Pairing of the night - A billboard in Noho ~ "Material possessions won't make you happy, or maybe they will." In elevator "home" to my room at the Gramercy Park Hotel ~ "Help Is On The Way" ~ begs to be pressed...

Award winning Polish architects Ola Wasilkowska and Michał Piasecki take over Chelsea College of Art courtyard, next to Tate Britain, for a participatory art event. "Parade: The Market of Ideas" by Critical Practice. Sunday 23nd May, 2pm-6pm.

Miffies Font is an obscure little Japanese website featuring 50 fonts inspired by 8-bit videogames with very little in the way of explanation.

ClamCase - The all-in-one keyboard, case and stand for iPad.

Australian photographer Denis Smith has pushed the boundaries of light graffiti, producing something mysterious, mythical and alluring.

London Design Festival commissioned Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram to design this year’s Trafalgar Square installation. OUTRACE is a mechanical octopus assembled from six industrial robotic arms on loan from Audi.

Concrete & Leather lamps by studio belenko!

a sneak -Iphone- preview from the just opened
TBWA Amsterdam HQ. designed by creative agency ...,staat & snapshot by Esther.

Notcot featured in Google Chrome OS mock-ups.

Contemporary artist Titus Kaphar makes canvas cutouts of European and American portrait paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries to alternate their historical message.

A peek at the Mr Brainwash Icons Remix show in NYC ~ a look at the actual street art as well as the gallery space... from graphics to creatures molded from tires to designer chairs to matchbox packaged life size taxi...

Super Sexy CPR, a strange and instructional ad by Fortnight Lingerie.

It is artistic and strange, definitely unique ceramic art by Brendan Lee Satish Tang.

Iranian environmental fiber art to be featured in the upcoming exhibit, (Re)Fashioning Fiber, at Green Spaces NY. An art/fashion showcase of eco crafting and sustainable style (photo by Sharnaz Zarkesh).

Borderline Lamp by A+A cooren designers. Two shells – one black, one white – are joined to form a sharp borderline between dark and light.

Architect Toni Girones Saderra has designed Minerva, a house extension in Barcelona. A garage, a garden, a terrace and a pool behind a light rusty steel skin.

Pulse News reader, previously #30460, went live on the App Store today. It has already broken into the top 5 iPad news apps. Developed by two Stanford graduate students, Akshay Kothari & Ankit Gupta.

You can use "Garden Bag" by Bosa as a kitchen garden or with some cactus and succulents as a wonderful decorative object. It is made of ceramic.

Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand turn the Toyota iQ into a mouse, so it could move a cursor on a giant screen and operate a computer.

Liminal Air by Shinji Ohmakidi: 123,000 nylon strings hung from the ceiling materialize the air giving it a weight and making us understand what usually surrounds us that we usually don’t perceive.

New line of stacked Baltic birch furniture designed by Laguna Beach based industrial design team Cerno.

Hellman-Chang teamed up with Swarovski to create a limited edition series of "Crystalized" tables like this Crystal Omni Side Table.

"Umberto & Luisa" clotheshangers from Soup Studio. Why stick to conventions? This typically rude Italian becomes a great coat rack.

Great new work from the creator of Domsai project, Matteo Cibic. These Mtteo Cibic Editions terrariums are handmade and extremely limited edition (just 15 each).

Inspired by the now iconic Ghost Bikes, these 'Ghost Leads' carry the message: Every hour, one abandoned dog disappears forever. All done for the Pedigree Adoption Drive.

Artist Mia Liu used Guggenheim Museum admission tickets to create beautiful intricate works of art. Worth a closer look!

Gorgeous rings, sunglasses, blazers all make up part of this week's roundup over at Notcouture.

Liverpool Biennial International Festival of Contemporary Art announces artists for Touched, the International Exhibition for 2010 Festival.

#OBJECTHUNT is on throughout NY ~ figured i should give you some visual proof that stickers are appearing... here are peeks at a few so far... more to come all weekend long...

The biggest tech advance in Iron Man 2 isn't the CGI, but the 3D printing technique that produced Tony Stark and Whiplash's armor.

The "Yes, We're Sorry We're" signs from #24187 are back in plastic form: high quality, indestructible, black and day-glo orange, and hand-printed by MPLS own Aesthetic Apparatus.

This home's 18 ft single piece oak kitchen island sits adjacent to a 32 ft glass door wall- only a couple of design features among many in this retreat compound in the CA redwoods, designed by CCS Architecture.

Very cool packaging from Wine by Some Young Punks, out of Australia. Great website too!

Your Pebbles from Korean company DesignMAXX are stackable silicone pebbles to prop up your electronics. They also have hollow backs for storage. Only available in Korea for now.

Erich Ginder’s new "Materialized" vase is the first in a series of products created by scanning heavily adorned forms with laser scanners, resulting in jewel like abstractions free of the designers hand.

Illustrator Nicomi Nix Turner's stunning new night themed collection.

Zoetica Ebb's Inform Inspire Infect Miniature Porcelain Plates Set.

How do you embroider Wonder Bread? Very, very carefully. One of a series of provocative pieces crafted from this iconic American bread. By Catherine McEver.

#OBJECTHUNT NY Design Week Twitter Sticker Hunt ~ NOTCOT + Sub-Studio, Apartment Therapy, Design Milk, Moco Loco, The World’s Best Ever, Cool Hunting, and Design Glut = fun design week contest! Chance to win a Puppy +more!

Kate Dixon's ferris wheel toy box.

Gorgeous new website and stockroom for Inventory by Stuart Hobday whose design was led by the pages of their beautiful magazine.

A day in the life of tea towel boutique ToDryFor.com - filled with colour co-ordination and cake!

Art Response's Silent Painting Protest was held in Brooklyn and San Francisco as part of a series of events geared to keep artists engaged with the world through discourse.

The Wind outdoor lighting collection by Jordi Vilardell for Vibia.