These baLens White Balance lens caps from BRNO provide an easy way that allows you to perfectly set the camera's white balance while the cap is still on.

Welcoming in 2009 ~ here's a look at how three of us kick started our 2009 with a crazy wander through Topanga's state park ~ check out the amazing sunset, some bizarre finds, and silly night shots!

Nathan Jurevicius' Peleda Owl Wind Up Blind Box Toys by Toy Tokyo!!!! There is the pastel set, and the more vibrant urban outfitters exclusives ~ both are adorable and GORGEOUS packaging!!!

Listening to your music too loud? Take two of these and call me in the morning! Magic pill earrings!

The Photographic Dictionary - beautifully simple. “The Photographic Dictionary is dedicated to defining words through the literal, figurative, and personal meanings found in each photograph.” Currently open for submissions.

To promote their new version of software, Adobe CS4, John Kelly was given free reign to create The Seed : an animated journey through the life of an apple seed.

Salt to Sill ~ Sweden’s first floating hotel !!!

Conceptual tattoos from surrealist tattoo artist Jean Francois Palumbo.

Disney artist, Stef Kardos, is sketching with his iPhone. The miniature digital paintings were done using the Brushes iPhone app. I wasn’t convinced the iPhone would be a useful sketching tool until I saw these (see sketching video)

Free Calendars for 2009 at DesignAudit.net

the latest video from the super cool and completely lovely LADYHAWKE: she about to blow up everywhere.

Encyclopedia Series by Brian Dettmer.

Le dd are designed, developed and made in Italy. The material is washable, treated and certified as anti-bacterial and anti-allergenic, highly elastic and hard-wearing.

Latinotype is the first commercial chilean foundry. Offers new latino-american typefaces for a small price, with a high quality.

These UnCut sheets of Smoke & Mirror Playing Cards designed by Si Scott were taken straight off the factory press of the United States Playing Card Company and are extremely limited. Each copy is signed by Dan and Dave.

Limited edition print of 60 noses drawn from arrest photos by former NY forensic artist Shawn Feeney.

Mutopia by Flaming Lotus Girls.

Chef Jose Andres' new LA restaurant, Bazaar. THE BEST TAPAS, PERIOD. Along with gorgeous Philipe Stark interiors, a bakery, an art gallery and a gift shop, Bazaar is awesome!

Eneloop Kairo Hand Warmer series is light, compact, simple, and still powerful enough to keep you warm for hours.

Cocoon Dining Chair ~ Yeah, I really want one of these. From Dupoux Design.

sametime715.com - A yearlong collaboration of photos at 7:15 from six different artists wrapped up on dec 28

Fotoopa, flickr user from belgium, shot highspeed photography of water figures, captures water dropping and splashing in perfect frozen detail. vivid colors. action frozen in mid-splash.

The Plastic Nature is a furniture concept by Dutch designer Alexander Pelikan which exemplifies the connection of the "plastic-world" and the world of wooden furniture.

In Nufabric they find a way to use their skills and vision to create graphic work that no longer conforms of the purely commercial view of graphic design.

The fabulous works of Mark Bodnar

everyone's been talking about steven meisel's shoot for vogue: but then there's the best of all... a limited edition puzzle art piece. 1000 signed works, find yours asap.

Ken Anderson uses his talent as a photograph to make his imagination come alive. A great advertiser.

Great web series from Montreal, Canada. It's kind of Woody Allen meets David Lynch. Watch the first two and you'll be hooked.

An advent calendar for Obama's inauguration from a former columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times. Great idea and a good way to channel your excitement for this big day...

A collection of colorful, creative, and beautiful self-portraits by Lucia Holm.

DariusTwin just created a Light Painting tutorial for Carmine Magazine. Learn how to recreate this super simple and stunning effect.

Installation by Chris Burden for the LACMA on Wilshire Blvd. in...LA. The effect of the 202 restored cast-iron street-lamps is magical.

Amazing picture by Bruce Yates named Cheshire Cat Grin.

Use this to spoon out a portion of fleur de sel. An instant reading gives its mass to the nearest tenth of a gram!

Collect 'em all! Elfa-bits, Easy Elf, Yule Tide, Santa Flush ... The 2008 Winstanley Holiday cards are everything you need to keep your holiday house stocked.

"A futuristic designer(code name:Z)infiltrates the mega-design corporation headed by Commander C. Z battles designer drone army. No-holds barred action thrill ride, explosions, decapitations, martial arts mayhem."

Lake House by MOS Architects. A prefab structure that was towed across Lake Huron, floating on steel pontoons in order to adapt to constant water height changes. The cedar siding integrates the inside of the house with the lake.

Beautiful series of prints by Pietari Posti. Giant animals roaming around in the city!

Love this simple Grid Builder tool ~ beautifully simple UI too...

Trendsetters of the Bearded Northwest - An illustrated history of bearded Cascadia by Thomas Cobb that includes Sasquatch, Sam Beam, Bill Walton and Rip Van Winkle amongst others.

Color Lovers discusses the Munsell Color System

creative agency marke23 has designed an amazing spot for the traditional german soccer club st. pauli.

designer Thomas Forsyth explores the gap between the creative and the rule-bound with Drawing Tops ~ see the video!

Oooooh Surface Tension's "contemporary arcade coffee tables" now come in a glossy lacquered black! And you can play games, listen to music, view movies/photos, and browse the internet on them!