IPad 2 Smart Cover

Best-yet cases for iPads and iPhones, auto-tattoos, Slinkachu's new work and more in our weekly web round-up

Sure the new iPad ushers in just enough bells and whistles to rev up sales again, but we think the way the slim all-in-one cover remedies some of the device’s biggest form-factor problems is the real step forward.

Non-Sign II

Best-yet cases for iPads and iPhones, auto-tattoos, Slinkachu's new work and more in our weekly web round-up

Reduced to negative space framed by a haze of blackened stainless steel sticks, this poetic vision of a billboard by Seattle’s artsiest architects Lead Pencil Studio continues to make the Internet rounds for good reason.

Brit Insurance Design Awards 2011

Best-yet cases for iPads and iPhones, auto-tattoos, Slinkachu's new work and more in our weekly web round-up

Phaidon shows highlights from the fourth annual Brit Insurance Design Awards, a culling of the design world’s best additions in the categories of architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. Flipboard took home the Interactive Award this year, and the highly-addictive game Angry Birds got a nod for its entertaining design.