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...

im having a rough day. kind of like girl. good thing cat and girl are around to cheer me up. cancer of the feelings...no wonder im so reluctantly emo.

Edel Rodriguez lends some lovely illustrations to todays science times feature by frans de waal on the beginnings of morality in primate behavior. enjoy with enthusiasm and skepticism.

this pedal-powered rollercoaster in japan is pretty awesome. it's called 'The Skycycle' and is located in Washuzan Highland Park in Okayama

"removing me wont solve the problem" by mike newton.

ive always wanted to live in an art museum. now you can. check out the rockefeller apartments.

rafael roldao 'riocasaantistress' sofa can seat one or many. he'll be presenting it at the salone satellite(part of milan design week 2007).

fromthe "Street Art Sweet Art"collective in milan. check it out before april 7th at Pac (Padiglione arte contemporanea).

great laser cut skatedecks from refill seven.

French inventor Lucien Gambarota and Wharton grad and entrepreneur Doug Woodring are bringing clean, sustainable energy to the gym using good old-fashioned manpower.

among many good finds in this week's "currents" is Lachlan Blackley's wallpaper catalogue featuring rat wallpaper, which was actually gnawed out by gerbils.

Robert Faludi, Kate Hartman, Kati London and Rebecca Bray of NYU's ITP program have created 'Botanicalls' to let thirsty plants communicate their needs to humans - by placing phone calls to their owners.

love will tear us apart. this rug is stunning. i want it. HZL = calle henzel

Medieval Modern: Design Strikes a Defensive Posture. great times article on defensive design.

i've always been impressed by futuristic parking lots... so had to post this times article on parking solutions.

Scott Wayne Indiana's The Horse Project in Portland, OR. oxtown's also covered in brass rings to hitch your horses to too...hmmmm...

interesting post on anti-skating devices on the Embarcadero. always interesting to look at the design of public spaces. via coudal.

Urban Flora is a project that aims to alter city dwellers experience of their environment through a series of stickers that identify objects in the urban environment.

creating a verbal identity? scott milano cott and his team create not only a name for a brand, a label, a product. they create an image in your head only by the sound of that brand's name.

'the italian alphabet' by olivier quagliotto, a shortlisted entry to the 'FIAT 500 wants you competition' in the lifestyles category.

Natalie Jeremijenko recycles robo-dogs to create packs of feral robotic dogs, which are released en masse into a community space to sniff out harmful VOCs, ozone, and other environmental toxins.

great shot by Muhammed Muheisen, an AP photojournalist working out in the middle east.

treat yourself to a tan...all you need is a reflective page of a magazine. great ad campaign from hawaiian tropic.

now you can wake up to the smell of bacon thanks to mathlete (matty sallin). gross or delicious you decide. [also seen as #1130]

gorgeous sketches by kenichi hoshine.

wil freeborn is an incredible artist, who captures the everyday in his sketches. check out his work at ghostschool.co.uk

DIY duct tape wallet from my duct bills.

jason shogreen's cards from vday 05 are worth a repost. for all the fans of youyesyou.net...and people who are just sick of the usual valentine's day sappiness.

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.

great nytimes article about paint and restoration at the getty.