StrangeCo is giving away some limited editions of their King Ken!

Five leading architectural firms make houses out of Lego bricks, as part of Scottish Design Week.

We present acoustic panels "Soundwave Flo" designed by the great Karim Rashid in collaboration with Teppo Asikainen...

A great romantic animated trailer for the 11th edition of Far East Film Festival (April 24 - May 2 2009)! The artist Spela Cadez let Western and Eastern cultures tenderly meet...

The Düsseldorf-based photographer uses a signature painstaking method to create varied, lyrical imagery.

Vanity Fair gives recognition to some of our favorite modern day comedians in their April 2009 issue. From Seth Rogen's Frida Kahlo to Russell Brand's Charlie Chaplin, an all star celebrity photographers captured a new generation of comedy legends.

Check out Willoughby Sharp's pioneering work on art and technology at Rhizome.org

A clock for identity designers. Have you ever thought about how many brands you use in a typical day?

Another impressive house by dutch architect Paul de Ruiter. To create openness and lightness, the house is entirely oriented to a secluded garden. It has the most impressive bathroom ever!

Apple has introduced a new version of their web browser, Safari 4. Some new features include Top Sites which displays your most visited websites with a neat perspective design and cover flow in your favorite sites.

Brooklyn artist Alex Holden reimagines the ubiquitous Heimlich poster.

Acquamiki Suspension Lamp by Michele de Lucchi in GOLD!

Pravdoliub Ivanov's Confusion from 2002 ~ interesting way to add intrigue... especially to a tiny apt...

COOP Himmelblau just won the competition for the new headquarters of the China Insurance Group. An orthogonal building, with a sinuous skin.

The new eco-friendly Samsung Blue-Earth. It features a solar panel and it's made of recycled plastic.

Today (Feb. 6th) Sweden celebrates the little know Semicolon Day. The semicolon was invented in 1494 by the Italian printer Aldus Manutius the Elder. Happy Semicolon Day everyone!

Groovy Pet Delivery Service print ads are too cute ~ Poodles, Dachshunds, and Chihuahuas

Another new super fun font from my favorite fontographer, Alejandro Paul ~ Kewl Font!

Andreas Wannerstedt’s latest gem is called Infected an Amazing (as always from this dude) Flash Animation.

Great bit of packaging design from San Fransisco based graphic designer Robert Medkeff, who doesn't love Giant Squid Ink.

Piet Klaarhamer high chair, by Houtbedrijf Veldzicht, the Netherlands, later production of a 1918 design.

Swedish Jenny Marchi lets you turn your Swedish social security number into visual shapes that are printed as posters.

The Brooklyn-based painter, Bettina Sellmann, digs deep and finds bolder, more conflicted work. In these intense, richly colored paintings, two opposing forces are at work: one of beauty and lyricism, and one seething with violence.

Eyelash Typeface by Amitis Pahlevan.

Malaysia Airlines amazing ads.

Charlotte X. C. Sullivan mixes ink with soapy water and allows the bubbles to dry on paper. I like how you can sometimes see the burst bubble.

Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa - Roger Alsing created a small program that keeps a string of DNA for polygon rendering. Very cool.

This "LEED Platinum" Gingerbread house by HOK is seriously sweet.

Non-Format designed three different album covers for The Chap in 2008 - I like the consistent use of balloon animals rendered atypically.

Interesting public sea bath for the Copenhagen waterfront, by JDS + Klar. Good multi-use of the waterway.

Gift Guide ~ NOTCOT Wishlist ~ aka a rant on gift guides this season and a collage of many random products that i've been craving that haven't made it on my other guides so far!

This is where we live - Fantastic stop motion created entirely of books.

Emoticons + caroling = Emoticarolers. Rewrite the lyrics of classic holiday songs, then send the Emoticarolers off to the digital doorsteps of your friends and family.

These prints by Portland artist Kendra Binney are the perfect mixture of melancholy and darn right adorable.

Jorn Utzon has passed away on the 29th of November, 2008.

People Are Strange by Violenn Simon
Music video for art school project at ENSAAMA School of Visual Communication, Paris.

Pixel Cloud Socks! Dancing around on cloud 9 in these fun socks freshly made by Diesel Sweeties - (20% off $20+ code NOTCOT)

Positively Green Cards - environmentally-friendly greeting cards, and 10% of profits donated to organizations that protect the environment and fight global warming.

Gift Guide: Glassy Gifts! Yes, glass ~ so many gorgeous double walled, colored, organic glassy options they needed a guide of their own!

Elvis' sunglasses reproduction by Funk Eyewear

Interesting expandable table by Nueva Linea.

Awesome silhouettes on the latest series of furniture - ‘industry’ by studio job - mitterrand+cramer, geneva - november 18, 2008 – january 10, 2009

Audrey Kawasaki's The Drawing Room at Thinkspace ~ beyond the gorgeous work, you have to see the mind blowing micro-studio set up she did in the front window! Wow.

9 Bunk Beds that would have made your childhood happier.

who knew bunk beds could be this cool?

Paris Photo 2008, which brings together some one hundred galleries and publishers from around the world, will coincide with Paris Photography Month, making the City of Lights the international epicentre of art photography.

Stadtnomaden's Piepschau bird house is adorable! And it can be taken apart and dispatched in an A4 box