Panos 2013 is a collaborative project where various artists created fake road signs that were installed around Lyon, France. My favorites (left to right from the top): Cart One, Emil Kozak, Cody Hudson, Stereotype, Kozyndan, Naoshii, both by Mothi.

Via Josh Spear.

Vitamin’s expanded Urban Gnomes series are so cute! Love the new shapes and functional objects (bottle opener, salt and pepper shakers, piggy bank, and kitchen timer) and the new graphic designs.

Via Notcot.

Universe, a project by Jonathan Harris is an art project for visualization and organization tool for Daylife, a news feeder. Universe is hard to explain completely so you should read the Statement. Daylife is a pretty cool news feeder and is worth checking out. They have an open API, so get cooking.

Miho Kaneko’s Tea Handkerchief allows you to have your afternoon tea wherever you are.

This has been all around the blogosphere but it’s too gorgeous not to post here – the PAPPA*PHONE, made by Furni for Hulger. I love that it’s a high-tech VoIP phone, but that it’s made out of a wood – a more craftsman material than the typical metal that characterizes modern design. Mmm, yes, I love!

Via Mocoloco and numerous others!

The Carnivore uses certain wavelengths of light to illuminate the red of blood for hunters to see at night while tracking down their prey. Gerber, primarily known for their knives and multi-tools, is branching off into illumination as well. While a ‘blood tracking flashlight’ seems like an odd function, it has its purpose and makes life easier… for somebody.

I love Claire Coles’ porcelain tableware, particularly the set that has been imprinted with delicate, lace-like impressions. So gorgeous!

Via Radici Trading.

Check out this interview from Popular Photography with Stacy Pearsall. In the short interview, she speaks about being both in combat and a photographer at the same time. Stacy is not an embedded photographer from a press service, she is in the Air Force. The images featured are very powerful and highlight conflict in a different way than we are used to seeing on the news.

SPLITTERWERK designed a new headquarters for Prisma Engineering in Graz, Austria. I love the pixelated facade and the random placement of the windows within the rooms that coordinates with the facade.

Via Judit Bellostes. Photography by Paul Ott and Nikolaos Zachariadis (bottom two images).

I love this new line of furniture by Front Design called Shade – a series of tableware that is fabricated with shaded renderings. It nicely blurs physical reality with illustration.