If you’ve poked your flat brim into a streetwear store lately you know that dad’s old boat shoes are now sharing shelves with dunks and chukkas. It’s about time the phenomenon—as all must these days—spawned a collaboration. And so in honor of the traditional Sebago Dockside’s 40th anniversary, Paris boutique Colette sprinkled the shoe with its trademark blue accents and then Jack Spade dipped the toes into bright orange paint, because why the hell not? Sure, they may look ruined to your dad, but tradition still holds: no socks! $240 www.colette.fr

Since last year, Nike has been offering international innovators the chance to reinvent one of the most iconic shoes in pop culture: the Air Force One. For the collection, dubbed 1 World AF1, Beaverton HQ tapped a motley crew including Brooklyn-based street artist Kaws, electrohouse DJ Busy P—and Hella Jongerius. Indeed, this month, Nike released its latest collaboration with Maharam Design Studio, who applied the Dutch designer's 2006 Layers fabric to the AF1's familiar silhouette. Somehow it works—the wool felt embroidery is both industrial and DIY; the floral patterning paired with sporty sneaks gives it an avant-garde, conceptual feel. Available exclusively at Moss. www.nike.com/af1

We’ve seen USB drives take the form of twigs, thumbs, clothespins, Barbie dolls, tempura shrimp, Rubik’s cubes, Jesus figurines, and Hello Kitty, but
sometimes, as someone pretty knowledgeable once said, less is more. We've had our eye on iRiver’s offerings ever since creative director Yeongkyu Yoo took the reins, and the Korean electronics company's chic Domino USB, clad in black and marked by a single numeral to denote its number of gigs, is finally available stateside, through MoMA's Destination: Seoul collection, through March 2009. www.momastore.org

At last month's New York Gift Fair, among the increasingly excellent offerings by Ohio-based distributor Wilma Wabnitz, we found Studio Ooga (it means "cake" in Hebrew"), an Israeli design incubator that seeks out emerging local talent, offers them production and manufacturing know-how, then folds designs into its collection of quirky household items. Among the offerings: kids furniture, lighting, vases, and ceramic kitchenware including the cheekily named Salt Squad, by Holon Institute of Technology grad Meytal Perelman. With its 12 Dzama-esque shakers, dinner guests can each have their own dispenser within arms' reach, making awkward reaches a thing of the past. www.studioooga.com or www.wabnitzeditions.com

It's hard to compete with the cacophony of a furniture fair. In Stockholm this week alone, there was Monica Förster's eerie, Hitchcockian Ominous installation at the Nordic Light Hotel, shiny gold LED lamps by Michael Young for Wästberg, and, as usual, a flurry of astonishing designs by young talent at the fair's Greenhouse exhibit. Still, the tiny E27 pendant lamp, by TAF's Mattias Stahlbom, stood out; as the architect and designer says, "The simplicity of the naked bulb is hard to compete with." Available in five colors, it's Stahlbom's latest addition to Muuto's modern everyday objects collection. www.muuto.com

Thanks to Target's new partnership with designer Orla Kiely, even lugging large loads of laundry will seem a vaguely charming task. For her capsule home collection for the Minneapolis-based retailer, Kiely created durable but chic domestic items: stoneware canisters, double-decker cake plates, a dual-handed oven mitt in a green pear print for just under $5, and an over-the-shoulder floral strap laundry bag for $7, all adorned with the British designer's signature '70s-inspired graphics. www.target.com

With its most important numbers rendered in supersized Helvetica—9 a.m. arrival, lunch at noon, out the door by 5—Swedish firm BVD's new Klocka clock for Askul looks like it's for a 1950s businessman, which actually makes sense. The Tokyo-based company—whose name means "delivery following day and in Japan is a strange mix of Amazon.com and FedEx, is known mainly for its office products; BVD's other recent designs for the Japanese giant include candy-colored packaging for USB sticks and a series of Muji-like pens. www.bvd.se

Their food may be heavy—meatballs, lots of mayo-laden salads and dense, dark breads—but when it comes to eyeglasses, the Danes have starved themselves down to featherweight class, ready to tussle with the Germans for the title. Ørgreen, the Copenhagen-based company that began engineering design-savvy frames 10 years ago, has just released a new line called Helium, with two unisex styles that are scarcely heavier than half an ounce—making them among the scrawniest on the market. Nighthawk and Cougar (shown here) come in seven different colors each. www.orgreen.dk

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For post–slow food, post–avian flu, design-conscious foodies, there's the Calf & Half, a creamer whose distinctly shaped, double-walled construction never lets you forget the provenance of your food. Designed by the Rhode Island–based Fred Studio, it's available through Charles & Marie; $20. www.charlesandmarie.com