The StrawJet transforms straw waste into building beams.

An interview with illustrator Dan Santat.

More amazing, thought provoking work from Josh Keyes.

The Bowl for a Balanced Meal enhances a diner's experience through playful balance. A full bowl rests in the standard, horizontal position. As food is eaten, the bowl rocks towards the diner, making the remaining food more accesible.

Forget 16:9! No more home cinema! Now you can have cinema at home from Phillips. I want one!

Tilt-shift video of a Monster Truck rally makes everything look like your childhood sandbox. Impressive time lapse footage by Keith Loutit.

iPod as cigarette case

A slick collection of black and white Quantum of Solace images by London photographer, Kwame Busia.

Dioramas ву Laura Plansker.

Chip Kidd lecture on iTunes from the University of Michigan and talks about his successes and failures. Funny stuff.

This is the new website of SPEEDISM, an architectural duo from Belgium and Germany. like the pictures.

Malmö, Sweden is an eco city. So eco, that to inform its citizens about some of the projects they have started a Eco-choir that is going to sing it's praise around town.

A mass customizer for your coat: schindlersalmerón's kleiderleiste is a barcode patterned coatrack customized to any length up to 285 cm.

Banana work ... installazione

Artist Nedko Solakov's new book, 99 Fears, is a collection of drawings, each of a personal worry or general anxiety. Cheery stuff then? Well, actually, it’s all very funny...

The Lamborghini Reventón (pronounced: reh-ben-TON) is a mid-engined sports car that debuted at the 2007 Frankfurt Auto Show. Lamborghini Reventón is currently the most powerful and expensive Lamborghini road car to date, costing 1.6 million USD.

Curated by Ilse Crawford and Jane Withers
1% WATER explores ideas that can help us reconnect physically and psychologically to water and highlights the experimental thinking that will help shape a sustainable future.

Anne Smith's robots have no lack of imagination in them...the horse animates online to show a full range in motion...mechanical yet organic and very playful.

Design Matrix of the 20th Century

TRU:BLood is the first "synthetic blood nourishment beverage" and its advertising campaing is part of a bigger one for HBO's new series, True Blood. Should this go to Liqurious too? Do vampires visit the site often?

Lorem Ipsum tee for design-geeks at Tee Fury, today only.

Jonathan Harris discusses his latest projects, which involve collecting stories: his own, strangers', and stories collected from the Internet, including his amazing "We Feel Fine."

Frozen Smiles from Fred&Friends.

sneak peek at the 2009 Louis Vuitton City Guides...

Campaign of Toronto's Environment office to spread the living green way of life. The aim is to make available information on how to lower a citizen's footprint. Good source of information.

After ten years artist Mimmo Paladino and musician Brian Eno work together for an exhibition at the Ara Pacis Musem in Roma.

Yes, yes, yes! Check out this awesome octopied building by *FilthyLuker

Julia Pogodina is a fashion photographer from snowy Russia who is currently living and creating her color-full and texture-rich pictures in New York City.

Big Lebowski Urban Achiever 8-Inch Figures Series 2 Set

Beautiful site from Motorola! Impressive zoom effects!

Archrival ~ fun i <3 LA tee... also in black... anatomically correct with sabers going through...

The Lush Life ~ cocktail bars are all the rage in manhattan (we popped by a few ourselves on the recent trip!) ~ check out this nice list that Mike Arauz has put together

Alpha: two-person whirlpool tub. Just a little piece of paradise. I really need one. Jacuzzi Morphosis...

an antiques roadshow evaluation kickstarts an action-packed experience...
new ad for BBC HD created by fallon...

New ads from Maone bank by advertising agency DCS, Porto out of Alegre, Brazil and art director Gregory Kickow. Love the use of origami in these ads.

Think - Draw - Make - Less we forget...the most famous design ethos and process that everyone seems to forget to follow. This site serves as a living reminder for us all.

the Braille Blank Notebook

SAME HAT! SAME HAT is a blog that is a "weekly manga commentary, featuring horror, gag & erotic-grotesque nonsense!" It features Shintaro Kago's ABSTRACTION, which is maybe the most mind bending and interestingly portrayed comics I've read in quite a while!

New advertisement for the Zoo York brand from the ad company davidandgoliath. The Jenna Jameson's limited edition skateboard deck will be on sale soon and this ad shows you what you can do with it, although I wouldn't really recommend it.

Lori Nix constructs diorama's depicting disaster and decay and then photographs them.

via Boingboing.net

Paper-based Condom Envelopes from the 1930s and 1940s

Next step for the Keyport is sending in keys... so they can cut perfect keyport keys for your all in one keyfob! Curious what they send you?

Radar, by Aili Schmeltz - archival pigment print

Happy Halloween ~ for some inspiring costumes and a peek at what a costume party at LACMA with access to the Dali exhibit looks like... check out Joshua Targownik's coverage.

Hummer H2 Safari ~ like a trainwreck, i can't help looking.... but that retractable roof is an interesting design

Each of these buttery rides is custom built, one of a kind, signed and numbered by the creator! Super Green Boards - these babies are green and getting greener by the minute as technology and eco-awareness increase