Rock N' Roll deity Mick Jagger once sang the words, “You can't always get what you want.” Justin Gignac and his girlfriend Christine, the masterminds behind Wants for Sale have shown the rock god to be fallible by proving the polar opposite to be true. As previously mentioned here, the couple paints the focus of their material and sometimes immaterial desires and offers said paintings up for sale at the face value of the very thing they are trying to obtain. Since we last visited with the couple they've managed to obtain everything from a slice a pizza to a David Ortiz Road Jersey; while they've yet to acquire financial stability, rent money or an iPhone, that hasn't stopped the duo from wanting more as they recently added a Nintendo Wii to their potential cache of consumer products. The site though isn't all greed for goodies, there's a charitable side as well. For $360, you can get a painting of a birthday cake and the money goes towards saving a kid in Africa or if you feel like spending less just tell Justin a good joke to buy the gift of laughter.

MWM is Matt W. Moore, a graphic designer who currently lives with his wife and son in the mountains of Vermont. We’ve written about MWM before in his capacity as one of the founders and curators of Wallspankers Magazine, but clearly there is so much more to see, including his work for a virtual who’s who of alternative marketing clients such as Scion, Ecko and Smart Car. There’s so much here that I can’t do the whole site justice, so I’m going to focus on one thing: mandalas. They are a common art form in Eastern religious traditions, perhaps most famously in Tibetan Buddhism where they are made out of sand to (speaking very simplistically) represent impermanence. MWM’s mandalas are certainly not as heavy as their religious counterparts, but they are breathtaking. Some are geometric like the Tibetan versions, while others are reminiscent of Kandinsky. And the nice thing about MWM’s work is that it’s on your computer, so it won’t blow away in the wind.

Here’s your inspirational/make-ya-wanna-work-it-harder post of the day: Kashiwa Sato, a graphic designer, art director, author and all-around creative mastermind, has one of the best portfolio sites I’ve ever seen. Simple, easy to navigate, and completely organized, Kashiwa’s site does just what it should do: impress without intimidating and excite without overwhelming. Additionally, his portfolio itself is equally incredible, with a hugely diverse grouping of work spanning through classic identity development all the way through creative direction of some very non-traditional bars and schools. I’m not going to get into listing his clients, because I think a simpler way to say it is “the kind you get when you get everyone you want,” but do be sure to check out the Fuji Kindergarten and the work he did with Issey Miyake, which, when viewed side-by-side, are great examples of Mr. Sato’s diverse skill.

Twenty-first century surreal art pusher Imaginary Foundation is adding to its mondo-successful line of tees with the debut of a new art prints line, which takes the inspiring, progressive-thinking images and messaging that drive its apparel offerings and puts them in a format more suitable for framing. Smart move, because I think nothing looks tackier than a framed shirt. The prints are set on museum-grade paper, and because they’re made in a limited run of 500, each one comes with all the works to prove its status as a bona fide collectible: a signed certificate of authenticity, handwritten edition number and special serialized holographic stamp from the Imaginary Foundation’s 70-something director, whose pop — for real — founded the Dadaist movement. Act fast.

If Danish-born Designer Cecilie Manz were to take her cues from her own country's cultural heritage she might be selling light fixtures adorned with little mermaids with missing tongues, but rather than relying on Hans Christian Anderson for her inspiration, Manz turns to Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio as the muse for her collection of pendant lamps that bare his name. Caravaggio was best known for combining “naturalism with a dramatic, even theatrical approach to the use of light and shadow” and Ms. Manz pays homage by adroitly addressing “commercial and residential lighting with a unique minimalistic twist” ensuring that the focus remains on both function and illumination, though she doesn't completely eschew the Danish sensibility by exhibiting a preference for “durable materials and sublime, craftsman-like finish”…a prime example of what’s not at all rotten in the state of Denmark.

Stop and look around for a moment. Think about all the interactions you go through in a day that have basically no deeper understanding than a quick in passing. Think about the various ways in which you know all the people you meet and speak with during a day, the stranger you happen to make eye contact with on the way to work, the colleague who you really know nothing about outside of your work lives, the person you live and share with. Stop and look beyond the surface of all of those relationships — that’s the idea behind Lounge 72 and TOCA ME’s newest collaboration, the Beyond Surface Contest.

The deadline is December 1, and submissions can take on just about any form you want that will fit on a screen. Submissions will be posted on the contest website where viewers will be free to vote and comment on each entry. The top rated entries will go on to be judged by a jury from the TOCA ME Design Conference. The prizes are various iterations of Creative Suite 3 as well as tickets to the TOCA ME Design Conference ‘08.

Come back and show us what you’ve done as well or leave a link to your submissions for us to vote on. We love to see what’s beneath the surface of our readers!