It’s practical. It’s cute. It’s the Pixbag, designed to protect your DSLR camera and eliminate the need for those otherwise bulky and unflattering photography bags.

Although it comes at a price of $72, the good news is that each Pixbag is custom-made to order and will fit your camera’s dimensions perfectly. You can even choose the fabric. Just put it around your camera and carry it in your hand bag or side bag. It’s another genius German design.

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The striking new building that houses the Unilever Headquarters for Northern Europe in Hamburg, Germany, is an attempt by the company to put sustainability at the forefront of their identity. The structure, designed by Benisch Architekten, consumes less than 100 Kwh/a m² of energy, and features a transparent “outer skin” to minimize heat gain from the sun and wind effect from the adjoining river.

The layout of the building aims to be like a stacked, ‘vertical village’ with various distinct paths that converge on town center-like meeting areas, bridges, and food courts, encouraging employees to interact in the open, spacious interior. Still, one wonders how a company whose primary line of products includes petroleum jelly and other synthetic substances packaged in plastic, can claim to take sustainability seriously.

German design student Martin Lihs recently completed a Wii spray can that users can use to control a virtual spray can to make some digital graffiti. It may be the final nail in the coffin in the idea that graffiti is somehow subversive, but it’s cool nonetheless.