On today's olympics theme, love the mashup of high fashion and sports ~ great slideshow at NY Times, this is Alexander McQueen for Fencing.

JVA designed this particular community building with resting facilities in Kleppstad, Norway. Located on an amazing landscape, the building looks like a stone from behind, blending with the surroundings.

LOVE money? HATE money? Either way, this print is the perfect remedy for your economy blues...

Good Wood "Give Back" is a skate deck art show out of Detroit that is currently stopping in Brooklyn. 50 decks are being auctioned off to benefit Stoked Mentoring. Online auction includes decks by Leo Espinosa, Keetra Dixon and more

Very interesting concept of portable park by Kevin Van Braak.

FLASH is a forthcoming 'pop-up' restaurant at the Royal Academy of Arts in London from the guys behind ultra-cool Bistrotheque.

East London: street art creating an evocative ensemble combining Chinese propaganda poster images with contemporary mottos. By Pure Evil.

"..and I will strike down upon thee with GREAT hard drives!" Check out the Vincent Vega hard drive (amongst other really cool ones) over at Meninos.

Ridiculously 'Old-Skool' bicycle from Pashley (no relation!)

The haunting work of Markus Neidel

Awesome intro movie for the online portfolio of Carl de Keyzer.

DesignBoom looks into the history of the foam hand! Thats the first one... ever?

The New Project for the Tate Modern in London.

The new campaign for ATR AIRCRAFT by 31ème Arrondissement

On great packaging and what i can only imagine to be delicious scents ~ Pierre Hermé (god of macarons) has launched two candles: Sucre de Bois (Woody Sugar) and Herbe d'Amandes (Almond-y Herbs)

New Zealand artist Guy Harkness has a nice mix of work on his online gallery

Cocktail Kingdom has an incredible collection of authentic reproductions of vintage cocktail books... the covers are awesome!

Nike will be releasing it’s brand new ground breaking Swift suits for the Olympics this July.

Reformations: Cool work by artist Adrienne DeLoe. All of these acrylic paintings incorporate real pieces of nature such as flower petals or butterfly wings.

Getting ready for 4th of July this weekend ~ here's a roundup of bbq/beach/pool party attire from NotCouture!

Earth house projects from Erdhaus, swiss architect and team. Looks like a modern version of hobbit holes. I love it.

Sten, Lex, and Lucamaleonte--stars of Rome's street art scene--take on Dante.

The Eleven Eleven Lincoln Road project in Miami, Florida. Designed by Herzog & De Meuron.

Taiwan’s first high definition station recently launched, and these abstract and dark idents for HiHD are meant to represent the “Lifeless, chaotic SD world” and its transformation into the “new era where a HD generation arrives.”

ATYPYK's Sugarcubes ~ shaped as chocolates!

'buch mit amphitheatralischer einrichtung' (book with amphitheatrical furnishings) - 2001 work by the german artist hubertus gojowczyk. Designboom has great coverage of Art Basel 2008

Jackalope spotting! I found the cutest friendliest little jackalope while wandering through St. Johnsbury, VT ~ check out this all american myth and the little town i found it in!

Marc Jacobs is on the cover of Interview magazine and they gave him a Warhol make-over, as he is named by them the new Warhol!

Excellent idea of print campaign about the "Verbal Abuse".

Kino Guérin's Estrella table: a clean, simple design, ingeniously constructed.

Allessandro Cidda ~ close up portraits of action figures... Fenomeni Galleria Uno ~ here's bond.

Addictive game of the morning... Pixel Jams - Dino Run! Its so cute, and i can't stop playing... who knew racing away from extinction could be so adorably addictive.

A preview of Banksy's work that will be auctioned off during the Contemporary Art Sales in New York over the next couple days

Tuka Tuka Land is an amazing kindergarten designed by Baupiloten.

A floating residence for salmon workers in southern Chile. It floats over a big concrete block filled with salmon food.

Really cool condom packaging by Ampersand Design

from cube to dining table! this little thing is great for small spaces, too bad it's only available in Japan! buy it at dinos.co.jp

RuMe - here's an early earth day sneak peek and hands on review of the latest reusable bag option launching tomorrow...

The hand crafted leather Arista Case by Orbino for the MacBook Air is based on the same principle as the manila envelope in the intro commercial for the product. But this comes in many colors, has a silver lock and nice strap. Starts at $349. USD

Automakers logos evolution

More Johnny Lee genius (see #9871) This time he rocks everyone's minds at The TED Conference. He'll even have his technology featured as an Easter Egg in Steve Speilberg's "Boom Blox."

Canon presents 'neoreal' - this will be a large exhibit held at the triennale di milano that will show off the work of japanese designers tamae hirokawa, junya ishigami, hikaru mori.

Their fire can't be extinguished, even by wind, as this evocative Zippo advertisement shows. Agency is FP7 Doha, Qatar.

Action of environment developed by LeoBurnett of Colombia, to promote the product of dermatological treatment against fungi, Canesten of Bayer.

Some guys are writing on tape they put on public signs, just to make word plays. IN FRENCH

The Big Dog walking robot got another spooky update. Make sure to check out the part where it tries desperately to stay balanced when walking on ice.