For a blog with the word "design", I don't really talk about it all that much. I'm hoping to change that some. Here are two cool things I happened upon this evening.

Media Skin Cell Phone

The Media Skin phone is apparently a pretty standard cell phone for the Japanese, but it looks pretty amazing. In my mind the plastic has some texture and give to it. This is pretty. [via Gizmodo]

Cam Firth Self-Portrait

I found this on Moco Loco and I think I'll just quote them directly: "Designer Cam Frith at the University of Alberta's Industrial Design department recently created his "latest piece of self-gratification" with more than 14 000 holes of differing sizes drilled partway into a piece of red MDF. Cut using a CNC router, this fantastic self portrait fits nicely somewhere in that grey area between art and design." Head to the Moco Loco post for some more photos.