Goldsmiths graduate exhibition 2008 takes place in London. Unusual installations and artistic ideas are presented here in vast variety.

Goodbye Yves Saint-Laurent... just passed away on sunday at 71

ASKO Creative Laundry - a new designer range of modular integrated laundry products that are made for "designers and architects" ~ hidden behind cabinets are washers, dryers, drying closests, and more...

House in Tunquen by Rodrigo Aguilar. A sleek concrete house by the beach in the chilean coast.

To commemorate George Nelson’s 100th birthday, Vitra has released a limited edition of the Pretzel Chair (orginally designed in 1952). Though Nelson is known for his furniture design, he was a well-rounded designer who explored working in many disciplines.

Even Batman drinks milk. The Dark Knight is latest to ask, Got Milk?

Why are the Swiss always cooler? the humble allen wrench is elevated to a staff of style at colette

Prince of Persia : Next Gen. Beautiful concept art !

This month, 1134 NYC teams up with NYC Art Toy Brand Thunderdog Studios to release the first ever graffiti based, wall mounted, vinyl toy. The toy was designed by Mint & Serf. Really nice!

New works by Dan May, Nathan Spoor and Brandi Milne at CoproNason Gallery opening June 7th. Previews are up and are looking good!

Rail Rider, a bicycle and an old train rail is the perfect combination to create the newest attraction all over the world. Oil free!

Simpleformsdesign was distinguished with the RedDot Design Award Winner 2008 with Cork Collection, a 12 cork pieces elegant collection.

In less then a month, Spain Expo Zaragoza 2008 will open doors. Check the amazing pavillions you will find inside the expo!

Cork is not only used to isolate sound and build cork stoppers. Check the 1st cork stamp in the world, made by designer João Machado. Portugal is responsable for more then 50% of world cork, just in case you want to know!

What do you get if you take one of MC Escher's famous pictures and add the theme from Portal into the mix.

Concert, plywood and a few colored walls make up the Mon Lou Lou hair salon in Asagaya, Japan. Very clean and nice interior, and I love the front door. The interior was designed by Assistant.

the ultimate magic trick - making furniture disappear into the balcony - aka just really cool space saving design by Sandy Lam from Vancouver.

King Abdulaziz Center for Knowledge and Culture by Snøhetta

There are only 1300 tigers left in India. A fresh perspective on the problem

19 skydivers spelled out the word Honda in three minutes and 20 seconds for UK’s first live tv promo, inspired by the car manufacturer’s new advertising strapline: “Difficult is worth doing”

By simply pointing their mobile phones at blotchy black-and-white newspaper ads, consumers could bring to life colorful 3-D animals during a campaign by Wellington Zoo in New Zealand.

Which would you rather have trailing behind you: carbon monoxide or BUBBLES? BLOOM is another cheeky entry from the design21 competition, where the bubbles contain spores/seeds that sprout where it lands. The video is cute too.

Christie's will be holding a Pop Culture Auction next month. Some great stuff in there, definitely worth checking out!

The movie: BOMB IT - The global graffiti documentary by award-winning director, Jon Reiss - features street artists and top graffiti writers from 5 continents (i.e. Taki 183, Revs, Revok, Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos, Cope, KRS-One etc).

Cast bronze. By Paul Julius Martus.

A new flat-pack birdhouse by Canadian designer Thomas Rasmussen.

Flute Handles: brillant idea of bicycle accessory, by Joseph Kim.

Improv Everywhere has struck again ~ this time - "700 agents lined the length of the Brooklyn Bridge a week before its 125th birthday. In the rain and cold we created a wave of camera flashes across the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan."

One of the worlds last remaining tribes that have never had contact with the modern world were photographed by aircraft and are seen pointing their bow and arrow weapons at the craft in defense!

In the video for their latest single "Gobbledigook", Sigur Rós teamed up with amazing photographer Ryan McGinley.

Tokyo-based design studios CURIOSITY, TONERICO and creative visual studio WOW held a collaborative exhibition ‘Tokyo Wonder’ in Milan during Salone del Mobile 2008. WATCH the amazing video!

This great looking easy to read chart helps you determine which plants are best suited to cleanse the airborne toxins plaguing your place.

Watch the time-lapse movie below to see it in (quick) action.

Great new packaging by Timex. The packaging is made of Polystyrene and ABS with 25% post consumed material.

Designer Yves Behar is already working in a top-to-bottom redesign for the of the XO laptop (also known as the $100 laptop). Here some pictures of what they are planning for the early 2010.

The centerpiece of Melbourne Museum's new exhibition is the Dynamic Map, designed by ENESS. A feat in projection technology and installation art.

Sheep Poo Paper - “These delightful eco-friendly air fresheners are made from the finest and freshest sheep poop from the rolling green mountains of Wales…”

ken goldman's bird houses are inspired by vernacular architecture found throughout Israel. You can reach ken at info@biblicalbeasties.com

Caranbachel by FOA - A compact volume building where all the apartments have double orientationwith terraces in both sides, protected with bamboo louvers.

it may be poop, but guano is big business in peru.

Another mythological creature of north america ~ manac trucking's Flying Moose! Which has a great legend behind its origin!

Harder Better Faster Stronger ~ this daft punk song has been the theme song getting me through the last few weeks of craziness... fun shirt by Monsieur Steve

Mike and Maaike have taken on Charcoal and the old messy bbq process with their new product for Lazzari, where the packaging for the coal becomes a part of the process, and is completely recycled!

Howies' latest T-shirt Of The Week is Soap Dodger by Stephanie Cotgrave. With so many fun shirt ideas, Howies now picks one new shirt idea and does a print run of it for only 1 week... can't wait to see what's next!

Three Potato Four has adorable "Bird Survey" prints by Matt Cipov ~ and the nest one is available in larger poster form as well!

Beautifully crazy illustrations by New York based artist Jinyoung Shin. Obviously her work has been influenced by japanese manga, but she has definitly seperated herself from that style with her long limbed figures.

Lago, the Italian interior design company, just started their own "green" advertising campaing, using their own trucks to pass the message on.

Interactive Pictograma Pots - Pet Plant

Construction progress of Mountain Dwelling, an impressive terrace housing project in top of a parking building. Gives all the benefits of a house with front yard with urban density. Located in Copenhagen, by BIG.

Online color flip book. Only when you're bored.

This monster hadn't no name yet but is so gorgeous. I totally love the bright of the stars behind him. Drew by Jeremy Dower.

Chicago Artist, Martina Nehrling's new 21 foot long painting "Through a Purple Patch"

L.A based photographer Alex Prager takes some awesome cinematic photos. Her website is pretty spanking as well.

The Marfa 10 x 10 Lightbox is a minimal dwelling retreat consisting of a mere 320 sq. ft. All it needs now is a stock water tank for a pool. Designed by Candid Rogers Architect.

The latest future forward design from James Law is the highly intelligent 'Cybertecture Egg' for Mumbai, India.

Gorgeous wallpaper by Jill Malek. Metallic and tone-on-tone printing with really interesting designs.

Fascinating "walk on water" museum exhibit. This fascinating installation replicates the impossible feat of walking on water.

A few more bird feeders/houses to add to Jean's round-up. The Nidusa birdhouse by Art. Lebedev is just one of the bunch i found!

Nice record covers with clean typography and colors from Swedish Rollerboys Recordings. Designed by Filip Kleremark.

What happens when you combine the famous Etch A Sketch with porn? You get a ton of sketchy black line art that looks nothing like porn at all.

Gorgeous, sad music video for A Dream of Gardens, written by Olga Nunes & Neil Gaiman.

Video of famous failures from Abraham Lincoln to The Beatles-- "if you've never failed, you've never lived."

This American Life's Ira Glass on storytelling, and why people should keep making art.

Maison Go by Peripheques Architectes - A house organized in three levels over a parking basement where the different levels are shifted ones compared with others

Veuve Clicquot Manhattan Polo Classic will take place on Governors Island (Sat 31 May) and can you believe that this will be the first time Polo will be played in NYC for over 70 years... open to the public!

Sony's Sountina Glass speaker for only $10,000. I will take 2 please... Just after I win the Lottery.

This floating sauna is soon to be installed at the Fakriken Furillen, an amazing hotel created at the site of an abandoned limestone quarry on Sweden's largest island, Gotland. And it's right on the beach, facing the Baltic Sea. Awesome.

In response to post #10871, this project was not an 'idealized' fake world draw. The project was a hoax , a big difference.

This multi-blade knife makes short work out of turning veggies into noodles.

Fun Greenpeace campaign! Make an online origami whale message and help stop whaling in the process.

Stunning 'Spoon' chandelier made from hundreds of recycled coffee stirrers - by Studio Verissimo / Touch

Amazing trippy illustrations.

An Origami Lamp to fold yoursef by Thomas Hick...

i love the kikkerland series of anatomy toys. i especially love the frog, but the range is impressive: people, cows, horses, frogs, beetles, pigs, dolphins, even a snail!

Paul St George's giant telescope connects Fulton Ferry Landing by Brooklyn Bridge to London's South Bank by Tower Bridge. Open till June 15th. Where are my NYers?

the nytimes on miracle fruit.

Whitecapri is a new label for bags and accessories from Berlin. The first collection Matchpoint is an hommage to the great movie "Match Point".

2021 BMW M6 concept rendering

Ever felt stuck in your daily life? The animated character in this Lipton CLear Green website suffer from traffic jams, job stress and hang-overs. Until you refresh them.

Dwell On Design is coming to LA June 5th... and they've hooked up NOTCOT readers with free passes to the exhibition, and a discount on the conferences! See you there?

Oooh ~ for all your nature loving ravers... stephanie simek (of the eyelash and gold lined quail egg shell jewelry) ~ she has put leds inside sea cookies (sand dollar family) as wearable broaches!

"PROGRESS" by Scott Hansen (aka 1so50) - Artists For Obama.

The $10 displosable & recyclable Hop1800 is being hailed as the "anti iPhone". It takes everything back to basics with an eco emphasis.

Blood n Oil Squids - It was my gut reaction when we went to war in Iraq. The Sherman Williams logo - CRAZY GOOD. Might be the most malicious logo on the face of the planet.

Found in the bathroom wall of the log cabin in VT ~ The WHY CHEAP ART? Manifesto... a fun read, from 1984

The Starry Night Bed has internet connectivity, wireless remote control, iPod dock station, anti-snore technology and temperature control from 68 to 117 degrees Fahrenheit. Anyone sleepy or it is just me?!

"The Fall of Steve Jobs" ~ the cover of Fortune's August 5, 1985 issue ~ found this while poking around the VT Cabin... the article and ads within certainly show how far we've come in the last 23 years...

Hotel Boat that travels river Amazonas, starting from Iquitos, Peru. Luxurious rooms with a 180ª vision to the exterior. It even has a boutique on board...

100 years after the first animated film, a homage for the creator of Fantasmagorie, Émile Cohl: Fantasmagorie 2008.

My quest to find the perfect chic camera bag is over. Introducing the Jenny Yuen Hitchcock!

The Faces of Oolong viral microsite was launched to promote Konami Mobile’s new “Yie Ar Kung Fu” game for mobile devices. Check out the hilarious old-style vidoes, customize them with your own headshot and send to a friend.

Panda nerds can be stylish. Small pic doesn't reveal the full furry goodness offered by Nike as part of their Tokyo Dunk series.

I just about hit the ceiling in excitement when I saw the new Marcel Wanders wallpapers from Graham & Brown.

The two Amsterdam animal refuges in Amsterdam have been amalgamated: the new-built is the largest pound in the Netherlands. The result is a green, playful animal refuge center. By dutch Arons & Gelauff Architecten.

Artist Chiharu Shiota uses miles of string in her work to suspend objects in space and time.

John Körmeling’s house will rotate completely around once within a span of 20 hours. The house will stand as sort of a rotating work of art.

Wisteria Lane might be the picture perfect setting on Desperate Housewives, but what would it look like in real life?

Jackalope spotting! I found the cutest friendliest little jackalope while wandering through St. Johnsbury, VT ~ check out this all american myth and the little town i found it in!

Rectangle of Light, by Jun Igarashi Architects, is "an exercise in introversion", or, a light-filled cave.

Formatmag.com releases over 70 new wallpapers with the Sneaker Wallpapers II Collection and the Issue 40 Anniversary Collection.