Virginia has some impressively fesity wildlife ~ check out the toads, canadian geese goslings, huge snakes, chickens, and more found on this little NOTCOT "vacation"

Wired Science has a great video interview with science photographer Felice Frankel. She recently had work included in MOMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition.

2008 Pritzker laureate Jean Novuel, just won the competition for the new Tour Signal tower in La Defense, Paris.

Goldsmiths graduate exhibition 2008 takes place in London. Unusual installations and artistic ideas are presented here in vast variety.

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

ASKO Creative Laundry - a new designer range of modular integrated laundry products that are made for "designers and architects" ~ hidden behind cabinets are washers, dryers, drying closests, and more...

House in Tunquen by Rodrigo Aguilar. A sleek concrete house by the beach in the chilean coast.

To commemorate George Nelson’s 100th birthday, Vitra has released a limited edition of the Pretzel Chair (orginally designed in 1952). Though Nelson is known for his furniture design, he was a well-rounded designer who explored working in many disciplines.

Even Batman drinks milk. The Dark Knight is latest to ask, Got Milk?

Why are the Swiss always cooler? the humble allen wrench is elevated to a staff of style at colette

Prince of Persia : Next Gen. Beautiful concept art !

This month, 1134 NYC teams up with NYC Art Toy Brand Thunderdog Studios to release the first ever graffiti based, wall mounted, vinyl toy. The toy was designed by Mint & Serf. Really nice!

New works by Dan May, Nathan Spoor and Brandi Milne at CoproNason Gallery opening June 7th. Previews are up and are looking good!

Rail Rider, a bicycle and an old train rail is the perfect combination to create the newest attraction all over the world. Oil free!

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

In less then a month, Spain Expo Zaragoza 2008 will open doors. Check the amazing pavillions you will find inside the expo!

Cork is not only used to isolate sound and build cork stoppers. Check the 1st cork stamp in the world, made by designer João Machado. Portugal is responsable for more then 50% of world cork, just in case you want to know!

What do you get if you take one of MC Escher's famous pictures and add the theme from Portal into the mix.

Concert, plywood and a few colored walls make up the Mon Lou Lou hair salon in Asagaya, Japan. Very clean and nice interior, and I love the front door. The interior was designed by Assistant.

the ultimate magic trick - making furniture disappear into the balcony - aka just really cool space saving design by Sandy Lam from Vancouver.

King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture by Snøhetta

There are only 1300 tigers left in India. A fresh perspective on the problem

19 skydivers spelled out the word Honda in three minutes and 20 seconds for UK’s first live tv promo, inspired by the car manufacturer’s new advertising strapline: “Difficult is worth doing”

By simply pointing their mobile phones at blotchy black-and-white newspaper ads, consumers could bring to life colorful 3-D animals during a campaign by Wellington Zoo in New Zealand.

Which would you rather have trailing behind you: carbon monoxide or BUBBLES? BLOOM is another cheeky entry from the design21 competition, where the bubbles contain spores/seeds that sprout where it lands. The video is cute too.

Christie's will be holding a Pop Culture Auction next month. Some great stuff in there, definitely worth checking out!

The movie: BOMB IT - The global graffiti documentary by award-winning director, Jon Reiss - features street artists and top graffiti writers from 5 continents (i.e. Taki 183, Revs, Revok, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, Cope, KRS-One etc).

Cast bronze. By Paul Julius Martus.

A new flat-pack birdhouse by Canadian designer Thomas Rasmussen.

Flute Handles: brillant idea of bicycle accessory, by Joseph Kim.

Improv Everywhere has struck again ~ this time - "700 agents lined the length of the Brooklyn Bridge a week before its 125th birthday. In the rain and cold we created a wave of camera flashes across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan."

One of the worlds last remaining tribes that have never had contact with the modern world were photographed by aircraft and are seen pointing their bow and arrow weapons at the craft in defense!

In the video for their latest single "Gobbledigook", Sigur Rós teamed up with amazing photographer Ryan McGinley.

Tokyo-based design studios CURIOSITY, TONERICO and creative visual studio WOW held a collaborative exhibition ‘Tokyo Wonder’ in Milan during Salone del Mobile 2008. WATCH the amazing video!

This great looking easy to read chart helps you determine which plants are best suited to cleanse the airborne toxins plaguing your place.

Watch the time-lapse movie below to see it in (quick) action.

Great new packaging by Timex. The packaging is made of Polystyrene and ABS with 25% post consumed material.

Designer Yves Behar is already working in a top-to-bottom redesign for the of the XO laptop (also known as the $100 laptop). Here some pictures of what they are planning for the early 2010.

The centerpiece of Melbourne Museum's new exhibition is the Dynamic Map, designed by ENESS. A feat in projection technology and installation art.

Sheep Poo Paper - “These delightful eco-friendly air fresheners are made from the finest and freshest sheep poop from the rolling green mountains of Wales…”

ken goldman's bird houses are inspired by vernacular architecture found throughout Israel. You can reach ken at info@biblicalbeasties.com

Caranbachel by FOA - A compact volume building where all the apartments have double orientationwith terraces in both sides, protected with bamboo louvers.

it may be poop, but guano is big business in peru.

Another mythological creature of north america ~ manac trucking's Flying Moose! Which has a great legend behind its origin!

Harder Better Faster Stronger ~ this daft punk song has been the theme song getting me through the last few weeks of craziness... fun shirt by Monsieur Steve

Mike and Maaike have taken on Charcoal and the old messy bbq process with their new product for Lazzari, where the packaging for the coal becomes a part of the process, and is completely recycled!