Great chocolate packaging design by Iowa State Grad.

Stunning portraits by Johannes Schwab

Glenburn House, in Victoria, Australia. Chosen as one of the 2008 Record Houses by Arch Record, is located on the top of a hill and blends with the surroundin landscape. By Sean Godsell.

A proposed design for an opera house and cultural centre on an island off the Khor Dubai. Developed by Zaha Hadid Architects

Beautifully designed French website for Alfa Romeo called experience 159.

New design for the Rioja Wine Labels

A list of 19 great artists from around the web. Some will be familiar to the NotCot audience, others maybe not.

In less then a month, Spain Expo Zaragoza 2008 will open doors. Check the amazing pavillions you will find inside the expo!

Chicago Artist, Martina Nehrling's new 21 foot long painting "Through a Purple Patch"

Paul St George's giant telescope connects Fulton Ferry Landing by Brooklyn Bridge to London's South Bank by Tower Bridge. Open till June 15th. Where are my NYers?

Frying pans and Blini pans just for the vegetarians... cast iron pans with leafy textures for everything you make in them ~ discovered during Hardcore Exhibition at ICFF featuring Finnish design

Fun new screen-prints by illustrator Andy Smith.

Sharmila's Yoga Zone | Directions > Creative use of traffic signals to disseminate school of Yoga in India.

An Australian government funded initiative, the VEIL. By adding solar cells to the canopies installed outside the school to protect the kids from the heat of the sun, they can get at the same time shade and energy!

The Applied Science building at Aalen University features a nice wood skin and brise soleil. By MGF Architekten

I hypothesize that several years from now the Remote Control Pocket Pillow by kstudio will be a historic recollection to the days when people had no other means but to use a remote control to channel surf.

Hotel Basico. A hotel in Mexico inspired by industrial oil rigs of the 1950s. (Editor's Note: oops, previously seen as #2267, but its so awesome!)

Red Cross campaign prescribing Awareness, Compassion & Tolerance as drugs by Pier Madonia

Clearly inspired by digital design masters eBoy, check out these hyper-pixellated new print ads for Sky TV from Giovanni + DraftFCB São Paulo.

Illustrator Dave Franzese has put up his new site. Really clean style, all done by hand. He'll even make you a hand-drawn t-shirt if you mail him one in your size.

Hermes jumps into the DIY Paper Craft world with their pdf of the classic Kelly bag - simply print, cut, glue, and you have your own!

A beautiful rendering of the mineral content of the moon. The image is a compilation of 53 photographs taken in 1992 by the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft.

Ok, so now you've seen the images of the insanity of Banksy's Tunnel of Stenciling at the Cans Festival... here are high res scans of every page of the "official" program/zine

Each song on Nine Inch Nails' free new album has its own beautifuly simple logo, which displays on your iPod with the song. Great design, and a great way to think about album art non-linearly in the age of MP3s.

Are there aliens out there? Yes. Do they live in a more beautiful world than ours? It certainly looks that way. Can we visit? Ha, No. Mars-1 has a pass.

I go back and forth with how I look at the Innermost shades…elegant and sophisticated or mysterious and sea creature-esque?

Golf 190 from Swedish Modern Living is a two story house with 6 rooms. The house is partly dress in ceder. Living and entertaining areas are designed to be upstairs and bedrooms and bathrooms down stairs.

The stunning portfolio of Masha Gubar will make you reconsider what "vector illustration" is supposed to look like. Also at www.limkis.com

A brilliant combination of pixel art and street art. The photo was taken in New York City.

Rich In Craft presents their new Folie å Deux - one part rugged antler inspired handle - one part vintage styled wool bag...

Check out the new issue of This Is Fly, the first highly designed digital magazine that explores fishing and the multi-faceted culture surroduning it.

A hanging sculpture made from dozens of pans at the Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio, Texas.

Material Design Stories of SHOE SOLES! there are some incredible stories behind the new Nike Olympics Footwear... the material solutions they came up with given the problems they faced are inspiring.

Glow in the dark marbles! Kit Petit Poucet - Billes Phosphorescentes - by Pepin Le Malin

Arakawa + Gins Death-Defying home. It'd be like living in a playground, only more dangerous.

It's late for Easter, but this felted bunny is better than just for keeping food warm (advertised purpose). I'd use it as a hand puppet. Manufacturer: Hut Up, Berlin

Designed by mary judge, these little organically shaped dishes transform the way you serve condiments, salt and sauces on the table.

Gamer Pillow designed by Tofu ~ Upper Playground has this perfect pillow for gamer interiors...

New limited edition signed and numbered giclée print from Steve Powers aka ESPO entitled "Handy Signs," that neatly classifies New Yorkers into 4 categories.

Architects David Yocum and Brian Bell have transformed an old auto repair shop into a surprisingly beautiful workspace.

Kengo Kuma's beautiful inflatable tea house for the Museum für Angewandte Kunst Frankfurt. The structure's double membrane has built in LED lights and can also be used to for heating.

Have you ever wondered what your dog is trying to say? This new site for Purina might help explain. It teaches you how to "speak dog".

Great belgian architect and interior designer, 'in between' design & architecture, with nice pics from Wideshot.

Form Us With Love has designed the "Shogun" ~ a terry robe for the men; to help them feel part playboy, part samurai, part sunday lounge ready... all in a chic black.

The Versailles Fluo is a collection of traditional looking porcelain tableware but with a modern twist. One handle, base or element of each piece is glazed in a bright color. Formal and fun at the same time.

Alex + Chloe are launching a pop up store in LA tomorrow... and they have some fun oxidized silver pieces featuring dangerously fun inverted diamonds in the Black Diamonds collection.