Occupy Design, a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement.

A map of the change in immigrant population across American cities.

Philographics, a series of posters to explain complex philosophical theories by Genis Carreras.

Sideshow Press's picnic basket invitation for a private dinner gathering of the finest chefs in Charelston, South Carolina.

The extremely portable Doxie Go scanner.

Magnetic & iron filing type by Dominic Le-Hair. The font is created by cutting rubber magnets, then shaping the fillings between pieces of paper.

123KLAN Engraved Sk8 Boards.

Jonathan Brilliant creates full-room, site-specific installations from thousands of coffee stir sticks, as well as, coffee cup sleeves and covers.

New Zealand public service campaign posters by Clemenger BBDO in Wellington.

Sako Architect’s new Radial office in Beijing has left no PMS color ignored. Slick, lacquered white surfaces meet bright pops of crimson, fuchsia and lime green.

FEATURED The Pie Hole ~ Downtown Los Angeles's newest pie shop just wants to "do right by the pie." They have a cute shop full of a great selection of rotating handmade-from-scratch seasonal pies... and one filled with mac and cheese.

Incase's Terra collection made from natural materials with playful oversized zippers.

Cool Hunting takes a look at Jennifer Wood's Deadly Dictionaries, based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

VIDEOTeam Loro - Beautiful shortfilm with singing, skydiving parrots, by amazing swedish animation studio Meindbender. (HD definitely recommended)

VIDEOCooper-Hewitt’s Icy New National Design Award Trophy and the story behind the award.

Stunning new offices of design firm No Picnic in Stockholm, Sweden.

VIDEOChris Harrison's OmniTouch turns any surface into a touchscreen. The prototype uses a body-worn projection/sensing system to capitalize on the tremendous surface area the real world provides.

Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible. Interesting project which algorithmically determines if a piece of text is positive (“I like cheese”) or negative (“I hate cheese”) to create Kurt Vonnegut like story shapes backed by quantitative data.

FEATUREDAvocado Witches Fingers, Cider Apple Chicken and Harvest Sours are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

VIDEOLed Zeppelin Ladder by Arthur Analts.

Pantone Xmas ornaments from Selab.

FEATUREDThe Foldboat at the Dock in london ~ amazing to see it in action as well as how compactly it can be flattened.

Ugly and cute at the same time, here are 7 birds for Twitter.

DMesh by Dofl Yun does a beautiful job of using Delaunay triangulation to put a geometric spin on some old-school paintings.

One of Dev Harlan's beautiful light sculptures

A couple of tablets, boxes and a lamp can be fixed in this wall mounted board. The final product is a clever, well-designed multi-functional space.

Animal sculptures made from Louis Vuitton bags by British artist Billie Achilleos.

FEATUREDBaggu goes LEATHER! With large and small versions of their traditional reusable shopping bag style and two zip pouches available in black, apricot, and platinum leather!

FEATUREDGif Back - Kinky Beatles LCD Mash-Up: Random nonsense from the world wide intertron. Gifs collected from the web - cut to a mash-up of The Beatles, LCD Soundsystem & The Kinks.

The Space Beyond Me by Julius von Bismarck and Andreas Schmelas is a project where the projector moves in exactly the same way in which the camera moved. The UV image trail is strangely beautiful.

'Ipe' modular bench and stool by Luca Nichetto for Mabeo.

Exciting new artworks from Famous When Dead.

Old gym mats and gymnastic bench form the basis for this bank. German label 'Zur schönen Linde' strikes again and brings old stuff to a new gorgeous life.

The green way to transport your precious in style. The Johnny Loco Cargo cruiser.

Researchers at Rice University working towards creating a synthetic biologically inspired camouflage based on their study of one of nature's best camouflage artists, the squid.

VIDEODesign, only for humans? Care for Cows by Andreij Nylander is a product that improves the living situation for dairy cattle. The design was awarded the red dot award: product design 2011.

'The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott' taken around the 1910-13 South Pole expedition’s winter quarters on Ross Island.

VIDEOTrip Print Press & The Making Of FreshSox.

Stanton Wiliams' new UAL Campus for Central Saint Martins at King's Cross.

'Work Hard and Be Nice to People' by Anthony Burrill. Beautiful limited edition prints on red.

"NEVER FOREVER ...", a visualisation of empires, capturing all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to today representing each empire as a slice in the pie beginning with a known start (+) and end (×) date.

VIDEOAdorable animations in this Pop-tarts or Joyalicious ad

Beautiful underwater photography by Mark Laita in his latest book, Sea.

VIDEOMaterials researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have developed a highly conductive silver ink.

Baker D Chirico, a bakery that is designed to look like a bread basket in Melbourne.

The Naturalist Almanac, beautiful print from Free Time.

Sumo from Bluelounge acts like a paperweight for your cables, preventing them from dropping over the edge of the table.

Passing Cloud by Tiago Barros ~ fun concept of a cloud zepplin like contraption!