Alan Family House, Los Angeles, CA / Neil M. Denari Architects Inc.

Nice packing for Nudo by Madeleine Rogers. Nudo is an olive grove. Adopt one of the olive trees and get the oil it produces!

Cool Noir style animated commercial for... of all things, a pest control company! Nice lighting and a good example of a simple idea executed well.

James Owen's Snowflake (top) and Rotor (bottom) fruit bowls. Each are laser cut and powder coated.

Buenos Aires based studio Punga have created two stop-motion inspired spots for Temaiken Bioparque (Biopark is apparently a PC way of saying Zoo)...

A video of ferrofluid in motion.Simply fascinating and tranquil as well.

Ever wonder what font a certain logo or type treatment was? Here is Whatthefont.com A website that allows users to upload JPGs or GIFs of the typeface in question and it will match results. Also, a nice forum for professionals to help free!

Dapple Grey's new One Trick Pony line of jewelry - with clever integration of the chain into the design!

The facade of the iconic CCTV Building in Beijing by OMA is completed, just in time for the Olympics.

Lorena Barrezueta just launched a new porcelain line of jewelry - Listen Lady. Similar to her dinnerware line, Listen Lady takes iconic accessories and memorializes them in the more precious material of porcelain.

Beautiful graphic commercial for Pontiac. Made by Leo Burnett.

The Royal College of Art recently revealed a rousing rally of auto designs that match sleek profiles with cutting-edge concepts in sustainability.

UPDATE! The Finale ~ part III is now up! Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog ~ a musical 3 part mini series by Joss Whedon -

Amazing drawings from illustrator Adam Haynes.

DEMOCRATIC DESIGN? Philippe Starck’s Designer Wind Turbine

Designer Daniela Bianka has completed a renovation of the entrance, reception and exhibition areas at the French National Space Agency (CNES) in Paris. Pretty cool!

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald~ Jonathon McNicol has been beautifully typesetting a pdf version... he's up to chap 7... of 11, i had to jump ahead to the UVA version to finish.

NEW RELEASE: Wood Type Impressions, Vol. 2
Awesome hi-res collection of printed letterforms & ornament for digital designers.

"This was a difficult project for me," says artist Alan Witschonke, "because I challenged myself to develop a new style specifically for this book, based on the art of the Mughal Empire."

MONOCLE Magazine and Artek Furniture teamed up together for the launch of a stool in celebration of the magazine's one year anniversary. Avaialble in an edition of 60, it comes with a seat made from Finnish moose leather. Beautiful.

Ken Tomita, of Tomita Designs, draws inspiration from traditional Japanese forms and the multi-cultural context of his upbringing when designing his furniture.

How i'm dealing with the TasteSpotting situation? A lot of Boom Blox right now ~ my new favorite game on the Wii ~ (second to rabbids!) ~ from EA and Stephen Spielberg... adorable creatures + blocks = puzzles!

With Dynamic Architecture buildings are now able to change their shape.

Fallen : An existentialist animated HD short by Wolfram Kampffmeyer and Sascha Geddert.

Beautiful photographs made by burying film in the ground and letting bacteria do their work

Christopher Conte makes cool critters from things like Singer sewing machine parts...

Oooh Boy Genius Report got a sneak peek for us of the Blackberry Thunder!

Nice Nike Basketball campaign in Europe transforming Maccabi Elite players into comix super heroes.

Wired Science has a great video interview with science photographer Felice Frankel. She recently had work included in MOMA’s Design and the Elastic Mind exhibition.

Dwell On Design is coming to LA June 5th... and they've hooked up NOTCOT readers with free passes to the exhibition, and a discount on the conferences! See you there?

Found in the bathroom wall of the log cabin in VT ~ The WHY CHEAP ART? Manifesto... a fun read, from 1984

Hotel Boat that travels river Amazonas, starting from Iquitos, Peru. Luxurious rooms with a 180ª vision to the exterior. It even has a boutique on board...

Artist Chiharu Shiota uses miles of string in her work to suspend objects in space and time.

This small hotel made by Sami Rintala in the North East Norway, houses just a single room, a double room and a lobby for sailors, fishers, hunters, backpackers and fortune-seekers. Small and useful.

Studio Smack has designed an animated trailer for the upcoming Graphic Design Festival Breda in the Netherlands.

Super cute mother's day video from Zune Arts by - Parisian artist Yves Geleyn and New York indie pop duo the bird and the bee

Created by Japanese design studio A4 , Tumi-Ishi is beautiful game made of wooden rocks. Reminds me a bit like Jenga.

Iron Man ~ wow. I didn't think i would, but i loved it... particularly all the design details, i have a serious case of house/lab envy! Check out the video of the Malibu house perched over point dume...

HP Advanced Photo Paper | Path torn > action of environment made by Publicis for photographic paper from HP.

Nice and clean packing from danish The Coffee Collective (TCC). The profile that circles around a simple and nice triangular pattern was developed by Hatch & Bloom in close corporation with TCC.

Japanese artist Machiko Shishido hand-carves her paper thin porcelain vases. Place a tea light inside for the most exquisite translucent effect.

IKEA 08 ~ in addition to the Trollsta (#9958) - this season they seem to be picking up quite a few trends - from vinyl stickers to floating tv walls...

Nice, social housing, neighborhood in Ghent, Belgium. Designed by Neutelings Riedijk. Great photos by talanted photographer Dajo Revyn.

Seven films that made a direct and lasting impact on the world of fashion.

A new brush set is released along with the new Departika website. Bangin' Border Brush Set by Jason Gaylor of Departika.

Lenovo, a Chinese based computer company, designed the 2008 Beijing Olympics torch.