Zanotta's Sacco turns 40 this year! The original mass produced beanbag, design icon, and super comfy seating... We have a peek at the original sketches, met the head of Zanotta, and Marcia's cat has claimed the mini!

MK12 is the Kansas City-based graphics firm behind the titles for Quantum of Solace. They have also worked on Marc Forster's Kite Runner and Stranger than Fiction.

Geordie Wood takes stunning portraits

Brazilian architect Marcio Kogan designed the Casa Mirindaba in São Paulo, Brazil.

The new Sensamare shower from Hoesch

From october to may 2009, La Géode in Paris will broadcast the complete season of the Metropolitan Opera, live from New York - in HD!

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

“Stop the catastrophe. Greenpeace.” Advert by Saatchi & Saatchi, Bucharest, Romania.

Pipe Light is an installation on an abandoned house in São Paulo, Brazil by French-Brazilian architects Triptyque.

Smirnoff Black - Matrioska Invaders. Amazing work from Director Kobayashi in a fantastic clash between Matrioskas with Milan's famous locations.

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

Filthy Boy is the ultimate line of bath and body products geared towards the locker room jock.

Dark Daze shoots dramatic and gaudy scenes in a way that would make David LaChapelle jealous. Nice set with DeadDeadDead down in Brighton

Beautiful specialty Craft Scissors by Kiya in the ancient "grip scissor" design.

Gentrify! An SF google map mashup ~ with an awesome logo!

Pepsi recently announced they are rebranding. Here it is. What are they thinking? It now looks like a cheap knockoff brand.

I want my sunset now. The viewer adjusts the rising and setting of the sun at their own desired speed. Via vvork.com

Beautiful illustration work by Kooshinni (student at Central Saint Martins)

Koralie and Fafi Hit The Streets Of Brooklyn

Empire of the Sun's video for Walking on a Dream shot in beautiful Shanghai, China. Debut album is out now!

Hunter is a very young artist who just updated his blog with this "new spin on the old tradition of hanging up sneakers on power lines" ~ filling them with dirt and flowers... Pretty clever!

Nokia has launched a competition where the you can design their own headsets inspired by a piece of music. Five designs will be chosen by the judges to be made.

Love the vintage poster inspired graphics of the animated Booty Juggling game. Designed by Robin Davey and built by the Thought Den. The game is fun to play, too!

The fantastical, colorful worlds of APAK.

Know Hope's solo show, "Temporary Residence", opened this month at San Jose's Anno Domini
Anno. Know Hope's work is based on the human need for daily connection to others.

Fonzies Be Original contest 2008 ~ vote for your favorite package design!

Bob Staake designs the most recent cover of The New Yorker, using Mac OS7 and Photoshop 3.0, both released in 1991.

ROCKNUDE : naked women in nature with a "predator" effect, everything is invisible but the hair. Use your imagination for the rest.

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!

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!

Trevor Van Meter brings us the charming, drunk, side-scrolling adventures of "Crappy Cat".

Here is a project done in my class my Audrey Blouin that allies both environment concerns in packaging but also the responsibility towards the user.

THINGS by Culture Code for Mac ~ i wonder if this pretty little app can really help get me organized, i can't wait for the multiple mac syncing

Spence Harris Hogan have rebranded a few of the UK's McDonald's restaurants with very sleek and modern interiors. I wish US McDonald's could get a face lift.

I don't love the look of this watch so much as the idea - a diamond digital watch by collaborators Gourmet and Christian Tse. I like how the digital display appears through the white diamonds.

This commercial for Swedish whisky made with a phantom camera is really nice! It was made especially for a limited edition of 'extra smoky whisky' by Birth, a webstudio in Stockholm.

Hold Up ~ street art seen in lisbon

I really like this Saul Bass inspired poster for "Burn After Reading" designed by Mojo, LLC.

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

Laetitia Casta starring in Paris, for Louis Vuitton fall 2008-2009

"Pac-Man: The Movie" is a hilarious low-budget short destined for viral greatness. Directed by Stanley Wong and Tyler Russel.

East meets west... A great design from Erdem Akan for Maybe Design. A clasical turkish tea glass meets the water glass shape of the west...

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

Band In My Pocket - another project from au Design, in partnership with Yamaha - a set of cell phones that also function as musical instruments. Depending on the prototype, you can turn your phone into a brass instrument, drums, piano, turntable...

NOTCOT GIVEAWAY! (+ Unboxing!) ~ The new jimmyjane Form 6 massager, absolutely stunning design, and you have to see the details, like the embedded buttons and charging case!

Moving demonstration of a Milky Way bar’s stretchy caramel