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.

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

Created by Japanese design studio A4 , Tumi-Ishi is beautiful game made of wooden rocks. Reminds me a bit like Jenga.

Iron Man ~ wow. I didn't think i would, but i loved it... particularly all the design details, i have a serious case of house/lab envy! Check out the video of the Malibu house perched over point dume...

Flip Video Ultra - that tiny idiot-proofed video camera with the flip out USB now has an Underwater Housing and Action Mount! Can you imagine the silly things you can do with such a low cost underwater video camera?

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.

Japanese artist Machiko Shishido hand-carves her paper thin porcelain vases. Place a tea light inside for the most exquisite translucent effect.

IKEA 08 ~ in addition to the Trollsta (#9958) - this season they seem to be picking up quite a few trends - from vinyl stickers to floating tv walls...

Nice, social housing, neighborhood in Ghent, Belgium. Designed by Neutelings Riedijk. Great photos by talanted photographer Dajo Revyn.

A new brush set is released along with the new Departika website. Bangin' Border Brush Set by Jason Gaylor of Departika.

Lenovo, a Chinese based computer company, designed the 2008 Beijing Olympics torch.

Opel Agila's high-heel shoes do indeed exist. Designed by Luca Stappers, they were unveiled on April 2 during a special party at the SHOEBALOO shoe shop in Amsterdam.

MocoLoco has a first look at Joey Roth's Sorapot... full unboxing.

ibride in france make a polar bear shaped book shelf called joe.

beautifully colored fashion illustrations from seattle artist jerry seguin.

What has the body of the iPhone, the glossy ui of the PSP, and the brain of a Blackberry? Apparently the Blackberry 9000 is quite the chimera.

DIY Speakerdog Series 05 is here! And my fav of the DIY paper designs from this set is the Nice Bunny.

the new fabrica fetaures lisbon show
1000 drawings of 2 illustrators blog, during 5OO days.
fabrica-features-lisboa.blogspot.com

I've always held Luigi Colani's eccentricities, progressive and nature based design forms in high admiration. His website chronicles 5 decades of his work.

New to the bottled water market ~ Y Water ~ for kids, bottle designed by Yves Behar, and when emptied you can build structures out of them!

the final installment in David Attenborough's "Life" series is here! Life In Cold Blood ~ incredible BBC series all about reptiles! It looks amazing, planet earth fans be ready to drool!

“Ku-So Muji” is Muji’s sister site, where you can send in your product design idea and vote for your favorites.

Core77 has a great post about the Kotatsu ~ the japanese coffee table with built in blanket and heater underneath... to keep you cozy while you sit with your legs under, and all bundled up!

New Puma v1.08 brilliant commercial created by Robert/Boisen & Like-Minded and The Mill.
Great high-tech and futuristic look directed by Nicolai Fuglsig.

Hong Kong gadget company, Brando, has a pretty little sim card to unlock iphones... cute idea, unfortunately only for iPhone v1.1.2

Czech clothing company UAX has a great office/store designed by Kamil Mrva Architects. I really like the contrast between the old and the new structures.

So, they say a picture speaks 1,000 words. In Jan Socor's case, he's speaking whole essays.

So there it is ~ popping out of a manilla envelope ~ the macbook air. but EVEN CUTER? The actual music video of yael naim's "new soul" that is used in their ad

I bet you didn't realize that the Squeezebox Duet Remote has an SD slot, headphone jack, speaker, IR transmitter, accelerometer , flickr browsing, clock.... in addition to being able to stream your music (even sirius) via wifi

On another fun surprise package ~ How incredible is this YO FRAGILE! guy on a huge box that just showed up ~ and wait till you see the incredible mixed media piece inside! Awesome ghosty skater boy.

Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies. You might say it puts the "psych!" in "encyclopedia". Quite amusing, really.

Think Tank designed by Renate Hattinger Keramik - Think Tank is part of the series Human Interior - Material: porcelain, gold plated, luster

Robotic water striders! Awesome video too... The CMU Water Strider by NanoRobotics Laboratory

This 25th year ~ my perfect birthday present is my new Vinyl Cutter ~ and to test it out between ai files and doodles, we have even decorated the wiimotes! [this image is just the beginning]

Creature by Andrew Zuckerman is definitely the MUST buy coffee table book of the year... unfortunately my copy came a bit bashed up, and the cover seems to be crying green...

LOOTone is one of the best and most established graffiti artists in Japan.

UPDATED! I just found a video of Bryan demoing all of the tests in the Oakley O Lab! It really is even cooler to see it in video ... shooting balls at glasses on dummy heads at high velocities, playing with lasers, etc.

Austrian Bela Borsodi does still life photography in a very special way. Interview and links.

An interview with Yang Liu, author and designer of Ost trifft West (aka East Meets West).

The British Design Council has a great series of articles on Managing Design ~ including input from Alessi, BT, Starbucks, Microsoft, Lego, Sony, Virgin, Yahoo, Whirlpool, Xerox and more

Design House Stockholm finally opens an online store! (For all those goodies like my favorite carrie basket... and this great Umbrella Stand, by Eva Schildt with a sponge!)

Fat Owl Lantern! made out of ceramic

Triggered by post #6732 ~ Joshua Targownik sent in his photographs of the Reform School which are beautiful... it looks like the picturesque doll house full of designer goods you wish you had.

Sculpted Cabinet with drawer - right out of a cartoon set methinks!

Crazy tanning ~ Self-destructive Object_product by Yu-Chiao Wang

Who new you could do such great things with your empty wine jug? Carlo Rossi: Make Something - a series of products reusing wine jugs.