This cool ad for a Roman restaurant emphasizes the extreme freshness of the ingredients!

Butterfingers - Fun music video using a puppetized soundboard? synthesizer? by Perish Factory

From Pixeloo - this is Homer Simpson as he would look if he were walking around the streets of Springfield today.

Simple, subtle work from Canadian collage artist Paul Butler. Bringing his art to life, Butler also created Collage Party, a 'travelling experimental group studio with a rotating cast".

A high quality mailer in the form of a leather embossed envelope with a chrome plate inner.

The Notre Dame University Architecture Library is scanning all their old black & white lantern slides and uploading them to Flickr. Awesome shots of monuments that are now heavily restored and overrun with tourists.

Set yourself a table with Teroforma's innovative shopping experience. via spoonbuzz.com

The least kosher lollipop in the history of candy! These lollys combine organic Vermont maple syrup with organic, sustainably farmed bacon to make a salty/sweet candy-on-a-stick! [Also in absinthe!]

Fendi's Artist Baguette lets you get your DIY on with 10 pantone universe markers and a coated canvas version of their classic clutch... for $1300. Can you imagine your favorite artist doodling on it for you?

"Don't waster your time..." Toilet Paper Origami Ads for Kellog's All-Bran Plus cereal by Leo Burnett, Dubai, UAE. I know they are a little grade school in their humor but I laughed a bit when I first saw them.

Matusalem Rum ~ great print/tv campaign just launched with the retiring Fidel Castro as a print/paper cut out pirate... love the videos!

Food vending machine in Japan. Packaged hot noodles are among the culinary delights offered at this vending machine at the Shin-Yokohama Prince Hotel.

An amazing norwegian illustrator, Mads Eriksen, makes the hilarious comic - Start.no

3 posters by the multi-disciplinary collective We are not you.

Over the years many companies has tried to sell the blimp as the air transportation of the future. Aeroscraft ML866 is more or less a blimp version of yacht.

Corolla the X - 10th edition... that's some crest... for the Toyota Corolla campaign. Microsite looks like its for a silly reality tv show... They even have a society of Blue Bloods... the car doesn't seem to fit in well?

A biodegradable shell for dispersing human ashes at sea. Amazing. [Editor's Note: as with the majority of Yanko posts ~ this is a CONCEPT design]

This new interactive video/catalog for IKEA is simply awesome. Some awesome quick cut intros leading into slow motion sequences that show off each of the room.

The Rainbowmonkey. Very nice portfolio site of Markus Hofko.

Miracle Fruit aka MAGIC BERRIES! Review... i got my hands on some of these magical red berries that turn anything sour/bitter that you eat... SWEET! It's quite a bizarre experience, see the close up pictures.

NIOG.NET - totally lush and poetic work from nyc-based graphic designer ChiChi Bello

French made set of six Western American Bird Calls - Robin, Mourning Dove, Owl, Common Gallinule, Warbler, and Mallard Duck.

Handpresso ~ bicycle pump + expresso packet + hot water = expresso on the go? The nice design coupled with the hilariously suggestive french couple in a movie theater ad makes it worth checking out.

Belkin's Rockstar ~ i loved the display of this new product at CES ~ particularly how this pic turned out! This is a new way to dj/share music... it can take 2 inputs, and multiple outputs with no loss.

as a kid, i definitely carried blankie everywhere. now industrial design student jenny pokryvailo from the bezalel academy fit a stuffed bear inside a recycled retro suitcase.

LERY: pop-up gallery/retail collaboration by odg/boosted in nyc, featuring the work of madsteez, mint & serf and mainframe. it's open until the end of the month!

The At This Rate booklet and poster were produced to raise awareness of the destruction of the Amazon rainforest for the US-based charity Rain forest Action Network.

Gift Guide Day 12 ~ NOTCOT Contributor Anna of Sub-Studio shares some of her picks for this season's gifting... all framed in her illustrations... LOVE the robot!

Very beautiful approach a visually charged music performance! by Uva

While the advertising world has been busy debating whether the latest Sony Bravia spot, Fallon in London has slipped out another spot for Sony online, this time for the brand’s new Walkman digital media player.

Brushwood is a new rug by Loginoff that reminds me a lot of Tord Boontje's rug made of felt leaves...

Easy Shopping Bag ~ not AS compact as many we've seen but an interesting shift of priorities when grocery shopping. You can use this one easily WHILE shopping, not just to carry it home

People buying products at Beate Uhse Sexshops receive the practical incognito-glasses for free as a give-away. So they return to the street whitout being recognized. As the sticker already claims: Beate Uhse. The discrete Sexshop.

On the theme of art and nature some, some of the amazing work of Heather Akroyd and Dan harvey who do some intesesting things with grass.

Did you ever wonder where Roy Lichtenstein pulled his images from? David Barsalou tracked down many of the exact comic frames.

E-grips makes all kinds of artistic mini-jugs (climbing holds) for rock climbers. These are architecturally inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.

gorgeous, enveloping mixed media paintings from reed danziger.

Glue Glue Design's "Respect Old School" ~ putting the ability to fight back in the hands of cane users to go forth and stamp the world with RESPECT.

Beautiful Photography of Dolls , by Lolita*Pop , <3

ATOM design gives the hammer a makeover.

Brokesky has some really great pillows in pairs ~ love this Crow pair in particular.

an interesting play with portraiture in the work of dutch photographer levi van veluw.

Peter Parker is part Italian! An exhibit in Rome honors the world-class Italian comic artists who have contributed to the fame of Spider-Man.

Chinese workers at a panda breeding facility are fashioning panda poop into souveneirs for tourists.

A breathtaking painterly kind of vector graphics made by a young Russian illustrator Lim, using both compelling and complex color combinations.

Remember Diem Chau of the incredible carved crayons and pencils? Well check out this super tiny mahjong set up in a tea cup (beware of myspace music)