Hailing from Tokyo, Kahori Maki's illustrations are exquisitely detailed and beautiful.

Ghost Patrol's Pencil art is amazingly cute and mesmerizing

Haagen Dazs FIVE ~ "all natural ice cream crafted with only five ingredients for incredbily pure, balanced flavor... and surprisingly less fat" ~ Nice clean packaging too!

Over 2,300 photos of Moleskine sketchbooks that are participating in The Sketchbook Project, a touring exhibition.

COOP Himmelblau just won the competition for the new headquarters of the China Insurance Group. An orthogonal building, with a sinuous skin.

impresive huaxi city center in guiyang, china. MAD architects invited 11 international firms for the design, each project is amazing on its own

Eric Vergne’s Dystopian Farm skyscraper harnesses cutting-edge technology to provide NYC with its own self-sustaining food source.

Memoring - designed by Superdesign - Sticky Note Rings ~ to help you remind yourself... or leave notes to remind yourself and/or others...

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.

Will Widmer, a San Francisco photographer who is building up a solid collection of stories and settings from around the globe. Amazing color work and a good balance between documentary-style storytelling and clever observations.

Take a look at the stunning packaging portfolio of the London and New York based design agency Pearlfish. Their style is simple and elegant, but most of all modern.

Shannon Tindle shares some verycool concept art behind Coraline!

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.

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

Ooooh Cool Hunting has Coraline Box #28/50!

'personal reading in public site' is a new lighting intervention created by spanish company luzinterruptus.

Aesthetic Apparatus remind us that it's OK to be USA (poster).

Cameras made from real human skulls ~ here's the Yama from Boy of Blue

Soner Ozenc's Tetris Wall Mirrors ~ cute idea!

The Plastic Nature is a furniture concept by Dutch designer Alexander Pelikan which exemplifies the connection of the "plastic-world" and the world of wooden furniture.

"A futuristic designer(code name:Z)infiltrates the mega-design corporation headed by Commander C. Z battles designer drone army. No-holds barred action thrill ride, explosions, decapitations, martial arts mayhem."

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!

We heard about some Red Ladies at the British Library. We sent our photographer Oli Longmore down hunt them down. Then we spoke to Suzy Willson of Clod Ensemble who masterminded the whole affair.

The "iPod notesbog" is an iPod case with a handy notepad, designed by the Danish company Scripta.

Malaysia Airlines amazing ads.

Flicker set by Selflesh - Cool collages of body parts made out of old maps.

This "LEED Platinum" Gingerbread house by HOK is seriously sweet.

brilliant ways to recycle your used PET bottles.

For part of La Blogotheque's brilliant "A Take Away Show" video-concert series, Vincent Moon filmed an absolutely amazing acoustic session with Fleet Foxes inside an abandoned wing of Paris' Palais Royale.

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.

Jorn Utzon has passed away on the 29th of November, 2008.

quite lovely in proportions.this rover safety bicycle from1885 happen to be the first bicycle designed as we know it nowadays.

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 inside light' project: The photography series was created by a group of upcoming artists who constructed giant light boxes to flash a reflection of a word that relates to their personal vision.

Bumble and Bumble's Holiday goodies for 2008 are here ~ and i am completely obsessing over the Bandball ~ 100 hair elastics on a Bb branded core perfectly sized not to stretch your hair things out, grooved to hold them in... cool gift boxes too!

One of the paintings by my friend Silas. Lately he has been traveling around the world with his co-workers from the art collective Anti-Strot. This site features some of his solo work.

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.

Juju’s Delivery was founded by Berlin-based artist Julia Schonlau. she frequently collaborated with Rojo (Barcelona), Pictoplasma (Berlin) and Concrete Hermit (London)

if you're not in the know... you should be. the paris fashion maven l'eclaireur could possibly the best place for shopping in the world. check out this short video interview with the owner armand hadida.

Interesting expandable table by Nueva Linea.

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.

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!

Amazing jewelry by Anthony Roussel, who laser cuts and then layers sculptural jewelry pieces.

Susie Mendive of SUM knows just how to add a little film noir feel to a bathroom.

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."

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