Teaming with the Art Production Fund, Target is selling 80" x 70" artist-designed beach towels for $50. Featuring pieces by Alex Katz, Marilyn Minter, Richard Phillips and Rob Pruitt, these towels are a great way to appreciate art off the wall.

From The String Republic comes a hot new line of designer panties and boxers... you can even design your own!

Visionaire Holiday Coloring Nesting Toys - only 40$ - all proceeds go to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. Limited to 1000 sets. Great gift idea!

Smith and Hawken - glass rain drops... pretty...

float-a-pet. this system illuminates to help you find your pet at night and automatically activates upon hitting the water. perfect for the overly domesticated.

Reggeli Toaster- Contemporary design to suit the modern lifestyle. Toaster has been designed from observing user needs. When not in use the board acts as a lid keeping the toaster clean.

LivesConnected is an experiment in data visualization. The data tells a story, conveys emotion and illustrates the relationships between oral narratives during Hurricane Katrina.

A music video that changes according to the weather and local time of the viewer. Cool technology, beautiful video. (At least, beautiful on a rainy day in Brooklyn.) The Unseen Video, Mike Milosh's - You Make Me Feel.

Aluminum bottles for special promotions by beer and beverage companies seem to offer better marketing opportunities than glass. Also, they are lighter, have higher-definition graphics, cool faster and feel colder when handled.

Let's do some X-mas shopping. Original Fake [Editor's note: resizes your window!!]

i love this adam and eve sleeping bag. Pratt design grad Alyona Makeeva's masters thesis was titled Designing for a Better Marriage.

Next - Crichton's latest novel ~ nice cover image

Oooh black squeeze box over at Untangled Life ~ it was some sexy tech in silver, but i'm loving the black.

Just in case you missed the really fun pee&poo ad on NOTCOT.com last week ~ this is a fun cheeky/adorable swedish line of toys and clothes

Reluct highlights the new Dutch stamps designed by Staat - highlighting great dutch design classics

Dracula Car Sun Shade by Jack Spade.

We've seen lots of skateboards. In honor of winter, let's give some love to the beauty of the snowboard. Gorgeous boards by phoenix zoellick.

The KU 100 dummy head is a replica of the human head with a microphone built into each ear providing a sound image almost identical to the one heard at the recording location of the dummy head.

Wish I could go see Insa's sneaker fetish exhibition at Best (london). love the wireframe sneakers over bare feet.

Teaset from Marla Dawn design, features a unique double spout and two teacups that share a single saucer. For those oh so intimate tea occasions.

Somewhere between dark, twisted, playful, urban legends, vector illustrations, and WOW, lie the work of emil kozak ~ and i went a little picture happy over at .com

wow, and i thought i was a preparedness freak. this kit is crazy.

Barcelona studio, Emil Kozak, had a competition on Beauty, where people were had their way with an image of a blank mannequin - some very interesting results

German Daniel Grafik - some great wallpaper creatures, stamps, and pins - also an incredible illustration/graphics portfolio

get into the holiday spirit without compromising your sense of style. this mod wreath is so pretty.

Demeter Fragrance library offers product in scents as common as lavender and rose, to scents as off beat as play-doh and rye bread. [Editor's note - i guess snow scents might be amusing here in LA]

Artist Mike Libby's Insect Lab creates tiny insect/machinery/electronic mash-ups. Mounted in shadow boxes or glass bell jars...

beautiful and for a great cause... 'beads and pieces' designed by hella jongerius

Shade Elaine needs this net of scissors shirt. MomiMomi

DL&Co's Art Noveau line of fragrant candles - beautifully etched glass...

"Designed by nature, made by jewellers"
With branch details, this sugar spoon will add life to any sugar bowl, coffee, or tea service. Base material is bronze with a micron silver plating. Matte finish

Maiden Art has the solution to help you turn your jeans and tee uniform into formal wear... just pop on this collar/necklace

Multipurpose steel covered tree stumps/logs - i kid you not.

swiss handcrafted snowboards by Snowblind

Zara Phillips as the "first royal to be in an advert"... i just kind of like the juxtaposition that royals can get dirty too... and that dress look pretty interesting with that perfect mud splatter.

Happy 2nd Blogday/Blogiversary to Information Aesthetics ~ one of the most inspiring sites on the web ~ highlighting the best mix of information and design daily.

Hunter S. Thompson Has some of his photographical works on show at the M+B Gallery in LA.

Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez aka DrLakra is a tattoo artist with a twist. his tattoos are drawn over illustrations from vintage pulp magazine covers.

Mr. Eiffel's original book promoting his tower has been reprinted beyond the 500 originally printed for his friends. The original is also available in full here: http://gallica.bnf.fr/anthologie/notices/01206.htm

Modern Alchemy candles by D.L.&Co. "Tincture of Winchester", pictured, combines "a fire of wood stock, 19th century lacquer, and smoky gunpowder." Love the etched glass and packaging too.

Google Earth added Panoramio to their new Geographic Web layer, just in time for my trip around the world!

Interesting Companion ambient light/clock from Vessel (who makes the candelas, toro tissue ring, and tempo tags)

Very green ring from jewelry studio cbijoux. via swissmiss.

Secret new print by Jordan Crane - "alone with the world"

f**k tab necklace : 14K gold TAB with a 22" 14K gold fill ball chain - part of the new line of future fossil jewelry

The new Karim meets Dirt Devil KONE was more interesting in person than expected... not sure about any colors other than black and illuminated white though.