Material ConneXion presents the winners from I.D. magazine’s Annual Design Review. This year’s best in design will be on exhibit at the global material consultancy’s NYC showroom through August 21.

Sex Wax & Anderson Brothers Bring Sexy Back to the Contemporary Art World with- 'Sexy Skull' Life sized-limited edition skull, cast in seven different fresh flavors of surfboard wax.

Designed by Gina Demm, a student at the Art Institute of Minnesota. She was awarded AIGA's 2009 scholarship to her for best portfolio

Damien Correll provided some art for a De'Longhi espresso machine that will be auctioned for charity. Classic sobriety, yet designer touch indeed.

Karim Rashid teamed up with Kenzo to create these fragrance "pebbles" that weigh just over .5 oz and fit in the palm of your hand.

The package here takes position and reminds us that tissues come from trees and therefore it suggest a respect for the material.

Red Stripe and Fader magazine team up for some exclusive Jamaican Tracks ~ and they are downloadable, but also showed up in the cutest Red Stripe USB Key ~ beer for my computers! See the awesome graphics as well!

Central Saint Martins degree show 09 in Central London.

A sweet look at a vintage box of Spring Green "Kolorpins" nails purchased at the bargain price of 50 cents USD.

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

Ramino Caminada ~ adorable use of pixelated graphics for the jam packaging

Loving this new vodka brand by Moscow based designer Arthur Schreiber.

ZuPreem ~ everytime i see their packaging for primate/carnivore food ~ it makes me smile

Boston boutique Concepts and Nike SB got together on the Blue Lobster Dunk. Aside from the shoe, the packaging is really amazing, coming wrapped in a hazmat foam container.

Love from Lovey Package: New packaging designs for Bold City Brewery designed by the Robin Shepherd Group - Mad Manatee!

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

A very unique portfolio design, and hand made to boot! Designed and manufactured by Nicholas Wilson.

Target's Archer Farms line of food products has a new and decidedly European look.

From the box to the individual crayon, a great retrospect of Crayola Crayon's packaging.

Make your very own contemporary art masterpiece! iArtistLondon is cool new brand with a series DIY art kits from artists such as: Damien Hirst, Tracy Emin, Rachel Whiteread, Marc Quinn and a Banksy vending machine.

This popcorn package does not only looks good while you pop your popcorns in the microwave but the packaging itselfs pops-up into a nice bowl when your popcorn is ready to be served!

Emosi ~ adorable packaging for this playful little spanish creature

On possibly the awesomest cell phone box art yet... T-Mobile myTouch 3G box art! Engadget has a sneak peek... you may have heard about this one as the "magic" or G2...

Who doesn’t love to curl up and surround themselves with books and escape for an afternoon? The Cave bookshelf allows you to literally do just that.

Gold ADDY winning mailer for Dale Chihuly's Glass exhibition at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona.

Wrap like a pro - video
In about 6 months time its Christmas again. The time to give – and to wrap!

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…

The Harvard Review literary journal gets a beautiful redesign by Alex Camlin.

TCHO – that’s highest quality fair trade chocolate manufactured using the most modern technology in a gigantic warehouse in the San Francisco docks.

Cornishware is back! T.G.Green & Co was rescued from extinction, the brand that was true to design principles that made it a part of everyday life. Over 50 pieces to choose from.

This bag illustrates the pyramidal consumer trap the way Fanny Descary saw it in this packaging project.

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.

The Danish design agency Designbolaget recently won the European Design Award 2009 with their design for Moshi Moshi Mind....

The Age of Stupid is a film is a drama-documentary-animation hybrid with an old man living in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking: why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?

Nice packing for frozen pizzas from Norwegian Lokale Helter. Design by Strømme Throndsen Design.

On fun cork design... who's chasing whom? You can spin it around as much as you'd like and on they go... Also nice water colored label on this André Balazs Sunset Beach Rosé

Chandelier made with styrofoam packaging from Apple laptops. Eric Lawrence just won the Sustainable prize in Design Within Reach Austin's M+D+F competition for creating this awesome chandelier.

The Spanish design agency Moruba has created the visual identity and packaging for Winery Arts company: Originality, Creativity and Innovation.
This label has proved the winner of the Best Awards Pack'08 and Laus'09

Google has changed its front-page to pay homage to the discovery of the missing link, as posted on [post:21801]#21801, happy 200th Darwin!

This is Origami by Magdalena Czarnecki.
Empty paper bags, containing simple step by step instructions on how to fold the bag into an origami animal, becomes a sustainable designer toy, in paper.

Shop dropping Montreal... You bring your art into a store and leave it on a product. When someone buys that product they get a piece of your art!

An advertisement for Eastpak, made by HAP.

This is the prettiest packaging of building materials I have ever seen! Mouse graphics have gone in a new direction with their package design, and I can imagine that construction workers all over the world will thank them for it!

The 1GB USB stick is made of recycled cardboard. The card includes five sticks to be detachable by cracking them on the doted line. Colin Garceau-Tremblay developed this project in my packaging class.