bitMAPS exhibited at the University of Calgary.

The whimsical and cutesy drawings of Danny Brito will win your heart over.

The Habitat typeface was part of the installation 'Habitat de Rotte', a floating habitat for birds on the small river de Rotte in Rotterdam (NL). The Habitat Type Specimen contains 40 pages and is bound with an open back.

Launched in Milan this year the Well-Groomed-Fox WSC-001 Chair is now available from Douglas + Bec in Auckland. (PS. The chair also stacks in the space saving/conventional way too.)

The Santa Brand Book (pdf)

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #29: CIA (Central Illustration Agency) is giving away 12 of its inspiring Desk Calendars! Weekly visual goodness for 2011!

A Beermat Wedding Invite by London based design studio Bless.

Israeli Creation | Two Industrial Designers
A collaboration between Daniella Lehavi, Ran Kazes and Liran Elbaz.

The Flavio Favelli’s and Giuseppe Pietroniro’s installations along the Po river in Turin

Replacing the classic horse with a classic Italian scooter this transformation will costs $2000.

The new BAKER identity: branding a culture of creative individuals.

Beautiful new print by Lizzy House - Miracle Fish! Benefits Farm Sanctuary.

FEATUREDNSP BreakOut Pedal. Boutique audio interface for the iPad and iPhone, handmade in Portland, OR by group of artist tech misfits obsessed with Alice Coltrane records and pranking friends.

With a reputation for using organic fabrics and sourcing unique materials from around the world, it’s no surprise that London-based label Folk’s in-store experience has an equally ‘earthy’ approach.

High-end German tuner HAMANN has just unleashed the Victory II, a fully revamped Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4. Their limited edition creation features new bodywork, more engine output and lots of upgrades inside and out.

luzinterruptus hits the streets of Madrid with 1000 illuminated poems.

Coolhunting makes a fun video looking into the world of Casa Dragones tequila.

Plaid creative's 11 favorite type foundries for 2011.

GLOW lamps by Dutch designer Marc de Groot.

Incoqnito ~ luxury pleasure objects... The Razor contains two instruments for sensation - a claw and pinwheel.

FEATURED‘Tis the season for a bit of overindulgence and there is no better way to get started than with some gorgeous, droolworthy inspiration from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Rate-Your-Patdown: A site asking travelers to rank pat-downs at airports. An interview with creator Eric Sucher.

Beautiful time lapse video of the Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse that occurred on Dec 21, 2010. Shot in Gainesville Florida.

Inside a space suit: Wearing the right stuff. An amazing look at the history of space suits, from New York Times.

Chair-Free Chicago is a push back against the city’s time honored tradition of using chairs and other sundry items to save parking spots on the streets during the winter.

In Los Angeles, Kevin Dart painted this mural inside the new Q Pop store in Little Tokyo.

Kompis the hospital robot by Linus Sundblad.

Greenwich Letterpress ~ love the slang cards! Mad Props!

'Kubes' balcony gardening system by French designers Noémie Royer and Lorraine Thirion for MSV.

Supersleek foldable knife in the size of a credit card - designed by Iain Sinclair.

myTypewriter.com sells a wide range of classic typewriters and typewriting accessories.

Francois Azambourg and Donald Ingber created a biologically-inspired algae-based plastic that reduces landfill waste. Design Cellulaire is on exhibition at Le Laboratoire in Paris until January 30th, 2011.

Ryohei Yoshiyuki is a Japan based product designer. His work is involved in many conceptual ideas such as this "Bread Palette".

FEATURED Daniel Bjugård Photoetched Christmas Card made out of 0.2 mm hardened steel made in collaboration with Mikroponent AB - see it assembled!

cho hyung suk: modernatique furniture colection. I love the fusion of black walnut and white and colored ash.

FEATUREDHP Envy100 e-All-In-One ~ seriously, its so pretty and sleek it is like a magic box. That happens to print, scan, wirelessly connected with apps, makes toys, and even prints what you email to it! Reusable bag packaging even! See the unbox.

MTH residence by aat+Makoto Yokomizo Architects

East to West gift kits by Aesop - stunning packaging design! Each gift kit is dedicated to the captivating streets in which Aesop's signature stores are situated.

Currently spotted in Chicago and San Francisco, MINI family pack. Now with added adrenaline, by Butler, Shine Sterm & Partners.

The Resolution Generator is a state of the art program that creates accurate, personalized New Year's resolutions.

TK&A Architects put their heads together to wish their friends and clients a happy holidays

English designer-maker Selina Rose uses cutting-edge technology to create intricately cut felt homewares and bespoke interior surfaces.

Casa Grelha by FGMF among the awarded projects for the Brazilian Premio Asbea Arquitetura.

Susan Kare's classic Macintosh icons as prints.

Modern Times - sci-fi movie from UK-based art director BC2010 - Breathtaking sci-fi short made 'with no money, just a little time and a lot of passion' and a behind the scenes look at how it was done.

Madrid by Mawa Design is a frosty looking pendant lamp. Over 200 unique glass-pieces break the light in various ways, the blue LEDs make it look like ice.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #28: ISO50 is giving one lucky reader a super bundle from the shop: a choice of tshirt, a choice of thermal shirt, a choice of giclee, the Tycho Past is Prologue cd, and a Past is Prologue poster.

Cologne Oval Offices by German architecture firm Sauerbruch Hutton look especially seasonal in red and green.

The Absalon's works at his first solo exhibition, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

J-Tea boutique by Atelier Waechter.

Michael Wolf's Tokyo Compression series captures crowded commuter trains.

Google Lab's Body Browser lets you look inside the human body. You can look at different layers of the body and even interact with different organ systems.

Andreu Zaragoza's packaging design for Herokid, a clothing brand by Robert Roman.

Cthulhu Santa illustration, just in time for the holidays.

Porsche design Bobsleigh

VIDEOClever Christmas video made using a bunch of iPads from the team at Torchbox

Crazy Old Christmas Ads

Spin Table by Tomoko Azumi

Murakami Versailles ~ The once in a lifetime event was captured in the following book.

FEATUREDTIME/LIFE: Science/Library - A Revolution in a Quiet Room… A look at Dan Funderburgh's amazing retro science inspired exhibition in Barcelona at the Vallery.

Music Roamer adds another dimension to music map sites, by not only providing suggestions of similar artists, but also allowing you to listen to music directly on their site.

Porsche Baby 911 Speedster - too cute for words.

FEATUREDAwesome post-modern Gingerbread "Palazzo" in the Acura Season For Reason ad!

Ooh updated KORG iMS-20 app for iPad

Interesting modern cat shelf/toy...

Cabin Vardehaugen in Grøttingen - Norway by Fantastic Norway Architects

Beautiful seaside house in Japan by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects.

Holiday Alibi - Wanna get out of all those random holiday shindigs and awkward family dysfunctions? This site let's you do exactly that. Just pick an email-able alibi from: jury duty, to volunteering at a nursing home, to being “detained” at the airport.

Entertainingly tactile letterpress & sticker biz cards, fittingly for a branding firm focusing on food and beverage clients: Stir.

By stirring a stone in a pool of olive oil, we give the illusion that it is dissolving and producing a flavoured sauce.

Cocktail lounge, Yucca Lounge, opens in Shanghai at Mansion 26F in Sinan Mansions.

Nick van Woert his latest: Poor Me, a marble impregnated resin bust covered with polyurethane plastic - Awesome!

Movember is over, but you can celebrate the moustache all year with Most Wanted, the 2011 Moustache Calendar.

VoicePrints from Toronto is The Image of Sound. VoicePrints allows anyone to turn their unique voice into a custom, one of a kind work of art.

Cuore di pietra presents a Public Art project for the city of Pianoro.

The refurbished Gronigen Museum on the Verbindings Canal designed by Alessandro Mendini with Philippe Starck, Michele de Lucchi and the Coop Himmelb(l)au group.

Cool concept by artist Jim Darling portraying aerial panoramas in a series called, "Windows".

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #27 comes from Belkin! Chance to win a Belkin Flip Blade for iPad and a Belkin Conserve Valet!

Yeta Log Cabin from Lab Zero.

FEATUREDGift Guide: for the Jetsetter on the Go! Fun, surprising mix of luxe and playful goodies!

Megan Geckler's installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts , Columbus, Ohio. Called 'Spread the Ashes of the Colors' the installation is constructed from interlacing strips of flagging tape.

Paul McClelland (PM custom) makes some beautiful pieces of furniture.

Christoph Niemann's awesome photo set using cookie dough to make us smile and think as he wishes everyone a happy new year!

In Belgium, AABE Erpicum & Partners has renovated and restored a suburban home into a modern and minimalist villa built around a pool of water.

Georgi Djongarski a bulgarian designer, which makes I-gloobox for vagabonds. tent that can house mangled is made of thick fabric, which is connected together with a band attached to the aluminum folding.

Renovation plans for 'The Great Rock' at the Budapest Zoo by Atelier Peter Kiss.

What I Saw Today ~ a collection of daily sketches of "cool stuff guys wear" by designer Richard Haines

New York City's first re-design of sidewalk sheds since the 1950s, besides being aesthetically pretty, creates wider sidewalk area for pedestrians, and reduces construction impacts on businesses.

VideoLAN has a special christmas greet in it's desktop player this year. I was surprised! Open it up and see for yourself...

FEATUREDLatest roundup looking back on another week of inspiration here at NOTCOT.org! Here are my favorites!

Eno & Normal Studio's Plant Label Stakes - you pop them out yourself!

Antrepo's last project is about simplicity and They try to find alternate simple version for some packages. Almost every product needs some review for minimal feeling.

Awesome PAPER GUITAR!

For the 10th edition of The Annual Year in Ideas, the New York Times Magazine has created a special cover allowing smartphone users, to interact with a QR Code made of balloons.

Oprah book pick 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens prompted a Penguin Classics cover redesign. But there was a gorgeous repackaging by Jim Tierney that didn't make the final cut for the newly published edition...

Parisian artist Ludo's latest ad subversion: a take on Benetton's classic line.

Better Days Tattoo Parlour was established in 2009 in the fine arts district of Santiago, Chile. BDT introduces us to their artists and gives us a look inside their studio. The owner, Nico Acosta, also shares why he loves being a tattooist.

At-Home Macaroon Maker - Macaroons made easy with this machine, which pops 'em out in original and animal-shaped varieties.

Matthew Palladino is in your art radar soon before you know it! Very original vision with witty elements that makes you feel uncomfortable yet comfortable.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #26: our friends from MOR are giving two lucky readers: a Dear Mr. Partrdige Gift Set, or a Soap Opera Gift Set!

Recently worked on MTV Music Meter, a new music discovery site that utilizes an algorithm developed by EchoNest to rank the top 100 emerging artists. The site works by tracking artist's social media buzz through twitter, blogs, and news feeds.

FEATUREDFrench company, Art & Toy, has created these stunning limited edition Lomoges Porcelain Potamus Anarchy figures in black and red editions - a collaboration between Frank Kozik & K.Olin Tribu.

This planter box is made of plastic are reproduced, so as to reduce environmental pollution, especially pollution of the soil. (more...)

Artists show their nerdy love for the original Star Wars trilogy in a trio of new posters he created for collectible art house Mondo.

PicTarot ~ in iPhone and real world forms from Pictoplasma! Every card illustrated by amazing artists you probably know and love!

VIDEOCute Mercedes-Benz holiday video...

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #25: Skip Hop! They are giving two lucky readers: a Night and Day Discovery Toy, a Friendly Forest Mirror, and Zoo Bookends.

A new building for the faculty of law at Beijing University, by Kokaistudios.

Google Nexus S | Ninja’s Unboxing 2

Self-taught painter and renowned British ‘street’ artist Adam Neate has a new exhibition at Elms Lester Painting Rooms. With a very distinctive style, his ’3D’ paintings look like a modern remix of Dali, Bacon and Picasso.

Graze customers in the UK found this amazing cardboard cut-out reindeer ready to build in their delivery this week.

"DOUBT" a book by TAXI Advertising + Design, Strategy Magazine's Agency of the Decade.

In Paris, the DesignPack Gallery made installations of christmas trees and other decorations only made with plastic bottles

Knock Knock Self Inking WTF?!?! Stamp

VIDEOA third domino video by Jared Lyon. This time interpreting the events in TRON through glowing dominoes.

IKEA LILLABO Toy vehicle

Footstickers - Independent graduation project at Nike EMEA By: Frieke Severs

Graphic design office Pentagram has a 35-year-old tradition of producing a non-holiday-themed booklet for the holidays. Check out some amazing examples from their archives.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #24: A+R ~ the gorgeously minimalist David Turpin & Native Union’s Moshi Moshi MM03 Bluetooth Cellphone + VOIP Handset!

NEW!!! Wieden+Kennedy's Official YouTube Channel featuring icons, illustrations, and mantras from the agency and its culture. Art created by David Trujillo from holadavid.com

Beautiful iPad guitar amp App. Interaction Design by Jonas Eriksson, a Designer from Sweden.

We had a holiday party last weekend at the warehouse and perhaps the centerpiece of the event (and certainly the item that attracted the most attention) was our 7 foot tall Christmas tree made entirely of green books!

Morris Arboretum’s Tree Adventure exhibit Out on a Limb, designed by Metcalfe Architecture & DesignSuspended 50 feet above the forest floor this network of walkways (450-feet in length) provides a bird’s eye view of the forest.

«You can solve any task, but you should see it first…»
Calendar - Illusion from Vladislav Novikov-Barkovsky (Red Richman Creative Studio)

volcanic chair is a chair made from molten volcanic rock that is formed into a unique and unusual chairs. want to know the original?

Ryan Mason is a tattooist in Portland, OR. He obsesses about basketball & says he’s determined to set foot on every continent and swim in every (reasonably safe) body of water in the world.

Create your own Christmas Star—
Download the cut-out sheets as pdf

FEATUREDAre you a Mixology Master? Take our Liqurious Quizzes over at The Master of All Skills challenge we've made with DonQ!!! (See our fun watercolors in the quiz!)

Casa in Puglia: the architect Pietro Pichler renovated a fascinating masseria in the province of Lecce.

FEATUREDWhether you’re after a wintry wonderland and tropical paradise, Notventures can inspire your next expedition.

Dominic Wilcox's sculptural line drawn chair in wire that also acts as a 'buzz wire' game. In this case if you touch the wire you will be warned 'Do not touch!'

A rooftop house in Stimson Marina, Seattle called Sky Ranch by Miller Hull Partnership.

FEATUREDGift Guide ~ For the Business Travelers constantly on the go! Picks that will help make the non stop bouncing between planes and taxis and hotels a bit easier...

Prepare for Combat is stamped on the giant matte black armored truck at Nike Football event in Dallas.

Eccentric late designer Cyprien Côté created a number of nature inspired creations including CHANT DE BALEINES, a whale song radio.

Kitara Touchscreen Guitar is string-free and doubles as a MIDI controller.

Cute packaging for the wall hook Point from Essem Design by Bedow Creative.

Some dramatic Black & White photos of the Saks 5th Ave. Holiday Window displays...

Tokyo's Shinjuku Topshop store gets wrapped in LED gift box design in time for the holidays.

Cute Milk Packaging!

VIDEOOld-time skaters ENESS jumped at the chance to bring skateboarding into the future by blending interactivity and high-tech mastery for the Tron Legacy premiere.

VIDEOImagine a Tree House. In the middle of a city. Marco Mucig's trailer for Chérie's Tree House, Milan's tradeshow of emerging designers - a dark, romantic fairytale to encourage the realization of fantasies.

Google Maps 5.0 for Android gets 3D interaction and offline reliability.

Capillary Studio's West Village retrofit is a green swatch in a tapestry of weathered brick. An urban rolling hill that is sculpture garden, studio, and penthouse.