We really are kids of the digital age through and through ~ love this image by italian design group, Volk

Dangerous Curves: Mastering Logotype Design by Donald Young ~ Take a peek inside, this book looks beautifully inspiring!

Parking Day LA is tomorrow! (sept 19) ~ here's a map of some parking spots that are becoming parkified...

Update ~ added the time lapsed video of Toyota Project Chief Designer, Ian Cartabiano, sketching the Venza on Paper! Fun contrast to the sketch demo in photoshop.

DWR Tools for Living ~ love the invite that came in the mail.... black (and one red) iconic + simply silhouettes on cardboard... see the full scan!

Beautiful mid-century inspired cabinets for vinyl junkies. Offers multiple configurations for just LPs, or a mix of singles, CDs, etc.

Animation clip for Kap10Kurt. Tells the story about a super-hero in a world without music. Good 80's references.

Griffin's Clarifi iPhone case has a close up lens you can easy slide on and off! Apparently ideal for things like business cards?

The Ladurée Bar : the french House of macaroons deals with ancestral and futurist design for that new trendy place.

KITT got jacked. An infinite resource of cutting edge technology and he's still missing.

Great colored pencil and ink work from self-taught Melbourne artist Scarlett Cat.

Really nice packaging design from Atlanta based designer Anwar Pack for the Mister Nesbit grooming kit. The grooming kit is made to have an old school feel but still appeal to a more youthful audience.

Images from Salzzeitreise, a museum located deep in a salt mine in Berchtesgaden, Germany.

Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation designed by Chicago-based architecture office Ross Barney Architects. The building just received a LEED Platinum certification.

Kawasaki recently announced that it is developing Japan's fastest high speed train! The “Environmentally Friendly Super Express Train” will propel passengers along at 217mph, besting the record-holding Shinkansen’s 186mph.

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.