In 1940 the city of Rotterdam was bombed and the centre was destroyed. This year the border indicating the destroyed area was marked with huge spotlights.

The Serpentine Gallery in London partnered with Dyslexia Action to create NeverOddorEven to explore the relationship between dyslexia and creativity. They have a super cute site with resources for kids and teachers.

New form of TOASTER by Arthur Wu. Clean and funny concept.

Bill Wadman Pledges to take 1 portrait every day for a year. Some pretty cool portraits.

Alex Mapar gives what I believe to be arguably the best reel of 2007

"Party Timer " - device which becomes the guidebook during your parties. It will analyse and will tell to you what was at you a party, noisy or romantic.

Apparently SSD's Childhood Memories comprised of bugs and spinning tops ~ not much unlike myself.

Mountain Dew today announced the launch of Green Label Art, a limited-edition series of aluminum bottles featuring designs created by a variety of artists. This series marks the first time a carbonated soft drink will be packaged in an aluminum bottle in the U.S.

Hydrodynamic Building Set - much better than those marble rolling tracks, etc... also shade elaine thinks we should hook one up to water plants

Music video for Arcade Fire's "My Body is a Cage" using classic Sergio Leone footage. Mesmerizing.

Overlooking the overused mispelling of bamboo... love that Tom Dixon and Artek have teamed up to create an incredibly beautiful sustainable series of Bamboo Furniture.

Casalinga does some gorgeous work with porcelain, including these butterfly necklaces.

The new Star Wars Mimobots- four awesome designs in 1, 2, and 4GB. [Editor's Note: we show mimobots a bit ~ but this guy's got some nice hands on pics]

Nice little post about the design inspiration of this awesome tiki soap on a rope... and people ripping it off!

Some Ecards: when you care enough to hit send.... this one and SO MANY more hilarious cards you didn't even know you needed.

Celebrate Voyagers 30th anniversary with this selection of Space Tees

NYMag claims Smeg is the Next Sub-zero ~ and i do love my sub zero, but there's something fun about the retro red fridge too

On events i'm excited about for NY - City Magazine's Gathering on Greene is pretty high up there... the streets will be lined with FLOR carpet tiles!

Moss Acres - fascinating to me that there is a store that you can buy moss - can you imaging lining your floor with it instead of carpet?

Awesome : The new Image Mosaic Generator

Alyssa Dee Krauss old style ticket rings and other funny rings

Apple and their hip factory do it again with another stunning iPod commercial. Is it me or do these things keep getting better and better? I can't wait for the iPhone commercials.

It's not a ninja camouflage trick: that's Rosalie Monod de Froideville's Hideaway Cozy!

These mini designer chairs are exact, beautifully detailed 1/12 scale replicas of their real life counterparts and are about as close as most of us will get to owning the real things.

This guy had his mom cross stitch princess peach on his sleeve....

Potentially the only phone that has had people dribbling as much as the iPhone becomes available for pre order from this Friday May 17 - the Opus from Zenum.

Some wonderfully insane things are happening over at Encyclopedia Pictura.

This is the mac vs. pc add in Japan. Amaaaaazing.

Millimetres Matter - A small jewel of realization... [Editor's Note: Can't top laughing, brilliant war on bugs footage unlike any other]

That's not a grill, it's your next computer. Microsoft's Next Gen PC Design Competition

With clients like Taking Back Sunday and Hawthorne Heights, up and coming graphic designer, Wes Allen, has a portfolio that's more than impressive.

best product name of the day: The Instant Noodle Perfecting Timer

Beware the velociraptor menace, even if they are only 8 inches tall and remote controlled by your audience. Photos from a recent and eventful talk given by Randall Munroe, the creator of XKCD, at MIT.

Finally someone listened to the hatred of lousy social networking sites that currently exist. VIRB is a stylish, well built, stable community that has got MySpace on their toes. [Editor's Note: Virb is by the PureVolume guys and gorgeous]

QUICK! VOTE! Please? We have till noon eastern time tomorrow to decide which design gets shown in the apt window during ICFF... i'm sure you know which i like

Axn is a new thriller channel by Sony Picture for Sky Television. "Relax, if you can" print ad campaign.

The Arty Farties: The world of Art wank is poked fun at in this short animation by cult studio, The People's Republic Of Animation.

Multi disciplinary russian collective : Firma.

UFO sighting...Check out the trailer for the Sci-Fi surf flick "Invasion from Planet C!" It looks too good to be true. BLAST IT!

Kah Ra Shin: One of the great sites i have seen so far....

Wakey'z Drugmall: Hilarious website full of wake aids and sleep aids. Part of a campaign that says Sleep Number beds are better than any product that tries to make up for poor sleep.

Hair Portraits ~ this one is of great thinkers... they even have one for star wars. by Mr. Bingo.

Project by Shilo Design of artwork book and motion dvd - We Make It Good.

Where in the world are NOTCOT buttons? Send pics! Want some?

New fresh work on the folio of Adhemas Batista, brazilian designer.

"We Are All Pink" . . . which I guess refers to our insides. Tee from Threadless

The Briefbox/Boomcase from Epidemik Coalition. Quite possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen.