Lisa Fyfe designed a really interesting jacket for Paul Auster's new book "Man in the Dark." In person you can see the subtle printing effects which adds to the beautiful package.

The Horse Hospital in London's Russell Square is hosting an exhibition called From Fear to Sanity, which is on the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the art of protest.

Platform - Wertel, Oberfell come up with a new chair for Iker/ Poland.
Elle Decoration Gold Award for best furniture 2007

Too weird - x-ray photographer Nick Veasey uses either skeletons in rubber suits, or cadavers to capture the human form in his photographs. When working with cadavers, he has around eight hours to pose and shoot before rigor mortis sets in.

EnterBELL ..

Peter Castellucci's Garbage Lamp - a fixture made out of "used, compulsively collected polystyrene drinking cups".

Hack a disposable camera to get super accentuated RED EYE Portraits!

Chris Gray of We Shall See won Freitag's Design-A- Truck competition. In keeping with Freitag's recycling philosophy, Gray's tarpaulin will be cut up and made into bags. 2nd and 3rd place went to André-Alexander Glesemann and Anna-Paula Henschke.

EyeCandy ~ USB Lollies that you hook up to your computer and really suck on... awesome packaging too... you have to read the site and articles to make sense of it!

The NOTCOT Hotline ~ a la Powerpuff Girls ~ It's become my "work" phone when at my desk, makes me more professional acting... See a full Hulger unboxing, and special 20% discount for NOTCOT readers!

We're making a book and we need your help! We're going to send you a list of 24 things which will end up being the 24 chapters of the book. You visualize the chapters and send us in your images to be in the book.

I came across this young artist and his painting called"Breakfast" I found out that he actually filled a bath tub with real milk, and is working of a series of food fetish paintings.

Nendo recently released “Talking”, a set of seasoning dispensers. The mouth on each dispenser is a phonetic representation of Yu, Shi and Ko (shoyu, shio and kosho - soy sauce, salt and pepper - respectively). Cute.

Greece is having a Green Design Festival in Athens

'Silent Chair' is the name of the reserved chair created by the Swedish designers Linus Berglund and Mats Seitz. And it is in fact above all the inconspicuous but ingenious little details which ensure...

Creative advertisements for the Buenos Aires Zoo.

Dissected Toothpaste ~ creepier than i would have ever imagined! By Erin Boker!

The Denver Egoist has a great roundup of DNC related street art popping up all over Denver right now ~ and you can be sure it's in part due to all the artists in the Manifest Hope Show!

"photosynthesis" - harnessing solar energy for the life of our electronics! You can recharge your cellphone and camera with this solar-cell "tree charger." Concept by French sculptor Vivien Muller.

Sara Huston's Lifestyle Coffee Table - customized to store and display your favorite magazines.

blogger hippie couture posted an amazing set of images of temporary psychedelic street carpets called "Alfombras" today... amazingly intricate!

ACNE's wooden usb stick ~ came in a "stylish box containing all the relevant info" from the Acne Sales Rep to the Normann Copenhagen Fashion Buyer

Really gorgeous furniture from Hiromatsu.

Gig posters from Andrio Abero of 33RPM.

Damn It Feels Good To Be A Banker - the MUSIC VIDEO!!! My friend's book is finally on the market, and they got creative and had some fun with the budget making a hilarious music video!

Oooh simple sportscar - grimm's - germany

How are pop up books designed+illustrated? Fascinating walk through of the process!

Super cute woody animals - sculpted wooden animals
georgia - made of pear, walnut, beech and other european woods, the pattern of the woodgrain has been lovingly considered on each animal.

Greenaid - by Lovegrove&Repucci - Reusable shopping bag - Neoprene outer shell and reusable polyester shopping bag within.

Space Cube ~ the 2" cubed PC!

Hands on with the AIAIAI Y-com mic/headphone combos for iphones/curves ~ you will LOVE the packaging... and they are far more fun than the usual headsets for you iphoners!

So, for some reason still unknown to me, i was trying to shop for real things, but kept finding rain boots and posting them to notcouture ~ here's a bunch of things now tagged RAIN!

Nixon Rotolog RePly with reclaimed skateboard inlays.

Adam Wallacavage makes the most incredible octopus chandeliers...

The Nisha Bar Louge in Mexico City features colorful interiors.

"Pusher" by swedish design group Form Us With Love ~ for Beefeater's design challenge (click products > pusher)

The Explora Atacama Hotel by German del Sol, chosen as one of the best hotels in South America by Conde Nast Traveler.

The evening of September 6th will see nearly 20 Los Angeles galleries open with new shows... thats in Chinatown alone... POVevolving Gallery celebrates the new 'art season' with a show called "The Awesomist Tomorrow" by Kiel Johnson.

Crate and Barrel's Taka Trunk ~ aka Pirate Coffee Table Bar?

The World's Smallest Book by Die Gestalten will be released this week at Selfridges in London.

Psyop has just dropped a hot new spot for Smith & Nephews. Directed by Eben Mears and Mate Steinforth

Fun black and white video for Birdmonster's The Iditarod

Black Glass Widget for Mac OsX Leopard - fun new icon pack!

Acidtwist - new works by Tavish of SF/Montreal

Danish artist Iris Shieferstein's series 'Life Can Be So Nice' creates an interesting typography out of her deceased animals which have been put through the taxidermy process.

Three beautiful animation for the NBA by Denis Makioka.