Just back from the Unique LA VIP night and adventures in Downtown LA ~ take a peek at some of the fun discoveries!

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!

A wine case that turns into a lamp that turns into recyclable waste.

Hamburger Panda has some fun prints in her Seabots series.

Gift Guide: Flora & Fauna ~ its all nature inspired/related and slightly random ~ but fun gift ideas none the less!

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.

House Industries has an Ampersand Cutting Board! Every typography junkie needs one in their kitchen!

Dog Photo Booth - "A personal project by photographer Sharon Montrose who is smitten with dogs and photobooth strips" ~ Gorgeous.

Love the bright legs of the Lotta Kids Chair by Leif.designpark.

Awesome package design for "By Killian" fragrance by Sophie Matisse

On Gift Guides ~ The $20 gift guide at MAKE - Electronics kits for $20 and under!

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.

FlipBac ~ a viewfinder add on that lets you shoot from the hip more easily...

I love this "Now Panic and Freak Out" parody of the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster that everyone (including me) has bought. Tshirt on threadless!

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.

Dress Your Car in Couture. Designer Car Covers!

Besides just being gorgeous, Akihiro Kumagaya's Sumizara charcoal ashtray helps to deodorize the smell of cigarette smoke when they are put out.

Photos from Cooper Union's Silkscreen Reclamation Project - a collaboration between designer Paul Sahre and CU students. 200 of Sahre's unfinished posters (with one color word bubbles) were reclaimed by the students and overprinted with their own designs.

Cool Hunting shares the Middle Colors Humidifier designed by Takashi Hiroshi Tsuboi

A unique industrial and product design portfolio by Elisabet Fluff Kärrberg, student at the School of Design & Crafts in Gothenburg

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.

The Minox Agent M DSC DigitalSpyCam is a tiny digital camera - only 3.14" x 1.14" x 0.79". At 5 megapixels, it's a good little portable camera.

Credit Card Cutlery by Ineke Hans: must-have !

At Spring Mountain ski area, in Schwenksville, PA, you can catch a glimpse of the fall foliage up close in the canopy.

The Design Museum, London is showing a great Alan Aldridge retrospective, the psychedelic illustrator of the 60's and designer of the Beatle's famous Lyric book, Rolling Stones and Elton John album covers.

The biggest spaceship structure in a small German city. It includes a laboratory, a 3-D cinema and a medical centre.

Chris Ruhe's Sahara Stool, a flexible, wood stool.

Google Labs adds "mail goggles" to GMail to ask you simple math problems at night and on weekends to prevent you from sending email while intoxicated.

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

A nice collection of pretty household brushes.

Great 8bit videoclip made by Bob Mayata ft. Boy Wonder. Good flash programming...

Shunji Kurimori's beautiful Cedar Sake Cups and Cedar Sake Bottle, made in the Japanese wood craft style Magewappa.

Students at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, led by Regina Welker and Max Lang, created this awesome promo for 2008 Cartoon Forum in just 8 weeks.

UK based illustrator Adrian Johnson has an incredible, light-heated portfolio of illustrated characters. The agency BBH teamed up with him last year for a series of adorable animated tv commercials...

Cool translucent porcelain eggshell candles from Revisions Design Studio.

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.

Jacob Covey, Art Director for Fantagraphics, has an incredible portfolio of repackaged comic collections, including the redesign of the 1980s comic book classic "Love and Rockets."

Very nice lighting design work from designer Ricardo Garza Marcos. His Light cube gives an amazing geometric pattern of Light depending on the array the user chooses.

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.

Stingray Stool in Tulip. Also available in Birch and in coloured resin

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.

Hanna Nyman's 3-D wallpaper invites the user to peel off the outer layer to expose the design underneath.

Enzo Mari's Animali and Pesci Puzzles from 1974 are incredible woody pieces of design history that would look incredible on any coffee table - see both up close!