Mauritian Sunset ~ by Sandy Smith ~ a gorgeous display of colors, check out the back to see all the cables/monitors as well!

Beautiful Anemone Shade by Heath Nash for Artecnica. The honeycomb shade is made out of Tyvek.

Recycled glass bottle utensils by Laurence Brabant, just one of many amazing products.

I love Francisco Mangado's spanish pavillion for the 2008 Zaragoza Expo. There were 750 clay columns that provide a modern take on greco-roman temple architecture.

Amazing photos of Socotra Island, located off the coasts of Somalia and Yemen. The tree above is called a Dragon's Blood Tree, and the island features around 700 rare species of flora and fauna, 1/3 of which are found nowhere else on earth.

Artek and Marimekko have an exhibition - Be Honest! - going on at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo, featuring interventions by various designers on Alvar Aalto's iconic Stool 60. The exhibition is on until 09/23.

Ward van Gemert deconstructs an old chandelier and reconstructs it into a more modern form, resulting in the Exploded Chandeliers series. Debuting at Mint Gallery in London today, 09/18.

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.

Beautiful Light Frame by Stephen Burks for auction at Philips de Pury & Company next week.

Is this stop-motion? or not? Cute animation for BC Dairy Foundation by Bent Image Lab. Directed by Jun seo Hahm.

Portal Prelude gives us a peek at the new game trailer!

Rotofugi: The Collectors ~ an incredible animation where many of our favorite toys come to life and collect... PEOPLE!

Atari-ified modern video game posters ~ so fun, they have them for everything from portal and gta to bioshock, halo and more

Using a simple piece of cardboard without any gluing, this coffee cup holder offers a nice service to the user carrying the standard milk cups and protecting the hand from the heat of the cup.

Oh Microsoft, this is really your press kit for IE8? Wait till you see what's inside...

Adorable Vertigo flyers ~ woody domokun?

Heath Ceramics coming to LA! "at 7525 Beverly Boulevard (at Sierra Bonita Avenue) in the central Los Angeles design district"

Plenty of reef creatures fluoresce red, even where seawater absorbs red sunlight

Crafterall's topo art cards are mesmerizing, too fun to send, so tempting to frame

Fascinated by the new Graham & Brown wallpaper patterns design*sponge pointed out

Typolade ~ chocolate type faces, perfect when paired with chocolate sauce for chocolate printing?

Genevieve Gaukler ~ limited edition of 50, screen printed BOOK!

Philips Lumalive combines colourful dynamic light with textiles !

Bubbles, Jazz, Moustache: In Slow Mo, need I say more.

Barcode, by Vitruvius. Unusual shopping mall in St. Petersburg Russia.

A truly bizarre collection of front covers from the satirical French magazine of the 1960s - Hara Kiri

For the full break down of the upcoming Canon EOS 5D Mark II ~ dpreview has pages and pages of details!

The new Canon EOS 5D shoots 1080p VIDEO ~ here are links to video samples from their korean site.

The Bubble Process makes such fab prints, as you will see here!!! (They are also pretty inexpensive for those of you want to art your walls.)

DZ Nuts - a high viscosity chamois cream that features green tea, evodia and masterwort designed to prevent friction in unfortunate places.

Cupcake Design Competition held at Ignite NYC. Organized by Bre Pettis.

Sponsored by Design Observer, Design/ers for Obama is a community art project for Obama supporters, to aggregate and rate Obama art that is available for download + printed by anyone.

The Ygne summer house is situated on the island of Gotland, one of Swedens most popular summer holiday spots. The design ambition was to build a house that would recess into the natural environment. By Sandell Sandberg.

insert the parking ticket ... only in this way you can know the effects of Pfizer

Gallery of sci-fi inspired concept ships.

Love the cityscape that is rendered through lights in facade of Bjarke Ingels' Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010.

Love the packaging design for Woolrich Woolen Mills by D-SIGN.

Asaf Yogev | Swan Hanger made of wood

Great insight into the process of the incredible up and coming artist , Brandon Friend. Video filmed in the studio with the Queens based artist during the completion of 2008 show : IF YOU'RE NOT ONE OF US, YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.

I just discovered i need a car mount for my camera... see how this incredible mini was shot... and how all the pieces come together

Bandai’s Luminodot is like a Lite-Brite on steroids, with space for up to 3500 pegs on its 70×50 screen.

' Paper-Brick House' by Li Xinggang Atelier from China, made of paper boxes, paper tubes and transparent adhesive tape at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition on September 12, 2008 in Venice.

While at Calty Design Research, Toyota Project Chief Designer, Ian Carabiano gave me a little demo of his impressive wacom tablet car sketching... all shading/rendering by hand... see the video!

Interesting Geo Washplane sink by Omvivo. I love the clean lines, but would be curious to use one myself to see how well it functions.

New film by Heimat Werbeagentur GmbH for the Audi TTS. Production by @radical media, Sydney.

Ecosistema Urbano's Ecoboulevard in Vallecas Spain. This award winning public structure is able to control the nearby temperature trough a passive strategy.