James Earl Jones performs a beautiful rendition of the alphabet on Sesame Street!

Robert Corish's beautiful representation showing how audio loops can be affected by physical processes.

During the month of October 2008, the fourth annual Art in Odd Places will present Pedestrian on 14th Street, Manhattan.

Gorgeous retro packaging from Hyperakt for Miss Jessie's cosmetics.

Cupcake Design Competition held at Ignite NYC. Organized by Bre Pettis.

Some of Akinori Oishi's characters come to life in his unusual, but cute interactive flash game "Opniyama..."

Dosh has introduced two new all-polymer wallets. They are more compact than the original wallet (post 5492) and come in an expanded colorway.

The Wrinkle Chair by ditte hammerstrom

In his Location series, Korean artist Yeondoo Jung utilises traditional prop making techniques and scenery construction to create his ideal custom landscapes.

Beck's Canvas will see 4 works of art from emerging artists replace the iconic green label in production for the first time with the works adorning over 27 million bottles in the UK.

Pauline Baynes, 1922-2008 ~ apparently she was for a long while the only Tolkien illustrator, and her work was even approved by Tolkien himself!

Jeff Jarvis' Amos blog has some great PSA's - here's "Please clean up after your dog" ~ i also love "Please mind your language" with the spew of colorfulness

High-resolution scans of old postcards -- backs included!

House at Lago Rupanco, by Beals Arquitectos in the chilean south forest. It's made out of wood, painted black on the outside, making the house disappear into the forest.

'turning the place over' by richard wilson consists of a rotating wall that turns 360º. cut in the wall of an old wine lodge in liverpool, UK

A new way of looking at pandas. Design collaboration up for voting at threadless! Hope this gets to print!

MGMT's music video to "Electric Feel" is so beautiful. I found this high resolution version. And fosheriously, I need to dance to this song stat...in a forest with my pixie friends and forest folk, of course.

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.

Stop animation of a scene from Pulp Fiction with Tomatoes. Good fun.

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

adidas just had their largest Brand Center open in Beijing. The building, made for the 3 stripe brand brings together a totally new experience. Sport Performance, adidas Originals and Y-3 under one roof.

google maps throws down a uncle sam icon for the fourth of july!

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.

Livescribe pen records your writing and relates it to the audio it recorded as you were writing. Audio quality doesn't seem great, but its a cool commercialization of an idea I first saw at CHI a few years ago.

Real world Mario question mark blocks and coins!

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.

Surfmonk ~ eco-friendly bamboo terry robes, coverups, and towels (with adorable straps)... a super cozy line that's calling out to my inner beach bum.

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

Simpleformsdesign was distinguished with the RedDot Design Award Winner 2008 with Cork Collection, a 12 cork pieces elegant collection.

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.

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

Umbrella Bows to You
Polite Umbrella is a shrinkable umbrella that enables users to morph its shape in order to reduce occupied space and to increase user maneuverability.

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

Vinyls Pulse has a sneak peek at Tokyo Plastic's Koguma from mphlabs Prototype!