The Cycle Sign

This is the epitome of great design; it's simple, it's useful and it's sustainable. What more could you ask for? The Cycle Sign by Trent Jansen is a bicycle reflector made from reused road signs and bicycle tubes. Genius! Available in the Designboom online shop.

Christian Haas

These rope lamps by German designer Christian Haas look like some kind of glow-in-the-dark shoestrings.

Ghost Urns

For those that have a sense of humor even in death, Anna Marinenko has designed these ghost-shaped urns in which to keep the ashes of a loved one...and perhaps also scare children. Via Design Milk.

Hella Jongerius

The first retrospective of dutch designer Hella Jongerius' work, "Misfit" at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam, looks (predictably) incredible. Via Designboom.

Endless Chairs

Dutch designer Dirk Vander Kooij creates these "Endless Chairs" with an insane rapid-prototyping robot called "Fanuc". An old castoff of a Chinese production line, Fanuc cranks out endless extrusions of plastic "string" to form these incredible chairs.

Wuehl Yanes

Swiss designer Wuehl Yanes created this sculptural stove for his graduation project at the ECAL university, which was designed to be small enough to fit in the corner of a room as a heater or a fireplace. The base, made of concrete, is used to store wood. The exhaust pipe is placed at the back so that the top can be flat, to place a teapot or a pan filled with water as a humidifier. Via Designboom.

C - Water

A fine example of how design can be used to produce a product that is not only useful and needed but sustainable and cheap, Chao Gao's C-Water is a device that uses heat from sunlight to produce clean freshwater evaporated from sewage, salt water or any source of moisture.

Estelle Sauvage

This kettle designed by ECAL design student Estelle Sauvage uses the heat from a 100-watt light bulb to heat its contents. Via Design Milk.

Dual Wooden Fan

Dual Wooden Fan by Sunghyun An of Korea is one of the 240 shortlisted entries from more than 5100 participants in the recent Designboom competition "Design for All" in collaboration with Seoul Design Fair 2010.

Kwangho Lee

Rather than taking natural elements out of their balance, Kwangho Lee prefers to utilize things from his surroundings to find their natural beauty. Via Design Milk.

Laurens van Wieringen

Laurens van Wieringen's foam carpet is a 3D representation of a landscape, using different heights of foam bars to create this topographical masterpiece. Via Design Milk.

Tom Harper

Tom Harper conceived his Keeping Up Appearances series of cleaning tools while attending Edinburgh College of Art to to "explore the overlooked potential in utilitarian objects, merging craft with contemporary manufacturing process." Via Remodelista.

Daphna Laurens

These incredible objects by Daphna Isaacs and Laurens Manders are "a contemporary translation of the classical centerpiece, standing out by shining upon themselves and their contents".