Stranger Furniture - beautiful sustainable furniture made from salvaged trees.

ROYAL/T is a playful collision of spaces- café/shop/art space - presented in stunning fusion. Located in Culver City, California, this is Los Angeles’ first Japanese inspired Maid Café.

Ben-Hur Redux! Officials in Rome are planning a chariot racing revival in the Circus Maximus.

Visionaire Magazine's 50th issue: a Goyard trunk loaded to the gills with those first 50 Visionaire issues OR a Goyard trunk loaded to the gills with 10 sets of those 50 issues. 50k$US or 150k$US

The Web in Summer 2008 ~ here's a beautiful and cheeky (yet accurate!) walk through of the state of the web this summer! by Matthew Inman of 0at.org

The design for a new waterfront development in the Italian city of Rimini has been revealed by Foster + Partners Architects.

GladOS ~ as your GPS VOICE! I think i want this one even more than the Knight Rider GPS unit.... see the video!

Were you thinking of building your own Wall-E (#11439) out of LEGO? Pfft. I mean, no, go ahead. Just don't ever put it next to this model by Angus MacLane, who actually helped animate the film.

Nike will release a limited version of the Hyperdunk in a McFly (Back to the Future II) inspired colorway.

3 print versions of the new campaign for Mir Black by TBWA Paris.

The Apple Store in Sydney opens, and the city goes crazy.

Adfunture has teamed up with quite the lineup: DITA Eyewear, Staple Design, Suitman, Revelator, Black Cross, GUE and Puma, to create this YOKA SC Edition to benefit the China Red Cross.

Even the smallest printing flaw can contaminate your whole job. Ad campaign for Mais Printing Services.

Goodbye Yves Saint-Laurent... just passed away on sunday at 71

OMG! You have to see this video! The ultimate guide for fitness: Mariko Takahashi's Fitness Video for Being Appraised as an "Ex-fat Girl" by the the pop art artist Nagi Noda. It's ultra funny!

New crazy BirdGod figure coming from Amos... how mystical and cult like...

More ICFF goodness to come ~ here's a preview of the newly launched design studio, Bond.

Iron Man's end titles sequence goes retro wireframe. Produced by Prologue.

the nytimes takes the latest waterproof backpacks for a spin.

Vision of an updated, redesigned Nintendo NES by Javier Segovia.

gamma [featuring shut up and let me go by the ting tings]... the new tv ad for ipod + itunes...

NYtimes slideshow about Stern Pinball Inc., the only remaining manufacturer in the world of coin-operated pinball machines.

Magical and beautiful snow balls created by the artists Walter Martín e Paloma Muñoz.

Inhabitat covers the green side of Milan Design Week 2008

Earth Touch! Wonderful wildlife stories told in HD video!

A bit creepy but also pretty amazing. She follows your cursor around the screen.

A super-colossal billboard with full-sized BMWs in Moscow. The surface area measures more than 1.5 acres.

Spamispoetry.com reveals authentic spam messages from your junkmail. A collection of cries for attention from the marketing gutter.
It's poetry.

Worth 1000 vintage ad competition. Also check out the 'Girls Gone Wild' one.

The Italic Poster by Eivind S. Molvaer.

The MOMA has a multi-colored vinyl floor installation as part of a new exhibition, Color Chart.

Stylo Design would likely not approve of my mashup display, but take a moment to go to their site gaze on the glory that I call: "playing with 8".It's a logotype experiment that left me smiling AND impressed.

Popurls vs. Alltop - i think popurls' Thomas Marban sums it up well in the picture on his blog (you probably need to see it larger to make sense of it) - "former apple blogceleb guy kawasaki" has no understanding of why popurls works.

A morbid animated short by Aardman Animations, the same creators of "Wallace and Gromit" and "Chicken Run". Winner of the BAFTA.

there's little not to love about a good dog show. i love the nytimes slideshow on westminster's dog show fashion.

La Salve Bridge in Bilbao, Spain. Originally designed by Juan Batanero in 1972, the bridge was recently updated with a red arch designed by French artist Daniel Buren.

"What is Art?" Surprisingly fun video of a guy in a tweed jacket wandering through Art Basel Miami talking to artists, collectors, and even random south beachers... a good one to get you thinking a bit this monday morning.

I can't help to think about the awesome Louis Vuitton suitcases from Darjeeling Limited when I see Alstermo Bruks suitcases. Anyhow, nice classic looking suitcases suited for any safari or around the world trip!

Now that the US dollar's virtually worthless, what to do with them? Simple--turn them into playthings by holding a photo contest, using various currencies overlaid with actual photos.

How cool are this 'gubble bums'? Even more, when you remove the outer box, the skeleton of each character is revealed.

Yet another beautiful villa in the Swedish archipelago. This time by Arkitektstudio Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff . It's like villa is built around the great view.

Just a tiny bit larger than a zippo ~ here's the latest in glossy tech from La Cie ~ the Tiny Disk which holds 30/40 GB and even has a cap/built in USB! See the close ups!

Engineering is the new Design. There is something amazing about a complex mechanism, especially when its function is so simple and elegant. Presenting...a blood quill pen.

LIVE from macworld ~ and it ain't pretty... Here are a few pics on how insane macworld is currently, and how bad it was this morning for regular people trying to get into the keynote. Quite the sea of humanity.

Gift Guide Day 7 ~ SNOW DAY! For all of you lucky enough to have some snow to play in, here are some toys and gadgets to help make the most of it.

24th Cartier Polo World Cup on Snow will take place from 24 to 27 January 2008 up in St Moritz!