i.D.tube by KaWeDe is a nice MP3-player bag made of bicycle inner tubes.

Marauding Vintners's "Miss Grigio and Mr Noir " wines with design firm MASH playing with Mafia type characters to become wine personalities. Illustration by Harry Slaghekke.

Students at the École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence of France's “Open Source Washing Machine Project”. Made from bicycle parts (tires and wheel), bamboo, a solar panel cand recycled electric motor.

Print magazine's April 2010 'The New Visual Artists' issue is filled with emerging young talent. This year's top '20 under 30' includes Always With Honor, Mikey Burton, Frank Chimero, Jean Jullien, Janine Rewell, Nikolay Saveliev...

One Hundred ~ Some really cool typography by the New South Wales State Library ~ I really enjoy the combination of all the images and how they seem to work so well together.

Laid is the first Norwegian company to produce sex-toys for women and men. Their clean, modern and discreet packaging from SKIN design won the award for design excellence at Designer’s Day.

Exquisite picture of a spider web on a gate. Kindra Clineff shows nature demonstrating that it can compete on an architectural level as well as making man-made designs look much better.

After an almost two thousand year hiatus, one of Pompeii's famous fast food shops - known as a thermopolium - is to re-open. Kuriositas has the story.

Dutch pavilion for the Shanghai World Expo 2010 is innovative and futuristic.

grassland turns real dried grass into an fascinating element of interior. The innovative natural material sets a visual and sensual accent and is unique on the market.

The 'Quilty Pleasure' rear window displays at Liberty's store in London

Britain’s rarest wildflower, the ghost orchid, was rediscovered after being officially declared extinct in Britain in 2005.

Angela Adams, the queen of hip, mod rugs, has unveiled a new collection of hand-woven floor coverings. Gorgeous!

The house concept is inspired by two sheds linked by stretched tarpaulin. The architects applied the concept very well. This contemporary modern house is designed by Fearon Hay Architects.

With a distorted form of the ball and designed to cluster in the nested hexagonal form with one another to create patterns. Designed by Canadian designer Omer Arbel.

New series by from the Israeli skate company - ZION skateboards. designed by ELNA*

Erotic Design from Slott Gallery (Paris) to Hotel Straf during Salone 2010.

OMG, Lego has a vault of (almost) all the Lego sets ever made! Lego's Memory Lane!

Amazing images of the making of the last creation by Studio Glithero exhibited for Design by Performance.

Début Art's Jon Burgerman created a mural for AOL at their NYC headquarters. This is the time-lapse of the staff coloring it in.

Artist Marek Ruthkowski has created a series of visually stunning posters themed around the essential elements of classic boardgames.

Fans of printed matter know that you don't go to SXSW for the music, you go for the Flatstock poster convention! He's a bunch of pics fresh from the ATX Conference Center.

Seatcase by dutch designer Rachel Griffin. A chair created from second hand materials: an old microscope box and discarded chair parts.

Tojo Fon & Tojo Find are minimalistic furniture pieces for the entrance of your home. They hold your phone and everything you need as you enter and leave the house.

Shoe cabinet “Brera” made of zebrano wood. Brera is a Rf-Yamakawa product distributed by Dinos (Japan).

Pictures from a recent trip to Sayulita, Mexico by photographer Lou Mora. [Editor's Note: Love the feel, and the adorable dog he brought home!]

A stunning design of a house inside a lorry by Aristide Antoinas and a visual gallery of vehicles turned into architecture.

Palermo Airport Retail by Traverso-Vighy Architects. A changing space where walls are made of moving terracotta tiles.

SuperFront LA exhibits UNPLANNED at the Pacific Design Center on March 25th, with urban scale experiments of models, drawings, animations, software applications, consumer products, and live film from 20+ architects!

CXXVI Steel Bottle Opener Necklace Heated in a coal forge, and hand hammered on a 130 year old anvil. Practical and beautiful.

GREENAID: A seedbomb vending machine program taking off in LA and soon to come to a city near you! Brought to you by Daniel Phillips and Kim Karlsrud via Commonstudio.

Let the games begin! A solar energy generating waterfall tower for 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The Solar City Tower is designed by Zurich-based RAFAA Architecture & Design.

Clock in a jar inspired by childhood memories of capturing insects in a jar. By Oren Hetrzronio.

Discover Opera Live: an interactive storytelling experience of Rigoletto. Swell graphics, with all the drama of opera. Commissioned by the Royal Opera Liege and art by Wouter de Winter.

First Pics from the DIFFA - Dining by Design exhibit at the Architectural Digest Home Design Show 2010 in New York. Amazing!

In her graduate project, 'The Possibilities of Parts', Lotte van Wulfften Palthe utilizes both found and bought personal objects and materials to create large-scale worlds that take on an unique existence of their own.

Yamashiro ~ the japanese mansion turned restaurant up in the hills in LA ~ goes night farmer's market!

MACINARI are handmade pencils made almost entirely from wood.

Babis Papanikolaou & Christina Tsiragelou, two Greek architects/designers created their own studio "157+173 Designers" in the city of Thessaloniki. Their work has an industrial feel and turns 3D forms into 2D ones.

OLOMOUC, CZECH REPUBLIC — Radim Kralik, wife Barbora Kralikova, live in a modern concrete box on top of a 1943 grain silo, a stark contrast to the neo-Gothic spires that dominate this small city about 175 miles east of Prague.

MANGIACHETIFABENE A cooking class, an interesting and entertaining experience with Marco Velardi, of Apartamento, and Francesca Sarti, of Arabeschi di Latte.

OOW (Out of Work) holds your beer glass, allowing you to carry both dish and glass with just one hand. By Giovanna de Ávila and Joan Sunyol.

The Banyan Treehouse in Nichols Canyon, Los Angeles, California was designed by Rockefeller Partners Architects.

Rainbow Reflect Cabinet by Danish designer Soren Rose. A white and glossy cabinet with rainbow colored feet.

Unique contemporary houses in Denmark by Cebra Architects. This Sinus house is built on 1735 square feet, surrounding with green clean grass. The concept design is very attractive and unique.

Limited edition 2010 letterpress calendar printed on 8.5x11 Crane Lettra 110lb Fluorescent white paper. by Etsy seller syendrys.

Heads of State just released a line of really nicely designed travel posters in their series, "From Sea to Shining Sea."

Susu is a new Australian designer handbag brand, noted for their quirky, curious, cute yet sexy designs. Their bags offer a harmonious blend of playful juxtapositions. Great illustrations too!

With its single hand, and pristine face, the Vue watch by Yves Behar makes an existential statement about the fleeting nature of time.

Stunning Casa G Vacation home in Iceland by Gudmunder Jonsson. The house has a curved wooden elevation that is glacier-like in appearance and the home is positioned to offer 4 very different views from each direction.

FEATUREDA look at the beautiful murals (and little creatures that wander down the halls) by Sainty and David Whittle in the rp& (of RPA) offices ~ also a look at the making of the hand painted animated wall sized advert...

The Walking Stick by Itay Laniado is made out of one broomstick, sliced in the middle. the cord gives it structure and makes sure it would not break.

Ralf Kittmann took home an iF Design Award for his zero-emission electric bicycle concept HMK 561.

FEATUREDCool Haus Ice Cream Truck ~ who knew ice cream sandwiches could be architectural! With architect puns, edible paper wrapper, bacon ice cream and more...

Pablo Reinoso has assembled a site specific installation of Thonet chairs into a helix that stretches from floor through ceiling to emerge on the floor above.

ANG House by Chenchow Little Architects. White and light steel villa in Sidney.

Amazing photo of Red Bridge in La Roche-sur-Yon designed by Paris and New York-based architect Bernard Tschumi.

Yesterday it was time for the annual Designers Day here in Oslo -Norway, and I was lucky enough to be part of both the design conference and the award-ceremony.

Following the great success of the Telling Tales exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Carpenters Workshop Gallery proudly presents the Industry Series by Studio Job.

The GGRP cardboard record player was sent out to creative directors around the country. With a simple unfolding and the help of a pencil the enclosed 45 actually plays.

Wallpaper has a great series of their favorite Fashion Week invites from all the A/W 2010 shows.

QR Code Cupcakes - scan them with your iPhone and you go straight to a pre-set website. Edible genius!

An interview with Konstantin Grcic in KLAT Magazine. Never published before!

Noktor produced a lens with a maximum aperture f0.9! great for night shots and at this aperture the depth of field is hair thin! Only for 4/3 mounts now...

Hooky Interactive ~ ADORABLE and addictive flash game homepage... where you and your dog even get to fight robots!

During next Milan Salone del Mobile Luca Nichetto will introduce Layer, the new table designed for Gallotti&Radice.

Ayodhya's moss tables add a micro-landscape to your living room! Part of the Secret Garden collection shown at the IFFS - international furniture fair in Singapore 2010.

Beautiful installation from designer Kiki van Eijk concerning a table setting as a "Gesammtkunstwerk" (art project).

The N4A Exhibition Hall in Liyang demonstrates an almost geological response to material, with strata-like façades rising up from the bare earth. Designed by Atelier Zhanglei.

Beautiful street art in tribute to John Lennon.

The French artistic duo known as Zim & Zou have created this whimsical version of Nintendo's iconic system Gameboy entirely out of paper!

To celebrate St Patrick and put forward its Shamrock Shake, McDonald’s enjoys a tradition of 50 years in Chicago...

The Kinetic Sculpture made from 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors at the BMW Museum in Munich.

VIDEOViral hit, A Brief History of Pretty Much Everything, now has a Thrillseeking sequel.

Curious how this ancient Chinese table game became such a smash among American Jews that it evolved into a Jewish game. “Project Mah Jongg,” opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 4 and continuing through December.

8bit NYC - Zelda 1986 meet google maps.

Synthetic Aesthetics seek participants for a project on synthetic biology, design, and aesthetics.

MIT’s City Car concept is a zero emission car which is foldable and takes one-eighth the size for parking to an average car.

City of the (Re)Orientated: Ben and Sebastian mix an impressive story out of art and architecture. I can look at the complexity forever.

Dayboard by Oslo-based StokkeAustad- a brilliant color calendar to visualize the year. This calendar allows the user to arrange the year as one sees fit as each day can be moved around.

Dog breeds as typefaces.

Wonderwall were the design studio behind the concept for Nike’s first flagship store in Tokyo, which also happens to be the largest in Japan; totaling 946 square meters of sporting gear.

I love this map of London from Herb Lester Associates. The map charts the most pleasant and civilized places, around London, for a secret liaison, a sneaky skive or an out-of-the-office very-important business meeting.

Structural street art in the form of Skullface found around London. Photos of the colorful skull masks from OKUMANCHOJA's flickr page.

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore records North American species facing extinction in his latest book, Rare: Portraits of America's Endangered Species. A beautiful book filled with tragic stories.

Logitech Squeezebox TOUCH! Latest in the squeezebox line adds touch sensitivity and a gorgeous screen... and check out how pretty the curve in the back is!

I love A Design Affair's look at Nintendo's window display!

With the iPad release a mere few weeks away, Alexx Henry, together with co-directors Cory Strassburger and Ming Hsiung, produced a motion magazine cover and feature spread for Viv Mag.

Love the detailing and interior labeling of Griffin's Kingston trouser's that read "STOP TOXIC WASTE". Wise words from a small tag.

Neatnests are decorative bird shelters for the modern avian mindset. Flat packed and made from scrap material, these are definitely a unique offering in the modern bird house world.

The best of recent architecture in Ireland to commemorate Saint Patrick's Day.

PILLOW FIGHT!!! Artists Joe Ledbetter, Nathan Jurevicius, JAW Cooper, HiddenMoves, Chuck U, Vault49 & Zutto enter the fray as ClickforArt launch their Spring line-up of limited edition pillows.

'Peripetics', a video by Zeitguised: "six imaginations of disoriented systems that take a catastrophic turn"... Strange, mechanical and organic at the same time, indeniably inspiring.

FishHotel, glass fishbowl with ABS plastic outer shell, can be stacked to create a hotel effect. Designed by Teddy Luong.

Colombian architects Plan B + Giancarlo Mazzanti recently completed this interesting house on a hill. The structure desegregates to be part of the slope, resulting in a deck with an amazing view over the local wetlands.

This autobot -looking sculpture may very well be the Ukranian candidate for 'Transformers'

Massimo De Carlo Gallery presents “Karma”, the first solo exhibition of Dan Colen in Milan.

Milan designers Gabriele and Oscar Buratti have collaborated with bathroom brand Roca to create a combined toilet and wash basin called 'W+W', where waste water from the sink is used to fill the toilet cistern.

An old Villa in Potsdam, Berlin has been styled into a modern loft with a lot of stylish white. By Berlin Rodeo.

Death Star Watermelons and Cantaloupes at Kuriositas.