Hustler of Culture ~ how did this blog not make it on my radar until now?!?! It's been around since 2004, and i love the name. Cool Hunters, Trend Hunters, none sound nearly as sweet as being the Hustler.

Absolutely gorgeous and elaborate abstract drawings by Chicago artist Noelle Allen. All of her drawings are done with graphite and water color. She has some excellent sculptures, as well.

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining ~ from the Keep Calm and Carry On guys... limited ed of 100, Metallic silver ink printed on 175gsm "Smoke" paper.

Piclens - FF extension for browsing images (like cover flow) on popular sites. This should be the death of the traditional slideshow.

BEN BUTLER, New Sculptures & Works on Paper . "Furrow" cedar wood, 44"h. x 4"d. x 74"w., on view at Zg Gallery, Chicago

Playhouse by Swedish designer Anders Breitholtz are small foam house and a matching green carpet. I know it's for kids, but I wouldn't mind a set of Playhouse for myself...

Design Sponge guest blogger, Ronda: She's covering local artists, designers and all things Scottish. The photo "floating heads" sculptures in the newly refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum in Glasgow.

Angus Hutcheson makes lamps from silk worm chrysalises, and to full understand how bizarre that is up close... check out some pictures from when i saw them in person last week!

The first in a series of shows conceived by CITIZEN:Citizen to explore how we value the objects in our life. Design is everywhere but what does it mean to us.

Web Trend Map : selection of the 300 most influential and successful websites for 2008.

This gloriously retro Icon Watch boasts distinctive styling that pays homage to the 8-bit console games of old.

I spent a bit of time on Seletti's website, thanks to e-cool's post #8098. Their World Dinnerware series includes some of my favorites: New York, Tokyo, Venice, Rome, Paris and London.

Mr Clement's Petit Lapin figurine is finally available. Love their cozy yellow and orange scarves, but what's the story behind the letter and the knife?

Would you like to design the UK jacket for Jeff Howe's Crowdsourcing book? Have a go here to CoverSourcing.

Such surreal fairy tale like scenes in these snow globes by walter martin & paloma munoz

A small but engaging gallery of Soviet era Christmas cards. Lots of Santa and rockets.

Bowers & Wilkins takes car audio to the next level with their spiral diffuser.

Indigo Snow has a line of snowboards, skis, helmets, goggles and more with a fusion of 3d snakeskin prints, leather, and wood.

Who knew that great tasting chocolate could come from Scotland? It doesn't hurt that Kchocolât makes their chocolate look great either...

Amsterdam-based photographer Yamandú Roos is shooting portraits of friends, and those who live around him, but also his commercial work, with Ronaldinho for Nike to give an example, is off the hook. Great photography from the Netherlands.

Give me a CORTADO !!! 2/3 coffee + 1/3 milk coffee cup. Design by Ignacio Pilotto

belOga: Not Your Grandmother's Sewing Machine - big circular touch-screen which replaces the usual scheme of buttons and controls. designed by Kristine Brückne

Hairywood By 6A Architects

A designer got a great idea: instead of using common LCD screens, little balls are used to display things by electro-magnetism. In this example, it's a finger ring with a clock inside.

I'm on a bit of a banana kick right now. This trinket box is pewter and is cast from a real banana.

Bug Labs - cute logo ~ cute projects ~ great concept of open source hardware

Real DJ stereo headphones encrusted with pink Swarovski crystals. Everybody's need it... isn't it?

Ezri Tazari's coffee table seems to be made from hundreds of photos, and yet feel more like a study in UI design than industrial design.

You'll never look at crumpled pieces of paper the same again. Installation art by Paul Hayes.

Star Wars characters on tees in the pinstriping tradition from the nerds at chopshopstore. Besides VADER also see CHEWY and RAIDER.

Modern take on the design of the famous WW2 poster and phrase 'Loose Lips Might Sink Ships'.

Pandora design makes creative, colorful and totally disposable dining sets. Perfect find for a snap party!

C505’s ASCII ROCK video collection

Alex Pinna, italian design working mainly with bronze make extraordinary sculpture.

After Digg redesign today, the new version of BoingBoing with a complete redesign by Jemma Hostetler and the return of comments!

Ah carlsberg and their love of the word "probably" ~ 5000 in 10 and 20 notes were dropped around London with a removable sticker - "Carlsberg don't do litter. But if they did it would probably be the best litter in the world"

WILL WORK FOR WOOD.
John Houshmand's urban headboard & bed frame made from recycled Maple wood.

Remember the Simpsons go to Paris spread? Well its up gallery style at Colette, and the designers themselves even showed up in matching outfits.

Moo (of the tiny flickr business cards) launches stickers! Sticker books of 90 stickers for 10$

The Onion's 1" pins are quite cute and amusing to me this morning as well.

Everything that I own that is blue, red, white...
Beautiful colour compositions from Helga Steppan

"because we can" have created a couple of neat reactive LED coffee tables

Truly the coolest smoke detector yet. This clip on Chick-a-dee bird is by Mooi Uit De Brand

OR celebrate the summer solstice like the scandinavians ~ partying hard for Midsommar & "girls and young women are supposed to pick seven different species of flowers and lay them under their pillows. At night, their future husbands appear to them in a dream."

Turn out your lights for two hours on the Summer solstice. A time to save energy, to think about peace, to think about people in distant lands who share your planet.

Impeccable, intelligent, and elegant website by the always consistent Syrup Helsinki for Finnish design agency Kokos3. Props go to the lovely "3-d" workspace likely inspired by their projects in architecture and interiors.