Aromatherapy Interventions ~ exactly as they sound... its definitely worth reading through their different options and descriptions for all your various neuroses.

Bungie has put together a remarkable interactive diorama to promote Halo 3. Take a stroll through the Museum of Humanity

Hex Robotic Bugs ~ react to sound and can automatically avoid obstacles by changing direction when you clap in their vicinity.

Nice collage artwork with slick motions from TBWA Hakuhodo, a Japan-based agency.

YAY iPod Touch has been announced ~ its an iphone sans phone... WIFI, YOUTUBE, iTUNES WIFI STORE, Etc! Also that stumpy rumored nano is real too. and not TOO pricey...

A typographic sculpture created using a conceptual typeface based on cubes and modular building systems.

Can you read what it says?

The Lola&Bailey girls made us fall for their whimsical pendants and now they've captured our hearts with their new enchanting brooches from their "Cloud Watching and Star Gazing" series. I'm officially in love!

Ariel Shamir of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science in Herzliya, Israel - presents Context Aware Resizing based on energy and paths ~ for anyone who may have missed this vid... it's incredible

bulimic birds? all about cormorants.

BYOBag to the market is great and all... but back in italy, i remember that when THAT tired, i envied the old ladies with their rollers... this PUMA one is pretty sweet. (and 20% off with BTS20)

Design Gangster Video - hahahaha - "my clients call me snoop 'cuz my concepts is so high"....

red flag, more sails reincarnated as totes.

Rediscovered Puma's collection by Marcel Wanders, and i'm craving the canopy and pool floater like no other.

Blowjob. Phil Toledano (one of our fav photogs) - and a handful of other photography legends go head to head in the "dewar's master-disaster photography duel". mentioned in 5405, just wanted to point out this great piece.

A great animationby Gal Shkedi created for a graduation project. The animation is to the Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan song, 'Starving in the belly of a whale'.

Typewriter balls as rings... in Courier 10, Touch Type, and Privy Seal. By Eve

The Chac-Seat by Mauricio Lara
Was designed specially for the second biennial of Latin American Design, Holland 2005. Organized by LADF (Latin American Design Foundation).

The new addition to the Akron Museum of Art by Vienna-based Coop Himmelb(l)au.

More smart thinking for the Economist, by BBDO, New York.

The marquetry project focuses on using wood in a contemporary and graphical way. Pieter Maes

The National Gallery and HP bring art to the streets of London

Awesome Swords tee by Mike Perry

as a lover of animals and architecture, i would be remiss not to post the design commissions' modern bird, a contemporary collection of bird houses.

The Louis Vuitton store on Rome's Via Condotti recently got a face lift that included the installation of plasma screen stairs that play technicolor games.

He is Otto, a free paper toy... print it, cut it, paste it and take him for a trip. The objective is that Otto goes around the world.

Because your wii zelda experience is not complete without a *real* sword and shield...

"Pentago is a game that comes from Sweden, the country that brought us Vikings, Nobel prize, and Ikea. Sweden is not only a country of tall, blond and blue eyed people, but also a nation that is very clever and enjoys a sense of simplicity."

Beautiful style on the motion made by Qube Konstrukt, an australian crew!

There's nothing quite as chill as a chaise lounge on a roofdeck overlooking the whole city... this Sands Mulholland one would be perfect.

Juxtapoz has a great step by step article on Tara McPherson's latest print, in all its 18 layer glory. Sadly the entire print run sold out in less time it took to get to layer 3

MoMA's latest, Comic Abstraction ~ makes you rethink comics... particularly SPEECH BUBBLES!

Curious Fork / Furious Cork... i am floored by the brilliantness of this name... and loving the logos as well...

Another Gelaskin post, just because I knowAudrey Kawasaki is a NOTCOT fav...

Sometimes it really isn't about WHAT you say, so much as HOW you say it... TypeTalk fonts - thesis project is a fascinating look at how context can change everything... "typography as visual pronunciation."

the top 100 fonts
sorry, it's in german. but at least, you can read the names of the fonts :)

at the cooper-hewitt: "design life now demonstrates how design permeates every aspect of contemporary life and showcases the best in experimental design and emerging ideas at the center of American culture from 2003 to 2006."

Lynfabrikken + Ken Munk's "The INTurns" sure look a lot like suburban mimobots...

rene gagnon's "top dollar trash" is awesome. a great example of LEGAL street art. tagging trash with posh logos. brilliant!

with everyone on vacation, these b.d. covers seemed appropriate. comic covers for something pretty unfunny...leaving your poor pets at home.

Blow Table Lamp by Studio Italia Design, a Pio and Tito Toso design. Beautiful encapsulated glass design... makes you think about light differently...

Extreme Whiteboarding - this is some intensely mesmerizing whiteboard stop (and non stop) action animation

Smith and Hawken - glass rain drops... pretty...

Just in case you missed the really fun pee&poo ad on NOTCOT.com last week ~ this is a fun cheeky/adorable swedish line of toys and clothes

More skulls: Alexandre Orion creates art using soot.
Via Wooster Collective

Illustration by Toyin Adutola

That's Bill Murray as reproduced thru the hands of John Kascht. John's another illustrator who can create gentle colorful caricatures or very bold symbolic ones with just a pen stroke...