Here is Steve Schofield's entry to the National Portrait Gallery's Photo Portrait prize, documenting extraordinary people in ordinary settings. Incredible calibre of work on show here.

The Jetlag Alarm Clock, designed by the UK design studio Industrial Facility, was selected by I.D. Magazine as the "Best Travel Product of 2008"

The Cut Armchair, designed by Filippo Ghezzani, manufactured by The Home Key, is composed of four proportionately sized and spaced partitions. When placed together, they form an aesthetically pleasing and surprisingly functional armchair.

Fantastic music video from Onesize for The American Dollar’s “Anything You Synthesize.” Absolutely beautiful ~ no people, incredible use of timelapsing, you have to watch it to understand!

Elephant Journal breaks out their Top Ten Albums of 2008 - great recommendations of the best indie and rock albums of the year.

Modern 1200 square foot addition to the rear of a 100 year old Victorian home. Respecting the proportion and architectural character of the Victorian, old and new were kept at bay by a five foot wide clear polycarbonate annex.

Sony Style invades city with edible Electronic Surprises - Directed by Tronic, music by Nylon.

Dsrupt™ is the online selected works of the portuguese Art Director Nuno Trafaria.

BBDO Argentina creates for Nike the campaign HOODYON MOMENTS. Hoodies are synonyms of crime, the underground? Or just until now?

Victor Britto's art is amazing. He combined graphic design with graffiti. His advertisements for Asics are brilliant.

The illustrator and artist Linn Olofsdotter is a global citizen of the most interesting kind. Her own life in different locales gives her many sources of inspiration and most likely helps her flex her illustration muscle.

Kapero has a really nice office designed by Swedish N59.

Craig Hubbard's Chubbard ~ i just lost quite a bit of time browsing his incredible illustration and motion graphics portfolio

Hangbag, metallic, light and decorative heart shaped hanger for bags and all hangable objects - by Ototo [Editor's Note - genius! bag hook + keychain!]

The Pollynation Leezard Smirk is adorable ~ over at Rocketworld!

On unexpected design... Bukket ~ a gravity driven pocket-sized bong that even comes in a wooden version ~ see the walk through to make sense of the design

3D decoration object - iron skeleton with glowing strings , in a night club .
created by kabriha decoration - israel. :)

Awesome inspiration: Mid-Century Illustrated Flickr pool!

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."

Gallery 1988's January show sounds incredible ~ "Under the Influence: An Official Tribute to Beastie Boys" - 100 participating artists

Great flickr set of the collab: "c13 recently teamed up with AMG to create a series of custom Munny’s for some industry heavies." Here's the Veuve Clicquot Munny!

Forvo ~ "all the words in the world. Pronounced."

Ten Thousand Pictures of You - An exhilarating rollercoaster ride through the animated pictures of Sarah's world. By Robin King

There are of course the more sexy/creepy sides of Augmented Reality as proven by the japanese Geisha Tokyo by ARis that comes with two cubes, one the girl appears on, and the one you poke/gift/etc her with... see the vid...

Most involved Augmented Reality video i just found ~ Next Wall's "Tagged In Motion" Project - Free Graffiti!!! ~ tracking graffiti artist DAIM in virtual space where he paints with the tracking codes and sees through a headset/monitor

Famous faces masks from Cox & Cox!! (Unfortunately they are sold out!)

Pull-Along Zebra ~ something so cute about its disproportionate black and white little woodiness

Ooooh this one brings in to play the idea that Augmented Reality dogs can walk away from the marker, and add more markers, drink water, and interact ~ prototype video from Georgia Tech Augmented Environments Lab

Favorite use of Augmented Reality in the print+webcam so far ~ Boffswana's adorable green monster ~ see the video and try it yourself!

Here's a video of the making of and execution of that Mini Convertible 09 Magazine ad ~ over at the Augmented Reality Blog i just found

With ARplug-in, Google Sketch-Up: visualize 3D models directly in the real physical space! Sketch-Up 3D models can be visualized directly on users' desktop, by connecting webcam and a printout. By Inglobe tech

Wired blog piece on Augmented Reality as used in Pop Up Books!!! 2D/Virtual 3D ~ fun videos, awesome to see kids reactions - "ArsEdition's upcoming interactive 3D book Aliens & UFOs, provides a good example of Metaio's Augmented Reality (AR) technology"

Fascinating to see what inspires those who inspire us ~ check out Audrey Kawasaki's Ffffound [might lean on the NSFW side]

Howies has collaborated with Tom Seymour to create a range of extra large care labels with instructions of how to look after the environment.

Check out Tellart's beautiful, interactive "augmented reality" holiday card for 2008. Use your webcam to create flurries on your desk and play winter melodies.

Here's another Augmented Reality example ~ McCann Brazil's xmas card ~ print it out and show it to your webcam to watch santa dance!

It's about time! Augmented Reality seems to be getting really trendy all of a sudden ~ print it out, show it to your phone/webcam, and spin it around in 3D! Check out the vid at designboom

Julie West letterpressed Artist's Series cards now available from Letter Pressed.

Tres Birds has some incredible inspiring architectural, artistic and interior installations/spaces!

The Ovation iDea is the first guitar of its kind featuring a built-in MP3 recorder/player. A digital recorder is part of the on-board Ovation preamp.

Urban Research: Tokyo covered in stickers.

Ooh cute white on black tote with red tag from Monocle when you get a subscription

Metal For Monsters! Metal necklaces with monster illustrations from Blend Creations ~ this monster is by Anna Chambers ~ very fun illustrations in the set

Super cute trailer for Studio AKA’s new short Film “Lost and Found,” directed by Philip Hunt ~ a 25-minute animation adaptation of Oliver Jeffer’s children's book!

'In from the cold' is a four weeks Xmas event at the Royal Festival Hall, London, come and join us for music, dance and film in this winter wonderland! Three large scale Cloud Chandeliers designed by Jordy Fu.

The "Could Be Me" project keeps on getting bigger... Well worth checking out and seeing whats being added to it... Some big names popping up on there as well :D