The Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City. These light boxes were designed by Steven Holl.

Nice, affordable, pattern based products from Danish Kragh Rosenberg. I especially like the bags.

Bottles of Beck’s beer will be adorned with the work of four emerging artists – thanks to a new scheme called Beck’s Canvas, a collaboration between the German brewery and London’s Royal College of Art. Via CR Blog.

EX-SE-08, Shieh Chieh Huang - Crazy floaty recycled robots made of plastic bags, computer fans, and more that were suspended under the pier at GLOW ~ see the video of some of these bizarre creatures!

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

Love this new Got Milk site! (yes, i found it from my own ads!) ~ they have adorable animated papercraft creatures that have you solve puzzles, and you can even make them!

Sculptural minimalist CONTOUR Ceramic Massage Stones from the design-centric, Jimmyjane, that believes life is better with a sexy twist.

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

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

Created by Omer Yosha, "AirPiano" is a concept musical interface that allows you to read and control software generating different sounds of instruments, simply by moving your hands above its surface . Watch the video!

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!

Massimiliano Fuksas designed the new Zenith Strasbourg in France, a giant music hall covered with a textile membrane, looks like a light sculpture during night

A somewhat nostalgic ad for Easy, from Argentina. It is almost impossible not to smile watching it....

Mix one part Emil Kozak, one part Kelly Slater, and one part Al Merrick at Channel Islands ~ and you end up with some reallllllly slick surfboards!

Wonderfully intricate illustrations from central London based illustrator, designer, screenprinter Dan Mumford.

New Luft Logistics film, based on the award winner film created by Monsta and DDB Brazil, last year.
Check it out, it's cute and clever.

Old Money by Yoko Devereaux is a limited edition collection of necklaces created by hand carving coins till only their primary designs show.

Father's Day is coming~ the One and Only Man Can is hilarious, yet useful, if you really have no clue at all what to get him... 15% off orders of $30 or more at Delight, with code: NOTCOTrox (exp 6/20/08)

Action of environment for supermarkets Probe, for its section of beverages and alerting on the consumption of alcohol.

This house, by Saez+Barragan, won the young architects prize in the Iberoamerican Architecture & Urbanism Biennale, in Portugal.

Examining post mortem issues ~ Nadine Jarvis' bird feeder is made from bird food and human ash! "The person is reincarnated through the life of the bird."

Little Big Planet - Play Create Share. Unleash your creativity on the PS3 with little funny custom dolls teaming up in levels you create together. ~ More to see in the other video's !

lalique's new fall 2008/ winter 2009 collection of home accessories and jewelry, inspired by China, is titled 'China Mood'. Pieces include a collection of serpent jewelry made using semi-precious stones.'s

In Denmark: "flocks of more than a million European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) gather from all corners to join in the incredible formations shown above."
Amazing!

The Plus House prefab embraces its Nordic roots and rural setting as a thoroughly modern take on the Swedish barn house.

"Weightless" is a beautiful short film exploring the meeting of interiour design and dance - directed, art directed, designed, and scored by multi-talented Swedish artist Erika Janunger.

The Pileus Wi-Fi Camera Umbrella allows you to not only take photographs with your umbrella, but also upload them to flickr and view them instantly. The product's capabilities don't end there either, it also serves as a GPS and digital compass.

Images of the current show, "Marc Chiat - Pelouche Explosions", at Rebecca Container Gallery - Genoa [Italy]. Click to have a detailed Flash preview of all explosions!

Funny concept of a hat convertible into a handbag.
Designed by: Rafael Vinader Balibrea and Virginia Bru Artero

It’s here! Sony’s latest commercial : Foam City filmed in Miami. by fallon

Starting on April 7, you can get your Volvo C30 with one out of 20 different patterns. If you live in Sweden that is.

Vincent Moon left for Athens, Georgia, to shoot five videos on one night, with Buck, Mills and Stipe. This is R.E.M.’s Take Away Show.

The answer to all of our zero-energy prefab dreams - the new ZeroHouse™. Completely self-sustaining, this prefabricated house generates its own power, collects its own water, processes its own waste and is 100% automatic.

Little Woodbot robots are starting to invade the world! Series 0 is limited to only 50 pieces and 100% handmade. A little bird tells me Series 1 will feature five models and will be blindboxed.

House kn by Kochi Architects Studio ~ i love the way this courtyard's walls are sliced and lit

Dessert trucks do battle in NYC!

Space Time Transformation | Heroic Design

D&A public seating by Assaf Israel. A design that will change the way people interact in public spaces. Most public seating options are cramped, uninviting, and offer pedestrians limited ways of interacting. But Assaf want to change all these things

The AWARE Lifestyle Collection is a collection of thoughtfully designed energy aware products that fit into people’s everyday life, their personal needs and their different lifestyles.

Hybrid-Home Limited Edition Large Print Visible Ghost by Brian Flynn... glows in the dark!

Coming soon to a grocery store near you is Pepsi Raw, a more natural soda filled with apple extract, coffee leaf, cane sugar, and sparkling water instead of the artificial crap that's in most sodas.

Glass, concrete and oak make up this stunning lake house in Innisfil, Ontarioa, by Canadian Kohn Shnier.

Levi's Back Pocket Art! Levi's teams up with LUCY and curates a gallery show with ~100 international and belgian artists.

OMA reveals design for large-scale Residential Complex in Singapore

Incredibly fun *free* weekly calendar from CIA ~ Covent Garden’s illustration agency!

Beautiful new identity system for British architects Faulkner Browns