Carlos Lerma’s portfolio is full of rich illustration. There’s some great portraits but my favourites are his personal work. T-Shirts of the toothy slug monster above over at Cafe Press.

Michael A Salter has a mix of illustrative art on his site but what caught my eye were these giant robot sculptures. I love the simplicity of the top one, where he’s used plain boxes almost as pixels to create the shape, bound together with his own customised tape. Simple but brilliant. Kind of digital looking and handmade at the same time. Wouldn’t it be great if we had more outdoor sculptures like this in our parks and stations ? ( Obviously not of cardboard ;) ) You could eat your lunch sitting on the feet of a huge robot – what’s not to like about that : )

This is Eddy. I made him a while ago. He’s made from a dogtooth tweed, finished with a felt mouth and Olive Wood buttons from Loop. He’s about a foot wide and comfy to sleep on ; ) I’ve just bought my exciting big camera to take a proper photo. If you want a new camera get a Canon G9 - it’s the nuts!

Nik just gave me a good WordPress tip to make my posts more Google-able.. My post Urls used to end with incomprehensible random numbers, but if you stick this little thing, /%postname%/ into the custom structure box, under Options and Permalinks, you get lovely permanent post urls in English, like this ..

http://www.monster-munch.com/retro-mac-system-icon-timepiece … Nice  : )

I’ve just changed my perma links, so sorry if you’ve linked to me recently and you’re wondering where the pages went ; )

It’s not hard to do, and it doesn’t mean anything ( to all you who’ll say .. why?? ) – i just enjoyed it. That’s why. And that’s good enough sometimes i’d say!

For the old-skool Mac enthusiast. Remember loading bars ? ahhh happy days…. Plus this tasty looking Toasty Post-It note holder… Over at the Korean Fun Shop.

Buy them here – Link Via The Serif

Alvin Aronson has designed this awesome clock. LED-style, shaped slabs ease in and out of the surface to create the number-forms. I know i say i want a lot of things that i post about, but this i REALLY really want! ;) It’s beautiful.

Little vid of it working here. Via Today And Tomorrow

Choose from a selection of designs or create your own – Engrave will do just that to your choice of moleskin notebook. Great gift idea. You can even customize the spine for a super personal touch! I’ve started planning my range of Monster-Munch books already ;)

Woh! .. That’ ugly! But hey, it’s tough to pull-off that permed look … never mind the leotard.

Cheers for the link – Asi

Perforated letterpress calendar handmade by Bob and Horace in Tufnell Park. I love the little clothes peg with “Today is” printed on. The simplest things are the best eh ? You can get one for your kitchen here : )

Via Monoscope

I just discovered Domo! The fuzzy fella’s having a serious Godzilla nightmare. There’s a whole Domo channel on Veoh for your attention… And you can buy the big toothed guy here ;)

This is the best thing i’ve seen in ages. These characters are so simple but with those amazing expressions, and overlayed in a rich dense composition it reminds me of the e-boy city scapes. See the full piece here, although it mentions it’s only work in progress, i think it’s amazing as it is.

“This is just a small part of an experimental BIG Illustration, for an future Advertising of our Designers Collective called “Weeneeds”, This was designed and produced by Me at my Design Studio called FOMA. Cricolina give me a little hand on making the buildings. All done in Adobe Illustrator CS3 – All vector, not pixel art.
I just don’t post the Full City cos it’s too big, ok!”

More sketches and a plushy from the City Scape here.

I love Lego. I had loads as a kid. Arvo‘s been making all sorts from Lego. You can see his Lego Art site here.

Link Via ViveLeFreak

This calculator is gorgeous. It some how manages to look 80′s /90′s retro whilst looking like it’s made from bits of cannibalised Apple keyboards. Plug him in your USB and you’re away, sweet! Design by Ippei Matsumoto and Industrial Facility. A bundle of beautiful product designs on their site. Shortlisted for Designs of the Year you can see the full list here at DeZeen. Link Via ViveLeFreak!

Update: not for Mac users i’m afriad : (  Thanks Ty for the heads up.

Via Neatorama