100 mansions to be built in Inner Mongolia by a coal and dairy tycoon. Kind of a self-indulgent idea for the current economic situation...but still wishing their official website would put up images already.

Jeremiah Maddock creates beautiful/semi-creepy illustrations.

The Nabana no Sato theme park in Kuwana, Japan, has set up approximately 4.5 million flower-themed LEDs for the annual winter light show. The show is scheduled to run until 03/08/09.

Great selection of Sugar Lips... Do you like lips? Sugar lips?

Roxana Vazquez - 22 years old illustrator and 3d artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Leo Kempf designed this house for his cat, Olive, complete with a panoramic plexi-glass window, a thick sheepskin rug, some small paintings for the walls, and a cardboard scratching porch.

Cute new Vespa ads remind potential buyers that the motorbikes can zip through the narrowest of passageways and get you there more quickly.

The interior of the Ahmanson Founders Room at The Music Center in Los Angeles was designed by Belzberg Architects.

Pretty felt ornaments by Selina Rose.

I see the devil in my sleep, a comic by Becky Cloonan (American Virgin, etc.)

Fatih Baltas' variation on the traditional Rock Paper Scissors game.

How to Make a Custom One-Off Skateboard. Thanks to a previous post on NOTCOT, Grease from Half Tone Def decided to give it a try and document the process from begging to end. The final Product came out RAD!

Beautiful wire frame rocker by Egg Designs.

Daniel Love is a Singapore designer that clearly has been inspired by nature and animal-life to a lot of his work....

A touching story about the strongest earthquake in human history (1960, Chile). Consider this a gift for all Spanish readers in NOTCOT! Video produced by Constanza Justiniano y Tomás Velásquez.

Interactive virtual march for charity ActionAid in support of their work with the Indian Adivasi people. Users make their own character, personalise a message and join in. By Chroma London.

Rubikon comes after 25 years to be a reaction to digital technology... Download, print & enjoy !

Dominatrix style spike feet for the monster Joby Gorillapod SLR-ZOOM

Beautiful Cubematic Max graphic by Eric Carl.

vampire bats are just one of the nyt's featured phlebotomists (yes, thats a blood sucker).

Dear friends, have a bit of fun with the latest collection of Tokyo Metro manner posters.

With a trend of "anything goes," the Frieze Art Fair will try to defy the international economic upheaval - here's a preview!

RAFFAELLA BRUNZIN 4WINDOWS - A project by I Love Tourism, the Bevilacqua La Masa Book Shop. [Editor's Note: See the other three windows with Freitag, Imegadito, and ox studio - very cool stuff!]

LED by Sanwa & Marcos - lets you pimp out your bike in the name of safety...

Emma Smart's D&AD ASDA Lunchboxes - I like the use of the interior of the box to create the sense of a more proper meal.

Genius design and modern appeal, Matthew Izzo's Son of a Bench features interlocking loops of hot-rolled steel creating an intriguing form of mass and negative space.

I love that Adidas is embracing people's trend to blog their Stella McCartney line by adding "Blog this" options for instant cut+paste code and high/low res image downloads!

Great illustration work by Jan Kallwejt. The above is an illustration for Bedzin Beat's Alternative Silesian Tourist Guide.

Love the pretty shape of Jirachai Tangkijngawmong's Leaf Bench.

After 50 years the U.S. penny will finally get a redesign.

Playful salt and pepper mills by Norway Says for Muuto. The salt and pepper mills bring a good looking plus to your cooking.

Animation clip for Kap10Kurt. Tells the story about a super-hero in a world without music. Good 80's references.

Casa Deck, Alto Rungue, Chile / Assadi + Pulido

Impressive showreel of Mark Coleran : visual designer specializing in the design of interfaces for film and television.

Amphibian Dynamic Scuba Fin by Designcraft. Allows divers to walk and climb boat ladders without removing their fins.

Chronophotographie (fragments). Day made in Nancy: nice execution of stop motion.

PLT Studio's collection of photographs taken to tickle their friends. It's also a growing roster of hooligans and riffraff from Orange County (Little Saigon), California.

Custom painted mustachioed skate decks by artist Lawrence Melilli. Never has a board been so handsome.

Chueh Lee of Samsung China designed the Touch Sight - the first digital camera for the visually impaired. Features include 3 seconds of recorded sound as an image reference, and a flexible Braille display sheet that displays a 3D image.

Photographer Eugenio Recuenco shows us what happens when life imitates art. He used real models to recreate the Parthenon frieze. Lovely.

This is sand. Click to release the sand; press C to change the color. Have Fun!

Not many companies (if any that I've seen) put this much energy into making their online retail stores so beautiful. Thank you Fawn & Forest for making it such a pleasure to browse and shop online!

Nick Baxter's amazing tattoos of classic chairs. See more of his work at nickbaxter.com.

This Illustration is one page out of Danny Roberts "Lily Cole & Gemma Ward Sketchbook".

SAM is a Swiss award-winning and patented Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) designed and developed by Cree Ltd.

pen on paper art. Nice type.