Create Not Hate is a catchy slogan but so are the visuals. These are kaleidoscopes built out of weapons.. so that youth gets the message of creativity over violence! By Zerofee.

More than 17,000 would-be plinthers are lining up for an hour long stint up on the empty fourth plinth of Trafalgar Square in London. A bizarre installation? from Antony Gormley.

Robert Bradfort, a father-of-two got tired of discarding his kids’ unwanted toys that he decided to make good use of them, and now sells his creations – each containing up to 3,000 toys – for up to $18,000 each.

Amazing recruitment site for THE SWEDISH ARMED FORCES. Made by DDB STOCKHOLM and NORTH KINGDOM. Director: Jesper Kouthoofd.

Art tends not only to discover the truth but to exaggerate and finally distort it - Matthew Nowicki

Eames Life Guard Chairs? "Obscure Design Typologies: Life Guard Chairs"

Quattro for iPhone ~ crazy metal/leather case? with interchangeable lenses?

In anticipation of the G-8 meeting in Italy, Greenpeace sent homeless polar bears onto the streets of Rome to remind the world's leaders to act against global warming.

Leatherman has a limited edition DAMASCUS WAVE! . Forged and etched process-intensive Damascus steel is featured on the Wave’s outside-accessible straight and serrated knives. Only 1000 will be produced in 2009.

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

"Use this toothbrush and i will break your arm"

Do battle with cows, dragons and, er, hamsters, plus check out trailers, interviews and downloads.

Let’s Text-Fu!

The New York Times explores building with glass. Gorgeous panes!

The installation by Massimo Iosa Ghini creates spectacular aesthetic effects, making sustainability both beautiful and feasible.

Oooh ~ Fender '57 Champ Amp has been revived!

The century's most dramatic solar eclipse is coming up on July 22, 2009. We want to share it with the world (most of whom will not get to experience it) and have fun doing it.

Amazing self-portraits by the super talented Kimiko Yoshida.

“It’s easy to achieve great things when you are a giant”. Cute video by RWE

Joseph Joseph's Spaghetti Measure ~ so cute how it opens and closes like your lens... perfect gift for the pasta loving photog?

Beautiful, delicate, bone china sculpture by artist Titania Henderson.

Ubergizmo has a hands on with the upcoming GPS option for the Dell mini 10 called Dell Wireless 700 ~ a hack free little upgrade!

Transformers tees ~ as much as i'm mixed on the film, i've been loving this super buttery soft tee when running around in a "don't bother me" mood...

The OFFICIAL high def version of Matt Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth's brilliant advert for HP - D&AD Student Awards brief set by HP - "Present an idea which promotes HP Workstations ability to bring to life anything the creative mind can conceive."

These Gas Baskets by Junktion were my favorite part of Designboom's Kitchen Ecology exhibition at Dwell on Design! See this nice db roundup!

A nice design idea from Happy Soldiers to make our city streets more beautiful one sign at a time.

'Ringbearer' is a font based on the rings of a tree, this font type in a specimen book whose pages are layers of trunk, and whose base contains a poster of the whole font!

While Pac-Man lookalike, O!CAP is not just a lampshade. But a scented silicon lampshade which when put over an energy saving light bulb, the heat of the lamp will set the aroma free.

The Target bookcase from Arketipo provides plentiful space for those heavyweight, hardbacked fashion and design publications from the likes of Phaidon and Taschen.

Stunning salvaged lights from the UK's SKINFLINT Design

new umbrella design, biomorphically inspired by the opening of a flower in the sun, echos the rib structure of a petal or leaf

To promote the launch of the documentary series American Revolutionaries, Oishii Creative brought in the prolific graffiti artist Retna to create a lineup of outdoor ads.

A small stone and wood house in the french countryside, by Meld Architecture.

Oslo plans to expand its skyline with these liquidy Crystal Clear towers.

Last week Sweden took over the presidency of the EU. During the 6 month term Sweden will be sporting a logo created by the Swedish firm with the awesome name; Bacon.

iMated - Hilarious iPhone application that mashes up two faces to see what your kid would look like.

house, by ong & ong, most attention-grabbing detail is the dark grey metal cladding on the external facade, complemented by teak strips used liberally throughout the whole house.

Simple + clever - one of those "why didn't I think of that?" creations. Draw your own clock- you can have a different one every day...

The Autonomobile concept from Mike and Maaike~ first debuted at Dwell on Design ~ the amazing design duo have stepped back and rethought the idea of a car all together. I want one!

Designed by Alejandro Castro from Pirwi, the BOP wooden bowls came as a set of multi-purpose containers that can be used for fruit, plants, toys, newspapers or other objects.

Who knew a box from Ben & Jerry's would turn into sticking my thumb into little tubs of ice cream, playing with dry ice, making videos and consuming FLIPPED OUT! Check out this intriguing new packaging...

Street public temp events in 2009. Instant Hutong project back to the Beijing districts that inspired it. Carpet surprise, fragments of the project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes.

NOTCOT has just squeezed in at #99 on the Web100 Indie 100 list!

This is PURE GENIUS. The music video for Hibi no Neiro by Sour was all shot with webcams. How could the choreograph this?

Viral version of Axe video about fisherman, his girlfriend and...a fish under skirt.