Recycled glass bottle utensils by Laurence Brabant, just one of many amazing products.

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.

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.

Artek and Marimekko have an exhibition - Be Honest! - going on at the Spiral Garden in Tokyo, featuring interventions by various designers on Alvar Aalto's iconic Stool 60. The exhibition is on until 09/23.

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.

5.5 Designers redesigned Baccarat's luxury Harcourt glassware into a more accessible line. The traditional Harcout silhouettes have been superimposed onto simple glass forms.

Beautiful Light Frame by Stephen Burks for auction at Philips de Pury & Company next week.

Love the cityscape that is rendered through lights in facade of Bjarke Ingels' Danish Pavilion for the Shanghai Expo 2010.

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

Interesting Geo Washplane sink by Omvivo. I love the clean lines, but would be curious to use one myself to see how well it functions.

Lebello's Chumy chaise lounger - love the clean lines and the colors, plus there's space underneath for towels or magazine storage.

Jonathan Ben-Tovim's Encoder Rings allow you to encode a secret message up 64 characters long in binary code on your ring.

Beautiful Constellation Chandelier from Studio 1 Thousand with lots of little LED lights.

Wood tables with ceramic tops by Hanna Ehlers.

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

Tabula Rossa soaps by Megan Cummins - "You smell...like a lemon." I like the play on Tabula Rasa, "clean slate" in Latin.

North Korean Propaganda Posters by David Heather and Koen De Ceuster - an interesting book that displays a collection of North Korean propaganda posters.

Beautiful bottle design by BVD for Blossa. A new, limited edition bottle of glögg is released every year.

Love the cantilevered portion of the new addition to the Museum of Photography in Charleroi, Belgium, by l'Escaut.

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

Amazing photographs of Hurricane Ike on Boston.com's The Big Picture.

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.

Hello there, pretty little PLAY Mouse. Designed by Hacoa.

Nice photographic coverage of the Australian Pavilion at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale by Designboom.

More from Ontwerpduo (post 13903) - I love the detail of the wood joint in this aptly named project, Joints.

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

Ack! Too cute! The Lampe Girafe.

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

Pascal Bardel's Yu Chair, cast from white polyethylene.

Kengo Kuma's design for Next-Gene 20 - a residential development on the north-eastern coast of Taiwan. Other notable architects involved in the project are Graft, MVRDV, and Toshiko Mori.

Stockholm Design Lab's battery for the Japanese company Askul - the prettiest little battery you ever did see.

The Fun Fam Table Manners set gives parents a means of teaching their kids about proper eating etiquette (I could use one of these).

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.

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

I'm not sure if this is going to move beyond the concept phase, but I love Studio Kudos' playful approach to the iconography of the different animals at the Bronx Zoo.

Interesting design portfolio from Matt Burvill.

Gorgeous bottle design for Dada wines by InHouse Design.

Admiring the clean lines and materials used in Bevk Perović Arhitekti's House D in Ljubljana, Slovenia. See post 13663 for more of their great work.

Strange, frame-like facade for the Observatory store in Athens, Greece, by Theofanis Bobotis Architects.

Gorgeous new print work on Atelier Aquarium's website.

Gorgeous paper dresses by Valerie Hammond - part of her new exhibit at Garson Baker Fine Art that opened yesterday, 9/11, in NYC.

Love this illustration, Sweet Talk, by Oscar Maia, AKA ~criminalart. Lots more great work to be found in his portfolio.

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.

Harry Allen's new Blockade Shelf is interesting in its the topographical nature. The shelf is made of laminated wooden blocks arranged within a grid-like structure.

Beautiful porcelain tableware by Claire Coles - love the delicate, lace-like impressions.

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.