The Xi Gallery by Mass Studies has some intense ground plane manipulations going on. Even though the ceiling and floor move around an incredible amount, through the surfacing and material choices, the two always read as surface and almost never as thickness.

Neiman Marcus Christmas book! Limited-Edition Fighter Motorcycle Price $110,000.00

The Michael Schumacher World Champion Tower in Dubai is the first of a series of branded towers by PNYG:COMPANY and LAVA Architects.

Art by Kyle T. Webster Illustrator, with a lot of music influence! really nice draw about music

Vienna beat the Guinness Book of Records for the tallest Lego tower in history, 96.7 feet tall. The tower was constructed by hundreds of children outside Vienna's city hall. I like the Lego construction gear.

Imagine if Mother Teresa and James Dean got together, This site explores that and more hypothetical partnerships. Its design is gorgeous and has an innovative online art piece too

Selected photos from Yann Arthus-Bertrand's amazing Earth from Above project, coming in exhibition form to NYC in 2009.

There's always been something so nice about little leather shaman like pouches ~ "We The Free Vision Quest Key Chain" from Free People would make fun stocking stuffers!

Sophie Nova's bean bag like bookends that are featured in Domino are adorable, and such a nice wat to mix up the usual stiff bookends with these soft golden pieces.

Chilean architectural practice oficina de arquitectura designed this modular hexagonal canopy/furniture system for public spaces. It overlooks the Pacific ocean in Chile.

Attractive forms for Patricia Urquiola's Lazy seating collection for B&B Italia.

Ghost Inc. is a new bar arriving in London this week which aims to bring back the classic 'cocktail bar', but this time in the guise of a dark, gothic chamber with graffiti adorning the walls......

An amazingly complex, completely mechanical calculator built in the rag doll physics game "Little Big Planet" for the PS3. I wanna know how long this took to make.

Lego Font Creator - The irresistible logic of the Lego brick prompted Lineto to start thinking about how fonts could be shown in an interactive type specimen, offering ways to play with it online.

Artist Laura Gilbert was standing in front of the New York Stock exchange today---passing out "zero" dollar bills...

Freddy and Ma have some super cute VOTE totes with a 60's typography vibe ~ also check out the democrat, republican, and obama ones!

“…fascinating, enigmatic…Ralph Heimans's portrait of Mary is a study in ambiguity, a symphony of shadows.”

Census - Signed and numbered (to 75) 3-color letterpress print edition by Dan Funderburgh. Proceeds from this print will be donated to the Obama Campaign.

Mazda's new Kiyora vehicle features a liquid display system, slick curves and solar panels, and is also capable of capturing and purifying rain as it falls from the sky.

People have said we show too much obama design here ~ well here's a McCain sticker that was kind of fun ~ cute retro elephant!

Ruby Blues builds war horses and other outlandish machines from scrap metal with her boyfriend Joe Rush of the legendary Mutoid Waste Co.

New Beautiful Giclee prints from Guy Mckinleys new show the "Tick and The Tock of Miss. Betty Pea" printed on acid free 308 gsm Hahnemuhle photo rag with printed using archival inks.

Incase Nylon Messenger Bag ~ finally i found out what "plush faux fur" is ~ and it really does protect your laptop and iPhone from scratches (maybe even helps polish it up) ~ see close ups of the details!

Beautiful illustrations by Karen Petrasko.

Sumo Paint: Photoshop clone that works in your browser! Via swissmiss

Brooklyn based José Parlá is set to open his highly anticipated first solo show at the Elms Lesters Painting Rooms (his representing gallery in the UK) on the 10th October.

New fil for Mastercard's "Priceless" campaign.
From McCann NY

Alessi - zucch sugar castor by lisa vincitorio for alessi

wow...amazing, crazy balloon sculptures by Jason Hackenwerth depicting organisms, sea creatures and imaginary monsters.

Thursday saw the doors of Black Rat Press open up for the private view of the new D*Face show entitled “aPOPcalypse Now”

Celine Wright's Lampe O's look like suspended paper bags.

Ivo Vos celebrate the mundane and our neuroses with their Brunch series of consumer products - a bread slicer that allows precision slicing, a toaster that allows you to set the angle for a precise toast catapult to your plate...and more!

Ooooh RayD8 my favorite little glow in the dark mimobot is back in a special colorway for halloween, and limited to 200 8gig pieces!

Emma Smart's D&AD ASDA Lunchboxes - I like the use of the interior of the box to create the sense of a more proper meal.

Max Kerning ~ i actually found this through our own ads, but couldn't stop laughing at how serious this "Max Kerning" is about his type, rambling on about how "clean type is godly type"... hehe

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.

Every item from Zoe Murphy's collection is hand-crafted and unique. By re-working and upcycling mid 20th century furniture Zoe offers a new lease of life to these otherwise forgotten gems.

Veuve Clicquot's Champagne Labels, one of every variation since the 1800's lives in a little book in the VCP Maison de Patrimoine (incredible historical archives) ~ see images of the labels and the space!

Muji is opening MUJI to GO at JFK airport on 10/22 - the first in the USA. The store will offer over 300 household items and 80 apparel items.

Michael Bierut designed a poster for the Democrats’ Artists for Obama initiative. The 40 × 26 inch poster features a new name for each of the fifty states, each set in a bright color in the candidate’s now familiar Gotham typeface.

In celebration of its 20th anniversary in October, Martin Margiela is part of a new exhibition showing this month in Antwerp. The exhibit focuses on the subversive design aesthetic which sets Margiela in a class by itself.

Grenade Art have invited US graffiti artist Revok for a show at their Kensington home from October 16 - November 20. After the jump check out a few examples of what this talented chap is capable of.

Tokyo-based architect Keiichi Irie does with a color in mind.

Appealing (and very complex) information graphic designed by Pablo Thomas, a former student of the design program I'm currently attending in Seattle.