Designer Slash Model: This video from Digital Kitchen shows why all models must become designers now. Art school might be like this. [Editor's note: this hurt my head... but its bizarre enough to share]

Koji Yamamura created this beautiful animation about whales for Greenpeace. As well as being smart and majestic, this animation gives another reason why the big beasties should be saved. In Japanese with english subtitles.

Fun campaign by BBDO Canada for the Pepsi mini cans launch !

Wakey'z Drugmall: Hilarious website full of wake aids and sleep aids. Part of a campaign that says Sleep Number beds are better than any product that tries to make up for poor sleep.

Attus Apparel's "The Hesher" Polo - also cute their Jerk, Hangover, Shredder designs

Blacklist (a spinoff of the brilliant PsyOp) has a fantastic showreel, and a georgeous Ambigram as a logo

Fiodor Sumkin ~ quite the life story, and an incredible body of work... especially the way he manages to create really sexy typographic imagery

Legacy: An Airplane in a box. Well, not quite, but this is a beautiful plane. Wish I had about $300,000 to spend on one. (Yeah, you build it yourself ;)

PSST! 2 will be released in March of 2007 with nine films. PSST! is organized and produced by Bran Dougherty-Johnson of Grow Design Work

Furni's new wood and acrylic LED clock called ALBA reminds me of summers spent at my Grandfather's - such 'grandpa' charm! I want one!

Puzzle surfaces come in handy - beautiful and entertaining - a collection of puzzle carpets, etc.

A still taken from the animated short "The Big Brother State", a film about public surveillance and its consequences. [Editor's Note: gorgeous visuals... and thought provoking as well...]

Jewelry by Mark Vaarwerk, made from throwaway household plastic items like shampoo bottles.

Jen Stark's construction paper art. It's like origami on ecstasy.

1 little button, 2 little buttons, 3 little buttons, 7 little buttons... 100 little buttons for 60 bucks. Bubble Box Buttons

NOTCOT makes Netdiver's Best of the Year 2006 list!!! [if you can't tell, i'm kind of giddy about this] ~ also a must see list of some very impressive sites if you want more to click on~

Belkin's TuneStudio for iPod 5th generation (video) is the first four-channel audio mixer that lets you create high-quality digital recordings directly onto your iPod.

valentine's day is just around the corner. tell them how you REALLY feel with one of these truthful ecards!

pulchritudinous (wat a great word) Icons for your mac (MacOS X only)

Grand Content! The questions of life really are this simple. It all makes sense now! [Quicktime Video] [Editor's Note: been watching this all week... its amazing and slightly sad]

Mind bending architecture located in Russia.....yay communism :D

From art to shirts and back to inspiring art - and maybe back to shirts? This is the logic of the fabulous 2 day show Cotton to Canvas put on by ODDICA and ThinkSpace

Thank goodness for Coroflot and their great GLOBAL AESTHETIC PRACTICE ESTIMATE ~ to help us all keep tabs on how much we are and should be earning for our creative ways.

Light Shade Shade is a one way mirror that reflects its environment as well as concealing the chandelier within.

Josh Cochran's illustration style is simple, he gets the idea down rough and then block layers colors and textures on as needed. There's still a life in this hurried approach...

Executive Coloring Book - "This is my signature. It is big. it is hard to read. Some people have signatures that are easy to read. They never make over a hundred a week."

Venturi Eclectic, announced at the Paris Auto Show. I want one.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia: I discovered his photography several years ago, during college, and fell in love with the focus of subject to surrounding. His use of light to create psuedo-drama for his subjects enticing.

Reminds me of those horseballs.com hopalongs and the kids bouncy balls and the chairbag

Good Creative : Logo design for the Rugby Football League (RFL). There is just something the contemporary edges and simplistic iconographic give to make this logo elegant despite the fact it represents such a brutal sport.

not normally a big designsponge fan, but this sad little vampire is really cute.

Design Barcode Inc. (http://www.d-barcode.com) in Tokyo design creative barcodes for packages.

this image was too striking not to post. an article on the "battlefield" of group shows in chelsea.

I found a warning sign generator

This has made its rounds, but i'm a fisheye lover - so had to post it - great use of a door spy hole viewer thingamajig

Bowoo Guitar Cases - these might just be the most stylish guitar cases i have even seen!

Well-known Japanese architect Toyo Ito has designed an attractive dining furniture set for Horm.

Fork is the product of a colaboration between Foscarini and Diesel

Out of creative inspiration (and to quit smoking), this artist Patrik Bundeli transforms ping-pong balls into fine art.

Don’t Design A Logo: Five Self-Promotion Rules Industrial Designers Should Break.

Alternative packaging for supermarket produce, highlighting the distances that some foods travel from and the resultant carbon dioxide released during the journey. By James Reynolds.

An interview with illustrator and icon creator David Lanham.

Airsquares! A brand new shelving system that uses the foam normally found in car doors and airplanes - very light and very strong!

buBbLe is an independent, nomadic, flexible dwelling mechanism that allows its occupants to give an answer to different time situations.

Recently completed by Peter Pran of NBBJ, the project composed of two distinct architectural forms split by the dramatic striking color glass atrium.

Memory - a plywood architectural sculpture..built for the annual Afrika Burn arts festival..Tankwa Karoo South Africa.