Many environmentalists would tell you that plastics, such as those that litter our oceans and landscapes, last for ever. But ask the collectors and museum curators who have gathered at London's Victoria and Albert Museum this week, and they will say the opposite. Nature View full entry

10022-SHOE , the 8,500-square-foot shoe store has it's own zip code. Ye... View full entry

The AIGA Detroit DESIGN RE:VIEW 2007 closing event is tonight at Lawrence Technological University. There will be an exhibition of winning competition entries, as well as presentations by Sans Nom (check out their awesome laser-etched skateboard deck for Refill Magazine,) Q Ltd. and o2 Creative... View full entry

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous" - Aristotlemy yahoo green View full entry

Reluct presents 33 images of work from the past fifteen years of the Design Academy Eindhoven, hotbed of furniture design, shown in Milan. re View full entry

ShellHouse.org creates a simple cardboard structure, that's somewhat transportable and sturdy, and features a radio transmitter device. curbed la View full entry

Two wonderful essays on art, design, and commodity are feature on the web. One on Design Observer by Thomas de Monchaux titled What If Apple Is Bad for Design? And the other on ICON by the late Donald Judd titled it's hard to find a good lamp. Although each essay considers a different subject the... View full entry

4000 journalists gather like a large herd to see and write about neo-surrealist vs. neo-rationalist furniture war in Milan. Nobody wins. 'The Fall of the Damned' is a lampshade. nyt View full entry

The new planet seems just right.yahoo news View full entry

Prada has teamed up with Rem Koolhaas again, this time adapting graphics created by his AMO think tank for Prada's Spring '07 runway show to $210 ironic tee-shirts. No doubt they'll sell like hot-cakes, but are they really $182 more clever (or better looking) than what you might find at, say... View full entry

3D printers and scanners are not new to the industrial designers of the world. But now hobbyists and small businesses are starting to benefit from low-cost versions of the tools. | nytimes View full entry

Flickr user leifpeng has some great vintage illustrations from the Ford Motor Company displaying some interesting mid-century modernist designs. View full entry

The Airbus that landed at LAX carried water tanks designed to shift the plane's center of gravity in flight. The mayor Villaraigosa, gesturing to dozens of blue metal tanks, said: "You know what's in those big vats? Downstairs it's Bordeaux, and upstairs it's Burgundy." latimes View full entry

The dawn of some crazy map-search-mobility conversion, I suppose... Check View full entry

91 entries were submitted, from 19 countries around the world. A panel of respected judges including Sir Christopher Frayling, Ken Shuttleworth, Frank Lawson, Valerie Kuntz, and Arup's Jo da Silva and David Glover selected the winning shortlist. 1st place - "WatAir" by Joseph Cory (Geotectura)... View full entry