A collection of photographs from IDEAS magazine (from Barcelona 1936). The collection highlights the vintage typography and lettering throughout two issues.

Will Ashford manages to recycle words ~ pages of emerson becomes artworks filled with doodles and highlights ~ bringing out beautiful images you didn't even realize could be there

Matteo Thun's Pluviae : The shower head at the end of the shower curtain rail.......simple and ingenious.

gorgeous ceramic room dividers from italian tile company naxos have a mid-century modern aesthetic.

In a new advertising campaign, Mini Cooper reminds the public that they're supporters of the Rome Film Festival. Among several clever Mini homages is this one dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock.

These Book "shelves" are wall mounted picture frames. 3 different styles, all beautiful. Produced by Presse Citron and designed by Clotilde de GRAVE and Didier CHAUDANSON. size: 40x32x8.5cm

On more reusable bag options ~ Porter has some fun collabs in nylon, cotton, leather, etc

Apple is over 30 years old... Insanely Great Tees has a "Timeline" tee!

The kindle's been reverse engineered, only to reveal some cool google maps tricks, like faux gps and fun stuff like a picture viewer and minesweeper. All on the free CDMA cellular data service. Sprint wont be happy.

Beautiful/depressing/funny portraits of the real-life people who spend their days dressed as celebrities and movie characters on Hollywood Blvd.

Australian architects keep coming up with great prefab houses. Jean-mic Perrine and his Perrinepod is no exception!

Incredibly beautiful animation by Cory Godbey found over at Zune Arts entitled "Le Cadeau du Temps" ~ and a beautiful message as well!

Liquid Image ~ digital camera for stills and vids built into a diving mask for all your handsfree underwater imaging needs. Can you imagine the other possibilities? I came up with a few.......

Rob Sheridan created demented winter wallpaper that shows a snowman as a sacrificial alter.

Logo Lounge has a great roundup of Logo Trends of 2007 ~ like dna, crests, flora, eco, bursts, bands, shrinking dots...

Mercat Restaurant in Santiago de Chile, by 01ARQ. A reconversion of a 60s house, organized around a glass strip envolving the central patio.

A short animation about two competing societies done in a cool silhouette style.
There are more to come.

LOVE this "Let's Eat Cake" painting from Brandi Milne's “Sugar & Silence” show! She paints some really cool octopi in her works

Here is one of the beautiful new pieces from Stella Im Hultberg's Thinkspace show "snow angels"

Rome's Fendi store is decked out in formal attire this holiday season!

You would be amazed what beautiful prints you can make from placing a set of pantone pens with nibs gently resting on a ream of paper for a month... daniel eatok ended up with 73.

Tile Tattoos! A nice variation to the wall stickers ~ cute way to spruce up tile bathrooms, kitchens, etc? by mibo

Vivid Audio will unveil this new bizarre shaped loudspeaker sound sytem, the G1 GIYA at next week's CES in Las Vegas. Suggested price? A measly $54,000. USD.

Toastvertising ~ a fully animated advert that was toasted slice by slice for each frame... see the making of, as well as the video for the Book of Spam.

A minimal house located along a slope. The rooms adapt to this condition, unified by a stair. With this configuration, cross ventilation across the house is made possible. By H Arquitectes.

Daniel Edlen makes acrylic on vinyl paintings that bring out the artist's portraits from their records... and it turns out i knew him as a kid! (worked for his parents) ~ and the videos of the making of are worth checking out

three dimensionl lighting system , size 4x4 meter
kabriha decoration - Israel

Grocery stores are usually not famous for good architecture. Austrian MPREIS is the exception that confirms the rule.... Great exteriors and interiors!

A new urban intervention at skate ramp by SpY

Puma's Urban Mobility range teaming up with the Serpentine gallery = a $1400 instant art gallery filled with artists goodies, and this gorgeous shiny brainy bag

Beautiful Ketubah by Oded Ezer. (I love the cut away script)

HELP! In looking ahead to 2008, trying to figure out where to be and what to cover ~ any ideas to add to the list? any interest in sponsoring an event we MUST be at?

I wish I had found these a month ago! Oye Modern has Sterling spray can pendants with a teeny, shakable paint paddle inside. Also worthy of note are the turntable pendants with real vinyl records. Great, detail-oriented craftsmanship.

The light-emitting plastic that make up the airLUCE lamps gives the lamps a interesting shape and almost eerie glow.

Nice campaign featuring tiny boxes of popcorn that say the slogan, "iPod: Movies in your pocket."

Curious what fun digital xmas cards we received this year? Where here is a roundup of some of the great designs we saw!

The port-a-bach is a relocatable cabin made from a 20-foot shipping container, complete with kitchen & bath and sleeps four.

The Nimbus Cloud suspension light comes in blue or white and would not only look adorable in a child's room, but think of many of them hanging at different heights from a high ceiling! Propylene.

The Powerblock is a modern sculptural hidden powerstrip or recharging station. It kinda looks like a mouse made a Geodesic dome for his entrance.. Designed by Jérôme LOPÉ & Johann AUMAITRE

Thank you, Rob Sheridan, for making Christmas as spooky as Halloween!

What more would you expect when Diesel, Michael Lau, and Terry Richardson team up? An incredible hong kong art show, and a larger-than-life, anatomically correct, fully-articulated action figure...

On totally random posts, this is one of them over at NOTCOT.com. and HAPPY BIRTHDAY goes out to NOTCOT co-founder, dan, who finally joins me full time!

"Uncertainty loves company" ~ ah playful drunken rambling in diesel sweeties on quantum theory... and how the world could be your lego... and schrodinger's kitty...

Trippy photography of Koen Hauser mixing real people and anatomical models...

Yujin Kaomoji ~ crazy japanese creatures that are typographic creations - part ascii art, part emoticon...

Joshua Ben Longo's cuddly but curious creations are a must-see. With felt wool monster rugs , furry monsters that have anatomically correct bums & more. The above pic is of the Longoland booth at Brooklyn Design 07