The Tverrfjellhytta Pavilion by Norwegian firm Snøhetta in the stunning Dovrefjell National Park.

Three piece Clouds Coffee Table Set designed by Mark Hark.

FEATURED3am photoshoot with the Bentley Supersports Convertible ~ under the bright moon and stars, pch down below, and overlooking endless ocean. A fun look at how differently Shawn and I interpreted the car.

Check out this behind-the-scenes visit with Philly-based, history-inspired design duo Heads of State!

'Anouk' - a new chair designed by Karim Azzabi for Italian furniture firm Arflex.

Take It Eamesy, a cute core-toon by lunchbreath.

The Local Element: Inside the Seattle Home of Art Collectors John and Shari Behnke

Russia's Orbital Technologies announces plans for a hotel in orbit 217 miles above the earth.

Function, Restraint, and Subversion in Typography. By J. Namdev Hardisty, from the Princeton Architectural Press.

Superhero Dinosaurs. Avengersaurs and X-Dino posters, add them to your comic decor.

VIDEORenan Ozturk captures the incredible images and story of athlete Jimmy Chin as he climbs Yosemite for a National Geographic feature.

Tantalizing read-unread bookshelf by Niko Econodmidis design.

Sometimes you just want a bit of quiet. 'To a great city' offers a self-guided tour that explores the relationship between space and sound. By composer Arvo Pärt and Snøhetta Architects.

Manuel Lima's new book, Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information.

UAE’s 1st Gold Bullion Coin Unveiled.

'Nest' is an incredibly narrow home in Antwerp. Four meters by twelve meters deep! Amazing what could be done in the space. By CSD architecten.

Kirath Ghundoo’s Mix ‘n’ Match 11 wallpaper collection.

Outline chair from Michael Samoriz.

Mary Edna Fraser creates beautiful landscapes with an aerial perspective in batik. Amazing pieces!

A-frame plant hanger from Poketo.

First look of the beautiful Clyfford Still Museum in Denver. By Allied Works Architecture.

Lovely series of drawings by Cesar Del Valle.

Benjamin Grosser's Interactive Robotic Painting Machine.

Patricia Piccinini with Vespa-inspired sculptures.

Yoshihiko Satoh takes mass-produced goods and alters or multiplies them to 'unleash the energy residing in their function and shape'.

Single hook by Pedersen + Lennard.

Handmade Bone Guitar Picks by Christophe Brossard.

Mothers believe their children are little angels, especially on this stool. By Furf Design Studio.

Gloss finish steel bookends, or 'book endings' as we like to call them. Inspired by film endings. Made in England.

VIDEOPicnic Table by Michael Beitz. Created at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha.

Interesting visualization of estimated US Energy use in 2009.

MakerBot sends Stephen Colbert's head to space!

Karina Smigla-Bobinski's ADA – Analog Interactive Installation. A Helium-filled kinetic drawing sculpture.

Ulric Collette from Quebec/Canada created a project exploring genetic similarities between members of the same family. By splitting their faces in half and then melding them together, he creates some interesting images.

FEATUREDWhen the "World Famous" Malibu Inn says "Vintage mood. Epic food." they kid you not. The menu contains everything from deep fried pickles and pb&j, to smack and cheese and growlers of beer for the table...

Toro Lgeno's Kitchen Bull, a cute all in one cheeseboard, knifeblock and bookshelf.

Photographer Lindsay McCrum's 'Chicks with Guns' captures the women and girls of America and their passion ... guns.

FEATUREDThis week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes homemade cherry vanilla coke (with a rummy twist), decadent S’mores Cakelettes, homemade curry puffs and more.

Workroom Design's NEW 'Lean' lamp is built with symmetry and balance in mind. The shade is spun metal, and comes in a range of colours. The fabric flex cord weaves through the American Ash stand.

FEATUREDOnline Men's Shops we love ~ whether shopping for yourself, or shopping for gifts for men, here are 15 so far... feel free to add your favorites too!

Synecdoche is an interactive light installation by Casey Watson.

The King's Cross Station upgrades take shape in London ahead of next year's Olympic Games.

The famed Pop-Art Designer with a bent towards Rock-N-Roll, Kii Arens, has created a limited edition of Pop styled silk pillows!

Brooklyn street artists FAILE installed a fake ruin in Lisboa, Portugal that mixes pop art with antiquity.

Geoff Manaugh, the writer behind BLDGBLOG, made his curatorial debut at the Nevada Museum of Art last weekend. Liam Young built a "robot Galapagos" for the show.

The future Trace restaurant of the new Stanley Saitowitz designed W San Francisco.

Photographer Stephen Wilkes spent a minimum of ten hours taking hundreds of shots to create each one of his Day to Night.

Liking Mission Workshop's VX Rucksack in the AP Series

Sick of your cubicle? Check out this amazing crop of living green offices that sprung up in the streets of Denver!

Oooh on more fun fisheye mini lenses ~ Gizmon Fisheye Lens 2 for iPhone and Smartphones ~ attaches with a ring magnet.

Retap glass bottles are well designed for your daily dose of tapwater. Its organic design looks gorgeous and is easy to clean. In the dishwasher of course.

"Talk To Me" is an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art that offers a glimpse into the future of communication, as well as a look into modern technology that has enhanced the way we communicate.

Fantastic objects made of wax. Created by Markus Fiedler.

Ozaki iSuppli Gramo iPhone Charger Speaker

Designed for Flux Factory's Sea Worthy exhibition, Constance Hockaday's "Boggsville Boatel" is one part art installation, one part hotel and one part summer water adventure.

More ice balls! We've looked at Macallan's ice ball machine and Muji's system. This is the Cirrus Ice Ball Press based on the traditional Japanese design.

Cocage, a beautiful showroom in Kochi, Japan by Suppose Design Studio.

VIDEOThe Wright Brothers - the first in fly. New spot for Foot Locker created by SapientNitro and directed by Biscuit Filmworks's Aaron Ruell.

Illustrator David Downton is now artist-in-residence at London hotel Claridges.

During August on Times Square trash cans, Hidemi Takagi installed 95 photographs of packaged foods from around the world which she purchased in the small shops of New York neighborhoods.

Parsite Farm by Charlotte Dieckmann and Nils Ferber, a compost system for use inside the home.

Hayden Harnett Bespoke Scarves ~ in an array of sizes, and a choice of fabrics: Sheer Silk Chiffon or Sandwashed Silk... you can put any image you want on them!

The Karlsson Table Clock Book adapts neatly into your bookshelf disguised as an actual set of books. It comes in 2 color-sets; colorful and b&w.

Polka Gelato, by branding firm Vonsung, is an ultra chic and minimalist space in London that offers a special gelato experience.

Smel designed a special box containing the book 'Dimensions of Ambiguity' by Terry Rodgers, a print and a special lingerie garment by the famous lingerie designer Marlies Dekkers.

Ontheplane. Beautiful series of photos by Phillip Kalantzis Cope.

FEATUREDCats on scanners, epidermal electronics and a plane that can go from NYC to LA in less than 12 minutes are all part of this week’s NOTCOT.org roundup.

A Hit at the Straw Poll, Iowa's Butter Cow Sculpture Enters the Republican Primaries.

Grove collaboration with British artist Ryan Chapman on 'Submarine' a laser engraved bamboo iPhone4 case.

Park and Bond's toothpaste squeezer ~ perhaps overkill? or the ultimate efficient toothpaste utilization?

Greta Alfaro's In Ictu Oculi. Beautiful photo series and incredible video!

Hiroshima Appeals poster designed by Susumu Endo.

Chelsea's I-20 Gallery is currently having a stint as a skate shop during MAKE SKATEBOARDS, a group exhibition of artist-designed ephemera with a Dogtown twist.

London Skyline Umbrella. This foldable black and white London Skyline Squidarella bursts into an array of colors, as soon as rain hits the panels! Brightens up any wet day. By SquidLondon.

VIDEOTo advertise the new Ford Active Park Assist feature, Ogilvy France and James Frost put a canine spin on the Rube Goldberg machine.

Architecture in Uniform, an exhibition curated by Jean-Louis Cohen at the Centre for Canadian Architecture in Montreal.

FEATUREDUnboxing of the new Contour + mini-hd action camera ~ nice packaging, form factor, bluetooth + iphone/android apps let you use your phone as a preview screen and to tweak settings, and storyteller app makes great use of GPS.

Andrzej Maciejewski's Garden of Eden is a series of still-life photographs inspired by old masters paintings. [Ed. Note: go to Works > Garden of Eden to see the gallery]

VIDEOEthereal underwater music video for the Rural Alberta Advantage's 'Muscle Relaxants' directed by José Lourenço.

Middle Kingdom's new line of colorful porcelain cleaning product vases/bottles.

New images and details of Apple's Norman Foster-designed UFO HQ, planned for Cuptertino, California. Steve Jobs himself thinks it makes for a suitable spaceship.

The soda chair: a gas-assisted injection molded arm chair by Rachael Stefanussen.

VIDEOLiquid crystal allows this color changing iPhone 4 backing to react instantly to the heat from your hand or other sources.

VIDEOPeek at Batman shooting in Pittsburgh... the BatPlane and BatCopter in action! So many awesomely surreal videos of them rolling down the street...

The world's population, concentrated. If the world's 6.9 billion people lived in one city, how large would that city be?

Nano-origami. Tiny origami sculpture by Anja Markiewicz.

Beautiful wardrobe system By Hierve.

Blockhaus DY62, an amazing floating belvedere on an old blockhaus! Designed by Nicolas Barreau.

Cold stations series by photographer Matt Barnes.

Cosmographies were mental maps for medieval cartographers. These contemporary maps made by spanish designer Carlos Romo question the insatiable need for maps today.

La Source Bains Nordiques, a spa pavilion on a mountainside in Rawdon, the Lanaudière region of Quebec. Eco-modern architecture by Blouin Tardif Architecture-Environnement .

Great photos of Linton Zoo's 2 month old mongoose lemur baby, Tia.

This clock offers a different perspective on time: every angle creates a new experience, with an emphasis on the inseparable elements of time and light. By Leff Amsterdam.

VIDEOBeautiful film for Indian made Oxelo skateboards.

Bones by Pedro Nakazato Andrade, an orthopedic cast with sensors for capturing muscle activity.

Kickstarter for desktop jellyfish tanks from Jellyfish Art.

VIDEO8 Hours in Brooklyn by Next Level Pictures is a beautiful high speed + slow motion look at scenes that feel like they were meant to be shot this way.

Ben Thomas - Edge Of The Earth LTD Edition Print

Apart Camera by Todd McLellan

Jonathan Adler Brass Hippo

FEATUREDA peek into the trippy and wondrous world of Dabs Myla's show "The Best of Times" opening at Thinkspace tonight. Amazing details that will make your head spin.

Evan Roth has been breaking down the graffiti alphabet for years now. Here is a digital collection of tags sorted found in Paris.

Dominus Plus is an application which turns your iPad or iPhone into a stylishly artistic, powerfully aesthetic clock which looks like it’s come from a classic sci-fi movie. 

Summer slideshow from the Nikon Small World competition features aquatic organisms, an embryonic bamboo shark is pictured above.

An information-driven concept poster for the London Sci-fi Film Festival showing a timeline of famous science fiction films. By Alice Yi, Art Center College of Design.

Classic vintage games cleverly mashed up with art history by Aled Lewis where an 8bit Indiana Jones crusades through The Persistence of Time and more.

Designer Da Feng has a highly futuristic concept car that uses hinged carbon fiber 'flakes' to help brake and turn.

VIDEOMine Sweeper by Massoud Hassani. An interview with Design Guide TV.

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos' history museum features weathered-steel buildings that are reached via a spiral staircase that leads beneath a sheet of green grass.

Infiniti set out on a journey across Japan to meet the most innovative craftsmen. Result: a future-forward, design conscious Adeyaka Magazine for the iPad, which took Gold and Silver at the BCP awards.

Vik Muniz and his band of brazilian child artists design decor for Louis Vuitton's new Miami location.

Korean sculptor Park Chan-Girl constructs metal sculptures from thin metal layers he calls 'sliced images' that resemble 3-D topography charts.

Art print by Axel Pfaender dedicated to one of the greatest games of computer gaming history: Katamari Damacy ... Will the prince be able to satisfy King Kosmos?

Regine Schumann's light-infused installation, Dreamteam, at Art Santa Fe 2011 last month.

Design pieces that will become instant classics by whyrHymer of Los Angeles. Not having a formal background in furniture design or construction didn't stop the creation of these amazing pieces.

Essence of Flame by Alexandra Mazur-Knyazeva.

Selda Okutan makes beautiful handcrafted jewelry.

Ribbons of light flutter through empty, open spaces, weaving luminescent floating images that stand out against the stark, cold appearance of the abandoned garage.

Aaron Colfer's The Seed Pod, a system to clean, dry and store seeds. Inspired by the Millennium Seed Pod, but designed for domestic use.

Create your own S'Mores for They Draw and Cook by hmacdo!

VIDEOThe beautiful forest. Beautiful short film from the WWF.

Hipster Ipsum! Our classic Lorem Ipsum filler text gets an update... you can get your hipster filler straight, or with a shot of latin, just the way i like it.

These incredible sculptures are the work of Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre who deftly extracts the most delicate anatomical forms of humans and animals from common objects.

FEATUREDSonicare's new DiamonClean toothbrush has a Charging GLASS... and a USB charging travel case... sometimes its all about the details to change the user experience.

FEATUREDWoodward at Ames Hotel in Boston features some great signature cocktails like a Meyer Lemon Gin Fizz and some amazing housemade BBQ chips!

Round-up of interesting medical and peace-related design innovations from Design Tokyo 2011.

Swedish electro god Andreas Tilliander has created a new concept with Sony Ericsson, The Arcists, a new band with Swedish artists and bloggers. And now anyone can join the band online to decide the sound of the final song.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs’ Toy Gallery is showing a retrospective of the work of the Czech designer Libuše Niklová in Plastique Ludique.

Epidermal electronics? John Rogers and co-workers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have created circuits that stick to the skin. Full report in Science.

Pentagon's latest plane, the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, could reach speeds of 13,000 mph, which translates to a trip from NYC to LA in less than 12 minutes.

Street and comic artist Phlegm announces a new comic, Eyes in the vines.

VIDEOStunning video of an eagleowl in flight at 1000 frames per second.

FEATUREDA caffeine necklace, vintage tees for kids and even a shark suit are part of this week’s Notcouture roundup.

Etsuko Ichikawa's makes art by scorching paper with molten glass at 2100°F in this featured video from Anthropologie.

Spike Jonze’s highly anticipated video for ‘Otis’ has finally dropped. The impressive visual has the two icons entertaining for a solid 3 minutes, with a small cameo from Aziz Ansari. Who needs expensive sets when you can just chop up a maybach?

The animal crew from A Modern Eden has migrated to Blik. Just not all in one piece. Four new animal Wall Puzzles will delight and challenge toddlers and preschoolers.

Nido by Alejandra Castelao, is a multifaceted reinterpretation of the birdhouse, taking them away from the traditional wooden replicas of human households. Creating unique and modern compositions.

Skypak has taken actual airplane trolleys and repurposed them into fun and cheeky storage carts for the home or office.

Your eyes do not deceive you: the elegant 'Bonobo' bicycle uses a bent-plywood frame. A clever blend of technology and nature from Polish designer Stanisław Płoski.

The Fantasy Self Portrait series is a collection of surreal black and white images shot by American photographer Lynn Lennon in the 1970s. Interview with the 82 year old photographer included.

Bike Fixtation is a self-service bicycle repair station that includes compressed air, a vending machine for drinks and bike parts, and a work stand with common tools tethered to it.

Stunning new registry office of St Vicente by Duarte Caldeira.

Could Hollywood-Style Agents Really Be Good for Artists?

Tangle Globe Pendant Light by Tord Boontje, a new glass design for Artecnica that combines clear glass and etched metal.