Justin Ladda's 1981 "The Thing" mural is an amazing combination of perspective, decay, and draftsmanship. Make sure to click the "side view".

In his new book, Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky explores Chinese industry and its relationship to society and environment.

Marianne Maric and her LAMP GIRLS

There's actually a tiny bit of backstory and meaning to that Incase Topo graphic they use on everything from the backs of iphone cases, to the press kit, to interior of their messenger bags...

Lobster Chair! Designed by Lund & Paarmann for the Verikon Furniture. Loving the woody exoskeleton with cozy plush leather interior to curl up in.

Pretty astounding structure designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

when this national geographic shot of bora bora hit my inbox it was like a moment of zen. gorgeous!

Artist Lee Woodgate has one of his brilliant illustrations featured on the cover of this week's London le Cool newsletter.

Rez HD is coming for XBOX live and will allow a whole new group of people enjoy this calming, trippy, beautiful game.

Art Lebedev studio always has fabulous wallpapers in various resolutions incorporating their bar code. This one is perfect for today! New Champagnes By Den Poddubny. Happy New Year NOTCOT!

Air-sickness bags were the inspiration for a series of vases and dishes designed by Hedwig Rotter and produced by mano designs of Vienna. They have air india and air thai as well.

Museum of Lost Interactions 2: Forgotten Chairs opened on the 12th of December 2007. The exhibition featured 10 chairs restored by 3rd year Interactive Media Design students from the University of Dundee. Visit the online version.

The French-Brazilian architecture firm Triptyque based in São Paulo, Brazil, have designed the Columbia Street building for an advertising agency called Loducca.

The e-lighter can apparently fire up your next cigarette by 5v current .

James Bond Ultimate Collector's Set ~ thats a lot of amusement and design inspiration in a box.

MAGNETIC furniture handle / ICON
Design by Ignacio Pilotto

Can you shoot photos of things that don’t really exist? Matt Stuart is a professional photographer. In each photo Matt presents human life from unique perspectives.

Dussault's leather goods are not just rugged gorgeous carry-on rollers... upon closer inspection you will see they are imprinted with skulls and moneybags.

Haha! Homemade Halloween Sperm by Shane Geil! (Also, how cute is the Maggot in Bunny Pajamas!?!)

Vomit has never looked so good in this hilarious cut-out style animated short film by Eddie White & James Calvert. A must have for vegan extremists everywhere!

While this may look like just a box in a sleeve ~ this packaging for a hearing aid appears to have an animated soundwave on it as you push the box through. See the video. By Goodmorning for Widex.

A brilliant animation by three legged legs. In a PA manner they illustrate how humanity is wreaking havoc on our once healthy planet. [Editor's Note: Prev seen as #249, but its been a while]

The Moleskine Project is looking for user submitted artwork, so go scan a page from your moleskine notebook and send it in...

Rephorm is a communication-chaiselonge for two persons. It’s composed by two identical elements that simply sticked together and integrate drink holders and space for magazines. [previously #434]

coolhuting review the onguard locking skewers. they seem like a subtle elegant solution to bike theft, but perhaps that elegance just pisses off would-be theives...

Binth Organic Octopus Pillow from Green with Glamour "go green. stay stylish." ~ this is how your NOTCOT Editors feel on a monday morning.

Designer Alex Suvajac created this A.FrameFix concept track bike that, despite its highly technical and space-age appearance was inspired by a frog. Nature meets technology.

New illustrations made with paper on carlogiovani.com

Some truly amazing portraits from London-based photographer Pheonix Blake.

Available in several finishes (timber, acrylic, white marblo) and in 2 different sizes, these Trees by Millicent & Frank bring some 'nature' to any environment.

adorable ad for Epuron with surprising ending

experimental european art collective fabrica has created "you are here," an intereactive gallery/shop already seen in paris, rotterdam and london. who among us in the us or canada has a space to welcome them next?

When art meets food... it doesn't get more delicious than the work of Lesia Chernish's portfolio i-delicious... her girlie pics are really fun

Graffiti legend MARE 139 was commissioned to make this G-Unit award for rapper 50 Cent. Known for his "wild style" sculptures, he used the G-Unit 'G' and polished it off with his trademark "graff arrows."

Oryx is an innovative time trial bike concept with a one-sided fork and chain-stay. Due to its Y-frame shape, it's comfortably shock-proof without loosing ground contact. Designer: Harald Cramer

Great piece over at Pingmag on Transformable Architecture... and the brilliance that is Hoberman

Ninguins!! Scrapbook papers you can't resist - from bam pop.

Gui Borchert was recently featured in Print magazine as one of the 20 most talented designers under 30.

Dedicated to Japan's rackgaki (graffiti) scene, this book illustrates the work of major graffiti artists working in Japan today. It showcases the creativity that lies within this new and relatively unexplored form of contemporary Japanese art. DVD included.

Cool Hunter shows you some of the insane karaoke rooms out there... seems like that boutique hotel trend of artist painted rooms has found a new niche to take on.

Sick and tired of having the same t-shirt everyone else has? Check out Usman Haques Configurable T-shirt. The shirt lets you create your very own design by simply turning off pixels with a permanent market.

The original music video for the Gnarls Barkley song : Smiley faces

Well it was that time of the year when the weather was nice and people go out for a barbeque. But I was always missing the decent sound out there in the green. So there it was, the beatbox with 4x150Watts and 2 attachable subwoofers in an old Grundig case.

The British artist Katie Paterson has made it possible to listen Vatnajokull glacier melt with one phone call.

Customize your glasses by stitching it. Seungyoub Oh's Stitch design won the 2006 Opus Design Award.

Humanscale Design Studio's prototype for its new chaise lounge workstation. It was ergonomically designed for laptop computer support.