'Equation Bookshelf' is a simple idea of to divide things in priority order... put together the books that you need immediately or more important between (parentheses)!

Pop up books are going to make a comeback ~ starting with this limited edition Neiman Marcus Pop Up

Johanna Inman takes beautiful photographs of old-fashioned lantern slides that are broken and decaying.

Lire di sapone” is a silicone mould to create fragrant soaps with the looks of italian old coin.
design by Francesco Castiglione Morelli and Cristina De Agostini

Where do pins that come to NOTCOT go? Well for the last year or so they have gone here... and become their own piece of inspiration for me...

Indie lego kids head to the disco

An old electric power plant has become a museum of ancient art in Rome - Centrale Montemartini Museum

Some classy wine glass markers made from retired transit tokens by Hanger 3.

great nytimes article on couch surfing and i just love that image.

For all those times those pesky aliens abduct you and drop you off on the wrong planet! dog tag with various stellar maps back to earth!

Taking the “Dis” Out of Disabled , UNIVERSAL TOILET By Changduk Kim and Youngki Hong

Astonishing photography by a Bulgarian photographer Duni.

For all of you privileged enough to have DUAL MONITORS. Fabulous dual monitor wallpapers by mandolux.

Shiro i Shiro restaurant & bar inside Lux 11 hotel in BERLIN

You shake to open? This is one creepy door Hand-le by Naomi Thellier de Poncheville

Food-designing food. Marti Guixe has 10 years of food design... including this pie graphic which indicates the ingredients of the cake in percentages.

For art lovers on the go...Italy's porta potty giant, Sebach, unveils these pretty portals in Milan.

"because we can" have a cool flat pack sofa with storage drawers large enough to hold vinyl records. loads of other storage as well

Evo Noche serves up stylish, hand-printed home goods in Oakland. Yes, Oakland.

Far too fun to procrastinate by making simpsons characters.... too bad mii's weren't this fun.

Pink Prank Project: a pink practical joke

Car sign with an attitude. One for each gender, a big shot is on board!

amazingly interactive portfolio of a romanian advertising and design company - Etcetera

Those talented Bourellec Brothers (ronan and erwan) teamed up with Swarovski to create the "Stone Light" for the 2007 design expo in France

Super cute kung fu incense holder! Kinda modern, kinda old-school, totally stylish!

Broker's Gin - its the gin with the bowler hat! (how very Magritte?)

Bouroullecs for Kartell

Inspiration from patterns on business cards....

The TT Movement, a collective of Australian artists formed to celebrate the Audi TT, prepare to unleash their exhibition on the Museum of Contemporary Art in April. [Previously seen as 3377, but here's the full site]

'You are a douche.' It is amazing how powerful the right words with enough white space - in print - can be. only 5$ for 25.

Grumpy Girl presents the Auto Bird Turd Kit - yes, you read that right, and its brilliant for anyone who actually takes the time to use elbow grease to take care of those bird poos.

A mouse cage mated with a music box. The compulsive energy of a running mouse generates Brahm's Lullaby.

Design student 1, metal stool 0. Clearly we have a winner against sore buns. CritBuns

Every kid has to go through the sorting box to learn shapes... why wasn't mine as sleek glossy black as this Brio one?

Fabulist has some great pics of the Square Foot Show over at Thinkspace. Oh, Audrey Kawasaki, why do your pieces never cease to mesmerize me?

Neiman Marcus has quite the gift guide as always ~ these Scanty Owl Panties had a great graphic...

Girl massages anole bellies, and has the ability to have them relax in her hand - she dresses them up, poses them, and her father takes pictures.

Lazy Oaf make rather lovely tees and sweats for chaps and chapettes. I want one of everything.

these vintage book covers are gorgeous. unfortunately they're not all available as posters at blackwells. =P

London's Rokeby Gallery exhibit features drawings made by trees (among other nonhumans). Artist Tim Knowles "creates drawings independent of his own hand, using elaborate apparatus or time consuming practices."

ghost bandit via modish

Very pretty animations constructed from US flight pattern information then manipulated using Adobe After Effects and/or Maya. [Reader says that it is actually made with Processing]

dude, i miss a lot of stuff out here! stupid work...this "spank the monkey" show looks pretty sweet.

Skip Hop - they call it a line of Home and Nursery Essentials for the Modern Parent... i beg to differ. (see .com review) Incredible designs by Scott Henderson.

i keep forgetting to post these. check out these sweet decks from mekanism. space invaders/rubiks cube decks. =)

iguana wallpaper! to be honest, i think i just like them because they're called "timorous beasties". what a great name.