The Oceanic ballpoint pen, from the Tombow design collection, is a leap into the 90s.

Orla Kiely & Target launch an affordable housewares line February First!

Interesting video about the entire fabrication process of diffrent Nike football boots : Tiempo, Mercurial and Total 90.

Photoshop Adbusting in Berlin on billboards: Britney Spears, Leona Lewis and Christina Aguilera.

Illustrations with a retro flavor by UK illustrator Zara Picken.

ClickforArt.com. There is a 20% OFF with code JANUARYSALE at the checkout to receive the discount. These cracking faux suede feather filled pillow and cushion by Artist Jules.

Moss Carpet for bathroom created by Nguyen La Chanh.

I've been a big fan of a local artist, David Baker, for a long time. His figures are beautiful.

The world largest Pinãta! 28.5 meters long; 7.2 meters wide and 18 meters tall. From Carnival Cruise Lines

Mochibana is a traditional New Years decoration in Japan made of colored mochi on a willow branch to simulate plums blossoms. Traditionally food was a central design element of decorations.

Ever wonder how other than the 20-car trail of bodyguard vehicles , the president is protected. Well, check out this cutaway illustration of his fully loaded $300,000 Cadillac One.

Swiss magic book: paper cuttings are coming out of the pages of this book.. real time. Using augmented reality without tags!

K Workstation design by MisoSoup Design.

This Much Depression, the book, is about the seasonal affective depression(SAD) in vancouver. Signage designed to measure the depression of the day by the amount of rain and color of the sky.

Maria J. Miranda - young talent from Portugal

Krispy Kreme UK has created some neat Barack Obama coffee art to promote its United States of Americano coffee giveaway.

Goodby, Silverstein & Partners have launched a really nice site for Adobe to support the launch of CS3. An oldie offering you to move the bar to “take as much as you want”.

SPLATTER CHATTER
splendid little things mingle among the ink

A behind the scenes look into the incredible work of Illustrator & Painter, Matthew Doubek.

The Standard's 4th Annual STAFF Calendar ~ this year its themed like high school... and yes, everyone featured can be found at one of The Standard Hotels... Awesome video with fun music!!!

So now you've seen our Coraline Box #21 ~ here's a visual roundup of resources and links to the other boxes that have surfaced so far, as well as other Coraline related initiatives popping up across the country!

Coraline Box #21/50 ~ LAIKA Animation Studios has been sending out 50 mysterious handmade boxes filled with wonders from the upcoming Neil Gaiman book turned animation, Coraline... and we were sent #21!

The cabinet lock keychain from New York artist, Alon Seifert.

Amazing photographs of newborn babies in their first hours out from the womb by French photographer Thierry Bouët.

A new giant stencil mural by DHM in Amsterdam.
'skin deep' 5 x 2,6 m(16.5 x 8.5 ft). Took 5 days to design, 10 days to cut the stencils and about 5 hours to do the wall. Bigger photo on DHMs painting site under 'live painting'

Multi - touch table installation by Los Angeles designers Nikolai Cornell, Sebastian Bettencourt, and Jonathan Jarvis

Superb photography for the Luciano Carvari footwear 'True Detail' campaign.

2008, in outfits I wore to work.

Incredible urban plan proposal for Ansan City - South Korea

Ducati, the Italian motorcycle manufacturer, has branched into the food and dining industry. This past December, the company opened its first Ducati Caffé, in Rome.

Lovely armchair designed by Philippe Starck

Break the Mold Japanese Lacquer: Japanese New Year's cuisine, Osechi Ryori comes in a lacquered box, for centuries invariably black or brown. This meal is shared with Shinto Gods, so Iron Chef defeater Yoshimi Tanigawa made his white.

Some great Illustration and Design work from DangerDom.

Andreas Wannerstedt’s latest gem is called Infected an Amazing (as always from this dude) Flash Animation.

Photographer Joachim Knill constructs strange fantasy scenes and then shoots them using a gargantuan Polaroid camera that he built himself.

Aesthetic Apparatus remind us that it's OK to be USA (poster).

Cute new PLUMA video clip created and directed by Monsta.

Roots Cafe in Brooklyn serves Stumptown Coffee and blows minds.

Microsoft sending out GTA IV Rockstar Bats to... winners who never knew they entered/won?

Sausage & Mash in a cone. Great winter alternative to an ice cream cornet with mash, peas and gravy.

A photovoltaic plant implemented on a metaphysical huge canopy in Barcelona Forum 2004.

2008 Student Academy Award winner Shih-Ting Hung's film "VIOLA:The Traveling Rooms of a Little Giant. "

Things get quite paranormal with this new music video for Fanfarlo's Harold T. Wilkins.

"Forever" is a stunning constantly-changing videowall installation at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, created by Matt Pyke, Karsten Schmidt, and Simon Pyke at Universal Everything.