It is artistic and strange, definitely unique ceramic art by Brendan Lee Satish Tang.

You can use "Garden Bag" by Bosa as a kitchen garden or with some cactus and succulents as a wonderful decorative object. It is made of ceramic.

Artist Mia Liu used Guggenheim Museum admission tickets to create beautiful intricate works of art. Worth a closer look!

Liverpool Biennial International Festival of Contemporary Art announces artists for Touched, the International Exhibition for 2010 Festival.

Art Response's Silent Painting Protest was held in Brooklyn and San Francisco as part of a series of events geared to keep artists engaged with the world through discourse.

ELEPHABET is a beautiful hand-drawn typeface features 26 elephants-shape alphabet by Malaysian-artist Yusof Gajah for children literacy.

Peep-Hole: No Soul For Sale. Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni unite over 60 non-profit centers, alternative institutions, artists’ collectives and independent enterprises from around the world.

Fresh paintings from French artist Loic Dufour.

Photographer Jean-Philippe Tremblay and graphic designer Jean-Nicolas Dauwe started a new platform, Exode, for creative literary, visual and animated work. They seek to give artists the exposure the recognition they deserve.

Custom insole artwork by French designer So-Me for the new shoe collaboration from EdBanger Records and Etnies.

Artist Mike Leavitt was kind enough to sit down with us for an exclusive interview just ahead of his upcoming show, "Pitchfork Pals", which opens tomorrow in London. Above is his amazing Banksy sculpture.

A new set of art prints by Ben the Illustrator entitled 'The Lake'. 13" x 19" giclee prints on fine art paper, signed by the artist.

Artist Parskid has an amazing new show "Isolated Frontier" that features his signature style of aerosol art.

A spot for the Dutch thrombosis foundation, beautifully illustrated by Shop Around artist Martine Johanna.

FEATUREDWhat a stunning week it's been here on NOTCOT.org. This roundup is especially gorgeous. This week’s picks include beautiful exteriors, interiors, artwork and more.

The Michelberger Hotel in Berlin was built by a group of friends in an old factory building. With a lot of vintage charme and individual design it is a place like Berlin itself: anything goes.

Shoe sculptures and wearable limited edition customized Air Force One (Wired) by artist Gabriel Dishaw on exhibit in Chicago. Installed for 1 night only at sneaker shop Saint Alfred and then a month long gallery exhibition at 360SEE.

Stuart Hall's landscape photographs of Iceland of where the sulfur and minerals from the ocean and land meet, as seen in Luerzer's Archive 2010/2011, 200 best Ad Photographers

Oliver Kosta Théfaine is a French artist who uses a BIC lighter in the most unique way; to burn intricate designs into ceilings.

Selfridges have unveiled a series of windows based on songs from a series of artists from Hot Chip to Marina & the Diamonds.

Lora (Lora8 on deviantART) is an inspired and creative artist, with amazing skills and fascinating style.

A beautiful project of guerilla marketing for HP Touchsmart featuring the famous graffity artist Turbo.

Jessica Banks and Andrew Laska, the co-founders of the design firm RockPaperRobot, are using science and technology to change the meaning of “furniture.” Great interview and part of Seed Magazine on Design.

On fun collaborations ~ limited edition Klean Kanteen water bottles, created exclusively for Grand Hotels by New York-based artist Kenzo Minami

Unique website by artist Alastair T. Willey using google maps to document the virtual representation of his practise through the works original geographical location.

"Do Less" Geneviève Gauckler Tee ~ as if that were possible. Still so cute.

Clemens Behr presents “Black and White Everything (And Me)” at ROJO®artspace Barcelona.

Straight from Berlin , Alice in Wonderland, a new cabinet/escritoire from studio-ziben.

The Archigram Archival Project makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram available free to the public. Run by EXP at the University of Westminster, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Dutch artist Parra is back wtih the "The Not So Happy Bird" Figure. Really cool!

This carpet by german label "Floor to heaven" looks like being made of a big old oak tree. But indeed the carpet is made of wool with a wonderful fluffy touch.

Great collection of 1 inch badges/pins designed by mexican illustrators & artits; Mr. Kone, Hula+Hula, Cecy Meade, Choper Nawers, Golpeavisa!, etc. for NiceFuckingGraphics blog.

For all Star Wars lovers, check these prints out. Darth Vader, Darth Maul and Grevious visit DisneyWorld. Ads from Yellow Shoes Creative.

Meekyoung Shin's soap vases form part of 'The Alchemists, an international group show at Edel Assanti. Artists include Gorka Mohamed, Meekyoung Shin, Vaishali Pathak, Luliette Losq and Jang-Oh Hong.

Check these amazing new chairs at the ADIDAS Originals Store in Thailand by the talented artist ISE Ratinan Thaijareorn.

FEATUREDA close up look at Oakley x Mambo Antix ~ an amazing artist collab on too many levels... the toy that holds sunglasses concept, the artwork, the way the packaging opens is magical too! See the details and video!

The Sketchbook Project 2011 is sending out thousands of blank sketchbooks and then taking them on tour across the United States. Signups for it are starting now and last until Oct. 31st, 2010.

ARS Artists in residence show curated by Angela Vettese and Milovan at fondazione arnaldo pomodoro - twenty works by young artists selected by twenty of the most prestigious institutions in Italy and abroad.

Incredible colored pencil drawings by Julia Randall.

Artist and musician Chepo Peña has combined Star Wars icons with Loteria to create Space Loteria. A hilarious sci-version of the traditional Mexican bingo cards.

Artist Dave Perillo's illustrations come for a series of Television shows and films, with a quirky 60's pop aesthetic.

Remember our last article about 6 container cabin design by InterModal Design - part 1 ? This is part 2. Two more of container cabin designs will be informed here.

The NYtimes captures art installations from the “Dead or Alive” exhibit at the Museum of Arts and Design in a slightly creepy slideshow.

Milano: The Heart of Italy is a great article from Scene Magazine about one of Italy's most culturally significant cities!

IN FULL BLOOM - An independent exhibition
retracing the leading attitudes of this space in Milan,
involving more than 20 Italian and foreigner artists of different generations.

The fabulously colortastic spin-art of designer / illustrator / artist Mark Chadwick!

Spring is in the air. Give winter the Bird with an Uncommon iPhone case. Upload your own images to create a custom case, or select from our collection of hundreds of artworks from some of the world's top progressive artists.

New 3D TV commercial for Seat by Zupa. Enter this creative universe...

PopSci covers the making of the most beautiful iPad app I have seen: a 3D, interactive exploration of the Periodic Table.

Interesting webdesign, where every blog post has a seperate design. UARRR is the private weblog of Marcel Wichmann abut his life and artworks.

5 artists, 5 ideas, 5 rooms and 1 house!
"Au Vieux Panier", a new French design hotel based in the oldest part of Marseille, France.

Gary Lane realises prints for luxury shop Lane Crawford. Fresh and creative, these ads are Poptastic!

Incredible collaboration by photographer Madame Peripetie and artist Lola Dupré for Kinki magazine #24.

The "book forest" is part of a program called 'Research for Sustainable Forestry’ promoted by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research in Germany.

Milky Star is a ceramic wardrobe formed in the likeness of a natural model. Milky Star is a single unit working as a wardrobe for a wall as well as a repeatable object that can be assembled to a larger area. By Pudelskern.

Rockid by Ontwerpduo, a rocking chair and cradle in one. Softly swinging the rocking chair while reading a book or singing a lullaby. When the baby outgrows the cradle, it is possible to reconstruct the rockid into a rocking chair.

A new exhibition at the British Library reveals the history of cartography. Drawn from over more 4 million historically significant maps, most of them have never been seen by the public.

Designer Hexagonall remakes Quentin Tarantino film posters.

Great house with a swimming pool on the roof. The Universe house is located in Roca Blanca, Mexico. Designed by Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, and built by architect Tatiana Bilba.

Pencil packaging design by Swiss artist Kevin
Angeloni, each pencil is contained in a thin glass
cylinder and topped with a stamped cork.

Sophie Mouton-Perren, a talented French artist, enjoys working with papier mache, her creations are graceful, beautiful and poetic. Sophie has worked with Frederic Guibrunet ,to create customized product line for lighting (LUMIGrane).

Ray Cicin explores the imagery of nature and the elements. In this Micro Macro series he has turned to an old Nikon Coolpix 995 camera mounted on a trinocular microscope to expose beauty in the miniscule.

Alternate Reality, surreal paintings by Alex Andreyev, artist form Saint Petersburg, Russia. Unusual, creative and inspiring.

Artist Peter Root latest work is ‘Ephemicropolis’, a metropolis made completely from stacks of metal staples. [an expanded version of low rise #29379?]

Everybody can be an artist with Malibu by U : limited packaging concept in Canada. Here local artists, Damzels in this Dress, David Glantz and Nick Fox, create their bottle.

Alex Posada artwork has installed interactive moving lights in various locations, unfortunately has not made the home version you can buy.

At the Brooklyn Museum's annual Brooklyn Ball, food artist/caterer Jennifer Rubell presented "Icons," a participatory performance art and dinner gala.

New York artist Kaws is releasing his new Accomplice bunny keyholders. Really cool!

Banksy is making his rounds in the US along with the premiere of his movie. After LA, first artworks by the iconic UK artist have now been spotted in San Franciso.

Mr Clement is a wonderful sculptor and graphic novelist. Don't miss his exhibition from 05/22 to 06/22 at Artoyz Paris and meet his favorite character : le Petit Lapin. Simple and fun !

Amazing paintings by Norwegian artist Jørund Aase Falkenberg.

These LED sea urchins look incredible.

Design of Metropolis + Tron = Stunning trailer for Brazilian scifi short ANALOG. The second 25 minute short film from EBBËTO is currently playing the fest circuit.

French artist SLip makes some very entertaining collages.

Crimson Collective's inaugural project, ASCENSION, a 45ft. tall crane with a 150ft. wingspan is an extension of Japanese legend and is a part of this year's Coachella Music and Arts Festival.

British graffiti artist mobstr. recently had an amusing back-and-forth with the Newcastle City Council, which painted over his stenciled statements directed at them.

BBH London directs two commercials for Google Chrome, full of dreams and creativity. Great videos, great music.

Webuyyourkids is a collaboration between artists Sonny Day and Biddy Maroney.

Campari Art Labels, three great label designs for Campari by the artists; AVAF, Tobias Rehberger and Vanessa Beecroft. They are from a limited edition series created to celebrate 150 years of Campari tradition.

Milos created a 3d image of the legendary 1979 Unknown Pleasure LP Artwork by Joy Division. On the original cover are the mountains in 2d - the aesthetic of the cover is still in 3d amazing.

From Dung to Coffee Brew With No Aftertaste. Great NYTimes article on civet coffee (Kopi luwak).

Pulp Magazine is an online publication redefining how food is seen and presented to the public. The core basis and idea surrounding Pulp will simply be food. Pulp is based out of NYC and will have international artists contributing to Pulp. We will be combining food with fashion and art. Taking it to a new level of how it can be seen and perceived.

Food is an essential of life and a way to bring people together. A relation that everyone has no matter the background they come from.

Thank you,

The Pulp Team

Nike commissioned UK artist Benedict Radcliffe to create a 3.5 meter long Air Max sculpture for the Dizzee Rascal Air Max 90 launch at Nike Sportswear’s 1948 space in London.

French artist Pierre-Arnaud Gillet plays with Chatroulette and show us some user's interiors. Behind the screen...

Artist / designer James Roper presents “Devotion," an installation project consisting of approximately 10,000 hand-folded paper flowers, folded 10 a day for three years straight! Installed in several starry formations.

Great blog about an Illustration class at the University of the arts in Philadelphia. Teacher posts an assignment done by the class, like this Wizard of Oz cover design. Very Impressive!

In Milan, Paola Navone created the most impressive and beautiful presentation of Barovier & Toso, the famous venezian Murano glass manufacturer.

Team Evil's Cassette Tape Magazine - for those with small pockets and short attention spans. Issue 1 features articles on alpacas, MF DOOM, old Neo Geo games, bad taste wolf art, John Woo, creepy robot sex, misc schlock and more.

Only 500 copies have been produced, all of them lovingly folded up and placed inside an authentic, old school cassette tape box.

Serbian artist Ana Kras can do no wrong in my book, and she certainly hasn’t made a mistake with this gorgeous lamp. I’m in such, mad love.

LA based Crimson Collective has unveiled “Ascension”, a structure based on the Japanese legend of a Thousand Cranes for the inauguration of the 2010 Coachella Music and Arts Festival.

Karolina Sobecka and James George artistically teamed up to create their “virtual” dog SNIFF. SNIFF is a holographic, interactive, fully functional virtual pet whose image will be beamed from Creative Thrift Shop’s front windows.

The Bicycle Safari collects photographs of the old and unusual bicycles on the streets of Sweden. Plenty of sweet old bike logos and rad bike graphics.

The art of keeping your belongings. Work of artist Michael Johansson.

Italian artist Andrea Petrachi aka Mimatic, creates wonderful robotic sculptures from old electronics, recycled parts and discarded toys.

What does it take to build a robot rickshaw from scrap metal heads? Only a Chinese farmer, Wu Yulu knows it, and now the rickshaw heads to Shanghai World Expo.

'Ming' bamboo spectacles by Chinese designer Chen Chun-hao & bamboo artist Huang To-en. They are lightweight with features & silhouette of furniture from the ming dynasty which is recognized for its elegant &minimalistic design.

Following the Colorize series, here comes amazing Rare Prints by artists Ames Bros, Aesthetic Apparatus, Matt W. Moore and Vahalla Studios for Ray-Ban.

Post Penumbra from the Upper Siz Hundreds, a new artists collective in Los Angeles create one of the most spectacular shows of the year using an open warehouse of 7000 sq ft.

LIFT teamed up with leather artisans to create these handmade custom designed fully functional leather medicine balls. Each custom piece is numbered and designed to be durable (for decades) while being soft to the touch.

24 hours, 40 areas and London become a life-sized playground on 23.04.10 with Nike Grid. Runners register online to "claim your streets", running between phonebooths to score points.

15 min. / Create Denver / Brian Corrigan have created a POP-Up Market in Denver featuring 26 local artists/designers goods. The store was made out of recycled cardboard boxes!

Artist Jenny Mortsell translates Loeffler Randall shoes into fashion illustrations for their latest surreal campaign.

Ceramic Works by Antonio Cortada

FUORI SALONE 2010 / WORK IN PROGRESS —
Catch a preview of Made in Arnhem by ArtEZ / Weltevree.

Kidrobot continues to impress with the high profile and quality of their Black vinyl toy collection. Releasing today is a black skull by New York based artist SSUR. SSUReal From the Cradle to the Grave.

From Here to There is a collective of artists currently living and working in Los Angeles. Their practices range from photography to collage and include video, sound, and installation.

Tokyo-based artist Koshi Kawachi recently demonstrated his “Manga Farming” technique — which uses old manga as a growing medium for vegetables. This crop of radish sprouts are an installation at the Matsuzakaya department store.

Infomab10 pavilion was installed at Paseo de Recoletos in central Madrid during the public arts festival Madrid Abierto 2010 and is currently located at the Matadero cultural centre (Madrid).

Bread artwork & transformation for famous french boulangerie Poilâne, by french designer Julien Madérou.

California College of the Arts ID student Ryan David Francis breaks out of the box with his radically-shaped Sony DSLR concept. a352's unusual form isn't purely aesthetic: but allows a variety of ways to grip the camera while shooting.

Really striking animals made out of LEGO to raise awareness about endangered Species.

Playful mixed media series by artist/illustrator Stephanie Davidson.

tiny, cut and paste soviet concrete-buildings affixed to electric boxes and other geometric forms all throughout europe.

Repeat-x repeat-y is a collection of patterns from a plethora of designers/illustrators/artists.

Incredible and bizarre hyper-real sculptures by Australian based artist Patricia Piccinini.

This latest lego creation is dubbed 1:9 Supercar 2010. Created by the artist Marvin G, this SuperCar has a mid mounted V10 engine, five speed gearbox with reverse and fully independent suspension system.

Greenpeace Poland used stencils to increase awareness. They featured polar bears sitting on the electric chairs connected to streetlamps. The claim was: Save the bear, turn off the light. By Grupa 66 Ogilvy.

Amazing work by Franco Brambilla an Italian artist who combines stylish vintage postcards with science fiction imagery.

Dr Martens is 50! Still rock'n'roll and very fashionable, the brand called upon ten artists to sing ten covers in ten videos. Happy birthday and God save the Doc'!

Remember ‘The Art of Chess’ exhibition from 2005? It’s back and heading to Milan, chocked full of ten outstanding contemporary artists and their re-imagined chess sets. Field trip, perhaps?

For his piece “Back to Futurama,” artist Jeremy Dean gutted a HUMMER H2 and revamped it into a horse-drawn testament to the collapse of the auto-industry.

LIVING UNDERWATER Jacques Cousteau’s lifelong dream of living beneath the sea set artists Hilario Isola and Matteo Norzi to thinking about artworks as relics of the future.

American band "Passion Pit" is set to re-release their award winning album "Manners" as a Deluxe Edition on April 13th 2010 with new artwork created by Robert Seidel.

FEATUREDMercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart ~ Amazing scifi time machine pod like elevators ~ steel doors painted to look like concrete ~ and videos of the worlds largest artificial TORNADO (indoors!)

Alvéoles Vol.1 & Vol.2 by french artist Jean-Pierre Attal. Some amazing and strange photographs about offices architecture, towers frontages and windows.

One of the key new brands to watch at this year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Local is a new label from Dubai that sees designers and artists create outside their usual mediums…..

Exhibition of amazing work by artist ROA tonight (April 8th) at Pure Evil Gallery in London.

A collaboration between 3 architects, a glass artist and a painter, an abandoned old schoolhouse has been turned into a Swedish retreat that fit for a King, the Råman House & Studio by Claesson Koivisto Rune (CKR).

Sean Lamoreux: photography and installation artist developing fictitious narratives and creating visual documentation of sports figures in invented sporting traditions in a collection titled Brutal Physique.

Pictures from Sticker Phiends 3 Group Show... An art show dedicated to sticker art...

Marian Bantjes designs a gorgeous new book, "I Wonder," which is filled with all new illustrations and the meticulous detail one comes to expect from the master designer and lettering artist.

Fantastic exhibition from Troy Gua based on artist collaboration in Seattle .

UK artist Andy Hixon uses a combination of photography, sculpture, and digital manipulation to create his unique images and animations.

One of my favorite artists, Joshua Petker, will be unveiling some new works soon at the Corey Helford Gallery and I can't wait!

Anthropologie in NYC is featuring Into the Lighthouse, an exhibit designed by Sibella Court that showcases up-and-coming Australian designers and artists.

Caroline Sciancalepore is a young french artist. Have a look on her 'support for women', pure and imaginative artwork.

Alan Martín Segal is a Buenos Aires young artist.

Take a peek at the fabulous work of international illustration and design artist Pietari Posti.

Interview with Seattle-based artist Tyson Anthony Roberts. He creates AMAZING abstract landscapes + cityscapes!

Brand new website with fullscreen imagery for the artwork of Daryll Peirce.

AntiVJ, a media performance group of European artists, recently took over the façade of one of a huge, recently constructed building, projecting onto it, an awe-inspiring audiovisual presentation....

For Salone 2010, education (ArtEZ Institute of the Arts), industry (Weltevree, product label and manufacturer) and retail (Coming Soon, concept store) present creative entrepreneurship under the title ‘Made in Arnhem’.

Lovely fragile work of french artist Margot Macé... Less is more indeed!

As a fan of fishing, I must say that I am rather drawn to these new Fishing Lure Brooches from Visvim!