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!

Iceland cometh. Icelandic Design Collective, Eve NYC Studio: Iceland Air presents a collective of Icelandic designers currently making their mark on the international landscape.

There is something about the wrong store that is so right. I think it starts from the 'Come in we're CLOSED' sign. Tobias Wong and Gregory Krum have certainly got this one right.

Portland-based Esque Studio makes mind-blowingly beautiful booth and blown glass.

Those of us not tearing up NYC can live vicariously through notcot. If you havent already checked out the gallery, be sure to check in for the latest action from ICFF.

Check out Mixko at the Designboom Mart. Butterflies, skulls, pigeons, and more fun at ICFF.

wow, cern (the european center for nuclear research) is kinda awesome.

when perusing core77's excellent coverage of ITP thesis presentations, josh klein's crow vending machine caught my eye. shaping crows to pick up loose change in exchange for peanuts.

we cant resist a good wheel. check out wheels o' wisdom. the offerings include choose your religion, dial an excuse and probably dying. get spinning.

havent been to kansas city in a while. steven holl architects have recently unveiled the nelson-atkins museum of art. very impressive. via designboom.

this wallpaper is slick and filled with sharks. HAMMERHEAD sharks. sweet!

i love getting mail and sending it. old fashioned though it may be...so i just joined Paulo Magalhaes's postcrossing and am looking forward to receiving all sorts of crazy postcards from strangers. =)

the nytimes covers some of our favorite design shops from coast to coast.

im loving the virtual shoe museum!

Canadian brothers Ben and Hall Smyth have created GrandOpening in new york, a space that will be reinvented and reopened every three months.

this awesome, moving paper elephant is one of many sweet toys at flying pig. i love the logic goats too, which nod and shake their heads. =)

murakami at the gagosian covered by the nytimes

david choe paints the offices of facebook. dont love all of it, but this one was pretty cool.

as bbq season kicks off, those of us without space to spare struggle to host. with the briefcase grill, you can just bring the party to work!

flickrblockers help you say no to online photos. a rip off of stupidiotic's black bars (see post 623), but still amusing.

you can now buy a print of NB studio's london's kerning poster. the map of the city composed entirely of typography featured in the ISTD exhibition My London/My City.

Design Within Reach, the furniture retailer, is collaborating with Airstream to develop a trailer for the mobile young modernist -'rock climbers, surfers, dot-com guys'.

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 vase was made by 40,000 bees over the course of one week! this bee-made vessel by Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny of Studio Libertiny.

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

from the streets of milan: The guy on the left says - "Maybe one day we'll be on that wall"
The guy on the right replies - "Impossible".

loved the national assembly for wales in cardiff. great sustainable, ecofriendly building. uses natural light, materials and feels really open. it was shortilsted for the RIBA. more info at richard rogers.

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.

i'm loving bomdesign's birdhouses. theyre made from recycled billboards.

speaking of cassette tapes, check out the marcella foschi cassette wallets at the designboom shop.

get a sense of how huge a whale really is. check out this blue whale life sized thanks to the whale and dolphin conservation society. well spotted core77!

Fredrik Johansson's centerfolding guitar. From the DeVillain Guitar Company.

architecture overload! austria's summer house is gorgeous. reminds me of a sexy version of home. love the editorial by matthew hussey too.

im not so sure about the bookbag by Cogitatio...it seems somehow sacriligious to gut a book like that...

now that is a sweet attic.

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.

this ninja dreams shirt at owl movement had to be posted. lots of fun designs, including my favorite, Eleanor Grosch's platypus. [Editor's Note: YAY! Wee Ninja!]

Monopolylive.com let you play Monopoly in the real London with 18 real cabs fitted with GPS systems as your movers.

pingmag has the best feature today on 'product poetry'...a genre overlooked tragically often. my favorite is 'happy infinite romances occur in a newborn oasis. wink your future!' aye, im winking.

coudal's swapmeat is worth checking out. you can trade stuff for stuff, not quite bartering, not quite trade, swapping really is the right word. get your stuff in before the end of the month.

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.

when i first saw this roadie crate, i was thinking, wheelie speakers, but its actually a cube chair! and a pretty comfy looking one too. from heinz julien.

since i spend most my time working on a laptop, i find computer mice practically obsolete, but they are charming, lets celebrate their 45th anniversary.

surf munich! the new hot spot is just outide the haus der kunst museum...