A Hudson Valley artist called Variegated manufactures "bedspread canvasses" out of old menswear fabrics. Because of the limited materials, each set is one of a kind.

A great renovation inside a 120-year-old Japanese house not far from Kyoto done by a young Tokyo-based architect Chikara (means 'power') Ono.

Poster designs for the UK release of Oliver Stone's W., by Scott Woolston.

On notebooks and pens ~ here are some recent obsessions that came in the form of DWR Tools for Living Press Kit (best notebook!) and the Federated Media pen from the summit (it's a keeper too!)

Credit Card Cutlery by Ineke Hans: must-have !

A colorful refurbishment of a '70s building made by Murtinho y Asociados in Santiago, Chile.

The typography work of Australian designer Luca Ionescu is on sho at their new studio website Like Minded

Wagon-wheel HUMMER H3 as part of ZOO Art Fair in London

San Francisco artist Gene Guynn's gorgeous new live sketch video on the amazing website Sketch Theatre!

architect Emergent did a great change turning buildings inside-out and designed The Huaxi Urban Center for China. The Huaxi Urban Center externalizes all its “innards” in a morphology of shifting lights racing up and down its glacial-like hull.

ABC3D by designer, Marion Bataille is a typographic pop-up book. There's a video showing all the pop-up action. My coffee table needs this book.

Every item from Zoe Murphy's collection is hand-crafted and unique. By re-working and upcycling mid 20th century furniture Zoe offers a new lease of life to these otherwise forgotten gems.

Etienne Meneau's latest project - a wine glass called Little Heart, in a very limited edition of 12 pieces.

stak chair, designed by ricardo garza marcos is a floor wooden rocking shair made out of molded plywood

The Singapore Grand Prix: the first ever night Formula One race. Beautiful pictures, including a few fun ones taken with tilt-shift lenses.

David Granger of Bang Design's very lovely Pli furniture series.

Interview with Blek le Rat who is pretty much the first person to do life-size stencils - about twenty years before Banksy even saw a brick wall.

Sigrid Jelambi, a designer from Caracas, has a great portfolio of vinyl wall interiors and other decorative designs for spaces such as cafés, restaurants, beauty shops...

Congrats to our friends at Cool Hunting on their NYT Slideshow (go to the main article to see picks from Design*Sponge, MocoLoco, Apt Therapy, Un-Beige and more!)

Durham University in the UK - "interactive multi-touch desk" is a major part of the SynergyNet framework, an interactive classroom environment based on a gaming engine called jMonkey.

Heath Ceramics coming to LA! "at 7525 Beverly Boulevard (at Sierra Bonita Avenue) in the central Los Angeles design district"

Gallery of sci-fi inspired concept ships.

New York visual design shop Trollbäck + Company has designed four series of limited edition campaign buttons supporting Barack Obama. They're giving them away for free... while they last. Which won't be long.

Furi Ozitech Diamond Fingers Pro Knife Sharpener - intriguing design, and who can resist a name like "diamond fingers" ?

Cool translucent porcelain eggshell candles from Revisions Design Studio.

Ack! Too cute! The Lampe Girafe.

Leonie Janssen's 2006 thesis project I'Mperfect ~ takes a fascinating look at body shapes, and all the different shapes and sizes people come in, also transferring those to safety pins and clothes pins.

Mark Boyce's interesting new book, Sizes May Vary. The book references the varying standardized formats and systems used within graphic design and is part sketchbook, part reference book and part notebook.

Steed Griffin's "Lesser-known polygons No. 13" is just one of a few fun gocco prints from his flickr photo stream. Love the mixture of art and geometry.

Lovely package design by San Fransisco based designer Allie Packard for M&J Cookie Mix. Great outer box to go along with some fun colorful cookie mix packages inside.

Pretty packaging by Duffy & Partners for Tall Tales Restaurant (part of the Gander Mountain outdoor lifestyle products and services network). Love the deer antler logo.

Kevin Cyr paints incredibly detailed portraits of delivery vehicles and reminds us to look for beauty in the most mundane places.

Hourglass salt and pepper shakers by Vitamin.

Behind the scene pictures of Nike Flywire Installation in Jakarta. Straight from the artist's blog. cool...!

Netherland-based designer Martijn Koch made updated an arcade setup from the 70s, and hooked it up with a HD screen so you can play all your favorite old titles in High-def!

Ban’s beautifully crafted work features elephants and human figures floating against Japanese washi paper backgrounds or in front of candy-colored stripes. “These things are like talismans. Elephants make me feel safe. They have saved me many times."

The Portuguese cork industry has begun an ad campaign designed to argue for the greenness of corks versus screwcaps. Screwcaps are plastic, industry, CO2 emissions, etc.. Cork is natural!
Save the Forest!! Join this cause.

Excellent idea of ambient marketing for Wonderbra, by Publicis Frankfurt.

I bet you can´t tell it´s a fire station by looking at this picture. Located in Mexico, by BGP and AT103, both choosen by Wallpaper as the hottest young architecture practices.

SAVE TOTORO'S FOREST. Charity art show run by PIXAR to help raise awareness for Sayama Forest (inspiration for Totoro) which is under threat from development.

National Geographic ~ amazing photo gallery and feature article on Marine Miniatures with photography by David Liittschwager

Spain's soccer superstars - Iniesta, Fabregas, Puyol, Ramos and Torres - take some notes to remember why they want to win Euro 2008 in this nice look Nike ad.

Another new “collection” tee by Chop Shop. This time the theme is VEHICLES. Can you figure out all 55?

ample sample's 2008 contest finalists have been decided! designers were challenged to come up with useful DIY projects that could utilize the large amount of excess carpet samples that accumulate every year.

Oded Ezer talks about one of his latest beautiful typography experiments, “The Finger” at TypoBerlin 2008. “The Finger” is best viewed in a video which shows the complexity of the piece, some of which isn’t as visible in 2-D representation.

At the University of Washington... "Underwater communication: Robofish are the ultimate in ocean robots, keeping in touch without scientists' help"