Awesome Design

Super cool package design on these Eco and Techno Polo Shirts for Lacoste from Tom Dixon, with eco-friendly embossing for the former, and a speaking label for the latter.

This unusual lighting from QisDesign lets you magnetically snap together individual color-changing LED “crystal” pods to create unique fixtures to suit your liking.

Vincent Moreau and Kevin Riou have created Firefly, interactive lighting with behavior similar to an insect cloud. The light alternately disperses, merges and evolves through visitor movements.

New Zealand’s Return to Sender provides modern coffin styles using sustainable and minimally treated woods for anyone interested in making their final footprint a small one (thanks Grant!).

French concept artist Bastien Grivet delivers a strong illustrated collection of the worlds of tomorrow, full of menace and wonder, that somehow feels as if it was painted in the past.

This space-saving wall mount barbecue from Focus has a folding steel firebowl, offers a range of cooking heights, is easy to mount and can be used several times without having to empty out the ash.

Douglas Ball and Jeff Sokalski’s Clipper CS-1, a shedlike, mancavey capsule, was designed for use inside a traditional office and is in the permanent collection at London’s Museum of Design.

LTL Prints has launched a collection of Mars Attacks wall graphics featuring original artwork from the classic collectible Topps trading cards. They’re self-adhesive and available in a variety of sizes.

Alexa Edgerton has created a cool rockstar tragedy chart by placing names and ages of over 300 musicians into a shapely pattern made from music rest symbols and colors indicating cause of death.

We are loving the simplicity and the playful, mid-century mod looks of Jaime Hayon’s Lounger wing chair that he’s designed for BD, with its monochromatic color choices and optional footrest.

The latest concept from Tokyoflash features a stainless case, and a display that tells time with light-up rings which indicate hours, minutes and 5 minute intervals. Vote for it and it could get real.

The Graffomat vending machine is fully stocked with graffiti supplies, including spray paint and ski masks, just in case you run out mid-spray while creating a mural in a dark alley at 4 am.

Brooklyn-based Uhuru Design has crafted the 6 piece limited edition Coney Island Line from reclaimed Ipe wood (first installed in the late 1940’s), taken from the demolished boardwalk.

The creative minds of Spanish industrial designers Ferran Serra & Oscar Vera of Serradelarocha have assembled 666 Barcelona, a new wristwatch collection for people with cool taste in timepieces.

Look away from the light – this stage jacket from Taiwan-based designer Wie-Chieh Shih is loaded with 200 laser diodes and gives a fresh meaning to the phrase “you’ll shoot your eye out.”

Regardless of whether you applaud or puke over how the government is spending the discretionary budget, there are fascinating details to review in Jess Bachman’s 2011 Death and Taxes poster.

Different elements in each overlapping print are revealed depending on the use of red, green or blue light in this series of wallpapers Carnovsky designed for Italian wallpaper brand Janelli & Volpi.

Australian designer Tom Hussey has created Kegless, a bag-in-box packaging concept for carbonated beverages that provides a sustainable alternative to conventional single serve packages.

Urbane backpack lovers will probably enjoy the special edition Built to Resist collection of functional pocket padded sofas, collaboratively designed by Quinze and Milan and Eastpak.

Rhonda is an intuitive application for drawing in three dimensions. Combined with a tablet like the Cintiq, you manipulate objects with a mouse or trackball in one hand, and draw with the other.

This concept subcompact from Ford features curvy futuristic body styling, and would be powered by a tiny, eco-friendly 1.0 liter 3-cylinder turbocharged engine, making it perfect for short, urban hauls.

The luxury citizenM hotel is 2 minutes walking distance from Schiphol’s terminals. Public spaces are filled with dramatic Vitra furniture; rooms have king beds, rain showers, LCD tvs and free wi-fi.

This simple, yet brilliant concept design for a wallet by David Bruno and Tom Seymour would let you quickly glance at an LED display to check the available balance on your RFID transit card.