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.

Terrain: loenhart&mayr designed a new Olympic ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The jump has three competition decks and a 100 meter, cantilevered track that is accessed by 332 steps or a diagonal elevator.

The versatile Paper Pack by MicroWorks - a folder cut from a single board that can be used as a file or a writing pad.

Beautiful packaging design for Integrity Spirits' Lovejoy Vodka by ID Branding.

Start Here - linkable, customizable notebooks from Little Fury.

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.

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.

Yoon-Hui Kim and Eun-Kyung Kim's Solar Vertical Lamp is envisioned as being integrated into window blinds that are powered by solar energy during daylight hours, which can then be used to light a room at night.

Bullet Ice Cube Tray - for a killer drink.

Vienna beat the Guinness Book of Records for the tallest Lego tower in history, 96.7 feet tall. The tower was constructed by hundreds of children outside Vienna's city hall. I like the Lego construction gear.

Hyun Jin Yoon and Eun Hak Lee created the Back Light Unit to allow you to carry a little mood lighting with you at all times. It fits in your wallet and is turned on by flipping the bulb portion into the upright position.

Sandro Lopez's Limu outdoor furniture series can be both a set of chairs and a sculptural element when not in use.

Not just a bird house - a bird apartment complex! Maxime Delporte's La Mangeoire project.

That trucker! I love him! Amazing illustrations by Russian artist Merdanchik.

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.

Karim Rashid's Happy People glassware is designed to be reversible - eg. a margarita glass that becomes a shot glass when reversed. Love all of the contrasting shapes.

I'm so bummed that these are sold out - a pair of Dorthe Alstrup's photos on 20x200.

Interesting tableware by Piet Hein Eek- almost looks like they are inside out.

Peter Castellucci's Garbage Lamp - a fixture made out of "used, compulsively collected polystyrene drinking cups".

The OBLO by Marko Pavlovic is a 3D puzzle for kids composed of spherical elements of various sizes, shapes and colors. The pieces must be twisted against a central axis in order to be disassembled or assembled. A Rubik's Cube for kids of sorts.

Gravity Rainbow - a new scissor print by Dan Funderburgh, letterpressed by Brooklyn-based studio I Am Still Alive, who have a nice collection of prints featured on their site.

Designboom rounds up a selection of outdoor furniture displayed at the 'Cour des H' at the Saint Etienne Biennale '08. Above: Soft Bench by Lucile Soufflet (top) and Répétition by Régis Bigot and Gaëtan Grenier (bottom).

So strange - the Tuttuki Bako, an interactive game system that requires you to insert your finger into the device to interact with the games. The display shows a digital replica of your finger - you can then play with a panda or annoy a girl by touching her face.

Great new series of prints by Keetra Dean Dixon...Cordial Invitations: "You are cordially invite to..."

Peskimo's Moustaches print for their new show "Even Dwarves Started Small" at a gallery in Bristol.

House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects - love the blurred boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.

The Eat Better and Drink Better bowls by Victor Lee encourage good eating habits for your dogs by slowing down their consumption. Eat Better divides food into three areas, while Drink Better reduces the amount of drinkable water available at once with a floating disk.

Phaidon recently released their 2nd in the series of architectural tomes, the Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture. Featuring projects built after 2000, it catalogs 1,037 of the world's most interesting built projects. And it comes with its own suitcase.

Nice gig poster by Garrett Karol for The Broken West.

Fox and Hare print by tracemyface.

I am very excited for this exhibition opening at Giant Robot tomorrow - “Game Over”, Art of the Gamer Generation. I love this print by PCP, which will be in the show.

The Xi Gallery by Mass Studies has some intense ground plane manipulations going on. Even though the ceiling and floor move around an incredible amount, through the surfacing and material choices, the two always read as surface and almost never as thickness.

Can you believe this is a bank? Italy's CheBanca! is rebranded by Crea International.

PIE studio (aka Project Import Export) makes very interesting hand-crafted furniture out of a series of natural materials - water hyacinth, liana, bamboo
and rattan.

Jeffrey Milstein's photographs are taken precisely at the moment that an aircraft is overhead, decontextualizing the cruciform shapes of jet aircraft and exploring the beauty of their forms and graphic designs.

Nice molded plywood chair by Naruse Inokuma Architects for the Tendo Mokko furniture company.

Interesting graphic work by Lo Siento Studio. Their portfolio is worth a look.

Jennifer Anderson's Drove chair. I like the faceted seat.

Sou Fujimoto Architects' amazing TINY Next Generation House in Japan - conceptually, a house made out of jenga blocks.

Mariana Tocornal created the Beecups Project as a way to investigate our emotional attachment to objects. By using an unconventional material with a conventional form, our understanding of the preciousness of the teacup is challenged.

Animal Shot Glasses by Goody Grams - for all you peeps out there with shot glass collections, here are some cool ones to add to the mix. They come in sets of two animals each: bear, bull, deer, moose or rhino.

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

Malus Communis is a shelf designed by Defact Studio - a vine-like shelf for cds and dvds that crawls up the wall.

Taxidermy art from Toifu - hunting trophy wall decals.

Ekobo mixes ecology and design with their new line of bamboo tableware.

Schemata Architecture Office's 63.02° House, built in a dense residential area in Nakano, Tokyo. The house is sited 63.02 degrees towards the front road, allowing a wide and deep view of the neighborhood.