Germans aren't typically known for their sense of humor or whimsy. While we'd like to imagine them standing around making funny faces and taking things lightly all day, we take greater pleasure in knowing that Nik Back and Alex Stamminger, the two industrial designers behind the 2008 Blickfang Design Prize-winning brand Maigrau, utilize their quality time efficiently churning out home design innovation. The Stuttgart based brand's ‘Split' presentation bowl is a laser cut aluminum work of art that's capable of showing off favorite smallish things or being filled with fruit even with it's “reduced geometrical form.” The rest of their pieces are none too shabby either. Each Maigrau product, lends an air of simplicity and sleekness to common household items, whether it be a lamp, wall installation, hanging hook, or bowl. Needless to say, we love it.
By now you may have heard that Airbus’ A380, the world’s largest passenger jet had its maiden voyage from Singapore to London. The 471 passenger big boy is cleaner that a traditional jumbo jet, has more leg room than your traditional jet, and the airline attendants hand out bars of solid gold instead of salted peanuts. But, you know what else has more space? Three jets! UK artist Dominic Wilcox demonstrates that will a little ingenuity and some modeling glue, he too can be on the cutting edge of aeronautical engineering. It also totally beat our concept of having commercial airline passengers fly on Voltron’s back. 
These past few years, when it gets to be around the holidays (no matter how inconsequential) and my birthday, I admit I feel kind of nostalgic for all the cheesy/lame/insert-your-synonym-here Blue Mountain or Shockwave e-cards that used to fill up my inbox. Hell, I was just as guilty at times as the sender. Nowadays there are only people interested in selling me pills to better my sex life, no thank you, and the occasional virtual gift I receive from a friend on Facebook just isn’t the same. But 
