WIS design's Twine Tables - inspired by one of the oldest ways of attaching – with a needle and thread. The wire is twined through the table top, and becomes legs as well as upholding construction.

Passive Aggressive Notes - painfully polite and hilariously hostile writings from shared spaces the world over.

It’s name is “hybrid tea set”, designed by Ronit Baranga from israel for the “dining in 2015″ competition of designboom

“The Graphics of Japanese Dog” by Kazuya Takaoka and Sachiko Kuru shows off the brilliance of the Japanese bred dogs that playfully narrate this very visual book.

This cabin in Normandy by Lode Architects looks ordinary enough from the outside, but the inside is something else.

Remember London based artist INSA from #2471? He's back with a new exhibition called BUY MY LOVE

Graphic, acrylic jewelry from Paraphernalia. Made from vintage images, this is not your grandma's jewelry.

I love the portfolio/blog of Miss Tigri

"How can we be creative when there is so much red tape in Singapore?" - Innovative products from Singaporean designer &Larry.

Hand-painted Hellenistic High-Tops!

Culinary Alchemist John Truex creates sugar blocks (cubes are so yesterday). And he demonstrates that his concoction is also functional in a cup of tea...

1 Nintendo DS + 2 Apple iPhones = iBand.

Monochromatic Fashion. NY Times article about people who like to wear the same color everyday, and none of them wear black...

I like these angel and demon salt and pepper shakers from Russian designer Yar Rassadin for Koziol

Porridge Paper's Plantable herb paper at Etsy. Love the subtle embossing!

Less than 5 days left to vote for your favorite cities to be part of the new Monopoly World Edition

Absolut Machine. Amazing robotic, web connected ping-pong tossing musical instrument, a large-scale electromechanical sculpture built by Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman for Absolut.

To promote in Russia Gmail, Google along with the agency Saatchi & Saatchi, manually created a giant gmail interface in stop motion.

Dubai...where it came from....and where its going. An interesting photo essay

About Above by The June Fox. Solar-powered cardboard planetariums hung up in various public places in Sydney.

The Meek FM Typographic Synthesizer creates new typefaces using a Moog-like analog control interface.

a 1 Minute Movie highlighting the migration from hand written letters to the internet and social networking.

KA-BOOM! Cai Guo-Qiang's gunpowder drawing.

With the aim if designing a Swedish functional house, Landström Arkitekter drew the Swedish ambassadors humble abode in Pretoria. A great 700 square meter building filled to the brim with the best Swedish design.

The map of social networks around the world more updated.

I've always held Luigi Colani's eccentricities, progressive and nature based design forms in high admiration. His website chronicles 5 decades of his work.

Embrace Lounge by Tanya Aguiniga.

3 posters by the multi-disciplinary collective We are not you.

Construction progress of the new Oslo Opera House by Snoetta Architects. The project is based on slopes, converting the roof in a massive public space.

The Sirch Babybett Suiko can be used as a rocking cradle, crib, or toddler bed. The only piece of furniture you'll need for your baby's first four or five years.

Aquala Bath Caddy designed by Luciano Lorenzatti for Umbra. Made from totally sustainable Bamboo, and has an ingenious slide-in tray to hold a glass of wine or champers while you take a bath.

Really clever ads for Right Guard from Creative Director / Photographer / Art Director: Wongi Ryu. Man he just did everything for these ads.

Piclens - FF extension for browsing images (like cover flow) on popular sites. This should be the death of the traditional slideshow.

a walk in the books up in the sky
staircase
bookcase

Lime Studio’s coffee table looks impossible from the first angle. A metal coffee table exploring triangular shapes creating a piece of expressive furniture for the domestic interior.

ARCHIZOOM presents: Julius Shulman Photographe, "A Life for Architecture", an exhibition at the Frankfurt Museum of Architecture.
February 21 - April 4, 2008.

Quickly before i'm off to sleep... here are some quick pics from tonights Opening Gala for IDS08 (the Toronto Interior Design Show) - acrobats, chocolate radiators, the veuve/porsche vertical limit (in person!)...

Sorry it got a bit quiet today ~ i kind of spontaneously hopped a flight to Toronto for the weekend... to see some old designer friends and see whats going on at IDS08!

Photos of Geoff McFetridge's work at his new exhibit, Two Lines Align.

The beautiful entrance pavilion at the Trumpf factory in Ditzingen is designed by Barkow Leibinger and the lightweight structure is by the master of lightweight structures Werner Sobek.

JaG's House by MATADOR atelier d'architecture is stunning in it's minimalist simplicity and beauty.

Seven floor, seven-star hotel built underwater at the seven hill; Istanbul in 2010. Visitors are now waiting with their seven eyes! :::.)

the LED Cellphone Concept by Tao ma, incorporates hundreds of LEDs, all of which are used to create the cellphone's striking UI. Check out the gallery to see a cellphone your plastic white MacBook would fall head over heels for.

One of each of our favorite cryptids in silhouette: Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, Chupacabra, and a Jackalope

Just in case anyone missed last nights eclipse.

aton aton lends its talents to the arena of furniture design and launches elio – a series of tables, blending the original clay designs with planes of glass and wood.