powerful images from beirut. but its nice to see graf with a positive message of hope.

arnaud de vicq et al's scratch my back cheese grater is too cute! part of the dining in 2015 competition over at designboom.

check out Re:mo. SOZ will open its flagship store this spring in Osaka, Japan, and from March 12 will be featuring in a window display at the Musee des Arts decoratifs in Paris.

we've got the marriage of street art+ origami, so why not street wrapping paper? how would you open it though? rip it open? delicate to save the paper?

the swiss company tarzan has some pretty cool shirts, the black cockatoo's kinda cool.

a supermarket selling consumer awareness
theFLOWmarket is a shop designed to inspire consumers to think, live and consume more holistic.

i stumbled joshua middleton's site and some these are just gorgeous!

Catherine Ledner became fascinated by the idea of using wallpaper patterns in animal portraiture. Her new book, “Animal House", makes for one of the prettiest nytimes slideshows yet.

i was attracted to jordi canudas's site by the less lamp, but really love the dripping light too. fun stuff, worth checking out.

eyl and green's aperture, a facade installation with interactive and narrative displaying modes, creates new imagery as well as a new channel for communication between inside and outside

oooh...well spotted swissmiss. how gorgeous are these animal silhouettes? a must have FREE font.

butterfly nightlights.

stumbled across this gorgeous series and just had to post. so clean, so simple, and breathtakingly gorgeous!

that's right kid, you better be scared. robocup = sweet! with sims, minis, four-leggeds and humanoids all going at robosoccer. the robo world cup looks pretty awesome.

Aiming to reduce the volume of PET bottles carried by "catadores" (people who collect waste from streets), Takashi Utsumi developed a device with which one can rapidly shred PET bottles into ribbons suitable for use in crafts. I want one.

i know we've already featured elephant dung paper, but "poopoo paper" offers its own collection, though sadly, does not include images of the process.

Eighteen artists based in London were asked to design a dartboard with the thing they most hated on it for an exhibition curated by Garudio Studiage that starts at the Dazed & Confused Gallery this week.

VICTORINOX x WK INTERACT = awesome swiss army knife on a chain.

A samovar is a water heating container, mostly made of brass, with a pipe and built-in brazier inside...and more importantly, this one is gorgeous.

i love these teak boxes. so simple and understated, yet gorgeous and practical. =)

i love frieke janssens site. the little drawings besides the photos are such a nice touch too... =)

comet dust, red fluorescing fish and fungal catapults are just a part of this week in science.

'botanical martini' glass by benjamin hubert studio has received the runner up prize in the UK
bombay sapphire designer glass competition. check out how they're made too!

Paul St George's giant telescope connects Fulton Ferry Landing by Brooklyn Bridge to London's South Bank by Tower Bridge. Open till June 15th. Where are my NYers?

It's like notcot on the nytimes! And you could be too! The Polling Place Photo Project is fantastic. and gives those of you with undocumented polling places an extra push out the door!

turn your pens into utensils! din-ink by cingoli, bellisario, cellini + fontana tied for first in designboom and macef's dining in 2015 contest.

i have a confession to make. i've spent the morning working on einstein's fish rather than real work. not sure if i love or hate coudal for introducing us, but i simply must know who owns that pike.

antlers, like skulls and pirates are a meme thats taken over the past year or so, and according to the nytimes, theyre still good for spring.

the graffiti project: Beginning May 10th, for 30 days, OS GEMEOS, NINA and NUNCA will be painting a thirteenth century castle in the countryside of North Ayrshire, Scotland.

if you like tshirts, you should like without pockets.

undersound is a new type of experience, an interface that is on your mobile phone and in the underground stations you pass through every day. It is part personal, part public and all about the tube.

Derek Cruz, of Black Sheep & Prodigal Sons, vintage ivory piano keys proved the perfect canvas for his latest collection: a limited-edition line of necklaces made exclusively for BBlessing in New York.

mike newton of blackpool gives new life to boarded up houses.

the abstractor lets you turn your idiot box into a work of art. fun idea...with lots of possibilities. a new way to play with your tv thanks to ji lee.

i love the simplicity of yoann lemione's pieces. and they all feel so lonely...

Boston is home to some fantastic science museums.

Olafur Eliasson's New York City Waterfalls: a public art project of 4 man-made waterfalls rising from New York Harbor. It will appear June 26 -Oct. 13, running 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

just had to pick out this gem from the ICFF gallery. i didnt really play house as a kid, but if i did, i'd want a cardboard setup as stylish as this!

i love susanna hertrich's chrono shredder. watch the days shred by. via core77

wow, talk about simplicity. these chairs are sickeningly sleek.

in 1891, Irritated by the foul stenches that wafted through their northeast Brooklyn neighborhood, members of the 15th Ward Smelling Committee embarked on a boat trip in search of the responsible parties.

but before we get carried away, i should add a quickie on the oxtowns own.

Although the Canon Powershot TX1 is the size of a tiny elph camera. It takes 7.1 mgp for stills with 10x OPTICAL ZOOM...and shoots HD video.

love this short directed by Tony Roche. "how to tell when a relationship is over". via coudal.

we've seen some gift wrap winners on .org, so i threw together a short list of my wittier favorites. ;)

ive always been a sucker for a pretty box. the function project by ecko have gorgeous packaging that can be used as a frame!