ENZO TRIKE : The Roddler Chassis

New series of biomorphic drawings by Seatte artist Chad Wasser

MWM : Parallel Universe - Brazil Exhibition. ROJO Artspace Sao Paulo. June 23 – July 25. Art & Mural & Travel Photos.

The amazing charcoal renderings of Mr Robert Longo.

First leaked images of the up-coming Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2

Fresh triangles for Austrian-based "Designmonat Graz" aka "First Design of the Month"

Puma and Ducati teamed up for a new racing sneaker. The Panigale II, styled after their Knight campaign, which features a racing seat pattern, transparent sole with a Ducati motorcycle and engine structure, highlighted in red.

Gorgeous alternate poster for Kevin Spacey's Shrink, drawn by the amazing James Jean.

Spezify: New search engine any Notcot fan should try.

Get your walls ready for summer with this popping new range of art prints from Ben and Fi at WYWH!
This print titled "Smoke Like Ribbons" is 1 of 10 new art prints just launched!

Denmark's national broadcasting corporation has released a video site called Pirat TV. The site is a mix between new productions and the best from the TV archives. The target audience, teenagers.

Chris and Ruby made these personality socks for table legs, simply to spice up you furniture!

Everything you want to know about the amazing Grand Prix advertising winning film for Philips tv, Carousel. The video, the making of and behind the scenes.

"Turn off the TV - Live your life"
Street art spotted in Valparaiso, Chile.

A small and comfortable tea house in Prague, designed by A1 Architects.

Barcelona based ruiz+company have a stunning portfolio of nicely done packaging design. Each piece of work is so simple & clean!

We have seen the future of product design! If you can imagine it – you can have it!

Cubic - The Fontfabric type foundry released this great typeface for free download. Geometric letterforms - very combinative and clean designed.

Here are the 12 best racing simulators that will make sure you enjoy the thrill of speed at its fullest.

Material ConneXion presents the winners from I.D. magazine’s Annual Design Review. This year’s best in design will be on exhibit at the global material consultancy’s NYC showroom through August 21.

Interact with the components of sustainable architecture through JSVIGs Anatomy of a Green Building. Excellent resource for eco-building applications.

These sustainably-built bamboo butterfly huts were designed by humanitarian design organization TYIN Tegnestue to provide housing for 24 orphans in Thailand

LolrioKart: made by MIT students, it’s powered by aircraft NiCd batteries, a 15hp motor, features regenerative braking and goes 45mph.

For this panoramic view of NYC's Highline (shot for New York Magazine), Stephen Wilkes set up a rotating camera on a cherry picker at Tenth Avenue and shot throughout one day, from noon till 9 p.m.

55DSL SURVIVAL KIT. Summer has finally arrived and this year you will probably survive the next summer festival [Did someone said EXIT?]. 55DSL is taking camping out to a new level!

The Romanesque Chandelier is constructed of paper clips and deconstructed steel by ReDesign Technologies, a Canadian laboratory dedicated to modern art and the natural sciences.

Still life photographer Jamie Chung has updated his portfolio with images of crushed bugs, exploding flowers, and delicious kale...

The starting point for the planning of the house was the goal of coupling the residential quality and the topography of the idyllic orchard lawn with the living rooms of the house

Photographer Joel Micah Miller's latest personal project "Monumental" features beautiful images of people at national/international monuments (Eiffel Tower, Washington Monument, etc.).

What's it? Car or Motorcycle? It is Laverda motorcycle sidecar, a supercar sidecar, including gulfwing doors.

Finland based artist Kate Alexandra´s blog with her nature inspired drawings & illustrations.

Claire Scully AKA ‘The Quiet Revolution’ is part pf the Wandelrust 333 Exhibition online now for 33 days only.

Made by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Noah's Tree is an art sculpture made to encourage people to subscribe to gas billing on the internet so in a way they will be "planting a tree".

Close up with some of Megan Whitmarsh's tiny silver+gold canvases with embroidered little neon folks and geometric goodness

Beautiful and addictive music quiz for the iPhone with a really nice website too.

A Michael Jackson Facial Evolutionary Spiral?

PAD Outdoor's Inflatable pool lounger/chair prototype spotted at Dwell on Design at Ford & Ching

Even better in person ~ the Credit Card Bottle Opener ~ perfect corporate gift once engraved? Now if only i could just transfer my cc mag strip to it!

On how a remarkable piece of engineering bridges the eight story gap between two waterways. The only rotating boat lift of this type in the world, the Falkirk Wheel must be seen to be believed.

Synth by Moritz Wolpert for all you knob tickling aphids.

The NON SANS RAISON team, french publisher of the white gold from Limoges, is keen to present its tableware collections Avant, Ici, Maintenant and Chronos

Platform made of 1500 beijing grey bricks and 1500 red chinese plastic stamps placed on it. Stamps are used to confirm agreements and validate actions. In a certain way loosing your stamp is like loosing your own identity.

Junko Mizuno’s Red Tresses and Freckles Solo Show will be up at Narwhal Art Projects - a first look an interview at Spanky Stokes

Artist Shepard Fairey interprets one of the largest big wave surfing reef breaks in the world: JAWS!

A recent Doomsday installation at Wild Project, in Manhattan, by artist Ryan Wallace. Each window has a work in it that includes the predicted date of the end of the world, from the distant past to the near future.
As sunlight shines through the work, it begins to fade, and eventually vanishes all together.

Great tool for volunteerism designed for the Presidents United We Serve campaign. Well designed... well played...

The 1st issue of Clog Magazine by Sam McPheeters. Truly hilarious, off-kilter stories. Includes a mini book called Puny filled with classic McPheeters drawings.

A new L.A. restaurant, Street, designed by Neil Denari takes its inspiration from street culture.

Mega churches by Christoph Morlinghaus
His ’straight photography’ of empty spaces often leave a mystical and surreal impression, even though Christoph declares not to use any additional light...

Behold the concept art for the video game version of Terminator 4: Salvation.

Dwelling-workhouse is design by Hoogte Twee Architecten. It located in Nijmegen Area, The Netherlands...

Sinfonia 14 by Moda is subdivision of the Italian design group Di Loddo & Perego, which specializes in production of unique furniture with creative designs.

The Coco-Hut is a whimsical structure made of recycled and FSC-certified wood. Looks cozy!

UZU, a vacuum cleaner by Metaphys that is meant to be part of your interior design, not stored away in a closet.

Beautiful infography video + title sequence by this student of Vancouver Film School : Jr. Canest.

The Swedish manufacturer Skulpturfabriken is specialize in the design and fabrication of concrete products for both interior and exterior environments. The whole collection of the monolithic and sculptural products is designed by the Stina Lindholm...

View 7Gods new collection of lighting solutions. All the lighting designs are handmade and available on limited edition.

Architect Die Baupiloten create space for exploratory learning at the Carl Bolle Elementary School in Berlin-Moabit. It looks like the most fun school ever!

The flavor spoon is one concept from Matt Brown's degree project "Food and the Future of it" from the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden. This spoon has two parts, so you can put some garlic or something in the middle, then eat soup.

"The Big Dig House by Single Speed Design reutilizes materials (infrastructural refuse) from the Big Dig", Boston's huge freeway project.

Tea4Two, designed by Ben Peterson, is a portable electric tea kettle concept allowing users to transport, reheat, brew, and drink on the go. Check it out.

The Four-to-One table by Leon Fitzpatrick is a dining table with matching chairs. It draws inspiration from both Asian design (its low seating position) and mid-century Scandinavian design (use of bent plywood).

Creative photographer Dave Hill just updated his portfolio with some amazing shots and behind the scene videos, which I find very interesting because i get to see how a photographer like Dave works.

Meet Mr. Water Otter
the newest eco-friendly, sustainably harvested
wooden card from Night Owl Paper Goods.

Ryan McGinley shot a fantastic campaign for Wrangler - We Are Animals.

A dark, troubling animation promoting James Palumbo's first novel: Tomas - a brilliant riposte to the financial crisis now engulfing us.

Thinkspace has a special mini show going at CA|Boom and in it are some great pieces! Including this one with a hidden trio of supervillains... see my favorites!

Close-up Photography of weeds

Rene Lawter's Energy Efficient Dinos are truly the most playful eco-conscious subject matter i've seen recently... check out the full piece (cool frame too!)

Ford & Ching has the most incredible little giveaways at Dwell on Design... Branded Marshmallow in a perfect little wooden box. SO CUTE. And delicious.

Beautiful campaign for Ikea, by DDB Germany.

Mobile shipping container restaurants are making it big. This one in Linz, Austria is made from a 20 ft container, hinged hydraulic door that raises to reveal a just right bar outfitted with beer taps. Oh and it's gold-plated and totally blinged out.

WOOLLY POCKETS!!! Just fell for these fun modular felt pockets for planting! (Amazingly cute logo as well) ~ they work as living walls/vertical gardens as well as movable planters and centerpieces!

Raphael Charles.
Reminds us of beautiful arty stones, but this rug is completely made out of foam and felt.

Bipolar Chair by Steve Haslip.
Plain wooden IKEA chair into a physical manifestation of a human characteristic.

Björk released a box set special dedicated to Voltaïc. a lovingly produced celebration of the past two years of Björk’s Volta activities—her sixth studio album (2007) and subsequent two-year world tour.

Combine one Canon 30D, an intervalometer, and a microscope, add in a trippy yet soothing soundtrack, and you have this video, called God of Small Things. Tune and trip out this fine afternoon.

Collages made of vintage illustrations from designer Alessandro Maffioletti.

The perfect stool for the roadie in you! Made currently by Zanotta in Italy, originally designed in 1957 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in, you can't help but love this thing!

Remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. Colors and shading are artistic additions. Image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of these microorganisms.

While the design mimic the shape of a picnic basket, this is actually a magazine basket designed by Enzo Berti.

French couple Pierre Javelle and Akiko Ida collaborate to create this amazing collection of miniature sculpture/food photography. A beautiful marriage of pure fantasy and edible art.

From Follow Me - a site showcasing sculptural creations by Indonesian artist Faisal Habibi.

Tattoo artist Yann Travaille has made his name in the over populated field of tattoo design with these astonishingly refreshing designs.

"Waterboarding" is a sculpture by Stephen J Shanabrook using chocolate-waterboarded choir boy Christmas statues. It's "the peaceful song of a pair of choir boys turned into a silent scream"

Woven grass sculptures by Beth Hatton

Great exhibition of the Louis Vuitton Speedy Bags is currently showing at Selfrdiges as part of their 100th anniversary celebrations.

Amazing photographs from the International Space Station of Sarychev Peak on Matua Island erupting. The cloud shows the impact of the initial eruption hitting the atmosphere and creating that mushroom effect.

Yeti's Best Fruits & Produce!!! Whole Foods has some really fun produce box graphics...

Craftsman Chair. Materials include Belgium linens or a laundered Italian basket weave of a cotton and linen blend. Locally made and is sold exclusively at James Perse Boutiques.

Mark Mawson captures these beautiful shots by dropping paint in water. The colors and the lighting are simply amazing!

Igloo Store located in the heart of Little Italy in San Diego, CA. is the home base for designer Gary Benzel. [Editor's Note - it's an old NOTCOT fav from our college days in SD!]

new spec piece for san pellegrino's aranciata by leftchannel.

Sex Wax & Anderson Brothers Bring Sexy Back to the Contemporary Art World with- 'Sexy Skull' Life sized-limited edition skull, cast in seven different fresh flavors of surfboard wax.

DWR is relaunching the Eames Molded Plastic Chairs with Wood Dowel Bases! Both the Armchair (DAW - $499) and Sidechair (DSW- $399) will be available exclusively from DWR starting Sept 1st.

At a beachside park in Spain, architects built a shade structure that mimics the look and swaying action of nearby pine trees. Since new trees would never to grow in the salty air conditions near the beach, they created a stunning replica of a grove of pine trees.

Emperor Machine's new music video is less a music video and more a retro-futuristic sci-fi short. Wonderful animation sequences abound.

What's better than a spoon and a fork? A spork. What more could a spork ever need? Why, a cheese grater, of course!

Twenty-one artists, dealers, curators, and bloggers weighed in on what artworks should grace the Obamas’ White House walls. See all the works they picked here.

Quit eye-ing those sexy ankles! Amphibian is a set of fins that are an aid for lifeguards (and Baywatch beauties) patrolling the beaches. They help the lifeguard swim over faster and have some pretty cool features.