This furniture typeface is simply beautiful ~ made by The Butler Bros for High Fashion Home

Taking notes can be super delicious, by using the Sliced Bread//Notebook. It is a 12 slices/notebook set which has been packaged for convenience. The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread!

Johnny Water - New Iceberg bottled water harvested and bottled in town of St Anthony in Canada.

Video showing work to increase tactile feedback on displays. Beyond on/off.

Spanish racing team GTA has been hard at work developing its spano supercar to rival the best from Ferrari and Lamborghini.

Work of Artist Dan Gregoras, Art Director and Lead Technical Director for 1stAvemachine.

Australian architect Andrew Maynard designed the Barrow House, a timber construction that uses a large amount of recycled materials, with a sleek result.

"Design 2050" by Singapore Design Festival 2009 - a call to examine how life can be different in the future, it is not merely an extrapolation of life today, but rather a game-changing redesign of the contexts in which we will live in...

Matchbox labels from around the world — the majority are Eastern European — from the 1950s and 60s.

The Presidio Motel in Santa Barbara is the best bed in town. Each room decorated by a local artist, with free loaner bikes for guests to go cruise the beach and taco stands, and all starting for $69/night!

Fibonacci-Inspired British National Wildflower Center was the public’s favorite design — a tribute to its ability to appeal to the public’s sensibility of beauty while also drawing from basic mathematical principles.

The Dongzhong (literally meaning "in cave") primary school, at a Miao village in Ziyun county, southwest China's Guizhou province, is built in a huge natural cave

This is an idea by Joshua Distler which I thought was fantastic. He proposes to make a compact disc labeling concept, where each waveform accurately depicts a complete song in a 1-inch square.

WITCHES ~ a first look at the Friday the 13th launch of Lauren Alexander and Gabby Applegate's new avant-goth line (made in only 2 weeks!) ~ incredible night at Chateau Marmont...

Skins™ Sports and Electric Art’s shot realistic detail for the cuttings such as dirt mounds and cliff faces, and then all of the images were painstakingly comped together with minute attention to detail.

Beautiful new works from artist Shannon Bonatakis (as featured in post #5211) show at Rivet Gallery.

Lee Hanyi sure has fun playing with the covers or Archie's Digests...

Black + White is a beautiful video from the Raveonettes, directed by Chris Do. uses light and shadow to convey the opposing themes of the piece, including love/hate, life/death, young/old...well...Watch it!

Crate & Barrel's Spotlight Desk ~ love how clean it looks! And even has three drawers tucked away in there!

Design agency Anti, has launched a new jeans concept; Anti Sweden. Anti Sweden jeans is a declaration of war to the Swedish brands like Acne and Cheap Monday, and the design is strongly inspired by black metal!

Hanna Louise Lamb rings ~ Hand pierced silver coast rings based on a coastline map. Any map done to commission. ~ i'd love to have some made of home! (Also in gold and with diamonds... fun wedding bands?)

Francis Ford Coppola releases his new website for his upcoming film, Tetro. Be sure to watch as Francis filmed himself telling you a little bit about the film from his bungalow in Napa.

Died Young Stayed Pretty is a new documentary on underground poster culture ~ check out the trailers. The film is being screened at SXSW this year.

Another stunning library in Colombia, part of their cultural plan. The Villanueva Public Library features an impressive stone wall.

Kasthall celebrates 120 years. These stunning woven and hand tufted rugs are at once sophisticated and playful. Our favorite is the speckled Tekla.

Revive is a series of glass vases as second life of wine bottles. Die cutting and sandblasting adds different look to the bottles. The graphic on each vase represents five major air pollutants, PM10, SO2, NO2, CO, O3 and the cause of those pollutants.
Most of the cause are from combustion.
One can reduce certain amount of air pollutant by reusing glasses bottles and reducing the production process of making glasses.

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Coe and Waito hand sculpted porcelaine jelly fishes.

Closure: a very interesting, innovative Flash game that plays with light & shadows.

Paul Hoc is not a robot, it's a drawing machine imagined by Objetgraphik ! Like any ice dancer he runs a program. Paul Hoc is not a printer, it wanders through the paper to write his own movement like a seismograph.

Ice hotel at Alpha Resort-Tomamu, Hokkaido, Japan.

I had no idea you could get Titanium Guitar Picks

The Hoke House by Skylab Architecture, or as more commonly known, the humble abode of teen-vampire, Edward Cullen from Twilight.

Gorgeous unglazed Bone China Spoon Set by Caroline Swift

Modern Design six perch finch feeder.
Removable copper roof. Reinforced redwood.

Lego's just announced that it's teamed with Digital Blue to bring out a line of digital cameras, PMPs, and walkie talkies for children.

Amazing series of Gothic inspired sculptures from Kevin Francis Gray. Pictured is the skull beaded curtain.

I am no expert on cartoons but I do enjoy a good illustration. Tom Gauld is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator, with some really nice and dark drawings.

The Edwards Residence in Seattle, Washington. Designed by Cutler Anderson Architects.

I love this photogallery of Philippe Starck at Big Lots! in hollywood from the LA Times - "to show how far a dollar can go in recessionary times."

Custom crafted for a prestigious vintage guitar such as a Telecaster or Strat, the Clear Dice Connectors by Bullet Cable offer the ultimate high roller experience. Two (2) DIY connectors per gift box. Choice of angle or straight.

A Charlie Brown Ad Agency. [Editor's Note - So GOOD! hehehe... ]

The frontdesk at Mama Shelter. The latest low cost hotel endeavor designed by Roland Castro with interiors by Philippe Starck in the 20th arrondisement of Paris.

Brandi Milne always loved to draw, paint and color as a child, but her mom never thought she was anything special.

Latest obsession ~ By:Amt's Ring A Day ~ see some hands on pics with these awesome stainless steel ring sets ~ hardest part is deciding how to wear/display/use them! So many possibilities...

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway 21! Belkin Conserve Surge Protector ~ i love the giant remote switch (wall mountable even!) ~ and it helps cut down on your electric bills and save some energy!

ORIGAMI... a beautifull video of the Kihachiro Onitsuka, the creator of ASICS brand...