Last night, while leaving the grocery store, I saw the Vitamin Water vending machine in the darkness. It blew my mind!

Google has replaced their favicon again, we are mixed in opinion over here.

Frankie's Tiki Room in Las Vegas ~ an incredible tiki bar with lots of lore and history behind it ~ and filled with gorgeous tiki artworks, sculptures, and exclusive tiki mugs made by some of our favorite artists!

Frozen Bubbles

For the launch of the Louis Vuitton Stephen Sprouse collection this week, LV has produced this limited edition skateboard deck. It comes with the box. Amazing!

amazing new transparent concrete, by mexican students joel sosa and sergio omar galván, 30% lighter than normal concrete and lets through 80% of the light.

Ooooh space saving swivel sockets ~ 6 from your usual 2...

The crew of Coraline is sending out 50 secret suitcases filled with mystery to various bloggers... ASIFA - Hollywood Animation Archive is collecting up links and images of each one... only 22 found so far!

Made By Mavis has a cute "large moss terrarium with pewter bull"

“Correspondence greeting cards with seasonal and fresh tastes” by designer Akihiro Kumagaya. Each season, you send seasonal fruits, peel the skins to see the what is inside the fruits.

Spruce up holiday gifts with cards made from REAL Birch wood! A forest full of critters to choose from.

Wonderful video of a design studio made of kids' stuff. The idea was to encourage designers to create but going back to the basics...

Paul McCarthy's work ranges from intimate performance videos to spectacular public works - all without sacrificing its unnerving psychosexual tone. His most recent sculptural work is a Santa figure holding a tree-like butt plug.

Laura Lobdell's Free Bird necklace - randomly inspired by a "free-spirit who plays with matches, knows Rome and eats candy". Available in sterling silver and in gold.

The “ICE TREE” by Paprika for Domison - Montreal’s furniture store DOMISON has commissioned the design firm Paprika to create a magical Christmas window installation.

Over 300 bottles are hung at various heights to give the random shape of the tree. Each bottle is filled with a DOMISON logo. The end result is a floating enchanted winter creature.

Survival Straps ~ because you never know when you'll magically need 15'-20' of paracord that can come from your bracelet? Also comes in keyfobs, rifle slings, dog collars and more...

unbelievable shot of the golden gate bridge.

Detaille has collaborated with Sophnet for a third time with a great collection of candles.

(rī)1 ~ Beam Global's first Ultra-premium rye whiskey ~ and the packaging of this bottle is gorgeous and definitely appeals to the math geek in me... even cooler, you have to see the acrylic gift box set!!!

Eva Funderburgh makes cute and slightly sinister monsters out of clay

SHIP is an arena for creativity that provides an exciting glimpse of the future of southern Helsingborg, Sweden. A meeting place and showroom for the changes that will come when the railway is moved underground.

Paige Russell's North American Wild Life series. It is a matte white glazed stoneware ‘anything’ holder - 4By, Rvee, Camper, Monster

Israeli Military Photo/camera Bags ~ wow ~ KATA's 3N1-20 Sling Bag for photography gear ~ so awesome, Core77 has a nice write up on it!

Kazimir Malevich's "Suprematist Composition" (1916), sold for $60,002,500 at Sotheby's last night. Check out other works from the auction that brought in a total of $223,812,500 and included Edvard Munch’s "Vampire."

Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman (yes, who did Creature). Short Movie & Book: Influential people leaving words of wisdom for us all.

What you see is what you get. Or is it the other way round? The answer remains open. At least for the time being. Honda will present a V4 concept bike at INTERMOT in Cologne.

The Trust Creative Society created this limited-edition bottle design for Loimu, a Finnish vintage mulled wine flavored with raspberry and clove.

A brand new Ithouse was recently completed in Joshua Tree National Park. The gorgeous off-the-grid residence is powered entirely by photovoltaic and solar thermal technology.

A sports and culture centre in Copenhagen by Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter. The new building is a literal extension of the old one, as the pavillions seem to be extruded from the old masonry walls.

nice new clock from Peter van der Jagt... can not keep my eye of the scrolling second.

35 feet of amazing typographic work called the "Gastrotypographicalassemblage." It was originally created by Lou Dorfsman and is now being restored.

1950's advertising and marketing for Swiss pharmaceutical company, Geigy from an article in 'Print in Britain', 1958.

Mayuko Hari is a recent grad from FIT - love the iconic packaging for Cookuru.

Theory 11 Magic Trick site ~ eXile takes place entirely on the spectator's own hand. Seen by David Blaine [Editor's Note: cool preview, but such a tease, have to buy dvd to see how it works]

The boutique hotel with only ONE room- The One Hotel Angkor.

Interesting idea behind Jürgen Mayer's Dupli.Casa - the floor plan matches that of the previous house, but the Dupli.Casa's form takes on its own life.

I love the skeletal nature of this chair by Fumio Enomoto Atelier.

Muura is a Finnish illustrator/character designer. Her website (navigable in Firefox) exhibits her portfolio and also links to her DeviantArt and sketchblog. Love the line quality!

Architecture isn’t just about architects. It’s human, it’s organic - it’s all about add-ons!

Graphic Concrete of Helsinki adds images, patterns, photos, colors and textures to both interior and exterior concrete walls and flooring, making an otherwise bring grey slab really interesting.

Klok ~ another little mac app i was just introduced to thats great for tracking your time ~ whether its freelance projects or email vs design time... and it makes gorgeous pie graphs!

5.5 Designers redesigned Baccarat's luxury Harcourt glassware into a more accessible line. The traditional Harcout silhouettes have been superimposed onto simple glass forms.

Colab Eyewear is an Australian company who collaborate with leading mixed-media artists on ultra-stylish and highly collectible shades.

Interesting Case Study section on Instil Productions new website that shows how an image comes together.

Action using creative role of butcher to disclose a safari park.

Pascal Bardel's Yu Chair, cast from white polyethylene.