Complete image gallery from the completely redone Cans Festival in the Leake St tunnel, London.

Researchers at WPI announced yesterday that they have discovered a method to use paved surfaces to collect solar energy!

Baumraum Tree Houses

Growth Series is made of ceramics combined with natural twigs. To be launched by Stanley Ruiz at A+: The Young Designer's Platform at Accent on Design, NYIGF - August 17-21, 2008.

Dress up your bare lightbulbs in colourful 'Bulbcaps'. Buy dozens and change them according to the mood.

IDEO site redesign ~ first in 7 years!

michael koening designed the 'koenig table lamp'
for danish company morfoso.
it will be launched during the formland scandinavian design event august 15 to 18.

Michel Gondry, the man behind some of the most inventive movies, music videos and ads out there, turns his attention to the world of comics

A compact office building in Santiago, Chile. The floor plan layout varies on each level, resulting on interesting interior circulations on which you can see the people across the building.

James Walton - interesting NYC artist with an upcoming show . I love the lines working with the images. I love how he doesn't give all the information. Something beautiful and sweet about these collages.

Can you believe the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are turning 25 years old next year?

So fun to check out the Jib Jab blog and see all the steps they went through making the Time for some Campaignin' video! (from sketches, to recordings, to inspirations)

Up for auction August 1st at 11:00 PDT is one of the hero Mattel Hoverboards used by Michael J. Fox in his most famous role as “Marty McFly” in the Robert Zemeckis classic 80s trilogy, Back to the Future.

Hype Type Studio has teamed up with the UK based illustrator and designer Si Scott, to produce a run of brand new prints.

Pretty useful if you park your bike anywhere in the city centre and value the idea of it still being where you left it upon your return.

Who's scruffy lookin'!?

Zaha Hadid´s project for the Middle East Centre in St Anthony´s college in Oxford was denied by the CABE, because of the heat it could produce in its interior. Boo.

Thinking of expanding your house? Maybe you’ve been wanting to redo several rooms but don’t know exactly where to start? Take a look at the wonderful Mydeco 3D room planner for some insight.

Format Magazine publishes Issue 45 [The Canada Issue] featuring an interview with Ted Stilson (creator of Moody Bovinyls), and more. This is one of Format's most prolific issues to date.

With its dry weather and beautiful sea, the Croatian coast of Dalmatia has become one of the hottest place to worship sun and sea.

Ooooh iLounge shares an upclose look at the new iPhone 3G's dock!

Milan Camper sales

Beautiful shots of London’s abandoned swimming pools.

The Illustrated Ape, Photographers of the Urban Apocalypse preview. James & Joe were invited to design this special one off photography issue.

Impressive live performance of typographic body painting. Watch the video !

3D Girls & Guns
Featuring three-dimensional works by Jason Snell, employing methods ranging from early stereograms, View-Masters, two-colour anaglyphs, to linear polarization.

The International Fauna Dossier describes a schaffas (Marcum-Schaffidius) as a gentle and un-aspiring creature of great mystery - this exhibition shows off 80 variations of this creature...

Gravishelf. system wich works without any hardware.

Awesome new vinyl figure designed by Michael Lau and inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Kacper Hamilton’s theatrically sinful 7 Deadly Glasses - are glassy manifestations of all your favorite sins ~ above you see Sloth...

Speak-er is a playful speaker design by Sherwood Forlee that puts the SPEAK back into Speakers.

a penguin flying... in the spot for washington's lottery...
everyone’s dreams can come true… created by Publicis in the West, Seattle...

NOTCOT is in the woods - with no internet or cell reception. If things get a bit quiet the next few days, its b/c i'm working on a log cabin in VT...

There's a yellow box with a string on it... naturally you pull it... out pops a porcelain cuckoo with a CONDOM for you. Susanne Hangaard's Cucoon

Awesome site for Doritos' new flavor. Beautifully done by Red Interactive

Oooh db clay has new super eco friendly designer wallets... in collection 3.1 there is a sweet grey on black version of their classic stampage print. [Code: notcot20 gets you 20% off]

Excellent animation in 2D/3D by Laurent Gillot for French band Sna Fu.

Loving this new desk/cable organizer from Kaiju Studios - made of walnut wood and felt

"The Pink Panther"
Very clever ads from the advertising agency Cerebro Y&R out of Panama City, Panama and art director Alberto Weand.

DON'T SPEED| Action against using speed of walking tracks in Sydney.

Wonderful illustration and design by New York based artist Zach Johnson. Most of his work is a bit dark in nature, but he does have a few pieces that aren't so dark and have turned out really nice.

Behind the scenes of Bjork's 3-D masterpiece, Wanderlust.

Swiss graphic designer Clément Gallet created "ritN eng is ded.", a communications manifesto proposing that text-speak become universal and that language be streamlined to match new technology.

Singapore Art Show outdoor campaign-check out the 3D posters

The Stitch Table incorporates steel pots into its surface for plants and other useful objects that usually just clutter up the average coffee table.

"Your kid’s knowledge could be useful. This Sat. with El Observador an encyclopedia with everything your kid needs to know about inventions." Ad by IN, Montevideo and creative director Claudio Invernizzi.