Perhaps the best Christmas gift this year is a bottle of moonshine in a mason jar.

Mike He creates a Matryoshka doll that combines the Little Red Riding Hood fairy tale with the layered Russian doll.

The Large Hadron Collider at Cern has been recreated in Lego.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #29: Kidrobot a 24” Yummy Pizza Plush, a 9” Pink Edition Cupcake Plush, a 13” Ice Cream Sandwich Plush, a 12” Brown Edition Donut Plush, Dessert Keychains, and Donut Pulls.

Samia Kallidis's adorable personalized art kits for children in a homeless shelter in the Bronx.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #28: OTTO Espresso (after three years of development and a few awards) is giving away one of their stunning OTTO Espresso Makers and Portable Induction Cooktops!

Peter Marigold's Shop Sign Bird Hoses created for the charity auction 'The Birds, The Bats & The Bees' held at Phillips de Pury & Company held in June 2008.

Lumi have developed photographic print process for textiles and natural materials. Inkodye uses sunlight to expose the dye.

The Slalom Steerable Sled crafted from marine-grade molded plywood.

Vancouver Aquarium's Jelly Swarm from Tangible Intervention and origami artist Joseph Wu.

David Cole, who creates taxidermy style animals out of Lego, interviewed by the NYtimes.

The CSYS LED task light from Jake Dyson, a sleek adjustable and dimmable lamp.

Mid-Century Ads: Advertising from the Mad Men Era, by Jim Heimann, Steven Heller and printed by Taschen capturing American print advertising in the 50s and 60s.

Discover the Rice Field Terraces of Yunnan, the perfect wave in Indonesia, Tokyo’s Tsukiji Fish Market and more in this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

The new project on Baghdad by Antonio Ottomanelli and Giovanna Silva will come to the exhibition SAO PAOLO CALLING in March. Antonio Ottomanelli tells us about it from the beginning in a series of posts; here is the second one…

We skipped the gingerbread men this year and decided to make some cookies a little closer to home. City dwellers will be familiar with these gingerbread bodegas.

There’s a DJ in the bedroom. And oh look, clothes on display in the closet. The appetizers are served in the kitchen, the drinks in the living room. But is it a hangout or a real home? It’s Casa Clementina, in the Monti district in Rome.

A 3-D portrait of Albert Einstein that transforms into a portrait of Marilyn Monroe! 'Conversation' a 3-D printed shadow casting panel installation by Drzach&Suchy.

Rare lens-shaped lenticular clouds over West Yorkshire.

Lara Crystal, from Casey Dunn’s Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Brown University, tells the story of how anglerfish find, and keep, a mate

The Siajo Clinic located in Shinjuku, Tokyo by Aida Atelier.

Bridgestone Airless tires, currently in the concept phase, have spokes of thermoplastic resin that support the rubber tire: so they don’t go flat, don’t puncture, don’t blow out and are 100% recyclable.

Fade Away 1 performs a twitter search for the term "Fade Away" and uses an ultra violet laser diode to write these tweets on a phosphorescent surface. They eventually fade away.

Maya Shleifer’s “In The Train” doodles.

Tether, a flexible plastic rod to stabilize your glasses as they go through the dishwasher.

Orlogin, Ben Broyde's grandfather clock inspired series of clocks.

A path in the forest by Tetsuo Kondo. Beautiful walkway situated in Kardiorg Park, an urban forest, 15-minutes' walk from the Old City of Tallinn.

Jason Hull's vintage camera nightlights.

Ethics for the Starving Designer, a social project promoting the dialogue on ethics and responsibility within student and professional visual communicators.

Incredible book sculptures by Guy Laramee.

Designer Cameron Booth transforms the US highway system into a subway style map.

N H D M designed the Library Machine, to store the multimedia archive for the Nam June Paik Art Centre in the city of Yong-In, South Korea.

The Mikoto Bamboo knife block from Ekobo is an elegant way to keep your knives in order.

“Little Shining Man”, a kite with 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric. Conceived by Heather and Ivan Morison, designed by Sash Reading, engineered and fabricated by Queen & Crawford.

Stunning simple little film around the making of an alternative christmas ginger jam sponge cake. It's a gingerbread house on top of a cake!

More new work from ever-toiling Nendo; this time, it's a quirky new souvenir product for the Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama, Japan.

“Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990” is on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A review by Pietro Rigolo.

Beautiful new site by Mike Kus, animated using CSS3. Cutting edge, beautiful web design for a young app design team in England.

Take a gander at Autoban's new CIP lounge for Turkey's national airline, Turkish Airlines, which has just opened at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.

With the help of photographer Andrew B. Myers The Hive created a series of limited edition cards in honour of five inventors and their seasonal inventions.

Zeus Jones built a great new web app for Scotch Whiskey tastings called 'Proof' just in time for the holidays. Along with the free app, check out the custom packaged bottles and boxes.

The Rethinking Radiator by Rochus Jacob is a modern and more efficient way to warm up your living room.

PetPeek is a transparent plastic window that allows your best friend a view of the outside world.

The simmINN Flight Simulation Center in Stuttgart, Germany designed by architect Boris Banozic.