Some really precise leather and velvet sculptures by Peeta artist from Venice Italy exclusively for FiveTen Gallery in Oakland CA

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.

Los Logos 4 ~ the ultimate in logo bibles from gestalten is here!

Interesting design portfolio from Matt Burvill.

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.

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.

Manuel Ocaña’s Pictures of the colorful insides of the Bird's Nest in Beijing. A not so common view of this iconic building.

Great collection of retro illustration mostly lifted from advertisements. Space, cars, fruit crate labels… its all there and available for sale as high quality prints.

demon carts.... nice spot for mini... created by butler, shine, stern & partners...

Furniture made from trees that have been infested with invasive bugs--eco-friendly and gorgeous. What's not to like?

The Holedar Earphones for Philips : concept design with a mix of innovation, minimalism and function.

« Voie Lactée », a baby grand piano designed by Andrée Putman for Pleyel. The designer imagined the piano as a traditional music box.

Hourglass salt and pepper shakers by Vitamin.

Fantastic new Goyard trunk in collaboration with Assouline book publishers, comes with a nice collection of luxury books, 100 Memoire photo-biographies...

Once again spanish architects show innovative random facades. In Barcelona, by ADD+ Arquitectura.

Natalie Portman's Shaved Head - Sophisticated Side Ponytail. This music video is horribly awesome. The song just plain fun.

Amazing how Graham & Brown can make birdcages look so good on your walls.

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

"Sometimes 'going up in smoke' can be a good thing" Here's an incredible roundup of smoke imagery.

A refreshingly beautiful cover and interior book design pages for the Oxford Great English-Slovene Dictionary, by Tomato Košir.

10 Wackiest Buildings in the World.

T.shelf is a shelving system designed by J1studio and it can be setup around your existing furniture. No screws required to assemble the T.self since it consists of only plywood, cables and zipties.

Designed by Melbourne-based Phooey Architects, Skinners Playground puts four discarded shipping containers to use as the primary spaces for childhood adventures.

To celebrate its 75th anniversary, Lacoste has commissioned 11 Berlin artists to create artworks inspired by the brand's iconic 12.12 polo and crocodile logo. Its now being showcased and auctioned in Berlin.

Box Vox has a great post on Interactive Packaging of the past ~ from Strip Toothpaste to Jiffy Pop, and even the pressurized refrigerated dough pilsbury containers... Love the patent sketches...

Time has a great slideshow on real life robots since Wall-E is out tomorrow!

No matter how cool your office is, it will never beat the view of this office building on a dock in Amsterdam. By OTH.

The trioBike is simply art, and considering a world where gas prices are hitting way beyond the roof, a great alternative to the family buggy over small distances.

Alvaro Siza designed the new building for the Fundacion Ibere Camargo in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It opened a few weeks ago. A rectangular white concrete structure with circulations going out of its facade.

at design miami/ basel, audi presented 'traces' an installation, which consisted of 11 'unfinished' pictures by illustrators, artists, designers and photographers.... artificial worlds, with no cars... see what designboom found!

Sheepstable by 70F Architecture - A curved sheepstable in he city of Almere with steel girders and wood cladding. A small but very nice piece of architecture

Very simple and intelligent idea by italian designer Paolo Ulian for a perfect project that reflects about wood waste

Mike and Maaike have taken on Charcoal and the old messy bbq process with their new product for Lazzari, where the packaging for the coal becomes a part of the process, and is completely recycled!

Video of famous failures from Abraham Lincoln to The Beatles-- "if you've never failed, you've never lived."

Andrew Neyer has designed the coolest looking zine ever. Space Junk 2 comes packaged in a cornflakes box and is handprinted by Andew. Get your copy now, he only made 150 of them...

Here a look at the album artwork of the upcoming Seeing Sounds album by NERD.

New library at the University of Chicago designed by Helmut Jahn. Featuring a massive glass reading room and a vast sub-terrain cavern of books, which are retrieved by robotic arms

To spread free samples is not an original idea for a brand, but Friskies decided to feed bird in streets to gain peolple attention.

BKLYN Designs features some incredible local designers that use locally-sourced materials, sustainable production methods, and high-quality hand-craftsmanship.

This video of sea-like creatures created from various parts of eyeglasses is both eerie and beautiful. The project is a collaborative effort between Important Looking Pirates and Oscar Magnuson Spectacles.

In “Green Porno”, Sundance Channel's new series of cellphone-friendly short films, Isabella Rossellini singlehandedly re-enacts mating rituals of the dragonfly, spider, bee, praying mantis, worm, snail and housefly.

The Grand Rapids Art Museum is the first LEED Gold Certified Museum, combining great design and sustainability

The Indoor Union Bench from I Do Design has launched! and there is a gorgeous desk as well that is perfect for collaborative working... interesting alternative to a conference table?

Felted Wool Teddy Bear Fetuses and Skulls... as well as large breasted cows, bulldogs, puppies and more from Stephanie Metz

Hulger goes DJ friendly with their new Hulger retro phone headset adapters! Pictured are the lovely Brokenhearts girls who were appointed the official DJ-adaptor-testing-team.