Surrealist Architect Terunobu Fujimori. Compliments of Dwell Slideshow. Bonus: How to char cedar planks.

Blur Studios did a sweet CGI video for the recently released MMORPG "Tabula Rasa." I'm not a big MMORPG fan, but this might make me reconsider.
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So You Want to Create a Font : The no nonsense look at what is involved in creating a font. Get an impression of what it takes to make those fonts we throw around. (Link to first half at top of article.)

IMSCAR3d : Gallery 1988 (LA) show by Greg Simkins. His work is the pop surrealist look at classic cartoons characters. (Not an original idea though, remember Dali and Disney...)

Ghost Shrimp : An art collective out of New Hampshire. Music, Illustration, Design, Fabrication... It's all about the creative process. Illustration by Dan James.

Good Magazine : The Business of Death. A light-hearted look at what goes into dying. Directed by Alejandro Cardenas with Illustrations by Daniel Cardenas... (YouTube Video)

An experiment in hand-lettering, by Linzie Hunter. SPAM poetry visualized.

Designers: DresserJohnson a design team responsible for the MOMA icons above and the BKLYNBUNNY blog. HOW magazine also had a nice write up about them recently.

This is the Opus Operis, a PDA from Zenum... It's freak'n sleek. More impressive is the name behind the look -Jaren Goh- famous for the opulent Black Diamond Mobile and Obelisk 2 PS3 Clone. Keep your eyes peeled for more of his super stylish designs...

Continue riding the font wave..."We don't just sell type, we live for it. The FontFeed is a font blog, updated at least weekly with typography tips, fresh new fonts, and the latest FontShop news. Feed your creativity."

Font designer Erik Spiekerman is a fontagrapher god. Design Within Reach is honoring this fact with a collection of house numbers based on his work. Including the Helvetica killer FF Meta!

Josh Cochran's illustration style is simple, he gets the idea down rough and then block layers colors and textures on as needed. There's still a life in this hurried approach...

Technical illustrations, when done well are more impressive than subjective art... Kevin Hulsey is a master of his craft (and he creates his images using both traditional tools and new technology!)

This is Pivo, it was designed by Creative Box*, they design cars, they designed Pivo for Nissan, Pivo is a compact car that pivots on a central axis while turning and parked. (*Site is Flash based.)

I'm on an illustrator kick... Check out Jesse Parrotti's Acrylic and watercolors. They remind me of the illustrations found at the back of the Classic Atari 2600 catalogues from back when...

That's Bill Murray as reproduced thru the hands of John Kascht. John's another illustrator who can create gentle colorful caricatures or very bold symbolic ones with just a pen stroke...

Ruth Gwily is an illustrator. Her works might seem silly or even disturbing at time, but they're still very interesting. She also does comics and paintings...

The Hype Machine is an experiment that keeps track of songs and discussion posted on the best blogs about music. A great resource for up and coming musicians. Aesthetics isn't always visual...

Phillip Toledano: Photographer with a light hearted view of his surroundings. Also responsible for the photos of the Baby Suit #382. [Editor's Note - from a series of portraits of GAMERS!]

Doug Boehm's collection of classic monster inspired illustrations are perfect for the upcoming Halloween holiday...and just about any other day!

Creative Sweet TV: Its nice to see designers taking advantages of Pod(NET)casts to create visual tutorials. If youre using the Adobe Creative Suite, this is a great resource...

The Art of Complex Problem Solving... this is a very nice diagram for solving complex problems.

Patrick O'Brien : Filmmaker, Artist, Visionary and he's slowly dying from ALS. He's attempting to create awareness for ALS thru the Patrick O'Brien Foundation and his documentary.

Discovered at AD Goodness. The tagline says it all... "No wonder our preception of beauty is distorted..."

Giles Revell : "Giles’ work is influenced by seminal fine art and conceptualism, producing graphic, ideas-based imagery." Strong images and an unique vision...

Sean McCabe is [wider-than-pictures] a tour de force of design; between the photography, illustrators and his designs, I'm surprised I was able to pick just one image to post...

Moving Color: Temperature reactive tiles. Touch them, wash them, cool them and they'll change color. Kinda like when you press too hard on your LCD monitor. Cool. [Editor's Note: Prev. seen as #223 ]

Newform has some really "futuristic" looking faucets and fixtures. Check out the new Morpho; a multi angle faucet attached to 4 pliable metal tubes.

Tiny Showcase: A simplistic and affordable approach to finding new and inspired artists. Mentioned in past (.com) features, but never featured...

Meg Hunt: She's a young illustrator from Arizona. Her work has a nice blend of woodcut hash marks and heavy marker blendings. Unique and comfortable at the same time

Kanvinsky: Killed in a car crash back in 1986, Kanvinsky is now a Zombie out for revenge... This is the story of his first steps in the world of the living dead...

Gregory Crewdson: Similiar in style to diCorcia, his photographs are on a much larger scale, production wise. Epic levels of drama are reached with film quality lighting and ultra obsessive compulsive scene creation.

Philip-Lorca diCorcia: I discovered his photography several years ago, during college, and fell in love with the focus of subject to surrounding. His use of light to create psuedo-drama for his subjects enticing.

In this 2 minute AmEx Ad By Wes Anderson, there is more Style and Dramatic Content than most films coming out of hollywood. *I think it was filmed on set of his new film "The Darjeeling Limited" starring Jason Schwartzman.*

Shinybinary is Nik Ainley a 24 year old Designer from Oxford, England who has mastered the art of digital manipulation. AMAZING! Check out his Deviantart profile for even more work...

Pixel Samplers... Cross-stitched technology.

Robotic Chair...

The power of technology: USBCell from Moixa are rechargable AA, AAA, 9Volt, plus many more batteries with built in USB connectors so you can plug them into your computer and not a charger...WOW!

dbClay wallets are made from Gaffer's tape, a waterproof vinyl like tape that's easily printed on. Perfect for the tagger with extra cash on hand...

Nooka Watches... Thinking outside of time. [Editor's Note: Nooka was featured in NOTCOT's NOTed #001]

French Bull makes some pretty vibrant plates! I like the Digital, Stix and Kiss plates!

Thomas O'Brien takes classic furniture designs and modernizes them. A comtemporary masculine style. (Links to his studio site.) *Target also carries a line of his designs...

Top 40 Magazine Covers of the past 40 years. As of Oct. 2005, still very interesting. Love this Esquire cover of Andy sinking in his soup. Created in the time before computers...

Everybody's talkin at me... sorry I couldn't resist NOTCOT's post. Anyway, if you haven't seen Midnight Cowboy, put it in your NetFlix queue right now!

Woah: Joey Lawrence is an simple photographer who wields the power of light, motion and heightened contrast to create great works of art...

Fashion photography and hi-tech illustration mash-ups. From Dzark Design