Tinker Hatfield, Nike's Architect. great interview that explains Renzo Piano's intent in designing the Pompidou Centre and direct relation to designing Nike's iconic sneaker, The Air Max [video!]

Scrap Lights by Graypants are not only beautiful, they're sustainably made from twice recycled cardboard.

Opera singer Leslie Garrett was hoisted above the Tower of London via a crane where she performed for a small audience to promote the English National Opera. The stunt was organized by Sky Arts TV channel.

The form of this 1700-square-foot house by John Donkin derives from three specific client requirements: a garden, a visitors' apartment, and a strong street presence. Done!

Really cool new feature was just added to Nike iD - Photo iD. Take a pictures with your phone, send it via MMS to Nike iD and use the colors from the photo on your customized Nike sneakers. Nice fusion of design and technology!

A finely crafted Fabergé Buddha made from bowenite which was previously owned by billionaire shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis. Soon to be up for auction - estimate of £350,000.

Formatmag.com releases over 70 new wallpapers with the Sneaker Wallpapers II Collection and the Issue 40 Anniversary Collection.

The desire to interfere as little as possible with the visual topography of the landscape prompted to attach the house to the ground and find façade and roof solutions with a direct relationship to the surroundings. OS House by NOLASTER

MOTHER'S DAY is Sunday! I just panicked, but Delight saved me, and has extended a discount for you guys as well ~ with their gorgeous gift wrapping, and great service, i totally trust them for mom gifts.

Astronomy picture of the day, simple website but often very impressive. This is the Cat's Eye Nebula, over half a light-year across. Picture of the day at 2008 March 22.

Arkitekhus is a firm building and selling houses designed by some well-known Swedish architects - Thomas Sandell, Claesson Koivisto Rune, Gert Wingårdh, and Tham & Videgård Hansson. Gorgeous stuff.

Projekt0 - Growth of cubic bacteria

"Drawing Room" is an awesome new spot for the Playstation Network from Terry Hall and the Love Commercial Production Company.

Interactive game for Honda Motorcycles using Sudden Motion Sensor on Macbooks. Currently only the VIDEO is out, but the beta is soon be released

"Nudist Typeface" from UK designer Craig Oldham. Notice the pixellated naughty bits!

Ever wonder how those cement rings are made? 22 design studio sent designboom a few behind the scene snapshots

Seeing this pencil sharpener at the MoMa store makes me want to pull out all the odd sizes pencils around... and start sketching? and coloring? and sharpening!

Boucheron have celebrated their 150th anniversary by making a necklace out of real chocolate which features a 20.08 carat yellow diamond on it.

Elegant and inspiriting underwater photography from Zena Holloway.

Orphaned hedgehogs adopt cleaning brush as their mother

Black messenger bags that are sleekly designed and ridiculously packed with features! Latest ones coming from Incase ~ with "faux fur lining", removable laptop sleeves, molded skate bumpers and more.

Nordstrom and Ruben Toledo teamed up for an incredible Spring campaign ~ much like prada they did painted walls (and models!) for the backdrop in a playful black and white.

This spinning dot-matrix printer sprays inkjet messages on ping pong balls. Did I happen to mention that they're used as ammunition for a giant ping pong ball firing robot?

Cool wooden bed designed by a swiss architect. The Elements of this bed can be joined together without any tools. Very nice...

Romanywg's white BEAThovens... a bit silly to put ipod/headphones on a deaf musician... unless you could dock yours and music would come out! (Which it doesnt)

from web zen - A lego guitar... but it actually works!

Nice dutch IKEA campaig. You can playfully reorganize your livingroom over and over again. Be sure to download the catchy hussel-song !

Mortified, website dedicated to the utter humiliations of our youth as told by our adult selves. pictures, videos, and much more... updated by the general public and those part of their comedy touring type group.

Paul the Wine Guy's Art For Geeks is a flickr set of fine art photos with computer and tech language atop them to help explain it to those who are left-brained. Clever and fun.

Another great structure by Kamil Mrva Architects. Raw concrete blocks, wooden paneling and glass with aluminium frames make up this house in the middle of an ancient orchard.

Oh Diesel Sweeties, my mail auto completes me too.... and on cute possible vday gifts : limited run of 50 wooden pixel hearts (such a nice fusion of the digital and physical)

The Korean artist Kim Joon has superb work of body paint using the human body as a canvas for a brilliant 3D effect.

New set of Photoshop brushes by Departika titled Beautiful Bugger, is now up for grabs.

A medal/pin to "celebrate the memories of endless epic battles, infinite high scores and numerous blistered fingers." Console Wars I pin by Super Mandolini

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.

Mercat Restaurant in Santiago de Chile, by 01ARQ. A reconversion of a 60s house, organized around a glass strip envolving the central patio.

Yujin Kaomoji ~ crazy japanese creatures that are typographic creations - part ascii art, part emoticon...

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.

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.