The following selections represent the cream of the design crop from 2006, as voted on by our loyal readers. What a great year for designs!

Google Vision

An academic prototype with boundless potential for mobile exploration via Google’s sophisticated search engine…

MIT’s Stackable Car

The space saving stackable car is a socially responsible mode of transportation for tomorrow’s urban scene…

Peter Callesen

Callesen’s paper works are an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality…

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Bar Code Art

An innovate way for companies to add unique style to the bar codes displayed on product packaging…

Emotional Garments

The SKIN research project explores garment technologies that are sensitive rather than intelligent…

COR Building

Miami’s newest high rise incorporates wind turbines, photovoltaic panels, and recycled materials…

Sketch Furniture

Motion capturing records pen strokes made in thin air, which is translated into furniture prototypes…

Prosolve370

A decorative grid that can be installed quickly to neutralize air pollution in urban environments…

Gwon Osang

Hundreds of closeup photographs are painstakingly joined to form lifesize patchwork sculptures…

Strandbeest

Skeletons comprised of plastic tubing are powered by the wind, and will one day roam free…

Worldmapper

A collection of world maps, where territories are distorted based upon disease, meat consumption and more…

Pixel Roller

A paint roller designed to quickly print digital information onto any surface with a single stroke…

Virgin Galactic

Luxurious interior design of Spaceship Two unveiled, with enough seating for 8 to make the suborbital voyage…

Red Bull Art of the Can

Recycling takes on a whole new meaning with Red Bull’s contest that searches for aluminum-inspired masterpieces…

MIT’s Stackable Car

The space saving stackable car is a socially responsible mode of transportation for tomorrow’s urban scene…

Johanna Goodman

Bold ink and paint celebrity caricatures immortalize Kanye West, Donald Trump, Alan Greenspan and more…

New VW Westfalia

The new Westfalia concept is equipped with rooftop solar panels, expandable living compartments and kitchenette…

Digital Beijing Building

The Digital Beijing Building will serve as the media and data centre for the 2008 Olympic games…

Nintendo Wii

Nintendo’s new console has motion sensitive controllers and the ability to play games from previous systems…

Peter Callesen

Callesen’s paper works are an exploration of the relationship between two and three dimensionality…

Green Wonders of the World

Business Week selects the finest green structures that mark the next generation of sustainable architecture…

Bryan Louie

Louie’s commercially successful designs create a colourful fantasy world any imagination could get lost in…

One Laptop Per Child

The $100 Laptop will bridge the information gap and revolutionize how we educate the world’s children…

WEB2DNA

WEB2DNA will take any website, analyze it, and spit it out as a graphic representation of human DNA…

Lightspace

Creatively engages and interacts with people to immerse them in a new interactive environment…

Dinner in the Sky

Suspended 50 metres above solid ground, this unique dinning experience offers high class cuisine…

Jan Von Holleben

Von Hollenben’s photo series entitled ‘Dreams of Flying’ captures the limitless creativity of kids…

Wind Shaped Pavillion

Jantzen’s structure is formed randomly as the wind slowly rotates each level around a central support column…

Google Vision

An academic prototype with boundless potential for mobile exploration via Google’s sophisticated search engine…

Self-Adhesive Wallscapes

Oversized geometric decals that are self-adhesive and removable, give you no excuse to have bare walls…

Toronto Waterfront

Pedestrian friendly, village style concept proposed to enhance Toronto’s waterfront…

Hauptbahnhof Train Station

On the ceiling of Hauptbahnhof train stain in Germany, rests a World Cup inspired sistine chapel…

Roadsworth

Montreal graphiti artist ‘Roadsworth’ blurs the line between vandalism and masterful urban art…

Flying Carpet

Aerial photography printed on carpet provides a flying sensation to unsuspecting travelers…

Blacklight Tattoo

Blacklight reactive ink is making its way into tattoo parlors, and onto human canvasses…

Eliasson’s Staircase

Olafur Eliasson’s sculpture is a continuous loop of a staircase, where people are always moving up or down…

Volkswagon’s Car Tower

VW’s 20-story fully automated car storage facility is faster, cheaper, and cooler than traditional than traditional lots…

Super-Kamiokande

Tokyo’s $100 million subatomic particle observatory is a glowing glass beauty run by nerds…

P(Lot)

Renting parking spaces to establish temporary encampments, and rethinking the urban lifestyle…

H2pia

A hydrogen powered community planned for Denmark will be a sustainable and green utopia…

Ron English

A culture jammer who skews famous paintings by incorporating clowns, fast food and politics…

Floating Homes

Portable pieces of paradise that create new chic neighborhoods along the German coast…

Julian Beever

Pavement art that immerses the audience into a world of anamorphic illusions. Sidewalk chalk that’s cool…

Jeff Soto

A fresh style that combines cartoons with graffiti, all inspired by retro sci-fi and nature…

Space Elevator

NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts developing a 35,000 km highway into outter space…

Velocity

Proposed bikeway, enclosed in elevated tubes to provide protection for all season cycling in Toronto…

Micro Compact Home m-ch

A lightweight, modular and mobile dwelling for no more than two people on the go…