Shunji Kurimori's beautiful Cedar Sake Cups and Cedar Sake Bottle, made in the Japanese wood craft style Magewappa.

A mobile bar from architect and furniture designer Isay Weinfeld.

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

Stefan Diez's 404 F Chair is made from molded plywood. Nice, simple form.

Karl Zahn's Pallet Mirror - made of reclaimed shipping pallets. The scars on the lumber tell a story of its travels. While the form is reminiscent of old Victorian french mirrors, its origin is far from gold leaf.

Hamburger Panda has some fun prints in her Seabots series.

Quirky jewelry by Natural Historie - love this cloisonne deer on a strand of pearls.

Photos from Cooper Union's Silkscreen Reclamation Project - a collaboration between designer Paul Sahre and CU students. 200 of Sahre's unfinished posters (with one color word bubbles) were reclaimed by the students and overprinted with their own designs.

J.R. Watkin's natural cleaning products with gorgeous packaging.

Chris Ruhe's Sahara Stool, a flexible, wood stool.

Lula Dot's CAPtivate lamp recycles old bottles and their caps to make this beautiful fixture.

Beautiful lines in Kedar Naik's GLIDE chair, made out from aluminum and lacquered fiberglass. I like how the chair support peels up from the base.

Beautiful Anemone Shade by Heath Nash for Artecnica. The honeycomb shade is made out of Tyvek.

Hanna Nyman's 3-D wallpaper invites the user to peel off the outer layer to expose the design underneath.

Li Jianye created the Flexibin to be both elegant and functional. The frame is flexible, thereby enabling you to use it with a variety of bag sizes.

Jethro Macey's Textile Side Unit, in collaboration with Decode London. Love the texture of the doors.

Ekubo means "dimple" in Japanese. Artista came out with a series of ekubo-inspired tableware.

Besides just being gorgeous, Akihiro Kumagaya's Sumizara charcoal ashtray helps to deodorize the smell of cigarette smoke when they are put out.

Super nice Rings screenprint by HunterGatherer.

The Minox Agent M DSC DigitalSpyCam is a tiny digital camera - only 3.14" x 1.14" x 0.79". At 5 megapixels, it's a good little portable camera.

Jonas Buntenbruch created DONE as his "personal daily design workout for 2008". Each piece was created in 30 to 60 minutes. I wish I were so disciplined...

Beautiful packaging for First Blush, a varietal grape juice company, by Ferroconcrete.

Pretty packaging by Duffy & Partners for Tall Tales Restaurant (part of the Gander Mountain outdoor lifestyle products and services network). Love the deer antler logo.

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.

Interesting ship-like interiors at the Berge Guesthouse by Nils Holger Moormann. Backpackers can stay in "‘sleep cells" - essentially rooms designed just for that, with a communal space that includes a library, kitchen and gathering area with a fireplace.

Etienne Meneau's latest project - a wine glass called Little Heart, in a very limited edition of 12 pieces.

Preggioni has debuted Magneat, an accessory that allows you to clean up your earphone wires so that all unnecessary wires are hidden.

David Granger of Bang Design's very lovely Pli furniture series.

Ack! Too cute! The Lampe Girafe.

Mark Boyce's interesting new book, Sizes May Vary. The book references the varying standardized formats and systems used within graphic design and is part sketchbook, part reference book and part notebook.

Hourglass salt and pepper shakers by Vitamin.

Non-Format designed three different album covers for The Chap in 2008 - I like the consistent use of balloon animals rendered atypically.

I'm really not crazy about the base, but I love the multi-colored wood and the curved shapes behind Lop Furniture's Zeeen line.

BiCuadro Architects designed the Italian pavilion for the 2010 Expo Shanghai. The pavilion is made up of a series of plates that are meant to illustrate Italy's cultural and architectural history.

Interesting packaging for Askinosie Chocolate by Element Eleven.

Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England.

Love these cork and felt Spiral Stools by Viable London. The rest of their work is just as beautiful.

Interesting design portfolio from Matt Burvill.

Sony released the newest gadget in their Odo line of green products - the Twirl n’ Take camera - a digital camera that is powered by kinetic energy! Roll the head for 15 seconds in order to generate enough energy to take a picture.

Interesting maps by Worldmapper. This one redefines the world by mapping our CO2 levels in 2000.

Amazing drawings and built work by architects Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis.

Love Hatch's holiday promotional card - Jumping JAQK marionettes.

Love the bright legs of the Lotta Kids Chair by Leif.designpark.

Designboom previews Patricia Urquiola new Purely Porcelain show at London's Design Museum.

One of two beautiful new prints by Ah-Yi illustrating the story of Princess Kavalan, the only daughter of the Dragon King of the East Sea, and her forbidden romance with the Turtle General Lusheng.

Stuart Melrose's Corian tables - I love the hint of color on the underside.