"Split wood" vases from the Laminated Bamboo Lumber Project by Japanese design collective Teori. Yum.

Ruta Peregrino is a pilgrimage path in Jalisco, Mexico. During Holy Week, 2 million pilgrims walk the path. HHF Architects designed a lookout point there, made out of cast concrete. I love the spiraling pathway, used to create anticipation in the visitor.

Alexis Themistocleous's Caged Message vases are cast in bubble wrap and contain secret messages that are laser-cut into stainless steel. The messages can only be revealed when the vases are smashed.

General Mills recently redesigned a few of their cereal brands - Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry. I like the clean design and the close-up of the characters.

Champion Graphics's cover design for a Monster Children notebook, produced by Penguin.

The Campanas brothers were selected as Design Miami’s 2008 Designers of the Year. The honor comes the commission of designing next year's VIP lounge. Rumor has it that their Ttransplastic series (above) will be the starting point for the designs.

Tap'dNY is a bottled water for the new age: an honest and local alternative for all New Yorkers. They purify and bottle New York City's famous tap water, leaving out the malarkey and far journey included in other bottled waters.

A fresh take on a classic - Roma Lubimov's CMYK pen.

Daniel Becker's modular Hunting Lines two-seater.

Stefan Glerum's gorgeous drawings about the obsessive nature of crate digging/record collecting.

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

Jorine Oosterhoff's playful Mad Hatter tableware. Love the oversized lids.

Torsten Klocke designed this beautiful birdhouse - Rohbau - a concrete shell in an iconic form.

Gorgeous bottle design by Barber Osgerby for Ipsei - a non-carbonated fruit drink manufactured by Coca-Cola for the European market. The indented portion makes for an ergonomic design.

Véra Nováková creates metal jewelry with an organic feel - fingerprints, wood grains, etc are imprinted into her pieces.

Kyle Bean's A Guide for the Unlucky - an amazing pop-up book centering around superstitions.

The Pollen light by TwoCreate - check out their website for other gorgeous products...

German illustrator, Heiko, makes some gorgeous drawings!

Yulia Brodskaya makes gorgeous and intricate typographic paper cuts.

The Church of the Holy Cross is beautifully minimalist building by KHR Arkitekter in Jyllinge, Denmark.

Love Steven Holl's intervention in the stairwell at NYU's Philosophy Department - an exploration in porosity.

Adam Rowe's Victorian Grandfather Chair challenges our conceptions of material aesthetics, taking a cheap material and incorporating it into a modern adaptation of a classic shape.

Interesting project, 'Touching Strangers', by Richard Renaldi, where he photographs (you guessed it) strangers touching. Some are awkward, some aren't.

Avril Loreti makes cute Mustache Handkerchiefs.

Love these Newman's Own mint tins by Moxie Sozo - inspired by retro Italian candy packaging and fruit crate labels.

Toby Ziegler's geometric sculptures reference computer mapping programs with a figurative element.

Colleen Venable has the coolest tattoo ever - a connect the dots graphic of a giraffe!

Browse the Toaster Museum's collection of vintage toasters...

I love Debbie Smyth's series titled 'Pins and Threads' - drawings of electrical pylons made with thread and pins. I like how the lines are continuous giving you insight into the construction of the drawing.

Interesting album design by Turner Duckworth for Metallica's Death Magnetic album. Follow the link for an interview with TD about the design process.

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

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

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

Beautiful photography portfolio by Michael Wolf. I especially love his series "Architecture of Density" from which this photo was taken.

Tamsin van Essen's Contamination cups are a little on the gruesome side - each appears to have been infected by a different bacteria type, bringing the microscopic to the macroscopic level.

Qubo is a multi-disciplinary design firm in Uruguay with a lot of nice work. They took a mention in a competition for the new CAF headquarters in Caracas Venezuela with this interesting design.

Loving the bent wire handles of Marita Kohl's porcelain paperclay vessels.

Elisabeth Timpone's "Maybe Life Is A Fairytale" illustration.

Tessa Farmer creates amazing miniature sculptures out of insects and plant roots - the above is from Swarm (Hornet vs. Fairy).

OMA's Torre Bicentenario in Mexico City - OMA describes the project as two stacked pyramids. Public programs are located where the two pyramids meet - at 100m, the datum of the surrounding buildings.

I love the Roto family by motion designer Yann le Coroller. See his other sweet character, Carl, on post 5439.

New work by Richard Saja of Historically Inaccurate - he's reworked his Frankentoile concept, and I love the recontextualized imagery.

Moss graffiti by Anna Garforth.

Macrame necklaces by Small Town.

Alejandro Chavetta's awesome collage work.

A corrugated pressboard wall by Enzo Mari - ten panels with different decorations, perforations and shapes to enhance a kid's playtime.