of all the fashion week buzz, my favorite posts have come from greg kessler's model morphosis photo sets for the nytimes. it's incredible how versatile these models can be.

the collectors... funny spot for rotofugi... toy art store of chicago... created by country club chicago...

I wish there were more puzzles. Artist Penny Stotter has made her prints into puzzles. Cool big pieces. Surprised no one has made a puzzle of the worlds countries... I bags to do it first.

The unique work of Russian illustrator and photographer, Dmitry Maksimov, is filled with imaginary characters placed into real-life settings. The feel of his work is reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki...

"Thanks for nothing" (ie: thanks for nothing... you're blocking my driveway) letterpress cards designed by Luke Williams.

This is a still from a Documentary of Danny Roberts Illustration Process.

Advertisements for old computers.

Innovative and addicting movie quiz. Guess the title of the movie by the snapshot.

Photo gallery from the new Paul Insect solow show in Kings X, London

How to Cool a Planet: Futuristic ways to fight against the global warming. (NY Times old issue - 2006 - but worth reading!) Click to see the full graphic!

The new refurbished Los Angeles Mondrian hotel is now open and Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz' touch of Hollywood glamour has revitalised this iconic LA hotel..... beautiful!

Grow your own food at home, even if you don't have time to that. The Prepara promess make it easy with its Power Plant.

Adam Haynes (Post #11821) just released a print over at POVeditions.com - Thanks to NOTCOT for introducing us to his work! We invited him to our print project after his worked was submitted here.

Low impact woodland homes

Karma from Fisker Automotive is a hybrid car with a Q Drive engine by Quantum Technologies. The hybrid engine gives you 80 km of zero emission driving, if you want to go longer it is a hybrid or you can get a solar cell roof for the car.

I appreciate the whiteness of Fabrica's new object collection launched for the 60th anniversary of the Peggy Guggenheim collection. I especially like how color surprises you when objects are opened or more closely examined.

Dosh has introduced two new all-polymer wallets. They are more compact than the original wallet (post 5492) and come in an expanded colorway.

Beautifully rustic Butler's Sink

Student Maxime Harvey-Carière designs a corrugated board calculator in my packaging class at UQAM.
Sylvain Allard

Mark Boyce's interesting new book, Sizes May Vary. The book references the varying standardized formats and systems used within graphic design and is part sketchbook, part reference book and part notebook.

Beautiful photography portfolio by Michael Wolf. I especially love his series "Architecture of Density" from which this photo was taken.

Love the Light Blubs by Pieke Bergmans - a series of unique, often site specific crystal lamps. Pieke has imagined a series of projects infected by the "Design Virus" which can be found on his website.

Expressionist Bass - nice looking desktop sub-woofers by Altec Lansing.

Interesting pixelated facade by Splitterwerk for the Prisma Engineering. The interiors are worth a look, as well.

Tap'dNY is a bottled water for the new age: an honest and local alternative for all New Yorkers. They purify and bottle New York City's famous tap water, leaving out the malarkey and far journey included in other bottled waters.

LA Weekly does a great profile on close friend of NOTCOT - "Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters"

Beautiful portraits of Sikh-Americans by Fiona Aboud.

A brushed aluminum wine bottle for Elk & Wolf by Social UK.

Great website for QWSTION, the new norm for bags.

Formtank's stunning new tables are constructed out of a single sheet of industrial steel, minimizing waste to less than 4% per meter.

This is what happens when a designer becomes a motivational speaker.
This started of as a few pictures of the poster and turned into something much bigger and more meaningful.

Hulger's new Pappa Phone ~ in walnut and brass!

Scala is a youth choir in Aarschot, Belgium, roughly sixty teenage girls, conducted by Stijn Kolacny and accompanied by Steven Kolacny. The video has been directed by Steven Huybrechts.

Beautiful packaging portfolio by Esther Chaye. Above is CMYK, packaging for a DIY Mix Acrylic Paint set.

New blog started by Jason Gabbert that focuses on beautiful book cover design. Every Monday he features a new designer and book cover design, and goes behind the scenes with discussions about process.

Vitamin Living has expanded their Gnome line ~ and now there are complementary money boxes, timers, salt and pepper shakers, and a very cute bottle opener!

Beautiful folding table by Ligne Roset

The Spizak.com is the “online” portfolio for Polish designer and digital illustrator Adam Spizak, who currently resides in London, UK.

So, maybe i do need some help as things have been growing... want to be my intern? Looking for good design loving internet junkies!

With back to school and fashion week in full force ~ Target's Pop Up Bodega's are genius!

EDG Design Lab ~ Orange Squeezer for Driade 1998

Wow Bacon ~ microwave cooker, that looks like a pitcher...

One of albert einstein's old watches are for sale...

The Super Genintari! This behemoth of a console brings the Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Genesis together at long last. I love the Pacman power button. Designed and built by Richard DaLuz.

Hitch Concept - a “giant” suction cups that make you hitch onto anything for a ride by Robert Nightingale. A concept design for 2008 Fiat Design Competition “Smiles From A to B”. The competition called for concept design that “create maximum smiles”.

Seth McFarlane the creator of Family Guy, in partnership with Burger King, will produce a series of weekly cartoons starting on September 10th called Seth MacFarlane Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy. Hilarious stuff!