Holiday Feature + GIVEAWAY! Here's a Day in the Life of Hard Graft ~ as well as a first look at their X-Sleeve combo that launched today! (And yes, a chance to win a set too!)

Polka Dot Cookies has adorable cameo silhouette mini cookies!

Jonathan Rodriguez is a toy designer, graphic designer and illustrator from Florida. He recently presented his brand new character designs he created.

Dominic Wilcox's Multi-coloured thread is hand wound onto a walking stick. Each stick is unique and takes about fifteen hours to make. On sale at YCN, London

Jump, Stomp, or back over the ThrashCan by Bean Products and watch it bounce back. Made from 99% re-claimed automobile tires and recycled plastic trim. Love the design and style.

24 IT entrepreneurs get together to raise money for Take Heart India in a 'Calendar Girls' style collaboration. Featuring photography by Paul Clarke, Neil Raja and Mike Marcus.

HAND PAINTED New TRX Wicked designed by zuchna.

Awesome chocolate boxes designed by Gaku Abe.

The Naoshima Public Bath ““I♥Yu” is a sensational kitsch public art space set in a traditional Japanese public bathhouse (sentō) with a flamboyant exterior and truly surreal art space within.

Table concept by Redfish.

StrawberryKingdom is a new design studio from Poland. They have created the Good King Henry Lamp as one of their first designs.

Torchbox made this cardboard Christmas tree for Recycle Now. If you're in the UK, you can win it at recyclenow.com

Ricky Swallow is an artist that sculpts some amazing pieces of work out of Jelutong wood.

For the next 25 days we'll be presenting a digital advent calender, comprised of NYC-themed gift ideas for the holiday season. First up are these Five Boroughs City Blocks from John W. Golden.

If you're in Brooklyn on Dec 5th, there's a great show opening with new works created specifically for this show by 9 designers/illustrators using lines from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

Selection of advertisements from the Ty i Ja (Me and You illustrated magazine). Published in Poland in 70's

Manabu IKEDA creates extremely delicate and dense paintings with a pen. He spends about 8 hours to paint a square of 10cm X 10cm.

Kelly Vivanco has a new store! Pill boxes and credit card holders have never looked so beautiful.

Melbourne artist Miso transforms a gallery into her home city of Kharkov, Ukraine, using paper buildings, signs, portraits and more.

I really love the work and creative vision of Mark Foster Gage and Marc Clemenceau Bailly of ¨Gage / Clemenceau Architects¨.

Barry Underwood's amazing imagery merges photography and theater.

Unique wedding invitations inspired by vintage concert posters.

Rhino Records got a brand new look & a cool new site (that sells HIGH-DEF downloads too). My favorite label is back!

Time to react : Edward Burtynsky captured those
shocking pictures in Westley CA . beautiful Human made Ugliness.

doodleicious by Andrea Joseph

collective housing in Tokyo by Sou Fujimoto that takes the typology of a gabled house to an extreme

NOTCOT Holiday Feature! Bittersweets NY takes us inside their studio and shows us how these diamond twig rings are made! AND they are giving one away to a lucky reader!

A small wooden cabin tries to go unnoticed in the middle of the natural landscapes of the Isle of Skye in Scotland. By Rural Design.

National Museum in Brasilia, DF, Brazil by Oscar Niemeyer.

100 suggestions for Freelance designers, interesting read.

Style meets technology as fashion house, Hermès, and Eurocopter approached Italian designer Gabriele Pezzini to design a high-end helicopter.

Rob and Christian Clayton collaborations are truly amazing

Happy 5th Birthday Firefox !

Yves Saint Laurent launch £395 collectable caviar at Heathrow airport

Bubble Clox by Darien Lee, bending time and space!

This is how Sponge Bob looks like with a Karl Lagerfeld make-over.

Vintage Porsche Design motorcycle helmet found on eBay. Love the Space Race influence from the late 70's.

Awesome vinyl skulls by Japanese brand Shelterbank.

Interesting Style.com Holiday Guide sponsored by H&M~ using Andrew Zuckerman's pics from Creature ~ really odd product pairings... feels a bit thrown together

Duffy London Sled Coffee Table and Snow White Rug - A Coffee table that interacts with its Rug!

These 1/100 scale architectural paper models were created by the leading architect, Naoki TERADA.

Balloon Shakers by Masayuki Kurokawa ~ hand blown glass!

Celebrate the Mixology culture with these decor cocktail posters that help decorate your home or office space!

A piece from ReUse Project 3 in Tel Aviv. Work by Langa, a graffiti artist from Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Beer Mats Rule - Check out this recently launched blog aimed at sharing a passion for bar mats!

meet and greet with jophen steins " snootson family showcase " .

Spanish architects Vallo Irigaray designed a new building for Soria, covered by a unique soft, light and wavy skin, made in U-glass elements.

Watch a virtual sunrise and sunset from your computer courtesy of the Whitney Museum.

A series of colorful umbrellas covering a public plaza was awarded 1st prize for the Mexican Pavilion at Shanghai 2010, currently under construction. By SLOT Architects.

Watch this Tilt Shift video of Hulk Hogan & Rick Flair as they duke it out at the Hulkamania tour in Melbourne, Australia. Shot on Nikon D3 and D3s, by Keith Loutit.

Record player using a carrier and dock outfitted with a magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. The red sphere, contains a needle, amplifier and speaker.

180 Grammes ~ amazing parisian store where you literally pick a color... and they turn one of their amazing pieces of clothing into that color for you! Wow. So many colors.

House of Dagmar ~ here's a look at their new Spring/Summer 2010 Collection! Love this award winning Swedish line created by three sisters...

Gorgeous inspiring video of the Design Story of the Lexus LF-Ch concept car! From Calty Design Research!

New from Noferin ~ blind box Jibibuts!

David Shrigley's Swan - the face is hand painted by the artist. This is a very hard to find artist multiple. Made of heavy cast polyurathane resin and initialled on the underside.

Worth1000 contest ~ "Graffiti Ren 2: Classical art, improved with spraypaint"

Pancake & Franks prints ~ beautiful overlayed single color iconic objects... combined into totems, moons, and more...

Making Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson ~ looks like a stunning book! Published by Rizzoli

The Wild Things (Fur-covered Edition) by Dave Eggers

polish firm malafor's 'mobile' seat concept, made with plastic. they created the seat as a 'rest for the earth'. users can apply 'mobile' to a tree, pillar
or another human back.

Beautiful illustrations by Brazilian-born and Brooklyn-based tattoo artist Gustavo Rizerio at Tattoo Culture.

Elastic Front Design on QarmaQ Hyundai Concept Car designed to reduce the risk of severe injuries in Crossover Utility Vehicles.

Los Angeles artist Joe Mckay creates clever and thought provoking collages with a bare bones aesthetic. Sometimes quietly serious, many times funny.

Fascinating interview - Chicago cabbie Dmitry Samarov draws around the Windy City - see the world through this art school grads eyes and sketches...

Antoine Corbineau is a young french illustrator/art director based in Paris and available for freelance jobs anywhere.

"The future lies in the FREITAG Agenda F26 MARTY! At least a year of it. 365 days held together by a compostable ring binding system that makes futurologists jealous and LOHAS happy."

A collection of vintage octopus pulp covers

Spore Doorbells

vis/res is a new publication produced 6 times a year to showcase emerging talent in graphic design and illustration. Each issue has a central theme and features contributing work from 10 designers & illustrators.

vis/res aims to bring something fresh to the zine market with an emphasis on crisp, clear design & beautiful print finishes. When you add to that a range of talented and exciting image-makers contributing to each issue, vis/res is a compelling new publication.

Award winning Nestled House- a private residence in Tokyo designed by Milligram Architectural Studio.

Remember Paper! Beautiful image filled site reminding you to do just that!

Italian furniture manufacturer Poliform has created an inspirational residential interior project called “My Life in 80m²” to show that the quality of a living space does not depend on the size.

Interesting work of a young french designer, Jules Charbonnet, who makes installations with natural elements.

Oval table by Tord Boontje for Moroso. Love the hand sketched look!

The Wardrobe, by Canal +

On beautiful blogs to LISTEN to ~ Left As Rain is pretty amazing and slick UI as well ~ can't stop listening now...

Eclipse and other works from Nick van Woert

They won Time to design 2009 – new talent award with their winning project “SPAZIALE SERIES: New expressions of skin and structure”. See the final result.

No Love Lost, blue paintings by Damien Hirst at the Wallace Collection London. Hirst returns to painting, referencing his own and the art world's history. You'll either love them or hate them.

Remarkable convergence of Steam Punk, Green Thinking and Old School Terrariums. What a great gift idea. Bought one already, from SteamedGlass' shop on Etsy.

Like ‘Liquid’ jumping out from the River Thames, into the Design Museum entrance space…. Liquid Winter’ celebrates water and the views, in, around, above the Design Museum London.

I love the milk carton packaging of the Mimijumi baby bottle and nipples. I wonder if the nipples will come in brown, or will they just be Barbie beige.

Love this new clock by Dripta Roy. His new studio in London has some beautiful pieces. The Lotus clock is such a beautiful and user friendly piece.

"The Book of domesticated monsters", by Heliana Rotariu, is a collection of 23 annoying monsters that surely visited you at some point. Do you recognize monsta Tangle-Hair or Can't Find my Socks monster?!

Mini Monsters now available from the good people at Urban Outfitters USA

A Northern Ireland storybook, covering areas such as the arts/food & drink/landscapes/heritage and people to be proud of.

Blurring the boundaries between interior and exterior, Lance and Nicola Herbst have become the masters of the simple, elegant, functional beach house.

Visit Norway tempts adventurous tourists to Northern Norway, with the magical Northern Lights. The user can draw his own personal aurora, and share it with their friends.

3D inspired hand printed laptop skin by Kimiaki Yaegashi, Japan.

Special Holiday Feature + Giveaway!!! Scott Hansen from ISO50 gives us a close up look inside his studio and printing process ~ as well as a giveaway of a bundle of posters + t-shirt + record + buttons!

New spacetastic music video for the Bravery's Slow Poison.

Beautiful hand painted El Capitane track bike

Discover the work of Antony Gormley, artist who performs for over 25 years of facilities to revitalize the image of man in the sculpture.

This outstanding music visualization by Peter Menich emits millions of particles to the different piano key strokes. And was created with the After Effects Plug In Particular.

Absolutely astounding Crewdson / Liebowitz-esque photography of The Washington Ballet. 'Wonderland' by Design Army + Cade Martin.

Gino Joukar’s Toy Art Gallery (TAG) is a treasure trove of vinyl, kaiju and contemporary art. Lust.

The socket table by 45kilo is an oversized power strip on which up to 4 persons may work.

White lines! tennis lesson by urban artist "SpY"

Limited edition series of posters evolving around the world of coffee by artist LMTL75.