Alexis bookshop and coffee bar in Bratislava, Slovakia by Plural and Total Studio.

Rasko Naibaf's Parapluie table, a simple umbrella inspired table.

Van Wantern Etcetera agency's written portraits with autobiographical works carved to create the author's face.

'Cicada' is an organic, cocoon-like spatial intervention in the heart of industrial Taipei.

Cocoon Lamp by voxel-studio, 3d printing powerd by Objet Technologies.

Once you have scanned the QR code on the ad, you have to place your iPhone on the dedicated area, on the dictators mouths. You'll then see a reporter's mouth speak instead of the dictator's, about what really goes on in these countries.

VIDEOMore beautiful fluid dynamics. Watch this viscous fluid as it falls in a stream onto a moving belt.

Emily Hale's conceptual packaging for a wine which pays tribute to the memory of Harvey Milk.

KillSpencer Parachute Bags

GOOD! Agency's playful packaging for Fisherman waterproof boots.

The 'Oh S***' posters express that horrible moment when you're really up against it

Gorgeous custom clocks by Daniel Weil.

VIDEOHigh-speed visualisation of primary break-up of an annular liquid sheet. Beautiful.

Fun colorful business cards for Cwmni Da by Elfen.

FEATUREDAdventures to Poland’s crooked forest, Chicago’s new ledge and the legendary Machu Picchu are all a part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

The Balloon Lamp is a normal lighting source which looks like a typical balloon designed by the CrousCalogero.

Beautiful work from the amazingly talented Rob Bailey.

Zoo Basel successfully breeds jellyfish! Tiny polyps and free floating medusas!

Nour Tabe's project to honor the forgotten women in the history of typography.

Moustache world map by Kenny and Rene (The Pixel Prince).

Cuppow, a simple device that turns your canning jars into travel mugs.

Nike Sportswear x Sicksystems ‘The Wolf' Plywood Sculpture.

Object-E by Seung Yong Song.

The Flesh Love series by Photographer Hal captures couples vacuum-packed together.

Facemaker, a new line of handprinted wooden blocks from Millergoodman (Zoe Miller and David Goodman).

Morey Talmor's beautiful conceptual packaging for rehabilitation drugs.

Sweet letters made from sugar and gelatin from m-inspira by Aranxa Esteve and Lucía Rallo.

Horst Klechle created this incredible paper torso with removable organs for the Science Lab of the International School Nadi, Fiji. The sculpture is composed entirely from 200gsm white card.

'Compas' chair by Patrick Norguet for Kristalia.

Mercedes-Benz DICE concept brings gesture controls to the cockpit.

Beautiful interactive visualization of changes in the Fortune 500 between 1955 and 2010 by Ben Fry.

The Freshwater House by Chenchow Little in Sydney, Australia is a simple, yet elegant house with beautiful joinery that results in stunning lighting effects.

'Toolkit' is a set of four objects for the desk. These volumes are to be placed in a pen pot and allow to give visibility to items that are usually at the bottom of it, such as paper clips or pins.

With a chalkboard-like façade nestled between sprightly sprouts of bamboo, The new House S echoes Japanese simplicity.

We fell in love with the work of Austrian designer Georg Mähring, a master cabinetmaker, and his attention to detail.

NoClean Aquariums™ desktop Betta fish tank is self-cleaning, eco-friendly and only takes about 60-seconds to work! Pour a glass of water into the aquarium and it cleans itself.

The unusual architecture of brazilian's fashion designer Adriana Barra's store includes vertical gardens, colorful stairs and a vintage look.

Nendo created a new series of objects for Carpenters Workshop Gallery, called the 'Farming-net' Collection.

Super cute rocking sheep, handmade in Los Angeles.

Fingle is a cooperative two-player iPad® game about the thrills of touching each other on a multi-touch device. Explore the intimate touch of each others fingers with Fingle's two-player puzzles.

The CUBIFY 3D Printer, expected to go on sale sometime over the next few months.

A new five-story creation called the Zellig Sculpture, which contains three glass bridges and 2000 meters of steel tubing, has been created inside the Custard Factory by Nottingham based design firm Philip Watts.

Great series of endangered species in plastic by Ryo Shimura.

FEATUREDCraftsman goes Matte Black with glossy logo on this limited edition auto paint trend inspired tool cabinet ~ they also launched cabinets with built in speakers, charging stations, and pull out work spaces at CES.

VIDEOWimpy uses sesame seeds to create braille messages on the top of their burgers. Great campaign from creative director Wes Phelan.

FEATUREDFling and Fling Mini ~ suction joysticks for touch screens made from silky-smooth anodized aluminum, and an incredibly tough, perfectly clear, and unusually flexible engineering-grade resin by Ten One Design.

Commercial type launch a new font called Marian.

FEATUREDRAM-Mounts make the best mounts ~ so modular with their patented ball joint system you can make anything... even an awesome human sized bot found at CES!

The Kai Table by Naoki Hirakoso and Takmitsu Kitahara appears to be a smooth wooden tabletop but unfolds to reveal numerous hidden storage compartments.

FEATUREDZik Parrot by Starck ~ a new headphone that incorporates bluetooth/NFC pairing, capacitative touch panel swiping, motion sensor pausing, bone conduction senso and active noise cancelation, and even has an app to control it all.

The new logo for the Paralympics that will be held at the same time as the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 has been designed to be accessible to the disabled.

FEATUREDLiqueur caviar, homemade marshmallows, and eskimo kisses are all a part of our weekly roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Bang & Olufsen launches Beolit 12.

These 'Flower Mats', by Melbourne design studio Bonnie and Neil, are a great way to sneak a small-scale garden into your home.

FEATUREDNite-ize's Inova USB Rechargeable Aluminum LED Flashlights ~ nice micro-usb port hidden in the neck of the flashlight for charging...

Typographic Chocolate Slabs by Dynamo Montréal.

Ingeniously fun images by photographer Carl Keliner and stylist Evelina Kleiner for an IKEA campaign.

International Chefs, architects and designers on stage at 'Paris Des Chefs'

Fun large-scale rubber band sculptures and installations by Brooklyn-based artist Martha Friedman who has an upcoming show at Wallspace Gallery in New York.

Tim Mackerodt has designed 'Per', an unusual light prototype to fix on your window.

Mattias Adolfsson experiments with how much detail you can fit into an A3 Size sketchbook

Tenbosch House, a charming B&B in Brussels by Patrice Lémeret, Michel Penneman, Catharina Eklof.

4" Resin Funghi Friend by TADO in collaboration with Creo Design and Fleet Collective!

BlancoWhite by Estudi Arola for SantaCole are an elegant series of underlit tables.

Vintage Chic: The Leonardo da Vinci-Designed Handbag

A full scale edible gingerbread house complete with sugary construction drawings! Built (baked?) by alma-nac for the Great Ormond's Street Hospital, London.

Cloud of Lines: Three Dimensional Drawings by Robin Kosnas.

FEATUREDGriffin Technology has some awesome packaging and design details on these new Premium Flat Aux Cables... also fun, crazy booth design at CES.

Intricate self-portrait diagrams by Minjeong An.

FEATUREDMotorola's CES booth is surrounded by tons of silicone tubing that served not only as a border people could pass through to get in and out of the booth but also a full projection surface.

'Eco-Museum' in Rennes by French architects Anne-Flore Guinée et Hervé Potin.

FEATUREDAudi's booth at CES ~ when you look up it is an infinite kaleidoscopic florescent tube grid of dizzying madness that made for some amazingly fun pictures and reflections.

A hotel of caravans and huts arranged inside a vacuum-cleaner factory shares a piece of Berlin counterculture (Schrebergartenglück) with travelers.

VIDEOIt's bath time for baby sloths!

Ampertastic Mr. Fox -- recently released by SockMonkee Collection.

This wire mood lamp creates beautiful patterns in light and shadow.

VIDEORafael Lozano-Hemmer's Tape Recorders installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney until February 12, 2012.

A behind-the-scenes look into the Lego factory in Denmark where a Legoland Police Station is created.

Lamiturri wine labels capture the mythical Lamias. Design by Calcco.

Mirrored interactive playground in Copenhagen from MLRP.

VIDEOTroll Slayer, a great new track and animated video by the Jullien Brothers.

Make your own Tyrannosaurus Rex! He may be cut out of cardboard, but he is still a fearsome guy.

The Omnijore Joring System by Ruff Wear is ideal for any dog-pulling excursion such as skijoring, mountainboard-joring, skatejoring, bikejoring, or canicross.

Concept for infographic newspaper supplement which presents British statistics (Britistics) collected from reputable sources such as Office for National Statistics and OnePoll. The aim of this publication is to give readers an up-to-date picture of British life.

Zodiac Plates by Damian O'Sullivan, born in England, raised in the Netherlands, studied in London and upon completing his Masters, started his design career by designing bags and accessories for Hermès.

VIDEOThe story of Nealey and Walter, a wedding proposal in LEGO stop motion.

"Noise Division", headphone collaboration from Monster and Diesel.

The French design studio Cephalization shows us what some of our most iconic logos would look like in comic sans.

This astonishing modern house in Hampstead, London was designed by renowned architects Paxton Locher and is set around a spectacular 40ft double-volume reception room.

The Future of Food. Great paper sculpture by Zim and Zou for the cover of Icon Magazine.

One of 3 birdhouses by Manuela Rammelmeier. To transform the city noise into a better, more relaxed one via helping birds to sing louder, while they’re sitting in their house.

Swedish Free School Organization Vittra, an AWESOME school house with no walls!! A thought provoking space by the architects at Rosan Bosch!

Babyloid, Japan's latest therapeutic robot baby, is designed to help ease depression among older people by keeping them company.

The Typestache Poster from Old Tom Foolery.

FEATUREDKittens with artistic haircuts, diy cardboard robots and mousemaps are all a part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOJoseph Herscher's Rube Goldberg machine "The Page Turner".

The incredible diversity of life forms found in a handful of sea floor mud.

Polar Hen, Mjölk Architekti's winning competition entry for the international architecture competition Warming Huts v.2012. The terraforming machine pumps up the icy riverwater to spray it over an air-filled silicone inflatable creating igloos.

A sneak peek at the TMA-1 Studio from AIAIAI.

Ikea installs an apartment in the parisian metro. Five people will live there in front of people for 6 days.

Swangle ~ Just released on the appStore, a challenging but addictive word-smithing game. iPad only, but for a short time it's free! If you have an iPad take a second and check it out.

Microplane's easy prep meat tenderizer is a serious looking tenderizer.

Moodiness, flaccid skin, looking dull, tendency to depression! You are obviously in lack of sunshine. Kelvin Lumen restores the vitality you need. Sunset Laboratories offers a wide range of solar radiation, Borabora, the Maldives, Haiti and the Bahamas.

Tate Modern's new 'Race Against Time' is a free iPhone game featuring a cartoon chameleon dodging exercise, on a quest to stop Dr. Greyscale. Designed by Somethin' Else.

Tomás Alonso’s recent works on view at Victor Hunt Designart Dealer from January 5.

VIDEOA year ago, Sean Ohlenkamp and his wife created a stop motion video of them organizing their bookshelf. This year, they've stepped it up a notch, and organized an entire book store – Type Books in Toronto.

Gorgeous Taltal Public Library in Chile by Murúa-Valenzuela.

The Paolo Cascone’s research combines advanced design with low technology constructive systems.

Makerbot launches the REPLICATOR (no it doesn't take one thing and magically replicate it) ~ but its like a bigger, better, makerbot 2.0!

OLENISHKA CHAIR designed by Niazique...

VIDEOThe making of "Goldfish Salvation" by Ruisuke Fukahori, recently on show at London's ICN Gallery. The 3D goldfish are meticulously painted with poured resins.

Seb Leon's The Golden Horns are a large-scale musical sculpture commissioned by NEF for their new high-rise tower located in Istanbul.

VIDEOJeriel Bobbe turns a wheeled suitcase into a musical instrument through relief paving stones.

Fjaril drawers that expands as its drawers open. Designed by Jakob Jorgensen.

What a beautifully packaged bowtie/handkerchief set from Activist Eyewear and Alfred Julius. 50 piece limited edition.

The Shadow Pavilion by PLY Architecture is made by aluminium cones and geometric tethering which reflects ambient light conditions, abstracting the sky and planting it on earth.

FEATUREDCUBELETS! And the video for these robotic building blocks is hilariously awesome. So fun to see how this project has grown out of CMU's Computational Design Lab.

Engadget has an early look at the Parrot AR Drone 2.0! Can't wait to see it at CES ~ 720p video, new body style, "traveling" mode, 3D magnetometer, pressure sensor and more!

Moleskine Luggage Tags ~ interesting design based on their notebooks... curious how they hold up through serious check in travel.

The Telegraph Review of the year 2011: animals feeding and fighting. Amazing series of photos.

FEATUREDSamsung Series 9 Monitors coming to CES tomorrow ~ with specs that get close to the apple studio displays + built in speakers and you can link your android smart phones to it.

Liquipel ~ waterproof your gadgets!

Vizio gets into the PC world with some super sleek looking desktop and laptop setups ~ very mac inspired meets chrome look... 24" and 27" all-in-one PC, 14" and 15.6" ultra light, and a more powerful 15.6".

Air Head animal balloons ~ Each animal consists of a balloon on a wand, plus pre-cut colour features which are attached with sticky pads. Also included are colour stickers for eyes and features

one of three new outdoorsy illustrated prints - explorers, hunters and mountaineers ahoy!

The Magis la Valise document case.

Runway print series by Jerome Daksiewicz of Nomo Design.

FEATUREDA look into Glenn Kaino’s “Bring Me the Hands of Piri Reis” at the Honor Fraser Gallery. Quite the range of pieces in this solo show.

Rings by “Les Ouvrières”, made, or rather, laser cut from a single small sheet of plywood. The collection consists of eleven rings of different shapes, each accompanied by a personalized packaging inspired by vintage book covers.

New Technogym worldwide Christmas window: huge virtual gift pack made of polished steel

Awesome wedding invitation literally carries out the phrase "tying the knot".

Sand Bowls by Leetal Rivlin.

Sensics is to give Sony a run for its money with a new 3D head-mounted display, dubbed Natalia.

FEATUREDBrian Wills: Unwound. Amazing what you can make with thread/ribbon and a bit of paint and wood! The details are incredible in this latest show.

FEATUREDLa Cienega Art Walk tonight opened the doors to many of the mysterious galleries... here's a peek at some of the amazing inspiration we discovered! (And a peek at Jill Greenberg's latest)

VIDEOS Bahn by Zeitbezogene Medien HAW Hamburg is an amazing short animation+real world film. Such great characters.

It's a new year! Organize your life with these accessory hangers by Montreal designers, TOMA Objects

Walter Mason creates intriguing but temporary, organic art from ice, leaves and stones - whatever the natural world has to offer on a given day.

The Bend Sensor from inventibles is a tiny sensor that detects bending, movement, vibration, humidity, and more.

VIDEOTrailer for The Bank Job television show by the collaboration National Television through Not To Scale for 4Creative, inspired by title sequences by Saul Bass and Otto Preminger.

Reiner Riedler's Fake Holidays series.

Melissa Deckert's chrysalis inspired packaging wine label design.

Take a look at Zero helicopter concept by Hector del Amo. This single person vehicle is no ordinary chopper, well it’s not a private jet, but it does the job in a very cool way.

Lacoste Labs, a great series of sporting collaborations.