the torch of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic games was created to resemble snow, ice, skiing and skating - or a toke?

Pick One. An experiment in decision-making.

The Age of Stupid is a film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid with an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?

The construction of each James Roper painting fuses disparate images from a variety of sources such as fashion magazines, animation stills, comics, the Internet as well as his own photo's and drawings.

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party - William Castleman has created this amazing timelapse video of the Milky Way rising in Texas.

Supermodified studios is the brainchild of Nick Mannion. Mod1 is his first product, an articulated 7" stylised robot figure that is available in a variety of cool colour schemes.

Glow in the Dark screenprint - The Skeleton, from the series This Poster Sucks. By day, an almost boring typographic poster, by night, a rad skeleton.

On the Design*Sponge guest blog ~ i love this post on how to make 3D sheep crackers to stand in your soup!

Skinnylaminx's fabrics are so fun! Love Duikers in green ~ adorable deer screenprinted on cotton ~ out of cape town

Brilliant olympics posters that could have been... Alan Clarke's take focuses simply on the geometry of the movement of the sports...

Beautiful! FAUX BOIS / WOOD SOAP COLLECTION ~ Intricately carved soaps, sculpted to look like wood, are scented with a crisp Grapefruit, Clementine & Green Tea fragrance.

Beautiful swallow installation at the Museum Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro - Primavera - Pedrita at Ermida Belem

"Geek books" ~ Notebooks made from punch cards ~ quite adorable really! By erinzam on etsy

The story behind the Bubble Project! Ji Lee talks about how it came to be and what it became in this video from CoolHunting at 99% Conference.

Wow! Almost 200 models in the shape of children’s TV favourite Morph arranged in a terracotta army outside Tate Modern to honour the memory of the late TV artist Tony Hart.

Nice packing for frozen pizzas from Norwegian Lokale Helter. Design by Strømme Throndsen Design.

Hermès Opens Pop Up Store in East Hampton.

This website uses the iPhone's swipe gestures to enter the Konami code, unlocking an interactive Easter Egg: eye-Phone. (There's a video of it in the blog)

Jason Rogenes at No Name Gallery NYC earlier this year also check out "Manufractured Conspicuous-Transformation-Everyday-Objects" published by Chronicle Books

Sommarnöjen (summer pleasures) has teamed up with three of Sweden's best architectural firms to create a series of 15 square meter houses that can be built in Sweden without building permits.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the bentwood classic 214 Chair, Thonet is producing a special edition, with a twist

A absolutely massive mural of Pete Fowler's Monsterism Island that stretched from floor to ceiling. It was part of the Monsters Inked Exhibition in Chance Street, East London.

Designed to unite several churches involved, the St. Henry's Ecumenical Art Chapel by Sanaksenaho Architects is a fish form chapel with naked interior.

On fun cork design... who's chasing whom? You can spin it around as much as you'd like and on they go... Also nice water colored label on this André Balazs Sunset Beach Rosé

On fun ICFF finds ~ the Ergo Ergo ~ is a new hybrid stool/exercise ball like contraption you can sit/bounce/balance on while working... It was a hilarious booth with people of all shapes and sizes trying out the many they had out! Quite comfy... a little odd...

Sunset as i flew into LAX was gorgeous through the fog ~ and the color palette was stunning, and these lens flare-y orange orbs that appeared are kind of amusing tonight!

the IKEA PS 2009 collection may be one of their best yet ~ themed "Never Ending Design Stories" ~ they are playful, inspired by nature, and trying to find uniqueness in the mass produced. See the full collection ~ finally coming to the US Aug 2009!

LA Times has a photo gallery giving us a peek into the Vans shoes HQ in Cypress

New products Bugatti 2009 and zoom on 'Vera'

DesignGlut at ICFF ~ one of my favorites ~ always amazing booth design, and edgy playful products! Check out the pics from the show ~ as well as their latest product ~ candles that plug into power outlets (american only for now)

Jenni Kayne boutique in West Hollywood, by LA based Standard Architects. I love the use of bamboo wood on the inside. The corner shop window gives it presence on the street.

Coin Bank by Revol Design. An attractive alternative to the coin jar.

NBBJ unveiled their design for the extension of Pauley Pavilion at UCLA. The new design keeps a low profile, uses borders of the existing structure to add more space for athletes and fans.

These surreal animal/machine hybrids by Misako Inaoka are in a show called "Survival Game" at David Salow Gallery.

Millennium Park Bicycle Station - Bicycle commuter station in Chicago - Muller+Muller Architects.

Images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts as input, junk email. Various patterns, keywords, rhythms, found in the text are translated into 3-D modeling gestures.

just in time for summer. Architect Ryuji Nakamura's insect cage. part of the art & eco 2009 show in Japan.

Chandelier made with styrofoam packaging from Apple laptops. Eric Lawrence just won the Sustainable prize in Design Within Reach Austin's M+D+F competition for creating this awesome chandelier.

Swedish based GreenGT has developed an electric race car to finish 24 Le Mans in 2011.

Another immortal inspiration has found a new design revival and practical usage. The French product designer Stephanie Choplin has incarnated the Tetris idea into colorful ceramic pots or just Tetris Pots.

Illuminant - Kristin Birna Bjarnadottir ~ saw these in person at NY Design Week and they are even cooler in person ~ and definitely the most innovative use of reflective materials yet! The light source is not even inside the light!

Clock Clock made of 24 individual clocks, features 48 electronically-controlled analog clock hands which automatically rotate into the proper positions to tell you times.

The Brooklyn-based artist, Glen Baldridge, explores consumerism, desire, and even mortality in witty, pop culture–infused works.

Don't hide your pipes!
Cool pipe design from Athens, Greece