La Mian is a type of handmade or hand-pulled Chinese noodle. The process is simple enough, but when you see a master noodle maker perform, one truly appreciates the art and beauty of cooking!

Thomas Jefferson was a gadget guy. On display at Monticello.

Kenny Scharf “Barberadise” Exhibition

Creative bus stops from around the world. This fully-functional one is designed by Dennis Oppenheim and located in Ventura, CA.

I like these little handmade figurines ( especially mr. watoy) that french design Loïc Menigot made. Fun little guys!

The StrawJet transforms straw waste into building beams.

"Its mother is a scooter. Its father is a car." - The Peugeot BB1 Concept car, unveiled at the 63rd Frankfurt Motor Show recently.

GRO design and Samsung's new concept blurs the lines between fridge and furniture design.

Studio Superniche has designed a number of objects to be made from the blue plywood construction fence that surrounds the 2012 London Olympic Games site.

British design firm Channels is set to launch its latest collection of furniture and lighting – Motley III – at 100% Design in London, September 24th-27th.

Responding to a brief from the Design Museum, Poke charted the history of digital design in London.

Brilliant website that documents Nike Jordan "History of flight" – from 85 until present – with a cool graphic for each year.

MWM X ALMOND Surfboards. The 4 Elements Series. *These Boards will be noticed at the beach!

The specs for Erdos, newest model in Nokia's luxury line of 8800 phones, have leaked! Not quite a Vertu, the phone still reeks of style, created out of a single piece of stainless steel. Click for more details and vid!

Karim Rashid has completed the interior of his first restaurant in Dubai, UAE. Called Switch, the restaurant is arranged along undulating walls that change color continuously.

Compact-able Urban Bicycle designed by Victor M. Aleman to save space when it is being transported or not in use.

The Bamboo Lantern, an installation by Atelier FCJZ at the Gwamgju Design Biennale in Korea. On the outside it looks like heavy mass, but when it opens in half it reveals something completely different.

Totally nutty crazed bikini video announcing the MINI. Two Untamed. MINI Coupé Concept. MINI Roadster Concept. ~ the new secret will be unveiled today in Frankfurt! So so cute.

Modern porch swings by Rick Brown and David Cano. Bright colors, sleek design.

A gallery charting the evolution of Charles Darwin inspired tattoos

Wooden library in Japan brings mountain scenery indoors. The Yamakoya (which means wooden-log cabin in Japanese) by Ben Nagaoka was a winning project at the 2009 JCD Design Awards.

Crate man has been spotted at several places in Australia. These series of Installations definitely adds a spin to graffiti.

Mimushi presents the Series 1 wooden figures, each of which is hand-crafted and one-of-a-kind. The environmentally-friendly figures use all natural materials to create a truly unique collectible character series.

Animal testing occurs still. This commercial goes there in a vivid new way, made for Australian group Choose Cruelty Free.

'Terrible Yellow Eyes,' a collection of art inspired by Maurice Sendak's, 'Where the Wild Things Are' has spawned an exhibition at the Nucleus Gallery in Los Angeles.

London based design agency, Big Fish has redesigned Clippers packing.

An electric Audi R8 supercar? That's just what Audi teased today with the Audio e-Tron Concept. It'll be shown off at the Frankfurt Motor Show this week.

It should come as no surprise that lots of iPhone users are downloading lots and lots of apps to their phones. What IS surprising is that Android app downloads aren’t that far behind – and that, in some cases, the iPod Touch leaves both phones in the dust.

Dubai’s new metro that is 52 kilometers (roughly 32 miles) of track with 29 stations.

Bugatti 16 C Galibier Concept - Features a two-tone shell with a unique dark blue carbon fiber weave and polished aluminum doors and wings. A two-stage supercharged 8-liter W16 flex-fuel engine pumps out up to 1,000 horsepower.

Helvetimail - minimalist Gmail skin from the Helveti-apps family

Review of a must-have book for any product designer: Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

Amazing 18k gold rings that replicate villas, mansions and buildings by jeweler Philippe Tournaire. He will even create a ring of your 'dream house' from a photo. Here's an enormous gallery of these mini architectural masterpieces.

Cardboard furniture elements. Cool way to set up fairs, exhibitions, low cost and environmental friendly showrooms.

Parlour Party Old-Fashioned Celebration Garland ~ absolutely adorable and customizable - 2 boxes of 36 lettered discs plus a ribbon in each box for making and hanging a your message. Also included is a letter-pressed Happy Birthday garland!

Get your official Lego 2010 calendar - all proceeds go to charity

Absolutely mind blowing - "In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users. The videos can be played simultaneously"

In the Animated Short "The Forest" by David Scharf, the protagonist has to cope with this question and her hostile environment and finds a simple but radical solution.

Vactic is a brand new addition to HypeForType foundry. It’s the modern dot, the modern spot, it’s Spotmatic, it's Vactic!

@joshington shared a sneak peek at his media center setup with me ~ and it's so pretty to see how the phillips ambilight technology works in the real world!

This year the Bozen-based monovolume architects finished a hydroelectric power station, located near Winnebach brook in Dörfl (BZ) - a polygonal monolith whose design lives up to the studio’s name.

The latest extraordinary perfume packaging from AGONIST Parfums from Sweden. Unique collaboration with Åsa Jungnelius for KostaBoda. 40 cm high INCREDIBLE!

Mano de Desierto is a work of the Chilean sculptor Mario Irarrázabal (Uruguay) in the Atacama desert. The motive of hands rising from the ground is an obsession of Mr. Irarrázabal.

The Diana F+ CMYK special edition is a tribute to those hardworking colours Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key (black, to us normal folk), the most important shades in offset printing. When mixed together they are capable of making millions of unique colours.

Made Of Japan (TAB Exclusive Boxed Edition) by Onitsuka Tiger ~ with gorgeous laser cut cardboard Tiger sleeve and more gorgeous packaging within...

Paper dock for Iphone by Julien Madérou. You can print it and do it yourself.