"What if I were to paint a realistic version of something usually thought of as cute and benign? For no particular reason and maybe several, I chose Charlie Brown." — Tim O'Brien on his submission to MONSTERS, showing now in Santa Monica

Designed by New York designer Harc Lee, Time Switch is a wall clock that was designed to resolve the designers own frustration with meeting deadlines and wanting to “stop time.”

Alida Sayer's work is inspired by the world of illustrative and experimental typography and gives a different dimension to illustration and visual design.

TopUp Head Protection is a compactable honeycomb structure helmet!

Spherical robot by Nils Völker.
A ball-shaped robot on the base of a Lego Mindstorms NXT. It can move in any direction by turning it's internal mass, remote controlled via bluetooth with a second NXT.

A first look into the new Nooka NYC pop-up store, where the brand sells their latest timepieces, and also toys and their new fragrance.

the evolution of the bottle of coca-cola

Mucca Design's packaging design and cheeky copy for the newly-opened gourmet store Brooklyn Fare.

Star Wars: A New Hope UNCUT! is split into 472 15 second clips. Claim one section, reshoot it, upload, and once they are all done, it's all patched together for a remake by 472 different people.

Oragami nudie mags from designer and social ecologist Ethan Shoshan. AKA "Porn Stars!" -- P.s. SFW

Stereonoise. Ideas that sound good.

AWESOME ceramic proust chair designed by ALESSANDRO MENDINI for SUPEREGO EDITIONS.

The first entry in the Electric-Powered Michelin 2010 Challenge is the Electro Bionic Bus by Mohammad Ghezel - we think it's positively Twisted Metal material.

Kibardin Design's Black & White Clock - takes digital clocks to a new level...

As Engadget says "Samsung's folding keyboard brings a little starfighter to the cellphone"

Designed by Karina Marusinska - these are super cute spice "flowers"

La Vitrine - Montreal : an interactive installation includes tracking devices and low-resolution LED displays.

Steampunk WACOM TABLET! And Keyboard too (from Datamancer) ~ just noticed them in the new Syfy show Warehouse 13

The illustration portfolio of Eric Hancock. Great narratives capturing a moment in time allowing the magical realism to take hold. Whimsical, dark, sensual and often amusing.

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The skeleton of the robotic bat uses shape-memory metal alloy that is super-elastic for the joints, and smart materials that respond to electric current for the muscular system.

Eames Life Guard Chairs? "Obscure Design Typologies: Life Guard Chairs"

These Gas Baskets by Junktion were my favorite part of Designboom's Kitchen Ecology exhibition at Dwell on Design! See this nice db roundup!

A nice design idea from Happy Soldiers to make our city streets more beautiful one sign at a time.

Oslo plans to expand its skyline with these liquidy Crystal Clear towers.

The Autonomobile concept from Mike and Maaike~ first debuted at Dwell on Design ~ the amazing design duo have stepped back and rethought the idea of a car all together. I want one!

Designed by Alejandro Castro from Pirwi, the BOP wooden bowls came as a set of multi-purpose containers that can be used for fruit, plants, toys, newspapers or other objects.

Street public temp events in 2009. Instant Hutong project back to the Beijing districts that inspired it. Carpet surprise, fragments of the project will be shown to the Hutong dwellers inside the courtyards and on the public lanes.

The sandcastle stool: Basing the design on a sandcastle bucket, designandstuff created a solution which is stackable, can store other beach items, and creates huge sandcastles!

This experiment of light was created using LED technologies and unique transformable constructions.

MOBILITY + DESIGN = POSSIBILITY. Project M introduces (blank)LAB, a bare bones mobile studio bringing designers and communities together. Soon to be on tour with Emily Pilloton's Design For Good book tour.

Adam Harvey has created an Anti-paparazzi clutch – a device that communicates the desire to NOT be photographed. When the device detects a camera flash it responds with another flash that obscures the photo.

What if a vehicle could run off of mother nature? The Nomad is powered by eating the natural vegitation, which is also fed through to the driver.

Freitag ~ The Contemporary Art of Art Recycling: Normally they cut up trucks. For this collection they cut up art. The furiously Limited Art Edition of FREITAG bags is made from banners of the world’s most sizzling Contemporary Art Museums.

pirueta tables designed by piey (paulina gonzalez- ortega + andres ocejo) in collaboration with artisans from Mexico. The body and color is a remembrance to the wooden made mexican toys such as trompo, priinola and balero.

man X machine. Handmade wireframe skull, using only a black pen.

Orange & Kaleidoscope Create Solar Tent Concept - Every year, UK communications company Orange creates solar concept tents for Glastonbury.

Electronic ruler. The idea behind this rules is combining values of a traditional ruler, with advantages of a digital interface.

Amanda Mocci is converting an environmental problem like plastic bags into a permanent material.

Joints Brand packaging designed by Base - in response to the question: “What would a pack of marijuana cigarettes look like after legalization?”

Original javascript ascii animation for text addicts on the iphone.

Marc Newson has been inspired by the complexity of fractals in his latest design collaboration with Boucheron.

O*GE's Enchanting Solar-powered Night Garden, at the first 'Light in Jerusalem Festival' June 10-16, 2009 - Videos and photos of this exciting installation. By Gaston Zahr & Merav Eitan.

John Briscella does the Urban Gridded Notebook Exhibition at Walking Chair Gallery (Vienna). Everyone is invited to draw on the gridded walls and other cool stuff...

Richard J. Evans exhibited at Free Range Graduate Art & Design Show. Some really great conceptual thinking on the part of Evans that will surely peak the interest of those who follow typography and sculpture.