Nicely designed bottles for Norwegian rapeseed oil. The brand is called Odelia and the design is by Panoramadesign.

Hannes Broecker created an interesting interactive show in Dresden. Each piece is filled with a colorful, drinkable cocktail, and visitors were encouraged to grab a glass and indulge!

Zebra Crossing is now one of the most popular element of guerrilla marketing. This time, it has been used in order to draw attention to the “Settimane dell’Architettura e del Design”, an international appointment between designers, architets and passionates.

A house/studio for a brazilian architect in Sao Paulo, by MMBB Architects. A concrete cube that stands on a delicate structure for an outstanding effect.

The debate for animal sculptures is on! My favorite is Deborah Butterfield. Bronzed sculptures give the illusion of driftwood.

A different color for everyday of the year. The 2008 Colour Calendar by Moritz Zwimpfer

Thank you, Rob Sheridan, for making Christmas as spooky as Halloween!

A floating house for a salmon farm in southern Chile. It helps reduce the human footprint. The hotel floats on a big block of floating concrete. By Sabbagh Arquitectos.

Simple typography on the latest affordable ($25-44) canvas reusable shopping bag ~ this time by Beau Soleil, and it even has pockets inside and out!

Branchement wine decanter lays down some very visible test tube like roots.

Tobias Wong creates a limited edition piece for CITIZEN:Citizen, it's black, very black, and comes loaded.

The MANTRA by Mr Jones is a watch with alternating positive and negative comments like "you are amazing" or "nobody likes you". Sadly the model is sold out but there are others

MISSBEHAVE - by Katwo Puertollano is now on display at Route 196, Katipunan QC, Philippines. Inspirations drawn from awesome women everywhere.

Rodrigo Bruna does incredible things with Toast. In this case, Reconstruccioniepce, this wall border is made with toast recycled from his previous piece.

The FleetHorse is a prototype Horse/Electric hybrid. No really, there is a horse inside, on a threadmill, which charges the batteries. Whaa?!?

JL Audio facility tour that shows how the Gotham is made. [Editor's Note: really interesting walk throughs of the factory!]

LG did Prada, Motorola did Dolce & Gabbana, apparently the sleek Samsung SGH-P520 is the new Armani Phone

you can buy fancy designer baby chicks for about $2 each...this one looks like he's wearing a superhero mask! They are all so cute that you will start to think rasing a chicken in an nyc apartment is a good idea.

Karl Lagerfeld asked 15 artists to create work inspired by the iconic quilted Chanel bag (1955). Hadid’s sculptural building, started after a conversation with him last fall, captures new geometries in design and architecture.

Can't afford your own Transformers toy? Well why not design and make your own?! A mind-blowing paper model including work in progress pics!

Danish artist Julie Nord had her first UK solo show this summer... her work looks amazing!

Complex.com interviews the punk rock all-father of vinyl toy design and creator of the infamous smoking labbits: Frank Kozik. Read up on what he's done and more importantly, what's next.

Nokia Prism Collection 7900 and 7500 - simple beauty ~ i like the blue one!

While everyone else has been talking about Damien Hirst, Subodh Gupta's 1000 kilo sculpture, A Very Hungry God, has been floating in Venice's Grand Canal.

More NotCouture launch week goodness! On Thursday we have a special discount at shopjake.com for you. If I could make that store my own personal closet I'd be in heaven... Get to shopping!

Ninja Key cap!

For those who don't need the corkscrew... check out fred's other bottle opener - Luckey

Also from Fred & Friends... Bottle-Biner! corkscrew and bottle opener have never been handier.

Comic Con sneak peak - David Pressler will be launching Stupid Little Robot Buddy! "Technology has never been so dumb! Stupid Little Robot Buddy is at your service. Ready to help but end up wrecking your stuff. " (ltd to 35)

With all the Harry Potter finale drama, Pirate Bay has once again been at the center of it... and has yet another nice home page graphic that links you to searching for it.

Sheep stool - designer: - Hanns-Peter Krafft, 1982 - materials: Real sheep-skin over a body of jute skin filled with wood shavings, with head and legs in solid wood. Ears are made of leather.

at the top of the pencil sits a seed. when the pencil gets too small you plant it.

Aqva Garden is an ingenious system designed by ecoLogicStudio in collaboration with another two young designers (Francesco Brenta and Laura Micalizzi), presented for the first time at this year's Milan Furniture Fair.

Los Angeles based Hello/Bye (Sun An) is pretty much unstoppable in the areas of art direction, design, typography, illustration, animation and videos. Take a look at the latest - excerpts from an interview and artist profile in Arkitip #30

With its exposed gears and post-modern typeface and LED illumination, this has got to be the coolest flip clock I've seen so far. From Dutch designer Will Vanden Vos.

NOTCOT.org made it into the latest Web Design Index 7 by Pepin Press!!! (i'm kind of giddy)

Site of russian design studio Ladio. Follow the ornament!

NOTE: Flash site best viewed at full screen.

Soo-in Yang and David Benjamin (The Living)'s RIVER GLOW: a floating LED light system embedded in bodies of water to warn of water pollution (in addition to creating an ethereal glow at nighttime

Hands on review of Reyka Vodka - pics, videos, the works... i think its my new favorite, and its made from glacial water and it's the first vodka distilled and bottled in Iceland and completely eco friendly.

Beautiful slideshow. Score one for analog... archipels by philippeb.ca

KeyPort - its what you've been waiting for to streamline that keychain of yours... just get copies cut on these special blanks and slot them in. RFID, Alarm Entry, and LED's in development.

Trend: Geeky Wedding Cakes. Nintendo, Super Mario and Star Wars. YUMMO!

Dalek previews new works showing that his style has become much more complex in recent times.

SkateChalkBoard ~ by mary and matt

This might need to be the next house for Shade Elaine's Mr. Chompers (the venus fly trap) - Regent House Tabletop Terrarium

'MINI the book' details the history of the Mini from its birth in 1959 all the way through to going head to head with Charlize Theron for hottest cast member in the Italian Job. I'll let you decide who won that battle...