An interesting renovation of a building in Cádiz, Spain by MGM Arquitectos. Love the contrasting plywood shutters and white walls. The use of plywood is interesting, as it is the material typically used to board up buildings while construction is in progress.

In his ‘Camouflage’ series, Liu Bolin painstakingly paints his subjects so that they blend into their surroundings.

Patrick Nadeau created 'Nature Individuelle', a series of planters/objects emphasizing the importance
of nature in our world. There are some great objects in the series.

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo's Melting Men installation. Must have been complicated to make and install...

Allyson Mellberg has a new show, "Do Little", opening at Cinders Gallery on 10/10 in Brooklyn. "Do Little" references the doctor of the same name and is a "jab at our general public's apathy towards increasingly important environmental issues."

Interesting use of materials by Atelier Hitoshi Abe for the Kanno Museum, a private art museum.

Love Alex MacLean's photographic series 'Going', especially this photo titled 'Houndstooth Pattern in Parking Lot at Disney World'.

Ward van Gemert deconstructs an old chandelier and reconstructs it into a more modern form, resulting in the Exploded Chandeliers series. Debuting at Mint Gallery in London today, 09/18.

New Lydia Fong - AKA Barry McGee - solo exhibition "A Moment for Reflection" at Ratio 3 in San Francisco, until October 18.

Jason Hawkes is an aerial photographer. Love this photograph of a house and small holding in Morocco.

Skeet Wang's Meltain eraser - an eraser that reminds us of the significant effect dirty snow has on global warming. Dirty snow absorbs more of the sun’s heat and therefore melts more quickly.

Renderings of Oppenheim Architects' new Campus Center for Miami Dade college - definitely looks like it was inspired by OMA's China Central Television Headquarters. The building will house apartments, offices, and educational facilities.

Luis Porem's Trico Chair - made from three materials (wood, metal and textile) in three colors.

Zakee Shariff has some great illustration work, both in textiles and in print.

Till Schweizer designed this Welcome Center for the JinHua Architecture Park in China. I love the latticed exterior that provides a filter for light, air and privacy, as well as a texture against the natural surroundings.

If you are in Paris 9/30- 1/11 stop by the "Mingei Spirit in Japan, From Folk Craft to Design" at the Musée du Quai Branly. The exhibit showcases the work of Japan's artist-craftsmen, a dying tradition with today's mass-production methods.

Designboom has a great roundup of tiny houses, both built and conceptual.

Leonardo Glass Cube by 3deluxe - I love how the detailing of the facade is picked up in the ground work.

Sara Huston's Lifestyle Coffee Table - customized to store and display your favorite magazines.

Love these fig-shaped outdoor lamps by Parade Design, Lampe de Jardin Gonflable Figue.

Ivo Vos celebrate the mundane and our neuroses with their Brunch series of consumer products - a bread slicer that allows precision slicing, a toaster that allows you to set the angle for a precise toast catapult to your plate...and more!

Amazing photos of Socotra Island, located off the coasts of Somalia and Yemen. The tree above is called a Dragon's Blood Tree, and the island features around 700 rare species of flora and fauna, 1/3 of which are found nowhere else on earth.

Wood tables with ceramic tops by Hanna Ehlers.

The WAW coat stand by Michael Bihain, made out of lacquered steel.

A walk through one of Target's Bullseye Bodegas - only open in Manhattan for four days, today being the last.

Something's Hiding in Here's two month exhibition at Urban Outfitter's Sansom Window Project in Philadelphia. The message will be changed every day, so submit your own to their blog for a chance to be included in the project.

Luca Ionescu's Laser Etched Poster for Refill 7 (see also 3453 for their gorgeous laser cut skate decks).

looks like a candle bulb, but it's not a bulb, it's a candle, which looks like...you know...

Method has launched a new line of body washes - always with pretty packaging!

The Book Design Review posts the covers of some of the best designed books of 2008.

Wireframe lamps designed by Ziglam & Brook for Deadgood.

The HYmini is a handheld, universal charger/adapter device that harnesses renewable wind power and conventional wall plug power to recharge almost all your 5V digital gadgets - cell phones, MP3 players, iPods, PDAs, digital cameras...

Simon Bent has a great portfolio of design work. This graphic is from his CD artwork for Beat Broker & Dj Perplex.

Love the packaging design for Woolrich Woolen Mills by D-SIGN.

Beautiful, quiet photography by Nilgün Kara. I'm reminded of Michael Kenna's work.

Beautiful portraits of Sikh-Americans by Fiona Aboud.

The Joanopolis House by UNA Arquitetos, which uses local Brazilian materials and is beautifully integrated into its site.

Hola Ola No1 is a pre-molded soft silicone pouch that you open and close with a squeeze. Great for spices and great looking, too!

The Bjarke Ingels Group recently unveiled designs for Walter Towers, a residential/commercial complex in Prague. The building form is pretty intense.

Gorgeous minimal packaging for Southern Alps lets the dried fruit sell itself.

Love these "still lifes in the style of colour-shifted 3-dimensional images" by A Nice Idea Every Day.

Nextmurani released a wider version SANAA's chair recently, which is made of translucent white beechwood.

I love Francisco Mangado's spanish pavillion for the 2008 Zaragoza Expo. There were 750 clay columns that provide a modern take on greco-roman temple architecture.

Kind of silly, but worth mentioning anyway - Thwart Design's Tools for Dying, a tongue-in-cheek variation of DWR's Tools for Living products.

I appreciate the whiteness of Fabrica's new object collection launched for the 60th anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim collection. I especially like how color surprises you when objects are opened or more closely examined.

Expressionist Bass - nice looking desktop sub-woofers by Altec Lansing.