Sesame Street gets a kaiju-style makeover from Japan's RealxHead. Big Bird, The Count, Oscar, Cookie Monster and Elmo will never be the same...

From Danish photographer Kim Høltermand's series “The Trees." A forest in fog shot an early morning.

Boxed Water is Better for the Earth.

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

Audiowood ~ Incredible wood turn tables ~ beautiful!

This year’s Volta NY, perhaps its best ever, is brash, attention-grabbing, and unashamedly populist. More highlights here.

The new german design brand 'maigrau' offers their great coat rack in a varicolored version.
This spring edition is available via MAGAZIN.

I stumbled upon this park in front of the Federal Building in NYC. Eye-catching and beautifully designed by Martha Schwartz Partners.

James Sutton is a photographer, video director & digital retoucher, He lives and works in Coventry / London, United Kingdom.

To mark the occasion a new horror video game is launching the world’s first ‘superstitious ad campaign’ - turning specially trained black cats into walking adverts for the launch of F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin on the day itself.

Apparently people are extra vigilant about looking out for signs of bad luck on Friday 13th, so on that day a team of black cats (a traditional sign of bad luck) dressed in little F.E.A.R 2 branded jackets and cat harnesses, will hit the streets of London with their trainers hoping to capture the attention of superstitious shoppers.

L. McComber Architects provided a design solution for the owners of this 700 square foot loft in Montreal, Canada.

Lovely armchair designed by Philippe Starck

LeeLow by Petter Knudsen is a funky new interpretation on Scandinavian Design. I love the simplicity.

Beautiful packaging for the Aqua Teen Hunger Force box set. Even more lovely on the inside.

Spanish designers Luzinterruptus have completed a guerrilla lighting installation in a Madrid street. Lamp Shades!!!

Augmented reality robots for Christmas? Better than socks! Xmas card from Special Moves! Just print and hold it up to your webcam!

It's here!!! Here are some first unboxing pics of my new Canon 5D Mark II!!! I'm pretty giddy, so here's the first look while i wait for the battery to charge up... there are also some side by sides with the 40D...

Peleda Wind-Up - 4-Inch Mini Figures - Australian illustrator, Nathan Jurevicius, gets folky with his limited edition, wind-up Peleda Owl mini series. Blind box series, 7 in total.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway 20: StrangeCo is giving away a toy bundle for all ages: - Mr. TTT - Rainbow + Julie West's Limited Edition Bumble & Tweet Tree Edition + TokiDoki's Captain Coco

The appropriately titled "Gluttony" lamp by designer Luis Luna. Finalist in the "house party" competition by designboom. I would eat under this...

2008 Gift Guide Launching Monday! And Seagate is our big sponsor, and they distracted me with how incredible the lighting is on their new drives while i'm crunching to find you awesome products! See the unboxing!

Massive Toy Unboxing! Check out a first look at the new James Jarvis Amos KING KEN minis (even the secret colorway!) ~ and the new Toki Doki Captain Coco (and pinapple grenade sidekick)

Stanley Flask ~ love this flask, just saw it in person at the DWR Tools for Living in Santa Monica

Griffin's Clarifi iPhone case has a close up lens you can easy slide on and off! Apparently ideal for things like business cards?

I just discovered i need a car mount for my camera... see how this incredible mini was shot... and how all the pieces come together

Very cute elephant bookshelf from DwellStudio Baby.

Alessi Forest Gump Salt and Pepper Shakers - comprised of a salt (tree), pepper (tree) and toothpick dispenser (boar). the bases are magnetic - by Giovanoni

EyeCandy ~ USB Lollies that you hook up to your computer and really suck on... awesome packaging too... you have to read the site and articles to make sense of it!

NXT - on packaging design innovation, they have injected air bubbles in their shaving products, used a clear blue container, and the led in the base lights it up like a lava lamp... Gimmicky, but interesting.

Atelier Bow Wow of japan has come up with a collection of Dog Chairs. That's right, chairs for dogs, designed in several sizes to fit Chihuahuas to Borzois, they were recently exhibited at Design Tide In Tokyo.

I don't know why I'm just discovering this, but I love. Akemi Tenaka's Tagei eco-friendly, convertible coffee table/bench.

Austrian ceramicist Renate Hattinger unveiled her series of porcelain hearts and brains at Blikfang 2007 in Zurich last month. In Biscuit or Gold, you can order them at www. Pureaustriandesign.com. But look at her other work as well.

Great video of the making of this image (and you can't even see the guy getting shot in this crop!)... the painstaking photoshoot then photoshopping...

New student-made iPod Touch commercial set to CSS - Music is My Hot Hot Sex. Apple picked this up from YouTube and flew in the kid who made it to produce a broadcast quality version.

This Burton snowboarding helmet lets you connect MP3 players and other devices via the Motorola Bluetooth.

What's Bubbling Up - A charming promotional site by KSVC for Unicel featuring user created messages.

Fantastic new project by Levis and Japanese Medicom Toys company to be released in August. A special pair 0f 501 jeans with reflective features and a matching bearbrick toy. Super excited about this!

A timber house wrapped in a fabric skin by F-A-R Architects, with Cristobal Palma photographs featured in Plataforma Arquitectura.

Branding Tap water: A few months ago you could buy bottled tap water in some NY restaurant (with proceeds going to the UNICEF fund). I love the bottle design from the Tap Project

The work of Thomas Schostok, fun to navigate and a kick to explore. Has a cool site design for Maria Grossman on board.

Yuko Kondo, a London based Japanese illustrator. Amazing and slightly surreal colourful graphic.

Google TiSP (BETA) offers free wireless broadband to your home, with minimal installation. (Released April 1)

One Shot stool by Patrick Jouin for MGX. The stool is made in a single piece using laser syntering, and opens and closes like an umbrella.

Some very sweet products from this German design duo on formalising the throwaway elements of everyday.

as you all know we recently celebrated herge's birthday. so a post about tintin's creator was in order. check out this designbooms coverage of georges remi at pompidou centre.

Make your own Fleece Dog, from bits of wool and actual hair from your own pet. I'm glad my dog is all metal and plastic...