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A brand new daycare in Zaragoza, Spain. A very minimalistic and sleek building by Carroquino Finner Arquitectos.

New animated short by Simon Tofield and your hungry (and hilarious) cat.

Folk artist Evan B Harris and art nouveau inspired artist Sarah Jane create beautiful paintings on wood panels on display at the Grassy Knoll Gallery in Portland.

"That is what exists in the head of who uses drugs." Campaign against drugs developed by Publicis, using baskets of trash as media.

The famous RED BLUE chair by Gerrit Rietveld Chair made entirely of legos and available in a limited edition of 5. 6% larger than the original chair and designed by Mario Minale - Droog!

Nate Wragg's works are truly inspiring and mesmerizing ~ here's a piece of his "USE TECHNOLOGY TO COLLECT THE WOMEN!" painting.... see sketches of it in the works.

Andre Hodgskin’s newest design, the iPAD™, brings a stylish, versatile option to the prefab world with a bevy of possible configurations, finishes and even a choice in how you’d like it to arrive.

Designed by Ray Kappe, the Pasadena EcoHouse designed by StudioRMA is cited to become the first concrete LEED Platinum home in the USA.

Yuyen Chang's new jewelry collection titled "Orifices". The strangely familiar and seemingly human appearance of the pieces.... out of metalwork!

Geek Love @ NYTimes.com - and a crazy flow chart as well as nice article paying homage to recently passed D&D co-founder, Gary Gygax

Part of Orcadesign's "GreenHouse Effect": the "Bottleneck Saver" helps you restrict the amount dispensed to reduce unnecessary wastage, in defiance of copious consumption. See the other designs too!

UPDATED! We have a sneak peek of the indoor Union Bench that will be launching in milan next month for you!

BrickArms ~ briefcase Uzi ~ while its hilarious that there is a lego arms dealer out there... i do love the briefcase uzi design!

Moral Punch in West Hollywood will be hosting the fine art work of five awesome animation artists this coming Saturday, March 15th. Tim Beard, Eliza Frye, Leo Matsuda, Christian Robinson, Nic Sweet

An experimental bread bag from Katja Gruijters Fooddesign - made of pita!

In 1981, professor of Architecture at Tokyo Institute of Tech, Masahiro Chatani, proved that paper cutting could produce stunning pieces of art and with Keiko Nakazawa he developed Origami Architecture.

‘Bamboo’ phone concept, by Dutch designer Gert-Jan van Breugel - green in every way: from its biodegradable materials to use of kinetic human energy charging. Shortlisted in the Greener Gadgets Competition in Feb.

Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining ~ from the Keep Calm and Carry On guys... limited ed of 100, Metallic silver ink printed on 175gsm "Smoke" paper.

This GIANT fish Q-BA-MAZE installation at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis is made from those marble/maze blocks i reviewed a few months ago... see the video of this piece in action!

Japanese flashlight animation group Tochka did another great job in making PiKAPiKA the movie!! And see the making of video as well!

Wow. Here's a horrifying example of some crazy Mac/Steve Jobs fandom...

Video on the recent Terry Richardson Photoshoot for Supreme NYC. The celebrity photographer shot Kermit The Frog wearing a Supreme t-shirt. Definitely a nice watch!

Bloxes - new company that produces of cardboard building bloxes as construction material ~ founded by Aza Raskin (son of mac legend jef raskin) - wouldn't this be fun inside a shigeru ban space?

Imperitive Design Exhibition ~ a display of one-off designs by seven pioneering designers, is part of an initiative in Houston's art district. LOVE this Ross Lovegrove piece... see the slideshow...

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.