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!

Very Stylish Music Video for the Upcoming James Bond film. The Song is by Alicia Keys & Jack White.

Greenpeace "awarded" the city of Buenos Aires the first prize in contamination by taking over its Obelisk. The reason? The (un)treatment of garbage that is disposed in surrounding areas.

Solaleya ~ Your dream home is just a step away. And it rotates with the sun?

Last weekend the redesigned Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) opened in its new location at Columbus Circle in New York City. Pentagram designed the identity and extensive branding materials. Michael Bierut led the team...