"Sound Wave" (2007) by Jean Shin ~ awesome wave or records ~ see more of the ‘Second Lives’ at the Museum of Arts and Design in this NYT slideshow!

Pimp your horse:
Worlds largest horseshoes are made in Holland. For a good luck gift this one is polished and goldplated.

The island of Samso, in Denmark, is 100% powered by wind power, and with a combination of wind and solar, they have managed to be completely carbon neutral.

Beautiful packaging design for Integrity Spirits' Lovejoy Vodka by ID Branding.

a mobile coat rack and
stool named ‘sprout’. the design is built using ash and molded cork

"Simulakrum" is name of Belgrade designer Snežana Veljković medal collection. She was awared at Prague Quadriennale for this exibition. All medals are made from paper + added materials (metal, glass...)

A showreel showcasing experiments with motion effects and a dark, distorted synchronized audio soundtrack. This piece consists of pieces from random animations, but soundtrack really makes it work as a whole.

In the brilliant Phillip Toledano's latest exhibition, "America The Gift Shop", he examines the last 8 years of American history and the presidency of George W. Bush with the stereotypical "souvenirs" we have to remember him by.

melli ink editions - cramer + cramer, geneva - september 19 – november 7, 2008 - Glass emulating bone, in these incredible glass skeletal sculptures

Sponsored by Design Observer, Design/ers for Obama is a community art project for Obama supporters, to aggregate and rate Obama art that is available for download + printed by anyone.

While at Calty Design Research, Toyota Project Chief Designer, Ian Carabiano gave me a little demo of his impressive wacom tablet car sketching... all shading/rendering by hand... see the video!

Joep van Lieshout of Atelier Van Lieshout creates some unusual skulls in which you can sit or sweat. Here's two of them, the Sensory Deprivation Skull and the Wellness Skull, which has a sauna inside!

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

New work by illustrator HELLOVON (post 6898) - Migration, a beautiful project in London and New York

'Viva Piñata: Trouble in Paradise' comes out today for the Xbox 360. A fun games where you attract Piñatas into your garden with lovely art direction.

DHNN (Design Has No Name) created "Beck 8 Bit Variations", a kick ass concept packaging design for a Beck re-mix CD.

THE VISIBLE BLUNDSTONE
A one-of-a-kind resin casting for Boot It UP! - a benefit for Sketch.

Action in the bus shelter to promote Kung Fu Panda.

An art house extension with an amazing skin made in braided steel stripes. By ssm Architekten

For the Elevator Girls series, identically clothed female models pose within surrealistic architecture where anonymity and interchangeability echo their own psychic predicament.

MINI reinvents a traditional Beijing transport for the Olympics.

The Romeo and Juliet sidetables were inspired by Anna James' visits to the infamous Juliet's house in Verona where the walls are covered with romantic graffiti.

Variations of the Letter M... and Other Metro Logos of the World

Just 1 of 15 mistakes made by designers in the music & apparel industry.

A wood beach house by dRN Arquitectos in Maitencillo, Chile.

Murakami releases a series of prints entitled "My First Art", some of his most famous pieces.

Voltaflex | New Body Parts | marketing, using the human body!

Magic Table Lamp from Martinelliluce!
Mushrooms are so wonderful

Artist Dorophy Tang created a furniture and art collection for the opening of the new Adidas Beijing store.

The “Really Cool” Waterproof Keyboard is a water-resistant and contaminant-proof keyboard with tactile feedback keys.

In a gas station today, my Mounds bar doesn’t scan, so the cashier holds up the bar and, in a thick accent, calls to the other employee: “Spunow is same price as Snickers?”

Eric Clough secretly built an incredible scavenger hunt into a US$8.5-million, 4,200-square-foot Park Avenue apartment that included ciphers, riddles, poems and a lot of hidden doors and compartments.

Great Nike Foundation and NoVo Foundation project called The Girl Effect which works to help adolescent girls in developing countries.

This is so cool! A hole between New York and London... dug so that people on opposite sides of an ocean can interact through a 19th century telectroscope.

This are 25 extremely disturbing/fascinating object eating trees that will amaze you!
Now this is green art...

Frank Miller's The Spirit: Set photos

Tour de la Chapelle in Paris by Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz.

Nike recently announced footwear for every single sport that is represented in the Olympic Games. The Ippeas horse riding boots were the ones that most surprised me!

“ENTREVUE”, DESIGN BY ANDRÉE PUTMAN and “JET SET”, DESIGN BY JAIME HAYON ....for BISAZZA,( Milan 2008 preview)

Wayne Martin Belger builds cameras incorporating HIV+ blood, infant human hearts, skulls and other interesting odds and ends.

Atelier Blink - Rendez-Vous - The most SEXY wallpaper design..ever!! [Editor's Note: I beg to differ - i prefer #9758]

Sneak Peek - DING3000's Animal Tales collection for the upcoming Milano Design Week! Very fun use of shadows in their product photography.

review of the gorgeous new caprice chair by marcello ziliani for casprini

Mirrored sculpture by Michel de Broin set deep within the woods. How interesting it might be to stumble upon this sculpture while walking through the forest...

New work by Andy Kehoe at Green Lantern Gallery in Chicago. Also to celebrate the "birth" of his new website, Andy has released some fabulous new prints.

Yuyen Chang's new jewelry collection titled "Orifices". The strangely familiar and seemingly human appearance of the pieces.... out of metalwork!