As digital artist in residence for the NYC’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum, graphic artist Jeremy Hutchison’s latest project is a study of what happens when people explore the grandiosities of nationality in a more personal light.

We Are Multicolored asks visitors to answer three simple questions “Where is your home?” “What other country has affected you?” and “Where have you dreamed of going?” Supplied with the flags of the three nations you answered, you then use the project’s design tool to develop your own personal flag.

By distilling their own experiences and self-image through the globally-recognized act of producing a flag, each person is given a chance to investigate which nationalities, cultures, and plain ol’ personal design styles they would choose to represent that essence of themselves to the rest of the world.

Every time a personal flag is created it’s added to a “superflag,” a continuously shifting tapestry made of all the flags created on the site. Users can click on any individual flag to learn about the person it represents and why they chose the nations they did.

Ah, the most beautiful word in the English language - that’s right. Sale. And when that sale is being thrown by our favorite phone design masters Hulger, it almost seems wrong to take advantage of it. Almost…

Allowing you to seamlessly blend your high-tech devices with nostalgic retro styling (they’ve even managed to make those curly cords look cool again), anything by Hulger would be a steal at twice the price. Alas, all good things come to an end. As they gear up to phase out certain models (like the perfectly old skool P* PHONE in green), this is your last chance to order your fave colors. Get on it!

Do you dress your pet better than you dress yourself? Well, if you missed Pet Fashion Week (yes, such a thing exists) in New York and you don’t want your pet’s style to resemble yours (in that it’s like so last year) maybe you should plan on hopping a plane to Tokyo this weekend for the NY Dog Party and Pet Fashion Week NY in Tokyo. If you’re not prepared to make such a rash decision in the name of garments for Grover or if you simply don’t have the means to jump a jet to Japan at a moments notice, then you can get all the info you need on this weekend’s runway action by checking out the Tokyo Pet Fashion Preview at Pupstyle.com. The site takes a look at the most sought-after sweaters, shirts, collars, and carrying cases for your favorite furry friend for Winter ’07-’08 season. So head on over and check it out, isn’t your best friend worth it?

Way back in November of 2007 the folks at Snarfd dubbed Brooklyn based Industrial Designer Joey Roth’s Sorapot, a radically minimalist reinterpretation of the teapot, the “Sexiest. Teacup. Ever.” This set off a chain reaction in which our own David Vo put said teapot on his Christmas wishlist, inspiring Roth to create a companion teacup. Okay, so maybe it didn’t quite go down like that, but we’re glad to announce that the teacup now has a female or male companion, since its sex had not been previously specified. The companion cup is “designed to complement Sorapot’s modern lines and glass brewing chamber. But unlike the Sorapot, there’s no stainless steel: just a deeply grooved, minimalist flange for a handle, which flows smoothly below the cup to form a raised base.” One thing’s for sure, they make for one sexy couple.

For such fine work, the artist who goes by the nickname Fourth Letter (that’s D, if you didn’t get it right away, which I’m deducing is one of the initials of his or her name) seems to be somewhat endearingly modest. For one, there’s a lack of a bio on this artist’s new site, a big sign that his/her ego hasn’t yet inflated like a stomach after a turkey dinner. Then there’s the candid introduction letter, in which the artist shares the fact that the site almost didn’t come to fruition because of a case of fickleness. I’m glad he/she got it together to show us some art, though, like preciously detailed drawings of a close-up of a tongue done with such head-aching detail that you could almost feel its every leathery, slippery protuberances sliding up your face, or computer illustration of a heart, ventricles and all, that’s been stabbed with a Sharpie pen. The Fourth Letter, apparently, stands for Divine.