the counterpart to John McCain is Your Jalopy: Sarah Palin is Your New Bicycle's Flat Tire

Akira Sakamoto is known for his clean and modern design. But that's not all...

This is the new website of SPEEDISM, an architectural duo from Belgium and Germany. like the pictures.

Urban Street Art, from Madrid.

um...craziness! Coll-Barreu Arquitectos' Basque Health Department Headquarters in Bilbao. Turns out that crazy facade is really just a skin over a much more regular building - check out the night photos to see.

Rebecca Rothfus draws utility landscapes. The quietness of the line drawings and the muted colors are very nice!

Designed by Fabric, "Perpetual Sunshine" uses a wall of glowing infared bulbs to imitate the exact temperatures and intensity of light from tropical locations around the world.

With the ban on high rise buildings on Paris gone, Herzog & de Meuron designed one of the tallest structures for the french capital, a 180m tall pyramid. The 50 stories tall tower will open in 2014.

Adorable! Speechless! Breathtaking!! A poster by Paul Grabowski for the Type Directors 54th TDC Show. Also see the ornamental type examples.

Swims City Slippers ~ new galoshes to protect heels... coolest part? The soles! Maps of Tokyo, NY, Paris on them... see the larger pics!

Gorgeous Arctic/Alaskan photography by Corey Arnold.

The Campanas brothers were selected as Design Miami’s 2008 Designers of the Year. The honor comes the commission of designing next year's VIP lounge. Rumor has it that their Ttransplastic series (above) will be the starting point for the designs.

American Express brings new roots to Boston.

For everyone who is planning on watching the debate tonight...

The Cluster table light is hand-blown in Brooklyn and measures 40cm in diameter. Designed by Lindsey Adelman.

Show your OBAMA love by sporting an OBAMA BAGGU! $10 each, and all profits are donated to the campaign. Chocolate is my favorite.

Modern glass tiles made from almost 100% recycled material. Check out the patterns and color palettes.

Samantha Hahn photographed Tadashi Kawamata's installation in NYC's Madison Square Park- “Tree Huts", which "seeks to explore the architecture of shelter and the idea of placing what is decidedly a private place, a home, into a public space.”

Wolfie & the Sneak just released Peer, a limited edition coloring book with illustrations from 25 different artists, including Kelly Lynn Jones, One Good Bumblebee, Julia Rothman, Camilla Engman, Bonnie Rue, and Sub-Studio (that's us!)

Brodie Neill's Skl Lounge - a gorgeous, low riding white lounge with a red interior.

The Hawke building by Melbourne architect John Wardle. One of three landmark buildings he designed for the University of South Australia.

Walkthrough on how to make a balsa wood model of a Canon dSLR

Take a look back at Google in January 2001!! It's Google's 10th birthday and they are binging back their oldest available index!

Residence Schnitzer-Bruch, Mühlgraben - Austria / maaars architektur

Awesome vintage olympics posters from Munich 1972 ~ love the fencing one!

Squidfingers, the portfolio of Travis Beckham, has a beautiful gallery of patterns— 158 patterns, currently— great for tiled website backgrounds.

Mies once said: "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together". This argentinian office buildings puts together bricks in an innovative way on the facade.

40 men re imagine and redesign New York's subway map to awesome ends!

Really fun set of notecards with retro chair illustrations by Leah Ammerman...

The first website dedicated for HOLGAmaniacs at PTY (PANAMA CITY, PANAMA)

MR. LONG LEGS | The Mr. Hyde production company directed this feel-good spot for the Royal Bank of Canada and agency BBDO Toronto...

As a part of the "X days project", the "334" bench is made of three parallel bars of metal and 334 old newspapers folded and stacked next to each other.

Psyop goes tiny in this new Sprint spot... managed to create a believable football stadium - at the scale of a mobile phone... created by Goodby, Silverstein + Partners...

The counterpart of Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle. Meet John McCain Is Your Jalopy.

Homer Simpson will experience some trouble with the design of the voting machines in the upcoming "Treehouse of Horror" episode which timely airs two days before the U.S. Presidential Election...

Hercules - great "classic" seating designed by FAT

An amazing concrete house in Kohoku, Japan by Torafu architects. The interior space it´s amazing, thanks to the dramatic skylights that shape the house.

Rollout's latest custom wallpaper is Bollywood on Acid. Two beautiful designs for the restrooms in a contemporary Indian restuarant named Mango Shiva in calgary.

Apparat for Baccarat by 5.5 Designers

Another giant Banksy Rat in SoHo was put up today

Lula Dot's CAPtivate lamp recycles old bottles and their caps to make this beautiful fixture.

ROCKNUDE : naked women in nature with a "predator" effect, everything is invisible but the hair. Use your imagination for the rest.

Opened in August this year, Hotel Habita Monterrey strikes with captivating architectural desicions by Agustin Landa and interior design by Joseph Dirand

Audubon Soda Bottle Bird Feeder - 1984, Norman Earl invented the Soda Bottle Bird Feeder, a sturdy cast zinc adaptor that converts any plastic two-liter bottle into an economical feeder. Only $15! at DWR