Squidfingers, the portfolio of Travis Beckham, has a beautiful gallery of patterns— 158 patterns, currently— great for tiled website backgrounds.

Interesting use of materials by Atelier Hitoshi Abe for the Kanno Museum, a private art museum.

Love Alex MacLean's photographic series 'Going', especially this photo titled 'Houndstooth Pattern in Parking Lot at Disney World'.

If you live in the LA area and haven't checked out the John Lautner Exhibit at the Hammer Museum, go now.

Some original stencils from Montevideo, Uruguay. Signed by the "Old City Stencil" group, they mix pop icons with short messages.

For the full break down of the upcoming Canon EOS 5D Mark II ~ dpreview has pages and pages of details!

Lebello's Chumy chaise lounger - love the clean lines and the colors, plus there's space underneath for towels or magazine storage.

Gotta love dutch architects with their radical proposals. This is the House Baetens, designed by JagerJanssen architecten.

The Solar Taxi, a Swiss man's creation on an around the world voyage... 100% sun powered!

Ancient stained glass product placement? Found in the Notre Dame de Reims (where the kings of france were crowned) ~ Veuve Clicquot yellow labeled champagne bottles hidden in the panels...

If you are in Paris 9/30- 1/11 stop by the "Mingei Spirit in Japan, From Folk Craft to Design" at the Musée du Quai Branly. The exhibit showcases the work of Japan's artist-craftsmen, a dying tradition with today's mass-production methods.

Oddfellows is an open house members’ club; a place of eating, meeting, fine dining, champagne sipping, cocktail shaking, afternoon teaing, dancing and general enjoying.

Something's Hiding in Here's two month exhibition at Urban Outfitter's Sansom Window Project in Philadelphia. The message will be changed every day, so submit your own to their blog for a chance to be included in the project.

Designboom has a great roundup of tiny houses, both built and conceptual.

Leonardo Glass Cube by 3deluxe - I love how the detailing of the facade is picked up in the ground work.

The meaning of the power button. Fun portfolio of Man Ideas

September is Design MONTH in Brussels!

The amazing work of So-Cal illustrator George Fuentes.

Darren Walsh (Passion Pictures) just dropped these two new spots for the National Express... to promotes discount rail fares to locations throughout Britain...

Rebus Bottle Caps ~ from Lucky Lager and other beers of the past

Hessian coffee sacks perfectly upcycled once again by Ataahua

StrangeCo's Friends With You Wish Come True toys ~ blind boxed, they cant be knocked down... and they make a wonderful chime noise that you can see in my video! Also, i love this red mystery colorway!

Stereolithography was used to painstakingly make a prototype of the Beijing "Water Cube" aquatics centre.

A very long interview with the artist Shepard Fairey (including podcast).

A book with a screen door in it!

Plus, a few other digital proofs that didn't "make the cut" for Thomas Allen's recent work in O magazine.

20 album covers recreated in lego. Beatles, Muse, Bruce Springsteen, Norah Jones and many others.

More delicious book work from designer/artist Allison Wilton of Buffalo, NY. Love the energy in this altered book...

NOTCOT Reader, Jessica, wrote in with something she's spotted that's going down in Potters Field - check out the men in black...

UPPERCASE Gallery is getting ready for an upcoming exhibition with the theme “Old School” which takes a look at ephemera from 20th century education.

The Ilopolis Bread Museum complex, incorporating the museum, a Baking Workshop, and a restored old Mill, by Brasil Arquitetura.

The Nahamer T450 toaster concept by Rob Penny allows your finished slices to glide gently down on your plate as opposed to popping up. Simple and genius!

ChargerFrame transforms your electronic landscape into wall art. This active interplay between cables, gadgets and indicator lights is neatly framed and finished off by an energy-efficient master green switch.

Dan Mumford - London based illustrator, using only coloured lines - incredible portfolio

Last TAD Gear/IWG skull post (for now) ~ how fun are these I.W.G. Skull Bead Charms - Custom Made Solid 925 Sterling Silver... the vertical holed one in particular - perfect for every hoodie string!

Brunopasso PD-1 is a pod espresso machine. designed by Tadahito Ishibashi for deviceSTYLE. Beautiful machine that reminds me of 60s roadsters.

Russian media artist from Moscow. His works are mixture stranger picture and own illustrations.

New ad campaign from Australia for travel company ZUJI from Happy Soldiers.

Another bizarre/brilliant use for bleeding our your markers... as transforming clothing prints! renewable clothing by fernando brízio at the flexibility - design in a fast changing society in Torino, Italy. See videos!

The Linnean Society has begun to release their extensive and detailed collection of insect images. An extremely useful resource for science, art and the curious!

A brilliant "Sweded" version of the science fiction classic "Aliens." The special effects, costumes, and sets are remarkable. The out-takes included at the end credits are a hilarious touch.

Catherine Ledner's incredible animal portraits which are paired with beautiful wallpapers are now available as limited edition prints! Take a look at my favorites from her A-Z of creatures.

Krejci’s ‘Let’s Grow Some Balls!’ chair is both a planter and chair all in one. A garden chair that IS the garden, users are brought closer to nature by being surrounded with it.

Spear Collective Artist Jefrey Lacson takes playing with toys to some other dimension.

A big idea created by DDB Milan for Audi Q7, with the motto: "Audi Q7 with Advanced plus package. A masterpiece with much more."

The exquisitely crafted Montegiro Lusso turntable features four cones made from alternate layers of aluminum and black acrylic with a synchronous motor and carbon fiber tonearm. Price is just a mere $47,000.

Walter Martin and Paloma Munos have created an amazing new snow globe series entitled "travelers". Sheer brilliance.