Here's a nice dose of inspiration for the day ~ the TED Talk with JJ Abrams ~ who knew the man behind lost/alias was a complete packaging/box geek? And his thoughts on the "mystery box" are a must watch vid...

a new action in the city - "this is not an artwork" by xyz

honorable mention at Re-invent competition...design by Francesca Delvigo&Tommaso Ceschi

Glänta is a lamp designed by Johan Carpner. It's 1 meter and diameter and weighs in at 20 kg. It makes me want a bigger apartment so I had room to hang it.

Сampaign for a McDonald’s burger called “Big ‘N’ Juicy”. To illustrate its size, we produced huge serviettes and serviette dispensers and placed them at a couple of places in Stockholm.

Great, playful, logo and mascot for Poky by Tak! More companies should use clay figures as mascots...

Rebellion during the Islamic Revolution. Marjane Satrapi's feature-length animation is going to be a treat... PERSEPOLIS opens LA/NY December 25th.

WiiLightsaber!!! aka "Wii Light Sword"

I Killed Adolf Hitler, a brilliant new graphic novel by Jason, from Fantagraphics, of course

4 different kitchen herbs on your dining table! The individual vases represent different cultures forming something nice together.

Beautiful severed head sculptures made of felt! Adam Parker Smith's "Bold As Love" Exhibition happening in NYC right now until January 19th.

An exclusive limited edition print of 40 by Brooklyn based artist,Caroline Hwang.

EnergyPod is a room within a room. It creates a semi-private acoustical and visual environments for people who are tired at work

the Hono light by Japanese brand Metaphys is ignited by touching it with a magnetic match and extinguished by blowing on it. The LED light source even flickers like a real candle.

The future looks grand. Bring DoubleButter's rogue benches to your town. Roadrunner Bench!

Oh Joy! Has launched her store ~ Nantaka Joy, and she has some adorable cards and notebooks... "you're pretty awesome"

Sure, self sufficient houses are a dime-a-dozen these days, but I've yet to see one this architecturally stunning both inside and out. The zeroHouse from Specht Harpman.

The Grand National Teathre in Beijing China. A giante titanium egg right next to Tiananmen Square becomes a new icon for the city, along with several building opening before the 2008 Olympics.

Also designed Busy Beaver buttons the BEST packing tape ever.... you give them all hair cuts when you cut the package open!

Medical infographic works from Bryan Christie.

Wrangler created a Parisian "Ice Invasion" happening by freezing their jeans inside giant ice cubes located on the sidewalks.

Rocket World's Creature Hoodie is a limited edition whose partial proceeds go to the select Wildlife groups. And, it's adorable!

An installation of hollow fleece cubes...and a lot of tension. "Existing Independently" by visual artist R. Justin Stewart.

Finally! A Digital Pencil for touchpads - "Made from a super special space age silicone material that exactly mimics the electrical resistance and supplety of a human finger" (esp for people with long nails and iphones?) SUCK UK

The fish light. designed by j.parker 2005 for Esque in blue+white, round or square 24"to 28"

Remember the Simpsons go to Paris spread? Well its up gallery style at Colette, and the designers themselves even showed up in matching outfits.

The Puma Urban Mobility line make some great use of wood in the sleek designs... even a belt you don't have to take off for the airport... and an NSFW collab film to go with the folding bike as well...

Great work by brazilian designer and fashion star Mauro Ramalho. Everything looks sweet and the video explanations are a cool touch. Check it out!

Skull-a-Day: Designer Noah Scalin promises to design and blogs a skull every day for a year.

Awesome retro transformers watch ~ where he really pops off the watch!

Alain Delorme's photographic series LITTLE DOLLS emulates that creepy baby beauty pageant Barbie look perfectly.

Hawkes Bay artist Ben Pearce is currently exhibiting at butterfly net. He's doing what we all wish we could do and turning his thoughts as a child into reality as an adult.

WallDesign offers collections to manipulate and sort out. To create a unique mural pattern, each assemblage is a personal jigsaw of drawings and colors.

32 Originals is the BMW America's Cup Sail auction. Pieces of the Sails are cut up, framed, and signed, the proceeds going to charity

Attus Apparel has a hilarious new photoshoot of grown men playing... Candyland? All while wearing their signature polos.

So Watt! is a design exhibition in Paris focusing on energy. A lot of the designs have been seen on .org before but it's nice so see all of them in one place.

Check out Mixko at the Designboom Mart. Butterflies, skulls, pigeons, and more fun at ICFF.

Blood puddle pillows. By Keetra Dean Dixon. Lots and lots of other fun projects on her site.

Freebase Pancakes ~ is the culinary world ready? Incredible image set... can't stop laughing.

La casa sull'albero is group of italian architects which features some well designed treehouses in his portfolio.

Rektor has teamed up with Agens, a scandinavian flash design bureau, in order to present the world´s first playable online music video. “Princess” is a completely new way to promote a single.

WOW. Vaja Cases launches the i-Volution line for 15" Mac Book Pros... beautiful Argentinean leather, in the color combos of your choice.

The Object Frames, designed by Steven Haulenbeek are the illegitimate children of a Picture frame and a shelf.

great laser cut skatedecks from refill seven.

Sketchfighter is a game designed to look just like those little doodles of spaceships you used to make in the margins of your notebooks in school. Brilliant!

Ethics Girl : Higher Quality, Lower Impact. Great new tee from the environmentally conscious, Howies*.