'Check' by Véronique Maire is a wall-hook and mirror for that last minute 'check'.

Couture Deco's Trompe-l'Oeil - Add personality to your doors.. With this authentic and well-known Parisian district landmark: Montmartre’s stairs.

Arik Levy's "Russula.MGX' organic lamp design and name is inspired by mushrooms.

VIDEO'Metamorphosis' is the latest Philips Design Probe where neat design concepts bring the outside inside.

'Lloyd Table' by Christoph Seyferth are sold by the Lloyd hotel in Amsterdam.

'NUD classic' lamp combines simple textile cord (44 colors available) with porcelain holder. Cool simplicity.

This amazing piece of design by Graft of Berlin is stunningly beautiful. The clean, simple lines and striking angles give it a futuristic look, yet the walnut panelling juxtaposes a more classic style.

Designed by their in-house team, Grohe has recently received red dot's 2010 product design award for its Ondus Digitecture - a technological and futuristic bathroom like none other.

The Porsche Garden was part of the Royal Horticultural Society Show at Hampton Court back in July of 2008. This stylish automobile storage system (or off-street parking solution) was part of Flemond Warland’s garden design installation which won Gold.

FEATUREDArtek goes Glossy Black with the latest collection ~ just as noteworthy? Check out the intriguingly scenic product pics!

Designers awarded in the Design Parade 05. These designs won the Grand Prix du jury, Group SEB Design Award, Veuve Clicquot Award, and Award of the Public.

Jack Zylkin's 'USBTypewriter' kit turns old manual typewriters into iPad keyboards.

'CableBox Mini' by Bluelounge. A smaller version of the ever popular CableBox. This unit is convenient for smaller clusters of cables and includes a short 4-socket surge protector.

'Airflake' by Stefan Borselius is a sound absorbing screen made from molded fiber felt. Create your own Airflake pattern through the 'configurator' tool.

Heckler Design @Rest for iPad supports your iPad in portrait or landscape orientation at angles ideal for the side table or countertop. Built from precisely cut steel with a beautiful, durable powdercoat finish.

"Quadra" lamp by Lahumière Design. Made of cut and folded steel, this table lamp reveals its complex volume from different points of view.

A weed to one gardener might be a wildflower to another. The NYtimes explores some of our unplanted visitors.

Only Doors by dutch designer Chris Ruhe is a small wooden cabinet made of 17 old doors.

Get a sneak peek inside award-winning design firm Objeti with this video daily diary!

"Blow away" vase by the Swedish FRONT Design Group.

Large ceramic fruit bowl Dino by Aldo Cibic for Italian Paola C.

"Hover Eco bench" by danish designer Kristoffer Kjær. A bench made of vertically positioned teak lamellae on a steel structure. Elegant and different.

"Staircase’d Credenza" by American designer Jason Phillips. A console with 3D skin made of hundreds of small wooden cubes.

Plus minus is a moody shelf that you can use to express your emotions because the shelf‘s form is the symbol for a smiley/frowny face. Designed for Reykjavik Art Museum Design Competition.

"Asaf Weinbroom Studio" is established by industrial designer Asaf Weinbroom. The studio focuses on designing light elements made from wood in a handmade process.

The palet sofa by Stone Designs is inspired by a wood pallet -- all of the sofa parts were designed to be contained within the pallet-inspired wood structure.

Turner© is a solar charged LED light. During the day, turn the lantern up-side-down to charge daylight. In the evening, turn the lantern back and it will light up - time after time - sensibly reusing the daylight.

Turner© has a warm and cosy shine which replaces tea light. The wind will never blow out Turner© and the LED's do not attract insects.

For those who enjoy outdoor parties. 'OCO' by Causas Externas for Santa&Cole converts LED technology into a high quality/long term proposal for outdoor spaces.

'Funnel' lamp series by Slovenia's Bevk Perovic Arhitekti for Vertigo Bird. The series include a table, floor and pendent lamp, each with a shade shaped like a kitchen funnel.

'Peepshow home' bird house by Radius has a sophisticated type of fastening using a lashing strap around the tree that makes it easy and flexible to mount. the tree is also not damaged.

Hoping Sebastian Herkner's lamps 'Chalice' and 'Lian' become available for purchase soon.

Appearing like an ornate wrought iron gate, the 'Koi' chair by Jarrod Lim Design expresses the ideals of tranquil garden retreats, in a visually lightweight and delicate form.

The Attenborough Design Group is a fictional organization, created by James Chambers and Tom Judd. It investigates the use of animal behaviors to defend emerging technologies. (See the videos!)

A clock radio by Rich Brilliant Willing merges the two basic functions: radio and clock in a very new way-- the clock function is displayed through the speaker grill of the radio.

“Pulse” - a docking station for mp3-players by Malbert & Tjernberg is part of their 'Modern Times' series inspired by Chaplin's film.

In Mexico, Bosco Arquitectos has designed this « Casa Armella ». A simple and colorful house, between local traditions and modernity.

Stylish 'Barceloneta' outdoor chair by Raffaella Mangiarotti (deepdesign) for Serralunga.

Slick & ergonomic 'Salt&Pepper' shaker by Luc Swen coated with non-slip, washable material combined with large capacity containers.

'Harry' floor lamp, by studio Porcuatro allows you to take it outside and help your garden feel more like a living room.

Auto-rewind cable reel. No tangled up cords when rewinding the cables, so you can leave all your adapters in the reel. By a Dutch company called DesignCord.

Bio-inspiration, or 'Nature As Muse' is a way of viewing and valuing nature. Embracing bespoke re-invention to create a unique experience, BrowneHsieh & Sons is pleased to present MothEaten™ Lights.

Since governments have begun to phase out incandescent lightbulbs they have taken on new mystique. "Like a moth to the flame," describes moths' inexplicable attraction to bright lights. Similarly individuals are now attracted to the charm of incandescent lightbulbs. MothEaten™ tells the story of the amalgamation of culture, nature and technology where these extremes co-exist. Moths, with their survival instinct, and artisanal uniqueness, have made a pact to survive, in the same way that incandescent lightbulbs will continue to glow.

Hand finished, each MothEaten™ light comes with its own idiosyncracies, language and tactile personality.

Ceramic origami ~ by Ann Van Hoey

The Big Race seeks to give user an another look at usually decorative object - a simple bowl. Small, medium, large... this bowl is designed in three different sizes that you can stack. By swiss designer Tomas Kral.

Borderline is a vase designed for tables and bookshelf. By Adrien Rovero.

Bacsac's Mobile Garden Containers are over at A+R ~ made of 100% Recyclable, UV-, frost- and traction-resistant Geotextile and available in an array of shapes and sizes! (the french/less wooly version of wooly pockets?)

Architectural Editions Birdhouses - Classic Architectural Birdhouses By Award-winning Architect Richard T. Banks

'The Optimist' cool cast iron toaster by RCA students designed to age gracefully/own it for life.
The luxury of longevity.

Brilliant, inexpensive design for potato, onion, and garlic storage from Orka.

Naama Hofman's nice LED 001 desk lamp. Place it on a table, lean against a wall, or even just hang it on a wall. Available in any color.

The original snowboard lamps! From Linus and Niklas Linder. Mounted with halogen bulbs, their Originals collection uses used boards, complete with scratches.

Sound Activated Drum Light by 326. Where music meets function. Utilising the classic lines of drum stand and snare. One tap of the drum activates a set of LED lights within the snare and one further tap turns them off.

A rhizome is a kind of root stalk. The Rhizome chair by Pratt students FI Outdoor, a division of Fabric Images, Inc. and T.E.N.T — Katherine Kania, Michael Dalotowski, Isobel Herbold, and Dave Irwin, Mark Parsons and Dragana Zoric.

This bathroom design is the design of Duravit AG, Hornberg. This bathroom is equipped with facilities such as Spa and ac.

The Cuban collective "Los Carpinteros" is specializes in creating humorous installations and objects.

T- drip is a hand-blown glass beverage infuser that brings a new degree of elegance to the tea drinking experience! Designed by Luis Caicedo.

Ceramic tableware collection "Metropolis " by Dutch designers De IntuïtieFabriek was presented at DMY Berlin.

"Light Forest" by georgian designer Ia Kutateladze. A table light concept made of 4 small unified lamps.

Outback Safari Friends Stamp Set from Ink and Wit. Set of 8 natural rubber stamps mounted on birch wood. Packaged in a natural wooden slide top box with custom twill ribbon pull.

The “Disco Chair” created by Kiwi & Pom for Wallpaper* Magazine, constructed from 200 linear metres of Electroluminescent wire. The chair transforms into a neon rainbow when powered.

Octopus shower caddies from Formverket.

Nachacht featuring Julia Landsiedl : "Old pot, new top" part of the Broken Porcelain project is a combination of old ceramic tea and coffee pots and new lids/ tops.

Nice simple lamp found at Home Depot ~ Progress Lighting Brushed Steel 1-Light Pendant 16" diameter ~ perfect for that retro feel

Oxo's new Flip In Hamper ~ nice idea to have a lid to your laundry without having to open it to put clothes in...

Out Of Stock Design's Hues Tables ~ venn diagrams at their best!

Hybrid table / lamp by Studio 4P1B for Martinelliluce with a satin methacrylate surface plane of 50 cm diameter. LED's embedded in the structure.

With Sculpteo's website, you can print 3D objects from digital files you created or you selected in an existing library

Nic Zöller from Germany creates these gorgeous massive oakwood stools, Hockstool, with his chainsaw.

'Sweet Nothing' book shelf by Heart Breakers Design...Its sweet even where there is nothing on it but is also intended as functional shelving, concealing part of its contents in the form.

A step by step guide to making these bold concrete bookends from design blog The Beat That My Heart Skipped.

Flat grey paint and solid oakwood make these highboards by Berlin based Studio Ziben really adorable.

Getting the idea from observing people perform a flow of actions when they dress up in luxury, Studio Juju came up with The Luxury Towers, a set of very elegance jewelry box in pure and bold silhouettes with solid glass blocks.

FEATUREDElectrolux + Tobias Allanson kinetic sculpture is magnetic! His sculpture showcases Ergorapido’s vacuum cleaner effective dust pick-up. See the video (and making of!)

Albion House in Islington by London architects Studio Octopi. A house extension with a minimal glass box opening into the garden.

Studiobox by Studio Ziben from Berlin is made of recycled wood. The small boxes work as side tables and storage boxes as well. Great choice of colours.

Triangular Concept's Waffsicles - Waffles on a stick are born- so simple, yet so obviously needed in every single household...

The table O0803 is made from reclaimed scaffolding boards. With great patina and traces of wear. By german manufacturer Bauholz Design.

Swing Necklace by Johanna Richter - A handmade swing made of grey balls of felt or oiled beechwood that acts as a jewelry piece for your home.

I’m super excited about these new aluminum planters from home accessories brand Wallter! The outdoor collection is a first for Wallter, known for their textiles and paintable wall decor, available in three styles: Hang, Post, and Wall.

Love the Bodum multi-colored Round Pepper Grinder, seems to work by sheer intuition. Cooking doesn’t get any easier than this.

Called 'Primo Quarto' and designed by Giuseppe Vigano for Italian furniture manufacturer Saba Italia, their spare dramatism seems perfect for large wall spaces.

Lovely birch wood print that reminds us of what is important and what we can leave behind. 11x14 ready to drop into standard size frame. Limited edition of 100. From Ink and Wit.

Lumenhaus is a sustainable project done by Virginia Tech. It is a zero-energy home that is completely powered by the sun.. A lot of sustainable and high tech features are attached in this design.

Live Lamp is a nest of eighty live Fuschii v Gracillis tillandsia air plants. Illuminated by a CFL grow lamp, these epiphytic plants survive with no dirt - just UV, air and a little moisture. Remove the dome and run the plants under water or mist liberally once a week.

Cub lamp by a french designer Julian Robin. It's not only a block of oak wood. It can becomes a light.

Toaster Oven by Plus Minus Zero, Naoto Fukasawa Design Director

Matti Klenell designed two bird families for Iittala: the Harakka (Magpie) family and the Korpi (Deep Forest) family, both with two generations of members.

Make a dry erase board that pulls double duty as wall art when not in use.

The LED-lamp WRAPPED GLASS was inspired by the Czech Sumperak House, whose architecture recalls a modernist style, an untypical design for the 1960s. Bundle of 10 laboratory glasses, equipped with 10 LED

Leave it to the Swedes to design and build a curvaceous and elegant prefab house out of timbers. Check out the circular floorplan!

Swedish designers Kisa Widén and Anna Irinarchos from WIS Design have designed "Croquet". These furnitures are made of small wooden pieces and inspired by "croquet" game.

from the lacasasullalbero experience, now abitalbero tries to grow his horizons. treehouses, eco-architecture, landscape design.

Zweiheit means something like twolyness. Kathrin Jilg combined a walnut board with a classic kitchen towel to the perfect sofa-picknick-accessory available.

Catalog Living is an amusing blog which simply captions the arcane obviously staged living furniture catalog photos with hilarious OCD and neurotic results. NEW!

Brilliant! Heat Shrink as Joints! By Nicola Zocca at the RCA final show

Bird Pot is the very first coffee pot bidhouse ever. Looks a little bit like it can be found in Alice's wonderland. By Kathrin Jilg.

The “π” table lamp collection by Le Deun Luminaires.

The design of this very open, circular building, home to Saxo Bank, is by 3XN design. Building is located in Copenhagen.

In Unterföhring - Germany, Jakob Bader has designed this "House V", a concrete and steel cladded house. Red and contemporary.

Wohnhaus D by Bembé Dellinger Architects in Pullach - Germany. A white concrete house, between archetype and modernism.

Twenty-three colored ceramic pieces in one color, pieces for use in food variable size and ornamentation. Decoration in positive and negative. Blue contaminates the white.

Floreta. A textile pot by Carlo Trevisani.

"Clamp" by italian designers Enrico Zanolla and Andrea Di Filippo from DZ Studio. A suspended lamp with a padded shade inspired by Chesterfield couchs.

Struktur Table by Petter Skogstad - 4 Poster Beds are fun ~ but even more functional perhaps... 4 Poster DESKS?

FEATUREDDwell + Heath Ceramics = gorgeous Patterns Tiles! Love the cube optical illusion potential...

West Elm offers a new collection of gorgeous silhouette prints and patterns from artist Mike Miller.

These CROKKIS vase by Filipino designer Kenneth Cobonpue is made entirely by metal wires that bent and welded to resemble freehand sketches.

Really interesting reportage illustration from Keith Watts on his new blog. Drawings in his daily diary of the world around him.

StudioMAS has imagined the Highveld Pavilion, a private guest cottage is situated in a lush smallholding along the Vaal River in Vanderbjlpark south of Johannesburg.

This is a one-of-a-kind Lamborghini safe crafted as a unique offering to match the real-life automobile of a client of Brown Safe. It features yellow plating, carbon fiber trimming and the raging-bull logo appearing throughout.

Handmade Rian RTA Artist Series stool - First in series features Mike Perry's surf-themed design. Perry illustrated 20 stools with 15% of proceeds going to Surfrider Foundation.

MASH Studios PCH Canopy Bed

FEATUREDStudio Klass' Flying Green Fresh Spice Vases ~ so versatile and modular to be arranged and hung throughout your kitchen, etc!

Lake Okoboji is located in Iowa. The owner of this house wanted to make a vacation house near the lake, considering the views and vacation atmosphere.

FEATUREDDyson launches two new bladeless air multiplier fans ~ the Tower Fan and the Pedestal Fan!

American architect Randy Brown has designed this "Lab" house for his family in Omaha - Nebraska. A rusted steel and wooden house with complex and rich volumetry.

Matthias Ries' Plus One is a storage container for any kind of regular shelf. Its sophisticatedly bent plywood in a simple U-shaped tube which can be attached to a shelf.

FEATUREDInsitu Living Wall Planters ~ grids in varying sizes ready for you to add pots of your favorite plants for an easy living wall in/outdoors!

A New Twist on the ‘Smart’ Window. 'RavenBrick' has developed a smart film that when applied to a window can vary its tint (like transition lens sunglasses) based on the outside temperature.

MoMA Modern Play House -- Create a delightfully modern house with this innovative set of modular nesting boxes! Aspiring architects and designers of all ages can create modern spaces.

Designed by Sigrid Strömgren and Sanna Lindstrom 'Grand Central' table is dramatic and poetic at the same time. The inspiration comes from a pop-up map of New York.

A new edition of the historic table lamp designed by Vico Magistretti in 1969, Dalù lamp has updated colours and finishes with thermoplastic moulded body, in transparent orange and red, white and black.

« F-Lights series – Standards & Icônes » by french designer David Enon at Tools Galerie - Paris. Some lamps inspired by the shapes of low-energy fluorescent bulbs.

The European Solar Decathlon kicked off today in Madrid, and Inhabitat has a first look at this year's stunning crop of solar-powered homes!

The 'Inefficient Vase' by austrian designstudio breadedEscalope is handmade. The holes are always on different spots and can be closed with a cork. Each one come signed and numbered.

THQ and Infrared 5 are set to unleash an upcoming update to Star Wars: Trench Run for the iPhone with Brass Monkey SDK integration, allowing any Star Wars: Trench Run 2.0 owner to play on the Web using their iPhone as a controller.

Read more: http://techland.com/2010/06/18/e310-exclusive-first-look-at-star-wars-trench-run-2-0/#ixzz0rEg0yM43

Artist Joe Papendick creates stunning sculptural bird feeders that are as affordable as they are unique.

For Roche Bobois, french designer José Levy has created this Parisian Table. Inspired by Haussmann Architecture, its tray is made of oak flooring.

Shopping for a desk humidifier / aroma diffuser. Loving the "Wacca" by Yuen'to, and the vapor rings produced via ultrasonic vaporizing and aroma diffusing systems are just fun to watch.

Pretty adorable little, petit, tiny birdhouse necklaces by Tom Frencken! Look at the colored ones as well!

A ‘Catio’ Enclosures Protect Cats Outside. Great NYtimes slideshow investigating how some New Yorkers who would never let their cats roam free outside have created enclosed spaces at home that allow them to share the great outdoors.

'Tafelstukken', objects by designers Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders scooped an award at DMY Berlin this month.

Penguin Multi-Purpose Pumps Designed by Luciano Lorensatti ~ perfect for kitchen, bathroom, etc

Berlin's vibrant city-scape is a clash of modern architecture, neo-renaissance buildings, and east-german prefab tower blocks. Elements from all these can be found in this table, simply named after its inspiration – Berlin. By Meyer Miller Smith, Berlin.

FEATUREDSimple and elegant wall lamp designed by Martina Carpelan, 'Sunday' may be used as a bedside table or in the hallway, in the chalet or in the toilet and can be lit by using either a bulb or a candle light!

CAIRN is a fun wooden-magnetic box ensemble designed by Constance Guisset that can be assembled in awkward positions.

Matteo Thun for Neutra has integrated nature into these modern sinks, vanities, countertops, benches, and check out the bathtub with the wood surround! Adding to their uniqueness, these pieces are made using Kauri wood.

Space-saving extendable table by Italian company Ozzio Design. Deco Console Table is a versatile table with an aluminum telescopic mechanism that allows for three possible extensions and three sizes to suit any space.

Lusting for Tunto's LED lamp! It combines modern technology, wood and simple design language in a creative way. The hidden touch-sensitive switch gives the user a true feel of the material and finishing of this unique product.

Nice and smart idea. KASVU Extendable vase by Tonfisk. The height of the vase can be adjusted by a moving rubber ring along the body of the porcelain part upon which the wooden part then rests.

Slick design to fight summer heat with Balmuda's GreenFan. Using an innovative blade design the GreenFan produces a much better breeze than conventional fans using a lot less energy.

Design*Sponge has a great look into Barbara Bestor's use of Wolly Pockets for many living walls in her house!

Concrete, in collaboration with Amsterdam’s Historical Museum, presents the brothel of the future.

French fashion designer Christian Lacroix has designed new decorative wooden panels for Marotte. Contemporary and sophisticated.

The Talus Mani Lamp is inspired by Tibetan prayer wheels- silently rocking back and forth powered only by the heat from the lamp. A meditative discourse of shadows and light. From TalusFurniture with Vitriforms.