirds

Super cute mother's day video from Zune Arts by - Parisian artist Yves Geleyn and New York indie pop duo the bird and the bee

Thank You motion graphics, out of Copenhagen, did a great "in flight video for Iceland Air

HP Advanced Photo Paper | Path torn > action of environment made by Publicis for photographic paper from HP.

Nice and clean packing from danish The Coffee Collective (TCC). The profile that circles around a simple and nice triangular pattern was developed by Hatch & Bloom in close corporation with TCC.

Fascinating NYtimes article on the depiction of nature in Disney movies inspired by the passing of Bambi animator Ollie Johnston.

nuzilla - a "new" New Zealand product design company have launched their sliceform kiwi's and moa's on endemicworld.com. I love laser-cut construction like this, my favourite is their life size Moa (large extinct bird)