NAO´s villa for ORDOS 100. The skin of the house is designed to keep weather elements on the facade: snow, sand, rain and moss, changing during the four seasons of the year.

Original Q&A style interview with "One of the greatest artist of our time," Mattias Adolfsson

Skate photography legend Grant Brittain gets his own pro model from Powell Peralta.

2009 urban calendar created by Robert Feyereisen aka "feYerwerks".

Cute new episode of My Cardboard Life. Cardboard Colin tries out a geeky new look.

IPSVM skateboard design by Loren Kulesus

Love this simple Grid Builder tool ~ beautifully simple UI too...

Color Lovers discusses the Munsell Color System

The Seven Rules of Astronomy Poster by Jody Avirgan & Noah Rauch

Great room drawings by artist Christine Rusche.

Gorgeous retro breadbox.

Fascinating to see what inspires those who inspire us ~ check out Audrey Kawasaki's Ffffound [might lean on the NSFW side]

Ruta Peregrino is a pilgrimage path in Jalisco, Mexico. During Holy Week, 2 million pilgrims walk the path. HHF Architects designed a lookout point there, made out of cast concrete. I love the spiraling pathway, used to create anticipation in the visitor.

Terrarium Party Favors! What a fun DIY idea over at Design*Sponge

Lea Turto from Finland has made Plastic Garden. Here is the iCty-fFower installation of plastic spoons.

Robert Williams' Appetite For Destruction was on display at Scope Miami. Most may know this as the original cover art and title for the Guns N' Roses album

Sissi Edholm and Lisa Ullenius from Edholm Uilenius created this amazingly beautiful chocolate packaging for the gift shop in Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm.

'Drawdio' created by adafruit and jay silver is a pencil that lets you draw with the music. The kit is an analog synthesizer circuit that straps to any soft-leaded pencil, and lets you crank out electronic sounds while you sketch.
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NOTCOT.org shoppable roundup of goodies from the last few days!

photographs of poinsettia greenhouses outside of austin in seguin, texas. really beautiful, and neat to see the nurseries getting ready for the holidays

LEAF HAMMOCK In a fast paced, overwhelming workstyles and hours, Leaf inspired by nature and earthly systems, creates a balance in one’s life. It responds to human needs as an individual, creating a wellbeing luxury.

SHL Architects designed the new NRGi’s Headquarters in Denmark. A tilted building with an iconic façade.

Spacehack is a directory of ways to participate in space exploration, interact + connect with the space community and encourage citizen science.

The Oca is a temporary structure designed by brazilian architects Königsberger Vannucchi, where many local native communities hold ceremonies and meetings.

Promotion of swear words and insults in a very public but subtle way.

Watch "Burn•E, new Pixar short film, extra including on the upcoming DVD/Blu-ray release of "Wall•E".

Some books take place in graphic design but in product design too : no longer considers the book as support of writing but as a area of reading ! A diploma's project by Claire Robert.

Alexis Themistocleous's Caged Message vases are cast in bubble wrap and contain secret messages that are laser-cut into stainless steel. The messages can only be revealed when the vases are smashed.

On bizarro internet videos ~ Devo + Tivo + aliens + retro conspiracy theories?

Tine Roeder and David Krings collaborated on Structures/Facades. Love the super intricate weaving that becomes more loose/transparent as you get closer to the middle of the sideboard.

A unique look at the CGI processes involved as well as an interesting automotive portfolio....

For the Hi

An crop from a poster by Seblester showing 100 Contemporary Boomerang Designs ~ it's absolutely fascinating (click the grey/white square in the photo nav)

Obama's new site Change.gov has finally launched! "Throughout the Presidential Transition Project, this website will be your source for the latest news, events, and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama Administration."

How much spaghetti is needed for one or two persons? This is the problem that was addressed by Joël Chiasson in my packaging class last year. The result is simple, functional, cheap to produce and offers three openings to fit different family sizes.

The book "The Art of Romance" was published October 30th. It takes a visual look back at the cover designs of Mills & Boon over the last hundred years and the last 60 years of Harlequin...

The Alcatraz Hotel in the western city of Kaiserslautern, Germany. Former German prison turned hotel offers guests a jailhouse feeling, with a possibility of walking out whenever they like.

Nano-Tech Water Drop - similar to the age old children's game, only using water drops instead of metal balls.

Beautiful Illustrations by Mysterious Artist ( Chiara Bautista )

Shepard Fairey unveiled a new Barack Obama image last night in Washington DC...

General Mills recently redesigned a few of their cereal brands - Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry. I like the clean design and the close-up of the characters.

Katrin Olina creates “fantastical worlds of multilayered imagery and ethereal characters.”

Champion Graphics's cover design for a Monster Children notebook, produced by Penguin.

Interview with Ian Dingman, illustrator behind Wes Anderson's new Criterion Collection release of BOTTLE ROCKET.

Some pretty interesting sculptures assembled entirely out of typewriter parts.

Great illustration by Jen Wang for the Penguin Classics cover of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (which will be a movie starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett coming out in December)...