Clever use of GoogleMaps as the web page of design duo James&Joe. And I love their I<3MY MUM T-shirt.

You can always count on ATYPYK for a clever design pun. Learn The Basics [via SwissMiss]

Mateus Acioli has an incredible new design & illustration portfolio. Check it out.

I love the way this umbrella lamp glows. "Umbrella Lamp provides a spectrum of lighting possibilities, from soft, reflective illumination to a brightly focused reading lamp."

Annie Vought painstakingly cuts the script text out of letters and notes. The result is an incredible tapestry of letters, lines, and shadows created by pinning the work up for display.

Really puts meaning to "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Tim Nobel and Sue Webster take piles of trash and make art into them... but sometimes the art isn't apparent until you see it in a different light.

video installation and making of's by Work In Progress

Grandburo is an awesome t-shirt and design store recently opened in Providence.

Help a child. Buy a laptop and get one free. [Editor's Note: you remember the OLPC ~ well apparently sales have been disappointing, so they are doing a buy one, send one to a child program in nov, $400]

Still Room Studios Modern Design Deck.. prints and paintings.

To make a donation, you needed to remove a form from this cardboard slipcase. When you slid out the form, the image on the cover changed: a child was magically removed from the street and placed in a safe home.

designed by asaf jacobs, israel.
portable book shelf, for a limited number of books. lets say a wheelbarrow for books

LadiesRoom - The French new social magazine

Indie lego kids head to the disco

Rollerman aka Jean-Yves Blondeau. This man is crazy.

Cool illustration from the likes of Geoff McFetridge, Seymour Chwast, Non-Format and Mick Marston in new ad campaign for The Economist

Nice design and art direction for Lush Lawn and Property Enhancement, by Struck agency

The IT Crowd is the funniest show out of England . Considered to be the next hit from England like The Office a American adaption of the show will hit this Spring, so before it's ruined get the dvd or download the original show.

On one of the cheapest, coolest adverts... Erbert & Herbert's Subs & Clubs made a spot using iron-on's on 150 tshirts to create an their animation. Hilarious, genius... and the making of is even cooler.

to add to the list of random gifts to remember... for those work-out-aholics... Push up Preston makes me giggle... see the animated gif of him in action

US Money is getting another facelift... and they are adding some color too

GreeNYC ~ the city of NY is trying to become the greenest in the country ~ and with help from huntergatherer, they have these adorable animated tv spots!

Fly Shelf by Matteo Ragni ~ floating shelves by day ~ projector screen by night!

An old electric power plant has become a museum of ancient art in Rome - Centrale Montemartini Museum

I need some "everything is ok" tape by MINE ~ go vote for it over at the cooper hewitt people's design awards.

Coolest micro-camcorder! 33 Hours Record time.

On coolest DS Stylus ever ~ i want one of these ninja gaiden swords!

RESTLESS - chopsticks that don't need a chopstick rest. Because of their shape, the tips won't touch the table when they're set down. To accentuate their graceful posture, place them so the indent portion faces upward. Designed by +d, Japan.

Malia Jensen's Sketchbooks for Architects - napkins and binding compound.

NIPPLES - glass plate

pull rabbit's ears and you will find a surprise: a very funny toilet brush....

Fridgewatcher.com is a project where people send in images of their refrigerators. It's quite interesting and fun to see what people buy and eat in different countries. It's a great source of inspiration for product designers too.

New humidifier designed by DesignPlus+

Vertu and Ferrari have released another limited edition cell phone together, this time only sixty will be made and are made with real parts of Ferrari's.

i swooned at the image of the gehry's guggenheim bilbao the first time, but have yet to make it to the city. definitely top of the to do list though!

Heinz mean Beanz. By Leo Burnett, London.

Big poster gallery for Party Print event in Lodz (Poland)

Buckingham Palace is not for sale, and why it's best not to mess with a Beefeater

CD holder - "Buy me".. I'll do it this minute.
design: Marian Lassak

Kim Keever takes a hundred gallon aquarium, fills it with water and landscape and transforms it into surreal, romantic imagery.

I never thought I would refer to a shovel as "stunning" . . . until now.

Cal Lane's work at the Foley Gallery.

A few years after its creation, Mark felt that the city was getting a bit lonely so he released some SneakerBox playmates for the other CardBoys, so now they can all shoot hoops, grind rails and maybe rob a few banks, together.

I was hypnotized by Josie's Lalaland from animator Eb Hu. (and music from Philip Shepard)

An polar station in the chilean antartic territory by ARQZE (Architecture for Extreme Zones).

Watches by vivianna torun for georg jensen... steel with diamonds.

Hagit Hashimshony, Gal Shkedi & Oleg Milstein are 3 brilliant young illustrators who got together to create the best tea party in town! thumbs up guys!