The ultimate way to recycle: Christelle Boulé's paper urns have a biodegradeable cap filled with oak seeds. Bury the urn and the ashes of the deceased nourish the seedling.

French 5.5 Designers interpret the French Open (Roland Garros) in 3 sets. The ball tubes turn to caraf and glasses, racket to stool, and the score board plans your days.

Vanity Fair has 21st century actresses doing vintage pin-ups! Check it out!

Takashi Okada AKA Hybrid Graphic is a Japanese Graphic Designer, he has some spectacular typography on display at his website.

It was very interesting to listen to Mitchell Joachim explain the concept of Terreform's Soft Cars to Stephen Colbert...

francois blanciak architects' proposal for the thyssenkrupp elevator award to develop an iconic tall emblem structure for zaabeel park in dubai

Art Director and Writer team duo Jon & Adam post unproduced ideas daily for people to steal.

Blackberry "Onyx" in the wild! I want... some pics of this upcoming blackberry over at Engadget

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!

Images of the much anticipated Zaha Hadid Architects x Lacoste footwear collaboration are out. The concept is certainly interesting!

French architect Manuelle Gautrand has designed a facade of folded glass to link the old & new Copenhagen city.

Ecosystems just debuted a new table at BKLYN Designs that transforms into a bench with a simple swipe of a credit card.

VOID Watches is a new, independent boutique watch brand launched in 2008 as the single vision of Swedish designer David Ericsson. Have a look at the new V01EL watches that come in five different colors!

Inspiring cover of the magazine about Turkish design Grafik Tasarim

Audi takes a stand against "boxy" SUVs.

New Luckies ~ blind box zipper pulls from Friends with You and Kid Robot

The new Sanctum Soho hotel in London features clever "Crash Pads" designed by Lesley Purcell.

The new Barrows (South Africa) office in Brazil had it's wall covered by Uno Oliveira and Higor Mattos.

Yup, there it is. The cover of the new Wilco album, Wilco (The Album). Just in case anybody was under the misguided impression that this band took itself too seriously.

Ok ~ i remade my Comcast Town apt again ~ i do love the style of the campaign, but wish they had more options and a better ui! BUT, still helping judge their contest to give someone a $30,000 prize!

Design*Sponge part 2 video tour of Bklyn Designs 09 ~ all the good stuff that didn't fit in part 1! I wish i were there! Also focusing on Pratt grads in this vid!

Design*Sponge goes all out an an AWESOME video look of Bklyn Designs - she says its the best in YEARS, and i totally agree from her favorite pics... here's part 1! So many awesome details...

joana vasconcelos is a paris born artist working in lisbon who creates sculptures and installations by applying white crochet patterns to objects like computers, sculptures and pianos

“Lilliput” includes artwork in all media that is no larger than 1.5 inches in any direction. Visitors to the gallery will be provided with a magnifying glass to view details of the artwork

Hotel Distrito Capital, Mexico City

Subtly gorgeous and utterly simple china speakers. Such a refreshing change from your standard speakers!

Rem Koolhaas latest project, The Prada Transformer, opened with the Waist Down - Skirts exhibition by Miuccia Prada in Seoul, Korea. Amazing photoset by architecture photographer Iwan Baan.

The Long Haul ~ An hybrid project merging photo and video together by using over 4000 photographs.

BMW has finally unveiled their new S 1000 RR super-bike, with 193 horsepower at 13,000 RPM, 82.5 lb-ft of torque at 9,750 RPM, 455.3 pounds with a full tank of gas...

The Circa 15th Century stool by Kochi Architect's Studio, refer to classical shape in Europe of the 15th century "Renaissance". There are "old and new" "abstract and embodiment" "ornament and anti-ornament" "reality and unreality" in it.

For some reason, the newly designed OSS bench by Richard Shemtov reminds me of Ninja Turtle...

The first project to be built by Norwegian architects Snohetta in the US: the Wolfe Center for the Arts in Bowling Green, OH. Love how the green roof integrates with the street level, similar to the Oslo Opera they just finished.

Italian architects Studiometrico turned an old cinema into the new flagship store for Bastard skateboards, including also their offices and a bowl. Amazing how they re used the former cinema seats to accommodate the bowl.

Hands on with a full bodied Cardboard Rhino from Cardboard Safari (the guys who make the animal head trophies)! They come flat and perfectly laser cut for your build it yourself pleasure. Definitely a fun gift for most ages...

The installation `The wind brought us the Crisis´ was carried out on 28th April at Madrid's Stock Exchange which would hold a shareholder's meeting the following day in the same building.

Another interesting look at Vertical Gardening! Lots of edibles grown in italy... awesome slide show

'Re-Entry' a beautiful functional art piece with a decorative wall covering made from the negative space by Split Brow Furniture by Matthew Hoffman. Part of the functional art, sculpture, & design based exhibition, On the Floor & On the wall at 360SEE

Cool hotel room photoshoot from the photographer Nejat Talas. Sex sells...

"A logo is only as good as the entity it stands for"... Interesting reading : "When Bad Things happen to Good Logos" by Steven Heller.

Eugenio Recuenco has updated his portfolio with some of the most unbelievable photography I saw in a long time !

Katya Ford takes standard fashion images then replaces either the human or fashion element with the beauty of the cosmos. the results are awesome.

MINE ~ the new customized (free?) magazine from Time where you can pick and choose magazines you like and they cobble a new one together from them for you?

Jon Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson perform their amazing arrangement of "Love Story" by Taylor Swift meets "Viva la Vida" by Coldplay. Piano and cello!

"Montgolfier", new print by "Icinori", DIY project by Mayumi Otero and Raphael Urwiller.