The Maniac by crazy French artist SKWAK has just been released as a vinyl figure.

Designed by Sofie Collin & Gustav Lanberg the Carpet Alarm Clock requires a little stomping to shut it off.

NOTCOT for Aural NY : we designed the boxes and colors for their latest line of headphones... the green is my favorite... and maybe the black & white too.

The Dog Cage. A great design to replace the usual, ugly crate. Designed by Peter F. Pracilio for Design GO!

The new Star Wars Mimobots- four awesome designs in 1, 2, and 4GB. [Editor's Note: we show mimobots a bit ~ but this guy's got some nice hands on pics]

Creative piece. Small but funny idea. Global warming action by Instituto Akatu. Miniatures of famous monuments were placed inside large aquariums scattered throughout the city, alerting for problems with global warming.

I couldn't resist a smile after reading about these East/West Coasters in ReadyMade magazine.

Lettermade: This ongoing project, started in 1998, is aimed at documenting, appreciating, and recontextualizing our vernacular letterforms and typography.

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

The Ring - Porcelain fruit dispenser designed by Joung Myung Lee from Germany

The Pixelator aims to turn those ugly, blinding video billboard ads into art. It's an unauthorized on-going video art performance collaboration with the NYC MTA, Clear Channel, and selected artists.

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

now that is a sweet attic.

There aren't THAT many things to use your MacBook Pro ExpressCard/34 slot for - but the SiK rex - Remote Control for Apple MacBook Pro, iPod Universal Dock, Apple TV, Front Row, iPod Hi-Fi ~ is a smart idea!

Madeleine & Dudley of Amazed ltd make conceptual rugs and wall hangings that are wonderful!

For all the pictures from the Heart Throb opening at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery ~ featuring the works of Miss Van and Junko Mizuno

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

A plume explodes on Jupiter's moon Io. A reminder that sometimes the greatest of design can be found in the most natural of spontaneity...

Wii Weights: Part two. More details of the Wii Weights.

Vday is tough to shop for... great graphic design + a little shopping advice from some damnm cute puppies over at Untangled Life will set you straight...

The Island of California and other cartographic oddities, real or imagined, can be found on Strange Maps

Very fun shirt design at Pampling (spanish threadless?) by Alicia de G. Bousquet ~ love the negative space...

Late Sunday night, three 12 students, not content with the perceived negativity of Hurry Up, sneaked into Wieden+Kennedy Portland to change the message. For one day only.

"Blogito, ergo sum" - *sigh* for all you latin lovers ~ Caroline's post at Crave is a worth the read ~ aeneid and cicero references and all. Was Cicero a proto-blogger?

Demeter Fragrance library offers product in scents as common as lavender and rose, to scents as off beat as play-doh and rye bread. [Editor's note - i guess snow scents might be amusing here in LA]

Found via the b3ta.com best of the board, It's a Sanitary Owl by the talented Phillip Blackman creator of biro-art.com. Terrible pun well executed.

Recycled textile handbags by Luisa Cevese, for the list :-)

another of my favs from this week's slideshow is this couch. houndstoothy patterns seem to be really trendy and this couch is just the right combination of frumpy and fun.

Oooh. Hot Tip over at Josh Spear - apparently "rumor has it that tonight GM's Vice President of Global Design, Ed Welburn will join Jay Leno to unveil their extremely confidential car design collaboration."

The Bootbag, designed by Saskia Marcotti. Only $77.00. Or, as swissmiss suggests, "DIY!"

Had to post this other design by Ramon Middelkoop. The ASPAK was designed to prevent smokers from tossing their cigarette butts into the street.

Oh SwissMiss, you find the funniest things! Miles Burke's Web 2.0 Color Palette, even has a zip of a Photoshop Color Palette.... now where are the paint swatches? LOVE the naming.

'float' designed by todd macallen and stephanie forsythe for molo design of canada. Beautiful glass dish by the ones who brought you those floating glasses.

WHAT? .org is so not targeting underaged kids.

digging through notcot archives - i forgot how awesome this music vid is

Beautiful images of the sun, taken from the TRACE
(Transition Region And Coronal Explorer) probe

CARBON FIBER! Bracelets and rings =)

Also from ANGRY - go to goodies - look at the scales - they have one that weighs you in ANIMALS and another in CELEBS!

harry potter band - its emo-wizard-punk?

TEN4 - a new west midlands creative mag - its apparently free and quarterly - RUGENIUS GET ME ONE. please.

glass heaters - embedded heating in glass panes - use for home or balconies/etc?

aaaaaaargh showertime.

This faceted box is actually a communal center, located in Albertslund, Denmark. It includes the regular: kitchen, auditorium, multipurpose area.. but also a skateboarding ramp and a climbing wall. All in the same box. By Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter.

Love, love, love this redesign of Nestea Ice tea done by graphic designer Bob Dinetz.

A small rural hotel buried in Felgueiras, Portugal. The rooms have a good space and views. I like the red pigmented concrete finish.

If you don’t believe in Denmark, Gravity or that FiberOne products are high in fiber simply because they taste great- then you might suffer from I.D.S. Very funny well produced site by Publicis Modem New York.