a ring so delicious looking you could eat it. oh wait, you actually can! sliced dried fruit mixed with silver (no added preservatives!) makes lovely wearable and edible rings.

Charming stop motion animation created by UK design house Miller & Goodman using their ShapeMaker wood block set.

Takashi Murakami adds character to the May 2009 issue of Casa BRUTUS (which includes self-portraits of Murakami and a designed "Flower" plate).

While most people take photographs of scupltures, Osang Gwon makes sculptures from photographs.

Laser cut steel brings vector graphics sensibility to the furniture design world. Make sure to also take a look at Susan Bradley's outdoor wallpaper series.

Equally cool from TapTapTap is this video of the UI evolution of their skyrocketing Convert iPhone app!

Fans celebrate Abbey Road 40th anniversary Saturday August 8th 2009. They will cross Abbey Road at 11:35am, exactly 40 years to the minute since the Beatles.

James Perse's linens are AMAZING in person ~ The duvet and pillows are : One side cotton woven: 500 thread count. Other side soft, breathable cotton jersey with slight stretch.

Oooh my alma mater, UCSD, is the "First Public University to Provide Its Own iPhone Application"

Stages of Decay by Julia Solis-- beautiful photographs of abandoned theatres, ballrooms, movie palaces, and other such monuments to life and pleasure, now ravaged by time.

Hang up on the wall, cut into smaller pieces and past on the table, under bunk-beds jetting out in the night. Everyone need to feel as if in total control now and then. And now you can with this enormous switchboard.

Rockwell Group, in collaboration with Jones + Kroloff, designed “Hall of Fragments,” the entrance installation to “Out There: Architecture Beyond Building,” the main exhibition for the 2008 11th annual Venice Architecture Biennale.

"Roomba, Economics and Long-Exposure Photography"

511 Tactical Light For Life ~ SUPER bright 3 LED flash light with NO BATTERIES! and Recharges in 90 SECONDS! Also has strobe to "signal others or disorient a perp" ~ check out the video!

up coming product design brand ilio's 2009 collection will be on display at Zona Tortona, via Forcella 11 during Milan Design Week. ilio is inspired by forms of nature, adopting a playful yet functional approach to present new forms.

In a tribute to Normal Mailer and the definitive book on graffiti, Complex compiled some images and excerpts from the groundbreaking book, "The Faith of Graffiti."

"Some highlights so far, clockwise from left; Mike and Maaike's pixelated leather jewelry, BluDot's flatpack bent metal chair, Tord Boontje's lamps for Artecnica..."

david choe paints the offices of facebook. dont love all of it, but this one was pretty cool.

Samsung went all out on design with the GO netbook ~ designed by Naoto Fukasawa ~ and beautifully packaged, check out this unbox and details!

meringue rings? made of silicon - by German designer Tanja Hartmann

Swedish photographer Jenny Brandt and illustrator Jens Grönberg's online shop. Amazing prints and t-shirts.

halo is a handy light specially dedicated to light-writting - by Aïssa Logerot

Frederik Roijé was born in the eastern part of the Netherlands. He graduated in 2001 from the renowned Design Academy in Eindhoven. Here his preference to interior products was already visible.

Every single piece of the dutch design studio Tas-ka is just lovely, from their tea-cosies to their house-shaped wooden plates, but my favorite is their paper-cranes lamps... so poetic !

GrowShelter, winner of the Schuylkill Environmental Education Center Sustainable Design/Build Competition designed by Brooklyn-based design collaborative XLXS, Julia Molloy and Taka Sarui.

Love this video with THE toy photographer Brian McCarty ~ a behind the scenes of how he shoots those magical surrealistic portraits of our favorite toys...

a collection of Formula 1 steering wheels on Oobject. Shows the user interfaces of modern formula 1 cars are quite different from those of modern street cars.

Solitary Arts is the product of Geoff McFetridge and Yong-Ki Chang - with a mini skate store and tshirts, decks, stickers, buttons, and more! Love the Drifter logo.

Impressive ad by BETC euroRSCG for a Canal+ tribute to Gainsbourg. Pretty risqué from an American's perspective. Reminds me how much I miss France.

Sneak peek into the Incase design studios in San Francisco ~ see what inspires them ~ what they chalk doodle in the bathroom ~ their black and white workspace ~ and more! It's no wonder their products and packaging are as fun as they are!

Oh Incase ~ you guys and your awesome packaging... they've done it again on the packaging for the new Monochrome Slider Cases for iPhones that launched today! Check out all the details!

Man>Works>Design ~ awesome waterproof submarine usb key!

The Age of Stupid is a film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid with an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?

An innovative project for an open market in Rotterdam, covered by an arc of residences. Designed by MVRDV, the inner face of the arc has LED lighting for an ever changing interior.

A Nice Set: 34 artists from around the world were invited to design one of a kind sets of slip mats for a touring exhibition and book which would explore the way visual art and music hang together.

An addition to the "bathtub as functional art" theme: the illuminated bathtub, designed by Jan Puylaert.

Boid Interaction Toy by Klaas van der Molen ~ these little glowy balls notice when the others are around and change their lighting patterns accordingly

Incase teamed up with Honeyee and uniform experiment ~ and the result is this gorgeously NotCouture perfect laptop sleeve! Covered in safety pin graphics!

A sneak preview of Ron Arad: No Discipline, Arad's first major retrospective in the US. Running at MoMA from August 2 - October 10, 2009.

Photoforge - Awesome all in one photo editing app for your iphone. Saw a bunch of photographers saying they use it to edit their photos out in the field. Has: painting, curves, cropping, sharpening, cleaning, etc.. go see the site for a the whole list.

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

New eco-themed line of toys that help kids learn how to live in harmony with the environment.

Close up with The Dragon Scout and his Girl Scout... Love this new series from Amanda Visell and Switcheroo! Take a peek at the tiny details!

"Fashion Faces" by Bela Borsordi for online shop Yalook - a series of bizarre faces made from jackets, shirts, and more!

impressive moon bounce shox like shoes on helena bonham carter...

In between working for Nike and GNU Snowboards, Adam Haynes somehow fits in enough time to create stunning paintings of his own... he has a show that opens on the 16th at POVevolving Gallery.