Landmade cork journals from Michael Roger Press.

Video of chalk lettering master Dana Tanamachi at work on room 1021 of the Ace Hotel Room NYC.

An amazing breakfast in the beautiful Imperial No. Nine garden at the new Mondrian SoHo in NYC... the garden motif taken from entrance to bar is gorgeously fun ~ and so much glass and light!

Grand Slam, new video from Nowness gives a new take on table tennis. Created by filmmaker/photographer Matthew Donaldson and Korean table tennis champion, actress and former model Sooyeon Lee. Amazing film.

Getting Upper: Graphic Designers and Artists Reconsider the Alphabet. Curator Amos Klausner charged 26 designers with re-imagining a letter from the alphabet. At the Pasadena Museum of California Art opens on Sunday thru Sept 4th.

Treintafel, a train table for designers by Tomm Velthius.

Manufactum Schwenkgrill Rohstahl (Raw steel pivot grill) and Feuerschale Rohstahl (Crude steel fire bowl) - great, simple design - beautiful details!

Tangram States Postcards from The Midnight Umbrella Studio.

Bistro Coffee pot by Nick Munro.

138 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 40x40x40cm by sound artist Zimoun. Check out the video!

Jayde Cardinelli illustrates the thrill of the chase at San Francisco's Bay to Breakers.

Leviathan, new work from Anish Kapoor commissioned by the Ministry for Culture and Communication for Monumenta 2011, from 11th May to 23rd June.

100%BOX consists of the transformation of a garage into a single level, one roomed residential dwelling of 41m2. By FABRE/deMARIEN architectes

Kids -- future urban planners? -- play with 'city building blocks' at the New Museum Education Department and Rockwell Group’s Imagination Playground during the Festival of Ideas in NYC.

Paul Smith and Kashimax collaborated to create the stylish Aero Saddle.

How would you explain a kindle to Charles Dickens? Rachel Walsh designed 40 miniature books and placed them inside of a Victorian version of a portable reader – a hardcover book.

Mistral Ceiling Fan by Moooi. A cool, bright idea-literally. Under the drum shade lies not just a light, but a functional fan. The light shines through a cut-glass diffuser for a prismatic effect.

Lumenscape from Urbana is a public art project commissioned by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. It is an investigation of the inclusion of touch and desire, as relevant, attainable qualities into the built environment.

Bundle by Brooke Woosley is a glassblown pendant lamp that was inspired by sloppily tied newspapers held together by twine.

"There’s Star Wars, and French intellectuals can tell you all about the Sartre Wars, but — say, what if you smushed them both together? Et Voila!"

Neutelings Riedijk Architects just opened the new MAS Museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Here are images from a helicopter tour!

'Mede' coffee table by Italian designer Paolo Cappello.

Creme Cycles is a new European company manufacturing classic quality commuter bikes. Creme, with it's timeless style, gives the pure pleasure that comes from riding a bicycle.

Faggötteen aims to be an ode to slowness and wandering, to the kind of mobility when baggage was essential. The wooden stick has been obtained from pruning a fig tree which otherwise would have been thrown in the rubbish. Bindle!

Faggotteen is intended to suggest a different interaction between man and object - in which each part is involved – following the current trend that reclaims the slow elegance of activity, far from industrial rhythms.

Travel inspiration abounds at NotVentures whether you’re dreaming of getting lost in Java, exploring southeast Wales or heading out an Alaskan expedition.

'Donald' is a stackable chair made of bended and entangled steel tubes by Benoit Deneufbourg.

Baby sea turtles and a herd of elephants ~ awesome pictures we just got from Sri Lanka

Japanese robotic firm Yaksawa teach robots how to use lightsabers.

Bakfietsen are like the SUVs of bikes ~ super cargo bikes ready to haul whatever you can fit in them ~ see some of the amazing models i found at Rolling Orange.

What better way to disguise a murphy bed than to disguise it as a TARDIS! If you nap in it - you even wake up in the future!

The Euthanasia Coaster, by Julijonas Urbanos, is designed to take the life of a human being 'with elegance and euphoria'.

New work by Argentine artist Guillermo Jones.
Project Codes.

Customized Tableware is a click away with Shapeways 3D Printed Glazed Ceramics.

Portsmouth University 3D Design student Savio Ku has designed the £20 Cardboard Desk.

Brand new 'evil' tea, sugar & coffee storage jars from Thabto called Lex, Seth & Carrie. Their eyes tell you what's inside, and their heads have room for the handle of a spoon.

A preview from Art Amsterdam 2011: MVRDV's "Museo La Curuña" at Cityscapes Gallery's booth.

SIARA - Stream your world. Siara creates an internet radio station at the push of a button. Turn a place into a station.

Rotary evaporator made Worcestershire sauce infused tomato water - A peek into the Hudson Hall science lab of a kitchen with Chef Jasper Schneider. Check out the video!

Awesome Nobrow packing tape design by illustrator Ben Newman!

Ornithological letterpress coasters by Ryan Todd.

Nike iD's have created a real-time customized billboard in Copenhagen. Christel Winther's winning design was painted on a giant billboard by local artists. Great video!

Designed by Andrew Simpson Architects, the Scape House twists in all its geometric wonder towards the natural landscape.

Flat Table Peeled designed by Jo Nagasaka of Sschemata Architecture Office using a layer of coloured epoxy which was poured onto a wooden surface in which the grain had been peeled out to create different depths of color.

Andrew Thomson's Buckminster Fuller tribute light- the geodesic campaign pendant!