Handmade from a single block of cedar ~ and wheels from mahogany... love these italian toy cars by To Be Us

A Measuring Gaggle ~ while hunting for the nesting black and white giraffe measuring cups, i discovered these bone china geese...

French designer JEAN-MARIE MASSAUD’s concept for a floating hotel, the glorious whale-shaped “Manned Cloud” promises to be a transcendent thing of beauty should it ever reach the clouds.

Konica Minolta lets us indulge our obsession with the Venus de Milo at their new Museum of Beauty - it's full of fantastic images of the sculpture made with a non-contact 3D digitizer.

Another variation for reusable bags ~ go felt with Illu Stration

This is an interesting excerpt from AIGA Paperbacks: U.S.A. An Exhibition of Covers (September 1959 /April 1961).

Designed by Philip Grushkin

Incredible film where - 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the timewatch program "Bloody Omaha"

Finnish artist Ilkka Halso depicts a future where nature becomes an attraction due to its rarity.

Rumor has it .... SPORE is coming... and EA is now launching it simultaneously for mac and pc in 2008!

A house/studio for a brazilian architect in Sao Paulo, by MMBB Architects. A concrete cube that stands on a delicate structure for an outstanding effect.

Ice Cube ~ a project out of hamburg asking you to all join in and add some ice...

The Secjo vanity is a wild combination of a full length leaning mirror, with working sink (faucet and basin) as well as electrical lamp. Not yet available but in production. By Alta Marea of Italy.

Signalnoise - The art of graphic designer James White - Flickr

The echo park time travel mart. Need a day , a week, a year then come here. One of five stores of the 826 project .

Handpresso ~ bicycle pump + expresso packet + hot water = expresso on the go? The nice design coupled with the hilariously suggestive french couple in a movie theater ad makes it worth checking out.

Engineering is the new Design. There is something amazing about a complex mechanism, especially when its function is so simple and elegant. Presenting...a blood quill pen.

UPDATED! Dan got us some hands on shots of the MacBook Air ~ close ups of all the tiny details i was curious about ~ like the power adapter connection and the ports, etc...

LIVE from macworld ~ and it ain't pretty... Here are a few pics on how insane macworld is currently, and how bad it was this morning for regular people trying to get into the keynote. Quite the sea of humanity.

Great post and video at the Pentagram blog about their latest redesign of Dairy Today magazine... its incredible what a glam portrait cow covermodel each month can do.

Crazy one use credit card sized microscopes... available in 5 packs of x500 and x1000

Liking the look of Stelton's Super Charger designed by Designit~ many have tried various charging pot designs, but this stainless + plastic with a slit is grabbing me the most.

One Less Desk ~ an interesting super minimalist desk design from Heckler ~ particularly for the mac fan boys, but the idea of two thin desks like this for various configs is pretty sweet if you're not into desk space

So there it is ~ popping out of a manilla envelope ~ the macbook air. but EVEN CUTER? The actual music video of yael naim's "new soul" that is used in their ad

A medal/pin to "celebrate the memories of endless epic battles, infinite high scores and numerous blistered fingers." Console Wars I pin by Super Mandolini

1selfmeter: elastic ruler for emotional measurements.
A "subjective ruler" to take measures with mercy and irony.

Napkin produces freeze-dried towel and t-shirt. It could be a cool gadget.

Elegant and stylish lingerie. The lacemaker is a new Argentinian brand with some impressing designs. [Editor's Note: beware, its hard not to crack up at the music]

Ross McBride's computer tower faces concept gives PCs a personality.

I feel like hanners on gongs tonight. Brain... no... worky. but big apple keynote tomorrow bright and early, are you anxious? Is your apple sense tingling?

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future. Interesting gallery of Braun products compared to products from Apple.

The Design Museum announces its choices for Designs of the Year - some obvious, some pretty quirky

Gin & Tonic... a room full of it... as FOG. This is the art exhibition of Marti Guixe in 2004 for Gat Fog in Casco.

I spent a bit of time on Seletti's website, thanks to e-cool's post #8098. Their World Dinnerware series includes some of my favorites: New York, Tokyo, Venice, Rome, Paris and London.

Dwell studio's bedding line for kids has grabbed me with their adorable animal motif!

Ready to be part of the Design Police? With their DIY stickers you can attack.. um i mean critique any and everything in your path.

Mr Clement's Petit Lapin figurine is finally available. Love their cozy yellow and orange scarves, but what's the story behind the letter and the knife?

a peek inside the floating world of designer toys

Paul Hollingworth's We Love to Build Series of transmutable architecture.

In all honesty, who HASN'T been inspired by legendary Stan Lee? A large group show at Gallery 1988 pays tribute to him and his many comic book heroes that can't be missed!!!

Rare glimpse at Henri's walk to Paris. A children's book with Design and illustration by Saul Bass.

Jacques Rougerie is one of the most interesting architects I've come across. He has drawn space stations, sea vessels and underwater habitats. His work is like straight out of a cartoon!

New campaign created by McCann Erickson Brazil for telephone company Tim.
Illustrated characters by Seagull Flys inspired in Toy Art, very nice!

New York intimates retailer Catriona MacKechnie explains the do's and dont's of buying lingerie - a visual guide to matching lingerie types to body types.

the hidden potential in the cultured activity of sticking chewed bubble gum under the chair ( a shared work with adi meirtchak)

Davone unveiled Rithm at CES, yet another designer loudspeaker. This one uses danish design and lovely woods to emulate furniture more than tech audio. Available in various woods.

canadian artist gordon halloran creates large scale abstract installations using ice as his medium. his largest installation to date will be coming to chicago's millennium park in february!

Nice reverse-design move! These fabulous one-liter glass bottles by Seletti were inspired by plastic water bottles.