Please, Apple. Give us what we want! Vote for your most wanted iPhone features and voice your opinion.

Going to the top of my Christmas list this year, is this limited edition Coach leather case containing 40 of Assouline's signature books. $2,500.00 USD. Wow.

Love the E27 Lamp by TAF Arkitektkontor for Muuto. A set of these would be great over a dining room table...

Super cute new christmas cards created by NYC designer Wonting. Lots of great ones to choose from but this couple is the best, especially in colors non-traditional for the Holidays, like hot pink and navy!

Crazy wire frame jewelry by Ines Schwotzer, using weaving and braiding techniques.

THE SPACE WANDERER : Custom Exhibition
by artists around the world and you.

Pssst ~ did you see we launched the NOTContests page? Up in the navbar? It's a new space to keep track of anything you can WIN! =) Also, a fun excuse to draw wizards, castles, dragons and such...

Japanese illustrator, Yoko Furusho, specializes in intricately detailed illustrations with tangible textures. She recently won the Chopsticks New York Magazine Cover Artist contest and will be illustrating the covers for the next year.

Gorgeous Land Birds print by Freshly Blended.

Jelly Pong Pong has Egg Confetti ~ where bath confetti is poured into REAL egg shells ~ cool concept ~ not totally sold on their color/font choices...

Osler House, Brasilia / Marcio Kogan

Alton Brown it’s a spice range made specially for blind and visually impaired people, and it comes with a measure spoon for balsamic vinegar and olive oil which makes it a lot easier to measure.

A unique collaboration between Sentral Designstudio and Åsa Jungnelius at Kosta Boda - limited edition of 20 handcrafted perfume bottles, as the first in a series of from the new fragrance brand AGONIST.

A new "cabana" and access for an old country side house by Hidalgo Hartmann in Spain. The new volume blends with the old construction as an aging structure over the landscape.

Beasts! Book 2 just in time for the holiday
season. The seconnd volume of cryptozoology looks just as beautiful and informative as the first
with a new collaboration of over 90 artists.

This guy has designed 7000 black and death metal logo. read the interview and watch the logo details in the slideshow.

Merchant 4 has some beautifully functional kitchen accessories like the charcoal cube/soap, woody spoons, knife sharpeners and more 10% off!

Random NOTCOT Sidenote... Netbooks ~ what are they? and how are they working for you? I was curious how anyone else is using them... and is it enough for a poweruser/photoshop/illustrator junkie?

Crazy video footage of a Magnapinna squid with what appears to be elbows was taken by a Shell Oil underwater robot 1.5 miles underwater. I think its probably just an alien.

Born in Brooklyn, NY, The American Dream Team is Comprised of DJs, VJs, producers, designers, and animators bringing the best electro, house, and hip-hop to the crowd mixing turntablism with mind-altering visuals.

New home line Filz Felt also sells their PMS matched German felt by the yard. Mmmm.... those colors are just delicious....

Carlsberg 900 Limited edition. Only 200 were produced.

Localarchitecture and Danilo Mondada designed this temporary chapel in Switzerland. Folded planes on the walls give the building structure, while generating acoustic refractors on the inside.

The Perillo chair is a new design from Martin Ballendat.

The Oca is a temporary structure designed by brazilian architects Königsberger Vannucchi, where many local native communities hold ceremonies and meetings.

So adorable we forgive them for jumping ahead to Christmas before Thanksgiving happens: Ornament-shaped Coke minis on Serious Eats.

House on the slope by mexican architect Derek Dellekamp. I like how the grey painting on the walls make the walls look like folded planes.

The Susurrus Chandelier is made from a collection of unglazed bone china bells by Item

The headquarters for the 13 Parisian subway line by Atelier Phileas feature a light skin that reveals itself at night.

Thoughtpile.org by Herman Miller. Users submit answers to questions, and the winner receives a Herman Miller Embody chair.

UN ad about land mines. Listen to this designer as he tells us how the new range of plastics has changed the way he works forever...

Justin Parker and Andi Kovel of Esque Design are two of the most talented and amazing workers of glass that I have ever seen. The new blown glass thickie by Parker tops out at over 30 pounds.

Kredit Krunch swap shop, in Covent Garden, turn up with an object, and swap it for any of the lovely items on display.

Zanotta's Sacco turns 40 this year! The original mass produced beanbag, design icon, and super comfy seating... We have a peek at the original sketches, met the head of Zanotta, and Marcia's cat has claimed the mini!

Dutch designer Peter Verheul's typeface Rijksoverheid Serif and Sans selected as the single graphic identity for all departments of the Dutch National Government.

MK12 is the Kansas City-based graphics firm behind the titles for Quantum of Solace. They have also worked on Marc Forster's Kite Runner and Stranger than Fiction.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #8: Genius Jones is giving away the really fun combo for all ages... Lomography Fisheye 2 in limited edition WHITE! and the coolest automatic electric stapler, where you can watch the colorful gears in action!

Trendy-looking bible cover design by Crush. I found fontfeed's breakdown of the cover particularly informative.

Betty Pepper creates jewelry from the pages of a book.

adidas Originals celebrates their 60th anniversary with a house party, and everyone is invited!

Olga Sanina + Marcelo Dantas designed the Ayuntamento de Madrid Book Fair Pavilion - a series of plastic topographical sheets layered to create an interior space.

Swedish Smålandsglögg has gotten a makeover by Ny Reklam. (Glögg is the Swedish form of mulled wine and popular around Christmas.)

Matt Pamer's rock posters, which he silkscreens by hand in limited runs, are graphically brilliant.

Really gorgeous furniture from Boca Do Lobo.

Three gorgeous oil lamps by Nuance.

Adam Rowe's Victorian Grandfather Chair challenges our conceptions of material aesthetics, taking a cheap material and incorporating it into a modern adaptation of a classic shape.

Visionaire produced with the House of Krug, Surprise, a book entirely made out of popups

Gorgeous, minimal concrete planters by Obleeek.

Another Amazing Fashion Illustrator - Cecilia Carlstedt has a tremendous style to her illustrations...

Jason Hawkes is an aerial photographer. Love this photograph of a house and small holding in Morocco.