Rizon reminds us about what's important about the Olympics with their clever "Underground support" posters, sidestepping marketing rules and letting business show their support of sport, not sponsorship.

Inspired by sport, 78 creatives challenged the function of Nike shoes.

The Lonely City USB Hub designed by David Weeks Studio for Kikkerland.

iGNANTravel went to Hamburg and had coffee at Klippkroog, a beautiful cafe, offering a range of delicious products with ecologiacal awareness.

Charlotte Jarvis talks to Don't Panic about her latest bio-art project, for which she's encoded the Declaration of Human Rights into DNA and imprinted on 'contaminated' apples.

Zoomaderita symmetrical Wooden Animal Puzzles! Designed by Juan Pablo Quintero for MEDIOdesign.

The Kunsthof Passage in Dresden include the 'Court of Water' – contraption made with metal tubes and funnels that make music when it rains. Just one of three creative courtyard façades.

VIDEOArduino-Controlled Plotter Prototype from Pietro Leoni of Carlo Ratti Associati.

Beautiful transparent portraits from medical illustrator and animator Bryan Christie.

VIDEOFlikli captures the Olympics in 8-bit with their 6-Bit Games!

Gizmodo takes a look at the evolution of Apple's favorite typefaces...

Tombox, speakers made from recused discarded loudspeakers.

FEATUREDPencil-tip elephants, a Louis Vuitton waffle maker and Victorian optical toys are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOCloudy is the newest short by artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III of Friends With You. Warning...the song will get stuck in your head.

LeeLABS plays with tonal colored concrete, clocks tuned for chic to sleek interiors. These new Para Clocks are handmade in Brooklyn, digitally derived, mini structures based on radial patterns.

Gorgeous, graphically bold vintage modern arrow logo trademarks from the 1960s and 1970s. Above the BEBA building materials mark designed by Klaus Grözinger in Germany.

'De Markies' (The Awning) was an entry in the 1985 Temporary Living competition, conceived as a mobile home.

BMW announces the HP4, the lightest motorcycle to date in the 1000cc class.

Google Earth Engine is a planetary-scale platform for environmental data & analysis using years of satellite imagery. From the growth of Las Vegas to the deforestation of the Amazon, check out these time lapse videos.

Nice pattern on Blu Dot's new Hot Mesh Chair

The now 15 year old Coroflot creative job hunting/portfolio site we all grew up with from the Core77 family just got a makeover!

Torsten Ottesjö’s Hus-1, a 269 square foot house on the Swedish coast with an almost sculptural beauty.

Spoon & Tamago collaborate with Nao Matsumoto to create a limited edition set of middle finger candles. The candles were originally used to protest the use of nuclear energy in Japan on the anniversary of the tsunami.

The Kirchplatz Office and Residence by Oppenheim Architecture + Design and Swiss studio Huesler Architekten have created offices for themselves in an eighteenth century building in northern Switzerland.

Icecream meets neuroscience in this installation by jellymongers and food architects Bompas and Parr, where your surroundings change according to your reaction to what you're eating.

The Tamashii Chair by Anna Štěpánková.

Assembly by Kimchi and Chips is an installation of 5,500 physical pixels illuminated by digital projection.

London Style Guide By Saska Graville, review and peek inside from Holly Becker over at Decor8

VIDEOLight Form by Mathieu Rivier is a surface with multi-touch visualizations. The result is a simple, yet powerful interaction with the 3d surface.

Verbandkammer, a modular workspace/storage container by Nilsson Pflugfelder.

Thomas Heatherwick's London 2012 Olympic cauldron is made up from 204 individual copper petals, representing each competing nation.

Wood Tasting Spoon Set ~ Rosewood, coconut, mahogany and other woods make a stunning presentation as a set of six long-handled tasting spoons.

A look inside MoMA's new exhibition Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000.

IKEA SOCKER Greenhouse

Finnish Design Guide is Finnish Design Shop´s contribution to celebrate the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012

Andrew Lewicki's Louis Vuitton Waffle Maker (2012). Teflon coated aluminum, enamel on aluminum sheet, generic waffle maker parts

GIANT Googly Eyes!

Less Paul (2012) By Andrew Lewicki - baltic birch plywood, CDX plywood, hardboard, MDF, polystyrene, ABS, steel, various electric guitar parts

Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen launch a furniture collection. Clear-cut storage boxes, tables, racks and lamps that refer to – in their pure form – the work of Donald Judd and Bauhaus

FEATUREDBlackout at the Tate Modern! Exploring the surrealism galleries at the Tate by the light of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun, a solar powered lamp that brings light to those without a reliable source of electricity (and great excuse for light graffiti!).

French art director Alexis Persani and french photographer Leo Caillard created a series called 'Street Stone'. Persani used photoshop to digitally dress the statues in the latest fashion trends.

Have you ever cracked an egg on your household digital scanner? I did - and created an exhibition from it! Featuring artists from 15 countries SCAN.IT considers scanning an alternative to photography.

Upcoming launch of 3-D printed eyewear maker, Protos Eyewear.

Awesome posters from tiles by Stamen and OpenStreetMap data. You can generate one for any location - open street posters.

In Águeda, a small Portuguese town, some streets are decorated with colorful umbrellas that seem to magically float in mid-air, sheltering people on the streets below from the hot summer sun!

FEATUREDParaNorman box 18/49! First time having to exhume a ZOMBIE ~ see the full unboxing of this creature from the upcoming LAIKA film...

Applied Works web-based app for EDF shows how much energy is being used at London 2012 Olympic venues.

Outdoor Cutlery Knife by Sigg is an essential piece of equipment for campers, hikers and adventurers. Knife, fork and spoon, all in one.

The Canadian Agency NFOE and Associates Architects has its new offices in the heart of Old Montreal. The agency now occupies the first two floors of New York Life, the oldest skyscraper in the city.

Haley chair & barstool collection by Alexander Rehn.

VirusFonts launches a new Olympic pictogram series for London 2012, Olympukes 2.

Terada Mokei's 1/100 Architectural Model Series No.23 Competitive Swimming!

Twitty, an outdoor door handle by Tomo Kimura for Colombo Design.

Icon visits the shipyard of Italian speedboat-makers Riva Boats and muses on the relationship of art and luxury.

Fakro's new balcony windows function as windows and skylights that open to turn a loft space into a functional balcony.

The Last Elephant, a tiny elephant carved from the tip of a pencil by Diem Chau.

VIDEONike's 'Find Your Greatness' ad campaign is all about London, just not the one you might have in mind. Clever Olympic (yet non-Olympic) ad.

Sustainable Parisian Eco-House with flexible layout

FEATUREDEscape to Cocos Island, French alpine lakes and the rooftops of Chicago with this week’s roundup from NotVentures. To find out more about each destination, click on its individual image.

Nakamura Kengo's Speech Balloon T-shirts

Live HD webcam: brown bear & salmon cam - brooks falls

CAPSLs ~ interchangeable toys by Artist Jason Freeny ~ swap bases/bodies and stash your goodies inside!

Oscar Niemeyer's celebrated work has been translated into a series of limited edition 3D photographs. Get those red-and-blue glasses ready!

Habit is a new art piece by David Levine in New York City. Actors live in an installation of a working ranch house, performing a play on loop for 8 hours while the audience comes and goes.

The new 2013 Audi R8 has been unveiled with a host of minor aesthetic tweaks that add to the already stellar appearance of this supercar.

Paleys upon Pilers (palace on pillars) by Studio Weave sits atop the site of London's Aldgate.

Marble surfboards. The boards are carved from Portoro and Rosa Portogallo marble and were part of the Belgian Marbles show produced by the Reena Spaulings gallery.

Tiffany & Co. Looks for the Meaning of Love in Soho Street Art Installation

Shortlisted for the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture, the Casa Solare or Solar-Powered House at Vens, in Valle d’Aosta, is built of local wood and self-sufficient in energy.

Rosendahl Lemon Squeezer - a simple device!

Victoria & Albert Museum’s Survey of Olympics Posters Explores the Games as Nation-Branding

In the city of Luxembourg, the agency Metaform Architecture sign this building of 4 apartments. Dark monolith rising on four levels, it is distinguished from surrounding structures, both in its form and its materials.

The RBW Bar Kit from Rich Brilliant Willing contains glass dome, two drinking glasses, a marble millstone and an aluminum base with a wooden handle that also doubles as a muddler.

Fearon Hay's Island Retreat consists of an arrangement of freestanding structures around a sheltered central courtyard rests in a saddle above Matiatia Bay.

Novel Hospital Toys by Hikaru Imamura is a toy set consisting of models of machines found in the exam and surgery rooms. The toy set is designed to help explain difficult situations to children.

Portuguese architect Gabriela Gomes has designed a cloud-like two-person habitat that is sustainable as well as transportable, and rents out for 100 euros per night, inviting people to sleep in a sculpture in public spaces.

A cinematic journey where a man awakens to a world of origami creatures that come to life. Travel through the local lens of artist Stuart Langfield, in British Columbia.

Hello is a minimalist floor lamp designed by Sweden-based designer Jonas Wagell for Normann Copenhagen. Wagell’s design ideology is to focus on function rather that artistic endeavors.

VIDEOTime lapse of me customizing a munny [Editor's Note: Amazing what you can do with an x-acto knife]

TP2 radio dinamo plays music, generates energy. Interesting conceptual design project by Guillermo Callau.

The work of MAp-MAp is the underhanded creations of Matthew Plater.

VIDEOThe Associated Press brings robotic cameras to the 2012 London Olympics. Developed by Fabrizio Bensch and Pawel Kopczynski the 11 high-tech rigs will enable all new shots from this years games.

Member of creative collective 'Fais pas ci fais pas ça', the architect and interior designer Frédéric Saulou makes us discover his coffee table 'Cargo', the winning project VIA 2012.

Passionate about objects, Tim Molloy, Head of Creative Direction at the Science Museum, takes us on a treasure hunt through Brick Lane’s junk stores and into London’s iconic Science Museum after hours.

FEATUREDExploring the role of design in sport, and the relationship between design, performance and function. 'Designed the Win' opens today at London's Design Museum. Here's our preview of the exhibition!

London Galleries Go for Gold: 5 Must-See Olympics-Themed Exhibitions

Tattoo sketchbook - 100 pages of high quality, thick, matt paper. Every page is unique: arms, hands, back, belly and more (but no rude bits).

The treehouse-like Shelter of Nostalgia by Worapong Manupipatpong.

Global Feast, a pop up restaurant located in London's Stratford Town Hall.

VIDEOPopFab, a multi-tool for the 21st century consisting of is a computer-controlled motion platform and means of attaching various toolheads. By Ilan Moyer of MIT's Little Devices Lab and Nadya Peek of the school's Center for Bits and Atoms.

AGUA design's seed book notebooks remind us that we're all the curators of our observations and lives.

The Canadian graphic designer and video artist Suzanne Thoma and French architect Dominique Jobelot have imagined the installation 'The overthrow of the sky' for the 2012 Festival of Lively Architecture in Montpellier.

Fun illustrations from Laura Cattaneo (Halfpastwelve).

The Buijtenkitchen from Studio Elmo Vermijs, a mobile kitchen traveling in the outskirts of Rhoon is based on the old bakeryhouses where the wood stove is the base of the kitchen.

Great new stitched illustration from artist Peter Crawley, Order Chaos.

Teatum + Teatum's Hidden House is tucked away between existing buildings.

Big Head Squirrel Feeder!

Fascinating article on Victorian optical toys and the people who made them drawing from The Richard Balzer Collection.

Sushi Bazooka! Sushi made easy...you can now make restaurant-quality sushi at home!

Lives on the Line, an interesting overlap of life expectancy at birth and child poverty as a tube map from James Cheshire and Oliver O'Brien of UCL, CASA.

VIDEOALO Exposed + Sara Blake—A New Drinking Experiment. New York artist/ZSO, Sara Blake only had two hours to create improvisational art from what she felt.

Forget pop-up, this fully outfitted tea shop in São Paulo pops out.

FEATUREDPina Colada yoghurt popsicles, homemade peanut butter with chocolate chips and almond nougatine spoons are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Keyif Çay Bardağı (Joy Tea Cup) from Paşabahçe Mağazaları ~ a nice hybrid between a turkish traditional teacup and an espresso cup.

VIDEOGunther Holtorf and his wife have been on a 23 year road trip in a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon. They have traveled over 500k miles around the world and photographer David Lemke joins them for a section of their journey.

A working stove necklace - hand-crafted brass and copper alcohol burner with a fuel line and tank by Stuart Breidenstein of Go Robot!

Frank Gehry's R&D firm Gehry Technologies debuts a cloud-based design software called GTeam.

Tools is a minimalist coffee table designed by France-based designer Thomas Merlin. An expression of dialogue between wood and metal,

Nice sleek air purifiers from Vornado

Brand new website for These Are Things full of fun illustrations and jQuery parallax goodness.

The Wrap mirrors the prongs on the iPhone charger - making it easy to store the charging cable.

VIDEOMaisie Broadhead is known for her fine art photographic parodies. She and Broadhead directed a video to be hung next to the 1844 photographic print by Hill and Adamson that it references.

The future is in our hands and designer Matteo Zorzenoni knows it well. Because his work experiments not only with materials and their limits, but also with new and fruitful collaborations with Italian artisans.

From Istanbul With Love postcards ~ designed by Ulas Ugur and silk-screen printed on thick cardboard

Tûranor Planet Solar - The largest solar-powered catamaran in the world.

The Minimalist is setting up a pop-up in Sydney. Its collection includes the suitably named 'Woww" range from Mae Engelgeer.

FEATUREDFun gift set from Zubrowka vodka featuring beautiful illustrations, apples and bison grass!

Cute Giraffe sugar bowl and spoon set.

Fender folding Gig Stand for guitars ~ Nice design and packaging!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Istanbul inspiration + amusement from the touristy Blue Mosque and Ayasofya to leeches and albino peacocks to shopping + museum finds to the wedding on the bosphorus and boat ride to cafes, tiles, graffiti, and so much more…

The new Paper Tiffany Lamp, T1985 from PECAS (Bernardita Marambio B.).

The lovely, recently completed, Carolines-Benimamet Metro Station in Valencia, Spain by Luis Ferrer is made up of a series of colored glass boxes and beautifully designed right down to its platform benches and light fixtures.

8-legged bamboo kinetic sculpture manufactured in Portland, OR.

Sound Shapes, a new music-based video game entitled Sound Shapes. With Beck and Deadmau5.

Spaghetti Tower - The clever dispenser from Ototo. Tired of having leftover spaghetti? Spaghetti tower not only stores your pasta, it also measures the ideal quantity for your meal.

VIDEOExperimenting with a Stereoscopy, a 3D technique from the early 1800’s, Shwood Eyewear explores some of Oregon’s blissful hideaways in mesmerizing fashion for its new lookbook!

Banksy strikes before the opening of the 2012 Olympics in London.

Sydney-now is a highly addictive real-time visualization tool displaying all the photos as it happens within Sydney-Australia on Instagram.

...,staat creative agency x Selfridges x NIKE x London 2012.... Window 1 of 7 # A-moving-pattern-execution-of-Nike-Flyknit...

Banksy sidekick and a team of artists challenge society by creating art from 'brandalism' - spoof outdoor adverts around the UK.

FEATUREDA watermelon exploded by rubberbands, transparent solar cells and an art library on wheels are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

The artist Tracy Featherstone imagines portable sculptures made ​​of pieces of wood. Between architecture, furniture and clothing, these structures are strung and worn, the material facing the flesh, following the curves and binding on both.

VIDEOStunning time lapse photography taken from the International Space Station at night.

1957 London bus converted into mechanical structure that does push-ups

The Ikea catalogue is getting an interactive overhaul, with added augmented reality.

Live Fast Magazine's Vivianne Lapointe debuts her curatorial skills with an exciting group show, put on in collaboration with Venice's LUX / EROS gallery.

Los Angeles based advertising photographer Lou Mora created a promo piece that incorporates a custom made wooden box, fine art prints, and a Native Union phone.

The JETOVATOR connects to the jet unit on your personal watercraft using a 40 hose, and offers simple-to-use controls to let you rise 30 feet above the water.

Google Web Lab is a series of interactive digital experiments, brought to life at the London Science Museum. With signage from Bibliotheque with UniversalDesignStudio and MAP.

Mademoiselle Maurice creates urban origami installations.

The Olympic City is a photography project by Jon Pack and Gary Hustwit that looks at the legacy of the Olympic Games in former host cities around the world.

VIDEOShort video portrait about the candy shop Pärlans in Stockholm. They produce candy based on a recipe from the 30s and 40s, concentrating rather on quality than quantity.

UCLA develop visibly transparent solar cell. Soon all our windows may generate free energy.

Bristol Zoo's adorable baby pudu weighed only 2 pounds at birth.