Spin stool by Staffan Holm in collaboration with Swedese.
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Surreal smoky photographs by Stefano Bonazzi.
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Kiel Mead's driftwood hooks made from driftwood from NY State Beaches.
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Dublin's Science Gallery opened their new exhibition about the future of food this week, their opening party featured Designgoat's multisensory jelly & sound . . asking people to taste with their ears
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'X-Ray Vision: Fish Inside Out' is a traveling exhibit currently at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.
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Okto table: one round plywood table-top, three metal triangles, three plastic fittings. Lightweight but strong octahedron shaped frame structure can be taken apart easily and put away when not in use. By Arttu Kuisma.
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In A Pinch is shelving system consisting of flattened steel tubes and plywood shelves, by Arttu Kuisma.
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A homemade Airsoft machine gun using a soda bottle. It only costs $15 and requires 4 commonly available parts, plus pellets of course.
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Who made that Rubik's Cube? The NYT Magazine solves the puzzle and talks to a kid who manages it in 5.6 seconds.
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Buddy, an iconic piece of furniture from Bao-Nghi Droste serves as an occasional table at home, and fits perfectly in lobby/lounge areas in public spaces.
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The Faló lamp represents the campfire light that brings people together.
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The classic trolley table is back and looks better than ever. Have some tea in style. Designed by Bao-Nghi Droste.
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Marginal Notes 2012 By Note, The excursion, Stockholm design week.
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FEATUREDA peek inside the studio of Chandelier Creative ~ from wine in the ballpit with skateboards and friends with you inflatables to moooi horse lighting, giant doors, neon lighting, and more...
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VIDEOJumping from number 45 to 20 on US album charts this week, Gotye's Making Mirrors might owe some of its popularity to the haunting single 'Somebody That I Used To Know' (with Kimbra) and its visually-stimulating video.
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Le3 invites you to discover 'Golden Tiger'. An amazing running tiger blending into the lights of the streets of Paris during the night. On the video, a motion street mapping with no post production FX.
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Market is a multi-use furniture accessory from Skrivo Design based on the vegetable and fruit crates found at the market. Constructed in clear crystal glass, it can be used as a side table, newspaper rack, or for storage.
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The 'cinemagram' app for iPhone is the most recent innovation in the revived interest in GIF animation art.
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Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron who designed the 'Bird's Nest' for the 2008 Olympic Games are collaborating on the 'Serpentine Pavillion' at the Serpentine Gallery on the lawn of West London's Kensington Gardens.
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Modern Architecture Game is the second edition of the architecture game, by Next architects. The first edition was launched on 30 August 1999.
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At Millennium Park, Chicago, Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate, also known as 'The Bean,' comes to life with an interactive light show called Luminous Field by LuftWerk, the creative vision of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero.
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'O Perché' modular furniture system by Julie Pfligersdorffer.
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Fantastic underwater dog photography by Seth Casteel.
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VIDEOA crafty and sleepy-object-ful video adventure for the amazingly tender track 'Lullaby Crocodile'. Song written and performed by Micaela, Augustina and Valodia León.
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VIDEOIncredible multigait origami robots that run only on air.
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Stunning wintry photos by Korzhonov Daniil.
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VIDEOD/struct by Lucas Maassen and Raw Color consists of items that are completely destroyed, then packaged
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Proof, "a social tasting game for single malt connoisseurs and newbies alike".
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VIDEOFor Coca-Cola’s 125th Anniversary Exhibition's Future Room concept, Antilop transformed santralistanbul's Galeri 1 into an immersive environment by creating 90 square meter of 270-degree projection system.
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Permy Mi Jang Won salon in Suji-gu, Korea by M4 Interior Design Architecture.
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VIDEODue in part to poor dietary habits, health in the US has been in decline for the last several decades. This beautifully illustrated video makes a case for supplementing your diet. Created by Alpheus Media for Shaklee.
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Beautiful selection of nuclear slide rules that visualize complex calculations.
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VIDEOBuchstabengewitter by Ingo Italic is an experimental generative type project using motion graphics. Each letter is bale to morph into another, creating a unique animation.
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Kidrobot and Frank Kozik launch his new Choice Cuts Labbit at LA's Lindy & Grundy Butcher shop!
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At the Helsinki café Kauko, the coffee is free, but the experience is unpredictable. A Web site with live video lets Internet users raise or lower the seats and tables, dim the lights, or change the music
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VIDEORobot Readable World by Timo shows us how computer vision systems and robots see their environments.
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VIDEOExperimento Comparte - Ad shows how kids react when one finds an empty plate and the other a sandwich. "
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Beautifully organized studio supplies by Kontor Kontur.
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VIDEOStalker Humanoid by Renaissance Man - Do you see him? Amazing (music) video of dancers in mossy ghillie suits in the woods. Wow.
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Monumental Holy candlesticks by Anki Gneib.
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FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NotVentures is full of travel inspiration whether you’re off to Antarctica, the Musandam peninsula or Harbour Island.
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Ben Barry and his Facebook Analog Research Lab - The friendly coworkers at Facebook share their love of posters and sharing with their own print shop.
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VIDEOStarry Night Interactive by Petros Vrellis is a beautiful twist on the Van Gogh classic. Using a touchscreen and some clever openFrameworks code, this project turns his strokes into awesome new-media!
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Beautiful interactive Reykjavik center map
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Jim Dingilian is an artist who stretches the limits of creativity with his amazing creations. He uses candle smoke to paint picture-perfect images on the inside of empty bottles.
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'The anatomy of mother bear giving birth' is an awesome new mural in Vienna, Austria. This work is a collaboration of four talented street artists – FlyingFortress, Nychos and the Sobekcis twins.
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Kid-in, a platform for a wide range of international and local designers, photographers, artists and thinkers, focusing on the singular subject of childhood.
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Summer house in Skåtøy Island - Norway by Filter Architects.
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VIDEOThe making of a men's Louis Vuitton shoe.
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The Bamby chair by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance.
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Giancarlo Neri brings his installation, Maximum Silence, comprised of 9,000 25cm lights that change in color and intensity, to Paris Square in downtown Rio. Beautiful!
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Naf Architect and Design's black cedar house.
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Agemaps, a fascinating series of photos capturing individuals at different ages by Bobby Neel Adams.
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Researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies captured a shark eating another shark in the Great Barrier Reef! The a tasselled wobbegong shark was swallowing brown-banded bamboo shark head first!
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Danish design creative HAY recently teamed up with the Swedish graphic designer Clara von Zweigbergk.
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Minimalistic Gramophone by Livia Ritthaler. Check the video.
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London's Design Museum is to be relocated to the modernist shell of the former Commonwealth Institute, and the interior redesign by John Pawson architecture firm.
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Glass pill sculptures by artist Beverly Fishman. Marvelous and very addictive.
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VIDEOBehind the scenes with Takashi Murakami as he and his Kaikai Kiki team prepare to launch his first exhibition in Middle East. Opens 9 Feb 2012 in Doha - Qatar.
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Cute dog barrel poop bag holder for the collar
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A roundup of Sci-Fi art inspired by iconic pieces from art history.
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Dutch design studio VollaersWart created a typographic sculpture/installation for a high school in The Netherlands, an open space and meeting area for students.
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Mobile reclaimed cedar chicken coops from moderncoop. By Wright Design Office.
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Noisolation, funky headphones by designer Alex Braiwood that alter the relationship between a person and the noise around them.
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Gorgeous campaign by Carter Wong Design for deep sea fishing company Ocean Trawlers featuring some stunning photography from fisherman turned photographer Corey Arnold.
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Umbra Sombrero Lemon Juicer (also comes in Lime/green) ~ juices right into your bottle... Designed by Mauricio Affonso
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FEATUREDMoo cards go LUXE! Nicer paper ~ triple thickness (splash of color in the middle) ~ full size biz cards ~ and awesome magnetic box packaging... see all the details up close!
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WA House by MAPA on the outskirts of Santiago in Curacaví, Chile.
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Heavy duty staples in the adorable shape of dog from Neatoshop.
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Mark Tipple's 'The Underwater Project' captures swimmers and surfers from under the surface.
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VIDEOFerrari 599 GTO by GridStars is a beautiful and technical look at the stunning vehicle. The car is amazing as is, but the video just does the trick!
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A mini arcade cabinet, the iCade Jr. brings the arcade excitement to your iPhone or iPod touch.
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Perth Zoo's adorable echidna puggle is growing up!
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Great shopping bag from Japan with a James Bond / Thunderball look.
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Paper Realities - creative series by Jan Kriwol, a photographer and digital artist from Poland.
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Wall Coaster Extreme Stunt Kit - "interchangeable parts so kids can build all sorts of rolling marble runs up to 13 feet" ~ made of ABS plastic and reusable adhesive.
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Beautiful detail of Phoebe Cumming’s “Flora,” a work in unfired clay, part of “Swept Away: Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Arts and Design,” opening today at the Museum of Arts and Design.
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2nd Shift Studio's "Key Plate" - a redesign of a door frame strike plate, found in almost every home/office, now with a place to hang your keys/etc!
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A new study published in Biology Letters suggests that tarsiers may communicate in pure ultrasound.
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The Dodecahedronic Chair by Hiroaki Suzuki.
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VIDEOBeautiful interactive installation, Nervous Structure (Field), by Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza.
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Beautiful hanging porcelain planer, the Sphere Planter by Stephen Green.
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VIDEOThe world's largest dodgeball game with 4,979 competitors took place last week at the University of Alberta.
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Heart Part, a clever biodegradable utensil that splits to form two utensils, fork and knife, in addition to a scoop.
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Chocolates with Attitude designed by Bessermachen Design Studio for Brandhouse.com, featuring illustrations by Nielsditlev.
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The BioLite lets you cook safely using wood while generating electricity to power your gadgets.
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Faucet Face sells reusable glass water bottles and uses some of the profits to make BioSand filters in India.
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FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious features killer guacamole, lasagna soup and coconut lime margaritas.
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Danish architecture studio 3XN's newly completed Copenhagen headquarters of KPMG.
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Calligraphy and Lettering art of Luca Barcellona, freelance graphic designer and calligrapher from Milan.
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Glitch Textiles from Phillip Stearns are textiles made from patterns produced by short-circuited cameras.
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Transparency Grenade by Julian Oliver captures network traffic and audio at the site then securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where information is mined.
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VIDEODeluge by Even Westvang is a beautiful data visualization of the movement of 300,000 Norwegians as they relocate within the country.
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José Javier Gallardo Ortega, of the firm G.Bang created this beautiful new children's psychiatric center in Zaragoza.
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'Crystallized Project' an exhibition by Tokujin Yoshioka, 2012 Creator of the Year.
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Suspended Together, beautiful and symbolic installation by Saudi Arabian artist Manal Al Dowayan.
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BMW olympic pavilion, London. Beautiful winning design from Serie Architects that sits upon the river with a flowing body of water below.
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'The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories' a heartwarming collection of stories with 60 quirky illustrations and anecdotes, curated and edited by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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Kopiad, a collection of office accessories for the Swedish company Boxit Design by Note Design.
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In metrography, Bertrand Clerc and Benedikt Groß realign our distorted idea of distance by fixing the topology of London to the rationalized map designed by Harry Beck.
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David Stark gives Design Milk an exclusive tour of his new month-long pop-up takeover of Haus Interior NYC - WOOD SHOP.
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Photographer Thomas Czarnecki's latest series 'From Enchantment to Down' captures the dark side of fairy tales.
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▲, pronounced Alt-30, is a work that challenges its players to find and test the thresholds of the piece, as well as their own, through playfulness and curiosity.
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'The Transformer: Principles of Making Isotype Charts' beautiful book using the International System of Typographic Picture Education, pictograms designed to communicate complex information in a nonverbal way, by Marie and Otto Neurath.
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FEATUREDIKEA's new Solvinden Collection for 2012 includes WIND powered outdoor lighting! See designer David Wahl demonstrate them in the video!
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Hotcan, hot re-brand! NEW self-heating canned ready meals...
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Popular Science takes a look at some of the most amazing playgrounds.
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Ikea's solar lighting BIRDS! Designed by Ola Wihlborg, there are 5 birds per chain.
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Hug stool by Emo Design made from irregular and worn pieces of wood.
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Stunning tiny worlds! The winners of the Nikon Small World microvideography contest.
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Artist Colin Pinegar created its impressive infographic from examining his facebook 'friends', scoring them after a lengthy survey, then making a wax bust for each person in the color that corresponded to their score.
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Martin Azua’s new beautifully geometric Union Suiza vases are absolutely stunning!
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Stunning photos of skeletons by Eiji Yuzawa capture their sculptural beauty.
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Andrew Perkins' Synapse Chair with stainless steel joinery.
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FEATUREDNano quadrotors, deep sea discoveries and edible super insulating foam are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.
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For one day, a pop-up aluminum foundry in a small Los Angeles backyard turns scrap metal into designed objects. By Tada Ryvola and Michael Sandstrom of United Environment Architecture.
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The Scale of the Universe by Cary Huang takes you from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of space-time. Along the way you will see molecules, animals, countries, and galaxies; all putting you in your scale. Awesome!
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FEATUREDGenevieve Gauckler Mugs for Publik ~ Live Joyfully, You are the master!, Throwing The Balls, and Path To Success.
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Soft Block by Torafu Architects. Sofas, partitions and seat cushions can be easily built, and you will soon find yourself creating in a playground of blocks.
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More like installation pieces than lighting, take a look at these sculptural lights by Polish architect and designer Michal Maciej Bartosik.
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VIDEOCute animated music video for 'The First Time I Ran Away' by M. Ward. Video directed by Joel Trussell.
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A walkable rollercoaster sculpture in Duisburg, Germany designed by Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth.
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A gallery from PopSci about hunting For Mythical Beasts.
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NENDO designed “HALSUIT” design concept; A concept shop for high-volume mens suit retailer Haruyama....
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VIDEOMaking of a life-size model of Xiphactinus for the Hastings Museum.
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A new set of Royal Mail stamps featuring some of Roald Dah's most popular characters is just out from the Post Office as illustrated by Quentin Blake.
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The cool new design of the Jung Von Matt Headquarters in Hamburg, Germany.
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VIDEOAdorable Eames Elephant Stool Safari video. The iconic eames elephant goes on safari!
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Council Tool Velvicut 2 Lb Premium Hudson Bay Axe. Gorgeous.
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VIDEOVoltron Dubstepping - an outtake/add on between Metlife's superbowl spot!
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McDonald’s X California Poppy Seed Bomb Ad by Sean Click. The California poppy is the California state flower, protected by legislature, making it illegal to pick, dig up, or destroy.
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A fusion of aesthetics, feel and handicraft. The pattern on the porcelain bowl by Ines Lang Porzellan is applied with shellac in a dry state, then scrubbed out using a sponge and water, to obtain the relief-like surface.
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Lovely visualisation of bird migrations across the US.
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Minimalist slim money clip from Human Republic.
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VIDEOMusic video for OK Go's Needing/Getting in collaboration with Chevrolet. OK Go set up over 1000 instruments over two miles of desert outside Los Angeles.
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Stunning deep sea discoveries off the California coast. Beautiful slideshow of the latest findings published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
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FEATUREDA closer look at Terra New York's stylish/100% waterproof, heat sealed TPU/ Urethane rainwear!
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