America-based architectural firm PIQUE has designed the Kenneally Residence located in the Tetherow golf development in USA.

Separation Shelf is an 8 foot long shelf, Designed by Ben Klinger & Shay Carmon. Use the hanger as a breaking tool, and get multiple shelves in different lengths.

Thomas Stanley's minimalist bird feeder, “Thee Apple”

Chris Bosse sliced up the Panton chair as part of the Re-Loved: Designer Stories exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.

Gorgeous house on New York's Fire Island from Studio27 Architects.

ikymagoo makes gorgeous PVC pipe speakers.

Jose Maria Chofre's six-story vertical garden in Southern Spain.

I love the strange and different work of Nacho Carbonell, but is it design, or art, or maybe both?

Henning Larsen Architects design for the new Concert and Congress Centre - Palacio de Congresos, finds inspiration inspiration in the characteristic landscape of Lanzarote.

Freitag F23 iPad case! Complete with a nice "quick out" strap you can pull to get it out...

Couture déco's Trompe-l'oeil Leather Wall Paper reproduces brilliantly an authentic Chesterfield classic couch leather padding. Every detail is faithfull to reality for a true vintage feel with a grain leather touch & feel.

160+ Photos from Electric Windows 2010 Art Event featuring 30 amazing urban artists.

Phantasmagorical paintings by Peter Zimmermann

Spencer Tunic’s latest project: 5000 nudes at the Sydney Opera House

Bloq (Paul Johnson) makes fun, functional bookshelves that look like enormous puzzles.

Vogue Italia & Steven Meisel are causing a stir with this new visually stunning photoshoot based on the Gulf Oil Spill. I think it's quite powerful and moving.

Erich Remasch's Helix Spire will be constructed twice this year, at LARC near Conway Washington for Critical Massive, and in Black Rock City for Burning Man.

The Stallion Wine of Angelus Estate's label depicts a running horse with gloss puff-up varnish contrasting with a black matte finish. The logo of Angelus Estate is printed with matte copper hotfoil symbolizing the mountains, sky and soil.

The barbecue grill, the grill head, is toy art transformed into a consumer product by Burger King in São Paulo. There's also a game concept! The grill head only eats hamburger, it does not like sausage.

A hotel in Akihabara, Tokyo, has fitted a room with a massive toy train set, modeled on the surrounding area, so that guests can play with the trains when they stay.

'Arduino: The Documentary' Trailer... The future of computing?

Nice design for a BPA free water bottle that screws apart with "Clean Seam Technology" for easy cleaning!

Net-A-Porter's new West London headquarters designed by Studiofibre.

Cyglo tires combine motion sensors with bright, high-powered LED lights inside the tread to keep you safe. The lights turn on as you start to move, keeping you visible.

Bell & Ross introduce the BR 01-92 Compass. Gorgeous!

Amorphic Type Installation from Joseph Egan and Hunter Thomson of the Chelsea School of Art and Design.

Great packaging for El Paso Chili by Louise Fili comes in a kitchen matchbox,

All-In-One Kitchen Shelving Concept by Mathew Gilbride for Electrolux. Mathew Gilbride’s Elements Modular Kitchen has incorporated appliances that range from refrigeration, air-conditioner, lighting, and cooking modules.

Italian designer Giuseppe Viganò of Saba Italia proposes his interpretation of the free modern library.

Excellent series of illustrations by Noma Bar for IBM.

Philips has unearthed an early design for a robotic dog that could move, see and hear in a book published in 1960.

Plastic Dining Room by Goodweather Collective and Loki Ocean, a catered floating barge made out of recycled pop-bottles in Vancouver. Constructed from nearly 1700 containers,it raises funds for the School of Fish foundation.

Fujifilm introduce an all new model into their cheki line of cameras with the forthcoming model dubbed the instax mini50s. The Fujifilm instax mini50S will release starting September 4th, 2010 in Japan.

A bunch of new posters just released by Tone Ink for Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, and more!

Dune wall tiles was designed by Toronto based Urban product. The gorgeous wall treatment comes in concrete, wood and ceramic and uses natural pigments and soya based finishes to compliment cutting edge technology.

Burton Snowboards have a new website. Nice grid and new editorial look.

Adorable baby porcupine print from The Animal Print Shop by Sharon Montrose

Bare Light by Brendan Ravenhill. Designed for the American Design Club’s Breakable Show at the Heller Gallery.

“Straddling” bus–a cheaper, greener and faster alternative at the 13th Beijing International High-tech Expo. It will be put into use in Beijing’s Mentougou District. Proposed by Shenzhen Hashi Future Parking Equipment Co., Ltd.

Texas architect Jim Poteet helped Stacey Hill, who lives in a San Antonio artists’ community, wrangle an empty steel shipping container into a playhouse, a garden retreat and a guesthouse for visiting artists.

Read more: http://www.dwell.com/slideshows/smaller-in-texas.html?slide=1&c=y#ixzz0vYz2JRRb

Beautiful furniture design by Sydney based Henry Pilcher. Henry’s designs draw inspiration from design history and material experimentation to create products that celebrate a marriage of craft and industrial technology.

Some newly refreshed illustration prints from Jonathan Rowell. RARRR!!

The amazing art of Spanish artist Manuel Rebollo.

Check out the artist collective, "The Burnt Asphalt Family" that uses hot glass to cook food and serve it to the audience during their performances.

Blackberry Torch ~ touch screen and qwerty

Congrats to Core77 on their first brick and mortar STORE! In portland - Core77 Hand-Eye Supply!

Razorpit ~ interesting design to help you get more out of those disposable razors

Complexity Graphics by Tatiana Plakhova. Mathematical drawings have a living organism feel to them.

The house designed by Franz Architekten from Austria consists of three volumes: one for access and parking, second for living and third for sleeping. All parts are connected by a glass passageway.

Designer Gerda Hopfgartner revolutionizes the air travel industry in a single swoop, redesigning the economy class plane seat to include personalized media screens and auto-or-programmable form-fitting seats for any sized person!

'Everyone ever in the world' by the Luxury of Protest. Screen print on plastic. A visual representation of the number of people to have lived versus been killed during the recorded history of humankind.

These witty avian abodes are a collaborative effort by San Francisco artists Luke Bartels & Jeff Canham.

LED mushroom lights are sprouting from reclaimed wood.

A terrific collection of typography, letterhead and images. All vintage.

St. Mary’s Cathedral, selected by the American Institute of Architects as San Francisco's top 25 buildings. Photo by Dirk Weidlein.

Inspiration: Let's Get Lost! A look at some visual research of beautiful images of places to lose yourself... and fill with your imagination!

Sylvester Stallone explodes Youtube to promote the Expendables.

“Temp Nouveau” an exquisite shoot showcasing watches that incorporates the ornate and floral stylings of Art Nouveau posters.

Beautiful, unassuming "Love Couch" from Samuel Moyer Furniture. All handmade and one-of-a-kind, their pieces are heirloom quality, meant to be passed down for generations.

The Four Seasons Seychelles, designed by Hirsch Bedner Associates, is the ultimate Indian Ocean escape (from reality).

Claesson Koivisto Rune created this series of shelves called Hillside. Going up and down in bright colours these furnitures are really artful pieces for room decoration.

Part art-installation, part post-apocalyptic, Spanish photographer Alvaro Sanchez-Montañes has elegantly captured the ghost towns and disused properties that have been, over time, ravaged by the unforgiving Namib desert.....

Oh My God What Happened and What Should I Do? This book is for everyone who is interested in the digital era of awesomeness. Download the free eBook and pay with a tweet.

Summer break – the vanguard Berlin theater Volksbühne closed its doors barricading the iconic limestone facade with five additional columns. The architectural collective osa – office for subversive architecture realized this temporary installation.

Office --> Grey --> Cement --> Buildings
"The Office" is a range of office accessories with an architectural look. Produced in cement. For sale. NOW

Peter Scherer designed the Aluminium Chair to produce a kaleidoscopic effect when viewed from various angles, thanks to the open and closed geometry of the base.

Orbital Washing Machine ensures energy efficient cleaning.

The Heart Chamber Orchestra uses the heart beats of its 12 constituent musicians to generate a musical score in real time which they then play

chilean-born new york-based artist sebastian errazuriz seeks to create works which
provoke people to think about their lives and question their daily routines. he

APATTERNADAY is a place when you can find a plethora of patterns. The act of doing is what the site is all about, it's updated daily and the work can be licensed.

Great design and product concept with this iPad DJ Station for Numark.

Another stunning week here at NOTCOT.org means we bring you yet another gorgeous roundup of posts.

Scout Regalia introduces the first of the SR Cutsheet Projects, a series of free instruction sheets available on their website to help people build simple projects for the home.

Two legs table. Designed and Manufactured by Shay Carmon & Ben Klinger.

Amazing short film, Chore for the underwear brand Damaris by Justin Anderson - Who said that doing the laundry couldn’t be sexy?

Being a great industrial designer requires a nuanced balance of many important skills and personality traits, but which matter the most?

FLUD ipad app is a modern, beautiful and personalized news ecosystem that empowers it's users to engage and broadcast relevant news topics to their social networks.

Open Studio is more than a little office for visual communication in Düsseldorf, Germany. Their attitude is overwhelming: open, friendly and professional.

Honeymoon Fragrance by Stephanie Simek - "Inside this sea urchin shell is an organic perfume made from grapefruit and basil essential oils. This bottle is refillable, so you can use it over and over." And padded with loofa!

ElliptiGO - Elliptical bicycle delivers fun workout experience that closely mimics outdoor running.

The £900 White Tiger Chest is limited to 70 individually numbered and engraved boxes, which are “handmade in maple and ebony veneer maquetry, lined in ultra-elegant kumquat silk” and packed with 30 LUXE City Guides......

Gerhard Richter treats photographs like swatches and makes an entirely interesting incidental compositions.

Super-amazing letterpress birth announcement by Mattson Creative.

Hilarious video campaign by Honda Australia for the Honda Jazz...How much hipster can you pack into a Jazz?

Trailer for Olafur Eliasson: Space is Process. Directed by Henrik Lundø & Jacob Jørgensen.

Yi-ting Cheng's fun 'Secret Stash' project about concealing valuables, secrets, bad habits and personal information in our workplaces.

Located on a small island in the impressive Archipelago Sea of Southeast Finland this decent and well camouflaged wooden summer house was designed by the Helsinki based practice Huttunen–Lipasti–Pakkanen Architects.

Nona is a light box. Its shape suggest one of a panettone cake. Its design achieves a surprising play on light and shadows with organic and geometric patterns.

Discover design workshops at Boisbuchet, in partnership with Vitra Design Museum. In the middle of an amazing french chateau estate!

Innen Stadt Aussen
Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

What to Cook and How to Cook it ~ intriguing new book coming from Phaidon by Jane Hornby ~ love the cover!

The website for Bottega Veneta has a great page called " Hand of the Artisan". Really interesting to see all of the hard work that goes into their products.

What the fuck is my social media strategy? Refresh away for new social media buzz phrases...

Media Computing Group's 'Madgets' (Actuating Widgets on Interactive Tabletops). Madgets are magnetic widgets for interactive tabletops... capable of automated movement / inductive charging.

Sand made into contemporary sculptures by Anish Kapoor.

NOTCOT on Amex Open Forum ~ my latest experiment ~ "5 Things I Learned Cutting Off IM, Twitter, Email & Facebook"

The Inception Spinning Top Totem ~ On iconic movie items i can't get out of my head... movie aside, isn't this a gorgeous top? See how it's been spreading into merch... and the fun spinning video too!

Love these sculptural paper creations by Le Creative Sweatshop for a fashion Shoot for WAD magazine. Definitely bring accessories into the next dimension.

Hugh Turvey's X-rays of Flowers picture gallery. Visual goodness.

CIA: License to Inspire ~ a look at the new book from Central Illustration Agency ~ beautiful packaging, incredibly inspiring!