The Guardian has rounded up a 2011 Year in Review in photos as told by Legos. Some of this year’s biggest news stories, from the Royal Wedding, to the Occupy Wall Street movement, are seen with Lego characters.

Urban Flipper – Interactive pinball machine with 3D projection mapping

Concept vending machine with a great see through digital touch screen display.

Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý, Jan Simánek, and Vladimír Turner transform a rotating billboard into a merry go round ride in their project 'kolotoč.

Too cute ~ Singing Christmas Hedgehogs ~ from Birdbox Studios

GLOWBAR! Yes ~ a green ~ glowing ~ crowbar.

Beautiful Blackbird Soap Cubes

House Industries' Alphabetic Equestrian for Maison Hermès in Tokyo

District Millworks out of Los Angeles CA, is hand making custom Shuffleboard tables from reclaimed oak set on steel with industrial era throwback base.

Just in time for the new year, Porta's first coloring book has arrived on their tables. With an original story and hand drawn characters, they couldn't wait to show it to you.

'Mak House' in Maules - Switzerland by Bonnard Woeffray Architects.

Dot to Date, the dot-to-dot calendar by Dan Usiskin.

The Fastest Christmas Card in the World from BMW M shows an illustrator trying to draw while a new M5 whips around the Circuit de l'Anneau Du Rhin.

Cartier is to release the Cartier Skeleton Pocket Watch this year. The limited edition piece includes a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, and monopusher chronograph.

"Odette" paper window installation by Mandy Smith in collaboration with 180 Amsterdam. One of the only traditional Christmas windows in Amsterdam this season, visible on 506, Herengracht until January the 5th.

Ditching the printed card, ad agency Marcus Thomas is letting friends spin the Wheel of Holiday Destiny and win something great from our office. From a Rick Vaughn bobblehead to one of our client’s glorious products to a donation to another client’s foundation.

Embroider your own calendar this year with the 2012 Tea Towel Calendar DIY Embroidery Kit.

'Waterblock' glass bench by Tokujin Yoshioka in Musée d'Orsay - Paris.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #22: Skip Hop is giving away Jonathan Adler Duo Diaper Bag, a Jonathan Adler Pronto! Changing Station, a Soapster, a Moby, a Ducky spout cover, an Octopus ring toss, a Starfish stay-put stacker, and a Turtle Island play set!

KLM Passport is a travel blog, picture postcard, and snapshot slideshow - in one handy app. Share them directly via Facebook or export movies to your phone’s camera roll, for other sharing options.

Plans to construct the second-largest structure ever built by man in efforts to detect subatomic particles sent from the far reaches of outer space. It is to be anchored 3,200 feet beneath the Mediterranean.

COLOROMY - A giant 3 meter long coloring page! No more just coloring in the lines, now kids can express themselves alone or with friends, without limits!

Images of New York in the 1940s by iconic film director Stanley Kubrick.

Road Inc. for iPad is a unique digital experience, designed like an imaginary interactive museum that plunges the user into the universe of automobiles that have created their own place in our collective imagination.

Google's newest offices in London, designed by Penson.

Rachel Cannon's infographic style 2012 Calendar Poster.

Michael Canfield's beautifully edited Field Notes on Science & Nature published by Harvard University Press.

Firefly forests, Svalbard seed banks and Bohemian romance are all part of this week's roundup from Notventures.

For Christmas this year, Mother’s Psychic Tees. 100 blank T-shirts have been given to LA psychic Lucinda Clare, who uses her gift to predict the destiny of each future T-shirt wearer, to be printed on each tee.

Designer, entrepreneur and sustainability warrior Yves Behar's must-have holiday gift list

A monkey is casually enjoying his banana in the jungle when he suddenly gets captured and thrown into space. MonkeyMoon! by Eric Villeneuve, Antoine Rouleau, and Emmanuel Gatera.

This series of photographs entitled Albinos by Gustavo Lacerda, photographer based in São Paulo. This series has received several awards and was published in the collection Pirelli/MASP and Porto Seguro Photography.

The picNYC table brings picnicking indoors with a tabletop of grass, soil and stones.

At Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana the first extensive retrospective overview of Niko Kralj’s work, his design career and the role he played in the development of design in contemporary Slovenia.

A look at the year's best 'Internet of Things' projects.

Korean artist Sang Sik Hong makes impressive large scale sculptures from drinking straws.

'Lost in Lace' at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, beautiful collaboration with the Crafts Council and University for the Creative Arts.

Soon we may be able to feel textures on our touchscreens thanks to Disney Research’s TeslaTouch and EPFL's research into electrovibration technology.

Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson's adorable spaghetti measuring tools.

House in Masaki by Hayato Komatsu Architects.

TOKY Branding + Design's holiday packaging for Panera.

Daniel Eatock discusses his work Felt-tip Prints (2011), part of the Walker Art Center's exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production.

Sculptor Zhan Wang conceptualizes the depths of the galaxy in his latest exhibition My Personal Universe, at the UCCA.

A hybrid chair combining a light and comfortable methacrylate body with four strong oak legs.