Not only is this tiny necklace damn cool, but when you shake it you can hear the tiny paint paddle inside rattle. Gets yours and more brilliant gifts including turntable rings and microphone keyrings from the excellent Oye Modern.
Spray Can Necklace
This inventive ‘seat’ can be bought in separate metre long sections, which are then assembled in an unlimited number of combinations. Visit the designers website here.
Sitescape
A strange pitch for playing five-a-side on. Call me mad, but I think it would be better used as a skate ramp. Check out this and more urban furniture from Spanish art fraternity SpY.
Urban Furniture
Not only is DQ Books a fantastically swish site, but the books that are on there are all beautifully illustrated and come with their own interactive soundtracks!
DQ Books
Bizarre, bewitching and baffling art installations from the extremely talented Nils-R. Schultze.
Light Objects
A nice ‘little’ campaign from BBDO France for the new iPod video Nano with the creative thought of ‘Pocketsize movies’
Nano Movie Ads
Part of the Buro Destruct collective, this site has loads of not only great, but also varied typefaces. Some are for sale, but there are some real bargains in there. so it’s worth a search.
TypeDifferent
Reuters are known around the world for not only their cutting edge news, but also for their fantastic photographs. Check out what they consider to be ‘The best photos of 2007’. Stunning.
Pictures of 2007
This masterful creation from Lv Zhongfang is simply amazing. The dots float around randomly and then when you need to know the time, you shake the watch and they all align to display it.
Dandelion Watch
This is the king of pillows. The portable M-Pillow plays music, glows different colours and can be connected wirelessly to your computer so you can download music on to it!
Music to your ears
Young Portuguese designer also known as Karpa has a stunning portfolio of work which includes jobs for Nike, Puma and most recently Evisu. I particularly love the logo for RDB.
David Carvalho
Round off an indulgent festive season with a truly scrumptious and decadent treat: Nutella French Toast, as recommended by Adriano at Windsor Eats.
Nutella Goodness
27th Dec ‘07
It’s not strictly a shelf and hardly a picture, but it is an interesting combination of the two. Available in 3 beautiful versions, all designed by Clotilde de Grave & Didier Chaudanson.
Frame Shelves
This is the most insane fruit carving I have ever seen. Apparently Takashi Itoh is self taught and only started in 2001.
Fruit Carving
A beautifully design from Matteo Thun & Partners. The shower head at the end of the shower curtain rail is simple and ingenious.
Cool Curtain
This is one of a selection of £73 beautiful prints done by Daniel Eatok. He balanced 288 Pantone Pens on their nibs and let the ink sink into the 73 sheets of paper below, for over a month.
Pantone Prints
A roundup of the different types of logo trends seen over the past year by LogoLounge.
Logo Trends
A lovely portfolio of work from the talented Eric Hollings. His website has a slightly retro feel that complements his excellent work beautifully
Eric Hollings
31st Dec ‘07
28th Dec ‘07
These have to be the most beautiful tan lines I’ve ever seen. Just make sure you don’t too much otherwise you’ll end up covered in a bizarre floral camouflage. Find out more about creator Yu Chiao Wang here.
Sun Tatoo
Fascinating and captivating photography from a group of artists who go by the name of Licht Faktor. They also do videos and you can check out their Flickr page here.
Licht Factor
A brilliant double whammy; You can now have something to read over breakfast other than the back of a cereal box AND you can save the planet by recycling it in your mouth once you’ve read it!
Honey I left it on the toast
Take ‘worshipping’ you iPod to a whole new level with this unusual case. Now you can choose from your very own selection of ‘hymns’ to inspire you. Get yours from Suck UK.
Cherish your iPod
Beautiful Art Nouveau style prints for the 21st Century from Geradine Georges. Her unique use of photography, hand drawn illustration and dynamic colour is fabulous.
Geraldine Georges
These stunning paper sculptures are unbelievably, all hand crafted. They are like delicate flowers, only more beautiful. To see more, check out Jen’s stunning portfolio here.
Jen Stark
Pock - It
At over a meter wide and weighing in at 20 kilos, this is lamp designed by Johan Carpner is a big and beautiful beast. However it does give off the feeling of being trapped down a well and looking up for help.
Glanta
I’m not a fan of office stationary, but how cool is this tape dispenser! And if old mixtapes are your thing, check out this cool USB key case.
Tape Dispenser
No, not a Geordie sketch pad, but close. A cleverly designed note pad to take with you when you’re out and about. No need to flip pages as it all pivots from a central hub and has a rubber seal to keep it intact.
Sketch Pet
Dissizit
An amazing website collects and collates how people are feeling on the web. It has to be tried to be believed. Fascinating.
We Feel Fine
2nd Jan ‘08
By bringing together a groups of individually taken polariods Patrick Winfield is able to create one fascinating image. To see more of his work click here.
Patrick Winfield
An excellent little widget-thingy that males a massive improvement to the current way to search for photos on Flickr. Well done to those clever boffins at