Wow even North Face is getting in on the iPhone/touchpad fingered gloves bandwagon... with grippy silicone palms even!

The new HP Mini 1000 Netbook is pretty damn cute ~ and starts at $399 ~ but for $500ish it sounds like a pretty powerful little pc

If you spend the same amount of time we do designing then these tools should be part of your DNA. Limited edition metallic hand pressed badges featuring a designer's best friends.

Fred Flare's rain parade mini umbrellas are adorable

Great New Characters - A book full of characters! The works included comprise a wide range of categories: 2D, analog, digital, 3D, Animated, Street & Urban and more.

I love these James Jean making of posts ~ here's one of his MAZE DECONSTRUCTED

MTV Music has uploaded every music video in history! Enjoy . [Editor's Note - not outside of US friendly ~ sorry guys]

Very delicate work with an distinct female touch. Soft lights for impressive images. Everything signed by Esperanza Moya, a spanish photographer.

Axiotron Modbook ~ now you can upgrade your OWN macbook to a tablet mac starting at $1299

Thinking Machine 4 explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought. Play chess against a transparent intelligence.

INSPIRE ~ a publication from the Adobe Experience Design team... new Adobe project, i'm not completely sold on their UI yet, but it's interesting to play with and some interesting content...

Sonos announces an iPhone/iPod Touch app ~ it turns it into a full on Sonos controller - play it from anywhere, pick a room, pick zones, and more!

Epson Imaging Devices Develops a-TFT Photo Fine HR LCDs for Mobile Devices ~ so now your screen can be seen in direct sunlight!

Million Dollar Cube - 1 pixel? World's smallest, silliest pixel ad.

Oakley's UK site ~ Personal diaries for sponsored professional athletes allowing the user to follow their lives, from competitions and training to parties and holidays.

Android ~ the flash bit on their homepage is far too amusing this time of night, check out all the different android bots! (Roll around with your mouse...)

Veerabhadran (Ram) Ramanathan, a professor at UCSD has come up with a concept solar project that would introduce clean-cooking technology in developing nations.

Monki is a unique retail concept where the store, it's design and everything related is based on a fantasy story. The otherworldly design has been thought up by Electric Dreams, we get to chat with them and showcases some mind blowing photography.....

On November 2nd, The Simpsons will pay homage to the Mad Men series and Imaginary Forces .

Virgil O. Stamps is a one-man show letterpresser who reclaims materials from his Brooklyn neighborhood shops and people. He uses all of these things for letterpressed business cards and notecards and invites. Not one is the same as the other

Bold Faces is both a ad agency and a punk band. As a bunk band they have made songs about kerning, comic sans and most recently Microsoft,

The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden. By Ian Dallas.

This house by Polidura Talhouk Arquitectos in the chilean countryside blends with the surrounding landscape while generating perfect spaces for overlooking the valley.

Stylophone Retro Pocket Synth ~ who wouldn't one of these? "Miniature stylus operated synthesizer is a recreation of the 1967 classic"

NOTCOT.org got 2nd place in the Home Rejuvenation 10 Most Influential Design Blogs competition ~ huge thanks to all of you who voted for us!

A brief history of communications. Yes...you only have an iPhone because thousands and thousands of years ago...trimmm trimmm...ups...sorry...phone call ...watch the video...bye! :)

Llimited edition typographic works and a beautifully designed 2009 wall calendar now available as part of the STW09 project. Amazing works.

Spirit Houses, by Oliver Hunter.

Toby Ziegler's geometric sculptures reference computer mapping programs with a figurative element.

Modern, and nice, Arabic book covers from the independent Egyptian publishing house Dar El Shorouk.

Supercombo is the brainchild of two like minded geeks who both enjoy illustration. They sell unique, high quality clothing inspired by their love of videogames, anime and general nerdyness.

Gentrify! An SF google map mashup ~ with an awesome logo!

At the Psycho Buildings exhibition at the Hayward Do-Ho Suh stretched sheer red nylon to create a false ceiling with a set of stairs suspended from the centre looking like an entrance into an invisible attic.

Video of a cool technique for removing people from an image in Photoshop.

Enormous pic of 500 magazine covers featuring Frank Zappa.

An excellent bit of typographical art from Singapore based graphic designer Jarrell Goh, aka fuzzyzebra.

Blanket statement is a contemporary bearskin rug handmade from reclaimed traditional Dutch blankets. These one of a kind rugs showcase the intricate patterns and thick sturdy construction while hinting at another traditional décor style

schindlersalmerón's light and stackable aluminium stool is assembled from three identical aluminium sheets that stabilize each other through spatial folding.

Photos from Cooper Union's Silkscreen Reclamation Project - a collaboration between designer Paul Sahre and CU students. 200 of Sahre's unfinished posters (with one color word bubbles) were reclaimed by the students and overprinted with their own designs.

Fantastic 1950's Auto Industry logos collected together by Delicious Industries.

The Trust Creative Society created this limited-edition bottle design for Loimu, a Finnish vintage mulled wine flavored with raspberry and clove.

Nice and stylish print campaign for Alka Seltzer: Paparazzi, Bear, Mafia, Magician and Prison

Desert View Tower and Boulder Park - this place scared the hell out of me on the roadtrip back from Tuscon, AZ to San Diego, CA (then back to LA) on the 8... SUPER creepy, then the internet tells me its super kid friendly and fun...

Gorgeous packaging work for Grind Coffee by Talia Cohen for her thesis project at RISD.