The echo park time travel mart. Need a day , a week, a year then come here. One of five stores of the 826 project .

Did you know there is a Cup Noodle Factory and Museum in Osaka? And you can create your own custom flavored Cup Noodle! I am amazed by these videos of Cup Noodles made from scratch.

Wickle ~ some pretty little designer fragrance packaging, that is simple, beautiful, and comes with cute necklaces to decorate them.

We heard you needed a goat? Here is a little stop motion video created to wish people happy holidays and support a good cause.

Author Douglas Coupland uses innovative marketing and typographic stop-motion animation for his new book, The Gum Thief.

Vipp introduces an Office Line of waste paper bins fitted with discreet casters, making them easy to move around. In addition, a top ring elegantly conceals the bin liner.

Fresh new graffiti-inspired interior design is taking over the West Coast!

Five and a Half. "the monochrome collection, winter 2007." Sustainably designed handmade journals, filled with 75 pages of sugarcane and recycled paper, and a canvas paper covers with original photography.

I almost spoke too soon. Now DFC has limited edition (only 50) terracotta tree stump stools with clear pyrex butterflies and flowers on them! $495 or as a side table for $1297.

Glue Glue Design has some great concepts to change the way we drink wine... like these crazy orange glasses... and an interesting bottle stopper...

Dominic Bromley of Scabetti Introuced a new line of lights at the 100% futures show. This one, SHOAL, is a must have!

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries has been doing Flash based web art for at least 5 years now. In a sentence: Visual beat poetry and narratives (with a little humour)! Samsung means "to come" :)

Hector Serrano is an innovative, Spanish product designer who puts a new spin on familiar objects, materials and forms. Check out a few of his projects.

Designersblock: illustrate, a fantastic new show featuring the work of 80 illustrators, designers and film-makers

"World's most famous graphic designer" David Carson opens a Swiss studio - here

Always worth taking a tour into the fantastic world of Mark Ryden... [Editor's note: check out the wood nymphs in his tree show]

a short animation by animator rinee shah about a girl traveling through an evil forest with her pet robot polar bear.

Marc Ecko is promoting his roots and graffiti with digital citylights.

These photos were taken the night before the organ was ripped out to be replaced as part of refurbishment. Photographer Dan Price tried his best to preserve it with these photos.

This summer, The Royal Parks Foundation, the charity for London's eight Royal Parks, celebrates a new collection of Deckchair Dreams and boasts a host of contributing artists.

ASTRONAUT this interactive music video grabs a different set of images from Flickr to match the lyrics.

It's the last deal for NotCouture launch week. Get 25% off at our good ol' San Diego store, Raw Clothing!

Glaser Designs - beyond being gorgeous, classic, handmade in san francisco... you must see the organization wonder that is their Insiders line of modular components for laptops, wine, files, etc.

An infographical depiction of all intimate relationship in 23 years graphic designer Gregory M. Dizzia was engaged in. Download the pdf to really appreciate it!

How every pi loving office building and university doesn't have these Pi Bike Racks is beyond me. By Landscape Forms.

Sony Design + Master Craft Lombardia
Italian Craftmanship and sony innovation.
Shown Here: Projection Table

Karakiri is a friendly octopus who's loving arm holds you when you sleep.
Custom made creature with a great buying experience.

Okay, I simply had to add these Theo Fennell sterling silver toe separators. For the ultimate pedicure!

Adorable solar race car - 57 x 42 x 17 mm.

"The Fantastic in Art and Fiction" from Cornell University features some fascinating illustrations and images from their rare manuscript collection. Nicely organized. (Could use a better site design.)

Hawkes Bay artist Ben Pearce is currently exhibiting at butterfly net. He's doing what we all wish we could do and turning his thoughts as a child into reality as an adult.

Some years ago now, but feels even more current than then. Scott King's work always on the mark.

Boynq's ToastIt doesn't toast bagels or english muffins, but it will read your memory cards.

Great to see the One Laptop Per Child (OLPCs) in the hands of these kids in Uruguay!

Brand new imagery from the original creator of "An American Self-Portrait" - Chris Jordan - yes those are cigarettes

USB Microscope - lusting after it already, not sure what i need it for, but am SURE it would make product reviews more fun somehow...

On interesting concepts... viz drink is looking to get you the most out of your vitamin infused water by using alka seltzer styled effervescence in the cap...

The SmartFish mini-aircraft prototype. It's so gorgeous and sleek! Does that mean maybe they'll actually make it? Please?!

Also love the idea of these wood slat tiles ~ instant patio, that you can even store when not in use... or in the bathroom? West Elm ~ 4 for 99$

Funny that OO wished for an Altoids phone in #3632, because I actually know a guy who made one...

An already venerable IBM Model M is retro-fitted with glass and nickel keys and mounted in a polished brass frame. [Editor's Note - fascinating how to images]

Beautiful reel of malaisian agency motion-graphics.

Brilliant t-shirt translation of McLuhan's Medium is the Message... by imaginary foundation for T-post's anniversary

Blue and Green LED alarm clocks from I.D.E.A.

Sketchfighter is a game designed to look just like those little doodles of spaceships you used to make in the margins of your notebooks in school. Brilliant!

Quick little saturday morning rant ~ on social shopping... some of the awesome thisnext/notcot users... and an end to the thisnext badges on notcot.com.