Next May, the beginning of a lengthy collaboration between tokidoki and Onitsuka Tiger will give fans of both companies something to blog about. A blend of Italian artist Simone Legno’s modern characters and Onitsuka Tiger’s popular footwear, the two year-long collaboration will result in a steady stream of tokidoki love (that’s already been flying around like the herp, but we’re not gonna stop it) and will help both companies further spread the gospel of modern Japanese art. As far as I can tell, this will be the first athletic shoe collab for tokidoki (though they did some good work with Italy’s Fornarina earlier this year), so high fives to both companies for locking down something so rockin’. News of this pairing should be flying all over the internets in no time at all, but we recommend keeping your eyes here for the most up to date info.

Finding the perfect card for an occasion can be quite the hassle; you don't want to get overly sentimental, but then again you don't want to hand someone a card with a clichéd joke about religion, the pitfalls of aging, or whatever said occasion may be. Thanks to the Bureau of Communication from the fine folks at Magnetism Studios, you may never have to resort to paying four dollars for a card reeking of insincere sentimentality again. By using the Bureau's fill-in-the blank forms, that work like Mad Libs for speaking your mind, you'll never have trouble getting the right message across, whether you simply want to acknowledge the observance of a holiday, air a grievance or make a formal apology.

If you're still scrambling for that last minute gift for the techie in your life, HURRY UP! YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME! Okay, we didn't mean to yell, especially since we've got the perfect solution: MIMOBOTS! Of course, why didn't you think of it sooner? Now, we know it's going to be tough to choose the perfect Mimobot for your flash-needing family and friends as there is such a wide variety that it's nearly impossible to know which one they'll appreciate the most, but luckily you don't have to decide. The kind folks at Mimoco are removing the pressure from your decision making process by digitally offering gift cards. So make sure your loved ones don't forget to leave virtual milk and cookies on their desktop, because this year Santa is sliding down their internets chimney and leaving these babies under the e-tree.

French artist group Qubo gas has some brand new and beautiful prints for grabs in their online store, Smalticolor. In addition to their newest prints, Smalticolor offers silkscreens, posters and smaller goodies in range of prices, making nabbing one of their pretty pieces extra hard to resist. Copies of “Baover Tit,” Qubo gas’s interactive animation that won first place at Italy’s Netmage festival in 2001, are also available on the site for under fifty dollars, so if you’re a fan of digital art be sure to give them a look.

A piece of jewelry titled “Bandage for the Heart” doesn’t inspire something pretty. In fact, it mostly calls to mind something messy and complicated - like a natural disaster or divorce. However, it might be that Alyssa Dee Krauss’s intention while designing this series of pins and rings was something that imperfect; something like pain paired with beauty in order to reflect the process of healing itself. Bandages for the Heart are bandaid shaped pins and rings, available in either 18k gold or sterling silver, that encase a garnet droplet. Symbolic and delicate, the pieces are emotional, meaningful, and iconic in their simplicity. In short, they are everything that good design should work to achieve. While Alyssa’s rings are currently sold out, you can find the pin (or inquire about the ring’s reproduction) here.

Via NOTCOT.

Good news for all of us living in crowded urban areas: you no longer have to crank your headphones up to max in order to ignore the onslaught of sirens, car horns, and diesel engines! Of course, you do have to put up with wearing something called “bone-conducting headphones.” Anyone else find that terminology a little bit creepy?

The Outi bone-conducting headphones supposedly allow you to crank up your music as loud as you’d like (much like the SwiMP3 does) without having to worry about going deaf down the road because they work by transmitting sound through your cartilage, skin and bones instead of through your ear drums, vibrating at just the right frequency allowing you to “hear” the music instead of feeling it, and they run on a small amp that lasts for 8 hours before having to be recharged. Oh, and they clip on the outside of your ears, so they don’t look the least bit funny when you’re wearing them. Sounds pretty sweet to me.

Via TakTak