BYTR architects designed a special green public light where living plants form the shade. This low-key intervention raised the quality of the street from a back alley to a shopping street.

Wooden SuperCar Maniwa is a street-legal car in Japan, and runs at the maximum speed of 90km. It is on sale for about US$ 44,000.

The day to day activity of tenants become the 'performance' of a set design approach created by designer Gray Puksand in the refurbishment of 31 Queen Street.

Marmite Pop Up Shop on Regent's Street in London for the Holidays - a brand that's always coming up with good ideas.

There are 4 balconies protruded from the facade towards the street, serving as poetic elements with the words, it creates a dialogue between architecture and art. Designed by Bottega Studio Architetti & Giocosa Palitto Architetti.

An industrial oil barrel turned into a outdoor fireplace. The Philadelphia street grid creates the structure and pattern... I want to see it while it is burning a fire!

Google has themed their homepage for Sesame Street's 40th anniversary again. Are we looking at a series?

The Google home page has themed their logo for the 40th Anniversary of Sesame Street.

In The Woods Chair is a balanced stack of unwanted chairs, found on the street where designer Karen Ryan lives.

Amazing quality short film by Vincent Lafore, shot on the newly announced Canon 1D mark IV. Showing off the cameras low light quality, the entire video was shot using only the ambient lights of the street at 6400 ISO.

Very attractive street furniture design from BMW designworks for LandscapeForms.

The collaboration between The Standard Hotel and KnittaPlease, the original knit graffiti crew, during New York Fashion Week emphasizes the interplay between textile art, design, craft, street culture and the DIY movement. From Gothamist.

Rediscover New York City shot by a french light painter. Times Square, Crane Street.. enjoy the trip !

Almost invisible to the street, the sunken flagship store for Havaianas in Sao Paulo has an impressive interior space, filled with green and light, and havaianas of course. By Isay Weinfeld.

Interesting street photography from London by William Robinson

130 Dore Street in California by Stanley Saitowitz ~ an interesting boxy design in SF...

America’s most notorious crooked street got a makeover yesterday thanks to Hasbro toy company, in what one onlooker described as “capitalism meets childhood.”

Designed by Make Archtects, located in London, United Kingdom. The nine-storey building offers 9,000m² of efficient, open-plan office space and incorporates retail and cafe facilities at ground level.

Following a 6 month residence at ‘Nowhere’, Dover Street Market, A BATHING APE® have relaunched their first flagship European store in Soho, London.

Restoration for an urban house. Seeing from the street, a traditional stone building, but inside the concrete is the way to build a huge space. Architects: Villacé+Cominges

The Fondation Cartier Paris just revealed its new exposition dedicated to graffiti and street culture

Gareth James of showcases some fantastically gritty London street photography. Candid shots of what looks like primarily London’s lower-middle class are featured throughout the series which is completely in black and white.

Why choose between solar power and wind turbines when you can have both? That's the approach behind this sleek hybrid wind/solar street lamp recently unveiled by Urban Green Energy.

Paul Raff Studio’s Cascade House in Toronto is open to the street, but goes unnoticed thanks to the selection of materials, blending with the surrounding landscape.

Natoma Architects building in San Francisco adds contemporary architecture to the city. Simple materials enclose flexible and luminous spaces.

Street public temp events in 2009. Instant Hutong project back to the Beijing districts that inspired it. Carpet surprise, fragments of the project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes.

As Aventuras de Zé Ninguém e Cão Viralata AKA The Adventures of Joe Nobody and the Pooch Dog! It’s a street comic - a narrative graffiti adventure!

The jewelry smiths at MathMatiks have created a series of accessories with a street flair, but adorned in gold. AK47 money clip to grenade cufflinks to gas mask pendants, the classic tools of defense are now reflected in fashion.

A new L.A. restaurant, Street, designed by Neil Denari takes its inspiration from street culture.

Diego Grandi designed for Lea these cool ceramic tiles inspired by a street plan.

A pixelized picture of trees on the facade screen, creating a dramatic screen along the street. Designed by studio 63

FEATUREDSeductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7 ~ Take a peek into the upcoming book from Fleet Street Scandal ~ Kevin Dart has joined up with his friends to flesh out this incredible persona. (+ i'm the quote on the back cover!!!)

The Berlin-based art director Mike Meire curates an exhibition of street-food carts at the Vitra Design Museum.

The latest performance by the French mechanical marionette street theater company Royale De Luxe - with some remarkable pictures of their latest creation.

German architect modulorbeat has designed a striking perforated pavilion and created a new street images to the city.

A absolutely massive mural of Pete Fowler's Monsterism Island that stretched from floor to ceiling. It was part of the Monsters Inked Exhibition in Chance Street, East London.

Jenni Kayne boutique in West Hollywood, by LA based Standard Architects. I love the use of bamboo wood on the inside. The corner shop window gives it presence on the street.

Modkat - Super cool and functional cat litter box at the ICFF show. Designed by Brett Teper and Rich Williams, of Fulton Street Design. I can't wait to get my paws on one!!!!!

Japan Brand Pop-Up Boutique! Open May 18 – 30, 2009, the Japan Brand Pop Up shop features Japanese design items in every price range, from $7.50 incense to a portable tea room worth $18,000.

The Japan Brand Pop Up Boutique was inspired by the Japan Brand exhibit which showed in Tokyo & Paris before coming to NYC. By popular demand, products from the Japan Brand exhibit will be for sale in the US for the first time, two weeks only, exclusively at Felissimo Design House.

Products for sale include everything from unique home décor to fashion accessories, stationery, one-of-a-kind textiles, cookware, beautiful fashion pieces and lacquer ware products in every shape and color.


Felissimo Design House
10 West 56th Street, New York City

Open to the public
May 18 – 30, 2009
11 AM – 6PM (Closed on Sunday)

First-day shoppers will receive a free gift with purchase!

Designed by Katsuyuki Fujimoto Architect & Associates, Oy House in Kyoto, Japan has this courtyard in the interior with an open street view allowing nature and its present to paint the house, as though it's a blank piece of canvas.

FEATUREDCharacters ~ not your Sesame Street Letter of the Day for sure ~ these eerie letters are found abandoned from old signage and the finnish company, Characters turns them into LED lighting ~ gorgeous photography!

The Ellington Orchestra performed at the the 125th Street subway station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem and on a special A train for the 110th anniversary of Ellington's birth.

Nice ad and type for Mercedes-Benz Bas Plus. "The first brake that reads the street" by BBDO Düsseldorf.

Seward Street Slides (& Corwin Community Garden) - San Francisco, CA. First opened May 21, 1973. Fun for big kids too!

The Comme des Garcons Black Shop comes to Dover Street Market London and for the occasion they created three giant Bearbrick toys for the window, standing 210cm (6.8 feet) tall.

toyo ito recently transformed this facade in barcelona spain, inspired in la pedrera from gaudi that lies across the street

Great new Barbie Sculpture for the window display of Dover Street Market in London, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the doll.

An interesting house in Cyprus by Armon Choros Architects. A concrete volume enclosing a central space devoted to water. Cool pool!

New Project by photographer Anthony Dickenson. His unique look over Londons Oxford Street and surrounding area.

Cute little clip of a 8-bit meets real life via stop-motion water slide extravaganza.

Sesame Street gets a kaiju-style makeover from Japan's RealxHead. Big Bird, The Count, Oscar, Cookie Monster and Elmo will never be the same...

Daniel Piker shows the possibilities of the transformation of objects through the art of origami.

A time lapse video of stills from google street view, crossing the golden gate bridge. Gives a fun impression of what it would be like to sit atop a street view car as it drives.

“Mathematics” Art Print by Phil Lumbang ~ and a fun video of the super cute print going up in HUGE form along a street...

Armon Choros Architects have designed the Chalkidos Street Residence in Larnaca, Cyprus.

Believe it or not, Sesame Street will be 40 this year! To celebrate they have some special guests but not everything will be aired. Here, Elmo and Gervais in some hilarious outtakes that are not for kids!

Fox Johnston Architects designed this house in the Mosman neighborhood of Sydney, Australia.

Finally ~ a Monocle shop for LA, and nice and westside in Brentwood... Opening April 6th at 225 26th Street, Suite 19b

Danish architects PLOT designed this cool youth center, converting a run down factory into a base camp. This answers the question "How do you create something that even street kids would find cool?"

Daily street number from 1 to 356 by Zsutti.

Droog ~ the Soho store opening Thurs!!! 76 Greene Street between Spring and Broome

Target has commissioned Alexander McQueen to create a high fashion collection at a street-smart price. It will be launched on March 4th ~ and Nitrolicious has a great sneak peek of the Blythe doll models!

An amazing series of highly stylized trailers for the new Street Fighter 4 game. Each trailer is more a work of art than an advertisement... stunning!

Competition to redesign a character from Street Fighter IV for an official fan art poster. Win a PS3, SFIV and other Capcom games, as well as having 100,000 free copies of your design printed and distributed.

VIDEOYouTube Street Fighter: YouTube's premier video game, totally interactive game in which YOU play.

Trippy video of William Wegman's Weimaraners baking bread. From the Sesame Street vault. God I love that show!

CB3 is an interesting mixed use development in Hanoi, Vietname, designed by ICE HK. Three towers tied at the top, with an active street level. Construction is set to be started in late 2009.

The Viva Street building in Republica Dominicana features a nice cladding system, when combined with variable LED lighting, come nightfall, turns this building into a dynamic object.

365 Budapest is a photo project of Hungarian art director Zsolt Molnár. Through beatufully composed photos he tries to show the typographical diversity of street numbers in capital city, Budapest.

T-Mobile killed it with this guerrilla style campaign filmed at 11am on Thurs 15 Jan 09 Liverpool Street station, London. Cast some hundred people dressed in normal work attire, passing through the rail station...

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

Spanish designers Luzinterruptus have completed a guerrilla lighting installation in a Madrid street. Lamp Shades!!!

Park, Set and Match by Jorge Mañes. -- I love this type of mischief, taking over the parking lot in the name of tennis

Holiday season on Main Street is not complete without humble animals and bales of hay, the l.a.Eyeworks stores on Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue turns up the volume on a stable of seasonal sentiments.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #22: Fleet Street Scandal is giving way a full set of their 4 amazing Yuki-7 Posters! Retro espionage style with an adorable super heroine!

The House TTN is an interesting project by Teruo Miyahara - I love the louvered steel panels that open up the second floor to the street.

"The Sequence" street installation for the flemish parliament in Belgium designed by Arne Quinze.

Intriguing facade by Future Systems on London's Oxford Street. They call it a "vibrant jewel-like glass frontage...Through the repetition of crystal-like glass bays, a sense of scale and rhythm is created."

Designer Michael Schoner of NL Architects transformed a regular piece of street furniture into a sound system called 'Boombench' - it reveals its hidden power via Bluetooth, allowing the public to play the music on their mobile phones.

Sesame Street made many animations to help with number recognition and teaching children how to count. Here are a few video highlights...

Great New Characters - A book full of characters! The works included comprise a wide range of categories: 2D, analog, digital, 3D, Animated, Street & Urban and more.

Eduardo Berlin Razmilic's House 2 in Santiago, Chile. The house is excavated into the site, with the main facade appearing to be only 11.5 feet above street level.

Drug Automat / Imbue Street Installation

Playful street photography by Matt Stuart (see 6895).

Showing from October 12 through November 22 at Dover Street Market in London, comes their latest construct with Comme des Garcon, which shoecases the company's 40 years of vision in design. This window wrap is amazing in its own right.

"Plastered On The Street" by Robert Edmonds, The book documents just a few of the hundreds of posters he's designed and illustrated over the years. Include The Raveonettes, Snow Patrol, The White Stripes, The Bravery, The Cure, Flaming Lips, Ray Davies, etc.

VIDEOJames Earl Jones performs a beautiful rendition of the alphabet on Sesame Street!

Letterpress Frame Mats ~ i love the idea of how easily this can dress up an image ~ more patterns and design please! This one is from Sycamore Street Press

During the month of October 2008, the fourth annual Art in Odd Places will present Pedestrian on 14th Street, Manhattan.

New graffiti on New York's East Houston Street mocks Degas and other masters, while paying tribute to them, too. But who's been making them?

Great on-street bike parking continuing to grow in Portland, Oregon.

Herzog & de Meuron began construction of a 57-story residential luxury tower in New York. Another skyscraper for the Manhattan Skyline. It will also feature an Anish Kapoor sculpture on street level.

New RuMe Bags for fall...reusable bags inspired by Wall Street! Great solid colors like Celedon, Navy & Khaki + cool patterns like Keypad, Pinstripe & Necktie.

Taking place in a colorful and musical universe, "Al Dente" is a short film which tells us the story of a little street girl discovering the magic and the dangers of an ogre's kitchen.

Download instruction sheets to showing how WEmake transform end of life eurobins into fabulous sofas.

blogger hippie couture posted an amazing set of images of temporary psychedelic street carpets called "Alfombras" today... amazingly intricate!

Studio Klink's Villa Peet. What strikes me as unusual about the house is the blank facade, with almost no windows facing the street at all. Images of the interior spaces show it to be super light and transparent, with views to the garden from everywhere in the house.

Great animation work for National Geographic by Amauta Lab, and check out their other work too! It brings me back to the good ol' days of Sesame Street.

Vitamin Water London CONCEPT STORE! Genius... fun furniture, a wall of vitamin water and a wall of whiteboards... Little Portland Street

Jack Spade turned a break-in at their NYC Greene Street store into a comic book.

Google Street View Camera, Spotted.

Last month, London’s Selfridges department store devoted the busiest street corner in Europe to a huge contemporary sculpture made up of 653 pieces of reclaimed Victorian wood, perspex and steel. Made by Haberdasherylondon.

Solar Tree, hi-tech-eco-friendly street light. A very nice mix of art and technology by Ross Lovegrove.

Feist on Sesame Street!

Marketing to disclose a street market in Portland, where trees turned into giant carrots! Creative!

Shocking Argentine campaign against the production and use of fur coats. It was launched with big billboards and a street performance.

The form of this 1700-square-foot house by John Donkin derives from three specific client requirements: a garden, a visitors' apartment, and a strong street presence. Done!

Colette is opening a pop-up store in New York City from September 6th to October 5th on 54th Street next to Gap. Good news!

IKEA has converted the cardboard box into a street showroom. Spectacular.

Nice Chanel installations at Dover Street Market in London.

Notes from Russia: Hand-Made Street Notices by Alexei Plutser-Sarno, is a recently published book by the design and publishing house FUEL.

a collection of Formula 1 steering wheels on Oobject. Shows the user interfaces of modern formula 1 cars are quite different from those of modern street cars.

Ecostore: Street ~ Guerrilla advert from TBWAWhybin, Auckland, New Zealand.

New Willis headquarter in London by Foster + Partners. It has parking capacity for 42 cars, 88 motorcycles and 264 bicycles, nice way to encourage people to reduce emissions.

Street Puttos. Stencil techniques with traditional materials , produced in a old laboratory placed in south Italy.

A street sign in what I think is Estonian or Finish. This was uploaded to "The Big Picture Project", a living mosaic of "what life looks like this second" , See it at
showmethebigpicture.com

From Sony's massive street filling Foam Shoot in Miami... check out some of the high res images!

FEATUREDLV pops up 10 Canal Street like fake bag vendors outside their brooklyn murakami exhibition launch... selling REAL BAGS. Fight Counterfeiting by doing... not just talking...

Paul Robertson's (of Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006) new pixel-art film Kings of Power 4 Billion %. 12 minutes of painstakingly animated insanity.

The zoom/street view on Google Maps is crazy, here's another great find - in chicago. Yes, this is real.

FEATUREDVISUAL THINKING! Here are three Sesame Street clips you can't afford to miss... or show all your clients to get them thinking the right way... enlightening stuff.

Viktor & Rolf's Fall 2008 line seem to be an example of living typography... or something walking off of Sesame Street?

"La Révolte des Mannequins" is the new show by Royal de Luxe (the troup behind the famous "Sultan's Elephant" street theater performance). Currently in Nantes, France, for 10 days !

Viral video with high effects to advertising - Fifa Street 3/ EA Games.

FEATUREDThis is Bjorn Johansson's Anatomy of a Typeface ~ Can you imagine if this bony font had flesh and faces as well? I think i imagine these to be the skeletal system of the "Sesame Street is sponsored by the letter ____"

A long time ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away... Street wars, new Urban intervention by SpY... [Editor's Note: Those are glow sticks! Great gallery of projects]

Cockney Designs turns street signs into coffee tables ~ an interesting new twist on what you can recycle metal street signs into!

So it IS dangerous to run around with headphones on in the street! A print campaign by NSW Police in Australia about the dangers of ipoding while street crossing.

The Kitsuné Noir you shouldn't eat: Black Sesame Ice Cream Candle a la sesame street (tip: follow the fox to access more of their wonderful music and nice clothes)

E. V. Day’s ‘‘Mummified Barbie’’ series is a wry commentary on society’s obsession with preserving female beauty. This one is $3,000 at Deitch Projects, 76 Grand Street.

This beautiful imagery caught my eye on Church Street yesterday. I went to the Skaggs site listed on the window and found a post explaining the art!

The models of Gerd George aren’t models. But people on the street, people next door. That’s why he sends a telephone directory which looks like a typical model-book.

Interactive Christmas lights on London's Regent Street courtesy of Nokia and Wieden + Kennedy

The French-Brazilian architecture firm Triptyque based in São Paulo, Brazil, have designed the Columbia Street building for an advertising agency called Loducca.

JESUS ON THE ROAD\ amazing street stencil

People buying products at Beate Uhse Sexshops receive the practical incognito-glasses for free as a give-away. So they return to the street whitout being recognized. As the sticker already claims: Beate Uhse. The discrete Sexshop.

PMCA covered in rainbow vinyl! Not very sustainable... but really cool eye candy on the street.

To make a donation, you needed to remove a form from this cardboard slipcase. When you slid out the form, the image on the cover changed: a child was magically removed from the street and placed in a safe home.

A whimsical way of looking at storm drains by 6emeia, a project created by SAO! and Delafuent.

Skateboard art by Ken Mori. Inspired by hand painted Mexican street graphics, retro technology and the ubiquitous shape of decks as a blank canvas.

Continuing the Sesame Street theme - i never realized you can get Sesame Street - Old School, Vol. 1 (1969-1974) on DVD! (no bluray or hd-dvd)

FEATUREDCookie Monsters Green Brother... devours a computer! Gotta love some old school sesame street for a lazy saturday afternoon. Also: should this be the direction for the future of NotVideo?

Street Projection - Elegant laser trip so when someone stands in the human outline in the middle the wings grow, animate, then they fade when the person walks away.

harlem-13-gigapixels.com/ the largest known stitched panorama. By Gerard Maynard.2045 stitched photos representing the neighborhood from a rooftop at 7th Avenue and 110th Street.