Packaging for Oloves, by Cowan - clever little design for pitted olives on the go!

new spot for guitar hero world tour... starring a-rod, michael phelps, tony hawk and kobe bryant...

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

New Media School: Morphogenesis of School Typologies - The morphogenetic school typology is initiated by the study of school types and layout, and the comparison between gothic and modern architecture.

Very cute "Veggiepatterns" wallpaper by Laura Bifano.

Swedish company Wind in Mind makes stylish wallets and pouches out of scrap material from sail manufacturers.

Lego Font Creator - The irresistible logic of the Lego brick prompted Lineto to start thinking about how fonts could be shown in an interactive type specimen, offering ways to play with it online.

Modern house design by Roger Dean. Mr. Dean is probably best known for designing the album covers for the 70s progressive rock band, Yes.

This is going up right now as I am typing this and we’ve got a whole host of shots of the amazing work that JR and his team are putting up. He opens his brand new solo shows on 3rd October at both Laz on Charing X Road and Laz on Greek St. More on these later…

Typical of the man, he’s working on a HUGE scaled and is covering almost all of the side of Foyles bookshop on Manette St just off the Charing X Road. With pieces on the opposite building and the whole front of the other building and a stunning piece on the side.

Yelle in Santiago de Chile featured an astonishing light set. Very good show also, better than the San Francisco.

Interesting multi-faceted Table Cube by Ricardo Garza Marcos.

new Banksy commisioned rat in Soho. Banky hearts NY!

Stanley Honey packages their honey in a reusable clay flower pot - asking you to keep their bees busy.

Judgeby.com turns snap judgements about book covers into a little game.

Curator Daniel R. Smith has gone half way around the world to unite the graphic design communities of Seattle and Tehran. Co-curated with Tehran designer Iman Raad.

Beautiful photos of a Parisian apartment, converted into a discreet venue by Chanel for the press unveiling of their new perfume - ‘Eau première’ - by Jean-Marc Gady

On silly NOTCOT firsts... TWITTERVIEW! With the Self Actuated Residential Automated Habitat (SARAH) ~ from Eureka. We might even get some sneak peeks of the architecture... (mon 5ish pst)

Ford wishes GM a happy 100th with light-up message

Oh Microsoft, this is really your press kit for IE8? Wait till you see what's inside...

A truly bizarre collection of front covers from the satirical French magazine of the 1960s - Hara Kiri

Whimsical and fun illustrations by Maia Valenzuela.

Some really good work from the brazilian Illustrator/Designer Danilo Rinaldini

Kengo Kuma's design for Next-Gene 20 - a residential development on the north-eastern coast of Taiwan. Other notable architects involved in the project are Graft, MVRDV, and Toshiko Mori.

The new refurbished Los Angeles Mondrian hotel is now open and Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz' touch of Hollywood glamour has revitalised this iconic LA hotel..... beautiful!

Karma from Fisker Automotive is a hybrid car with a Q Drive engine by Quantum Technologies. The hybrid engine gives you 80 km of zero emission driving, if you want to go longer it is a hybrid or you can get a solar cell roof for the car.

Japan's answer to the Lomo is the Blackbird, Fly - a split-frame camera from Superheadz that shoots square images on 35mm film. They are priced at $100 and will be available some time this month.

Words aren't always meant to be read, or are they? New poster available from Ugmonk.

In the past the Alchemists searched for "Prima Materia", similarly the artist Atla searches for an aesthetical revival of The Fine Arts and for a supreme autonomy of the artist.

Nice motion work by Suryummy, an impressive VJ from San Fransisco.

Four Korean university students designed the Muwi - an innovative lawn mower that makes mowing the grass fun. As the grass gets cut, the Muwi compresses the cuttings into either a ball or a cylindrical block. Perfect to play with or use to decorate your lawn.

The Dry Leaf skateboard by Lets Evo, is composed of multiple layers, using innovative renewable materials and socially responsible practices at every stage.

The Burj Dubai tower, the tallest skyscraper in the world, is about to be completed. David Hobcote has taken a series of amazing high resolution pictures from the air.

Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf have miniaturised their entire collection down to doll size .
This outfit comes complete with soundsystem & lighting rig - not suitable for size zeros.

These mid-century masterpieces by architects like John Lautner, William Krisel, Frank Lloyd Wright and Albert Frey are all available as vacation rentals. What a great way to 'get away'.

Noriko does amazing things with book carvings, something I wouldn't do with mine.

Studio Klink's Villa Peet. What strikes me as unusual about the house is the blank facade, with almost no windows facing the street at all. Images of the interior spaces show it to be super light and transparent, with views to the garden from everywhere in the house.

The Not-a-Clock. "No, it doesn't respond to movement or interaction of any sort. Nor temperature fluctuations or soundwaves or rss feeds. It's simply a display for 35mm slides. It lights up."

The "Raven Yacht" by Maël Oberkampf

Canadian Magazine, The Block. features the 1949 Eames Pacific Palisades House .... in CHOCOLATE! Complete with Thomas Haas' Chocolate Shortbread Recipe

Woermann Tower in Palmas de Canaria, Spain. A colorful leaning tower by Abalos & Herreros.

Bespoke Saville Row tailor Richard James got together with Condor Cycles on a beautiful bike!

Barcode Plantage transforms a simple product bar code into a unique tree in the garden of globalization.

Reporting live from San Diego Comic-con 2008! Ok, well not quite, but i did run through to see the toys and online comic guys - so here's a roundup of designs that grabbed me!

Crescendo C2 - "Some call it desk, others a piece of furniture to fall in love with."

Chandeliers in the Met Opera lobby were recently dismantled so the 49,000 pieces of crystal can be replaced.

Convention Center in Tenerife, referring huge geometric rocks that house the programme functions. By AMP Arquitectos