"It’s not a pretty building, but it is heroic and dramatic." Andrew Melville Hall, design by James Sterling which has aged and weathered well with overgrown moss and lichen, had survived 40 years of age after it was completed in 1968.

Some photos of a very creative and interesting flea market spotted in Santiago, Chile .

For the 20 year anniversary of the Mille Miglia Jacket, C.P. Company have designed a Special Edition of their most iconic piece. To display the jackets, a special exhibition is taking place from now till April 27th at their showroom in Milan.

MINI and Airstream team up with designer Fritz Hansen to make a car that is water-sport ready.

An interview with artist & illustrator Nathan Jurevicius about his work, vinyl toys and the recently launched Scarygirl browser game...

The Hedgehog building appearance change dramatically as viewer move around. Design by Moxon architects, the building features an array of aluminium fins oriented in the same direction.

"Cardboard Laptop Cradle" an amazing, simple, and eco-friendly idea for recycling wine boxes

A golden sand dune-inspired structure begins to take shape as Foster + Partners recently broke ground upon their UAE pavilion for the 2010 Shanghai Expo.

Check out the result of Earth Hour '09 ... when the world when dark.. yet again.. for an hour.. in support of the environment ~ amazing to click and see the lit pictures fade into darkness on the Big Picture!

No One Does It Like You, the very stylish new video from Department of Eagles.

Untitled (Stories), by Gareth Long. A series of nine lenticular prints based on the four paperback novels of J.D. Salinger that use and manipulate the iconic but anonymous cover designs. Read the interview with Long!

Awesome art from Mark Weaver Design. Be sure to check out his "Make Something Cool Everyday" set.

Novel use of the business card for Yoga One by Phil Jones

Studio HOF is a laboratory of ideas aimed to gather its members' designing experiences and to explore themes and style of contemporary architecture with an experimental approach.

openhouse by xten architecture in hollywood hills

Photographer Ryan Marshall is photographing his wife each week and documenting life's trials till their baby is born.

Vague Terrain 13: citySCENE is a collection of work by new media artists and scholars with an urban representation theme. Subjective cartographies, visual data and experimental video staged in a number of global cities.

This is a nice packaging project from Laurence Charron-Huysécom in my packaging class. By the way, in french, the word tea (thé) sounds exactly like the letter T.

Beautiful men's fashion story, Before Night Falls. Shot by photographer Anna Wolf for fashionable man blog, Dudes in Suits.

Wifi on Southwest Flights?!?! Partnership with Yahoo!

Swedish designer Monica Förster has designed the worlds first office chair for women. The chair is a result of a lengthy study on female sitting posture.

On super exciting upcoming events ~ Knife and Fork for ENGAGEMENT PARTY, MOCA’s series of interventions by local artist collectives the 1st Thursday of every month! First up GOLF AND DONUTS!

One from a new series of Tiki portraits from Chet Phillips created with Painter.

Beautiful Tree of Keys made of metal on a bed of rocks... found at Lucent L'amour

Inspired by lottery scratchers, young madrid-based designer Agustín Zea created this interesting calender that use the material used on those scratch cards.

On adorable branding/packaging ~ the Hitachino Nest Beer owl is so cute! And there is even a valentine's day special label... but i love the big bottles with the owl printed on both the front and the bottle cap!

So tempted to upgrade to Kindle 2.0

Eneloop Solar Light from Sanyo is fully charged by the sun and outputs lights in both arranged LEDs for rooms/emergencies and as a beam for flashlight use. On top of that, the USB port charges your phone/gadgets, all using clean solar energy!

HHF Architects and chinese artist Ai WeiWei designed Artfarm, a gallery for a professional art collection. Amazing use of prefab steel buildings used commonly for agricultural purposes.

I like this playful yet functional idea from Apersand. Simple geometric shapes inspire these wallpockets. A perfect way to storage and decorate at the same time!

Definitely Golden - The Illustration Portfolio and Blog of Goldene.

Chessboard by Alastair Mackie. A logical evolution from his previous set of dices, each chess piece features a single suspended insect; the "white" pieces represented by flying insects and the "black" side by ground based insects. eces.

Very awesome set of vintage Steelcase ads!

eBoy has an incredible backlit exhibition of pixel wonderlands in Barcelona at ROJO@artspace

“Forever is a large videowall installation of endless animations responding to an ever changing soundtrack... will spawn unique audio-visual films every day, forever.” Incredible!

fashionary -- a fashion sketchbook is set to launch in early 2009. And let's leave some feedback to help its development and improvement

Wired's roundup - "Our 12 (Or So) Favorite Techy Cartoons of 2008"

The Plastic Nature is a furniture concept by Dutch designer Alexander Pelikan which exemplifies the connection of the "plastic-world" and the world of wooden furniture.

New photography work by Annie Leibovitz featuring Cate Blanchett for Vanity Fair.

On unexpected design... Bukket ~ a gravity driven pocket-sized bong that even comes in a wooden version ~ see the walk through to make sense of the design

Eddie's Room - The greatest cat/dog house we've seen, for your pets inner designer - GreenGrassDesign

Two new 20x200 editions from the design studio Superdeluxe, part of their Card Suits series.

Interesting ship-like interiors at the Berge Guesthouse by Nils Holger Moormann. Backpackers can stay in "‘sleep cells" - essentially rooms designed just for that, with a communal space that includes a library, kitchen and gathering area with a fireplace.

Ole Henriksen's Ultimate Lift – Eye Gel ~ think of this as a PSA for anyone that stares at screens too much and doesn't sleep till 4am too often... this has been saving my eyes this season!

Erik Natzke is an interactive designer who is constantly trying to blur the lines between design and technology.

Los Angeles artist James Jean's new book of illustrated covers from the famous series "Fables" is out and about and soon to be on my book shelf.