Palais de Justice, conceptual design using the cross from Cross album by Justice, converted into a house on Santa Catalina island. By Paris/NY based architects Planda. Amazing video!

Incredible urban plan proposal for Ansan City - South Korea

Geometric is a unique pattern resource book featuring an exciting collection of 264 colourful and monochrome pattern illustrations as well as a CD containing 100 pattern fonts for Mac and Windows.

Coolrain is now offering up pre-orders for their new, handmade ‘Monsterz Crew’ figures, Andy and P-nix.

BLDGBLOG is becoming a book! From Chronicle Books! Discussing tectonic self-engineering to city sound design, via guerrilla gardening, mobile libraries, and vertical film clouds and more

Infamous London-based artist, Vinti Andrews, has developed quite a name for herself with switch-ups and custom apparel work. This time she’s created two life-sized pitbulls using Nike sneakers.

The good folks at GE recently unveiled the world's first OLED Christmas tree.

On more irresistible NOTCOT Holiday Coupons ~ Kiki de Montparnasse! 40% off, Free domestic Shipping, and an exclusive NotCouture Gift of a bottle of Kiki Body Oil with $75+... so tempting!

Swedisk Smånsk has redesign the magazine Vagabonds travel bookstore in central Stockholm. A map of the local area provides the basis for the floor pattern, which continues up the walls in the form of a shelving system.

A newest Lim Si Ping's (aka Pixel Pastry) installation. Tiger Translate: Energy

The HoundRound dog exercise wheel. A giant hamster wheel for dogs!

Sleek aluminum kaleidoscopes by Japanese artist Tomoo Hosono. Inside are non-colored pieces which produce saturated patterns of changing color through the scientific phenomenon known as birefringence. (Japanese text)

The Modern House is a unique estate agency that is dedicated to architect-designed property in both urban and rural locations across the UK.

Geoff McFetridge for Patagonia ~ love this big foot with his tree-surfboard? That expression is priceless...

Couldn't help giggling a little when i saw this Aloe sex toy design by Spanish designers Discoh - "Aloe gives the user the chance to choose. It´s a dildo. But visually it can also be a plant. It can be a perfect gift or even an elegant way of ending a relationship".

When it comes to paper products and packaging design, Brazilian Carlo Giovani is the man. absolute quirky style of paper engineering, resulting in witty and unique design.

Designboom rounds up a selection of outdoor furniture displayed at the 'Cour des H' at the Saint Etienne Biennale '08. Above: Soft Bench by Lucile Soufflet (top) and Répétition by Régis Bigot and Gaëtan Grenier (bottom).

Beautiful hand bound notebooks and journals by Jovencio de la Paz. 100% recycled leather, true book couture.

The french street artists Space Invaders use binary code in their lastest piece.

amazing lookout over Sogn og Fjordane, Norway, by architects todd saunders and tommie wilhelmsen

Tadanori Yokoo and his "psycho" side of Japan. ~ incredible poster collection on flickr

Typeface, Kartemquin’s latest documentary in progress, will bring together a fascinating junction of historical and contemporary Graphic Design.

Cork links from Philadelphia based freelance designer Brian Kelly is a wall organizing system that allows the user to create their own vertical landscapes.

Hot new stop-motion video from Jemapur's "AANATT" created by Max Hattler with W+K TokyoLab.

Fox and Hare print by tracemyface.

Bullet Ice Cube Tray - for a killer drink.

I am very excited for this exhibition opening at Giant Robot tomorrow - “Game Over”, Art of the Gamer Generation. I love this print by PCP, which will be in the show.

Austrian architects Querkraft designed this amazing museum, a volume cantilevering off a hill in Neuhaus. A dramatic view is achieved at the end of the volume.

The Xi Gallery by Mass Studies has some intense ground plane manipulations going on. Even though the ceiling and floor move around an incredible amount, through the surfacing and material choices, the two always read as surface and almost never as thickness.

Vienna beat the Guinness Book of Records for the tallest Lego tower in history, 96.7 feet tall. The tower was constructed by hundreds of children outside Vienna's city hall. I like the Lego construction gear.

Maps on sculpture. Allen Peterson has been obsessed with maps and modular sculpture.

Bola Futura ~ THE BALL HOUSE MAQUETTE.

Memorex SingStand - speakers, microphone, stand, and your mp3 player plugs right in!

The UCSD StarCAVE at CalIT2 ~ The StarCAVE is a five-sided virtual reality (VR) room where scientific models and animations are projected in stereo on 360-degree screens surrounding the viewer, and onto the floor as well.

' Paper-Brick House' by Li Xinggang Atelier from China, made of paper boxes, paper tubes and transparent adhesive tape at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition on September 12, 2008 in Venice.

Adorable animal Matchboxes designed by Cruz Novillo + Olmos

Inside look at Toyota's Calty Design Research ~ i even got a hands on session with their clay modelers, and my own block of clay to turn into a "car".

At Maison et Objet ~ the real standout was a series of three micro-exhibitions, SIMPLE: 1. Farmlife 2. Les Metropuritains 3. Slow Tech - in the upcoming posts, i'll give you a walk through all each of them!

Dutch architects MVRDV have unveiled designs for a new urban neighbourhood at Almere near Amsterdam, based on a string of beads.

The Caramelo rocking chair is from Mexican designer Luis Luna. Fun design, love the colors.

of all the fashion week buzz, my favorite posts have come from greg kessler's model morphosis photo sets for the nytimes. it's incredible how versatile these models can be.

The RBC Blue Water Project is a wide-ranging, multi-year program to help foster a culture of water stewardship...

Here some outstanding pictures of the finalists for the 5th Peugeot Design Contest.

Hot product concept design from Indonesian designer Eno Setiawan. His concept Sony Vaio notebook has a holographic screen, which turns completely clear when off and the keyboard goes opaque, giving you a solid black surface.

Sou Fujimoto Architects' amazing TINY Next Generation House in Japan - conceptually, a house made out of jenga blocks.

Peter Castellucci's Garbage Lamp - a fixture made out of "used, compulsively collected polystyrene drinking cups".