EYE-POPPIN

It may not be the products themselves that distinguish the online stationery store, Poppin, so much as their Pop art-inspired photography. Here, looking remarkably like a Claes Oldenburg sculpture, a lowly pushpin.

SHARPER IMAGE

“Products should create joy and surprise the user…”  Mission accomplished: a circular knife, sheathed in rubber, created for the Danish brand, Norman Copenhagen.

PEOPLE POWER

I see the year-end design awards rolling in now, for this latest wow of a cover from Bloomberg Businessweek.

BLUE GREEN

Can pesticides ever be ‘green?’  With branding this inspired and pristine (such a brilliant blue over ho-hum green), created by the Mexican agency Anagrama for a producer of sustainable agricultural pesticides, I just may become a believer.

HEIGHTENED

For just $40, this height-adjustable metal stool is all yours.

BLAH BLAH BLAH

Not just my daily mantra; a recent magazine illustration for an article bemoaning the shrinking vocabulary of bloggers.

NEWS LETTER

A fairly distinctive identity for the new Danish newspaper, Information, designed by Copenhagen’s Mega Design.

FOOD COLORING

Here’s a graphic way to keep track of what (and how much) you should (and shouldn’t) be eating: the Wheel of Nutrition ceramic plate by Icelandic designers Rui Pereira and Halfsteinn Juliusson.

PETAL PUSHER

The Singaporean photographer Fong Qi Wei, explores the form, shape and texture of flowers by disassembling–and then reassembling–them.

KITCHEN HELPER

Drying dishes might actually be edifying, if done with these pure linen, screen printed towels by the Danish textile designer Helle Graabæk.