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.

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

The best of Mutate Britain on film.

Darling little comic about "finding myths and dreams in unlikely places." Especially love the hand screen printed cover.

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.

beautiful new installation at the Dior Homme store in Paris by young Italian artist Andrea Mastrovito. great photo gallery at Wallpaper!

Wool felt laptop sleeves for mini laptops (netbooks). Charcoal or red wool felt, black corduroy lining and black wooden buttons for closure.

Grab your waders, Venice is flooding! Great series of images from The Big Picture.

A Danish furniture manufacturer is re-introducing this molded plywood chair that was designed by Grete Jalk in 1963. Only 300 of the originals were ever produced.

Wee Birdie is a great guide to London UK. With snippets about where to shop, secret places, and cool things blogged daily. Lots of nice little boutique design places, crafty things, and cool events.

Grungy vector Art posters By Magnus Kjall at Click for Art

Godfather Spaghetti Measuring Device - by David-Louis

HBO Sopranos' legacy continues in the form of old fashioned Italian soda...

Great Stop Motion music video. "Get your 90s On" is a parody of cool things of the 90s sung on top of Justin Timberlake's Sexyback.

Li Xiaofeng designs clothing out of porcelain. Breathtakingly beautiful.

London in stop-motion : More 3000 pictures in 2 minutes, mixed with ''Harder, better, faster, stronger'' from Daft Punk.

Body Navigation is an impressive reactive floor projection designed for a dance performance. Collaboration between Ole Kristensen, Jonas Jongejan, choreographer Tina Tarpgaard, and the Recoil Performance Group.

The diverse work of Evgeny Kiselev oscillates between the rigors of symmetry and prolific excess.

The playful design of the PurePur collection by Jan Contreras is pleasantly surprising as you can discover new and interesting ways to pile up, put together, or disassemble the colored pieces.

Gorgeous 1927 edition of a Studio Handbook by Samuel Welo - all hand lettered!

RUBITONE (Rubik + Pantone).
Concept by Ignacio Pilotto

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.

Preggioni has debuted Magneat, an accessory that allows you to clean up your earphone wires so that all unnecessary wires are hidden.

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!)