Frankie's Tiki Room in Las Vegas ~ an incredible tiki bar with lots of lore and history behind it ~ and filled with gorgeous tiki artworks, sculptures, and exclusive tiki mugs made by some of our favorite artists!

From a new body of work entitled "Fairytales and Reveries" from fine art photographer
John Grant.

Incredible oil paintings by Amy Bennett look like miniature models!

Cameras made from real human skulls ~ here's the Yama from Boy of Blue

A fascinating snap of social history, a retro photography pool (for images taken between 1977 - 1985) to which now grown adults submit pictures of themselves 'Growing Up With Star Wars'.

Awesome video production by Rage Films and TAViMAN for Carrera Motors Porsche. I'm feelin' the custom score.

A fancyful design for a feminine art museum in southern italy by Id-lab and Ghigos Ideas reviewed on Domus. An old building turned into an interactive and colorful environment. More info and pics on www.ghigos.com and www.interactiondesign-lab.com .

+Shifter faucet designed for car enthusiasts. It can be used to change people's behavior. so as to achieve the purpose of water conservation.

Unica Home ~ the massive online design store has a 12,000 sq ft showroom/store/warehouse in Las Vegas, and we finally made it over! It's incredible! See the 30+ pics of the space!

Australian jeweler Julia DeVille is inspired by "memento mori" from past centuries, and her pieces involve taxidermy and/or cast bones, as in this striking silver talon ring. Not practical but stunning!

Mexican architects at103 designed House 3, a restoration and addition of an existing house in the old part of the city of Acapulco, México. Love how the exterior pool blends with the amazing Acapulco landscape.

Shoot The Baddies target practice boards by Olly Moss...

Boxhome is a 19 square meter prototype dwelling with four rooms covering the basic living functions: kitchen with dining, bathroom, living room and bedroom. By Rintala Eggertsson Architects.

How many resources and pollutants does it take to make a light bulb? A new WWF ad produced with miniatures.

Modern Design Handmade California Based. By Michael Bowen

Brooklyn based glassblower, John Pomp, sure can blow. He uses the molten medium to redefine contemporary design. His work is so inspiring.

Frozen Bubbles

Geometric is a unique pattern resource book featuring an exciting collection of 264 colourful and monochrome pattern illustrations as well as a CD containing 100 pattern fonts for Mac and Windows.

Nice package designed by Annick Bouchard for fair trade tea: «half for me half for you.»

Loving these Gus Design Group Thompson Chairs - They come in pairs!

VixML: Easy way for us creative folk to actually get stuff on the iPhone without all that pesky programming.

For the launch of the Louis Vuitton Stephen Sprouse collection this week, LV has produced this limited edition skateboard deck. It comes with the box. Amazing!

Designed by a team at Keio University in Japan, the 8-wheeled fully electric Eliica may be short on subtlety, but it has a range of 200 miles and can hit speeds of up to 230mph!

Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky defines 'epic' in images. His latest project covers the nickel pit mines of Western Australia. Amazing landscape shots.

The Macbook Wheel - Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard. Hilarious video from The Onion New Network!

Toyota Scion calls Roman Coppola to direct muppets webseries

cute little demons, by YEWOT. these are all going to be in a book that will come out later. check the others in his gallery!

amazing new transparent concrete, by mexican students joel sosa and sergio omar galván, 30% lighter than normal concrete and lets through 80% of the light.

Shigenobu Twilight: A Debut Fragrance by Anicka Yi and Maggie Peng

EZ Gear ezSpace Wall Mount UFO electrical adapter

French gastronomic design by Stéphane Bureaux. So nice !

A housing development in Spain by Manuel Ocaña. This project takes elements from traditional housing to create an iconic exterior image, but with modern interiors. Almost like a theme park.

The handle and design of this Strider Hatchet is gorgeous

fashionary -- a fashion sketchbook is set to launch in early 2009. And let's leave some feedback to help its development and improvement

Ooooh space saving swivel sockets ~ 6 from your usual 2...

Monographie der Spinnen vom Carl Wilhelm Hahn.

The Flight 815 lamp is designed by Cedric Ragot. The lamps clever design resembles that of a ‘light painting‘, and is named after the flight in Lost...

Insane portraits by Sam Basset. Absolutely beautiful stuff!

Very nice ad for Office Max's new campaign - Life is Beautiful. Work can Be Too.

"ACE Hardware Is Tired Of People Asking For Double Ended Male Adapters"

NOTCOT Giveaway!!! Steelcase has offered one of their incredible ergonomic, comfortable LEAP chairs that i reviewed recently to one lucky reader! So come answer the 3 little questions for a chance to win! (It retails around ~$850!!!)

ORDOS 100 #7 at ArchDaily, a 1,000sqm villa by US architects MOS. A series of connected spaces, each with its own skylight. I love the resulting look, a small village.

Short Danish documentary about Arne Jacobsen found via Midcentury Modernist.

Objectified, the film by Gary Hustwit (Helvetica), has an online trailer now.