The Calligraphy Necklace by Brevity - each custom necklace is hand lettered by calligrapher Crystal Kluge, creating a one-of-a-kind necklace as unique as the wearer.

At the cutting edge of currency and security, The Bank of Canada recently unveiled the new designs for the $100 and $50 bank notes made out of polymer.

A brief history of the evolution of the airline seat from Conde Nast Traveller.

If you are in NYC, check out DIG, an installation by Daniel Arsham of Snarkitecture at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, which explores the architecture of excavation.

Help your luggage stand out from the crowd with these Penguin luggage tags available in two titles: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, and The Lost Girl, by D. H. Lawrence.

Cornell scientists paired up with the French Culinary Institute to construct novel edible objects with 3D printers that use pureed foods in place of ink. Mmmmm tiny spaceships of scallops and cheese.

Check out this video displaying 24 hours of large aircraft flights in the world, condensed into 2 minutes.

Brevity launches a new collection called Lines, which was inspired by Native American symbols and the simple elegance of a line.

Catie Newell Salvaged Landscape reclaims a building burned by arson in Detroit, MI. Constructed from salvaged pieces of wood from the burned out building, Newell created a passageway through the charred frame.

If you are in London October 21-24th, check out the Affordable Art Fair, which features over 1000 artists selling artworks, including Shlomi Nissim, Rob Ryan, and many others.

Nice looking Dry Dopp Kit from Jack Spade for all of your toiletries. Made out of tarpaulin for water resistance and maximum durability, with a screened exterior address label.

Hilarious video campaign by Honda Australia for the Honda Jazz...How much hipster can you pack into a Jazz?

The bowerbird is nature's starchitect. The males of the various species build these elaborate and OCD influenced 'bowers' adorned with collections of all sorts of colorful stuff. All this to woo potential mates.

Heavenly Vaults, by David Stephenson, catalogs the domes of eighty different cathedrals built between the 12th and 16th centuries in Europe. The domes are almost abstract in their structure and pattern, becoming something more transient and emotional.

The Horo Collection is inspired by clock parts - the fusing of the temporal into the permanent. There are ten designs, each based on a pair of clock hands, fixed in time. Each chain is customized with a delicate gear charm that links to the chain at the collarbone.

Festo's animal robots.

Our new 2010 pocket calendar - 24 fortune cookie-style proverbs to help guide you through the coming year.

Gitta Gschwendtner's Animal Wall - 1000 nesting boxes for birds and bats on Cardiff Bay's Century Wharf, existing in dialogue with 1000 new apartments and houses that have gone up in the area recently.

The premise behind Surtido de Mutaciones is pretty interesting...Basically that IKEA is actually a supplier of raw materials, rather than of finished products. 35 designers took IKEA parts and came up with their own products.

The Outpost, by Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen, is a place for art sited in the sparse setting of central Idaho.

Sam Wolfe Connelly's contribution to Follow the Leader - an ongoing collaborative project with Sub-Studio featuring 6 drawing "seeds" and your drawing skills!

Marlon Blackwell's Moore Honey House - set in the woods near a residential projects for the same client, the honey house serves as a car port and simple shed for the making and storing of honey.

Love Sid Wichienkuer's entry in to the competition for a new TU Delft School of Architecture, after a fire destroyed the original architecture building in 2008. Love the topographic, layered facade.

Masimilano Fuksas' Cave Painting Museum entrance - no more than an entrance to a museum, emerges from the cave to the valley below. It is sympathetic enough to its context in form, material, to both conceal and reveal itself.

Sub-Studio's brand new nursery rhyme print series inspired by our favorite childhood rhymes.

Visiondivision's Secret Sauna - a nondescript building facade opens up to reveal the sauna inside...

The 'New York Street Advertising Takeover' project happened over the weekend, with 120 illegal billboards in and around NYC being white-washed and then painted over by about 80 different artists.

Schemata Architecture's Paco cube - a 3x3x3m portable home for transient living.

Interesting take on all of the reusable bags out there - a tyvek duffel bag by Stefan Diez - tearproof, lightweight, waterproof and recyclable.

OMA's Milstein Hall in jeopardy. Designed as studios for Cornell's architecture students, some faculty are objecting to the aesthetics and sustainability of the project. The loss of Milstein Hall also jeopardizes accreditation of Cornell's architecture programs.

Kenji Miyazaki's EAT wallet for Erect - helps keep the environment clean by providing portable storage space your cigarette butts, until you can dispose of them permanently in a garbage can.

Artwork from Aaron Hogg in Samantha Hahn's new Love book, a collaborative effort between 25 artists, including Hannah Stouffer, Lilly Piri, Dan Funderburgh and Lisa Congdon.

Engrave Your Book is back with new artist's series Moleskine jackets - designed by Justine Ashbee, Dan Funderburgh, Option-G and Jesse Hora, to name a few.

Shoot The Baddies target practice boards by Olly Moss...

Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten designed the Dornbusch church in Frankfurt. The old church facade is reflected via spatial subtractions in the new facade. MSWA has some great images of their creative process on their website.

Part 3 of 3 of the Big Picture's 2008 Year in Photographs.

Hyun-Woo Sim's KeyLamp is turned off and on via the turning of a key. Also innovative - the shade is just a cloth hung over the bulb.

Leah Evans is a textile artist doing some innovative quilting. Each quilt features a map with intense, hand-sewn details that create abstracted patterns. The quilts map out imaginary places.

Cool...Crayon Rocks!

Cameron Moll designed this crazy letterpress poster of the Salt Lake Temple using bazillions of tiny letters to create the image.

Judith Seng's body of work embraces and highlights flaws and imperfections - her Hide and Show Clothing framework turns your clothing into part of the furniture's aesthetic.

Morph's gorgeous Bread Bin.

Hans-Christian Schink's Verkehrsprojekte deutsche Einheit project includes beautiful portraits of mundane urban structures such as bridges, highways, etc.

Burton Machen is a photographer documenting urban decay in his "Urban Evolution New Orleans" series.