The CIA Calendar for 2011 is here! Love the weekly illustrations adorning my desk the last few years! (CIA = Central Intelligence Agency!)

Fred Brain Freeze! Forget perfect ice balls, perhaps brains are what's needed in my scotch.

The hybrid BMW Vision EfficientDynamics will be produced by the german brand to be available in 2013.

Wonderful short movie about Linen - the creation of the fabric - and how noble a fiber it is.

Crazy Frenchman rides a bike on fire

Flavorpill's list of their 10 favorite letterpress studios

San Francisco wheatpaste project— video documented from start to finish—aiming to encourage California residents to go out and vote Yes on Prop 19.

Hard to improve on something as exquisite as the Audi R8 V10 but that didn't stop Anderson Germany from taking on the task. Racing Edition bathed in carbon fiber, red trim accents, boosted with horsepower and high-performance mods.

Assa Abloy's technology turns your mobile into a key to check in and out / unlock hotel room's door. World’s first complete mobile key service utilizing NFC (near field communication) technology.

Wonderella! Here's a great one on surfing and how only boy super heroes can cry... Yay for webcomics!

Papier-mâché stacking chairs, by Stefan Gougherty while at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Screen-Grabography: Skype chats have never been so fun. Check out a few of the best screen grabs.

Located inside a warehouse loft of 1400 sf with no partition, this project is a house within a house.
The design engages two architectural issues: inside/outside and S/XL.

Joshua Bronaugh paintings often are large in scale, focus the obsessions of memory and emotion, almost always pushing the human figure to the edges of representation and, in some instances, far into abstraction.

The image above may look like some sort of loosely woven rug, but it’s actually a creation of Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten, and Bob Waardenburg, the trio behind We Make Carpets.

Lost In Sofa - Very creative, design by Daisuke Motogi Architecture provides a comfy couch and on each side of the sofa can be used to insert objects that we use often.

Happy 5th Anniversary, Thinkspace Gallery!!! If you're in LA, the opening is tonight! Amazing pieces in this celebratory group show!

Cake or Death - Moya - A french illustrator I like. Nice and simple illustration work.

Moe(saic) - A Simpson's classic by David Schwen.

Eye of the Tiger - New Limited Edition prints & pillow from one of the UK's coolest new artists - Hidden Moves.

Pauline Bastard's Beautiful Landscapes, a series of collages made of recycled material

Mykea! If you're a fan of IKEA you'll love this. You can now add a whole new look to their more basic lines of furniture with these fun prints by Mykea.

Juergen Mayer H.'s Metropol Parasol is currently being built in Seville. The following images of the giant raised canopies were taken on site recently!

The last campaign for Scrabble by Ogilvy & Mather.

Pick Punch = DIY guitar Picks! Punch them out of credit cads, nylon sheeting, and more!

Production of Raven's Wing Field Notes notebooks.

Design duo Bear and Lion (based in Brooklyn, by way of San Francisco and the Netherlands) is winning notice for their furniture comprised of crisp angles and clean lines.

Alex Garnett's 'goliath' pendant skull lamps are made of bone china

Randall turns old iMac G4s into beautiful lamps and clocks.

A new Tarot Card deck features cards by 78 different artists, including Karl Lagerfeld, Terry Richardson, and Steven Meisel (above).

The OMFGCO Thing Maker poster! Hand-cranked in a limited edition of 50 by Michael the intern.

Wine Finer! This ingenious Danish design combines four functions into a single slim product - Filter, Aerator, Stopper, and No drip pourer.

Davina Pardo turns the story of "Minka", the farmhouse in Japan restaured by John Roderick and his son, Yoshihiro Takishita, into a short film : "a meditation on place, architecture, memory and the meanings of home."

Quite an amazing and creative idea by French industrial designer Arthur Senant that actually combines everyday life conveniences with a warmth of fire, to create not just a stove but a place.

Reverse Pressure Cooking ~ Over at H20visions we explore the emerging world of cooking with extremely low pressure... a world of Gastrovacs and rotary evaporators!

Incredible paintings by Mike Davis.

Cute tea packaging for Fairmont Hotels & Resorts by Up Inc.

Jawbone's Jambox, bluetooth wireless speaker and speakerphone.

The Morgan Motor Company are about to bring back the legendary Morgan Threewheeler. The 2011 Threewheeler is a fusion of modern technology into a classic design.

Solderin’ skaters turns the Nokia n900 into an interactive skateboarding game by recording real skating.

'Way Up High #2' art print by photographer Christina Shaffell.

Who would've thought that simple metal sheet pierced furniture can look this cool, and that it can look even cooler when partially upholstered in leather. Great pieces by Studio Batoni for Esedra Italian Design Studio.

Brand new A3 prints, limited edition of 10, for sale by Renato Pequito at the shop.

Unboxing Lelo INSIGNIA ~ the latest line of luxurious pleasure objects has just launched, complete with a brooch of their mysterious symbol... waterproof, discreet vibrations, beautiful packaging and more.