ONE PIG, by Matthew Herbert, an album of music made exclusively from sounds recorded during the life cycle of a single farm animal, from birth to plate.

Mirror cube art installation on Paris' Place Vendome by Arnaud Lapierre for for the 2011 FIAC Art Fair.

Colaboratorium, a collective of ten graduating design and marketing students. Lovely packaging design by Andrea Avidad.

Metalmorphosis, a 14-ton moving, mirrored fountain/sculpture in Charlotte, North Carolina by David Černý.

A look at the House Industries Eames LTR Exhibition at Herman Miller Japan.

The Microbial Home by Philips as part of Dutch Design Week.

Jump associates reflect on what designing the new Girl Scouts Innovation Badges can teach us about raising leaders.

Illustrator Khadia's packaging for the three types of Teatul teas.

The Jupitris phone charger by Jin Kuramoto for Iida.

Gorgeous Barcelona cafe, Fastvinic by Alfons Tost.

Sam Kittinger redesigns classic board games.

Richard Branson opens the home of his Virgin Galactic operation at Spaceport America in New Mexico designed by Foster + Partners.

1001 Nights House by A-cero, Joaquin Torres Architects.

The Volcanic Casing Heater by Jeremy Murier & Daniel Martinez for the Prix Émile Hermès Competition.

Pizza Scissors with a built in spatula means no more fiddly serving.

A time lapse film was shot during the Icelandic Midnight Sun in June of 2011. A beautiful look at what 24 hours of light looks like.

Beautiful Tom Burr Table-Tennis Table. Limited edition of 10 tables.

Novum Magazine Cover by Paperlux covered with 1,000 flexible colored triangles.

Little Darlings print series from Sharon Montrose featuring gorgeous baby animals.

Clay Interactive's Periodic Table of Swearing for Modern Toss with over 100 buttons 100 meters of cabling and over 300 soldered joints.

Occupy Design, a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement.

A map of the change in immigrant population across American cities.

Philographics, a series of posters to explain complex philosophical theories by Genis Carreras.

Sideshow Press's picnic basket invitation for a private dinner gathering of the finest chefs in Charelston, South Carolina.

The extremely portable Doxie Go scanner.

Magnetic & iron filing type by Dominic Le-Hair. The font is created by cutting rubber magnets, then shaping the fillings between pieces of paper.

123KLAN Engraved Sk8 Boards.

New Zealand public service campaign posters by Clemenger BBDO in Wellington.

Incase's Terra collection made from natural materials with playful oversized zippers.

Cool Hunting takes a look at Jennifer Wood's Deadly Dictionaries, based on the Seven Deadly Sins.

Cooper-Hewitt’s Icy New National Design Award Trophy and the story behind the award.

Chris Harrison's OmniTouch turns any surface into a touchscreen. The prototype uses a body-worn projection/sensing system to capitalize on the tremendous surface area the real world provides.

Applying Sentiment Analysis to the Bible. Interesting project which algorithmically determines if a piece of text is positive (“I like cheese”) or negative (“I hate cheese”) to create Kurt Vonnegut like story shapes backed by quantitative data.

Avocado Witches Fingers, Cider Apple Chicken and Harvest Sours are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Led Zeppelin Ladder by Arthur Analts.

Pantone Xmas ornaments from Selab.

Researchers at Rice University working towards creating a synthetic biologically inspired camouflage based on their study of one of nature's best camouflage artists, the squid.

'The Lost Photographs of Captain Scott' taken around the 1910-13 South Pole expedition’s winter quarters on Ross Island.

Trip Print Press & The Making Of FreshSox.

Stanton Wiliams' new UAL Campus for Central Saint Martins at King's Cross.

'Work Hard and Be Nice to People' by Anthony Burrill. Beautiful limited edition prints on red.

"NEVER FOREVER ...", a visualisation of empires, capturing all known empires, colonies and territorial occupations from 2334 BCE to today representing each empire as a slice in the pie beginning with a known start (+) and end (×) date.

Beautiful underwater photography by Mark Laita in his latest book, Sea.

Materials researchers at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign have developed a highly conductive silver ink.