GM is offering potential Corvette buyers the opportunity to actually build their own engine (with assistance of course) as well as watch the rest of their car come together at the factory. Check out the 'Engine Build Experience' video.

Natl.tv creates this believable claymation look entirely in CG for American Express.

Martin Schmitz from german design-duo Hellauf presents his table Pixa 1. The legs are stacked up woodcubes that can be twisted the way you want it.

zipshaping at CITA, Copenhagen

Do you know the cucumber trick? To remove the occasional bitter nastiness?

Mister Gunther's Astrology Center procures your horoscope in video format. Like Mister Rogers, his creepy friendliness makes you feel cozy inside when you learn of your Zodiac.

T-System is a 22m high and extremely efficient LED-lighting system by Italian manufacturer ewo.

"Filtro Twin" faucet by Deca. This two-in-one faucet features two taps: one to supply filtered drinking water and the other for cooking or cleaning water.

Jason Ferguson's Social Gathering establishes subtle connections that link cattle feeding patterns to the dinner table. A custom half-sized steel bale feeder was affixed to an altered oak claw foot dinner table.

This week’s roundup features constructions from humans and nonhumans. It's got buildings made of speedos and monuments decorated with light sabers, pigeon suits and flip flop furniture.

Robert Ryan’s tapes. A 66 meter long illustration.

Pixel artist FoldsFive created animated gifs with a shortened 78 x 129 pixel version of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope and Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. Oh, and he did the entire Indiana Jone's trilogy too!

Enter the crazy Toshiba Labs. Two mad scientists open the doors of their universe and do crazy experiments. I love this webseries by Doctor Twins and Y&R.

Old Spice takes it further ~ following up the "man your man could smell like" comes two new ads, tshirts, fun online takeovers, and more!

Mapping Contemporary Venice - a new stage in the Detour project.

Love By Basi store in Barcelona. Young and fresh!

Pulsate - from Andre Michelle's lab - Organic and aleatoric music generation device.

Functionalab's Nutrient Tonics ~ nice clean packaging

Interesting new initiative from Amazon - Amazon Student! Free Two-Day Shipping for one year with a free Amazon Prime membership ($79 value), as well as e-mail alerts for exclusive promotions... if you have a .edu email

The Walmer loft by Dubbeldam Design Architects is a great example of a modern bachelor pad.

Absolut explores the Art of Sharing with these new limited edition artists pitchers!

Girl Scouts' re-branding by design agency OCD. Bangs and a nose job...

This limited edition chair is the first in Munna Design's Dress Me collection. It was hand-adorned with metal inspired by traditional Portuguese filigree by jewelry designer Susana Martins.

Spandex mini liquor bottle ankle concealer. A respectable way to conceal your liquor.

NY Mag has adorable illustrations of their top 25 NY Food Trucks

Today silversmiths at Georg Jensen devote an average of 200 hours to the making of each pitcher, the handles of which are wrapped by hand with silver thread.

The 'Standard' lamp torch is just an extension of the battery and change aspect every time that we change the brand of the battery. The 9v battery is also the handle, reducing the amount of material used.

A glow in the dark paint has been applied to the top edge and on the sides indicating the polarities.

Turn your iPhone into a squishy brick phone. Thank you ArkHippo.

Cool packaging and identity work for Debonair cigars made by Royal T. That's when the mustache becomes trendy (and when it makes Cigars trendy)

Peek at a new series of cute "Beautiful Freaks" of fine art prints by Stasia Burrington

All new artist designed Washbags and Eyemasks for Summer 2010 - featuring designs from Nathan Jurevicius, Nanami Cowdroy and Joe Ledbetter (pictured) amongst others.

Dita Von Teese will open a private cocktail club at Paris during just one month : Cointreau Privé.

'Travel Kitchen' by Danish company CPHsquare uses flexible water taps and drains. Ideal both for indoor & outdoor use.

Apostrophy’s created a unique pavilion at the ASA2010 in Bangkok, Thailand, for publisher Art4d consisting on five different zones: (R)ead, (R)esting, D(R)ink, T(R)ade and Pleasu(R)e.

Eastern Design Office have completed their latest project, the Mountains & Opening House in Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan.

Audrey Kawasaki's newest limited edition engraved wood brooches! Love the making of pics...

'Check' by Véronique Maire is a wall-hook and mirror for that last minute 'check'.

Cool black knife gift pack by Sagaform.

monCarbone HoverCoat Real Carbon Fiber iPad Case - made completely out of 100% real carbon fiber.

Couture Deco's Trompe-l'Oeil - Add personality to your doors.. With this authentic and well-known Parisian district landmark: Montmartre’s stairs.

Arik Levy's "Russula.MGX' organic lamp design and name is inspired by mushrooms.

'Motion' bench by Monica Forster, creates a visual wave movement when 2 or more benches are joined.

A new Apple store just opened in Shanghai, Apple's 2nd store in China. Modeled after the 5th Ave. store in NY, it features a large glass cylinder. View more photos by Roy Zipstein

'Fresh' wine cooler and basque carafe by ENO take advantage of the natural cooling properties of terracotta to maintain or bring down your wine's temperature.