Thousands of threads of black glass make up this installation described as 3-d scribble by artist Jessica Jane Julius.

Box Vox gets us the whole story behind our mexican soda favorite, Jarritos!

Pierluigi Piu ~ awesome Escher-esque fish wallpaper

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

First sketches and information on the soon to open Ace Hotel New York turned up. Cannot wait for this one to open!

Rain Jackets refashioned into Reusable Bags ~ by the City Bag Trade ~ see the NASA one i picked up at Outside Lands! And there are even patterns to make your own... lightweight, with functional POCKETS!

« 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!

Beautiful type design by Marian Bantjes (yet again). This time integrated in a book cover design...

Underwater frame-by-frame photographs of the extremely close race between Phelps and Cavic.

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

Award winning Mora River Aquarium encloses an aquatic habitat inside a sleek building, in the shape of a barn, built from several white sections.

I'm sure you've seen this guys work but never knew who "this guy" was. Introducing Hydro74. From Illustrations to Type Treatments to Apparel, this guys talent is stunning.

Li Jianye created the Flexibin to be both elegant and functional. The frame is flexible, thereby enabling you to use it with a variety of bag sizes.

Guerrilla Action of the Espalhe Agency, where an actor will be imprisoned for 3 days to disclose the new series of Prison Break on FOX.

Tivoli Concert Hall by 3XN, in Copenhagen, Denmark. A round building with a light skin.

CASA de RETIRO ESPIRITUAL designed by Emilio Ambasz in 1975 is an amazing piece of architecture whose main facade is two white walls that seem to rise out of the ground. The house itself begins from the sunken courtyard.

Vitamina Well is a health drink company from Sweden with nicely designed bottles and website. The bottles were designed by Waters WidgrenTBWA and the website by Tewonder.

The Ernestomeda Solaris Kitchen counter/stove/sink/all-in-one design is incredible! It is like the ultimate kitchen/desk... can't you see tons of these in a cooking school? Like a chem lab?

"When everyday movements seem impossible". Nice campaign by Saatchi & Saatchi.

Patrick Brown from Australia, has done some rad graphics on his favourite video game GTA4.

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

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.

A steel skinned house in La Reserva, a chilean gated community previously featured on #10808. Its crossed volumes offer a 360º view of the landscape. By Sebastian Irarrazaval.

Recently Chaiten Volcano, southern Chile, erupted during storms in the middle of the night, creating this rare and colossal effect. The Chaiten Volcano has triggered earth tremors and spewed ash two miles into the air.

new eco design housing building in mexico city by Taller 13

Love the simplicity of the die-cut label packaging of Waitrose's mustard line designed by Lewis Moberly ~ also check out their other packaging work and innovative way of showcasing them.

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!

New works by Dan May, Nathan Spoor and Brandi Milne at CoproNason Gallery opening June 7th. Previews are up and are looking good!

Art & Ghosts, otherwise known as Louise. Is a digital darling that creates whimsical goodies of twilight tea parties, coquettish creatures and dollhouse decadence!

An incredibly fun new book in honor of the 35th Anniversary of Wacky Packs. The book has an introduction by Art Spiegelman.

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

Whoa. Sex sells. "Sensation" is an extremely unsubtle new French Schweppes ad from FFL Paris and Stink.

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

3rd Space FPS, a vest that input real pain in the player. Allows you to know where enemies are shooting from. Retailing for $169.00, it is available in Camoflauge or Black. Oh! Lights are fading... I'm feeling cold...

Beautiful destruction/sculpturing of books by Nicholas Jones ~ check out this great interview with him by design files.

Optimizing passive solar gain and using untreated local wood are just a few of the ways that this sustainable home on Lake Laka in Poland has earned the moniker CO2 saver.

Arkitekhus is a firm building and selling houses designed by some well-known Swedish architects - Thomas Sandell, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Gert Wingårdh, and Tham & Videgård Hansson. Gorgeous stuff.

Grand Theft Auto on Legos!

Inky illustrations by London based Designer (originally from Bangkok), Pomme Chan

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.

Clip Alphabetical | Designer Stephen Reed, created such interesting clips where each has a letter, thus serving to organize more easily, for example, documents that are required separated by alphabetical order!

AdCoffee | Logos in your coffee in the morning!

AA Ads - "in flight wifi, just in case" Extremely fun ads, most likely mock ups seeing as they are from a school, from Miami Ad School out of Miami Beach and art director Vanessa Castañeda.

A great way to use a Tord Boontje design. The guys from the Pouvlov Store took the Kvadrat fabric and playfully used it in a special design version of the Pouvlov.