Princeton University has announced the winners of the 2009 Art of Science competition. First place this year was awarded to Celeste M. Nelson for this gorgeous, bright field micrograph of squid embryos.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art MoCCA's Festival 2009 will be held June 6th & 7th in NY City. The poster brought a smile to my face.

Electronic cigarettes - was that even possible? Yes, and the NYT tells you how it's caught on.

The Thames Pin, designed by Kit Grover for the Design Museum's Super Contemporary Exhibition. A wearable, lucky gold plated pin, shaped like the Thames!

These awkward yet visually spectacular seats are the product of the wild mind of Helmut Palla. It is part of “Furniture as Trophy” featuring the phenomenon of animal materials in furniture design.

Kari medig does some of the most amazing skiing and adventure photography! A lot of really cool destinations!

These beautifully futuristic low-cost business units have been designed for sixteen start-up arts enterprises for Aberystwyth Arts Centre, part of the University of Wales Aberystwyth.

Furniture incorporating the outdoors with grass, foliage, and one of a kind upholstery.

With the LP670-4 SV there's an end to the beautiful Lamborghini Murciélago story. A new Lamborghini flagship can be expected within the upcoming four years.

Dreamy renderings represent the future vision for Helsingborg, as a "Tolerant City". Winning proposal by Adept Architects + Schonherr Landscape.

Final issue of Ogilvy Red

Nice photos and entry on the new Buddy Carr and New York based graphic designer Antonio Carusone's collaboration Hello - the fun and functional all purpose skateboard.

Monument to the Unknown Washerwoman by Pravdoliub Ivanov!

GOOD magazine has created a flickr of all their greatly designed info graphics that they feature in their mag.

London based designer Valero Doval has created an awesome logo for Swedish NU Agency.
NU Agency is currently showing of their illustrators at the coffeebar Solde in Malmö, Sweden.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom recently unveiled the first of 1,100 solar powered bus shelters that will be installed throughout the city between now and 2013.

The Nike Sportswear Summer 09 collection told with stop motion video stories shot around Italy

A star-shaped mushroom, called the ‘Devil’s Cigar’ (Chorioactis geaster) is one of the worlds rarest fungi. This fungi had been detected only in central Texas, two remote locations in Japan, and most recently in the mountains of Nara.

Curiosity just finished the new Uniqlo Megastore near Shinjuku station in Tokyo. I like the Tron look of the facade.

Spotted at the Pratt student show: this awesome, super smart kids toy that combines musical instruments, stacking, and bright colors all in one beautiful toy

Say hello to ModKat - an ICFF standout this year - The world’s smartest looking, most functional cat litter box. Pre-order today and save...

Overlapped circular plans result ona dynamic building sitting in front of the water, for the new Bijlmer Park Theater by Paul de Ruiter in Amsterdam.

DC snow professional Torstein Horgmo Interview, Gallery with photos from DC team photographer Nate Christenson and Video.

Stackable solar sky gardens in Mexico City.

We get a nice look inside the new Louis Vuitton /underground/ store in Tokyo. Its a temporary store and it features a completely different interior design from other LV spaces.

Fun animated music video for Jeudi 17 Mai by Montreal’s very own, Ariane Moffatt.

With “Fairy tales and legends” as the theme, world-class sculptors from ten nations. used around 2,700 tons of sand for this years World Sand Sculpture Festival.

Participate: New poster from Right Brain Terrain

Basque Health Department HQ was designed by Coll-Barreu Arquitectos located in Bilbao, Spain

The Bouroullecs tell about their creative process and what it takes to make good design in this interview.

A process that turns a production flow of traditional vegetable brushes into a new flow of shoe brushes has been implemented into the company Iris Hantverk.

children's wooden toy sewing machine by woodclinic is so cute. i would have loved this as a kid

A gorgeous ritual in which red rose petals are thrown through the oculus or eye at the top of the dome of Rome's Pantheon and flutter to the ground.

Oculus is a long distance luxury cruising yacht designed by Kevin Schöpfer with exterior similiar to the jaw and eye socket bone structure of large oceanic fish.

New animation for United Way called "Choices". The video takes the viewer through the sad childhood and teenage years of a small girl.

"Dear American Airlines" is a conceptual redesign of the horrific AA.com user experience by Dustin Curtis. Imagine what they could do with a full, totally competent design team.

For the first time in its existence the Belgian manufacturer Quinze & Milan goes concrete!
Gitta Gschwendtner has created concrete and woodcrete stools cast from moulds based on paper shopping bags...

'Knot Tied: A History of Gay Marriage Bans', stunningly clear timeline of changing laws by GOOD and Timko & Klick.

Incredible Drawings done with a magnifying glass, burnt onto driftwood by Los Stencilistas.

New Work from Blanca Gomez in shop!

PSP Go! Apparently supposed to launch at E3 this week ~

Manga maven Junko Mizuno brings 14 demented characters from her hit graphic novel, Pure Trance, to vinyl. Blind Box assortment exclusive with Kid Robot!

Beautiful Saturday of picnicking and Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic watching... the views and weather were absolutely stunning ~ inspiring to see the manhattan skyline from that perspective!

Sonogram Cufflinks ~ could this be the creepiest way to break the news to a unsuspecting dad to be?