Classic archive boxes from Monocle

That lovely feeling when someone in the world that you have never met likes your work and blogs about it. Big smile. 

"I HAVE NEVER WANTED SOMETHING SO BADLY"

Loving Google today, wish I still had my Gumby bendable toys. 

Miam by Akama, via Yves. Amazing. 

"Takeaway is anything but ordinary" in these folded sheet metal beauties from Established & Sons. 

"In general, the question of what’s inside a box is more intriguing than the box itself. But the Takeaway turns this presupposition inside out"

Christian Gideon makes himself at home in this humorous series of well-shot photos of himself and his friends getting very settled in the megastore, location undisclosed.

"My friends and I started asking ourselves - what if you lived in Ikea? Well take a look…"

Diego Morales

'A simple, but statement oxidized sterling silver ring with a beautiful natural herkimer diamond'. andrea0503 on etsy. 

“I tend to focus on details, rather than the full picture, seeking order in chaos, and beauty in the mundane” Heiko Waechter

Bit of vintage beauty from Nixon. Images from Rick Shofield from his album Things. 

Favela Painting - Santa Marta: Praça Cantão, Communidade Da Santa Marta, Rio De Janeiro

Rebrand of Falcon Enamelware - a collaboration between designers Kiwi&Pom and Morse Studio. Photography by Sam Stowell. Really like this. Via Creative Review

Awesome colours and patterns in fine art and illustration from Matt W. Moore

Igor Siwanowicz via shoppedornot.com

Great page of fun and inventive geek gadgets for your nerdy enjoyment

UFO by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. Rad. 

From Wired's blog Underwire - Lego, inception style. They've done a great job with the details. 

Time lapse video of Sydney's NYE fireworks. Loved the 'make your mark' theme, with cinematography by Murray Fredericks and editing Lindi Harrison for the City of Sydney

Restaurants occasionally hit the spot with a fresh web presence. These important marketing and information tools are sometimes as enjoyable as the food. Three of my local favourite food sites: bills, Guzman y Gomez and the Winery by Gazebo. Yummy. 

I'm not. Contrary to the earlier forecasts Sydney is having the best holiday weather we could ask for. Sunny days, calm afternoons, breezy evenings. Who needs a white Christmas - the beaches can't sing in the snow. 

I've probably pushed hundreds of these over a thousand times (why do we tend to smack them multiple times?) but only recently learnt that Nielsen Design Associates are responsible for the common robust icons (founder Carl Nielsen presented me with a professional development scholarship in 3rd year of my industrial design bachelor at UTS - I should have known this earlier). 

“In the early 1980s Sydney consultants Nielsen Design Associates were asked to redesign the device. The new unit was made from cast aluminium with vandal-proof fixings. The large magnetic button (tested to withstand millions of pushes) is easy to find and push. A Braille arrow on the vibrating plate indicates the direction to cross.”

Photo from former Powerhouse photographer, Andrew Frolows, to accompany this article explaining ‘push button for traffic signals’. Perhaps Nielsen can have a 2010 revamp with an LED indicator to signal a received request to cross - already found in Japan. Saves the extra reassurance smacks..

From iPhone's to life size replicas, see more interesting Lego® creations at Art of the Brick by Nathan Sawaya

Ligabue, via ache

My design managers latest toy, Darth Tater. He looks a little ambitious with that lightsaber. 

Good one Threadless. 

Melbourne's version of the HUB's 20.20Bin? Perhaps. 

The Economist can an interesting new thinking space - Where do you get your ideas? It's a new website interface by London-based creatives Hi-ReS, with great photography and a generally fun platform for browsing the content - screen grabs in the post. 

A sharp range of desktop accessories from Praxis, designed by Alexis Georgacopoulos and shown at 100% Design Shanghai. I particularly like the ruler and pen stand, smart use of sheet material. 

A very sad animation on the effects of global warming, in the post. See also the concept art, both from Brazilian digital genius Seagulls Fly. 

Dentsu London are the brains behind the new Canon Pixma campaign, bringing paint to life. See how they did it in the post. Fed from Box&Dice.