Frank Buchwald is a Berlin based designer who created this inspiring series of lamps, the idea was developed from mechanical artifacts of the industrial age.

Cooties exposed! Finally, for the first time, scientists dive into the mysterious inner workings of Cooties... New illustration and print...

Color Community is fully customizable, plus four chairs and a table can be various colors to special effect. Plastic chairs are also comfortable and tremendous.

Dive into the world of Alexander Jansson, illustrator to the mystical and dark. At first glance, one might think that his work was frightening, but look further, pleasure is found in the details.

Business card that shoots pennies.

new movable print "the duel" from bandito design co. FREE WITH EVERY PURCHASE FOR A LIMITED TIME.

A Hopscotch Rug by CB2

We’re Perfect with Cereals’ is a brand that obviously communicates how to use it, and the design has a nice retro touch to it with the perfect use of typography and colours in earth tones.

The Lomographic Society International launch a competition for redesigning the LC-A+ to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the camera. This is 8 project by David Alexander Slaager

Herb is a home exploring robotic butler that can efficiently map and search indoors.

Illustrator Jim Tierney redesigns Jules Verne, complete with hand-lettering for his student thesis project.

House at Orchard by Chang Architects.
This house is an outcome of an owner’s dream to live in a forest setting amidst the urbanized city of Singapore.

Red Cross text messages have hit the $10 million mark. Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross

Delightful new printed sleep masks from Bucky. Perfect for long flights or lazy Sundays. Contour allows you to blink naturally and won't smudge your mascara.

Mcbess aka Matthieu Bessudo is an illustrator/Director from Kassel, Germany with a unique style and point of view.

Normal You + Cellar Door Coffee = Portland You … a clever little campaign for Cellar Door Coffee Roasters.

The Infinity furniture and lighting collection by Tangle Creations is based on the Tibetan Infinite Knot. Infinity design collection pieces entitled Art, Sky and Sun, the latter being a globular light fixture.

This former washing machine drum is now a lovely lamp from Reestore. It produces an ambient light from the top and shoots beams of light from the holes in its body.

The Sleep Suit is surely one of the more absurd inventions in history. It's a portable cocoon made out of foam that allows the user to put in on and sleep comfortably wherever he or she may be.

New ‘Energy Roof‘ in Perugia, designed by COOP HIMMELB(L)AU with a goal to generate energy for the city, serving as a canopy along Via Mazzini in the center of Perugia.

Eye-catching video promoting a new issue of unique polish magazine FUTU. Alternative way of design magazine presentation. You can watch page by page and listen to the music.

Paul Hornschemeier spills the beans on the first volume of the new book-format iteration of his one-man anthology series FORLORN FUNNIES, comprising serialized and standalone comics and prose stories.

Bookwave Hanging Storage …it’s a curtain, a room divider and a bookshelf. The soft soul of the fabric provides all these functions in a new approach as it expands to any size.

In these days the hot-water bottle is often replaced by the electrical heating blanket. Still, the hot-water bottle remains a timeless product with an unbeatable charm. From Wendy Legro

Be forewarned, if you stare at these images for too long, you may feel yourself getting pulled into the frame, resulting in dizziness, and the explosion of your brain.

Form February 5, 2010, the Italian architect and designer Michele De Lucchi will show a selection of his small wooden architecture models at Ingo Maurer’s space in Munich. The opening with an artist talk will be on February 4, 2010.

New spot from Jack Daniel's Label History campaign. Created by Arnold and Brand New School.

The Tree trunk garden house in Hilversum, Netherlands is an amazing house made from logs.

This 'copper fish' artists' studio from XSPACE has a nifty all-over copper cladding

A look at some of the most interesting concept cars that debuted at the Detroit AUto Show 2010

Macallan Flights of the Decades ~ incredible event at Soho House NYC, tasting and twittering our way from New Make Spirit back through 52 year old Macallan.

Macallan Ice Ball "Machine" ~ runs on gravity and the frictional heating capacity of copper at room temperature with the icea... within moments perfect spheres!

Philippe Starck and enologist Michel Rolland have collaborated to create an ecologically produced La Amarilla de Ronda organic extra virgin olive oils from Andalucia, Spain.

Loving this eco-friendly and durable cardboard computer case. It’s a do-it-yourself kit which is built out of layers of cardboard.

Amazing illustration work by New York based Daniel Horowitz. Prints are available from his Etsy store as well.

Rotterdam based Royal Haskoning architects developed a villa on the moon. It is a transparant orb equipped as a mini-earth: complete with indoor gardens and pools. A giant sun visor protects the inhabitants from being roasted.

From Prandina, the Equilibre Fluo light, designed by Luc Ramael.

Liz Linden is a graduate of Yale University and a recipient of the Richter Fellowship. Currently in Australia for vacation and work, Linden shares how her experiences in Oz have helped shape her as an artist.

The Fluffizoo menagerie of toys are designed to ride, sit and bounce the day away.

Beautiful paper light sculptures Moonjelly from Limpalux.

Screen printed in strictly limited quantities, Les Queues de Sardines‘ cute graphic-print stockings and tights are at the forefront of a somewhat unlikely trend for 2010.....

Join us for a day at KETTNER's in London's SOHO // Ilse Crawford has shown us that a body of excellence is required along with design in order to perfect the acquired ambiance..

I am furniture is the new series of Industrially sculptured objects, heated up electrically.
Objects that tend to be something that they are not. From Vraay.

Another stylish restaurant by Stanley Saitowitz. Located in San Francisco's Jazz district, the Mississippi Blues interiors are influenced by the classic instruments of jazz.

OfficePOD is a home office away from home, a contemporary prefab office unit that'll keep household distractions at bay in style.

Attention smart and awesome people of the world – it’s time to shake things up! We’ve penned our first book, I Swear to Good You Are God at This. It’s 72 pages of creative inspiration and we just know you’re going to love it.

For If You Could Collaborate, designers and illustrators partnered with people from other walks to life to create artworks, like this type cut from wood

Caption Gallery is pleased to announce a dual exhibition of photographs by Amy Stein and Brian Ulrich. Their powerful, dystopic visions expose the transformation of human beings into consumers, with little power or agency.

Uni Sans® is a brand new Sans-Serif type family from FontFabric. Designed specifically to work for headlines, captions and as block text, Uni Sans is a very versatile type family adaptable for any application.

Beijing Noodle No. 9 is Ceasar Palace's newest restaurant and offers a truly unique surreality rarely seen in the world... let alone the global capital of ostentation, Las Vegas....

The Japanese no.555 Architectural Design Office recently realised this single family residence. It is based on a two storey steel frame construction.

This very Portland-y letterpress and screen printed poster commemorates the second anniversary of Beard Revue.

Borusan Music and Art House, Istanbul, Turkey, by GAD

The Sixpack is a bottle carrier that can hold up to 6 beer, soft drink, or water bottles. It’s perfect for those BYO dinner outings where a normal 6 pack gets destroyed after you rip out one beer.

Almost every space in which we live has a plughole. Yet we all seem to do our utmost to conceal wall sockets. With I WANT contact Neffa hopes to demonstrate that plugholes are simple to incorporate into their surroundings.

Video excerpt from "Tomorrow, in a year", an electro-opera with music by The Knife about the life and work of Charles Darwin.

Vhils Hits Moscow!

Photos of Danish designer Tom Rossau Making one of his ST 903 Lamps.

Just in time for Valentine's Day, House Industries unveils a full set of "Valentype" alphabet letter blocks. Block set are available in Red and Silver

Maison Martin Margiela's first perfume launch in Paris ~ we were the only US site present! Absolutely stunning details ~ and i'm loving the packaging, presentation, and dot matrix press kit print outs!

Christel Hadiwibawa is a furniture designer based in Sydney. The above pieces were part of her Honours research last year exploring sustainability. Working with bamboo, these are the final results of her work.

The Mercer ~ Soho, NYC ~ so many design details not to be missed in my room here ~ this is just one of many in the post! Love the way the bubble bath is measured in bubbles! See the key and magnets too!

CES Top Secret look in to Belkin's suite ~ on unique challenges, they invited me in to preview many of the upcoming 2010 offerings, but i can't show them to you (yet)! HOWEVER, i can show you some of the incredible displays they set up!

Designed by Damien Gires, the Urban Seat is comprising funtionable chair and table that well place along the street for pedestrian to slow down and enjoy the neighborhood.

London based designer Ryan McElhinney,
up-cycled old toys to create this intriguing lamp.

Amazing animation "Press +" by Benjamin Ducroz.

Artist/designer Nina Wehrle from "It’s Raining Elephants” filled the streets of Diplomarbeit with boats and monkeys. The monkeys are tiny and mischievous, and boats almost too giant to recognize.

With ever growing space problem, one is always on lookout for smart space avers but compromise with style…A big NO! Check out the cool coffee table by Steve Spett and Ron Barth. Is it a simple coffee table? Naah! It’s a dining table when being transformed. Imagine your friends asking as to where’s your dining room table and you turn your coffee table in just few minutes time. Sounds cool! Check out ResourceFurniture for more information or if you’re around NY, you can visit the store in person at Manhattan, 969 Third Avenue, New York.

These industrial quality carts are made by the same company that's been providing carts for hotels, restaurants and the US government since the beginning of the 20th century.

Anatomic Tights... I thing I'm in love!

Fresca Mattina Coffee from the heart of Africa - Mt. Elgon in Uganda


We began as a small group of friends who love coffee, and evolved into a company rooted in taking mountain villages of Uganda and its good people onto the world stage. Coffee is a centuries-old beverage with contemporary devotees, and the land of Uganda has labored for centuries bringing its people, endangered mountain gorillas, rich forests, and fine coffee.

Garant is Swedish food brand that comes in to different lines. One green eco-friendly line and one regular, I hate humanity line. Both lines have been designed by Bas Brand Identity.

Simon Dennehy from www.perch.ie speaks at TEDx Dublin about his new Ergonomic School Furniture and approach to R&D for Students

As part of the sales promotion campaign, these ambient stunts in Belgium. The aim is to show just how easy it is to buy an Alfa Romeo MiTo. The headline reads "Your chance to own an Alfa Romeo".

An awesome dad hand paints these lunch bags for his kid during his lunch break at work.

great info-graphics and design by Hello Monday for the Copenhagen in a Box board game.

Stunning new print by Los Angeles based artist Joby Cummings illustrating the 7 deadly sins.

Simon Evans made a poster of everything he has. From clothes to half eaten fruits.

French conceptual artist Michel de Broin and his 7.5m, 1000 mirror, disco ball suspended above the Paris night sky. Amazing!

Print magazine celebrates their 70th anniversary with two different cover designs for their new issue. "A toast to the vitality of beauty, and everlasting appeal of print design."

Diego Ramos: Ego Soup - some of us need more of the soup others needs less of it.

CL!CK - a beautiful Lego shortfilm

The iVictrola combines cutting edge technology of the early 20th century and the 21st century. Concepted by NYC designer Matt Richmond, he took his love for vintage turntables one step further.

Danish textiles giant, Kvadrat have had their new London HQ designed by ex-Factory Records icon, Peter Saville....

Fujitsubo beauty parlour, Tokyo, Japan, by Archivision Hirotani Studio

Deepside D has med a new version of the old monopoly game and this time its with the theme “Doomsday Countdown”...

Barcelonian illustrator/designer Máximo Tuja creates these monotonal pieces through the combination and juxtaposition of awkwardly-selected subject matter, who are then submerged in an pool of erratically placed lines and patterns.

Design Hara’s green HTPC is the computer/home media player I want. It's eco friendly, features HDMI and DVI outputs, a Blu-ray drive, and comes with handcrafted (side panels) from Italian cypress wood or Canadian rose wood. Beautiful.

Stunning post-apocalyptic landscapes by Perth-based artist Martin Wills.

Miss Lulu is the brandnew prototype furniture from Berlin based Atelier Haussmann and will be presented on the IMM in Cologne this month.

CHOW.com just started their series of desktop wallpapers. The first (above) is a giant portobello mushroom.

The Ysios Bodega is located just north of the classic wine-growing region of La Rioja in the province of Álava. Santiago Calatrava created a distinctive piece of architecture.

An animated poem by Kathryn Regina. Animation by the talented Greg Lytle.

Amsterdam-based artist, Peter Schuyff, takes ordinary objects like baseball bats and colored pencils and carves them into intricate and delicate works of art.

Danish designer Emil Kozak has worked his magic on a range of Dell Laptops.

An innovative design to create bike paths on high traffic zones. Unfeasible perhaps... but still very interesting concept.

French designer Julien Bergignat has taken inspiration from the Armadillo to create a lightweight, low cost, and recyclable bicycle helmet. The Tattoo helmet is entirely made up of polypropylene, and is able to transform from flat to three dimensional and back again in a matter of seconds. This design results in lower product shipping costs, and allows users to store their helmet in a backpack as apposed to carrying it around like a traditional helmet.

The Wright is a wonderfully designed new restaurant and bar located within, and paying homage to, Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural classic, New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Belgium-based Christophe Gilbert is arguably the best photo-manipulator in the world. A constant trickster, Gilbert distorts reality through these amazing hyper-realistic photographs, often adding a touch of shock or humor to put them over the top.

Middle school Morières les Avignon by N+B architects features interplay between concrete and stone which gives rhythmic effect to the facade as a contemporary appearance.