the same architectural firm that built the Beijing Olympic stadium, built this parking garage

Found on http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/herzog-de-meuron-parking-garage?context=featured

incredible artist camouflages utility boxes

Dutch designer Roeland Otten likes to brighten up urban streets by camouflaging misplaced public structures with site-specific art. He uses mosaics, geometric paint designs, and high resolution photograph wall coverings to recreate the otherwise blocked and lost views along city streets. Below are three different projects in which Otten decorates old, run-down public buildings that, although they are ugly, are necessary to maintain clean urban areas.

From http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/posterexplosion-pixar-movie-posters?context=featured

rat rods ready for Halloween

Photo courtesy of Mr. Chuck Vranas, Street Rodder Magazine
Found on https://www.facebook.com/reapers.rejects

these are cool! 

the beauty of the car design and color, the photography of Michael Furman

From http://www.petrolicious.com/book-review-the-art-and-colour-of-general-motors

Could cycling get any better for the planet? Yes, making the bike from wood, and recycled aluminum from cans, or old bikes!

Bikes are inherently pretty good for the environment: If everyone in the U.S. living within five miles of work started commuting by bike only one day a week, it would save as much pollution as taking a million cars off the road for a year.

 A new design concept from Dan Gestoso Rivers tries to make bike production more sustainable by swapping out a standard metal frame for wood and using components made from recycled soda cans.

Like Ikea furniture--and like a somewhat similar project called the Sandwichbike--the wooden bike is designed to fit in a small box, and a buyer could put the whole thing together using an Allen wrench.

Gestoso says the bike will be as strong as a typical aluminum frame, but it's clear that it's better in some areas, like the energy used to manufacture the frame.

The design uses sustainably grown wood everywhere possible, and the remaining metal pieces will be made from recycled aluminum or, potentially, metal recycled from discarded bikes.

Found on http://www.fastcoexist.com/3027716/this-bike-is-made-from-wood-and-recycled-soda-cans

another clever idea for stop lights, that really works best for drag racing from light to light

Found on http://rottenpanda.com/these-are-clever-inventions-we-wish-we-thought-of-ourselves/6/

beautiful design artwork of Adam Gompertz, formerly a designer at MG Rover, and Rolls Royce

All found on https://localmotors.com/papagomp/

phantom 240Z sport wagon

1939 Sharknose Graham

the Toyota logo... very clever

Found on http://diply.com/trendyjoe/30-famous-logos-that-have-a-hidden-message/49939/

Design and engineering matter. Also, use a crash test dummy before you try a loop ramp yourself

I believe that before human testing is approved, you ought to run the tests and trials with crash test dummies... that's just me though

Found on http://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/

Unusual locomotive design

A rare picture of the second Fontaine, shown here arriving at St Thomas, Ontario, Canada, in July 1881, for trails on the Canada Southern Railroad. Engineer Ike Deyell stands in the gangway, whileFireman George Westfall is leaning from the cab.
 From A Locomotive Engineer's Album
 George B Abdill 1965

The cylinders were 17 x 24 in, the wheelbase was 23 ft 4 in, and the total heating surface (firebox + tubes) was 1033.5 sq ft. Total weight was 82,000 lb.
 (Info from Scientific American Supplement, 5th November 1881

Found on https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152697715694306&set=gm.10152646567724556&type=1&permPage=1

Biking is far more advanced in the Netherlands, just admire this highway overpass roundabout

Found on http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/ipv-delft-hovenring