Samantha Hahn photographed Tadashi Kawamata's installation in NYC's Madison Square Park- “Tree Huts", which "seeks to explore the architecture of shelter and the idea of placing what is decidedly a private place, a home, into a public space.”

Wolfie & the Sneak just released Peer, a limited edition coloring book with illustrations from 25 different artists, including Kelly Lynn Jones, One Good Bumblebee, Julia Rothman, Camilla Engman, Bonnie Rue, and Sub-Studio (that's us!)

Brodie Neill's Skl Lounge - a gorgeous, low riding white lounge with a red interior.

The Hawke building by Melbourne architect John Wardle. One of three landmark buildings he designed for the University of South Australia.

Walkthrough on how to make a balsa wood model of a Canon dSLR

Take a look back at Google in January 2001!! It's Google's 10th birthday and they are binging back their oldest available index!

Residence Schnitzer-Bruch, Mühlgraben - Austria / maaars architektur

Awesome vintage olympics posters from Munich 1972 ~ love the fencing one!

Squidfingers, the portfolio of Travis Beckham, has a beautiful gallery of patterns— 158 patterns, currently— great for tiled website backgrounds.

Mies once said: "Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together". This argentinian office buildings puts together bricks in an innovative way on the facade.

40 men re imagine and redesign New York's subway map to awesome ends!

Really fun set of notecards with retro chair illustrations by Leah Ammerman...

The first website dedicated for HOLGAmaniacs at PTY (PANAMA CITY, PANAMA)

MR. LONG LEGS | The Mr. Hyde production company directed this feel-good spot for the Royal Bank of Canada and agency BBDO Toronto...

As a part of the "X days project", the "334" bench is made of three parallel bars of metal and 334 old newspapers folded and stacked next to each other.

Psyop goes tiny in this new Sprint spot... managed to create a believable football stadium - at the scale of a mobile phone... created by Goodby, Silverstein + Partners...

The counterpart of Barack Obama Is Your New Bicycle. Meet John McCain Is Your Jalopy.

Homer Simpson will experience some trouble with the design of the voting machines in the upcoming "Treehouse of Horror" episode which timely airs two days before the U.S. Presidential Election...

Hercules - great "classic" seating designed by FAT

An amazing concrete house in Kohoku, Japan by Torafu architects. The interior space it´s amazing, thanks to the dramatic skylights that shape the house.

Rollout's latest custom wallpaper is Bollywood on Acid. Two beautiful designs for the restrooms in a contemporary Indian restuarant named Mango Shiva in calgary.

Apparat for Baccarat by 5.5 Designers

Another giant Banksy Rat in SoHo was put up today

Lula Dot's CAPtivate lamp recycles old bottles and their caps to make this beautiful fixture.

ROCKNUDE : naked women in nature with a "predator" effect, everything is invisible but the hair. Use your imagination for the rest.

Opened in August this year, Hotel Habita Monterrey strikes with captivating architectural desicions by Agustin Landa and interior design by Joseph Dirand

Audubon Soda Bottle Bird Feeder - 1984, Norman Earl invented the Soda Bottle Bird Feeder, a sturdy cast zinc adaptor that converts any plastic two-liter bottle into an economical feeder. Only $15! at DWR

Stanley Flask ~ love this flask, just saw it in person at the DWR Tools for Living in Santa Monica

Moxie - Tampons get pretty! Now available in Singapore as well!

During the month of October 2008, the fourth annual Art in Odd Places will present Pedestrian on 14th Street, Manhattan.

Interesting packaging for Askinosie Chocolate by Element Eleven.

First Look at DWR's Santa Monica Tools For Living store that opens tomorrow ~ it's the second store EVER (SoHo opened last week!) Definite new NOTCOT fave for last minute gifting...

amazing photography by luz maría vales explores the translucent properties of flowers and materials on her collection, light dialogues

MC Escher-esque illustrations by Sacred Mtn.

Mark Wagner spares no expense on his cashed up collage.

First pro skate park in Eastern Europe has been opened in Belgrade, Serbia this weekend. Take a look at pictures from opening.

A compilation of embarrassing celebrity endorsements from Japanese commercials.

The 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is considered a period of reflection. 10Q gives you 1 question a day for 10 days. Fill them in, send to a secure online vault; next year, they'll be sent back to you for reflection. Simple. Awesome.

Kyle Bean's A Guide for the Unlucky - an amazing pop-up book centering around superstitions.

House N by Sou Fujimoto Architects - love the blurred boundaries between interior and exterior spaces.

Steampunk Rayguns: Dr. Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators, are a line of "immensely dangerous" yet simple to operate wave oscillation weapons.

Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation at the Eden Project in Cornwall, England.

"SWEET POCKETS" are in fact portable ashtray disguised in these yummy looking desserts! Designed by ChilliChilly who also design the infamous "GUN MUG" (see #6817)

Love the illustrative style of Tin Salamunic, whose sketches describe everyday life in Richmond, VA.

The Bjarke Ingels Group recently unveiled designs for Walter Towers, a residential/commercial complex in Prague. The building form is pretty intense.

Robert Brunner, an ID for some of Apple's most iconic products, and Stewart Emery, author of Success Built to Last, pose a deceptively simple question: Do you (as a company) matter (to your customers)? .... a must read!