2,000 Suspended Dandelions by Regine Ramseier.

MakerBot artist-in-resident Miles Lightwood makes 3D printed shells for homeless hermit crabs.

'Green Pads' by Luca Nichetto is a shelf for storing plants and flower pots.

Quail egg cakes, dodo cakes and medicinal marshmallows were all part of this year's Experimental Food Society Spectacular!

The Rock ‘n’ Roll birds of Céleste Boursier-Mougenot.

Artist Retreat in Fiskars, Finland by 0 to 1.

Renaud Marion's attraction series captures wild animals and their attraction to the public.

Hitchcock meets Angry Birds in 'Them Birds' by illustrators Dan Eijah Fajardo (aka Dandingeroz) and Pedro Kramer (aka Badbasilisk).

The NYtimes explores how our love of the chambered nautilis may threaten their existence.

Fun children's furniture by Bo Reudler at Dutch Design Week.

On the Corner, a beautiful apartment complex by EASTERN design office in Shiga, Japan.

These bone sculptures by Christy Rupp appear to be archeological artifacts, but the bird skeletons are in fact fabricated entirely from fast food chicken bones!

Snake + Herring wines, with packaging by brainCELLS.

Phill, a restaurant in Bucharest designed by Nuca Studio, has a play area for children including a four meter-high model elephant.

ONE PIG, by Matthew Herbert, an album of music made exclusively from sounds recorded during the life cycle of a single farm animal, from birth to plate.

Mirror cube art installation on Paris' Place Vendome by Arnaud Lapierre for for the 2011 FIAC Art Fair.

Colaboratorium, a collective of ten graduating design and marketing students. Lovely packaging design by Andrea Avidad.

Metalmorphosis, a 14-ton moving, mirrored fountain/sculpture in Charlotte, North Carolina by David Černý.

Michelin-starred chef Nuno Mendes opened his second eatery The Corner Room at the Town Hall Hotel, London.

David Franklin's Delen Memory Table has an attached camera that takes photos at predetermined times so you can create stop-motion of whatever it is you're doing.

Monome Arc, ultra-high resolution optical rotary encoders, with push buttons. high-density variable-brightness led rings, in two and four knob versions.

Australian artist Paul Caporn creates tableaux using ordinary construction tool levels.

Process video from start to finish for Juxt Interactive's work on the Toyota Touch Wall.

Imagine not having to worry about getting a new calendar until 2030! Mechanical paper perpetual calendar by Crankbunny.

Snijlab's wood flexes and folds thanks to an intricate pattern of laser-cut grooves.

'Weight' vases in polished concrete and metal by Thinkk Studio for Specimen Editions.

'Reverse: a space odyssey 2011' by Helmut Kool, a film created with analog techniques and all object movements are based on physical forces within their real environment.

Magi by Pottinger & Cole is a practical solution for the storage of magazines. Integrated handle and compact proportions allow it to be placed against any wall, chair or sofa.

The Zizm’s unique faceted crystal lens produces a refracted view of time on the ZenH display. This faceted surface creates a pattern that continues throughout the entire design of the timepiece, including Nooka’s first silicone strap.

The weapons used for criminal acts in South Africa are represented in 'FearLess'. Huge wooden artworks, a reflection on how fear conditions the daily life of thousands of people.

A look at the House Industries Eames LTR Exhibition at Herman Miller Japan.

Rima is a nice hightech lamp by german brand Dreipuls. With 4 rings you can easily pick the parts you want to illuminate.

The Microbial Home by Philips as part of Dutch Design Week.

Jump associates reflect on what designing the new Girl Scouts Innovation Badges can teach us about raising leaders.

Illustrator Khadia's packaging for the three types of Teatul teas.

These straps are melted in form with intensive heat. This allows the swiss designer Markus Bangerter to create such light but very powerful structures like in this gorgeous chair.

The Jupitris phone charger by Jin Kuramoto for Iida.

Having conquered the online domain, The Design Files will step out into 3D with a temporary pop-up shop/open house.

Gorgeous Barcelona cafe, Fastvinic by Alfons Tost.

Sam Kittinger redesigns classic board games.

Richard Branson opens the home of his Virgin Galactic operation at Spaceport America in New Mexico designed by Foster + Partners.

Madcap Geometries: See FIAC's Irreverent Outdoor Sculptures in Paris's Tuileries Gardens.

Occupy the internet. Webpage owners can voice their support via F.A.T. Lab's new and easy to install script!

1001 Nights House by A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects.

The Volcanic Casing Heater by Jeremy Murier & Daniel Martinez for the Prix Émile Hermès Competition.

Blast Off! Norman Foster Unveils His Launchpad for Richard Branson's $200,000-a-Flight Virgin Galactic Spaceline.

Highlights from the Good Design Awards 2011 in Tokyo.

Pink Floyd flying pig flies over Battersea Power Station again !

Qualcomm: Check out the world's first 100 percent insect-powered smartphone.

At SpazioFGM an exhibition about the major entrepreneur who left a mark in Italian architecture & design history…

Marc Von S and STUDIOLAV interpret traditional dinnerware where decorative features unfold into a contemporary narrative. A reflection on what craft could be in the age of digital...

Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field.

Paris based designers Dan Yeffet and Lucie Koldova are back with a new series of elegant handmade blown glass lamps "Balloons" designed for Czech editor Brokis.

Pizza Scissors with a built in spatula means no more fiddly serving.

A time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011. A beautiful look at what 24 hours of light looks like.

Beautiful Tom Burr Table-Tennis Table. Limited edition of 10 tables.

Novum Magazine Cover by Paperlux covered with 1,000 flexible colored triangles.

This amazing record-playing "Feats per Minute" bike blasts music as you pedal!

Little Darlings print series from Sharon Montrose featuring gorgeous baby animals.

This elegant table with a gently undulating form is by Rene Barthtélemy who's designed it for the furniture firm Olika.

Clay Interactive's Periodic Table of Swearing for Modern Toss with over 100 buttons 100 meters of cabling and over 300 soldered joints.

Coleman's INSTANT TENT 8 ~ put it up or take it down in 1 minute! and you can fit two queen inflatable mattresses inside...

Designer Oscar Lhermitte will bring back the stars in the London night sky at the Royal Observatory Greenwich on the 22nd of October.

Mille Bolle soft suspension by Adriano Rachele.

Wonderfully old fashioned illustrations by Kimiaki Yaegashi.

Drawings on fogged glass come to life thanks to a masterful blend of classic hand-drawn animation and live action. Director Hoku Uchiyama uses impressive animation techniques in Evelyn Evelyn’s video for ‘Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn'.

Occupy Design, a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement.

A map of the change in immigrant population across American cities.

Philographics, a series of posters to explain complex philosophical theories by Genis Carreras.

Sideshow Press's picnic basket invitation for a private dinner gathering of the finest chefs in Charelston, South Carolina.

The extremely portable Doxie Go scanner.

Magnetic & iron filing type by Dominic Le-Hair. The font is created by cutting rubber magnets, then shaping the fillings between pieces of paper.

123KLAN Engraved Sk8 Boards.

Jonathan Brilliant creates full-room, site-specific installations from thousands of coffee stir sticks, as well as, coffee cup sleeves and covers.

New Zealand public service campaign posters by Clemenger BBDO in Wellington.

Sako Architect’s new Radial office in Beijing has left no PMS color ignored. Slick, lacquered white surfaces meet bright pops of crimson, fuchsia and lime green.

The Pie Hole ~ Downtown Los Angeles's newest pie shop just wants to "do right by the pie." They have a cute shop full of a great selection of rotating handmade-from-scratch seasonal pies... and one filled with mac and cheese.

Incase's Terra collection made from natural materials with playful oversized zippers.

Cool Hunting takes a look at Jennifer Wood's Deadly Dictionaries, based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

Team Loro - Beautiful shortfilm with singing, skydiving parrots, by amazing swedish animation studio Meindbender. (HD definitely recommended)

Cooper-Hewitt’s Icy New National Design Award Trophy and the story behind the award.

Stunning new offices of design firm No Picnic in Stockholm, Sweden.

Chris Harrison's OmniTouch turns any surface into a touchscreen. The prototype uses a body-worn projection/sensing system to capitalize on the tremendous surface area the real world provides.

Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible. Interesting project which algorithmically determines if a piece of text is positive (“I like cheese”) or negative (“I hate cheese”) to create Kurt Vonnegut like story shapes backed by quantitative data.

Avocado Witches Fingers, Cider Apple Chicken and Harvest Sours are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Led Zeppelin Ladder by Arthur Analts.

Pantone Xmas ornaments from Selab.

The Foldboat at the Dock in london ~ amazing to see it in action as well as how compactly it can be flattened.

Ugly and cute at the same time, here are 7 birds for Twitter.

DMesh by Dofl Yun does a beautiful job of using Delaunay triangulation to put a geometric spin on some old-school paintings.

One of Dev Harlan's beautiful light sculptures

A couple of tablets, boxes and a lamp can be fixed in this wall mounted board. The final product is a clever, well-designed multi-functional space.

Animal sculptures made from Louis Vuitton bags by British artist Billie Achilleos.

Baggu goes LEATHER! With large and small versions of their traditional reusable shopping bag style and two zip pouches available in black, apricot, and platinum leather!

Gif Back - Kinky Beatles LCD Mash-Up: Random nonsense from the world wide intertron. Gifs collected from the web - cut to a mash-up of The Beatles, LCD Soundsystem & The Kinks.

The Space Beyond Me by Julius von Bismarck and Andreas Schmelas is a project where the projector moves in exactly the same way in which the camera moved. The UV image trail is strangely beautiful.

'Ipe' modular bench and stool by Luca Nichetto for Mabeo.

Exciting new artworks from Famous When Dead.

Old gym mats and gymnastic bench form the basis for this bank. German label 'Zur schönen Linde' strikes again and brings old stuff to a new gorgeous life.

The green way to transport your precious in style. The Johnny Loco Cargo cruiser.