The project is a "space elevator," and some experts now believe that the concept is well within the bounds of possibility -- maybe even within our lifetimes.

Herman Miller unveils Embody chair, meant to enhance health and productivity of workers [Editor's note: what is up with the rearview of this chair???]

Hercules - great "classic" seating designed by FAT

Whether you agree with him or not, Obama is real fun to construct.

Photoshop Mobile ~ for win mobile phones

Beautiful lines in Kedar Naik's GLIDE chair, made out from aluminum and lacquered fiberglass. I like how the chair support peels up from the base.

Richmond VA artist Christina Stratman makes the most comfortable chairs.

Ford redesigned the Mustang sculptural logo with some nice details. The press release claims its actually more realistically proportioned as well.

All color fanatics should check themselves into DreamColor Wonderland for Colouritis - by HP Singapore

Fiat gets together with denim brand Diesel to create a Fiat 500 limited edition. I love how they used the old Diesel logo on the car again.

Nice packaging on this Max Longin Float Bed

Scott Dukes ~ loving (lusting?) this gorgeous automotive driven photography portfolio - check out some of the infiniti/lambo shots...

(de)light: liquid light: a project that reinterprets the concept of light as we know it. The MA project of Cristina Ferraz at the Industrial Design Engineering department, Royal College of Art. Interesting Video!

Adam Haynes (Post #11821) just released a print over at POVeditions.com - Thanks to NOTCOT for introducing us to his work! We invited him to our print project after his worked was submitted here.

Mark Boyce's interesting new book, Sizes May Vary. The book references the varying standardized formats and systems used within graphic design and is part sketchbook, part reference book and part notebook.

Steed Griffin's "Lesser-known polygons No. 13" is just one of a few fun gocco prints from his flickr photo stream. Love the mixture of art and geometry.

iPhoneModem.app provides the easiest and safest way to use your iPhone as a modem to connect your Mac to the internet.

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

Awesome move by HP ~ decreasing packaging by 97% by packaging their new Pavilion dv692 laptops for walmart and sam's club in recycled messenger bags... which is awesome unless the bags go to waste?

Marithé + François Girbaud kill & bury snowman in their new "no more seasons" ad campaign by La chose ad agency, France.

These fantastic lightpainting photos are by artist Andy Hill, who makes and sells retro sci-fi Saucerbots made from LED lights, leftover CDs, DVDs and hard drive platters.

The Chaise Longue CL 2 from the series Future Furniture shows a simple, friendly seating, the equally reflects stability and comfort.

Super cute lego emoti-bots made from scraps ~ by Jayfo'

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

Kevin Cyr paints incredibly detailed portraits of delivery vehicles and reminds us to look for beauty in the most mundane places.

Pierluigi Piu ~ awesome Escher-esque fish wallpaper

Greece is having a Green Design Festival in Athens

The evening of September 6th will see nearly 20 Los Angeles galleries open with new shows... thats in Chinatown alone... POVevolving Gallery celebrates the new 'art season' with a show called "The Awesomist Tomorrow" by Kiel Johnson.

The Portuguese cork industry has begun an ad campaign designed to argue for the greenness of corks versus screwcaps. Screwcaps are plastic, industry, CO2 emissions, etc.. Cork is natural!
Save the Forest!! Join this cause.

Guerlain Meteorites Illuminating Pressed Powder ~ beautiful packaging and power pressing

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.

More than just a striking façade, this building’s hexagonal curtain is based upon climate modeling and serves to regulate the structure’s temperature and daylight by varying the size of each cell’s window.

The coolest modern Nixie clocks on the market as well as a little background about Nixie tubes and how they work.

Japanese shop "h concept" has these adorable animal book indexers for sale. They're a great way to add some life to drab shelves of documents.

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.

This Swiss goop ("Cyber Clean") is a viscous slime that you roll around on your keyboard, so that all the food particles and fingernail parings are swept away, while the germicidal surface de-germifies your icky, filthy, disgusting keyboard.

Feist on Sesame Street!

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.

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

You may have seen the emoticon book - here is another great experiment here by designer/artist Allison Wilton. These books are all about the presence of spam in your inbox!

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.

new eco design housing building in mexico city by Taller 13

School Canteen at Póvoa de Varzim by Cadilhe & Fontoura - The new cafateria of the Primary School nº1 in Póvoa de Varzim is a curved volume next to the old bluilding asuming his own autonomy

Iannone's new cork mosaic credenza was a green hit at ICFF 2008

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