Our pals over at Behance have just launched a fantastic new project called simply, Served. Served sites bring the user a steady supply of top quality creative work from within the Behance network. A group of curators comb through the projects on the site and serve up the best of what they find across a handful of disciplines. To start, they’re serving Fashion, Industrial Design, Motion Graphics, Photography, and Typoography.

Too busy to browse all day? Me too. You can also sign up for a custom email summary of the best work in weekly or monthly timeframes on the topics you choose. A pretty awesome way to stay in touch with some of the most impressive up-and-comers in the world.

A lot of artists are adopting blogs to show their work. The World of Wes (or as he calls it WOW) is more of a blog showing the life around his work and of course his paintings. Putting up post of Christmas trees and his recently dead parrot (sorry Wes) alongside his great little art canvases just fits. He works with smaller canvases that almost create a comic book frame feel. Given he has a painting of two cacti in love or the one of aliens preparing to blow up the earth, a comic reference might seems like the right thing. Check out his blog for a little look at the context surrounding an artist we hope to hear from more.

It’s not Christmas until you find the perfect medium to spread your own yuletide cheer. Personalized Christmas Clones from Cubeecraft and Vodafone — the brainchild of Sydney agency Clemenger BBDO — allows those looking for a unique holiday card to send themselves as a cube character to their friends. Visit the website, slap your face on one of 10 characters to e-mail to your friends across the land. The best part is, you don’t have to worry about the construction — that’s all up to your friends on the receiving end. They get to print and fold you … or maybe just let you langish in their inbox until 2009.

1. Stealth R/C Helicopter: Read JS Review | Buy It ($30)
Break out your favorite pair of aviators because the Black Stealth R/C helicopter is the perfect little gadget for all you wannabe flyboys. With the ability to fly left, right, up, down, backward and forward, you’ll be terrorizing your coworkers (or pets) with ease.

2. Mostrini: Read JS Review | Buy It
The Mostrini puppets look like monsters you’d find a bizarre, drug-induced dream world. Yet, these little guys aren’t scary – they’re quite cute, actually.

3. Artoyz: Read JS Review | Buy It
Just because you have to do grown-up things like paying taxes and worrying about your worthless 401K, doesn’t mean you can’t still play with toys. Artoyz has many great designer toys from a slew of world-renowned artists. One of our favorites is Kid Onion by Easy Hey.

4. Thingamagoo: Read JS Review | Buy It ($120)
Thingamagoo are little metal creatures that beep, buzz, zap and make the noises you would hear in any Atari game. Push the buttons, twist the knobs and create your own synthesizer creations.

5. Shelby Slot-car Track: Read JS Review | Buy It ($249)
Channel your inner child with this giant Shelby series slot-car track. Assuming you have the patience to construct this thing, you’ll be zipping around the track for hours.

6. Slobots: Read JS Review | Buy It ($175-$650)
The Slobots are great little robots looking for a purpose in life. Each one is hand built and comes with its own life story.

7. Les Deglingos: Read JS Review | Buy It ($40)
Each Deglingo is a quirky and lovable creation. The multiple textures and vibrant colors make these little creatures an amazing gift.

8. Jon Burgerman’s Heroes of Burgertown: Read JS Review | Buy It
U.K. artist Jon Burgerman is always up to something. Earlier this year he added toy design to his impressive resume. Heroes of Burgertown is a great little collection of 16 vinyl mini-figures that will bring a little joy to your desk.

We wanted to give a big thanks to toy guru Jeremy Brautman from ToyCyte (and formerly here at JS.com) for helping us put our list together. Check out ToyCyte for the latest news in the toy world.

The Gift: Here at JoshSpear.com World Headquarters, deep beneath a volcano in the South Pacific, we tried to figure out a prize both gigantic and fun to roll out during our 14 Days of Chrismukkah giveaway event. Jeff Staple (of Staple Design and NB’s Pigeon Sneakers) is letting five of you go on a Super Toy Run® through REED Space Annex.

The Rules: From Jeff: “You get a large jumbo size shopping bag and a stopwatch. You’ll have a set amount of time to run through our store and pick up as much as you can. Whatever fits inside the bag is yours to keep! On your mark…get set…go!” Why did founder, jeffstaple name his store Reed Space/Annex? Five correct answers will win, randomly drawn. Please write your answers in the COMMENTS section. Only open to New Yorkers (or people that can get to NY in a few day’s notice). One entry per reader. Duplicates will be discarded.

The Deadline: Contest runs now through midnight on 12/15. * TO PROTECT THE ANSWER, COMMENTS WILL NOT BE POSTED UNTIL AFTER THE DEADLINE *