Super cool-cute drawings from Berlin/Vancouver artist "Acorn"

"Terrorism-related deaths since 2001: 11,377. Tobacco-related deaths since 2001: 30,000,000." Advertisement from DDB New Zealand for ASH, Action on Smoking and Health.

Honibe - Honey You Can Hold ~ like the sugarcube equivalent for honey!

Foster Farm | Transformation. A parody of the famous viral Dove (evolution, by Foster Farms)

TTI - Numark has come up with a turntable that your ipod can dock into and directly record your favorite vinyl.

BLOOG - A machine that scrambles words and sentences of real-time blog posts, based on the look of a 1960’s Moog synthesizer. Pulling in RSS feeds, it scrolls through the text and adds/subtracts words.

Just over six months ago, theory11 set out to create the next standard in playing card design. The focus was dual: design and quality. The deck had to be the best of breed in both categories. And this is it.

Love the organic style of Jessie Lim's pottery.

Practice your maths at the table! This set of 5 die-cut industrial felt coasters comes in four reversible color options and will bring out the young student in you and your guests.

Metroblogging launched a major redesign, and i love their dragon/sea monster.... how very 'hic sunt dracones'

Ice Penguins in Sao Paulo! 50graus has placed these in a public square to alert people to global warming

Dwell Studio launches a baby line of furniture and linens for Target! Adorable prints as always, and even cute cribs, glider/rockers, and changing table... nice and affordable.

‘YESHOP IN HOUSE” is the result of the collaboration between the greek architectural office dARCH Studio and the fashion designer, Yiorgos Eleftheriades.

Fun prototype from Maarteen Baas, it is a hand-carved knife-block shaped like a man's head, the knives sticking out of it in gruesome humor.

Everything is becoming wireless, but the Dutch designlabel Vij5 uses power cable as decoration! The cable is braided through the frame of a limited series of 2nd-hand lamps.

Virtual Shoe Museum ~ some of the strangest shoe designs yet...

Glass Carafes that resemble plastic water bottles have definitely been trendy lately, here's another take on it from Martino Gamper's new Total Trattoria, opening March 7 in London

Hilarious and beautifully executed Lucky Dog spot for Bridgestone never aired on the Super Bowl. See it at Dog Art Today.

HaRe a Bunny Easter with "Busy Bunny" button pins and cards!

Peerutin Architects has design a 550 sqm luxury home in the affluent Cape Town suburb of Camps Bay. Clean and nice lines, and I love the pool.

Obama - The ultimate branding machine? Great interview with Michael Bieruit at Newsweek's blog, stumper, looking at the branding, visual consistency, and comfort through brand association...

Luis Beruman’s ZeroPointZero watch handcuffs let you incorporate this digital watch with handcuff style into your bedroom play, and you’ll never have to worry about your kinky play going over time.

"Store The Impossible." Fun ads for Sony's micro vault designed by Promoseven out of Dubai, UAE, and creative director Ali Ali.

Architects David Yocum and Brian Bell have transformed an old auto repair shop into a surprisingly beautiful workspace.

"He gave me this on our anniversary. He gave me this for nothing at all. There's no excuse for domestic violence. Talk to someone who cares." Fantastic advertisements for for City of Hope by TBWARAAD.

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?

Design Indaba Expo in Capetown ~ reader, Gillian Benjamin, sent in some great coverage of this south african design week!

Plug Lamp! At La Corbeille Paris. Brilliant little lamp that plugs right into your european power strip!

Is your child a tagger? Hahahaha... wow. From the city of Santa Ana, there is a diagram of all the components of being a tagger... from the hoody, to the black sketchbook and fat markers...

5 Key Keychain by Harry Allen, Area ware, cast in plastic resin from a stack of 5 keys.

Morpho Towers -- Two Standing Spirals by Sachiko Kodama. A new ferrofluid video using magnetic spiral structures and a chill soundtrack.

Old Banksy's painted in the parking garage of the Swiss embassy, apparently unveiled for the first time on Friday. They were painted in exchange for the right to throw a rave in the garage.

Tietgen student housing in Copenhagen, Denmark. Designed by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects.

Amazon Upgrade ~ interesting move by Amazon, letting you "upgrade" your physical books to digital books you can read online, search, annotate, etc. Especially interesting for searching all your recipes!

Javan Ivey has created a brilliant (new?) type of stop-motion animation using paper cutouts.

Kama Sutra Guitar features hand-painted henna illustrations based on KamaSutra book, moves or call anything you want. I just notice now that is "art".

The Marcel Breuer-designed Wolfson Trailer House. Located in Dutchess County, NY, this iconic house has a fabulous artist's studio by Tip Dorsel.

brio54 | Affordable Non-Toxic Living
The aim of brio54 is to offer functional, inspiring and affordable modern design to the masses, and from what I can tell, they’ve succeeded (at least at the concept stage).

Michael Ferris.
At first, I thought...candy, but no. The sculptures are so visually tactile, they make my eyes itch.. in a good way.

Mansilla + Tuñón Arquitectos has created a stunning building for the Contemporary Arts Museum of Castilla y León. The building is made up of seemingly simple lines, but the building is, somehow, very inviting anyway.

Leave it to the French to make my fantasy a reality. Vincent Callebaut’s Anti-Smog: An Innovation Centre in Sustainable Development.

Papabubble ~ Incredible playful candy made by hand daily from sugar, glucose, + water ~ coolhunting's video even takes you behind the scenes and shows you the whole process!

Trunk Station ~ steamer trunk on the outside, fully functional desk and shelves on the inside!

I could watch this animation for hours... maybe just minutes.

Waffle Tetris ~ you will never see waffles the same way again.

Fashionbuddha Studio brings toy designer Meredith Dittmars clay characters to life in this cute animated short.

Tryciflip ~ fun, simple design on this three wheeled kids contraption to run around on! From Imaginarium.