FEATUREDHave you ever seen ducklings swim underwater? Our tiny baby mandarin duckling dives and swims (eyes wide open!) under the water. She also makes a bit of a splash and while water runs off a duck's back, she still get very wet!

Radiators in colors Le Corbusier by Runtal.

Fluidity by DesignLibero uses runoff from your drying racks to water the houseplants.

This beautiful armchair 'Mammoth' designed by Knut Bendik Humlevik and Rune Krøjgaard, with the potential of becoming a modern classic.

GoogleBBS, from MassWerk, allows you to surf Google as if it were the 80's and running on the old-school Bulletin Board System.

'In the Company of Animals: Art, Literature, and Music at the Morgan' an exhibition of animal artwork at The Morgan Library running until May 20.

FEATUREDFun to see the design/inspiration behind the new Nike Free Running Shoes. There is awesomely glowing photography of them (they remind me of nudibranchs!) as well as videos with designer Mike Miner.

FEATUREDPear Sports Square One Unbox! This new system puts a super-smart running coach in your ear. A coach that's tapped right into your heart and foot sensors and responds accordingly to motivate you!

FEATUREDClaesson Koivisto Rune Tiles - gorgeous casa and dandelion patterns!

The Research Agency's new office definitely tops our list of spaces we would love to work in! Architect Jose Gutierrez turns a rundown old space into a bold new workplace!

City Peaks, a fun project from Digit that encourages us to take the stairs. It allows you to track our stair climbing over the course of a day by tapping your Oyster card. You can then compare your ascent of the Gherkin to the likes of Ben Nevis.

FEATUREDRunning elephant shrews, the 'James Bond Theme' played by quadrotors, and the modern story of the three little pigs are all a part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOThis July, Nike will be releasing the Flyknit Racer. The new running shoe model will weigh in at just 5.6 oz for a size 9, almost as light as an iPhone 4S.

Italian designers Luca Pevere and Paolo Lucidi are likewise mixing the industrial with the artisanal in their latest design endeavor Boiacca, a long, slender table shaped from fluid cement

Obama puts together a 28-track playlist for his official campaign that sees the likes of Arcade Fire and U2.

Wall Coaster Extreme Stunt Kit - "interchangeable parts so kids can build all sorts of rolling marble runs up to 13 feet" ~ made of ABS plastic and reusable adhesive.

Great fire escape slide at the Lego office in Denmark by Rosan Bosch and Rune Fjord.

Runway print series by Jerome Daksiewicz of Nomo Design.

Cork Planter bookend set from Nicole Runde.

VIDEOInspired by the look of 1950s Alpine glacier goggles, Mykita & Moncler created innovative and technologically advanced sunglasses Lino and Achille, for downhill runs and also as classic sunglasses for everyday use.

Here is a bourbon I created, designed, and packaged. The Kentucky bourbon is inspired by the the bootleg runners during the prohibition era. The packaging includes shot glasses, coasters and key chain tags.

VIDEOIndiGo - the airline that brought you amazing on-time performance, hassle-free service, fabulous inflight snacks and always affordable fares - now introduces another category breakthrough: the world's first Runway Musical!

Portal cookie cutters! Portal, Turret, Running Test Subject, Falling Test Subject, Companion Cube (the cube is 4 cooke cutters!)

Through his large-scale animated graphic projections, artist Peter Kogler likes to absorb or change architecture while evoking emotion from the viewer.

Yuri Landman crafts awesome handmade guitars for the likes of Sonic Youth, Liars, HEALTH & more.

Christopher Russell's scratched photographs from his most recent series, 'Runaway'.

Sensorium, the world's first pop up scent museum that engages all five senses. Runs through 27 November 2011 in New York.

This study shows how a super-entity of 147 companies (less than 1% of all the companies included in this study) control over 40% of the global economy. This time the facts are with the 'conspiracy theorists'.

Tag Heuer new Mikrotimer watch beats 3.6 million times per hour, blink and you'll miss it -- literally. The Mikrotimer Flying 1000's watch movement runs at 500Hz.

Rune Guneriussen is a young Norwegian photographer with a beautiful series of photos of lamps.

FEATUREDCar as smartphone? ~ Mercedes-AMG SLS browses the web, becomes WLAN hotspot, runs android (so you can write apps for it?), has a G-meter, race mode, and more...

Mitchell Cooper, a young sculptor who has been taking molds of some of the up and coming runway models and turning them into completed pieces.

VIDEOGorgeous animation for 'Only the Brave Foundation' from Brand New School and Antidote, featuring some stunning artwork from the likes of Sol Linero, Damien Correll and Stephen Kelleher.

Inkling bridges the gap between traditional, freehand sketching and digital development by capturing a digital likeness of a pen-on-paper sketch.

Greg Kessler's first installment of his new beauty series Macro-Morphosis. This is the mouth of Estonian model Merilin Perli from barefaced to runway ready.

Running Alphabet. Spanish Graphic Designer Joan Pons took it upon himself to create an alphabet by running the letterforms and tracking his ways!

Chris Jordan's Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture. This wave depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, the estimated quantity entering the world's oceans every hour.

VIDEORoss Ching's Running on Empty, a re-edited version of "LA with no cars" set to Wim Merten's Often a Bird.

An aerial fortress to halt the construction of Heathrow's Third Runway (2 yrs ago). It's a weightless attempt to both block the sky routes and to materialize the environment on the ground with helium balloons, by Paisajes Emergentes.

VIDEOTesco Homeplus now runs a virtual store in the subway of South Korea!

This line runs on all surfaces of the room and punctuated by the placement of orange blocks. Three storage units. Exhibition at the VIA, Paris 2008. By Jérémy Guénolé.

This animated needlework is amazing! By Aubrey Longley-Cook.

VIDEORunning on empty. A new video for the song Life is Life by Noah and the Whale. Directed by rock and roll photographer Autumn de Wilde.

Coffee table Bye-Bye Bird Design by Runa Klock of Frøystad + Klockis. The table is made of brass, inspired by old classic wire furniture, but with a humorous and functional twist!

The Corporate Runaways take off on a motorcycle trip across the americas ~ and write a really comprehensive round up of the gear that worked, didn't, and shouldn't have been brought. Great read!

The traditional water cooler + a bench = the Cooler Bench! One of the RIT/Wilsonart Metroproject01 runners up at ICFF.

Workshop Diary, the Christian Vivanco's "Making Off" is running now! from sketches to prototypes + some random insights! Enjoy!

FEATUREDPinch Food Design creates "Food Furniture" of sorts ~ creating the ultimate multisensory experiences you can barely liken to catering.

VIDEOMiniatur Wunderland unveiled its $5 million miniaturized replica of the Hamburg airport that has 40 model aircraft take off and land, and 90 vehicles that move about runways aided by computers.

Gorgeous aluminum and teak runabout day boat from Vienna based ArgoNautic.

Beautiful drawings by Stuart Kerr, who runs studio Stuco.

Fun collaboration between Nike+ and YesYesNo plots data from runners to create beautiful three-dimensional visualizations.

Meet the KnightHawk 3G, a network in a box. The self-contained WCDMA network runs over the 2100MHz spectrum. Incredible, but a hefty 45 pounds!

An interview with Timothy Karpinski, who runs Together Gallery in Portland, Oregon, and is currently showing 'This Is Forever' with Dan-ah Kim at Thinkspace Gallery.

The Grand Derby - Osa the Armadillo Jockey by Flora Lam. Fun plates ~ also in ostrich and kangaroo models!

Michael Eden’s ‘Grey Bloom’, part of the14th annual SOFA (Sculpture, Objects & Functional Art) Fair, which runs from April 14 through April 17 at the Park Avenue Armory.

Dark Matters (Lasse Andersen & Rune Brink) create classic computer effects in this video without computers using strings, nails and lights.

Portfolio Update 2011 of Andre Smatik Ljosaj. The image shows the new SeaLife running shoe from Monie Love Shoes. OsmoseTech cushioned running sole. 100% biodegradeable materials. 100% water resistant.

FEATUREDIt’s Friday! Where will you be getting away to? Running through Bordeaux? Enjoying the local delicacies in Hong Kong Or walking through a New Zealand glacier? This week has been full of inspiration from NotVentures.

An interview with model turned illustrator Molly Crabapple, who runs the burlesque life-drawing class Dr Sketchy's Anti Art School.

Artist Brian Viveros has a new work titled 'Bull-Headed (The Taurus)' showing at Copro Gallery. This piece is part of beinArt International Surreal Collective group show 'Dystopia' that runs from 3/19-4/9.

A pictorial History of Rum Running in Vancouver.

A charming resin statue of 'Sozi' the newest character from illustrator Rilla Alexander. Sculpted by Rune Spaans, produced by Bigshot Toyworks.

The Nobis Hotel, Stockholm from Claesson Koivisto Rune.

Rune Fjord and Rosan Bosch (the former Bosch & Fjord)'s design of LEGO's development department in Billund.

Philippe-Albert Lefebvre's 'Hublot Sledge' combines ash wood for the structure, hand-sewn leather for the seat, carbon fibre for the handles and steel for the runners. "Engineered Craft"

Cécile Colle and Ralf Nuhn's ‘Exit-Wall’ is a modular installation comprising of 200 illuminant exit signs that mark the entrance to the Kinetica Art Fair, which runs from February 4th-6th in London.

IGNOBLE has just released the Mona Cocoon Backpack, quality made in the U.S.A. and hand assembled in small runs.

Zoom, an exhibition dedicated to Milanese photographers Aldo Ballo and Marirosa Toscani Ballo at Vitra Design Museum. The Ballo’s archive tells an history about the italian design. The exhibit runs 26.03.2011 to 03.10.2011.

Electric colors explode from black backgrounds in Maya Hayuk's psychedelic murals. Vivid abstracts mandala-like with their symmetries. 'Heavy Light' runs through December 22 at Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn.

Dutch writers Willemijn van Herwijnen and Anneloes van Gaalen wrote a book which features failures and design by the likes of Stefan Sagmeister, Atypyk and more.

Carsten Höller's Soma at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin runs until February 6th, 2011.

Currently running at M+B Gallery in LA is 'Locals Only' - a great exhibition of photography taken in the 70s by Hugh Holland, capturing the burgeoning skate culture.

Sportiva Hobnails ~ Screw in/out high-end metal studs for traction in icy and snowy conditions for your running shoes/etc - inspired by rally car tires!

The winners (and runners-up) of Stereohype.com's 6th annual button badge design competition winners were announced/released. The overall collection now consists of a whopping 567 individual button badges from designers and artist from around the world!

Autum Straight Jacket ~ is this the macbook air case i've been waiting for? Also for iPads. Simple leather sleeve, limited production runs of 50, hand made in the USA

Philips recently launched Econova, a green TV with a remote that runs on solar power. Only available in Europe.

Sou Fujimoto likes clouds but he makes buildings. The results are incredible.

Fishing for compliments by Jan Bernstein, Max Kickinger, Woeishi Lean and Sebastian Neitsch. The 36 poles react to eac other and users, running servo monitors and producing distinctive sounds to form a chord.

Nike hired illustration team Brosmind to create a campaign to promote running awareness in Spain. The 19 designs show characters in a variety of activities - everything from running errands to running from someone trying to steal your wallet.

A master-work of typography by Joby Cummings, wherein each of the seven deadly sins are woven into the unmistakable likeness of a skull. The best t-shirt we know of for tracking how to avoid eternal damnation.

Core77 has a look at Buro North's Tree Like Wayfinding Signage ~ which receives an AGDA Award!

Jim Campbell's "Scattered Light" installation turns Madison Square Park into an amplified version of a Lite-Brite, illustrating figures running through the park- Magical!

Milky Star is a ceramic wardrobe formed in the likeness of a natural model. Star-like pads, some with and some without hooks, interlock like fingers of two hands. Milky Star is a single unit working as a wardrobe for a wall. By Pudelskern, Austria.

'Grid-it' by Cocoon is a threaded mat made of rubber-threaded bands running vertically and horizontally allowing you to keep your gadgets neatly organized inside your bag or office.

Claesson Koivisto Rune collaborate with J. & L. Lobmeyer to create these gorgeous carafes for Vienna Design Week, 'vindobona'.

Having produced elegant responsive lighting installations for the likes of the V&A and Massive Attack, London based collective, United Visual Artists, have unveiled their first permanent public artworks in Toronto

'ecooler' by mey kahn + boaz kahn ~ beautiful screen is a system of hollow ceramic tiles that cools a room by running water through its channels.

What happens when all the oil runs out? Take a trip from 1900 to 2080 and beyond to see a possibility, based on the Hubbert Peak theory on oil.

alessiTab by stefano giovannoni ~ runs on android 2.1, 1GB internal, Wifi, DVB with antenna, mic + camera, HDMI/USB/SD, digital frame...

An Interactive Infographic about the famous Munich Oktoberfest by Students of University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in collaboration with Bayrischer Rundfunk.

The Dell Inspiron Duo tablet. Impressive hybrid that is part netbook, part tablet with a 10-inch screen, dual-core Atom N550 and running Windows 7 Premium.

Tongues is located at Theobaldgasse 16 in Vienna and must be one of the coolest music and delicatessens I've ever seen. Interior design by Peter Fehringer and his wife Gabriele (who run the del) with Christopher Schweiger (who runs the music section).

Amazing spot for "Mini Countryman" using new methods in CG technology. Directed by Brian Beletic. Love how its runs all over Milan!

Gallery Orsta from Claesson Koivisto Rune is a glowing gallery in Kumla, Sweden.

'Phasma' by Takram Design engineering is a hexapedal running robot that can run dynamically like a living organism.

Porsche 918 Spyder | Will "The Eco-SuperPorsche" make production? ~See video of car running on it's own power for the first time!

LIKEarchitects' 'BusStopSymbiosis' is one of the five artistic interventions selected by Scott Burnham to emerge in downtown Porto, Portugal as part of Bairro Criativo.

Photo by Manuel Archain, one of the photographers of the gallery of contemporary art Pabellon 4. The exhibition "As I was saying." runs August 31 - October 2.

Like Butters’ Light MKI have a distinctive, industrial arm-shaped design. They’re designed to be mounted ‘pretty much anywhere you can put a screw or a little g-clamp’, be it ceiling, wall or desk.

"Sculptural gestures in air" by Cocky Eek.

Duffy London love to play with seemingly impossible configurations. I love this runner table that will be launched at London Design Week 2010.

Swiftpoint is a new mouse that is held like a pen and has a very gratifying scroll wheel that can be used by tilting the mouse and running it along a flat surface.

Cute 'Belly-Up' salt and pepper shakers by Imm Living.

Superheadz have designed a digital video camera that shoots “Super 8 like” videos – the Digital Harinezumi 2. And now you can also have this limited edition artist versions by Ed Templeton and Mark Borthwick.

The Stallion Wine of Angelus Estate's label depicts a running horse with gloss puff-up varnish contrasting with a black matte finish. The logo of Angelus Estate is printed with matte copper hotfoil symbolizing the mountains, sky and soil.

Claesson Koivisto Rune created this series of shelves called Hillside. Going up and down in bright colours these furnitures are really artful pieces for room decoration.

ElliptiGO - Elliptical bicycle delivers fun workout experience that closely mimics outdoor running.

Eric Joyner's exhibition “Donut Logic” replaces human life with metallic robots acting like regular humans. lt runs from August 14th to September 1st.

Stella McCartney's Fall/Winter 2010 collection for Adidas includes a range of glow-in-the-dark apparel—perfect for night runners and cyclists.

Ad aired on Emirates in-flight movie screens at exactly the same time as the plane was accelerating down the runway. It allowed viewers to watch the car screen speed up and experience the closest feeling to an actual test drive. By Impact BBDO

Likea is a pinhole camera made to look like a Leica camera.

It isn’t just the clothing that’s a piece of art in this boutique- the Runway boutique in Ho Chi Minh City designed by CLS Architetti is dedicated solely to LUXURY and this interior almost puts the clothing itself to shame.

In addition to running HungerGatherer, NY designer Todd St. John has some really amazing experimental & non-commercial work on his personal site.

'Primary Shakers' by Imm Living, this trio of salt, pepper and sugar shakers impart a new inspired setting for mealtime.

Castor + Pollux on Brighton seafront are holding the first UK exhibition of illustrator Charley Harper's work! Private view is Friday 2 July. Exhibition runs 3 July - 5 September 2010.

W101, the first table lamp made from paper of Claesson Koivisto Rune for Wästberg.

Sotheby’s first ever outdoor selling exhibition at Sudeley Castle, Gloucestershire is up and running. The exhibition, in association with Carpenters Workshop Gallery, presents 25 unique/limited-edition works of contemporary art.

Students from the BA Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins College will be running a pop up shop named '2060'. Second years students have designed and produced objects for sale. June 1-7

The 2010 RZ Ultima Concept by Racer X Design is a car intended to rule the tracks. Based on the GTR, the concept does not alter the chassis or running gear of the vehicle, but concentrates on the more aggressive, supercar look.

Everyone likes to show off how traveled they are, so why not show it off in style. Scratch off where you've been on this gold Scratchmap to reveal a different image underneath. Designed by Luckies of London.

A lake house by Claesson Koivisto Rune is located near the Drevviken lake with its own little cove.

Milky Star is a ceramic wardrobe formed in the likeness of a natural model. Milky Star is a single unit working as a wardrobe for a wall as well as a repeatable object that can be assembled to a larger area. By Pudelskern.

Amazing paintings by Norwegian artist Jørund Aase Falkenberg.

24 hours, 40 areas and London become a life-sized playground on 23.04.10 with Nike Grid. Runners register online to "claim your streets", running between phonebooths to score points.

New Heroes dolls from Momiji are realeased today. This one is named Yee-Ha! She likes watercress and Maya Angelou. Each one is packaged in an inflated pillow bag.

A collaboration between 3 architects, a glass artist and a painter, an abandoned old schoolhouse has been turned into a Swedish retreat that fit for a King, the Råman House & Studio by Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR).

In the Rodarte S/S 2010 Collection runway show, the models wore body art applied by a Sharpie permanent marker, as well as couture.

Matt Pyke is the head of Universal Everything, a creative studio. He runs the studio with over 26 participants from all over the world from a little garden shed in Sheffield, UK. Talk at the Creative Summit NRW of the ADC Germany.

Offering the likes of scones, brownies, muffins, biscuits and, of course, the ubiquitous cupcakes, Outsider Tart is a wonderfully chic slice of American indulgence in West London....

Amazing images of the making of the last creation by Studio Glithero exhibited for Design by Performance.

With art from the likes of Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Julian Opie alongside public submissions, Michael Landy's 'Art Bin' is a comment on creative failure... see it soon though, it's set to be destroyed at the end of the week.....

A team from the BBC1 science programme 'Bang Goes The Theory' has unveiled a car that runs on coffee. Car-puccino, the car is actually a modified version of 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco.

This futuristic fitness center by 4of7 Architecture features 390 backlit panels in different shape and size suspended from the ceiling, fulfill the client request of a ‘cloud-like’ interior.

FEATUREDWorking out while looking down the stunning NY views... running while staring at the teeny tiny statue of liberty in the distance... check out the stunning gym at the Standard NY

Adidas Originals shows more love for geeks and launches online trailer for ZX Runner, an 8bit video game offered with each pair of ZX 500!

One of the upcycled couture gowns from Gary Harvey's New York Fashion Week runway show comprised 30 copies of the Financial Times.

MWM : Crystals & Lasers Exhibition. Since Gallery. Paris, France. Huge Geometry and Color in this series of 17 canvases and Mega-Mural. Exhibition runs through March 12th.

The »Temporary Museum for New Design« Exhibition by Vicente Garcia Jimenez, Milano/Italy, runs from Apr 14 2010 thru Apr 19 2010.

Puma produced a fun video with Japanese designer Miharaya Yuhiro. Pumaneko runs through Tokyo!

»The Essence of Things« Exhibition by Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein/Germany, runs from Mar 20 2010 thru Sept 19 2010.

VIDEOTitle sequence for the popular, long-running Dutch children's programme, Het Klokhuis, directed by Johnny Kelly at Nexus Productions.

FEATUREDMacallan Ice Ball "Machine" ~ runs on gravity and the frictional heating capacity of copper at room temperature with the icea... within moments perfect spheres!

Berlin based designer and director Timo Boese updates lowerground.com. New motion and static projects for Nike, a-ha and Lamborghini. The site is running on cargo.