Phill, a restaurant in Bucharest designed by Nuca Studio, has a play area for children including a four meter-high model elephant.

VIDEOONE PIG, by Matthew Herbert, an album of music made exclusively from sounds recorded during the life cycle of a single farm animal, from birth to plate.

Mirror cube art installation on Paris' Place Vendome by Arnaud Lapierre for for the 2011 FIAC Art Fair.

Colaboratorium, a collective of ten graduating design and marketing students. Lovely packaging design by Andrea Avidad.

Metalmorphosis, a 14-ton moving, mirrored fountain/sculpture in Charlotte, North Carolina by David Černý.

Michelin-starred chef Nuno Mendes opened his second eatery The Corner Room at the Town Hall Hotel, London.

David Franklin's Delen Memory Table has an attached camera that takes photos at predetermined times so you can create stop-motion of whatever it is you're doing.

Monome Arc, ultra-high resolution optical rotary encoders, with push buttons. high-density variable-brightness led rings, in two and four knob versions.

Australian artist Paul Caporn creates tableaux using ordinary construction tool levels.

VIDEOProcess video from start to finish for Juxt Interactive's work on the Toyota Touch Wall.

Imagine not having to worry about getting a new calendar until 2030! Mechanical paper perpetual calendar by Crankbunny.

Snijlab's wood flexes and folds thanks to an intricate pattern of laser-cut grooves.

'Weight' vases in polished concrete and metal by Thinkk Studio for Specimen Editions.

VIDEO'Reverse: a space odyssey 2011' by Helmut Kool, a film created with analog techniques and all object movements are based on physical forces within their real environment.

Magi by Pottinger & Cole is a practical solution for the storage of magazines. Integrated handle and compact proportions allow it to be placed against any wall, chair or sofa.

The Zizm’s unique faceted crystal lens produces a refracted view of time on the ZenH display. This faceted surface creates a pattern that continues throughout the entire design of the timepiece, including Nooka’s first silicone strap.

The weapons used for criminal acts in South Africa are represented in 'FearLess'. Huge wooden artworks, a reflection on how fear conditions the daily life of thousands of people.

VIDEOA look at the House Industries Eames LTR Exhibition at Herman Miller Japan.

Rima is a nice hightech lamp by german brand Dreipuls. With 4 rings you can easily pick the parts you want to illuminate.

The Microbial Home by Philips as part of Dutch Design Week.

Jump associates reflect on what designing the new Girl Scouts Innovation Badges can teach us about raising leaders.

Illustrator Khadia's packaging for the three types of Teatul teas.

These straps are melted in form with intensive heat. This allows the swiss designer Markus Bangerter to create such light but very powerful structures like in this gorgeous chair.

The Jupitris phone charger by Jin Kuramoto for Iida.

Having conquered the online domain, The Design Files will step out into 3D with a temporary pop-up shop/open house.

Gorgeous Barcelona cafe, Fastvinic by Alfons Tost.

Sam Kittinger redesigns classic board games.

Richard Branson opens the home of his Virgin Galactic operation at Spaceport America in New Mexico designed by Foster + Partners.

Madcap Geometries: See FIAC's Irreverent Outdoor Sculptures in Paris's Tuileries Gardens.

Occupy the internet. Webpage owners can voice their support via F.A.T. Lab's new and easy to install script!

1001 Nights House by A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects.

The Volcanic Casing Heater by Jeremy Murier & Daniel Martinez for the Prix Émile Hermès Competition.

Blast Off! Norman Foster Unveils His Launchpad for Richard Branson's $200,000-a-Flight Virgin Galactic Spaceline.

Highlights from the Good Design Awards 2011 in Tokyo.

Pink Floyd flying pig flies over Battersea Power Station again !

VIDEOQualcomm: Check out the world's first 100 percent insect-powered smartphone.

At SpazioFGM an exhibition about the major entrepreneur who left a mark in Italian architecture & design history…

Marc Von S and STUDIOLAV interpret traditional dinnerware where decorative features unfold into a contemporary narrative. A reflection on what craft could be in the age of digital...

VIDEOTel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.

Paris based designers Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova are back with a new series of elegant handmade blown glass lamps "Balloons" designed for Czech editor Brokis.

Pizza Scissors with a built in spatula means no more fiddly serving.

VIDEOA time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011. A beautiful look at what 24 hours of light looks like.

Beautiful Tom Burr Table-Tennis Table. Limited edition of 10 tables.

VIDEONovum Magazine Cover by Paperlux covered with 1,000 flexible colored triangles.

This amazing record-playing "Feats per Minute" bike blasts music as you pedal!

Little Darlings print series from Sharon Montrose featuring gorgeous baby animals.

This elegant table with a gently undulating form is by Rene Barthtélemy who's designed it for the furniture firm Olika.

Clay Interactive's Periodic Table of Swearing for Modern Toss with over 100 buttons 100 meters of cabling and over 300 soldered joints.

Coleman's INSTANT TENT 8 ~ put it up or take it down in 1 minute! and you can fit two queen inflatable mattresses inside...

Designer Oscar Lhermitte will bring back the stars in the London night sky at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on the 22nd of October.

Mille Bolle soft suspension by Adriano Rachele.

Wonderfully old fashioned illustrations by Kimiaki Yaegashi.

Drawings on fogged glass come to life thanks to a masterful blend of classic hand-drawn animation and live action. Director Hoku Uchiyama uses impressive animation techniques in Evelyn Evelyn’s video for ‘Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn'.

Occupy Design, a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement.

A map of the change in immigrant population across American cities.

Philographics, a series of posters to explain complex philosophical theories by Genis Carreras.

Sideshow Press's picnic basket invitation for a private dinner gathering of the finest chefs in Charelston, South Carolina.

The extremely portable Doxie Go scanner.

Magnetic & iron filing type by Dominic Le-Hair. The font is created by cutting rubber magnets, then shaping the fillings between pieces of paper.

123KLAN Engraved Sk8 Boards.

Jonathan Brilliant creates full-room, site-specific installations from thousands of coffee stir sticks, as well as, coffee cup sleeves and covers.

New Zealand public service campaign posters by Clemenger BBDO in Wellington.

Sako Architect’s new Radial office in Beijing has left no PMS color ignored. Slick, lacquered white surfaces meet bright pops of crimson, fuchsia and lime green.

FEATURED The Pie Hole ~ Downtown Los Angeles's newest pie shop just wants to "do right by the pie." They have a cute shop full of a great selection of rotating handmade-from-scratch seasonal pies... and one filled with mac and cheese.

Incase's Terra collection made from natural materials with playful oversized zippers.

Cool Hunting takes a look at Jennifer Wood's Deadly Dictionaries, based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

VIDEOTeam Loro - Beautiful shortfilm with singing, skydiving parrots, by amazing swedish animation studio Meindbender. (HD definitely recommended)

VIDEOCooper-Hewitt’s Icy New National Design Award Trophy and the story behind the award.

Stunning new offices of design firm No Picnic in Stockholm, Sweden.

VIDEOChris Harrison's OmniTouch turns any surface into a touchscreen. The prototype uses a body-worn projection/sensing system to capitalize on the tremendous surface area the real world provides.

Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible. Interesting project which algorithmically determines if a piece of text is positive (“I like cheese”) or negative (“I hate cheese”) to create Kurt Vonnegut like story shapes backed by quantitative data.

FEATUREDAvocado Witches Fingers, Cider Apple Chicken and Harvest Sours are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

VIDEOLed Zeppelin Ladder by Arthur Analts.

Pantone Xmas ornaments from Selab.

FEATUREDThe Foldboat at the Dock in london ~ amazing to see it in action as well as how compactly it can be flattened.

Ugly and cute at the same time, here are 7 birds for Twitter.

DMesh by Dofl Yun does a beautiful job of using Delaunay triangulation to put a geometric spin on some old-school paintings.

One of Dev Harlan's beautiful light sculptures

A couple of tablets, boxes and a lamp can be fixed in this wall mounted board. The final product is a clever, well-designed multi-functional space.

Animal sculptures made from Louis Vuitton bags by British artist Billie Achilleos.

FEATUREDBaggu goes LEATHER! With large and small versions of their traditional reusable shopping bag style and two zip pouches available in black, apricot, and platinum leather!

FEATUREDGif Back - Kinky Beatles LCD Mash-Up: Random nonsense from the world wide intertron. Gifs collected from the web - cut to a mash-up of The Beatles, LCD Soundsystem & The Kinks.

The Space Beyond Me by Julius von Bismarck and Andreas Schmelas is a project where the projector moves in exactly the same way in which the camera moved. The UV image trail is strangely beautiful.

'Ipe' modular bench and stool by Luca Nichetto for Mabeo.

Exciting new artworks from Famous When Dead.

Old gym mats and gymnastic bench form the basis for this bank. German label 'Zur schönen Linde' strikes again and brings old stuff to a new gorgeous life.

The green way to transport your precious in style. The Johnny Loco Cargo cruiser.

Researchers at Rice University working towards creating a synthetic biologically inspired camouflage based on their study of one of nature's best camouflage artists, the squid.

VIDEODesign, only for humans? Care for Cows by Andreij Nylander is a product that improves the living situation for dairy cattle. The design was awarded the red dot award: product design 2011.

'The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott' taken around the 1910-13 South Pole expedition’s winter quarters on Ross Island.

VIDEOTrip Print Press & The Making Of FreshSox.

Stanton Wiliams' new UAL Campus for Central Saint Martins at King's Cross.

'Work Hard and Be Nice to People' by Anthony Burrill. Beautiful limited edition prints on red.

"NEVER FOREVER ...", a visualisation of empires, capturing all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to today representing each empire as a slice in the pie beginning with a known start (+) and end (×) date.

VIDEOAdorable animations in this Pop-tarts or Joyalicious ad

Beautiful underwater photography by Mark Laita in his latest book, Sea.

VIDEOMaterials researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have developed a highly conductive silver ink.

Baker D Chirico, a bakery that is designed to look like a bread basket in Melbourne.

The Naturalist Almanac, beautiful print from Free Time.

Sumo from Bluelounge acts like a paperweight for your cables, preventing them from dropping over the edge of the table.

Passing Cloud by Tiago Barros ~ fun concept of a cloud zepplin like contraption!

Xbox 360 Wireless Speed Wheel

Thirty years after the World Rally Championship victory in the Talbot Sunbeam Lotus it is time to welcome Lotus back to rally!

Hunting for Wild Mushrooms with Finnish Chef Antto Melasniemi.

Wooden Waiter In Waiting Balancing Game

FEATUREDThe architecture of Gotham, a panoramic ball camera and sentimental cartography are all a part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

The Corkcicle is just perfect for all your wine chilling needs.

The Yelp Elite Watch.

VIDEOa_Live_Arch, the implementation of a "site specific" sonic and visual installation in the SCIARC building creates a 'real- virtual' environment. It is an immersive Architectural space that is transformed by and interacts with users.

The AA School in London will be showcasing 60 architecture magazines, celebratiing the recent resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing from around the world.

Greenpeace-commissioned artist John Quigley, travelling on board the Arctic Sunrise, made the massive ‘Melting Vitruvian Man’ -- to draw attention to how climate change is causing the rapid melting of sea ice to outstrip predictions.

The EMAIL GAME. Supposedly - "Get through your inbox faster and develop good email habits."

FEATUREDDemonBells ~ like kettlebells, only works of "art in motion"

In collaboration with Ali Monemi and Robin Meier, Live Components created this giant speaker for Champagne bubbles. The acoustic structure can be seen at the Pommery factory in France.

Special Edition Grenade Bunny @ NYCC from Lucky Bunny x Hold Up Art x Pretty In Plastic

Minneapolis-based Cue designed a wonderful invitation for the Children’s Theater Company’s Curtain Call Ball, an annual fundraiser that supports programs for young people.

In the Make visit the studio of photographer Meghann Riepenhoff.

FEATUREDGolden Road Brewery ~ A look at the grand opening of Los Angeles's newest and largest craft brewery.

'Imperfect Health: the Medicalization of Architecture' – on view curated by Mirko Zardini and Giovanna Borasi – at CCA from October 25.

FEATUREDDavid Roux-Fouillet’s Diamond Shot, the gun literally shoots magic diamond bullets into the ring setting!

Core77 visits Riverpark Farms, Manhattan's newest example of urban agriculture.

Teenage Mutant Ninja NOSES ~ amazing tumbr that finds teenage mutant nina turtles by doodling on noses... they are everywhere!

The ergonomic iSlice is a revolutionary box cutter.

FEATUREDUnboxing of the Parrot AR.Drone! Quadricopter augmented reality flying video game with multiple cameras and controlled by your iPhone/iPad or Android!

'Broken White Cube' armchair by French artist and architect Didier Faustino.

Bivouac, a Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec Retrospective.

Sarah Ashley Longshore's beautiful painting 'Audrey in Space'.

New packaging for Jamie Oliver products by Pearlfisher.

The recently opened Toyo Ito Architecture Museum on the island of Omishima.

VIDEOArt Spiegelman's new book, MetaMAUS, about the making of MAUS, his Pulitzer Prize winning comic book about the Holocaust.

Carmody Groarke's exhibition spaces for the 2011 Frieze Art Fair in Regent's Park.

Cóm-oda, foldable chairs from Mr. Simon.

Jarmund/Vigsnæs Arkitekter designed the stunning Dune house in Thorpeness, Suffolk, England.

In the Make visit paper artist Jill Sylvia. Lovely studio visit and interview.

VIDEOArtist Bruno Kolberg from Berlin talks about the living disco ball-performance by Bella Berlin. She is wearing a tight suit covered all over with small mirrors and the reflecting laser-lights turn her body into a kaleidoscope.

Russian artists AES+F arrive in Melbourne with their six-metre-tall infants. We interview the artist Tatiana Arzamasova on the eve of the uprising.

VIDEODiscover the V&A's "Power of Making" with an in depth look at the working lives of shoe designer Marloes ten Bhömer, crochetdermist Shauna Richardson, artist, curator and glass designer Matt Durran and flute-maker Stephen Wessel.

Beautiful photography by Anka Zhuravleva.

VIDEOMatthew Goodman captures Burning Man from dust to dust. The film covers 5 weeks including the preparation of the event with each second representing about 3 hours.

Credit Cards ~ "how to validate them with your mind"

VIDEO3D Projection by French water brand Contrex in Paris.

The "city of Surf and Ocean" by the architect Steven Holl, in Biarritz, France

Matt W. Moore 'Sun Ray Ricochet' Exhibition in Moscow, Russia during Sretenka Design Week 2011. New series of canvas paintings, downtown murals, and painted 3D sculpture installations.

VIDEOJames Curran's unofficial title sequence for 'The Adventures of Tintin', featuring elements from each of the 24 books.