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?

Beautiful light fixture installations at Designers' Saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland. 'Underwater World' was designed by Aqua Creations and installed in the Création Baumann textile factory.

The new number of Be|Different Magazine. An amazing Italian e-zine compleately downlodable!

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

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

Fun little bottle for Yaoki sake - Yaoki comes from the Japanese proverb "Nana korobi yaoki", the apparent literal translation meaning "Stand up on the eighth attempt after falling seven times" or "Never give up!" The shape of the bottle reinforces this idea.

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....

Pizzerias, in close proximity to large college campuses, were supplied with Economist-branded pizza boxes. Each one reinforces the “Get a world view” platform with a pie chart that applies to pizza consumption.

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.

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.

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.

MC Escher-esque illustrations by Sacred Mtn.

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!

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

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.

Pollaro Custom Furniture, makers of museum quality furniture, fitted cabinetry, and fine architectural woodwork. Incredible stuff.

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.

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!

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

Sigur Rós - Shot live at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City on Icelandic Independence Day

Festroia International Film Festival poster made by designer Ricardo Guerreiro.

Some beautiful works of the young Australian artist Courtney Brims.

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

pen on paper art. Nice type.

Fireplays : stop-motion and spectacle of lights, on a soundtrack by Mgmt.

Polite In Public's new hardware was impressive and fascinating to watch at the G4/StrangeCo Wonder Women of America Party at Comic-con ~ a magic box that takes pics and applies incredible filters instantly.

White Dwarf Stars: Like a Diamond in the Sky - "Bill Gates and Donald Trump together couldn't begin to afford it."

Awesome sand sculptures by the King Sand collective.

Keys + Leatherman Micro = Swiss army keys?

Minimal & Stylistic calendar / time screensaver from DestroyToday - apparently mac only

That is a photograph of a Vodka Tonic under the microscope - See many other popular drinks as well at Molecular Expressions: The Cocktail Collection