The Netherlands have the most dense bike lane network in the world. Next to a building site a contractor placed a row of containers to keep the Dutch bikers going.

Artist Ron van der Ende creates fantastical works out of wood, foreshortening the world for a clearer vision. Also he's got a great manifesto on taking control of you internet identity as a self-employed artist!

No iPad, no problem. The #1 News reading application, Pulse, is soon coming to iPhone. Awaiting Apple's approval. [Ed. Note - nice NOTCOT.org cameo!]

Kicherer has just unveiled the Mercedes SLS Supersports Black Edition featuring aggressive body kit, matte-black paint job with black wheels, interior laden with plush maroon, and engine boosted to 620hp.

The premise of this short film is to represent the digital tools and interfaces we use daily in an analog way. Video produced, filmed and acted by Meltmedia

Muti Randolph's Cube, part of today's Creators Project launch event in NYC, consists of 9,600 animated light spheres that alternate between reacting to visitors’ movements and synchronizing to sound effects in a 3D space.

Justin Kemp proclaims his love for the internet at a scenic overlook on top of a mountain. Do you love the internet as much as he does?

With the AirPenguins, the engineers from Festo have created artificial penguins and have taught them "autonomous flight in the sea of air". On display at London's Southbank Centre's summer science festival until July 4th.

Photograph-like sculptures/paintings by Chris Beas inspired by Ayrton Senna's career including his fatal crash in San Marino on diplay in LA til July 8th.

This summer, Smirnoff Red creates the event in collaboration with Vitalic, the French artist of the electro scene, to revamp its famous bottle.

Leave it to the Swedes to design and build a curvaceous and elegant prefab house out of timbers. Check out the circular floorplan!

Swedish designers Kisa Widén and Anna Irinarchos from WIS Design have designed "Croquet". These furnitures are made of small wooden pieces and inspired by "croquet" game.

Andre Herrero photographs David Yoo S/S collection. Classically tailored with technologically advanced materials.

SP-7 is a knocked-down table designed by Schwab/Panther. The design is very simple but customizable.

OR², is a new installation by Orproject which was constructed for the London Architecture Festival in front of the Italian Cultural Institute. It is on show at Belgrave Square until the 4th of July.

Sleek facade for the University of Waterloo’s School of Pharmacy, designed by canadian architects Hariri & Pontarini.

from the lacasasullalbero experience, now abitalbero tries to grow his horizons. treehouses, eco-architecture, landscape design.

Stephen Doyle creates more dollar bill illustrations for The New York Times Sunday Book Review.

Very colorful color-wheel umbrella is just the thing to beat rainy day blues. $40.

Star Wars pancake molds!

Artist Fielding Archer adds furniture design to his portfolio with the introduction of the Heron collection of outdoor furniture. Stunningly beautiful and Made in the U.S.A.

Vancouver Island design company, Hired Guns Creative has designed beautiful packaging for Venturi Schulze Vineyards.

Virgina Tech's LumenHaus wins the European Solar Decathlon. They did it with a design that can fully adapt to the weather conditions around it.

ephemeral installation called : "Poor little trees" made by Steven Burke in the south west of France

Love these funky BYO-Build Your Own wine that was created as a unique Christmas gift clients of The Creative Method agency.

Art Direction student Dan Nelson has created a simple, yet powerful campaign for Swiss Army Knives.

Zweiheit means something like twolyness. Kathrin Jilg combined a walnut board with a classic kitchen towel to the perfect sofa-picknick-accessory available.

Catalog Living is an amusing blog which simply captions the arcane obviously staged living furniture catalog photos with hilarious OCD and neurotic results. NEW!

iPlunge! For your iPhone!

Core77 Speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4! Love the making of manufacturing shots!

Beautiful "Alice In Wonderland" Poster by Olly Moss

Brilliant! Heat Shrink as Joints! By Nicola Zocca at the RCA final show

Google loves the Vuvuzela ~ when you browse South Africa on StreetView ~ the little guy has one now!

A first look at Pole Dance, installation at the PS1 part of MoMA's Young Architects Program. Pole Dance opens this week and will host a series of summer events, under a canopy supported by poles that can be rearranged by the visitors.

App for iPhone/iPad and online interface that uses previous user input to generate meaningful responses to your instant messages.

Queens-born urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, and then deposits them in random locations around the city.

Alex & Chloe ~ Tiger Shark Necklace!

Modular TENSION TABLES by Belgian designer Alain Gilles recently presented at the Galerie Gosserez's opening in Paris.

Bird Pot is the very first coffee pot bidhouse ever. Looks a little bit like it can be found in Alice's wonderland. By Kathrin Jilg.

511 miniature figures representing all walks of life, genders and ages walk alone in a crowd just beneath the surface of a table by Rolf Sachs called Alone in a Crowd.

The Marina Bay Sands in Singapore welcomes visitors for the first time to the 'sands skypark', a 380 meter-long roof top deck which spans the length of the complex's three skyscrapers. Designed by architect Moshe Safdie.

Blue Point Architecture recently won a Pasadena AIA Merit Award for their renovation of 326 South Greenwood in Pasadena, CA.

Ehrlich Architects have designed the Leonard Residence in Los Angeles, California.

The Hansen Family is a furniture-label by Gesa Hansen. The label produces small handmade wood ateliers using ecologically grown wood in it’s best quality.