Grace Bonney, force behind the blog Design*Sponge, just came out with a book called Design*Sponge at Home. (Available as a digital version as well.)

The book includes tours of 70 real-life interiors featuring artists and designers, DIY projects, step-by-step tutorials, Before & After makeovers submitted by her readers and essential tips on modern flower arranging.

Habla is a new shelving system designed by Ana Yago of Valencian design firm Sanserif Creatius. Not only is it functional, but you can create multiple dialogies between your knick-knacks, books and other doo-dads just by placing them in various Habla speech bubble shelves.

At just sixteen years old, Richard Branson established his first business, a magazine called, Student. 44 years later, the billionaire and purveyor of all things Virgin-al, Branson comes full circle with the launch of Project ($2.99), a “living” constantly-updated magazine developed from the ground up for reading on the iPad as well as iPhones and Android tablets in the near future. Link

I am a big fan of Maxwell, the force behind everything Apartment Therapy. I am especially fond of his 20/20 Cure Video Series. It’s a fun video series that helps you polish up your homes. I especially like the idea in the below video of setting up an ‘Outbox’ for things you haven’t used in a while.

Day 4 – 20/20 Home Cure – Fall 2010 from maxwell gillingham-ryan on Vimeo.

England’s Gloverall got their trademark Duffle Coat ($595) into the hands of J.Crew’s team who gave the jacket specially designed rope toggles and plaid lining. Definitely a piece that will last and look amazing for a lifetime. Link

The latest analog lust-object from the folks at Lomography is their new 35mm Sprocket Rocket Panorama ($110) camera. The camera takes super wide shots that cover the entirety of the film including the sprockets. The cameras even have reverse gears so you can rewind the film and overlay another shot over and existing one. Link

The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. The Khan Academy is being developed as an open source project, consider it a free classroom for the World. *This*, TED and Kickstarter are perfect examples why the internet had to been invented.