Beautiful illustrations by Jillian Tamaki.

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

Urban Play is an upcoming exhibit of "urban design interventions".

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.

Gorgeous bottle design for Dada wines by InHouse Design.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Yulia Brodskaya makes gorgeous and intricate typographic paper cuts.

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

Daniel Becker's modular Hunting Lines two-seater.

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.

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

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

Macrame necklaces by Small Town.

The Third Space - an incredible installation put together by 52 German design students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich who created a gorgeous space out of 1.3 million cable ties. The project took 16,870 hours to complete.

German illustrator, Heiko, makes some gorgeous drawings!

Loving the minimalist simplicity of Gee Beauty's packaging, by GJP.

Beautiful photographic series called Sleeping by the Mississippi by Alex Soth.

Alejandro Chavetta's awesome collage work.