FEATUREDThe Great Penguin Bookchase! Perhaps the perfect board game for book lovers?

For the next 25 days we'll be presenting a digital advent calender, comprised of NYC-themed gift ideas for the holiday season. First up are these Five Boroughs City Blocks from John W. Golden.

New from Noferin ~ blind box Jibibuts!

The Wild Things (Fur-covered Edition) by Dave Eggers

I love the milk carton packaging of the Mimijumi baby bottle and nipples. I wonder if the nipples will come in brown, or will they just be Barbie beige.

Inspiring honest interview from illustrator Stevie Gee. Personal and professional ups and downs of a modern day illustrator, as he says keep on keeping on.

FEATUREDInvisible Creature for Target ~ The Winter Fishing Hole Game! Gift card that unfolds into a beautifully illustrated playful board game ~ see the closeups of the details!

Brangelina has designed a line of Sterling silver baby gifts and fine jewelry with a snake motif for Asprey. The Protector collection benefits the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict.

The Timbur Rattle fuses hi-tech manufacturing with traditional woodcraft. Made of sustainable materials and non-toxic finishes. Via fawn&forest.

Touma - mixi-bang! Knuckle Bear Exclusive Revealed

An adorable eco-friendly sink built just for kids. The tooth is actually a built-in soap dispenser!

WIRED.com and WIRED Magazine have lauched their Holiday Store and guess what: its AWESOME

MUJI worked with LEGO on a series of sets that combines paper with blocks, through the use of a hole punch. Unique and unexpected partnership that brings LEGO to a fun new place!

FEATUREDMoss in association with Edelman Arts presents Remains by Cathy McClure ~ she deconstructs robotic animal toys ~ recasts the pieces in bronze and reconstructs it... see all the creatures!

The Gorrinucha piggy bank was designed by Milrayas & Ceramics San Gines for a contest in Spain. Originally it was never planned to put it into production, but the demand has been so high that they are getting a batch ready for Christmas.

FEATUREDMaking of the adorable Brain Pattern Egg Qee - hand painted by Emilio Garcia

Workers from the Milan design firm "Office" have an Architect's Party and everyone's invited! What you see above you is one of the bits of design art included in the show - just nails and thread and a lot of patience!

VIDEOLife-size versions of two pages from "Where the Wild Things Are" on chalkboard painted walls in the DC office of ad agency Arnold Worldwide. It took over eleven hours to draw and video is made from over 1,500 stills. Enjoy!

Customize your computer keyboard with this pictoral alphabet keyboard sticker set. Great for kids and adults!

French artist Julie Mercier has illustrated many children books and magazines. Here, for L’Affiche Moderne, is her exclusive and monumental atlas, teeming with funny details and creatures. Limited edition.

Hommu minni launch the ‘learning’ collection: Eco-chic wall stickers that help your little ones learn, for example, the animals.

The 'Tio' ghost light switch system teaches kids to conserve household energy.

Adorably designed educational iPhone games for preschoolers. I dare moms to resist!

Skål is a media player designed for the home that lets you interact with digital media using physical objects. You place objects in a wooden bowl to play back related media on the TV. Skål makes media playful.

This is a web comic made entirely by an old industrial robot that finds basic geometric shapes that IT draws funny and full of human-like expressions.

James Perse Limited Edition Tricycle ~ so adorably stylish...

Shawnimals' Winter Ninja!

This is really a rocking book with rocking kids names!!!

FEATUREDMeet Crtl C! Just discovered some of the Brio Network collection toys in person! They are even more adorable and now there is series 1 and 1.5 ~ take a look at the whole line! Email, Search, etc as wood toys!

Howletts Wild Animal Park prove that animals can enjoy Halloween too

FEATUREDBrio's My Very First collection has some adorable toys for those shopping for new borns... i'm smitten with the awesome walrus! and flying bunny (which can also come with a cell phone!)

Potion designed "What's In Your Blood..." for the Museum of Science and Industry's exhibit "YOU! The Experience." This interactive table lets visitors play with cells and molecules as they are pumped through an open section of a pulsing blood vessel.

Eliss: very intuitive and beautifully designed multi-touch game for the iphone.

Suck UK Reusable Shopping Character Bag ~ no it's not just another reusable bag that you can shove into a pouch... depending how you pull pieces out of the pouch you can invent your own creatures!

Rosa is a well designed modern rocking horse version.

A collection of tattoos inspired by Maurice Sendak and Where The Wild Things Are

Oeuf animal hat and matching booties at the inhabitat shop. Comes in dragon, bear and wolf!

I love the Convert-O-Bike over at DWR. It changes with your child from tricycle to bicycle!

UNICEF sent a package to supporters asking to turn soldiers back into children. A familiar pack of plastic toy soldiers was sent out as a piece of direct mail.

Artistically carved Where The Wild Things Are pumpkins

Exclusively at Tower Records and available only in Japan, limited run by Orange Train ¥ 7,200, Uchiyamada-kun is exclusively designed for the mega music store by world renowned Japanese animator Hideyasu Moto.

For the 35th anniversary of Hello Kitty, Sanrio has put together an overly cute animated promo showing Hello Kitty's evolution through the decades....

FEATUREDBeautiful simple minimalist wooden owls by Matt Pugh ~ and stunning with so may options for that splash of color...

Kiddi Moto from the UK builds wooden balance bikes with the look of superbikes, scramblers, choppers and scooters.

Part art installation, part pacifier, Wee See is a collection of black-and-white animations built from basic shapes to delight both child and parent.

love love love Momocreatura's wearable miniatures.

The new potty training chairs from European brand Hoppop have it all: looks, user friendliness, and easy cleaning / ‘content’ disposal.

A round up of the coolest designer wooden blocks on the market! From Alexander Girard to Naef, these will have you playing with building blocks no matter what your age!

Lene Dragon creates painstakingly detailed miniatures of modern home furnishings, like this Barcelona Couch.

From Singapore, a very cute campaign (in a "Tim Burton" sort of cuteness) for Play Doh. Several ads featuring normally "dangerous" things, remind parents of how safe it's to play with it!

Need a little something to do on a rainy day? How about folding 100 photo realistic paper origami animals? These Rasperas (rasterized peramodels) from japan are downloadable paper crafts.

Chicago's 826CHI non-profit tutoring center, founded by writer Dave Eggers, just released their online store "Not A Secret Agent Store." Not only an amazing website, but the gadgets available are for the true secret agent.

FEATUREDCrazy eyed bear wielding a spork? Beware! Check out the Rocket World T.A.D. Griz Lee Bear ~ so cute, so lost, so harmless? Or is he? Definitely adorably packaged though...

The Culla Sinuè crib designed by Daniela Avaltroni was created in the form of an egg-like shell.

Gentlemen hanging mobile makes me wish I was a kid again. The best part is that they're made from recyclable paper!

Really nice Maurice Sendak interview explaining his reasons behind finally allowing the film adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are to be made.

Gitta Gschwendtner's Wedge Racer Door Stops... although i'm not sure how you could resist pulling this out from under the door to play with!

All Legs on Deck - One of the beautifully dark, playful and strangely adorable illustrations of RISD trained illustrator Bats Langley.

ROBOX; a series of 9 storage boxes that can turn into giant robot in no time

A set of 8 monsters and animals temporary tattoo.

Beautiful insipration from Hiroshige and Klimt in this upcoming children book 'La colère de Banshee' (Banshee's anger) by talented David Sala.

Secret Agents unite! Designer PURDEY has created a cypher for us all to write beautiful, super-colorful coded messages in!

The Indie Rock Coloring Book From Andy J. Miller and the Yellow Bird Project published by Chronicle - all the proceeds go to charity! Contributors include; Rilo Kiley, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, MGMT, Bon Iver and The Shins.

Playbox is the perfect mix of storage space and an indoor ride.

The Brooklyn based Furry Puppet Studio has launched its new website, and with it, a new approach to classic puppet building that promises to transform industry standards.

Awesome kid furniture designed by Oji Masanori.

The Buenos Aires based illustrator Max Dalton is about to release a picture book for children with Peter Ackerman. Gorgeous mid-century style images preview on his blog. Can’t wait to get my hands on this book!

dci - just released these great "classic chalks" based on the classic orders in Greek architecture -designed by ken goldman

In the context of the Festival des Architectures Vives at Montpellier, France (18th-21st June), on the theme ‘Ephémères Curiosités’, ateliermob purposed to reinvent children’s universe on one antique mansion’s courtyard of Montpellier.

Pixel Mickey, Pixel Naughty Bits, and a bunch more! All cut out of newspaper and stuck up with a brush and wheatpaste. Designed and stuck by Pedro Biz.

iPhone ZooABC app. Useful and funny app that lets kid get used to reading.

schoolblock is a typeface in the process of being refined by designing and posting the name of anyone who adds it as a contact.

FEATUREDSDCC 09 - Rocketworld! Showing almost a full booth of newness ~ there is even silver jewelry, stickers, letterpress, plushes for kids, new IWG characters, and more!

FEATUREDSDDC 09 ~ a look at some of the great new series over at KidRobot ~ from stumpy futuramas to junko mizuno to the rolling stock!

L.A. based puppet company Swazzle is creating a new set of Audrey 2 puppets for the musical "Little Shop of Horrors". See exclusive behind the scenes photos on Swazzle's Facebook fan page.

A group of non-governmental organizations from three continents working worldwide to fight poverty and injustice. -- VISUALLY! HeyStudio presents the rebranding of Oxfam.

The grotesque yet strangely cutie-pie monsters of Chris Ryniak.

SHAG will be on hand for a special meet & greet and signing opportunity as we celebrate the release of his "Haunted Mansion" inspired artwork created in commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Haunted Mansion.

Anima Mundi: The largest animation festival in Latin America has started its 17th edition in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil! 2009 Visual identity by Andreas Hykade

MDF bird toys by Our children’s gorilla. Their line is innovative, original, fun, creative and simply functional. They encourage creativity and imagination and they strive to produce timeless classics with a sense of humour.

FEATUREDMa Me Pa ~ sustainable wooden turtle pull toys hand made in india! Also adorably, simply packaged! See the video of how mesmerizing they are when they roll!

A total dinosaur stampede at the graduation show of designer Stina Johansson!

Where in the world did Tintin go? A wonderful map of every journey Tintin made.

Fred's MIX STIX™ keepin’ rhythm in the kitchen. Designed by Ignacio Pilotto & Jason Amendolara.

check out this brilliant rocking horse by german designer Felix Goetze

Top 10 comic book cities. From Radiant City to Mega City One, the Architects’ Journal presents a selection of the greatest illustrated urban spaces, Tintin is number nine, follow the link to see what you think!!

Ride on Zuequito ... comes with a free ticket to the land of imagination! Made of recycled wood, it´s an environmentally responsible choice!

Patrick Gannon unleashes "We All Laugh Together" and "The Golden Sea, It Has Teeth", mythical cut and torn paper on wood creations. Now available as new Gicleé prints.

Robot Bowl - the only Robot Bowling arcade game sitting in a sewing shop in the entire world.

Swedish art student, Anna Kovárová creates Woodwind for her graduate exhiibition, a side-blown flute carved out of a living oak branch, while still attached to the tree.

It's the Summer of the SuperVillain! Name your nemesis and illustrator Len Peralta will draw his interpretation and even post a video of the process to YouTube.

DGPH studio presents TOPO: 64 illustrated pages, in comic format, filled with short stories leading to nothing and amazing illustrations!

New eco-themed line of toys that help kids learn how to live in harmony with the environment.

Underground DJ/graphic designer Mike Davis and the peeps at Kidrobot have created these awesome alphabet zipper pull keychains.

Deskhouse for your children.

World Wide Challenge : Illustrations from the newly online web-portfolio of Matt Thomas.

Designed to be the first *lickable" iPhone app, "Flick-A-Pop" was originally called "Lick-A-Pop". Apple rejected it saying it "encouraged behavior that could damage the iPhone". Adding "F" to the name appeased the Apple gods...

Light up puppets from L.A. puppet company Swazzle. Created for their new show Water Color, covered with hundreds of feet of hand stitched Electroluminescent Wire. See before and after pics on the puppet101 blog at swazzle.com!

FEATUREDBamboo E-Racer ~ awesome toy car for kids that's eco-friendly and pretty cute too - some weird packaging though... see the closeups!

My First Fairy Tales (Board book) by Tomie dePaola should be another fun option for the little ones ~ curious to see how he tells 4 stories in 24 pages...

Ecotronic Toys ~ yes! eco friendly, no batteries, and people powered!

French designer Matali Crasset has completed the interior of La Maison des Petits (“House for Children”) at the centre for artistic creation and production 104 CENT QUATRE in Paris-France.

Kenneth Cobonpue's Voyage Bassinet, is finally available.

Corporate identity designed for a men's barber and hairdresser with more than 40 years of experience. By estudio merienda

Charlie Harper's ABCs ~ adorable gorgeous book of classic illustrations in board book form!

Alphabeasties and Other Amazing Types By Sharon Werner and Sarah Forss ~ on upcoming kids books ~ typography + animals!!!

Dwell Studio's LOOK ~ a board book coming in Sept ~ more potential perfect gifting for the newborns coming up! (Also keep an eye out for What Colors? and Touch and Feel Farm)

Magritte's imagination ~ a board book by Susan Goldman Rubin!!! Next time i'm shopping for toddler gifts, this is top of the list! You're never too young to get a nice dose of Magritte!

Creature ABC ~ perhaps the ultimate kids gift book? Coming out July 22nd ~ the alphabet version of Andrew Zuckerman's amazing Creature book

23 year-old designer, illustrator and animator Matthieu Bessudo aka McBess produced this awsome music video for the band The Dirty Pirates.

Dragon Boy from Sam Flores ~ vinyl pulse has a peek at the new prototype!

I really enjoy these photo comics called 'My milk tooth' by Inhae.

Emosi ~ adorable packaging for this playful little spanish creature

Hang up on the wall, cut into smaller pieces and past on the table, under bunk-beds jetting out in the night. Everyone need to feel as if in total control now and then. And now you can with this enormous switchboard.

We love this charming and clever 'Deskhouse' from Ninetonine design - it doubles as both playhouse and desk / drafting table for arty kids. Wish I had one when I was a kid!

Awesome looking rattan "jars" made from rattan over a steel frame. They are just under 6' high in either 9-3/4" or 11" diameter. Used in multiples, they are really cool. Like some kind of a trippy forest.

In this series of totems actual lost things are represented (keys, shoes, jobs, friendships, etc). Each paper totem takes the form of a cube, providing an easy way by which to stack them so as to best suit your preference…

Spotted at the Pratt student show: this awesome, super smart kids toy that combines musical instruments, stacking, and bright colors all in one beautiful toy

children's wooden toy sewing machine by woodclinic is so cute. i would have loved this as a kid

'Terrible Yellow Eyes' : a growing online collection of artworks as a tribute to 'Where the wild things are', an initiative by Cory Godbey.

Designers will appreciate the new teaser trailer for Pixar's Toy Story 3,— where Woody and Buzz battle it out for the best logo design...

Matali Crasset has just completed the interior design of 'La Maison des Petits' (House for the little ones) at the 104, Paris. Complete review with technical details on Dezeen.

Black Wagon curates its collection of kids clothes to save today's youth from any more fashion disasters, and this humorous photo series by Chris Hornbecker illustrates that.

Very talented Ann Wood offers a full DIY project as a guest in D*S : little cardboard horses running through walls !

Pop's Stache - A collaboration by Industrial Designers Shane Blomberg, John Healy, and Andrew Reeves. These hilarious mustaches serve as drink identifiers and remind everyone that there is nothing more fun then a mustache.

Sub-Studio's brand new nursery rhyme print series inspired by our favorite childhood rhymes.

Gorgeous print by Gwénola "ABCD métiers" ~ showing the alphabet of possible professions!

A piece of quality furniture that is enduring and encourages active and imaginative play for children. With room for one or two children, depending on circumstances and use. Simply by pulling the rope, different possibilities and functions are enabled.

Whatchawant is a move away from the ”wear out then throw out” culture. Sustainability has been a core value throughout the entire designprocess, including the product’s life cycle.

Design Charlotte Ryberg/Johanna Strand

Wow! Almost 200 models in the shape of children’s TV favourite Morph arranged in a terracotta army outside Tate Modern to honour the memory of the late TV artist Tony Hart.

From Tjep ~ work for a new furniture brand called VilaSofa. The interior design is like a modern warehouse fantasy playspace.

Woody A Renne!!! by FAKIR

New Luckies ~ blind box zipper pulls from Friends with You and Kid Robot

FEATUREDHands on with a full bodied Cardboard Rhino from Cardboard Safari (the guys who make the animal head trophies)! They come flat and perfectly laser cut for your build it yourself pleasure. Definitely a fun gift for most ages...

Posters, porcelain, paper toys, cross-stitch, street art, screen prints, linocuts, tattoos and dolls from artists around the world collected for First Thursday Beard Art. Bonus: a beard giveaway.

The Pininfarina Research Centre a new children's rocking horse made completely of solid wood, with neither finishes nor glues.

An recreation of R. Crumb's Cheap Thrills cover only with Muppets and Muppet references. A part of the "Muppet Rawk" group artshow at the Ouch My Eye Gallery in Seattle.

Where The Wild Things Are characters will be coming out in the form of Kubricks by Medicom Toy Japan. Great news!

FEATUREDIWG Sleepy Bear Series ~ who doesn't love adorable man eating bears with SPORKS and skulls and combat knives...

Novelist Tom Robbins' new book B is for Beer, a children's book for grown-ups and a grown-up book for children.

Charming stop motion animation created by UK design house Miller & Goodman using their ShapeMaker wood block set.

Noferin has adorable new Natural Wood Pecan Pals available in their store now!

Seward Street Slides (& Corwin Community Garden) - San Francisco, CA. First opened May 21, 1973. Fun for big kids too!

Takashi Murakami adds character to the May 2009 issue of Casa BRUTUS (which includes self-portraits of Murakami and a designed "Flower" plate).

The physical involvement of the spectator finds a resonance in the ephemeral existence of light particles.