Tokyo: Vice correspondant David Choe spent 4 months in solitary confinement for punching out an undercover cop. These are the sketches he made with the available materials.

Exhibit showing 100 artifacts of Nike's research from last half century is now taking place in Beijing 706 space. with material experiments and radical design... Everything is designed to do more with less.

Fabric illustrations/collages by Paula Sanz Caballero

HAND BLOWN AQUA GLOBE continuously water's plants up to two weeks without a refill.

Artist collective WeeWillDoodle collaborates on the simplest form of art and turns it in to some kind of organic art.

Beautiful, eerie fashion spread from the latest metro.pop, by Tamar Levine.

Trilobis is a semi-submerged dwelling environment designed by Giancarlo Zema. Accommodates six people at sea and is ideal for living in bays, atolls and maritime parks.

Antilla, the world's first $2 billion dollar home. Designed by Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates for Mukesh Ambani, the fifth richest man in the world...and yes, those are trees up there.

Everybody can help stop child abuse, and give them back their childhood. Checkout this strong ad, realized by Saatchi&Saatchi, Bucharest, Romania.

Östra Kvarnskogen in Sollentuna, Sweden is a residential area with 40 buildings that almost floats in the air. It has been awarded the Wood Prize 2008 by the Swedish Forest Industries Federation.

Shocking + stunning video for Blur's "Good Song", created by film making collective Shynola and legendary artist/illustrator David Shigley.

"Guerilla Gardeners" is a new web film from Adidas promoting their up-coming enviro-friendly line of shoes and apparel - Adidas Grün.

Cereal tastes better with an Orland-O's cereal label.

best of Salone Satellite 2008 by yatzer

"Introducing a class beyond first" - with this moto, Singapore Airlines introduces airbus A380 luxury interior cabins, luxury on board with a brilliant design, making anyone feel like home! No sex allowed.

A close look at the latest Bape store in Japan, once again designed by Wonderwall and once again very impressive!

Yay! Lorem Ipsum now as filler banner ads in all IAB sizes... so when mocking up websites we can now use these instead of dealing with clients focusing on real ads/ads we invent...

A glimpse into part of the hidden reality behind the Pentagon’s classified, or “black,” budget that delivers billions of dollars to stealthy armies of high-tech warriors...

The world's most expensive champagne, the limited edition 12-bottle box sets of Perrier-Jouet champagne will be priced at 50,000 euros, according to French drink firm Pernod-Ricard.

Toki Doki Mimobots on the way?

The Nomad Yurt from EcoShack ~ its 120 sq ft of instant pop up space we all need... this really stole the show at CA Boom V ~ see my pics from inside!

DEAR HE-MAN - and the utter disappointment that followed. My dreams of creating the next He-Man character are summarily crushed by the Mattel legal department.

The final trailer for the new Pixar film, Wall-E, is finally out and it's maybe the most adorable thing ever.

Small Tree > Big Ax : Designer Brian Ponto recently relaunched his site showing how the little guy can still chop his way into big design.

Mens Vogue fashion director Stephen Watson and photographer Raymond Meier's stunning photo shoot, showing off the best in diving watches. Each shot was done inside actual tanks at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Improv Everywhere just took their desktops to Starbucks, in their classic straight faced comedy style. Check out the great video.

Beautiful slide show of spring dresses from New York Fashion. The photos are more beautiful than the dresses themselves.

Eric Cai Shi Wei Life Clock for WWF China asks, "If we could turn back the clock, what would you do for them?"

On cute splashy totes for spring/summer, i'm craving this shiny silver ~ recycled sail totebag with rope handles, and a cute little anchor charm!

rebaba is a Barcelona based small company who designs and produce badges in a different way.

Tired of taking your hookahs to parties. Now you can make one on the spot with the Hobo Hookah.

On noteworthy acquisitions ~ NBC picks up LX.tv ~ which is no surprise since they've been airing segments from them for the last year, and it really is one of the best produced web tv channels.

Shepard Fairey's call to action ~ VOTE! Posters will be available of both these Vote! posters as well as his new Obama posters ~ and proceeds from this print go to produce prints for a large statewide poster campaign.

Ready to be part of the Design Police? With their DIY stickers you can attack.. um i mean critique any and everything in your path.

366cm's Square is a heat sensitive hot plate that is a subtle gloss black tile or resembles the hot orangy red glow of a stove burner!

Not so much a documentary than a film about urban fixed-gear riding, MASH demonstrates the art of urban cycling. Following different riders through numerous cities - book with film and extras on DVD.

Mottainai Furoshiki ~ an alternative to gift wrap and plastic bags, here's a series of japanese techniques as created by the Minister of Environment back in 2006!

Give Good Food to your Mac ~ up to 70% off over 25 great mac apps that you can mix and match to make your own bundles, available for about 12 days.

Stay warm and look awesome in this bearded cap by Vik Prjónsdóttir.

'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)!

Interesting Video Clip inspired on the FKK o FreiKöperKultur (naked bodies culture), a concept wich denominates the nudist german culture.

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.

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...

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.