Radar Footwear vinyl back cover by Julien De Repentigny

Process: 50 Product Designs from Concept to Manufacture- Love this book! Great review on Core77!

Ping mag shows us some of the amazing topographies of tokyo

Montage by designers Julien De Repentigny and Gabriel Lefebvre

A collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. Searchable transcriptions and scans downloadable in PDF format!

Mayuko Hari is a recent grad from FIT - love the iconic packaging for Cookuru.

Giles Deacon's runway show for his 2009 Spring Summer Collection: Models wore large metal helmets making them appear as characters from the 1980s pac man video game...just beautifully dressed, of course. Wocka wocka wocka

Did you know that Pittsburgh is a city with 446 bridges? Pittsburgh print from the Places I Have Never been collection.

The Aram Gallery, well known for its innovative exhibitions and installations, offered OKAYstudio space during the London Design Festival for their first independent exhibitions as a collective.

NASA Constellation Lunar Mission. Top-notch high budget animation, launch to moon and back again.

Beautiful... New promo for Mythbusters on Discovery Channel... produced by Motion Foundry Sydney...

Edward Horsford's Industrial-Strength Lemon Squeezer. I like its simplicity.

This is going up right now as I am typing this and we’ve got a whole host of shots of the amazing work that JR and his team are putting up. He opens his brand new solo shows on 3rd October at both Laz on Charing X Road and Laz on Greek St. More on these later…

Typical of the man, he’s working on a HUGE scaled and is covering almost all of the side of Foyles bookshop on Manette St just off the Charing X Road. With pieces on the opposite building and the whole front of the other building and a stunning piece on the side.

This is our latest project. Wallscreen at UCSD The Loft. Hand drawn fonts waterjet from 1/4" aluminum. Powder coated white. Wallscreen is 60' long. Artwork does not repeat.

Peace of Mind is an innovative and comprehensive approach to satisfying the needs of the contemporary American citizen through a line of products designed to alleviate fear and anxiety.

Michael Hellgren plants vertical gardens on any kind of wall.

An emergency staging area complex, that acts as a tennis court during non-emergency times. By japanese architect Shuhei Endo. The giant green wall helps to control the high temperatures.

The Baek SeaTub lounge Chair ~ a fun bathtub hybrid!

Yelle in Santiago de Chile featured an astonishing light set. Very good show also, better than the San Francisco.

Limited Edition HBO Mimobots are the latest toy collaboration, and playful press release format? Here's one from the new show Little Britain USA!

Also by Perfectos Dragones - the Velador Table Lamp - looks like a metal cloth draped over a bulb.

In Portugal, pavement is synonymous of art. Being usually used in sidewalks, it's in plazas and atriums that this tradition finds the deepest expression.

Volvo launches the market’s first commercially viable hybrid bus. The lower fuel consumption of the Volvo 7700 Hybrid reduces the emission of the greenhouse gas CO2 by up to 30%.

XKCD examines the observable universe from the top down on a logarithmic scale.

Westwood Hotel Identity created by Julien De Repentigny

The versatile Paper Pack by MicroWorks - a folder cut from a single board that can be used as a file or a writing pad.

Love the pretty shape of Jirachai Tangkijngawmong's Leaf Bench.

Knoend's Lite2go eliminates packaging waste by making the lamp shade itself the packaging.

Interesting multi-faceted Table Cube by Ricardo Garza Marcos.

I love the playfulness of Perfectos Dragones' Bagu Lamp - so colorful and reminiscent of the lunch box drinks I enjoyed as a kid.

Stefan Glerum's gorgeous drawings about the obsessive nature of crate digging/record collecting.

Simple Koin Wood Banks.

New Gallery NOTCOT tags are up! Now showcasing the beautiful work of Kimberly Wu's JOY ~ a brilliant example of what happens when you blend passion for illustration and car design!

10-question interview with designer/artist Blake E. Marquis. He will be in the upcoming group show "Park Life", curated by Studio Number One, which opens at LA's Subliminal Projects on Oct. 4th.

The Smithsonian's new Sant Ocean Hall looks definitely worth checking out.

Love todays Non Sequitur.... about wild ducks! (click through to see the rest of the strip)

The coatrack 'superemma' is a tribute to the classic trolley and brings a striking statement, the joy of consumption into your home. Elaborate construction of chromium-plated steel.

Bright Booklet set from OrangeBeautiful

d*face's cement spray cans popping up in london are incredible!

Ouwenz.com is an online portfolio of finnish graphic designer and illustrator Olli-Pekka Jauhiainen.

defense mechanism... the new spot for honda fit... created by RPA Santa Monica and produced by Digital Domain...

Canadian graffiti artist, Elicser, delivers unique and gritty images from an interesting perspective.

Haruo Suekichi: The Steampunk Watchmaker
"Reminiscent of Jules Verne and influenced by manga, his finely crafted watches are of a vintage futuristic kind."

I discovered Elisa Johns and her amazing paintings in New American Paintings, but her work really belongs in W.