This bitmap alphabet is from La Vera Perfettione del Disegno di varie sorte di ricami, an embroidery guide by Giovanni Ostaus published in 1567.

Love KAWS? Love smoking? If so, or just one of the two, super-mega-art-star KAWS has updated his online Original Fake shop with some goodies, including these ashtrays. The pieces sells for $95 USD

A 20-year-old model photographed as if she were 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 years old

More photos of Urban Outfitters retail experiment Space 15 Twenty.

Morning glasses design by Rodolphe Dogniaux.

Design books reviewed! Brand new web-site that reviews design books. Run by Andy Polaine, "an interaction designer, journalist and lecturer."

The glowing irradiated inside of an Apple MacBook, photographed by the curious Jason de Villa… as seen by the TSA every day!

Nice extension of Canadian Club "Your Dad" campaign, with Mustache stir-sticks. Mustaches: so hot right now.

iPod as cigarette case

The green Casa em Arruda dos Vinhos by Plano B, with a small footprint, rammed earth walls, structural framing made from wood recycled from the previous building, and a cork board facade.

Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art. In a world obsessed with superficial appearance it is a refreshing change to be able to look beyond the surface. Beauty, after all, comes from within.

Photographs documenting the conflict in the Congo.

Kick-ass experimental photography, video, and more from German artists Vivien Wayruch and Fabian Röttger.

Oppenheim Architecture's design for the Vault - an art storage facility for Artemundi & Company in Miami. The facade will display artwork by emerging and established artists.

Loving Caroline Thaw's Little World shadow boxes...

Virginia Fleck's mandalas made from plastic bags "analyze the activity of consumerism as a spiritual encounter."

Lots of great illustration work by Pascal Blanchet.

designed by i29 and eckhardt en leeuwenstein for all capital, a prestigious and opulent space without being pretentious or stuffy.

Awesome short film/unofficial video for Sigur Rós' "Gong" by Partizan's Eric Lerner.

The British David Bray is my new Favorite Illustrator - Hand Drawn please ! Amazing work...

Jonas Trampedach's Tea Bag Coffin - a tea cup that provides a tidy solution for the used teabag.

UK based architects and designers SHH have designed and branded a new three-storey, 50,000 square foot, 300 seat restaurant in Bahrain called Nu Asia.

Intriguing facade by Future Systems on London's Oxford Street. They call it a "vibrant jewel-like glass frontage...Through the repetition of crystal-like glass bays, a sense of scale and rhythm is created."

NOTCOT Giveaway #5! Fawn & Forest is giving away a set of awesome woody toys for the kids ~ a Earnest Effort Wood Baby Rattle, a Naef Juba Worm, and a Suddenly, It's Real! Wood Yoyo!

christmas is in the air at the GAP, the latest christmas videos are fun, cute and full of celebrity. check them all out here...

Check the incredibly detailed work of Kris Kuksi. Kuksi's painstaking process results in these amazing mixed-media sculptures that reflect humanity's violent nature past, present and future.

"Our Oil-less Turkey Fryer delivers healthier, flavorful turkey in less time, with less fat and cholesterol. Infrared cooking technology penetrates meat evenly and seal in juices, resulting in a moist inside and crispy outside"

”Survey catalogue” made by Hampus Jageland. to encourage business people to get out into nature....

"the fig leaf', made with hand painted enameled copper leaves by tord boontje ~ designboom has a preview of "meta: masterpieces and materials past and present" that will be in design miami

Greenwashing Ball ~ sure its for laundry... call my cynical, but when i saw it, i imagined it was for marketers to toss in with failing products to spruce them up to be popular!

Distinctive development by Mayslits Kassif Architects recreates Tel Aviv Port as a vibrant public sphere.

James Joyce's One Fine Day portfolio page... fun piece for wonderland on offensive hand gestures

Designboom has awesome coverage of the saint etienne biennale 08: 5.5 designers at 'flight number ten' ~ taking on cloning! here is the 'posture cloning' (indicates how an individual sits in a chair)

SurveillanceSaver is a screensaver that shows live images of over 400 network surveillance cameras worldwide. A haunting live soap opera.

A fun typography costume made during a workshop in experimental typography at Konstfack, University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm.

Foster & Partners' new Sperone Westwater Gallery - slated for construction on Bowery near to the New Museum. Included in the design is a 'moving room' that will oscillate between the lower galleries and the lobby floor.

The beautiful works of Danish ceramist Bente Hansen.

Gift Guide: Glassy Gifts! Yes, glass ~ so many gorgeous double walled, colored, organic glassy options they needed a guide of their own!

Australian artist, Kill Pixie, is now holed up in L.A., so Anthem Magazine swung by for a little studio tour and Q&A.

5 Amazing commercials & 5 prints ads from the "Melissa Plastic Dreams" campaign for Melissa shoes including their Zaha Hadid collaboration. It's plastic fantastic!

100 mansions to be built in Inner Mongolia by a coal and dairy tycoon. Kind of a self-indulgent idea for the current economic situation...but still wishing their official website would put up images already.

Redstr/collective & Copal present The Slave Betty, a traditional British Teapot captured and harnessed in the ancient art of Japanese Shibari (rope bondage). This East-meets-West teapot is suspended for its master and made available for all to enjoy.

Painting by Dan Krall, known from his work as background designers for Cartoon Networks.

beautiful ceramic works by matthew chambers