These are condoms, on illuminated rods... 30 of these greet you at the entrance of the Museum of Sex's 'Sex in Design/Design in Sex' exhibition designed by Pentagram... all our favorite toys are there!

Pretty astounding structure designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

Spaceknight! Awesome illustration portfolio of Ana at iamana.org (check out the music section!)

Artist Lee Woodgate has one of his brilliant illustrations featured on the cover of this week's London le Cool newsletter.

CES time of year already ~ we're off to run around vegas and get fully immersed in the latest tech for 2008... any requests or suggestions? Will you be there?

Awesome traditional looking chair that transforms into a step ladder

Geoff McFetridge's Monster Dice, a block of European Oak featuring a laser engraved story about a boy who draws monsters who start drawing more monsters. Really awesome.

Gift Guide Day 22~ Sponsored by Balmuda ~ some beautiful pieces to enhance your workspace's aesthetic and function!

The e-lighter can apparently fire up your next cigarette by 5v current .

James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set ~ thats a lot of amusement and design inspiration in a box.

The harrowing illustrations of Ian Kim.

Radius makes some beautiful wall mounted and free standing "home flames" that you and i might call "fireplaces" of sorts.

Haha! Homemade Halloween Sperm by Shane Geil! (Also, how cute is the Maggot in Bunny Pajamas!?!)

bread and butter....from food to products... Tommaso Ceschi

While this may look like just a box in a sleeve ~ this packaging for a hearing aid appears to have an animated soundwave on it as you push the box through. See the video. By Goodmorning for Widex.

Apparently bike-mowers are gaining speed (sorry, couldn't help myself). Check out some modified bikes and their mower bits. From Treehugger.

For your moment of zen ~ i accidentally misclicked and hit the stumbleupon toolbar video button... and suddenly this Rinpoche is telling me to be happy... had to share it.

"Priority Boxes" -- global art series by FdLM Studio.

* I received mine today. My box contained "HAPPINESS"!

New Peugeot 207 GTI print ads from Singapore creative agency

Some truly amazing portraits from London-based photographer Pheonix Blake.

New Levi's 501 campaign

Kasil's fashion hybrid is part Scarf and part Hoodie.... introducing the SCOODIE, complete with pocket for whatever you choose to stash in it.

Graffiti legend MARE 139 was commissioned to make this G-Unit award for rapper 50 Cent. Known for his "wild style" sculptures, he used the G-Unit 'G' and polished it off with his trademark "graff arrows."

Joom's Animal inspired furniture... from cow shaped shelving to animirrors to this awesome Springbuck

Fred's glow in the dark skeleton key caps... i need the white one.

Not enough internet buzz about the stunning Valentino exhibition at the Ara Pacis Museum in Rome. This is our contribution.

Oryx is an innovative time trial bike concept with a one-sided fork and chain-stay. Due to its Y-frame shape, it's comfortably shock-proof without loosing ground contact. Designer: Harald Cramer

Colour Lovers and Mojizu team up to show you color palettes to match some crazy characters.

Great piece over at Pingmag on Transformable Architecture... and the brilliance that is Hoberman

Ninguins!! Scrapbook papers you can't resist - from bam pop.

Gui Borchert was recently featured in Print magazine as one of the 20 most talented designers under 30.

Featuring Ree Treweek's gorgeous , darkly surreal illustrations, South Africa's Blackheart Gang have brought to life "The Tale of How"

Lamp + Blimp = World View by Afroditi Krassa.

My old company Animal Logic finally re-designed its website. Check out the showreels.

Dedicated to Japan's rackgaki (graffiti) scene, this book illustrates the work of major graffiti artists working in Japan today. It showcases the creativity that lies within this new and relatively unexplored form of contemporary Japanese art. DVD included.

The original music video for the Gnarls Barkley song : Smiley faces

Well it was that time of the year when the weather was nice and people go out for a barbeque. But I was always missing the decent sound out there in the green. So there it was, the beatbox with 4x150Watts and 2 attachable subwoofers in an old Grundig case.

Customize your glasses by stitching it. Seungyoub Oh's Stitch design won the 2006 Opus Design Award.

Optical illusions; flourescent lights; fragile, semi-transparent materials. Light and light's darkness. A TOBA lightbox is a unique and irreplicable object.

Pigeon Fez cam: Using Processing to track a realtime fez hat on an unsuspecting pigeon... made be laugh

Netherlands graffiti artist Delta previews new work.

Twisted subversion of landscaping service pipe to form modular organic furniture - nice one.

PopInk, a line of goods from French Paper Company, who makes amazing paper.

Czech design studio Qubus had an incredible series of perception twisting porcelain and glass pieces on display at ICFF.

Maker Faire Bay Area 2007. Super cute T@B camper/trailer on display, and some other fun stuff.

Sarah Finn's Olion Table Light: a square of veneered wood changes its nature completely when illuminated. Computer-cut geometric shapes glow through from within.