FEATUREDAbsolut Icebar Stockholm ~ First look at the latest design - "Factory" - officially opening today! (They change the design and menu twice a year) ~ even peeks from behind the bar!

The opening of the Panton Chair exhibition in Tokyo is being celebrated with the release of this limited edition mini version of the iconic chair in metallic gold!

1 million particles inhabit this space, an interactive installation by ENESS at Art Taipei09.

VIDEORadiator Chair, made of old radiator. See the making of movie!

FEATUREDAbsolut's 30th Anniversary of the Art Collection celebration took place in an ominous mysterious black box that popped up next to the Lydmar Hotel ~ the lighting was stunning! Also see it being taken apart...

Type For You! Public Gothic is new font family created by Antrepo and beta release is free to use in all your designs, commercial or non commercial.

This translucent polycarbonate box serves as entrance hall in this warehouse converted into a public events venue along the Bordeaux riverside.

FEATUREDGrodan restaurant in Sweden has this little red frog on everything... from menus to napkins... to the bottom of their glasses! Really fun idea for a simple way to subtly brand your drinking experience easily...

'Disco Taxi' film, directed by Carlao Busato and produced by Margarida Films, is part of the Sony Ericsson W395 Walkman campaign, created by Talent agency. A night club on wheels.

Jace Wallace, a student at Ringling College of Art and Design is beyond great! Brilliant drawings and figures!

A gallery of inflatable fake weapons used to fool spy-planes and satellites

The 41st Tokyo Motor Show 2009 currently at Makuhari Messe, Chiba City. Wow. Nissan Land Glider. The 2-seated fully electric car meant to be an urban runabout, thus extremely narrow in size to ease congestion...

FEATUREDAbsolut Art Collection ~ a few pieces took over a suite at the Lydmar Hotel in Stockholm, and while the pieces are fun, the way they are installed and interacting with the room are fascinating! (quick vid too!)

We love the new application iBonsai for iPhone. Create your own bonsai tree in 30 seconds...

FEATUREDA-Stools and an awesome custom, flexible, modular panel background ~ brilliant design at the Absolut panels celebrating the 30 years of creative collaborations! See the designs close up...

Upcycle. An old sofa remade into a rocking chair.

A maths/philosophy/art book about how the carousel is life written in equations but demonstrated with pretty graphs and diagrams (plus it all makes perfect sense)

VIDEONew York Mag Video showing the street art of Joshua Allen Harris, who makes sculpture that inflates and becomes animated when subway cars pass beneath sidewalk grates in NYC. Such a great idea!

Jaw dropping projections by 1024 collective, The content is projected via custom QC software, controlled by the musician MPC in real-time.

Watch SNAKE, play SNAKE! Watch the trailer for this year’s most blood-curdling blockbuster, and experience the terror yourself with this terrifying game.

"My Parents Were Awesome" is a blog filled with old pictures of parents. The colours are sometimes really amazing.

bamboo embroidered brooches

Blood Energy Potion looks like real blood and comes in a resealable, transfusion-style blood bag.

Tokyo based artist Yukako Tanaka created this awesome hollowed out Munny.

Xarchitekten recently unveiled their project "GKK Zahnambulatorium", located in Linz/Austria

Held Vodka born 1931 in Berlin. Nice illustrations of Siegfried and the lindworm.

Ben Turnbull is fascinated by the global dominance of American culture, and his works unsettling effects result from re-presenting the toys of our innocent youth in symbolic forms

HYPE is an application development framework that helps creative people with limited object oriented programming background create code base animation.

An alternative clip for Coldplay’s Strawberry Swing

Art director and graphic designer Allan Peters does wonderful and simple design work for advertising, logos, and so forth.

These are the first pictures of the Torres de Hercules, a new project in the Andalusia region of Spain by architect Rafael de la Hoz. The facade features the local legend "Non Plus Ultra"

Until March 1st 2010, a major retrospective on the works of Zaha Hadid Architects is being held within the salone of Palazza della Ragione in Padua, Italy.

Berlin photographer Kerstin zu Pan's SUPERVISION series. Colorful. to say the least.

FEATUREDMeet Crtl C! Just discovered some of the Brio Network collection toys in person! They are even more adorable and now there is series 1 and 1.5 ~ take a look at the whole line! Email, Search, etc as wood toys!

VIDEOLast month Creo Productions and event planner Rob Bliss came together for "100,000 Paper Airplanes and Melodies Over Monroe." With gorgeous music by Sigur Ros.

FEATUREDMental Togetherness by Truls Melin - awesome pipe dream of a sculpture outside of Magasin 3 in Stockholm

German industrial designer/photographer, Gerhardt Kellermann, has some really impressive work to show for himself. For example the Daniele De Winter Packaging Concept...

Bitossi Ceramiche will launches a limited edition of 49 Lamps from French Designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Limited edition Halloween Pepsi cans.

Check out the FedEx furniture design on the set of One Block Radius' music video.

google's clever Halloween theme 'Click or Treat!'
Click the logo for more and more candy! 3 clicks per person please. That's my candy fill for the day.

Russian constructivist architect and graphic designer Iakov Chernikhov illustrated 101 Architectural Fantasies, one of the only avant-garde art books published in the Eastern bloc during the Stalinist era.

Artist / designer Gary Garay serves up some popsicles from the west side.

SpY" website update with new interventions in Madrid, NYC, Rotterdam, Bilbao…

Italian designer Emmanuel Babled is currently presenting his work in the exhibition 'everything is going to be alright'. The show features babled's tables, lamps and objects made with marble, plexi and glass.

The Silent Giants are a 2 man design team who are quickly on the rise. Check out their new work for The Dead Weathers.

Belgian architect Axel Enthoven has designed a mobile holiday home that resembles the Sydney Opera House.

The "Type Chess Set" was created out of an old type tray and blocks of type. Each piece hand carved and represented by the first letter in their name! And even colored in black and white by the residue of ink left on top of the type.