los angeles stationery company, Fomato, has created a colorful line of greeting cards that are equal parts witty text and whimsical illustration.

Dutch design studio Studiomeiboom has come up with The Enlightenment, a lamp that poses as a book on the 18th century intellectual movement, but really just enlightens your room and not your brain.

Happy Valentine's day from Tochka! They recently won Grand Prix at Clermont Film Festival, Europe’s biggest short film festival.

Gran Turismo by Swedish Mårten Claesson is a nice and clean line of furniture. Available as easy chair, stool, bench, 2 and 3 seat sofa and table.

Absolutely superb collection of Brazilian sustainable design, with illustrations by Hellocolor. Including Fernando Jaeger's latest svelte chair.

The Fashion. Elegant videoclip directed & produced by Jakob Printzlau

cute flipbook animation for valentine's day: "Moving in"

The Italian jeans company, Meltin' Pot, titles their new ad campaign "I Have a Dream."

not too late to let your loved ones know you're thinking of them during the luuuv day. Awesome e-cards over at Kate Spade. [Editor's Note: watch out for the soundFX]

Wow. I don't know how to feel. It's so cute, yet so twisted. Psyop's Happy Valentine's Day Film... its like the gift of the magi taken to quit the extreme... with fun music!

Presenting, the Big Book of junk: spam has never looked lovelier

Happy Valentine's Day ~ with toaster love! Seen in the UK.

Some really interesting interpretations of a few very iconic comic book characters by artist Anthony Lister.

Mysterious photography of Mark Rubenstein

Everything is shit except you, love. A fitting testament for Valentine's Day from Steve Powers aka ESPO.

Just another colorful gift this Valentine’s Day, thanks to NYC Condom awareness program. The NYC Condom just launch the campaign that want New Yorkers to “get some” on this Valentine’s Day with a safer sex awareness and free NYC condom gift. Its not about sex but it all about safe..

toronto artist james fowler creates intricate and colorful aerial views of imagined cities with acrylics. this is san francisco!

Happy Valentine's Day ~ cute flash card from Jimmyjane... with dirty spoons...

The Brazilian based Campana brothers were asked to assemble a selection of woven or weaving-related antiques from the Cooper Hewitt's collection. The exhibit opens tomorrow.

there's little not to love about a good dog show. i love the nytimes slideshow on westminster's dog show fashion.

Built NY's Wine Ratchet (following in the Magnum's footsteps)... is a lighter weight ratcheting corkscrew constructed from lightweight rubber and includes a rubberized foil knife with a stainless steel tip

Shu Uemura's Art Of Hair ~ more gorgeous packaging as seen in the unboxing... and an incredible new line of haircare reviewed!

A small collection of vintage Valentine’s Day cards, circa 1920s. Most of the cards are addressed to a woman named Martha Stewart.

Valentine's day guy!! Get a Chocolate Scrabble by Mary & Matt. With dark chocolate, a great taste and spell alphabetical words just another great designer idea.

Had lost the link to the chirp website. Happy to share it now ~ Chirp Winter 2008 music download, and awesome video/coverart

This guy had suckers implants. There’s no such thing as anesthetics in the world of extreme body modification, so you can imagine what this may have felt like. Too bad he can't actually stick to stuff.

Innovative products by Thai designer Anon Pairot ~ from vase/ashtray combos, to chairs, and more!

To advertise the wide variety of options available to cut hair in the salon JuiceHair in India, a picture of a man to his forehead, was pasted on the base of the escalator of a shopping and several different cuts in each of the steps of the ladder.

Coming soon to a grocery store near you is Pepsi Raw, a more natural soda filled with apple extract, coffee leaf, cane sugar, and sparkling water instead of the artificial crap that's in most sodas.

Vote up or down on a list of sex positions. Perfect homework for Valentine's Day... and amusing photoshoot of those wood models we all have.

Monster Factory has an cool assortment of handmade plush monsters, with their very own personalities and flaws. I'm totally Todd

Freddy is special sponsor of the Italian Olympic team in Beijing 2008. Take a look at the wonderful campaign made by 1861 United, Milan.

La Salve Bridge in Bilbao, Spain. Originally designed by Juan Batanero in 1972, the bridge was recently updated with a red arch designed by French artist Daniel Buren.

tPod is a tea bag concept by Elisabeth Soós. They are small paper boats attached to tea bags. Sort of a anchor made out of tea.

the very awesome illustrations of alex naughton

Don't worry if you won't make it to Rome in time to seal your love with a lock on the Milvian Bridge (see #5630) the Valentine's Day. Now you can do it on 2nd Life.

Puma and Boston-based boutique Bodega got together to create a special shoe based on the Mad magazine spy v spy series. Only a limited number of these will be released to the public.

Amazon has purchased one of the 7 copies of, J.K. Rowling's handwritten and illustrated "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" and posted pictures to make us all happy or jealous.

for some reason this ad for nulaid eggs amused me. an egg with a hitler-stash...i dont know.

If you missed out on CardBoys regular 2008 calendar, here is the special chinese year of the rat edition.

Mark Sanders' stride5.0 is one of the sleekest collapsible bikes ive seen.

With TV's getting so thin, i love Axel Bjurstrom's idea of putting them on an easel! 1/3 concepts developed for Panasonic, shown at the Stockholm Furniture Fair.

CB's "I Hate Perfume" perfume collection ~ with fragrances like: Just Breathe, Revelation, In the Library, Eternal Return, and more...

"Processes: Living Paintings" is a 35 by 16 meter full facade projection with a corresponding light choreography, ambient music and synced sound effects for the 100th anniversary of the Phyletic Museum in Germany founded by Ernst Haeckel.

Vosges' Chocolate has a $375 gift set: Chocolate and the Nose: The Sensory Collection. Chocolates from 15 countries, 42 aromas, guidebook, flavor wheel, notebook, and a blindfold!

Disappearing car door. Watch the video.