I rounded up 10 fans to keep you cool over at Surface (my CNET Design site i'm posting at once in a while)

Love the way these zippers lock on the Samsonite Black Label rollers by Marc Newson

Marka27's Mini God Brazil series could be the dopest vinyl figures ever. Not only do they look incredibly cool, they feature a speaker in their bellies.

Sweet new image editor for the mac called Pixelmator. First serious image manipulation app written entirely in Core Image for OS X. Plus its gorgeous. Photoshop could use the competition.

Janie Darovskikh: Figurative artist who works in clay, wax, watercolor and bronze.

Bill Wadman Pledges to take 1 portrait every day for a year. Some pretty cool portraits.

"Party Timer " - device which becomes the guidebook during your parties. It will analyse and will tell to you what was at you a party, noisy or romantic.

Yesterday i fell for the Smoking Pigeon of Lower Hater

French inventor Lucien Gambarota and Wharton grad and entrepreneur Doug Woodring are bringing clean, sustainable energy to the gym using good old-fashioned manpower.

Not so into gifting traditional red hearts and such for Vday - shopping for a guy is hard... but these subtle Paul Smith cufflinks are a pretty nice solution.

In honor of Pres. Bush's State of the Union address last night, here's a very elegant tool that displays content data analysis of all the past speeches to help us connect "politics and language"

at das park hotel in linz you can crash in converted drain pipes. it must be cold in the winter, but pretty awesome overall.

Custom made Mao Beer tap by Joel Colley of 12.

For those with wiis who are going through batteries like water, i love this charging station with the NiMH Batteries and the built in rubber grip... Nyko.

how sweet would an andre oven mitt be? hehe. with medicom life entertainment and avail at colette.

This work is inspired by the curved staircases which are so much a part of Montreal's identity. Here, the staircase twists into a knot.

keep me sane, portfolio of Darren Firth

Prickly pencil furniture

benoa berger's work on agent 002. so pretty...and so full of birds. =)

Laboratory clock x-rays...

im sure ive linked to matt sewell's work before, but today, this little owl made me smile, so here he is again.

so weird, i kinda like it.

We Make Money Not Art has picked NOTCOT as the SITE OF THE MOMENT!!!

apparently water buffalo milk makes the best mozarella. who knew?

Soundstick Radio - simplistic UI

to top off the list of "p" animal words, here's every "call my bluff" watchers fav: PECOROUS. its just the word you've been looking for.

Kiddi Moto from the UK builds wooden balance bikes with the look of superbikes, scramblers, choppers and scooters.

Biscuit Tin magically fills with a random selection of your lovely public photos on Flickr so you can rediscover things you'd forgotten about from long ago. Things that made you smile, laugh or maybe even cry.

Environmental Art by Sculptor Michael Joseph Hibbard

Last month, in August 9-16, Australia’s leading design studios transformed an inner-city Sydney laneway into an inspiring, outdoor exhibition with the theme of “Humanity/Equality”, as part of Sydney Design 09.

An interview with Veronica Hebard, artist and co-founder of the new Robo Picto Art Market.

Mariù is a console table designed by the innovatory Italian design studio Altreforme.

Local architect Jeff Shelton's amazing accomplishment on a 20' x 20' lot in Santa Barbara.

Artist Yulia Brodskaya's very interesting style of traditional paper filigree - the art of paper rolling to create images

Avenel houseis design by Paul Morgan, and located in Central Victoria. This house has 4 rooms which is inspired from the rural atmosphere.

Mark Jessett makes beautiful drawings and paintings of loose, elliptical forms drawn in groups.

Awesome work by Nirmalya Chakraborty for Bose ads. Morrison, Madonna, Kishore and Elvis are drawn using music components.

Paper bookmark with a Save icon on it. You can make your own digital to analog bookmark with this neat PDF.

This image helps to explain the phenomenon of "Why Do Freeways Come to a Stop?".

Roadworkers Coffee Break by Erik Johansson (in his 2009 works)

Cache - A 3 dimensional bank account that allows you to see your account balance at all times

Some balanced and minimal new graphic works by Cristiana Couceiro.

Stephanie Syjuco's project Towards a New Theory of Color Reading translates newpapers geared to limited audiences into a more universal language: color.

Some powerful images of celebrities like Sean Penn, Robert Downey Jr, Kate Winslet & others shot by Paolo Pellegrin.

The Environmental Traffic Light is an open-source projects that aims to familiarize people with the environments they inhabit.

Escape Plan