Gift Guide: Gifts that lean green! An assortment of eco-friendliness from water bottles to solar toys to organic ducks, to faux fur cotton blankets, and of course some of my favorite reusable bags... as giftwrap!

Dell Adds Eye Candy to Inspiron Mini Mix with Cherry Red, Pretty Pink and Tristan Eaton Designs ~ Wow... this is one of the first art/designs on laptops i'm actually kind of liking!

Check the incredibly detailed work of Kris Kuksi. Kuksi's painstaking process results in these amazing mixed-media sculptures that reflect humanity's violent nature past, present and future.

Plush is a new and very huggable childrens clothing brand. It’s cute. It’s practical. It’s pure fun.

Online retrospective of art, architecture and memorials Maya Lin and her studio have produced in the past 26 years.

Showreel for the 10 years of Un.titled studio.

Finally the identity of the artist nicknamed as the 'bottle Banksy' was revealed and more of her work surfaced.

There are 16 things to find in The Land of Oregon. How many items can you find? Visit the site, take a look around, and start exploring.

Estelle & Thild is a new Swedish brand with eco-friendly body products for children. Nice and organic looking packing by Stockholm based Dolhem Design.

The Magnolia lamp by Autoban is reminiscent of topography and flora.

Fashion photography meets history in the "Istanbul" editorial by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott with model Lara Stone. Shot in Istanbul, Turkey in stylish black & white.

I too want a scarf made of "trillions of tiny carbon nanotubes, arranged in a pseudo-random lattice to provide softness and heat retention similar to angora, but with a strength and density similar to kevlar" grown on space bunnies the size of lions.

Vogue Italia Does Fall Florals With Jessica Stam
Jessica Stam Shot by Solve Sundsbø for Vogue Italia

Brian Jurgen created this collection of totemic representations of Native culture in Canada using iconic Michael Jordan athletic footwear to express and explore what he refers to his concepts as "Prototypes for New Understanding". This is #16

Tortoise has the most beautiful Cheese Domes!

Fred Flare's rain parade mini umbrellas are adorable

Jordan is out with some new and colourful cloth pegs that are environmental friendly, don’t leave marks on the cloths and are colourful and fun!

An amazing collection of conversations via chat/email/AIM, highlighting conversations and situations we never want to speak of. Great commentary.

Camilla Diedrich's Nature Ray Charles Wallpaper series is a luminescent wallpaper. I wish it was clearer as to what the light source is - maybe fiber optics? Regardless, it's beautiful!

23 types of toothpaste in a bowl.

Police in Mexico find private zoo at drug cartel's party house - from panthers to albino tigers to lions ~ they certainly looked like they were living a luxurious lifestyle... check out the slideshow

Men’s Vogue commissioned renowned graphic designer Michael Bierut to design this patriotic lapel pin. All proceeds benefit Dog Tags.

Design collective Krkurvacreated the La.ga bag, a paper thin bag able to carry up to 55kg

Another Tomas Kral project - Upgrade - which uses traditional decorative techniques on glass
such as cutting, engraving and gilding to "upgrade" an existing industrial bottle such as milk bottles or jars for tomato sauce.

sadeh halbrecht's stool - Sustainable: use, reuse, back to natural environment, and questions the border between nature and in-house environment. by

Allyson Mellberg has a new show, "Do Little", opening at Cinders Gallery on 10/10 in Brooklyn. "Do Little" references the doctor of the same name and is a "jab at our general public's apathy towards increasingly important environmental issues."

Curious about the mini-underwater studios David Doubilet used for those nudibranch photos in NatGeo? My dad runs into one on a dive trip in Manado... see close ups and underwater pics!

Portraits of people wearing clothes made from the fur of their own dogs! That's right, 'dog wool'.

Extremely creative Harvey Nichols ad campaign by Concept, Turkey that shows shoppers as newborns with a tagline, "are you ready to be reborn?"

Milk & Bread by Melanie Favreau - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - Made from sterling silver, this bread tag replica comes custom made with the words and/or date you want.

Robert Brunner, an ID for some of Apple's most iconic products, and Stewart Emery, author of Success Built to Last, pose a deceptively simple question: Do you (as a company) matter (to your customers)? .... a must read!

Also by Perfectos Dragones - the Velador Table Lamp - looks like a metal cloth draped over a bulb.

New Gallery NOTCOT tags are up! Now showcasing the beautiful work of Kimberly Wu's JOY ~ a brilliant example of what happens when you blend passion for illustration and car design!

"An unwashed vegetable can become a deadly weapon." - great ad by Saatchi & Saatchi, Caracas, Venezuela.

See what happens when you take a 550 sq/ft Manhattan apartment and turn it into a restaurant for an evening.

You already see the Typolade #14009 or Wall Typography #12431 now jump over to Trees Typography project by why not associates. A great project of interesting trees typography.

Love this illustration, Sweet Talk, by Oscar Maia, AKA ~criminalart. Lots more great work to be found in his portfolio.

From the New World Of Frustone Dictionary Of English Language, a word that finally has a place among the other terms. We've printed the page with the definition of Frustone on our Bamboo cotton super soft tees.

"Let’s play with your hair". New campaign for NikolaMelita Studio.

Interesting workshop, 'Darkmark', on experimental type, run by the Dutch design studio Underware. Attendees were asked to create type with shadows, with lots of interesting results.

Mark Robson's Kolorado Collection - made of ebony-stained beechwood. I love the fluid base most of all.

Lost in a wood in south-east Berlin suburbs, the Baumschulenweg crematorium is an impressive and inspiring building.

Interview with the illustrator from Print a Day! So many cool drawings... I love her terrariums & weapon-contradiction prints!

Excellent poster work by California based designer, and self styled typography obsessive, Jonathan Haggard.

EnterBELL ..

Sara Huston's Lifestyle Coffee Table - customized to store and display your favorite magazines.