The Standard Hotel has recruited Brooklyn-based artist Julia Chiang for an exclusive edition of 50 glazed porcelain apples as part of a project entitled All For You.

The collectors of compelling package design at TheDieline alerted us to their newly released work Box Bottle Bag, which features the best manifestations of design and innovation in retail packaging.

Labour MP Derek Wyatt has taken the idea of “public servant” to the next level.

Ford is looking to retain a major presence on the streets of NYC with a new alternative energy taxi.

Spaceflight, Bookshops & Chinese Farms – here are a selection of headlines from around the world.

Yiran Qian’s Endless Warm winter gear concept gathers light from the sun to power a heated glove/hat combination.

Following on the heels of Nick Feltron’s popular annual report, Dan Meyer has taking life tracking into a new medium with his animated 2009 annual report.

Today, Grant Harrison and Dr. Jay Parkinson launched their design and innovation consulting firm, The Future Well.

Former Apple engineer Peter Warden has created a data visualization depicting local patterns in the 210 million profiles that populate Facebook.

A conceptual design by Kwan Sunman offers an softer take on the traditional home scale.

Google plans to launch a new ‘updates’ service this Wednesday which will allow users to share links and content.

The BBC reports that Frankincense, used for thousands of years as a purifying incense, may have powerful cancer-fighting properties.

An interesting new mp3 player has been released by Samsung.

MTV Europe recently published the results of “Youthtopia” – its first ever effort to understand the values, hopes and dreams of young people in Europe by asking over 7,000 youths to imagine their ideal world.