I caught PatrickGeorge's 'A Filth of Starlings' in a shop window. Such gorgeous illustration capturing groups of animals. His other book, 'A drove of bullocks' looks pretty amazing too.

Lake Okoboji is located in Iowa. The owner of this house wanted to make a vacation house near the lake, considering the views and vacation atmosphere.

Bitly.tv ~ a fun experiment to view top videos in real time from our favorite link shortener, Bit.ly

Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG E-cell Prototype ~ yes, the iconic gullwing goes electric in 2015! See the stunning details ~ interesting dash ~ and diagrams of how it's evolving.

There’s plenty to ooh and aah over in this week’s NOTCOT.org roundup. From making of world cup balls to homemade cookie stamps, what’s not to love?

"Finish Line" is Chris Ware's latest illustration for The New Yorker magazine's Summer Fiction issue.

Amazing photographs by veteran US photographer Bruce Davidson of Brooklyn gangs in the 1950s.

HyperMac has some adorable external batteries of various sizes now in a rainbow of colors for iPad/iPhone/MBP and more!

3GATTI Architecture Studio won a competition to design an Origami inspired Automobile Museum in Nanjing, China. An external concentric ramp allows visitors to drive around the exterior of the museum in their own car.

Lys is a french art director. She makes these illustrations with collage.

PhoneSuit's PrimoCube ~ a micro battery for iphones, blackberries, and more

Upcoming book ~ Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts by Julie Steele

Dyson launches two new bladeless air multiplier fans ~ the Tower Fan and the Pedestal Fan!

Vivienne Westwood and Melissa Shoes have partnered once more to launch Mini Melissa, a range of baby shoes based on Westwood's popular Anglomania designs.

'Swype' is a new faster and easier way to input text on any screen with one continuous finger or stylus motion across the screen keyboard. By Cliff Kushler, the guy who invented T9 predictive text system.

Lotus is a reactive wall by Studio Roosgarde combining hundreds of smart foils, lamps, sensors, software and other media.

Lékué's Luki Lemon press 2 uni ~ high grade silicon for a fun little lemon press!

LG Display released an e-book equipped with a solar cell. Thin film solar cell in LG e-book has length and width of 10 cm, thickness 0.7 mm (less than a credit card) and weighs just 20 grams.

STAX O' WAX! A dope poster by stuffedcrust.net promoting Crate Kings exclusively vinyl sampling beat music mash up mix tape. Sure to please even the most discerning beat digger and designer alike.

Happy Go Skateboarding Day !!!

Awesome descriptions of the Skycam system. A flying Steadicam. It is a broadcast quality, robotic camera, suspended from a cable-driven, computerized transport system. See the videos.

SapientNitro unveils world’s first ever smile-activated Ice Cream Vending Machine for Unilever

Dekar is free font which is applicable for any type of graphic design – web, print, motion graphics etc and perfect for t-shirts and other items like posters, logos.

A nice hand-printed, minimalist bike poster. There's also a blog post link that shows how it was made.

Knoll teams up with Rodarte. Laura and Kate Mulleavy have created a line of physical fabrics for their Knoll Luxe line.

Debbie Marks, a graphic designer recently turned Gourmet food entrepreneur, and her partners are just about to launch their new Salad Dressings at the Fancy Food Show in NYC next week.

American architect Randy Brown has designed this "Lab" house for his family in Omaha - Nebraska. A rusted steel and wooden house with complex and rich volumetry.

Artist Carolina Andreoli made this chart of her 317 friends, ranked by importance and color-coded by location.

Exhibited at DMY Berlin earlier in the month, this softwood series of upholstered chairs by Veronika Wildgruber are not quite what they seem at first glance.

Slot Machines! A visual history from the 1800's to R2D2 ones to targeted advertising of today... amazing to see where they evolved from!

NOTEABLES: Handmade, repurposed, and just plain cool. These hand-stitched journals are made from the roof material of the former RCA Dome in Indianapolis. Developed by People for Urban Progress and Melissa Oesch.

The Spanish design firm Designhouses, have recently completed the Hotel Viura, located in the Spanish wine region of Rioja Alavesa.

Silhouette File produced by Plastic Art are unique and fun document folders.. Sweet animals change into skeletons when paper is put inside.

Polish designers Sylwia Kowalczyk-Gajda and Dorota Terlecka of Biuro-K have designed the SID Stool and Table.

Circle Lamp is designed by Swedish Monica Försters for De Padova. Tthe idea for this lamp was to go ”back to basic” and work with simple geometric shapes – a half circle.

Architects Cadaval & Solà-Morales added this steeply-pitched roof to an old dry stone construction in the Spanish Pyrenees to form two homes. Gorgeous.

Arbito's new Cosmic Hobo! Who knew a cosmic hobo could be so cute (though lacking bindle?)

Mugo, the first limited edition designer MP3 player and USB flash drive is finally here! 'Artist Series 1' has super limited designs by some of todays top urban artists, including Julie West, Shin Tanaka, Tougui and Yup.

If you mastered time travel and took some 2010 technology back with you, you'd have to redesign and market it to make it fit in...and make millions! San Francisco based designer Alex Varanese pulls it off.

Stunning digital art created by video game concept artist Stephane Belin.

Plastikman is the main recording identity for Canadian DJ/VJ Richie Hawtin. The visuals presented at his live tour are by far the most advanced techniques i seen used.

The BIT designed by Marc Castelló is a small plywood bike for kids aged 18 months to 3 years, designed to help them develop their balance and coordination.

The final design of the New Bus for London, based on the much-loved Routemaster has been unveiled by Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and London's Transport

Matthias Ries' Plus One is a storage container for any kind of regular shelf. Its sophisticatedly bent plywood in a simple U-shaped tube which can be attached to a shelf.