Notre Dame Industrial Design Professor Ann-Marie Conrado has been traveling to Nepal with her students designing saleable locally produceable crafts.

Beautiful, elegant sterling silver spinning tops from Reddish called simply spin.

Stunning public school in Votorantim, Sao Paolo designed by Alvaro Puntoni.

It's always fun to revisit vintage packaging. Gotta love the Chadwick Magic Brain Calculator from the 50s. It never makes a mistake and can add, subtract and multiple up to 99,999,999!

Vision Racer VR3 is an impressive simulator complete with a fiberglass racing seat, stainless steel frame, pedal and gearshift mounts and a LCD and console stand.

Swiss design firm OOS designed this gorgeous interior in the Albert Reichmuth wine store, Zurich.

Erick van Egeraat, Combarel-Marrec, Manuelle Gautrand, Pierre Gautier and Winy Maas designed this stunning building in Lyon.

i-way, an an unusual venue in Lyon dedicated to high end car simulators. It houses18 different vehicles that can be driven using six degrees of movement. Designed by Cyrille Druart.

Kyle Fletcher designed this no nonsense packaging and naming for Classic Muscle, a dietary supplment.

If you are an easy target of vintage Scifi, you will be drooling for hours on the series that Kahn & Selesnick created.

The Forsthaus Hotel, in Ramsen, Germany, is a converted old forester house designed by Naumann Architektur. The project modernized the old structure through the use of pop colors, clean lines and unexpected details.

Asylum's packaging for the Chocolate Research Facility.

Pocket Lint's Stuart Miles interviews One & Co, the industrial design agency behind the Kindle, Microsoft Arc and every HTC phone since the Diamond.

In the age of the megaproject, time-lapse photography allows us to conceive of the process of building at a scale that we would never be able to imagine otherwise - see our 10 favorites.

Autumnal colors are taking over at Tasteologie and Liqurious this week with their warm, delectable reds, yellows and golds.

Barkitecture 2010. Austin's best architects and designers put their skills to creating dog houses. This is Studio Autoforma's entry which won "Most Unusual".

Shared space, a circular bench from one 10m beam by Chris Kabel.

ApothecaryZero - Great selection of vintage & primitive pieces from all over the USA.

Behind the scenes at Philadelphia’s venerable art collective, Space 1026... enough DIY-punk-rock authenticity to blow the fake lumber jack gear off half the borough of Brooklyn!

The Department Store, a new retail destination modelled on the traditional department store experience of the 1920s and 30s. The identity by Brogen Averill focuses on the understated values of the department store concept.

ShOkki The encounter between the origin and the urban, a craftsman and a designer. Available at Fleux & Home autourdumonde . Paris. From Laurent Corio.

Sway is a rocking chair by Markus Krauss from Germany. This oversized beauty can be fixed to a solid stand or will be your new rocking sofa replacement.

Cumulus is a Christmas ball designed by Mendel Heit and produced by the CIAV of Meisenthal. Cumulus is the easiest way to bring back your own little cloud at home.

Vintage Herman Miller tv commercials were at times absurd, visually interesting, or just clearly from another time period. The reinterpretations of the classic Herman Miller logo as a moustache and the animated intros are a couple of the highlights...

Mark Brown and Marc Cameron painted supercars with light bulbs. Presented the last set light graffiti photos.

PostCarden's Winter Wonderland design is a mini garden you can send in the post! It helps to liven up the predictable Christmas mail, transforming into a living green gift in a matter of days

Ingenious illustrations by Johan Thörnqvist.

This very cool animation takes one man's life and allows us to watch it all unfold on Facebook. Produced by Maxime Luere it is funny, insightful and if you use Facebook perhaps provides some food for thought too.

'Elle' system by Italian firm Rapsel. A bathroom cabinet that incorporates a sink and storage in a single Corian and wood module. Compact and contemporary.

3 new typographic limited edition prints from Seb Lester, 'Dreams', 'Stars' & 'So Much To Do'.

LA Canvas is a new Los Angeles based magazine focusing on the arts, fashion, tech, and LA living.

'The Fastest Light in the World' is a series of luminous objects created by London designer Freddie Yauner.

‘Watering Holes’ fountain by Robin Monotti Graziadei. Winner of the Tiffany Across the Water & Royal Parks Foundation International Competition. Features circular holes for adult, children/wheelchair and pets' drinking heights.

The new bench from Hasselfors Garden comes with legs, a shelf and a position for creepers tp wriggle upwards. Growing The bench is made of heat-treated wood.

Concept stackable pushpins, made from cork.
Inspired by MUJI. By Studio Ve.

Sleek 'Subito' pressure cooker by Konstantin Grcic for Serafino Zani in blackened stainless steel.

New photo shoot for sneakers brands Satorisan by the french fashion blog EnModeFashion.

LAMP is an album by Olga Nunes-- and it's also a story built around the music, told through letters, art installations & film.

In order to create the necessary amount of awareness for the Model Maker Fair, Ogilvy Vienna created and produced the world's smallest balloon.

THE MISPLOTS: homes produced from mistakes during the computerized fabrication process.

Design for a transportable storage shed / lounge / boutique.

Amanda Visell's Posters for Girls - perfect for every girl in your life, big or small! Because she IS a maverick, she CAN save herself, she is WILD, and she is her OWN captain!

i3DG ,invented by Jitsuro Mase, turns your 2D iPhone/iPod screen into a layered 3D viewer without the need of 3D glasses using a variation of a simple technique called 'peppers ghost'.

Miilu, an installation by Sami Rintala. Part of XII Biennale di Venezia.

Natura line: pots and pans made of recycled aluminum, designed by Sebastian Bergne for Tefal.

It took 40,000 cherry tomatoes for Caspian Michalowski and Kevin Sullivan to create this sculpture of the HarvestMark logo.

Part of its 'DRINKS' campaign, ABSOLUT VODKA has used the bustling streets of Chicago to bring to life the unique universes created by visionary photographers, Ellen Von Unwerth and Amanda De Cadenet. By TBWACHIATDAY.

Rebecca Snelling - Workroom Design, New Zealand has just launched the new 'matt black' or her angle table lamp 2.0. Made from recycled oak and spun metal.

Nando Costa created the "FOTB 2010 titles" video through the use of macro motion pictures and materials with magnetic properties.

Australian Designer Henry Pilcher has designed Block 2, a light encased in an 'icosahedron' (20 identical equilateral triangles) and crafted from mountain ash, spun metal (shades) and colour-matched custom aluminium brackets.

The Onedotzero Festival in London included this incredible audiovisual installation of Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano by Joanie Lemercier of AntiVJ.

Tiffany Bozic's Confiding to Strangers exhibition at New York's Joshua Liner Gallery.

Introducing the Martell Amber Lamp by Jean Nouvel.

The gallery Emmanuel Perrotin present the Paola PIVI's exhibition - entitled "What goes round - art come round" - includes these lamps in UNTITLED, composed entirely of Vitra miniatures.

Mercedes-Benz Advanced Design uses Sculpture and Art as ways to explore abstract concepts... see this stunning series of 4, with honeycombed perspectives, stringy batmobiles, chaotic layering, and polygons...

"Emergency Cabinet" by Dutch designer Tom Frencken. This cabinet keeps a bible to prevent you from reading it until its absolutely necessary.

Smart (like the car) escooter FASHION concepts! Functional chic, with details like a leather clutch that doubles as the back protector of the leather jacket, reflective detailing, stylish/protective cuffs and more.

The FB Collection make gorgeous paddles for playing Frescobol, a popular sport on Brazillian beaches.

Prefabs, packaging and puppies, this week’s NOTCOT.org roundup has it all.

FARM Singapore created a sculptural light installation called The Tree at the National Museum of Singapore!

Mercedes-Benz Biome Concept car 1:1 model unveiling at the Design Center in Calrsbad ~ an organically inspired skeletal design with great details.

'Tangible / Experimental User Interface' by Georg Reil and Christoph Döring reacts to movement, rotation, tilt and pressure. Created using Processing and Arduino.

12.11.10 Metallic Machination @ Toy Art Gallery in Los Angeles, CA with Cris Rose, DrilOne, Phu!, Jester, and Rohby. If you love rust, rivets, machines, robots, military, futuristic artwork, then be there.

Business card for Paul Redrup, a local criminal defense lawyer, instantly set him apart from the typical, bland cards that most lawyers carry. Designed by Ben Morales.

An award-winning time capsule Mid Century Modern home survived basically untouched for over 50 years in small town Ontario! Completed in 1960, drafted by Saul Herzog with James Secord as architect.

Antique Culinary Image on Book Spines from Juniper Books

On December 4th, the UK's Historics at Brooklands will auction off Churchill's 1939 Daimler DB18 Drophead Coupé.

Photographer Andrew Zuckerman whose stunning photos dazzle in Creature, Bird and Wisdom is back with Music.

Debra Folz's The Whole Story is a photo album with a removeable spine that stands on its corner.

Singgih Kartono's Klock-01 for Areaware.

The looplamp by dutch Yvette Jacobs is a real beauty.

If you haven't yet been able to get to London to see Chinese artist Ai WeiWei's magnificent sunflower seed installation, here's another opportunity to see his work, Nov 18th - Mar 27th at Copenhagen's Faurschou Gallery.

"Laboratory of living" in Utrecht by Studio Rolf & Zecc Architecten.

'Troy' stacking chair by Marcel Wanders for Magis in beech plywood with high relief pattern on the back side is now available in natural, bleached and stained black/wenge finish.

Meticulously recreated, yet with his own – often dark – personality etched upon them, the 100 covers that comprise brilliant illustrator, JP Thurlow's new exhibition at Hoxton's KK Outlet are breathtaking and fascinating.

The Trolley by german designer Patrick Frey is modern furniture that really fits your needs.

Strapsar make handsewn camera straps with an urban touch. Straight from Germany. Watch out!

The Georgia Aquarium shows off their gorgeous baby Weedy Sea Dragons.

Architects Joris De Schepper and Thomas De Ridder at S.M.A.K – Museum of Modern Art in Ghent offer visitors a glimpse at the museum behind the scenes.

The Fedrigoni 2011 calendar has arrived.

Design Museum Boston's "Creative Capital" exhibition, in partnership with the Boston Redevelopment Authority, AIR Graphics and VDA Productions.

Stairs house by y+M Design Office in Oda-City, Shimane-Pref, Japan.

Paris-based grow little terrariums.

The beautiful 'Binic Lamp' designed by Ionna Vautrin for Foscarini, a table lamp inspired by deck-top air vents on boats.

This table was designed by Martin Dieterle, made from pieces of solid timber and painted with lacquer.

300 series chronograph wristwatch by uniform wares

The Enclave is an interior design project by Jamie Herzlinger. This contemporary project was done for a world traveler client, living in Milan. Amazing transformation from 'before' photos.

Newly launched blog called foTO (Focus on Torontonians) features a Toronto-based creative person once a month. They've started it off with graffiti artist Posterchild. Striking photography and light-hearted writing.

Vote FOR me _ a new handmade screenprint poster by Gian Francostezu ... and now 'VOTE FOR ME'

Marimekko's Flower Market Show for Spring/Summer 2011 collection. Watch the video !

A new skateboards series, a collaboration between the artist ELNA and Ripper Skateboards company, inspired by the the space, nature and weather, original vector art by the artist.

This Posters shows, how many floppies are enough for current softwares. Result (Approximate) 46 disk for iTunes 8.02, 358 disk for Adobe Photoshop CS4, 1760 disk for the Sims 3, 12 disk for Firefox 3

Custom-modified vintage globes from ImagineNations.

Seaquence. An experimental "music petri dish" that allows you to create dynamic, biological musical sequences.

Knock Knock ring. A solid walnut ring with a brass knocker, you can “knock on wood” no matter your surroundings. Designed by Pat Kim.

Cascais ArtSpace 2010 showcased new works from Portuguese artists Paulo Arraiano, Mar, Leonor Morais and Lucas. Graffiti inspired, laser engraved on wood, ink and installations in one show.

Ensemble, The Style of Music is a series of posters featuring Iconic Outfits from 20 Male Musicians. Designed by Glenn Michael from Moxy Creative House, and illustrated by James Alexander.

The Cube stove series by MCZ. Minimal design pellet stove thanks to the absence of front jets, made of steel with ceramic or soapstone front, aluminum black powder-coated black top and base.

Type Union is a place for anyone to share their type work. You don’t have to be a member and you don’t have to be a world-famous designer; if it’s good, submit!

Klhip is a revolutionary nail clipper, reverse engineered so that pressure is applied right above the blade. Better ergonomics. Effortless cutting. Lifetime use.