Streetwear brand XLarge gets together with Citizen and Takashi Murakami to produce a watch, featuring lots of artwork by the artist.

Escape the stress of the ensuing RECESSION.
Some clever marketing... RECESS IS ON!

container culture products still goes on from a2591. Latest design thing is a container icon set. 40 container icons, Leopard & vista supported. Of course free of charge, download it, use it, share it.

The Zobin Concept is a design study of a single-seater aerodynamic sportscar inspired by Ferrari Formula 1 cars. The author is Iranian engineer Siamak Ruhi Dehkordi.

An infographical video created for the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF), which highlights some of the complex issues surrounding the future of food in Japan.

Beautiful time lapse video of the installation of the ongoing Rug Company exhibition "Demons, Yarns, and Tales" at The Dairy in London.

This beautiful leaf-shaped house was designed by Mareines + Patalano in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

This bright and beautiful Chestnut House by LPA Architects is a gorgeous example of energy efficient green architecture .

"Playing with Myself" - beautiful new works in oil from London based artist Sonia Blair. A personal exploration of childhood fables.

Dan Tobin Smith and Kilimanjaro magazine do terrible things to teddy bears in the magazine's new issue – as this amazing film reveals.

Big on efficiency, style and performance the Audi A1 Sportback Plug-in Electric Hybrid goes 0 to 62mph in 7.9 seconds with a top speed of 124mph all the while getting 72.4 mpg!

'Sky Village' by MVRDV Architects has won the competition for a new skyscraper in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Water Thinking. Mini pays its tribute to water.

Exclusive first look at the lustworthy Asus Eee PC S101 #15328 that ships Nov 1 ~ and they got creative on the packaging, where the cables are hidden! The eee looks really thin and gorgeous too!

6 West Design created this bottle for USB wine - due to TTB/Cola regulations, new wineries can't use the term "Port" (to protect Portugal's geographic indication). The packaging playfully incorporates words that imply the missing word (im____ant).

Art House is doing another Sketchbook Project. However, this time they're taking it on tour to different galleries in six cities across the United States! Sign ups are currently open to participate.

The Louis XV Commode by Axis FormLAB is a twist on the traditional chest of drawers. It comes in three variations - plywood, mdf and acrylic. The acrylic one would be my choice since the commode would essentially read as a line drawing.

the BBCs coverage of banksy's village pet shop.

The Studio Monte Rosa alpine retreat calls to mind classic James Bond architecture, complete with a futuristic design, advanced building technology, and killer views of the Matterhorn.

Incredible forum thread of images of disassembled Canon lenses

Knoend's Lite2go eliminates packaging waste by making the lamp shade itself the packaging.

Craig Shields a designer i been following on Depthcore for a long time now, Launched in 2007, Surpy.co.uk serves as the digital portfolio & showcase for this young aspiring illustrator from the UK.

Vote for the 10 Most Influential Design Bloggers ~ last year we were lucky enough to be 8th ~ feel nice? show some love and vote?

Taga Convertible Bicycle, a more modern take on the European baby carrier bicycle.

Arkitip + Incase (limited edition boxes) + Ryan McGinness?!?!?! Signed and numbered edition of 2000 ~ issue number 48 is a must have!

Fun portfolio of Schtock

Nacionale is the portfolio of freelance designer/illustrator Doug Alves. Born in Sou Paulo, Brazil.

Antec's new Skeleton Case ~ is pretty much as barebones as you can get! And gorgeous design as well...

The Monolito at the Foro Italico in Roma, a single block of Carrara marble 17.4 meters high, shines again in the sunset light after an endless restoration.

The water that drops from a roof when raining inspired Nur Alam for this chair / bench. He got the idea when sitting in his room once and staring at the poring rain outside.

Project: Iceland is the first showcase of contemporary Icelandic art, fashion and musical talent and gives significant insight into this outstanding creative community.

How to Cool a Planet: Futuristic ways to fight against the global warming. (NY Times old issue - 2006 - but worth reading!) Click to see the full graphic!

New blog started by Jason Gabbert that focuses on beautiful book cover design. Every Monday he features a new designer and book cover design, and goes behind the scenes with discussions about process.

The Super Genintari! This behemoth of a console brings the Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Genesis together at long last. I love the Pacman power button. Designed and built by Richard DaLuz.

TOUCH WALL PANELS: Thermosensitive modular wall panels that shift color in response to body heat.

Love the illustrative work of Ryan McLennan. His website is full of goodness.

Awesome updated portfolio of Studio Mopa

I wish all my outlets fit three! Leviton's AC320-W.

Artist Andrew Wilson's contribution to Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier's gallery show at 1988, "Crazy 4 Cult," showcasing a multitude of characters from cult movies.

Love this - D-Vision created the Small Apple Dish to aesthetically incorporate your apple core when you are done with it.

A hillside house in Ushimado, Japan by Tezuka Architects - the entire rear facade opens up via some sliding doors.

An amazing and nice portfolio of Beijing 2008 .

An original handpainted artwork with new Pritt correction roller.

In the final build-up to the opening of Beijing 2008, two wonderful and anticipated new TV spots - Coca Cola's "Bird's Nest Stadium" and Adidas' "Countdown" - were finally aired this week.

Lyle Owerko's photographs from The Boombox Project catalog the iconic, visually beautiful ghetto-blaster.

Chris Gilmour's cardboard version of Bond's Aston Martin is amazing. Includes front mounted machine guns, pop-out wheel blades, flip up stick shift eject button and more. Also check out Gilmour's cardboard safe and bicycle.