Design

Chen Bikovski designed a series of night lights with children’s popup books in mind. Pulling the tab on this awesome deer design brings the ears up and illuminates the room with antlers made of light.

This sturdy plastic mug is the perfect place to stack your LEGO, KRE-O, K’Nex, and other building blocks while you sip your joe. It’s even got holes on the bottom. Not dishwasher or microwave safe though.

A tribute to life on the road, this sleeping bag also doubles as a couch. The Camp Daybed was designed by Stephanie Hornig as part of her graduation project, the Camp Furniture Collection.

A tricky doormat from the clever folks at Art Lebedev Studios, the Parallelepipedus Kovrikus looks like a chunky block instead of a mat when viewed at a certain angle. Made of coconut fiber.

…more like samurai’d right? Designed by Seo Young Moon, this chair looks like it had just been cleanly sliced in half, but it’s surprisingly sturdy. We want an entire house filled with sliced furniture.

Made by Austria’s Team 7, the Flaye Table can be extended by 39″ using a mechanism that hides extra panels in the middle of the table, and can be opened by one person. Request a quote here.

Using Epson Moverio transparent displays combined with a small camera, Meta hopes to create a gadget which provides true gesture-controlled augmented reality – and makes you look like a complete dork.

Hungarian designer Krisztina Boazzai has had enough with individual plastic forks, knives, and spoons, and has come up with a single disposable utensil that works as all three. So long, spork!

Diginate lets you design stickers and order as few or as many as you want. You can make a wide variety of stickers and prints, from stick-on drawings to product labels and even large posters.

LIKE Architect’s extraordinary holiday display for IKEA Portugal was comprised of 1200 lamps fitted with twinkling LED bulbs to promote the home furnishings retailer’s energy-efficient lighting line.

Designed by Form Us With Love, the Cord Lamp turns the aesthetically disruptive part of a lamp into its main attraction. Made of a textile cord and a steel tube. A smaller version is also available.

Along Alaska’s George Parks Highway sits this strange and wonderful bit of roadside Americana, an unfinished hotel inspired by the igloo, set against the majestic backdrop of the state’s natural beauty.

Inspired by squash courts, the ASB Glassfloor is a multi-functional flooring system made from glass and an aluminum substructure, with LED marking lines that can be selected on a touchscreen.

deviantART member Zoki64 breathes life into old consoles and controllers by customizing them using car paint and giving them a glossy finish. Check out his YouTube channel for videos of his creations.

Know anyone who likes beer and colors? The 200 shades of the Beertone Reference Guide will begin with bright beers and end with dark ones, and each will have its own picture and description.

Neighbirds are modular birdhouses designed by Andreu Carulla Studio. They are easy to install and can be hung not just on trees but on a wall or ceiling as well. Contact Utoopic to order.

These cassette tape coffee tables made by Taybles can hold a lot of your favorite tapes and other stuff, thanks to steel cup holders and a drawer. Customize its parts to create your own mixtape.

The Good Night Lamp is actually made of at least two Internet-connected lamps. Turn the Big Lamp on or off and all Little Lamps connected to it will do the same. A warm way of sending a message.

The Modo is a modular desktop organizer. It has 16 long and 4 short aluminum pins that you can arrange as you need on the bamboo board. The board also has slots for cables and flash drives.

It’s hard to improve on a classic Scotch whiskey, but collaborating with Italian design firm Pininfarina for a limited-edition series of specially-packaged Chivas 18 is a good start.

Designed by Alexander Taylor for Praxis, the Grip looks exactly like the rubber handlebar grips on BMX bikes. It uses an LED as a light source. It’s just begging to be played with as a lightsaber.

Prove to your friends that you’re a real shark-hunter with this fake shark head trophy, cast from resin by White Faux Taxidermy. Measures 8.25″(h) x 15.5″(w) x 16″(d). Custom finishes also available.

Audi shows a concept demo of a prototype tech that replaces the tail lights on a vehicle with a curved OLED display. As incredibly cool as it looks, we can only imagine how distracting this could get.

As part of their CES 2013 lineup, ScottEVest created this concept design for a futuristic upgrade to their Technology Enabled Clothing line, which envisions all kinds of wearable tech we wish we had today.

Shout Out Louds previewed the single Blue Ice off of their latest album to a select few fans and critics by sending them a kit for making a record out of ice. What a cool idea. (Thanks James P.!)

Multidisciplinary artist Brock Davis’ favorite iPhone photographs of 2012 proffer admiration and inspiration; the collection is chock full of the poetry, beauty and whimsy we love seeing in the everyday.

We’ve seen personal apartment customizations that make the most out of a limited space. Simon Woodroffe wants to make this concept available to the masses with his high-tech YO! Home.

The Logpile Coffee Table is reminiscent of the Highstack & Lowstack – furniture that looks like a stack of wooden planks. Though we wish the price was also similar to that of a stack of wooden planks.

Keita Sagaki does not seem to tire from creating his brilliantly obsessive illustrations, and we don’t tire of looking; his new works feature celebrated architecture and sculpture, doodle style.

Designed by Héctor Serrano for Italy’s Seletti, these spiffy porcelain desktop organizers come in three sets which can be reconfigured into miniature scenes – a warehouse, a city, or a ship.