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.

The Casulo. You have to see the video to appreciate it. This is the dream of college students or anyone who moves frequently.

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.

Art Streiber, Norman Jean Roy, Julian Broad and Mark Seliger have recreated the world of Hitchcock for Vanity Fair. Every photograph represents one of the Hitchcock movie posters, with today's stars.

New York Magazine's Daily Intelligencer got their hands on an internal Gawker/Valleywag email on post writing tips... perhaps these could be well applied to caption writing.

Rob Sheridan’s prints - I just received the "Troublemaker" and it is beautiful and intriguing!

Qoob is looking for explosive ideas. Absolutely amazing illustration by LSD Milan.

Auto Origami Video .... water+paper= ?

Did great film noir die with the 1950's. A brief exploration of modern film noir spanning the last twenty years.

The adorable claymation Bravia Bunnies are back! And you can download the little movie to be a screensaver for your phone!

iPhone/iPod-ers ~ incase has a nice 2-in-1 charger ready for car AND wall sockets... a good gadget for those constantly on the go

Ok ok, we get it, manila envelopes as laptop sleeves... many have been using them for small laptops before... and now EVERYONE is making things that LOOK like them... Timbuk2 has jumped on the bandwagon too.

Diagram by Swedish Nola is a bench for the public spaces. With its soft almost surreal shape I can easily see it outside a modern art museum.

Netdiver Best of the Year shortlist are more than a yearly retrospective - or a trendy compendium. Review our 100 best of the best!

Bombay Sapphire's Revelation, first of 5 spirit bottles designed by Karim Rashid. The crystal bottles are handcrafted by Baccarat, and adorned with sapphires and diamonds from Garrard. $200,000.00

Lori Nix constructs diorama's depicting disaster and decay and then photographs them.

via Boingboing.net

The beautiful green-roofed Hof Country Residence is located in the Skakafjördur Fjord of Iceland, less than 100km from the Arctic Circle. Designed by Studio Granda Architects. Just look at that countryside!

Ooooh the first 300 of Joey Roth's infamous Sorapot are now sold out! And he's got a sneak peek of the packaging up on his blog!

Woody Allen uses an unique font for all his opening titles films: the EF Windsor Elongated.

I love the ceramic works of polish potter, Bozena Sacharczuk

I've simultaneously fallen for the trench coats of The Lake & Stars (known for their lingerie) and the work of photographer, Tim Zaragoza... but are they as amazing separated?

@8612: I think Bangkok's Skytrain has the best graphic design - very clear that you should wait between the doors, not just leave a small gap like Hong Kong's MTR graphic.