The Seoul Design Olympiad fuses together in 3-weeks a great mix of culture, architecture, graphic, culinary, product, industrial, fashion and textile design. Here are some highlights in photos...

Japanese brand Ambush presents the Beeeeethoven jewelry series. Hilarious!

The Big Picture covers World Animal Day. The narwhal is a crazy mammal.

Champion Graphics's cover design for a Monster Children notebook, produced by Penguin.

Cemal Okten's I ♥ VEGETABLES : Part IIA project - a project that explores our connection to food, desiring to bring the process of farming vegetables into the home. The final product is a selection of vases which support the growth of vegetables.

First REAL NOTCOT Video (in HD even)! We've seen the pics of Banksy's Village Petstore and Charcoal Grill, and some mediocre youtubes... since i couldn't go, we've commissioned Seth Brau to make a film to show us all the details and the full experience!

Lia Halloran- Photography exhibition at the Fredric Snitzer in Miami. The Light that is captured in the photograph, is the patterns she creates when she is skateboarding. Simply beautiful!

Bee Cool ~ a Liqurious Original by Anita ~ because we really are silly enough to take on a dare to invent a drink inspired by yogurt flavors.

The BMW Group is about to become the first manufacturer of premium automobiles to deploy a fleet of nearly 500 all electric vehicles for private use in daily traffic.

Moving forest.
By NL architets ... trees for everyone

JR - The French Master of Fashion Collage is bringing more than just AMAZING collage - He also offers the mp3 Soundtrack of EVERY single Runway Show

The new german design brand 'maigrau' offers their products via its brand new online shop ~ like this great coat rack!

The Car that Runs on Air and Magnets.

WTF? A green platypus tee... no clue why i'm wanting this tonight... also, i hadn't realized you can get Some eCards graphics on tees at busted tees!

New Synthesis reports on Visual Culture; design fashion art lifestyle interiors architecture technology innovation science ~ lots of links since

kokkugia is an international design practice based in london and new york that operates through design, research, experimentation and teaching.

Interesting travel hack: apparently packing a starter pistol in your luggage means you can lock it with a real lock and it might be tracked more closely by the airport. Could be worth a shot for those with a lot of gear.

Poster designs for the UK release of Oliver Stone's W., by Scott Woolston.

Nice teardown of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro by iFixit, who says "This may be the most beautiful laptop we've disassembled."

EDIN CROW: The New York based artist that has a well-known Disaster Series, a series of self-portrait photographs.

New Honda Accord spot from RPA and Motion Theory, showing how they put everything they know in one place.

NATHAN OTA has a new vinyl toy. His artwork transcends well to this platform. Incredible!

Dear friends, have a bit of fun with the latest collection of Tokyo Metro manner posters.

Ideographic Alphabet :Very specific chair with different letter form.

On notebooks and pens ~ here are some recent obsessions that came in the form of DWR Tools for Living Press Kit (best notebook!) and the Federated Media pen from the summit (it's a keeper too!)

Rapper.
Funny commercial from Fallon Mnneapolis for Hollyday Inn Express

The Wilson Bros. teams with Stussy on development of this limted edition white Brooks Swallow Saddle. The classic Swallow racer is treated with an excetional white leather finish. Imagine the patina on this saddle after a few months of use.

Beautiful stop motion animation using cut-out photos by Joseph Mann.

Kathleen Lolley - Solo exhibition at Art Star PA. Loving her dreamy worlds.

Tape Measure Project by Debbie Smyth - Incredible 3D geometric sculptures

Core77 highlighted the NEMO Recycled/sample tent pieces reusable bags

Men’s Vogue commissioned renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut to design this patriotic lapel pin. All proceeds benefit Dog Tags.

50 inspiring vintage advertisements

Gorgeous joints on the Mojo Dining Table by De Design Copenhagen

Nooka - trippy videos - The story unfolds as we fall through the universe and logic to discover time. Completely concepted, animated, directed and designed by yours truly.

Aveda Institutes Florida ~ fun look at the new building from sketches to final

Seoane has some beautiful tables ~ love the wood with a splash of color

Fun work of Layko

Animal Alphabet poster ~ Petit Collage, 2008 ~ Oakland, CA

Judy Hudson's Butterfly Necklaces at Barney's ~ i can't decide whether they are awesome b/c you can see the wings so beautifully, or if its grotesque like you ripped the arms off a butterfly...

Asako Narahashi: Kawaguchiko, 2003

HemeroscopiumHouse, Las Rozas- Madrid - Spain / Antón García- Abril - Ensamble Studio

1st the Water Cube in Bejing and now the Magic Box in Madrid. The size and scope of the retractable roofs are amazing!

The Urban Gridded Notebook - The modern city is controlled by the grid... we should not let it control our creativity. A blank notebook /sketchbook that is gridded with 125 cities from all around the world.