I noticed that water bottle thing that's going on. So here's a new bottle from Austria - I actually love the shape of those, they are great to use for flowers. Can only get them in restaurants though.. ;-)

at the cooper-hewitt: "design life now demonstrates how design permeates every aspect of contemporary life and showcases the best in experimental design and emerging ideas at the center of American culture from 2003 to 2006."

written on the city captures snippets of witty urban commentary around the world. still nascent, it seems to have sf pretty well covered, and my towns have a pic or two. add your town.

Because i know how much you love to print, cut, tape toys together while at work ~ check out FWIS' Ready Mech toys...

Yes, the latest 20$ luxury water: Charity Water. BUY SOME.

Wallspankers Issue 3.
Massive Sticker-Pack Download. Over 250 designs from 80 international artists and designers across disciplines and aesthetics. --- Download. Print. Spank.

Lorenza Barrezueta (NY) made those while searching for beauty in the ordinary.

Time goes by. And it flows like sand. But this "time" in digital way. Like a dot-pixel clessidra.

Lynfabrikken + Ken Munk's "The INTurns" sure look a lot like suburban mimobots...

Postcard set specifically designed to extract your geographic information.

MSI S300 Crystal Collection laptop with exclusive ring on notebook lid, made of 120 pieces of "genuine SWAROVSKI crystal".

i have a laptop with fingerprint locking and love it. but it'd be way sweeter as a fingertrap. one of many hilarious design ideas from the kids at universitat der kunste berlin.

sean coon has had some pretty nice graffiti fridays. keep your eyes open for more street-side action.

Parking lot at Edward and Bay. Pclix was used with a Canon 350D set to Av mode at f6.3 taking a photo every 10 seconds. - sweet video

Clock Book. Karlsson design.

CONE LIGHT by TOM DIXON.Small black aluminium Cone with acrylic front diffuser.

Great series of not so traditional pingpong tables, basketball hoops, tennis courts, dart boards and more. By Laurent Perbos.

"Gas" bathroom faucet from Rogerseller.

A new line of mini luxury hotels based on japanese pod hotels and built right into the airport terminal. Branded as "Yotel" this one opens in Heathrow this spring.

Playboy in braile. I personally think it ads a classy touch to a magazine that from a design perspective is generally tasteless.

Right Brain Terrain, Alternative Motivational Posters - i am slightly distressed, b/c i've been loving these for a year at least... and swore they had been posted, and now can't find the post. FOCUS & PATIENCE i love.

Right Brain Terrain brings you Meet the Marks. Kids book? Typographic playground? It's cute and worth a flip through.

self-taught and only 19, the amazing, and most times violent, self-portraits of mitch kitter, via flickr

West Bengal India Largest Hindu Temple. Amazing architecture. Its unreal!

On impressive creativity with limited tools... this video of this guys 100 miis - many of which are part of their zombii mii armii - are worth checking out... inspiring... must go make miis.

Have a client tell you to make it more "green" + "eco-friendly"? Apparently packaging really is 80% of what it takes... interesting article from NYT

Bizarregoylz...a most interesting project that all started one rainy afternoon...

Finishing up my Wii/Nintendo theme - Bill Mudron's illustrations are playfully twisted... and rather smurfy

CRAVE is the best gadget blog - they found this set of Wii StrapOns! But seriously guys, what about the bowling?

Do you wii? Do you have great miis? Do you want to zap us some miis from your wiis? Shade Elaine and i just started wii-ing, so share some tips and miis with us!

The focus is on the alienation of bathroom furnishings from their customary surroundings and function. By david olschewski

It is a fridge design, combining with a tree branch shape storage system and several single fridges, which tried to bring the memory of tree house in our childhood to the kitchen in daily life.

via MoCo Loco: industrial and modern approaches to the seemingly ancient idea of a trunk by Pinel&Pinel. "Soprano" trunk is pictured.

where this guy gets his ideas, how he has so many of them, and what on earth they're for is all beyond me, but i know it's a wonderful way to waste many many hours. go find "dreaming" Nobody Here.

MY 2007, collaboration show at Colette, with lots of familiar artists, etc.... proceeds going to WWF, some really interesting pieces worth checking out

Amusing ANGRY! Alphabets tee

Boffi Pipe shower - so simple - strangely crude yet elegant all at once.

for the london crowd. 'CutUp are a group of artists linked by a shared desire to reorder the urban landscape through intervention and play.''

Now Uslu Airlines got together with the Berlin-based graffiti artist Emess, to create a series of t-shirts. The design is hot, hand sprayed on with the make-up colors and the Uslu Airlines airbrush.

Kawsone just announced the OriginalFake Companion: Black Version, this Thursday January 4th, 2007. Available for sale starting 2pm EST.

Although Shopsins eatery is no longer open, they maintain a very novel web presence.

very nice felt cut out placemats, there's also a bug and flower design.

Artisan's Coffee Movement - Drinks that reflect an obsession with each detail of the journey from farm to cup and an almost cultish pride in the results.

"Blow up" ring by Sigurd Bronger

SDESIGNUNIT is a co-working design group based on product design.I've designed ordinary objects such as umbrella, flowerpot, humidifier and shoes etc.

notcot spotted these calendar tags over at d*s. great hand printed tags designed by erin zamrzla.