5,084,000,000 people, 5,360 pages, 3,700 years, 243 countries, 7 books, and 1 shelf. The world's most influential religious texts brought together, and their coexistence acknowledged and celebrated.

Tokyo 2016 Olympic bid book made with traditional paper from Awagami Paper mill - traditionally bound and wrapped in furoshiki cloth

Turkish design firm Autoban, have completed the design of another location for The House Café, located in the Kanyon Shopping Mall in Istanbul, Turkey.

The work if Maxwell Lord can be explained in one word, Amazing! the amount of detail that goes into his drawing and illustrations is something not seen in everyday artists.

WITCHES ~ a first look at the Friday the 13th launch of Lauren Alexander and Gabby Applegate's new avant-goth line (made in only 2 weeks!) ~ incredible night at Chateau Marmont...

Wacom known for their award-winning graphics tablets and interactive displays for designers and photographers, has announced the nextbeat system, which is aimed at DJ’s.

TOFU KILLA- Eco-Friendly/Vegan Friendly Women's PAINT-FREE T-shirt design, made on 100% organic cotton t-shirt. Each limited edition shirt comes packaged in a recycled (HDPE # 2) plastic tofu packaging. For all you TOFU lovers!

For 36 weeks, this sketchbook travel more than 60000 milles. Each week one of 4 artists (2 in Brooklyn, 2 in Belfast) completed a spread.

"Coloured In" is a brand new UK collective of graffitti artists, designers and editorial illustrators.

Video showing the process of "photo-weaving" - absolutely beautiful.

Yudu at-home screen printer demo and review. Thing is huge but this could be fun . Lots of reviews on Etsy also.

Hailing from Tokyo, Kahori Maki's illustrations are exquisitely detailed and beautiful.

Skins™ Sports and Electric Art’s shot realistic detail for the cuttings such as dirt mounds and cliff faces, and then all of the images were painstakingly comped together with minute attention to detail.

Beautiful music video by Walter Robot for Death Cab For Cutie. Centered around a wildfire, everything about this collaboration screams lost love.

Strathmore Paper packaging by Pentagram and Marian Bantjes!

ReBraun MP3 Player and Server by Bootleg Objects is an MP3 jukebox based on the Braun “Audio 1 Kompaktanlage” designed by Dieter Rams in 1962.

If you owned a 1830 Hopkinson's Improved Albion Letterpress what would you name it? Ireland's Sean Lynch (10pt Press) named his Anna.

P hooks! Genius! My bookshelf could really use this for the pages i love and always have a hard time finding in a rush!

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

The magazine La Cucina Italiana is celebrating its 80th anniversary with a brainy advertising campaign that reminds viewers that cuisine is culture in Italy.

KOZO series by DEMO / design clinic - a unique design ‘with little authentic rust at the joints’
New lamps designed for a wide range of indoor life scenes and atmosphere.

This year's D&AD call for entries promo - a build-it-yourself pencil at actual size.

Check out this cool macbook mod by Eddie Zarick, that converts the Apple logo on the back of the laptop into an LCD screen.

The 'trattoria' chair by Jasper Morrison for Magis will be presented during The Milan Design Week 09.

FRENTE´s villa for ORDOS 100 is my favorite so far. The main space of the villa is located on the basement, perforated by a central patio for family gathering. A private volume floats above, isolated but with a panoramic view.

Sugar dishes that automatically refill themselves as you spoon out sugar. Plus... four other concepts for very practical kitchen tools.

Illustrator Amy Ruppel created a hybrid low table / stag for collaborative furniture show Project Chaboo.

Sketches and notes taken by architecture student Christine Atienza. The Hearst Lecture Series at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo features internationally respected designers and practitioners.

Seattle street artists take over a condemned building in the University District.

Karl Lagerfeld never misses an opportunity to surprise - this latest Chanel bag is brilliant!

Bob Staake, awarded illustrator, and a huge selection of 50's posters.

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?"

Canadian architects GH3 remodelated an old 1970´s house, featuring a very cool round stair, for your porn stair pleasure.

Invader finally accepts to be filmed while he's posing a new frame of his work in Paris. Check out the cops who pass, say hi and then leave him finishing his art.

Mattel is releasing a fab Goldie Hawn Laugh-In Barbie Doll! An exact replica of the sexy sprite as she appeared on Rowan and Martin's Variety Show- down to the faux tatts! Available for pre-order now.

The last in a series 7...pages from New York City photographer Lucy Hamblin's sketchbook...includes a self portrait!

Swedish Mattias Norström has worked with his skateboard label Moustache Ape for ten years. His skateboards are a blend of craft and lifestyle. Many of them are hand painted with traditional "kurbits" motifs.

Interview with illustrator/designer Frank Chimero on Grain Edit.

Some deliciously detailed illustration from Singapore based artist Caramelaw. Eye Candy!

Cache - A 3 dimensional bank account that allows you to see your account balance at all times

Life size Gundam being built in Japan to celebrate 30th anniversary of the Mobile franchise

Dezeen has a nice look at Tom Dixon's new collection on the theme of "Utility" launching in Milan at the Salone

Fascinating look at a contraption for cucumber picking...

Love this pic of the Sony A900 Shell from Stephen Shankland over at CNET ~ more pics in the slideshow too!