NXT - on packaging design innovation, they have injected air bubbles in their shaving products, used a clear blue container, and the led in the base lights it up like a lava lamp... Gimmicky, but interesting.

"Somebody lives with HIV. Nobody wants to play with him. Be like nobody." Great ads with a great message from the advertising agency JWT Mexico.

As explored by brilliant poet-scientist Gaston Bachelard in "The Poetics of Space", a desire path is "a term in landscape architecture used to describe a path that isn't designed but rather is worn casually away by people finding the shortest distance between two points".

The condiment package gallery cracks me up. You can search by sauce type or special collections. And they are always looking for more submissions!

Lenovo finally does it - Super thin laptop adapter - Design meets the laptop power adapter. It is a fine day to be alive.

Matroshka must be the compact living lovers wet dream. It can become as small as 4 square meters and houses a book self, double bed, sofa, dinner table, four stools, desk, wardrobe and a bunch of storage. Cool concept from four Swedish design students.

The new Schweppes TV Spot featuring some pretty awesome stop motion images and a bite of Schweppervescence.

The Archipelago House by Tham and Videgård Hansson Arkitekter is located in the outer Stockholm archipelago. It's zig-zag shape creates a series of outside spaces sheltered from the strong sea winds. Awesome.

German design collective and master of pixel art, eBoy, release this new "Buildings" poster.

A.W.A stand for Accessories with attitude and this brand (Malcom Frontier himself as Design Director) did it well, check the quality of the bags, check the cleanliness of the lines and the simple beauty of the products.

Action using public phones to encourage people to denounce domestic violence.

The least kosher lollipop in the history of candy! These lollys combine organic Vermont maple syrup with organic, sustainably farmed bacon to make a salty/sweet candy-on-a-stick! [Also in absinthe!]

The visual expression of a complex mathematical equation or the new logo for a Belgian telecoms company?

Can you imagine SUSPENDED GRILLS? These are only 2 of 20 ideas from Part 1 of NOTConcept 001 - where NOTCOT teams up with industrial design team HERO Design Lab, to take on the future of grills.

NOTConcept ~ a new NOTCOT experiment ~ and to kick off our first one ~ we're taking on grills... check out our research of some of the most unique grills around...

i do design's Union Bench- is a beautiful bench that helps you rethink communal, public seating. This nicely accommodates singles, couples, groups, strollers, and more with ease!

Artist Sumer Erek is building a house out of 60,000 newspapers as part of an art installation presented by Creative City in Gillett Square, east London.

Pininfarina Sintesi. Just the name evokes thoughts of sheet-metal rendered into curvaceous works of art.

New building designs proposed in Dubai. Take a look at DesignBoom's coverage of this drastically evolving coastline...

Here’s another gem for Dubai. Designed by SOM, the 1,180 ft., Al Sharq tower on Sheikh Zayed Road is a 268 unit luxury apartment high-rise.

In his new book, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky explores Chinese industry and its relationship to society and environment.

Confederate Motorcycles BackAlley Bespoke by Young Meagher

Alaska is a nice and light chair design from Tanya Aguiñiga.

The art of the late Marvin Franklin will be on display through March 30th at the NY Transit Museum.

We’re suckers for a nice graphic print and when we saw this laptop bag by Comfort Station it hit all the right spots.

Marmol Radziner Prefab - Located in Desert Hot Springs, California, the 2000 square foot Desert House was designed for Leo Marmol and his wife Alisa Becket.

Play + (Play Piu) - Super fun children's furniture/play structures from Italy.

Brilliant interpretation of armed conflicts involving the united states using animated food. From Stefan Nadelman of Tourist Pictures.

Boucheron have celebrated their 150th anniversary by making a necklace out of real chocolate which features a 20.08 carat yellow diamond on it.

New spot from 180 Amsterdan to Adidas Original that takes Olympics into the streets, parks and beaches of Cape Town with a nice retro look.

Pranna Timer Review ~ for timing your moments of truly tech-free zen... this timer runs on incense, singing bowl, and gravity... check out my quick video!

beautiful, sugar-coated juxtapositions from canadian photographer liz wolfe.

Honda printed the direct mail piece on specially made paper containing seeds that could be planted to grow flowers.

New limited edition signed and numbered giclée print from Steve Powers aka ESPO entitled "Handy Signs," that neatly classifies New Yorkers into 4 categories.

With an unconditional love for typography, design, logos, screen printing and creative direction, Print Liberation works hard everyday to make smart and effective design for the world and its people.

Finally a dutch company is selling stickers to take the edge off that ugly satellite dish! Initially a design contest, the winning entries include a sunflower, a cat, canadian maple leaf, the Turkish design shown above and more.

usTogether have some very slick and stylish bathroom designs. almost futuristic stuff

VISUAL THINKING! Here are three Sesame Street clips you can't afford to miss... or show all your clients to get them thinking the right way... enlightening stuff.

Popurls vs. Alltop - i think popurls' Thomas Marban sums it up well in the picture on his blog (you probably need to see it larger to make sense of it) - "former apple blogceleb guy kawasaki" has no understanding of why popurls works.

The Virgin Project - This graphic novel came out a week ago; it's a collection of anonymous loss-of-virginity stories. The stories range from cute to hilarious to downright depressing.

New visual identity of the coolant Kuat in Brazil

Those nauseatingly sweet Raphael angels have been put to work by LILA, an Italian AIDS awareness organization

Tent Husky, be Design-Brothers - This tent design is inspired by nature and see the other images and sketches of how it resembles a large covered fallen tree branch.

MOO (your favorite little flickr biz cards) has launched the E-STER MOO HUNT! Where adorable eggs have been hidden throughout the web on - flickr, timbuk2, picnik, etsy, blurb, ponoko, and style shake!

Learn mosaics from the masters: take a workshop at the Orsoni Glass Foundry in Venice and stay in the fabulous restored Domus Orsoni while you're at it. Workshops are 3 days, 1 week and two weeks. I'm going!

Readycams - Corbis and Readymech team up! Take a break from your computer! Download, print and build your own pinhole camera.

The Portafrutta, created by 35 forms, is a fruit plate by Doodle. The surfaces of the tray suggest different fruit to be placed strategically around the tray. This avoids the bruising of fruit. Made in cherry wood with laser cutting technology. Made by Industreal.