Mirador in a Madrid suburb (designed by Dutch studio MVRDV in collaboration with Spanish architect Blanca Lleó) - it has a incredible void used by the residents as a meeting area and playground.

Diablo 3, by Blizzard Entertainment. Announced today at World Wide Invitational. Check the site's artwork.
"And the Heavens Shall Tremble".

Nifty concepts of graphic design for cans of Nestea ice teas, developed by the agency Letters-Numbers, which brings a more sophisticated form and suggestions of new visual identity.

Nice record covers with clean typography and colors from Swedish Rollerboys Recordings. Designed by Filip Kleremark.

Boudoir Steampunk - a new blog featuring new work of photographer, allan amato

A beautifully designed solar side-car by Peter Wüthrich for Naef toys via fawnandforest.com

This building, located in Doetinchem, Netherlands, houses a school for vocational education as well as public sport facilities. Made by Erick Van Egeraat

Portfolio galleries of architecture photographer Marcela grassi.

Beautiful and interesting video: Excerpts from 8 videos done for the RSA conference at Moscone Center. About the life of Alan Turing, the inventor of the computer. Client: Halloran Associates Design Company: Cyberia

Level Vodka invited Hussein Chalayan to design The Level Tunnel... a 15 meter long, 5 meter high, traveling installation that captures the essence of Level Vodka, that is currently in Mexico City.

Only in Rome would a wall from the 4th century BC run smack-dab into a modernist train station

Christophe Huet is an incredibly talented photograph retoucher. His website allows you to not only view his portfolio, but see the 'making-of' on several of his images.

Roundup Time!!! And a quickie update on things... but ultimately a good chance to see whats been going on the last week on org, tastespotting, and notcouture all at once!

Beautiful new works by Jeremiah Ketner at M Modern Gallery. Opening April 19.

Ian Francis - Incredible and large mixed-media canvas paintings.

Of all the high design collaborations, Veuve Clicquot sure has a lot of them - inspired by #9920 - i started rounding them up, and was amazed by the incredible collection thus far...

Nike's 2008 Olympics footwear line... there is far more than that equestrian boot (#9878) that amazed me... see them all... and see Kobe jump over the Aston Martin in Hyperdunks too!

Tautra Mariakloster is a beautiful abbey on a island north of Trondheim, Norway. Opened in 2006 and was designed by award winning Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor. It has to be one of the most stunning abbeys in the world.

Danzka is my new favorite vodka! It goes down smooth and comes in a cool thermos-like bottle!

Retro Sabotage, "The Highwaymen Of Memory Lane," hack apart classic video games every Thursday to create quirky bits of interactive art. Try Pac-Man as consumerist propaganda, or Space Invaders where the invaders always win.

A stunning new residential development planned for the Putrajaya waterfront in Malaysia - unique, marine-inspired structures arranged in a permeable, radiating block of bioclimatic architecture.

The exceptional photographer, Dennis Stock took these photographs in 1967 on the set of the Planet of the Apes in Los Angeles.

Kanye West visually remixed by Derrick Lee, video editor. Watch the stronger "Akira" version!

Dutch designer and font-master Job Routers created "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" - a fascinating video of himself and his 4-year old nephew Gradus drawing the alphabet. The kid is killer!

Part of Orcadesign's "GreenHouse Effect": the "Bottleneck Saver" helps you restrict the amount dispensed to reduce unnecessary wastage, in defiance of copious consumption. See the other designs too!

An experimental bread bag from Katja Gruijters Fooddesign - made of pita!

Honibe - Honey You Can Hold ~ like the sugarcube equivalent for honey!

Obama - The ultimate branding machine? Great interview with Michael Bieruit at Newsweek's blog, stumper, looking at the branding, visual consistency, and comfort through brand association...

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?

5 Key Keychain by Harry Allen, Area ware, cast in plastic resin from a stack of 5 keys.

Jumping Brain ~ new line of toys from Emilio Garcia by Lapoland ~ and check out the pics, the hemispheres can even be separated!

Eye Tracking using only the Playstation Eye Camera - very cool video

The Svalbard Global Seed Vault is now open for business. The vault is planned to hold "backups" of 100 million seeds from of all over the world. And it looks like a super villain hideout.

"My son had ideas of his own. Obay put a stop to that. From the makers of WhyBecauseISaidSo." - ads have been inescapable in Toronto! and thanks to a submission i found out who is behind it while i was posting pics!

About Above by The June Fox. Solar-powered cardboard planetariums hung up in various public places in Sydney.

I'm loving this sweet & saucy Valentine's Day mixtape compiled by Exopolis. The voiceover really makes my day, but the songs are pretty badass, too. [Editor's Note - yay for the Soko and Juno songs. Super Awesome.]

Finally got hands on with a Zune ~ here is some insight on fun tiny design details from the unboxing, premium headphones, and is that an ipod nano in the warning label?

The world's thinnest laptop : The MacBook PAPER!
Now you can really wow your friends! Even comes with it's own mini manila envelope.

Think you're a coffee connoisseur? Meet the only super fancy $20,000, halogen-powered Japanese siphon bar coffee maker currently in the United States. It's like a coffee maker for a mad scientist

Gatica House by Felipe Assadi and Francisca Pulido. A contemporary modern house in chilean countryside.

The Morgan LifeCar is the most gorgeous fuel cell car I've ever seen. The LifeCar will be displayed to the public at Geneva Auto Show in March. Can't wait!

Sean Marc Lee's "Neon Noir" makes LA look like a hard-boiled wonderland.

If you add NOTCOT.com, NOTCOT,org, TasteSpotting, and NotCouture Web Clips to your iPhone home screen you'll see the special icons we made!

Crazy one use credit card sized microscopes... available in 5 packs of x500 and x1000

A manicurist in Beijing pays tribute to the upcoming Olympics by creating a mosaic out of 28,000 acrylic fingernails.

UPDATE ~ i found japanese ads for Cup Noodle featuring our Governator! Too funny... ahh, the 80s. Also some other japanese 80's spots as well.