Interview with Joshua Prince-Ramus, selected as one of the 20 most promising architects by ICON Magazine, with projects such as the Seattle Public Library, the Guggenheim Hermitage in Las Vegas and the new Willy Theater in Dallas.

The redesign of the graphics and interior of the UK's Little Chef chain of roadside restaurants.

Swedish design group Muungano has design the Swedish Book Bus of the Year 2008. The awesome graphics was done by They Graphics. The bus visits more than 30 villages in northern Sweden. Each village gets a visit every 4th week.

Molly’s Cabin by AGATHOM Architects is located on a rocky archipelago, three and a half hours north of Toronto, Canada.

Check out these previews of some of the work artist Dan May will have for his upcoming solo show at Copro Nason Gallery in Santa Monica.

Kidrobot opens a pop-up store at Selfridges London. Here is a nice video from the opening and the live toy art.

Everything about the MONOME is notcot. They believe in minimalist design, economic and ecological sustainability and best yet, are open source!

Swiss brand QWSTION presents the Black Collection. Bags for the modern traveler.

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.

Soner Ozenc's Tetris Wall Mirrors ~ cute idea!

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.

Malaysia Airlines amazing ads.

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...

brilliant ways to recycle your used PET bottles.

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...

In Naples, Italy, there's a tradition of including everyone from bakers to pizza makers in nativity scenes. Current events play a role too: this year the Obama and McCain figurines are incredibly popular.

unbelievable shot of the golden gate bridge.

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

MICROSpikes - This grippy, durable, slip-on traction system features strategically placed stainless steel spikes connected to a dynamic flex-chain with a tough elastomer shoe harness.

The new Pionen datacenter for Bahnhof was designed by Albert France-Lanord Architects on 1,200sqm anti-atomic shelter in Stockholm, Sweden. Inspired by Ken Adams, set designer for Bond movies.

(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.

Kidrobot and Nooka have teamed up to make one SEXY watch. Too bad there’s only 150 of these beasts. You know damn well they’re gonna’ sell out in like 12 seconds.

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.

A first look inside the newly opened APC flagship store in Kita-Aoyama Japan. Once again Wonderwall Architects worked their magic!

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.

The Wilson Bros. teams with Stussy on development of this limted edition white Brooks Swallow Saddle. The classic Swallow racer is treated with an excetional white leather finish. Imagine the patina on this saddle after a few months of use.

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.