Gentrify! An SF google map mashup ~ with an awesome logo!

this is an installation i did (screenprinting on found computer paper). its a social commentary on our overuse of copy machines and computer paper, and how they become ultimately wasted.

$10 worth of Sharpie's and a knack for drawing can go a long way when you have a basement with plain walls.

Among the more resent works of Imegadito we find a box to unfold, use and fold back again when it is not needed, A bottle holder to hold and beautify your ugly plastic bottle, and pot covers!

Fonzies Be Original contest 2008 ~ vote for your favorite package design!

Bob Staake designs the most recent cover of The New Yorker, using Mac OS7 and Photoshop 3.0, both released in 1991.

Portraits of people wearing clothes made from the fur of their own dogs! That's right, 'dog wool'.

I love the elemental aspect of Jesse Kirsch's Tazaa Soap project - part of his portfolio of student work at SVA.

ROCKNUDE : naked women in nature with a "predator" effect, everything is invisible but the hair. Use your imagination for the rest.

Robert Brunner, an ID for some of Apple's most iconic products, and Stewart Emery, author of Success Built to Last, pose a deceptively simple question: Do you (as a company) matter (to your customers)? .... a must read!

Target has a San-Serif Type Tee from Turn Nocturnal

"An unwashed vegetable can become a deadly weapon." - great ad by Saatchi & Saatchi, Caracas, Venezuela.

Creative way to protect your motorcycle from theft and bad weather.

I love the Japanese design of Stoneware's sugar container. I just picked up one for myself, a beautiful example of how design can be traditional and contemporary at the same time.

This commercial for Swedish whisky made with a phantom camera is really nice! It was made especially for a limited edition of 'extra smoky whisky' by Birth, a webstudio in Stockholm.

Tokyoflash have just released the latest distinctive wrist watch in its ongoing quest to bring us some of the most novel digital watches out there

This has got to be some of the best CD packaging I have ever seen. A folded and stitched poster becomes an envelope that keeps a jewel-box inside.

Ridiculous Design Rules ~ a site dedicated to.... exactly that!

"Pac-Man: The Movie" is a hilarious low-budget short destined for viral greatness. Directed by Stanley Wong and Tyler Russel.

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.

Band In My Pocket - another project from au Design, in partnership with Yamaha - a set of cell phones that also function as musical instruments. Depending on the prototype, you can turn your phone into a brass instrument, drums, piano, turntable...

Signorrasore's take on green design..

NOTCOT GIVEAWAY! (+ Unboxing!) ~ The new jimmyjane Form 6 massager, absolutely stunning design, and you have to see the details, like the embedded buttons and charging case!

Creative advertisements for the Buenos Aires Zoo.

Really gorgeous furniture from Hiromatsu.

Excellent use of ambient marketing.

The new CA Academy of Sciences will not only have a living roof ~ and penguins ~ but also recycled DENIM insulation!

British filmmaker Peter Greenaway's projection onto Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper in Milan was unveiled in that city for one night only on the occasion of Saloni 2008.

Alan Family House, Los Angeles, CA / Neil M. Denari Architects Inc.

Nice packing for Nudo by Madeleine Rogers. Nudo is an olive grove. Adopt one of the olive trees and get the oil it produces!

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.

James Owen's Snowflake (top) and Rotor (bottom) fruit bowls. Each are laser cut and powder coated.

Buenos Aires based studio Punga have created two stop-motion inspired spots for Temaiken Bioparque (Biopark is apparently a PC way of saying Zoo)...

A video of ferrofluid in motion.Simply fascinating and tranquil as well.

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!

The facade of the iconic CCTV Building in Beijing by OMA is completed, just in time for the Olympics.

Lorena Barrezueta just launched a new porcelain line of jewelry - Listen Lady. Similar to her dinnerware line, Listen Lady takes iconic accessories and memorializes them in the more precious material of porcelain.

Touch tone telephone music. This guy cranks out a pretty decent version of The Turkish March, by Mozart using only cellular and terrestrial telephones. I'd love to see the sheet music for this.

Beautiful graphic commercial for Pontiac. Made by Leo Burnett.

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

UPDATE! The Finale ~ part III is now up! Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog ~ a musical 3 part mini series by Joss Whedon -

Amazing drawings from illustrator Adam Haynes.

DEMOCRATIC DESIGN? Philippe Starck’s Designer Wind Turbine

Designer Daniela Bianka has completed a renovation of the entrance, reception and exhibition areas at the French National Space Agency (CNES) in Paris. Pretty cool!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald~ Jonathon McNicol has been beautifully typesetting a pdf version... he's up to chap 7... of 11, i had to jump ahead to the UVA version to finish.