Star Wars by Evian, designed by Mandy Brencys.

VIDEOSanta meets Siri in this holiday ad for the iPhone 4s.

Math meets art with Comali. Give some light to your wall with this lighted frame, holding a tessellation made by only one folded sheet of handmade Japanese washi paper.

'Bistable' shelf by Charles Kalpakian.

Stunning new illustrations by Florian Nicolle.

Rare pictures of a bio luminescent lake in Australia caused by the illuminating defense mechanism of microorganisms.

The recent Oh!BCN event in Barcelona saw some of the world's best food designers come together and create a edible jewelery by replacing glass with sugar.

VIDEOSurreal music video for Maccabees' 'Pelican' and its making of, directed by David Wilson.

Sake Bomb from Aprro design.

The beautiful Zen Garden House by David Jay Weiner.

Toby Dutkiewicz (who created Keek The Saddest Devil, and as well works for LEGO) exclusively shares with us exceptional and inspirational imagery – of art toys crossing over with LEGO.

Spiral Burner Cooktop by Alireza Alavi

Writers and artists design money fit for modern times.

VIDEOA cute promo film for the current 'Hidden Heroes' exhibition at London's Science Museum.

Estudio Visavis made the story of a couple coffee lovers. Wedding packaging and photography inspired in a coffee stains representing the wedding rings.

Ebenezer Scrooge approved, every part of this elegantly-sculpted candlestick from GAMAGO glows in the dark.

The Loop Stand Collection is a series of furniture designed by Leif Jørgensen for HAY. The collection consists of basic and usable furniture with affordable price tags – and the Loop family keeps growing.

Jean-Francois De Witte edited a series of photographs creating characters & animals out of dishes, spoons, forks and cups. Brilliant.

The Big Pictures' 50 best photos from The Natural World.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #24: ISO50/Tycho is giving away the new Tycho album, Dive, (in Deluxe LP, CD, and download), the Dive lithograph, the ‘Sun’ tshirt, and your choice of a Thermal Tee and Giclee Print!

Portuguese born and London-based designer Hugo Passos has brought together design sensibilities he’s acquired over his many years in the industry for his Piet Side Tables.

Adorable lambswool scarves by Donna Wilson come in foxes, swans and flamingos.

Japanese Graphic design from the 1920s and 30s.

'Here are the Young Men (Marked)', a striking photo series by Claire Felicie capturing soldiers before, during and after their deployment in Afghanistan.

A foldable set of grill utensils for grilling on the go.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #23: Diesel Sweeties is giving away an I Loaf Bread shirt, a Pixel Siracha shirt, a Bacon is a Vegetable shirt, a super pack of pixel socks, and both the Crush All Humans! and Pocket Sweeties Volume 1 books!

Meeting, a beautiful set of nested kitchen knives by Mia Schmallenbach.

Supermachine Studio's redesigned Saatch & Saatchi offices in Bangkok.

Biologists from Kyoto University in Japan have turned a crab's shell transparent.

AUDI haus by Atelier FCJZ at F1 international racing circuit, Shanghai.

Nice pencil drawings by Michelle D. Ferrera. Originally, works began in journals but a few years ago, looking for a larger canvas, she picked up a piece of scrap wood from the garage and the rest is history.

A look at shigeru ban's emergency paper partition system

The trailer for Timescapes by Tom Lowe
`The astronomy photographer of the year'.

The Guardian has rounded up a 2011 Year in Review in photos as told by Legos. Some of this year’s biggest news stories, from the Royal Wedding, to the Occupy Wall Street movement, are seen with Lego characters.

Urban Flipper – Interactive pinball machine with 3D projection mapping

VIDEOConcept vending machine with a great see through digital touch screen display.

Vojtěch Fröhlich, Ondřej Mladý, Jan Simánek, and Vladimír Turner transform a rotating billboard into a merry go round ride in their project 'kolotoč.

VIDEOToo cute ~ Singing Christmas Hedgehogs ~ from Birdbox Studios

GLOWBAR! Yes ~ a green ~ glowing ~ crowbar.

Beautiful Blackbird Soap Cubes

House Industries' Alphabetic Equestrian for Maison Hermès in Tokyo

District Millworks out of Los Angeles CA, is hand making custom Shuffleboard tables from reclaimed oak set on steel with industrial era throwback base.

VIDEOJust in time for the new year, Porta's first coloring book has arrived on their tables. With an original story and hand drawn characters, they couldn't wait to show it to you.

'Mak House' in Maules - Switzerland by Bonnard Woeffray Architects.

Dot to Date, the dot-to-dot calendar by Dan Usiskin.

VIDEOThe Fastest Christmas Card in the World from BMW M shows an illustrator trying to draw while a new M5 whips around the Circuit de l'Anneau Du Rhin.

Cartier is to release the Cartier Skeleton Pocket Watch this year. The limited edition piece includes a tourbillon, perpetual calendar, and monopusher chronograph.

"Odette" paper window installation by Mandy Smith in collaboration with 180 Amsterdam. One of the only traditional Christmas windows in Amsterdam this season, visible on 506, Herengracht until January the 5th.

Ditching the printed card, ad agency Marcus Thomas is letting friends spin the Wheel of Holiday Destiny and win something great from our office. From a Rick Vaughn bobblehead to one of our client’s glorious products to a donation to another client’s foundation.

Embroider your own calendar this year with the 2012 Tea Towel Calendar DIY Embroidery Kit.

'Waterblock' glass bench by Tokujin Yoshioka in Musée d'Orsay - Paris.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #22: Skip Hop is giving away Jonathan Adler Duo Diaper Bag, a Jonathan Adler Pronto! Changing Station, a Soapster, a Moby, a Ducky spout cover, an Octopus ring toss, a Starfish stay-put stacker, and a Turtle Island play set!

VIDEOKLM Passport is a travel blog, picture postcard, and snapshot slideshow - in one handy app. Share them directly via Facebook or export movies to your phone’s camera roll, for other sharing options.

Plans to construct the second-largest structure ever built by man in efforts to detect subatomic particles sent from the far reaches of outer space. It is to be anchored 3,200 feet beneath the Mediterranean.

COLOROMY - A giant 3 meter long coloring page! No more just coloring in the lines, now kids can express themselves alone or with friends, without limits!

Images of New York in the 1940s by iconic film director Stanley Kubrick.

Road Inc. for iPad is a unique digital experience, designed like an imaginary interactive museum that plunges the user into the universe of automobiles that have created their own place in our collective imagination.

Google's newest offices in London, designed by Penson.

Rachel Cannon's infographic style 2012 Calendar Poster.

Michael Canfield's beautifully edited Field Notes on Science & Nature published by Harvard University Press.

FEATUREDFirefly forests, Svalbard seed banks and Bohemian romance are all part of this week's roundup from Notventures.

For Christmas this year, Mother’s Psychic Tees. 100 blank T-shirts have been given to LA psychic Lucinda Clare, who uses her gift to predict the destiny of each future T-shirt wearer, to be printed on each tee.

Designer, entrepreneur and sustainability warrior Yves Behar's must-have holiday gift list

VIDEOA monkey is casually enjoying his banana in the jungle when he suddenly gets captured and thrown into space. MonkeyMoon! by Eric Villeneuve, Antoine Rouleau, and Emmanuel Gatera.

This series of photographs entitled Albinos by Gustavo Lacerda, photographer based in São Paulo. This series has received several awards and was published in the collection Pirelli/MASP and Porto Seguro Photography.

The picNYC table brings picnicking indoors with a tabletop of grass, soil and stones.

At Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana the first extensive retrospective overview of Niko Kralj’s work, his design career and the role he played in the development of design in contemporary Slovenia.

A look at the year's best 'Internet of Things' projects.

Korean artist Sang Sik Hong makes impressive large scale sculptures from drinking straws.

'Lost in Lace' at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, beautiful collaboration with the Crafts Council and University for the Creative Arts.

Soon we may be able to feel textures on our touchscreens thanks to Disney Research’s TeslaTouch and EPFL's research into electrovibration technology.

Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson's adorable spaghetti measuring tools.

House in Masaki by Hayato Komatsu Architects.

TOKY Branding + Design's holiday packaging for Panera.

VIDEODaniel Eatock discusses his work Felt-tip Prints (2011), part of the Walker Art Center's exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production.

Sculptor Zhan Wang conceptualizes the depths of the galaxy in his latest exhibition My Personal Universe, at the UCCA.

A hybrid chair combining a light and comfortable methacrylate body with four strong oak legs.

Protect your DSLR with the weatherproof Cam Crate.

Human Shaped Robot has an adorable Songbird print

Holiday beer by Vessel.The beer is from Southern Tier Brewery, and features their IPA and Krampus Holiday Blend silkscreened in white and finished w a matching drawstring bag. Illustration by Tony Ruth (aka Lunchbreath).

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Coupons!!! Lots of discounts from many of our favorite stores/brands ~ quite a few added since it first went up! Happy Holidays!

A Louisiana Tech grad student Brandon Mosley proposes rehabilitating a mining ghost town of Picher, Oklahoma with a subterranean museum.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #21: Assouline is giving away Daniel Boulud’s Cocktails & Amuse-Bouches, For Her & For Him. It has you covered with a range of unusual cocktails and deliciousness to pair them with!

In one of the most unexpected collaborations of the year, architect Frank Gehry has created the official artwork for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards.

FEATUREDTegu now has WHEELS! Their new Mobility series adds magnetic wooden wheels that attach to their standard blocks as well as cute new silhouettes and stylized car pieces.

Aesop has created an installation in Hong Kong’s I.T HYSAN ONE flagship store that builds on our reputation for architecturally remarkable retail spaces. It is simply fabulous.

Melting Snowman Cookies over at the Crazy Domestic are so cute ~ marshmallows are the secret to those squishy heads...

Two of the most popular cinematic retrospectives - "2011: The Cinescape" by Matt Shapiro and "The Filmography 2011" by Genrock. Did you watch all of the most important movies in 2011?

VIDEOGE Show: Factory Flyovers ~ as amazing as the footage is... the RC Helicopter rig carrying a Canon 7D is lustworthy.

Naturwall is a vertical green wall that reuses disposable coffee and tea cups as plant pots. Ten or more pieces of used plastic cups were collected and put in a very simple flexible metal holder system.

FEATUREDA look at some of the beautiful and delicious discoveries from Tasteologie and Liqurious this week!

The Tuirrean is a crossover between a car and a motorcycle and designed to let people travel in a safe yet Eco-friendly manner.

Le Bar, functional aperitif bar made of painted aluminium and the unique driftwood of the Camargue by Concepts by Catherine.

Exoplantery Traveling, here we come! We are no longer alone in the universe. This made the artist Vincent Vermeij aka Chungkong think: "What if we could travel to these extrasolar planets?"

Fluxia hosts Legend, the first solo exhibition in Milan, Italy, of works by Timur Si-Qin until Jan 21.

Bølgen, a waterside restaurant in Oslo by Danish architects MAPT.

Cute bird whisks by Ding3000.

Brilliant Architecture: See the Luminous Buildings of Steven Holl, 2012 AIA Gold Medal Winner.

VIDEOJWT London has created a new way to showcase their latest showreel on the back of their business cards by using Blippar, the first image-recognition app for smartphones targeted at brand-customer interaction.

'Fold Links' - Cufflinks made from laser-cut aluminum, which are bent, matte-finished and anodized. In two designs and six colors. Design by Lukas Bast.

Poster by Figurez-vous for Lambou Opticien - Paper art, amazing conception - Collaboration of Figurez-vous and The Wizard. Have a look of the making of!

The simple, yet elegant Deadgood Bookshelf by Max Lamb.

YETI! On fun holiday cards, love the wallpaper from Hooky Interactive! You have to see the full image!

Eastern Finncattle cows captured by Tuukka Koski for the ecological Food Market in the basement of the Kluuvi mall.

VIDEORob Ryan & Heathrow Airport's Christmas card collaboration inviting us to send more physical cards this year!

Alter Ego, Robbie Cooper's series captures game players and their avatars.

Pretty kitchen papers by Cake Vintage of Nashville, Tennessee.

VIDEOAbsolutely stunning video capturing the beauty of pollination, featuring hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, bats and more incredible creatures.

Simon Shubert piece of art for Absolut Purity campaign exposed Avenue de l'Opéra (Paris) in an abribus.

Strook (Stefan De Croock)'s reverse graffiti installation for De Invasie & Stuk.

The Single Lane Superhighway by Aaron Koblin lets you draw your own car and add it to the front lines. Beautifully simple!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #20!!! Fawn and Forest is giving away an incredible modern dollhouse, Brinca Dada's Dylan House.

VIDEOSit back and enjoy the cuteness... And Happy Holiday's from Royale.

The MINI Gingerbread Garage. A step-by-step guide on how to make a festive home for your model MINI.

VIDEOInteresting idea, the 'Random Tattoo', a QR code tattoo that links to videos, pictures, phrases, weather forecast, tweets and more.

Lovely pattern designs from Stefan Page.

The egg skelter, a stylish way to organize (and show off) your eggs.

Karin Matz, Francesco Di Gregorio with their soft and effective intervention on the interiors of a private house in Lasagnana, Italy.

London Uncover launch a new Brit Cuisine Food Range of folded umbrellas, so you can stay dry under cover of classics like Bangers & Mash, Beans on Toast, Brussel Sprouts & Chips & Ketchup.

The tiny Superheadz Clap Camera is a 2 megapixel camera and memory card reader.

Chair made from Flax by Martin Mostböck.

Why settle for a cottage? This year move up to a Gingerbread brownstone!

VIDEOSuperUber brought Super Pong to The Creators Project festival, in DUMBO, New York. A game-installation inspired by Pong and Foosball, where up to 8 people can play.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is using technology in his artworks at the Sydney Recorder show (hosted at the Museum of Contemporary Art) to challenge spectators to be participants, and change the way they think about technology.

The new 155 Boutique in Cyprus was inspired by port locations! Supernova Studio explains 'bold graphics used throughout the shop, refer in color and form to the lines and markings seen on the dockside'.

X-ray images of seed life invisible to the human eye photographed by Dornith Doherty in her 'Archiving Eden' series.

The new visual identity of the minimalist HP by Moving Brands.

Kyle Bean's 'Soft Guerrilla' series for Cut Magazine are a series of weapons made from harmless materials.

RogueDZN's new signature edition, 9-axis machined carbon fiber bracelet, limited to 25 pieces sold worldwide.

Studio Roso's Christmas Tree for the V&A.

Leather pencil holder from TravelTeq.

The Fühl-o-meter is a monumental Smiley Face that measures the happiness of cities.

VIDEOInteractive and architectural design project about Buzios’ Coral Reef Park.

150,000 mm in three colours is a site specific Pop-Up installation. Three x 50,000 mm elastic thread cones intersect with the glass facade and radiate out into the interior frame.

Martha Robertson and Alfonso Sotelo's cute packaging project for dog haircare products.

TONY aka CHICK is : Children's books editor, Artistic director & Illustrator. This is his portfolio.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes houses covered in astroturf, neon night surfing and shotgun-launched sheep catching nets.

Moving Brands' pretty crazy advent calendar with impressive high res 3D printed chocolates.

FEATUREDRob Whitworth takes us on an adventure through "Traffic in Frenetic HCMC, Vietnam" and it's an absolute trip to see how crazed it is through 10,000 RAW images!

Series 25 is a minimalistic but impressively beautiful bench designed by Omar Arbel for Bocci.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #19: Greenaid is giving away 10 limited edition holiday gift kits which come with 12 seedbombs and a wooden slingshot, all wrapped in a custom bandana for guerrilla gardening excursions!

The new Malbaie V residence by Mu Architecture is Located in the picturesque region of Cap-à-l’Aigle in the heart of Charlevoix, Quebec, Canada.

FEATUREDThere's something fun about seeing Santa flying around in Beverly Hills... and model/mannequins looking catty surrounded by holiday decore glowing in the night...

A former malt factory in Berlin will become an expansive aquaponic rooftop farm in 2013.