Very funny, spot-on parody of financial services-type advertising. [Editor's Note: this makes me want ribs...]

Architectural and design photographer Jeff Herron documented the new KNOLL showroom in downtown Miami.

World Class Gyms in Stockholm, Sweden used a several caricature artists in various places and offered free portraits to passersby. What they got back is what they might look like if they really used the facilities at the new gym.

YouTube has launched “The Screening Room”, which is a platform for short films from around the world to find the audiences they deserve.

PaperMonster’s work is based around women in various states of shock, fear, or wonder. Every canvas is its own story.

Lebron James teams with Ralph Lauren’s Purple Label Division on this limited edition signed basketball. 100% of net proceeds will benefit the LeBron James Family Foundation.

Typography and design experiments by brazilian art director Tiago Marcondes.

Squeezing out a space for a car on a tiny land is one of the most important tasks when designing a house in urban Japan. A nice design by Akira Yoneda.

Sneak Preview of BACKYARD: Pancho Tolchinsky and Catalina Estrada ~ Cati's mesmerizingly beautiful digital illustrations layered on the backyard photography of Pancho are just magical!

Véra Nováková creates metal jewelry with an organic feel - fingerprints, wood grains, etc are imprinted into her pieces.

Since they are constantly exposed to the sun, solar power satellites could provide the earth with a continuous stream of 5-10 gigawatts of energy each.

Interview with Dyna Moe, the woman behind the popular MAD MEN desktop & iphone wallpapers, prints, & icon sets.

Police in Mexico find private zoo at drug cartel's party house - from panthers to albino tigers to lions ~ they certainly looked like they were living a luxurious lifestyle... check out the slideshow

New installation from James Jarvis at Nike London.

Eduardo Berlin Razmilic's House 2 in Santiago, Chile. The house is excavated into the site, with the main facade appearing to be only 11.5 feet above street level.

Illustrations by Jim Mahfood

Anna Geslev studio came up with a fun and colorful project for igloo ice cream.

I am digging the very simple packaging by Due Mani Non Bastano for Pandora Design's cutlery (post 6429).

natural urbano, mexican designer, shows us granizo (hail) amazing table/sculpture

The Minox Agent M DSC DigitalSpyCam is a tiny digital camera - only 3.14" x 1.14" x 0.79". At 5 megapixels, it's a good little portable camera.

It's oyster eating season! Raw, fried, or smoked it all adds up to delicious. This Wellfleet Oyster Print honors this tasty time of year.

Great branding and packaging of McCraw's Confections by Craig Skinner.

City Escape illustration by Rozefire.

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.