I wish I had seen this for Valentine's Day, an email story, great artwork, but it looks like it's just available - facebook says there is an LA launch party this week!

Beautiful slide show of spring dresses from New York Fashion. The photos are more beautiful than the dresses themselves.

Feb14 is a quirky love story where a Giant fell in love with the Statue of Liberty.

Hot Wheels is commemorating 4 billion cars having rolled from their assembly line, and they're doing it in style with a teeny car, encrusted with diamonds.

An amazing norwegian illustrator, Mads Eriksen, makes the hilarious comic - Start.no

TosterPhone! Your minutes are toast. [Concept]

Cordylus cataphractus or the armadillo girdled lizard. Even mother nature has a cool sense of design :D My New favorite lizard !!!

"Made from solid oak with an exquisitely crafted rosetan crepe interior. Ideal for that rather mellow six feet under feeling." Kind of a creepy ad, but I guess if you are trying to sell coffins it is just going to be creepy no matter what.

cleverly designed corner frames from german company, details, are offered in outside or inside angles to fit odd spots in rooms.

extraordinary wood embroidery on 1" solid ash wood by artist nosheen iqbal.

watch your empty wine bottles transform into classical urns with these printed felt covers from tokyo's furnish, available at Molla Space.

Beautiful Angela Noonan print which is "an attempt to preserve and showcase the humorous sayings that add richness to Newfoundland culture and tradition." Stay where yer at till i come where yer to.

For those who camp - or use tent pegs - and need a bottle opener... here is a Tent Peg Bottle Opener from the kids at Red Flag Design

"My son had ideas of his own. Obay put a stop to that. From the makers of WhyBecauseISaidSo." - ads have been inescapable in Toronto! and thanks to a submission i found out who is behind it while i was posting pics!

Anneke van Bommel - i discovered her adorably cheeky 'Canadian' pieces at the freshly launched Souvenir Store in the painful "Come Up To My Room" event at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto

Papercraft Howl's Moving Castle. + various links to other sites to helping to stretch your papercraft bone.

Hansen Living introduces three new eco-friendly solid wood kitchen designs by architect Knut Knapper. Handcrafted, warm, all-natural modernism at its best.

Pi10k - This experiment attempts to convert the first 10,000 digits of pi into a musical sequence. you pick the scale or ten notes of your choice and watch it go.

To disclose the Renault Scenic which comes equipped with a portable PSP, the Publicis of Rome developed the printed showing the 'indecision' of the driver: either he plays or he directs!

Gorgeous house by Tom Kundig. The house is essentially a collection of attached wood boxes springing from three stone piers that bridge the natural undulations of a hill.

WIS design's Twine Tables - inspired by one of the oldest ways of attaching – with a needle and thread. The wire is twined through the table top, and becomes legs as well as upholding construction.

Passive Aggressive Notes - painfully polite and hilariously hostile writings from shared spaces the world over.

It’s name is “hybrid tea set”, designed by Ronit Baranga from israel for the “dining in 2015″ competition of designboom

“The Graphics of Japanese Dog” by Kazuya Takaoka and Sachiko Kuru shows off the brilliance of the Japanese bred dogs that playfully narrate this very visual book.

This cabin in Normandy by Lode Architects looks ordinary enough from the outside, but the inside is something else.

Remember London based artist INSA from #2471? He's back with a new exhibition called BUY MY LOVE

Graphic, acrylic jewelry from Paraphernalia. Made from vintage images, this is not your grandma's jewelry.

I love the portfolio/blog of Miss Tigri

"How can we be creative when there is so much red tape in Singapore?" - Innovative products from Singaporean designer &Larry.

Culinary Alchemist John Truex creates sugar blocks (cubes are so yesterday). And he demonstrates that his concoction is also functional in a cup of tea...

1 Nintendo DS + 2 Apple iPhones = iBand.

Monochromatic Fashion. NY Times article about people who like to wear the same color everyday, and none of them wear black...

I like these angel and demon salt and pepper shakers from Russian designer Yar Rassadin for Koziol

Porridge Paper's Plantable herb paper at Etsy. Love the subtle embossing!

Less than 5 days left to vote for your favorite cities to be part of the new Monopoly World Edition

Absolut Machine. Amazing robotic, web connected ping-pong tossing musical instrument, a large-scale electromechanical sculpture built by Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman for Absolut.

To promote in Russia Gmail, Google along with the agency Saatchi & Saatchi, manually created a giant gmail interface in stop motion.

Dubai...where it came from....and where its going. An interesting photo essay

About Above by The June Fox. Solar-powered cardboard planetariums hung up in various public places in Sydney.

The Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer creates new typefaces using a Moog-like analog control interface.

a 1 Minute Movie highlighting the migration from hand written letters to the internet and social networking.

KA-BOOM! Cai Guo-Qiang's gunpowder drawing.

With the aim if designing a Swedish functional house, Landström Arkitekter drew the Swedish ambassadors humble abode in Pretoria. A great 700 square meter building filled to the brim with the best Swedish design.

The map of social networks around the world more updated.

I've always held Luigi Colani's eccentricities, progressive and nature based design forms in high admiration. His website chronicles 5 decades of his work.

Embrace Lounge by Tanya Aguiniga.

3 posters by the multi-disciplinary collective We are not you.

Construction progress of the new Oslo Opera House by Snoetta Architects. The project is based on slopes, converting the roof in a massive public space.

The Sirch Babybett Suiko can be used as a rocking cradle, crib, or toddler bed. The only piece of furniture you'll need for your baby's first four or five years.

Aquala Bath Caddy designed by Luciano Lorenzatti for Umbra. Made from totally sustainable Bamboo, and has an ingenious slide-in tray to hold a glass of wine or champers while you take a bath.

Really clever ads for Right Guard from Creative Director / Photographer / Art Director: Wongi Ryu. Man he just did everything for these ads.

Piclens - FF extension for browsing images (like cover flow) on popular sites. This should be the death of the traditional slideshow.

a walk in the books up in the sky
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Lime Studio’s coffee table looks impossible from the first angle. A metal coffee table exploring triangular shapes creating a piece of expressive furniture for the domestic interior.

ARCHIZOOM presents: Julius Shulman Photographe, "A Life for Architecture", an exhibition at the Frankfurt Museum of Architecture.
February 21 - April 4, 2008.

Quickly before i'm off to sleep... here are some quick pics from tonights Opening Gala for IDS08 (the Toronto Interior Design Show) - acrobats, chocolate radiators, the veuve/porsche vertical limit (in person!)...

Sorry it got a bit quiet today ~ i kind of spontaneously hopped a flight to Toronto for the weekend... to see some old designer friends and see whats going on at IDS08!

Photos of Geoff McFetridge's work at his new exhibit, Two Lines Align.

The beautiful entrance pavilion at the Trumpf factory in Ditzingen is designed by Barkow Leibinger and the lightweight structure is by the master of lightweight structures Werner Sobek.

JaG's House by MATADOR atelier d'architecture is stunning in it's minimalist simplicity and beauty.

Seven floor, seven-star hotel built underwater at the seven hill; Istanbul in 2010. Visitors are now waiting with their seven eyes! :::.)

the LED Cellphone Concept by Tao ma, incorporates hundreds of LEDs, all of which are used to create the cellphone's striking UI. Check out the gallery to see a cellphone your plastic white MacBook would fall head over heels for.

One of each of our favorite cryptids in silhouette: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and a Jackalope

Just in case anyone missed last nights eclipse.

aton aton lends its talents to the arena of furniture design and launches elio – a series of tables, blending the original clay designs with planes of glass and wood.

possibly the coolest toy ever? KOTA the triceratops is animatronic and roars...makes me wish i was 5 and lived in america...

When you want to put flower in a usual vase, first you need to put water inside – here you have both possibilities in one – a faucet is a vase at the same time.

I'm not a fan of liquor at all but check out how amazingly fascinating this bottle of le Tourment Vert is.

"Support bras, now available." Great new ad from DDB Toronto and art director Alexandra Wells. I just find these ads absolutely hilarious, extremely clever and fantastic art direction.

Massive stencil work from Minneapolis by Broken Crow.

Over the years many companies has tried to sell the blimp as the air transportation of the future. Aeroscraft ML866 is more or less a blimp version of yacht.

Eye Candy by the Dutch artist Anne de Vries. Don't forget to check out the photo section.

Inspiring deep sea species in antarctica have just been discovered! Take a look at some incredible pictures of these new (and perhaps VERY old) creatures...

Art House is sending 500 sketchbooks around the world. Artists fill them up based on the theme of "how to save the world" and send them back. Then they are going to host an exhibition at their gallery in Atlanta, Ga in which all of the books will be included in.

More art coming out in support for Obama ~ this time Upper Playground and the Date Farmers created a campaign poster to be mass-distributed on offset posters throughout Texas... and limited editions for sale.

Modern Editions, cool new website with modern fine art photography available for purchase.

TETRICE - Make ice cubes and play TETRIS, that is fun for everyone ;-)

BEN BUTLER, New Sculptures & Works on Paper . "Furrow" cedar wood, 44"h. x 4"d. x 74"w., on view at Zg Gallery, Chicago

Music made from all the crazy apple system noises! And full garage band file available for you to have your way with as well. From 'The Cleverest'

Really nice advertising campaign from Venture Communications, Toronto. In locations around Toronto, a new campaign from travel Alberta puts people in lift chairs riding up into the Rockie Mountains.

Abstract-Ïto | The first jewelry line designed by Ora-Ïto for Christofle 2008.

Great blog of Spanish designers, which combine illustration and photography. Rbelion ~ from Valencia, Spain

Unusually designed bottles of mysterious 'Parma' wine made of exotic berries and herbs. Visual style by Raya Ivanovskaya was inspired by folk motives of indigenous peoples of the North.

A New Banksy piece was spotted in NYC, plus a brief recent history of spottings of Banksy's work in the Five Boroughs.

Wow... Amazing recruitment site to the Swedish Armed Forces... Cool tests to check you skills... Awesome

Porcelain cup with a sparkling solitaire diamond (Swarovski crystal) ring! 2-Carat Cup is packed in an elegant oversize jewelry box, so when you present it as a gift, all you see is the ring! [also seen in post #4827]

Remember Strega Nona's Magical Pasta Pot, and when Big Anthony has pasta everywhere? Here's the installation: Heute bleibt die Küche kalt, wir gehen in den Wienerwald by Marlene Haring, 2004...

Freshly unboxed ~ i just received Arkitip Issue 0044 ~ with the black glossy viewmaster and reels... and magazine too. Gorgeous! (and yes, i'm a bit giddy)

One wallpaper for the addicted to the social network Twitter!

It's cool enough that they make cars out of wood... how about pens made from wood from those cars!

Get ready for the TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE MOON!!! Weds night February 20th, 2008 ~

Cool tilted house design in Japan by TNA Architects

Alessi's 2008 Spring/Summer collection is here ~ and this is a beautiful bottle opener from the Alessi founder's great grandson! Pop-Up

if like us, you're on the search for the perfect mix of minimalism and functionality in your kitchen, then perhaps you need look no further than boffi...

Blackbird's Attackin' in the Dead 'O' Night" by shantyshawn was the recent Shirt of the Week winner over at Design By Humans - Girls and Guys versions available.

It will never be the same. Another single purpose site, but with a hypnotizing interactive road to keep you passively engaged.

Designed by Philippe Starck for Vitra, the BaObab desk is so bright and cheerful, it could cheer up any office space.

Hybrid-Home Limited Edition Large Print Visible Ghost by Brian Flynn... glows in the dark!

Corolla the X - 10th edition... that's some crest... for the Toyota Corolla campaign. Microsite looks like its for a silly reality tv show... They even have a society of Blue Bloods... the car doesn't seem to fit in well?

Ooh our friends at Radar are doing free T-shirts to share the love! "Send us an email with your size (mens or womens from Small to XL) along with your address, and we'll ship one right out! " + Share pics at radar!