Polyp by Helene Steiner is a laundry-basket and an ornament on the wall. Just put the laundry through the hole in front of the basket. If it wells forth, the basket is full - the quantity just fits to load the washing machine.

Never drop the teabag in your cup again. Te-A-Me by Austrian designers group "Designstudents For Rent" looks great and helps you to avoid that little tea-accident.

Rocking Teapot explores design behind intuition and perceived function. By Betina Piqueras.

From A-Z by german Sascha Grewe and his label artcanbreakyourheart are typographic stools made of plastics. All letters are available in 147 different ultraflat colours. A smaller kids version is available as well.

South African studio 'Dokter and Misses' have created a very eye catching furniture collection. Love their straight forward use of materials and minimal approach to their designs.

A gallery of futuristic American concept cars from the 1950's selected by automotive journalist Larry Edsall, author of the book "Concept Cars- from the 1930's to the Present".

Kiki van Eijk, Joost van Bleiswijk and Scholten & Baijings: Dutch designers put Zuiderzee Museum in new perspective!

This amazing Monster Chess Set is made from 100,000 LEGO blocks. The pieces are robotic and move on their own. It was designed with the help of the LEGO company itself and took 4 people a year to construct!

The “Touch Down” by designer Guo Ke is a car concept that breaks the shackles of tradition to take you at the speed of an aircraft.

Amy Ruppel gets revenge on birds that have attacked her with her "Mean Birds" print series.

In honor of the World Cup, Puma has set up shop at South Street Seaport in lower Manhattan with a shipping container installation designed by LOT-EK!

This isn't a photo, but a drawing. All made in full color with permanent marker on paper by designer/artist Hollis Brown Thorton. Part of an ongoing series.

Beautifully designed by Lea Dennison, Freud's cafetiere represents the work that Lea put into perfecting a spout that would modify the flow of liquid so that it is very nearly drip-free. Great material combination.

Adorable - Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 8" Plush Scott and Ramona set

World Cup Team Italy's magnificent Dolce & Gabbana-designed “formal uniform” for their official team trips ~ a navy suit and aviators.

At the recent Hanover Trade Show, Volkswagen presented the Milano Taxi Concept, a design study of a mass-market, compact, emission-free taxi with an electric power-train that allows for a range of up to 300 km.

Look familiar? Except, this fail whale is entirely rendered in CSS! It's also animated in Safari and Chrome! notcot says it's the new ascii art.

Stick with me baby. Pimp your Macbook with these great stickers from Herraizsoto&co.

Cashback by Vincent Jacquier, part of the 'give me more' exhibition at DMY Berlin. A bill placed on the cashback glass reveals, a stripper who begins his/her provocative dance moves. The higher the note's value, the more 'content'.

Laurie Anderson’s Lighting the Sails projects gorgeous colors and patterns onto the Sydney Opera House. Lighting the Sails remains on view at the Sydney Opera House through June 20th.

Frackenpohl Poulheim designed the humanoid
robot 'Myon', which was created by the neurorobotics research laboratory at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin within the framework of the european research project Alear.

Gorgeous packaging by Acrobat for Whittaker of Chelsea.

SHAG's amazingly adorable kid sized mid century modern "Art Shack" at the Laguna Art Museum!

Very poetic cloud and bird mobiles for children and art work exhibition. By Guillemette Lanthiez.

I’m a huge fan of Slovenian designer Nina Zupanc, and when she teams up with furniture producer Moooi, it can’t be anything but amazing. The 5 O’Clock Chair is based on Zupanc’s memories of retro furniture and English porcelain.

"Radiation Chair" and a small table by Nocc Studio are showed in Gallery S. Bensimon during the Designer's Days 2010. A wooden chair with an oversized armrest and a strange homothetic table.

Swing State RETIRED WINE BARREL SWING!

Dodge unleashed a historic commercial in honor of the World Cup match between England and the US. The 60 second spot is labeled "Freedom" and features the 2010 Challenger SRT8 (waving the red, white and blue) going up against the Redcoats.

Letterheady ~ awesome blog of letterheads!

Real world tweet street (tree?) art in NYC!

The most adorable world cup supporters image by Susu!

Electronic Popables (MIT high-low tech ) integrated traditional pop-up mechanisms with paper-based electronics to create a book that looks and functions much like an ordinary pop-up with the added element of dynamic interactivity.

Houses in "PH" Condominium in Buenos Aires are usually aligned in a very long and narrow lot, connected through a corridor. This house is one of them, designed by Pop-Arq.

"Funnel neck" by Studio-KG is a bottle top that screws on conventional PET water bottles. Thanks to its funnel shape it collects rainwater or helps to fill the bottle up with tap water while facilitating the action of watering plants.

Interesting visual texture created by the acrylic overlapped walls on Marimekko's "Lumme" office containers designed by Mikko Laakkonen.

Emil Kozak's "The Ramones Saved My Life" solo show ~ awesome pics of the show, and fun video of it going up!

Greenaid seedbomb vending machines UPDATE! A recent initiative from L.A.-based design firm Commonstudio, has been growing through L.A. and beyond, offering bite-sized contributions to more livable and beautiful cities.

beautiful illustrations by matthew lyons [Editor's Note: AMAZING! So so beautiful!]

For ‘In Progress’ exhibition, studio Wieki Somers has created 3 still lives made of 3d-printed human ashes, that question the value of life and objects using the visual language that can be found in 16th and 17th century still life paintings.

Thinkspace is pleased to present a new deluxe print edition from Brian Viveros ‘The Last Round’!

Honestly, who doesn't need a "Book of Whale Insults"?

tape installation' by design collective use/numen made of tendons of transparent multi-layered adhesive tape stretched between the columns
of an ex-stock exchange building in berlin. see previous coverage in post #31316.

"Refait" is a remake of the football WorldCup match between France and Germany 1982. Shot by Pied La Biche in Villeurbanne, every aspect of the 15 last minutes of the match carefully reconstructed - players, positions, gestures, intensity, drama etc.

The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings. A project by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus.