The Spyropoulos brothers explore conversation through architecture.

Underskin, a human subway map, by Sam Loman.

Fashion illustration tips from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (part I)

The Hello Project is an online creative collaboration giving people the chance to say hi, hello, or hola on one of today’s most common yet neglected canvas: the Post-it®.

Oji & Design ~ love the merge of leather and metal in this washbasin combination

The first stamp in the form of a book has been designed by Richard Hutten for the Royal TNT Dutch post to celebrate the 75 years of Dutch book week. eight pages, contains a 500-word story.

Juan Stool: Foldable. Stackable. Easy to store when flat. And it only costs $50.

Love these illustrations by Alex Varanese... [see also #28801]

It's a bed. It's a cradle. It's a cloud. Oh no, it's the Private Cloud, designed by Mkloker.

Evolution of Type Taste from Grade School to Present by Jessica Hische tells her typographic story. So what's your story?

Objective of the 'A' series: utility and refine user experience. 'A' narrow bar height table can be engaged from either direction. 'A' bench is a bar stool height long bench that keeps those seated at the same eye level as those standing.

It's a big dilemma: bottled water vs. tap water? The answer is: Bobble. Designed by Karim Rashid, Bobble is a filtered water bottle which makes tap water safe to drink. This means it's green, healthy and looking so cool!

The just-launched site, The Photography Post, has an amazing "live feed" aggregate that updates visual blog links every fifteen minutes.

BUM is a stool by dutch designer Evelien Stamhuis. Every BUM is handmade, that's why each one has an own personality. Perfect for kids and grown-ups as well.

Grass-shaped post-its that serve as page markers. Designed by Yuruliku.

Organic energy drink packaging with a post-it like sticker with a unique quote which can be pasted in your office desk. Design by Nimrod Gavish, a graphic design student in Israel.

Good Design Hotel, design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

Tristan Perich's "Interval Studies" play the notes between the notes, in 1-bit audio, all at the same time, in beautiful speaker arrays.

The Moleskine Passion Journals feature layouts oriented toward each of “life’s great passions”, with journals made specifically for wine, food, wellness, film, books and movies. [see also #25626]

Prints your current location inside of your letter’s envelope. Post it from the exact place.

Michael Johansson is better at packing than you. Much, much better.

Fascinating geometric sculptures by Antony Gormley

The Heinz Ketchup packet gets a new look and a complete packaging overhaul. "The new Heinz Dip & Squeeze product marks"first ketchup packet makeover for the foodservice industry in 42 years."

A wonderfully retro birthday invitation.

A simple yet beautiful video of a weekend adventure and the birthday of photographer, Allister Ann. The video was made with none else but the Canon 5D Mark II.

From the offices of Tadler Design, this interior for a Long Island apartment is clean cut, minimal, & beautiful.

A compiled list of the top 14 design books every graphic designer or aspiring graphic designer should read!

loving the light-pixel campaign for Shimano. Designed by Chicago artist collective REAKT the ads are featured in Decline Magazine.

An interior inspired by Legos, complete with a kitchen table covered in lego bricks!

Push your ideas! See this video for your daily dose of inspiration.

Les Dangereux is a ninja love story. Sweet!

FEATUREDThe Mercer ~ Soho, NYC ~ so many design details not to be missed in my room here ~ this is just one of many in the post! Love the way the bubble bath is measured in bubbles! See the key and magnets too!

An awesome dad hand paints these lunch bags for his kid during his lunch break at work.

Stunning post-apocalyptic landscapes by Perth-based artist Martin Wills.

Private house on the Langhe land, Cuneo Italy.
Design by Archicura.

Let it #uksnow, let it #uksnow, let it #uksnow. Truly amazing satellite picture taken 7th January at 11.50 UTC

A stunning sustainable stool concept by Nathalie Nahas, made of felt and steel.

"Jace, an artist from La Reunion, a small french island off of Madagascar, was staying with us a couple of winters back and asked if he could paint our garden." Awesome post over at brownstoner.

This flat pack stool is light, easy to assemble and transport. The distinctive characteristic of the ‘1-2-3 sit’ stool is the dovetail joint with combined folded steel and oak wood.

The Typographic Wall Calendar by Post Typography presents a different interpretation of the number “2010” each month with various illustrations.

It's amazing ads for Pantogar. "Pantogar revitalizer is your hair getting thinner?"

The MAXXI Museum previously seen at #26287 gets photographed by Iwan Baan. The views from the interiors are amazing.

The "Wall of Knowledge." A concept for a library in Stockholm, rendered by a group of students.

A new short movie created by Karl Lagerfeld showcases the story of the Coco’s unrealized dream to visit Shanghai.

Very cool new desings of a rocking chair and bar stool by design firm Supernatural Studios.

FEATUREDUp close with the NAU Down Scarf i was curious about in #5115 ~ SO comfy! And it has pockets, perfect for stashing phones/cards/cash...

Tomer Hanuka’s post-apocalyptic visions are imbued with a real sense of pathos.

Artist Mark Giglio (notcot #19296) puts a modern and colorful spin on classic Japanese Kokeshi dolls. Two of his latest characters are available to purchase in very limited quantities.

The paper company Fedrigoni 2010 calendar- a post-it style calendar with a page-per-day, a color-per-month and the user can fold the day stand up everyday, for a whole year.

French brand Lanvin continues to celebrate their 120th anniversary and will be releasing official stamps in 2010 for the French national post - La Poste.

Design studio/authors Post Typography just released their new calendar "2010 By The Numbers" featuring 12 unique lettering and typographic approaches to the number 2010.

Sailing club in Versilia, Italy. Design by progettospore.

The xylem project is neither a table, a bench or a stool; it’s a family of objects which can be co-designed by the clients, using a custom built software, to best suit their needs and tastes.

No doubt, nature paints the most impressive pictures. Here's a set of amazing photographs of giant icebergs from Antarctica and Greenland by master nature photographer David Burdeny.

Inspiring interview with fashion illustrator Nicole Jarecz, student in Miami at College for Creative Studies, fashion design section, on how to find your ideal fashion Internship while you're a student.

These WWI-era anti-aircraft hearing aids have such provocative designs!

Photographer Brett Arthur took his own vision of the H1N1 virus, better known as swine flu and applied it during a personal photo shoot of his to hopefully use as an awareness tool for the serious effects of the virus.

CHANEL brings into the open "The making of a couture outfit"

Karl Lagerfeld drawing A Quick Sketch. Awesome!

Ryoji Ikeda's "Datamatics [ver. 2.0]" premiered in the US at Harvard last night. The beauty of lots of data!

Inspiring Interview with Leigh Viner on how to create successful fashion illustrations

Screw Me is a lighting concept by recent Art Center graduate, Jonathan Rowell. A simple twist of the threaded post allows the lamp body to adjust up and down.

"The clock I can't see" is a colorblind wall clock. If you look carefully you can see the numbers, or is that your brain playing tricks on you?

Stool #9 Furniture by Brazilian Designer Rodrigo Silveira.

Last week, artist Karen O'Leary's NYC Map Cuts (#25841) were all the rage. Now she's back with another intriguing project: Paris In Pen and Paper. Check out an exclusive interview with her as well!

Forest Milk (or Shinrin no Gyunyu) is coming from a Japanese farm where cows are walking freely in a natural forest. Delicious, natural milk in a perfect designed bottle. I want some, please...

Dongyun Lee's exhibit 'Eternal Flow' is a compilation of ink & watercolor illustrations that look like a wild trip into the subconscious.

the Kurt Vonnegut backlist gets fresh new cover designs, incorporating an illustration by the author on the front of each book...

Beautiful poster designed by Cristiana Couceiro for the long waited documentary 'The Visual Language of Herbert Matter'.

Fabio Viale has crafted some amazingly technical pieces out of marble. I could have sworn these were Styrofoam. blissful. (he's also featured in #25774, but on a much grander scale)

Here is a 'closer' look at the Mini S customized by artist KR for his upcoming Hamburg exhibition (previously seen in #25854)

Both precise and imperfect. The pitch stool/side table, made from reclaimed wood. By American designer Nicolai Czumaj-Bront.

Inspiring Interview with Kathryn Elyse Rodgers on how to succeed in the fashion illustration industry.

Nice infographic looking at average internet speeds and costs around the world

This small goopy photographic series was developed during designer Paul Fuog's 2009 post at Stefan Sagmeister's Experimental Outcamp in Ubud, Indonesia. It goes by the name "Sea Creatures."

Mondrianum is a Mac plugin that allows users to access Adobe Kuler (#2214) for all applications and works like a system-wide color picker.

Through The Ages is a piece of time travel with Mini Cooper. An advertisement campaign by Am I Collective for Blackriver FC agency. Perfect visuals completed with perfect music.

Tviga Vasilyeva puts the sound of the forest back where the trees have been cut down.

CMYK broadens their audience and appeal with a fresh overhaul of the magazine (due out in November). Here's a preview of a redesigned cover...

Laser cut, RFID tagged paper radios by Matt Brown

Lovely layered wax builds up this work by Keetra Dean Dixon in collaboration with JK Keller called 'I've been thinking of you for a while.'

Two cousins (characters) from the video game Katamari Damacy, walking the Jacob Javits Center on September 26, 2009. Costumes made by Janeille Pita.

This is a must see, a great stop motion spot using yarn for Gravity Mobile co directed by Adam Avilla and Tony Benna, A brand new directing duo out of San Francisco. [also #25326]

VIDEOBison create a glitch-ridden, live performance video for Jon Hopkins using arm mounted cameras. All analogue post production; just an old TV, some VHS tapes and an industrial strength magnet.

At her 5oth anniversary, Barbie is opening in Barcelona her second shop, the first one in Europe. An exhibition will take place at the end of November. In the picture, Barbie, exhausted and post-party, with Carlota's selected work.

BumpTop is a graphical overlay for Windows-based operating systems. Check out some of the exciting new multi-touch gestures Bump Top is unveiling. Finally here after #15092

Coarsetoys vinyl toys have colorful, well-detailed packaging.

Nittonº - A stool designed to minimize material and allow maximum weight. Put it together and create patterns in the room, nineteen stools makes a circle. Designed by Karl-Oskar

the 4 young Berlin-based designers of Llot Llov presented ‘Hopper’, a kind of ready-made stool, based on the principle of the shopping baskets commonly found in supermarkets. Tension belts keep the rabbit fur on the seating in place.

FEATUREDIn 2019 when you sip the Veuve Clicquot La Grand Dame ~ think of this post, and my hard work picking grapes to help make that batch possible... see everything from the picking to the pressing...

World Famous Design Junkies do an aesthetically informative photo shoot of an eyepatch packaging on top of a kittie scratching post. The patch is discussed, the post is not mentioned.

FEATUREDInside the Rickenbacker... MUSEUM! Final part of this post series ~ you know i couldn't resist showing you the first electric guitar, and the design details of vintage guitars as well as concepts that may never be...

On the 12th September the first live performance of Longplayer began at The Roundhouse, London. The full performance lasted 1000 minutes... this is merely a fraction of that, and an inconceivably small part of the full 1000 year long composition.

FEATUREDNightLife at the California Academy of Sciences ~ so i showed you the creatures in #24705 ~ but here is a look at the interiors and the night life scene!

This Pavilion is inspired by termites, and is modeled after the inside of a termite mound.

James May and volunteers are building a life-size house from Legos in the UK, which May plans to live in after its completion [for a few days].

Sil van der Woerd just wrapped up the second music video for Lolly Jane Blue titled White Swan. For this project, Sil collaborated with a group of Gnomon students to complete the post production.

Diana Al-Hadid, Tower of Infinite Problems

The Swedish Post is releasing a series of stamps to celebrate the Swedish astronaut Christer Fuglesangs second trip into space that is starting this weekend.

Hoot Nanny! its like a retro spirograph ~ with very fun pics and packaging!

Cool - Makedo is a building kit that lets you make things from whatever "found" materials you may have lying around.

The Gaudi Stool by Bram Geenen benefits from the beam-grid substructure-style that support its thin carbon fiber shell.

The iconic post modernism housing complex Cube Houses in Rotterdam has been converted into an affordable hostel.

This clever set of chopsticks uses a small magnet to give you that satisfying feeling of pulling apart wooden chopsticks without the waste of trees. The woodpecker motif makes it even sweeter. Available from Tokyomade.

Designed by Tomas Kral, this ARRAY Stool is created from 3 repetition of single sheet aluminium. Easy to assemble & a big save of packaging cost.

Italian pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai. Design by Iodice architects.

Lost & Found stool was inspired by "a scene from the start of the leather industry in Holland: the hard labour world with heavyweight machines making shoes to last a lifetime."

In the depths of northeastern India, in one of the wettest places on earth, bridges aren't built - they're grown. See some amazing shots here!

Crafters.org cleverly rifted wry humor into their logo designs. I love how they pair brilliant copy with vintage-styled graphics.

MyPressi Portable Espresso....designed by the guys @ Elemental 8 in San Jose, Ca! Well done E8, great design and product characteristics! [see also #21118]

Woodblock post it note "log"?

Ferrari Factory Store, Serravalle, Italy.
Design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

A brand new World Famous Design Junkies collection: Rally Cars from the early 1950s to the present; Get your speedy on!

The Claytable by Erwin Zwiers is designed so that users can leave their traces, as they play and mould the table's inviting clay surface.

Introducing wooddrop14, a solid wood stool/side table. designed by a. jacob marks for n.c. based skram. shown here in lacquered american beech (foreground) and torched oak (background). available direct from skram.

A 26000 fine-stone encrusted collection of everyday objects in the mouth of a mushroom-tripping-cartoon called "Simple Things" - made by Artist Takashi Murakami and musician Pharrell Williams. [see also #22334]

MOS summer installation at the PS1 (seen in #23544 and #22870) finally opened to the public. Hut-like structures act like chimneys to cool down the area with air flow generated by the heat from the faux fur.

Blow-your-mind architectural concept from Magnus Larsson: use bacteria to create a 6,000km long wall to prevent the Sahara Desert from spreading further. Wow.

Steamer trays and wooden chopsticks are some of the most ubiquitous trash objects in China – and are thus the perfect candidates to upcycle into something useful and durable like this simple stool – by B.A.S.E

Mutant stool by Joel Escalona; comes with some extra legs.

The train station in Britomart, NZ had its platforms covered in grass for a milk TV commercial. Nice surprise for the morning commuters!

Melbourne's Recital Centre featured previously as #22565, but this gorgeous piece from Ashton Raggatt McDougal (ARM) architects deserves a second look.

greek designer, yiannis ghikas, has created monarchy, a rocking stool that is designed not to be overturned but at the same time allows the user to escape the dullness of the ultimate stability.

Fun post over at Core77 on Car Interior Design Tricks ~ all types of brilliant space savers/creators

The sandcastle stool: Basing the design on a sandcastle bucket, designandstuff created a solution which is stackable, can store other beach items, and creates huge sandcastles!

It's the Summer of the SuperVillain! Name your nemesis and illustrator Len Peralta will draw his interpretation and even post a video of the process to YouTube.

Students of University Twente are also going to streak across the Australian outback for this year's World Solar Challenge. With their new tilting solar car the 21revolution. Direct competition for the students from Delft, see post 22897

Stool, table, bookshelf; call it what you want!
Truly Multifunctional!

The perfect stool for the roadie in you! Made currently by Zanotta in Italy, originally designed in 1957 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in, you can't help but love this thing!

The Anonymous Hugging Wall in London as part of Keetra Dean Dixon ongoing series METHODS & APPARATI for Social Facilitation and Mood Elevation

Headquarter building in Milan, Italy.
Design by Park Associated and Zucchi & Partners.

It's 200 years since Louis Braille, the creator of braille was born and to celebrate that the Swedish Post has released a set of stamps. The stamps are designed by Elisabeth Björkbom and say "See with different eyes" in readable braille.

The World Famous Design Junkies post an expanding collection of photographs of the most important card in the deck: the Ace of Spades.

Design by Diplomat. Zilla is an experimental lounge chair made from a composite construction of materials that include glass, aluminium and epoxy.

The Lucky Monkey - First monkey on twitter? A real 'monkey' [chimpanzee] generating posts (every 140 typed letters generate a post). If you add him on twitter he's automatically challenged to try to type your name.

Stephen Colbert's shaved head graces this week's issue of Newsweek. Colbert was invited to be the magazine's first guest editor...

Angels, wine & cocktail bar in medieval Florence.
Design by Studiounodesign - Italy

Stool Qoffee a gigantic plastic cup manufactured by Artificial and designed in 1999 by Rainer Spehl. Qoffee can be used a stool but it can also be used as waste paper basket, container or even as a flower pot.

An interview with Ebon Heath, creator of beautiful typographic sculptures. [Editor's note: Ebon Heath's work has been previously featured as #17782]

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.

Interview with Shigeru Ban. The Finnish manufacturer Artek presented the new '10-unit system' (#21751) by the Japanese arcitect. We had the pleasure to meet Shigeru Ban in Milan...

Ok ok ~ so the OUTSIDE of my new Seashell Eee PC is pretty cute #22009 ~ but check out the dissected insides! It's amazing how they cram it all into 1" of thickness...

"Engadget Labs: The best mobile broadband carrier in America" ~ love this thorough post on Engagdet reviewing all the current options in mobile data sticks... now if only the overages and caps weren't so ridiculous...