'Nagi Apartment' in Tokyo by Eiri Ota and Irene Gardpoit Chan from Uufie Architects.

Plan your escape this weekend with a few inspirations from Notventures.

'Plastic City' by artist Bang-Yao Liu is a recreation of the city of Shanghai made completely from inexpensive plastic boxes, bins and other assorted products commissioned for Converse’s ongoing artist series.

The Corcoran Gallery of Art and College of Art + Design and the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) celebrate a second year of a unique partnership during the NADA Art Fair in Miami Beach, from December 2 to 5, 2010.

This machete is a hybrid between an axe, a machete and a billhook. It can be used as a multi cutting tool. Physics behind the blades design is similar to the physics of a French guillotine.

Crystalline interpretations of world famous architectural works by Russian artistic duo Blue Noses.

(n)arcissus is a site specific installation designed and produced by SOFTlab for NODE10.

Il Grattacielo in Tasca, the new Guido De Zan’s vessels and sculptors inspired to Pirellone skyscraper.

from french designer/artist Mathieu Miljavac. making art from 'naturally expired' animals creates some of the chicest and artistic displays we've ever come across...

Peppersprouts has a great collection of laser wood engraved coasters that include modern chairs, homes, birds and classic silhouettes.

Swiss-born painter Raffaello Ossola alters perspective by turning the world upside down. Trees inhabit land and sky, or are we fooled by their reflections?

Ben The Bodyguard iPhone App coming soon ~ nice website design to scroll through... beautiful graphics!

Giant pink snails have invaded Miami! Still, don't panic - it isn't a Bmovie come to life it's the latest installation by groovy Italian artsters CAG.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #8: Triple Aught Design has some amazing gear for you to win to keep you warm while looking good and ready for anything!

Gift Guide ~ for Photographers!

DRAFTFCB, Auckland created this stencil for Prime TV show - Psychic Investigators. It illustrates the psychic ability to discover crimes that have been committed by using their mind and nothing else.

Readot scans text and images into Braille to help visually impaired to feel them

"Nestor's Nest" by French designer Frédéric Ruyant.

Series 2 is complete - artist's INSA, Sylvia Ji and Yoskay Yamamoto finish the Limited Edition Cup and Saucer line up - festively dripping with real 24kt gold.

The University of Dundee’s satellite receiving station captured this image of how the heavy snow of the past week has affected the UK.

Kirsten Rutherford and Lisa Jelliffe (Brothers & Sisters) haunting poster installation “Making the invisible visible” in London is a collaboration with Mentalgassi in support of Amnesty International.

TDK brings back the boombox with their stylish modern 2 and 3 speaker models.

New series of modern city maps: Manhattan, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and DC!

At the 60th Annual Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance, Robert Ross speaks with noted Duesenberg restoration expert Randy Ema, as well as Sam Mann, owner of an award-winning 1930 Duesenberg J.

GIFT GUIDE: Incredible Edibles ~ delicious delights you can surprise people with - and all orderable online!

Counterweighted bell jars add to the ultra-modern design aesthetic of La Pâtisserie des Rêves’ pastry shop in Paris

PLAYSHAPES = GOOD design which encourages open creative play for children and.....adults.

Beautiful minimal residence Warborn Apartment designed by Caiano Morgado Architects.

Álvaro Siza’s designed this incredible auditorium for the Universidad del País Vasco in Bilbao.

Boris Dennler's Wooden Heap is a surprising piece of furniture that invites the public to look beyond appearances.

The sake bomb set, now with new colors for the holiday season.

Ardesco Houses in Yalikavak, Mulga, Turkey by Teget Architectural Office.

Aron Fay's conceptual redesign of the Design Museum Shop's packaging.

The Hundreds x Garfield Pop Up Shop opens in Santa Monica today!

A tiny little shop in Bethnal Green that is an extraordinary collection of the weird and the wild! Called The Little Shop Of Horrors.

2011 // Linear Month Calendar Print. A brand-new style of calendar that shows each month as a complete line organized on weekly columns. Limited run of letterpress prints available in red, black, & blue.

Art Basel Miami Beach just kicked off with the unveiling of the Exhale Pavilion, a shimmering art installation composed of 7 miles of phosphorescent ropes.

This is a Zombie Headhunters Union Tshirt. Designed/printed by LovelyMpls.

The posts are looking delicious on Tasteologie and the drinks at Liqurious are quite literally on fire!

Adam Good at Pulse Art Fair Miami. New Obsolescents displays photographs in iPods that have been hacked to only show one image. When purchased, they are fully charged, and then their power ports (and images' fate) are sealed.

"Le Nouvel Odéon" by french designer Matali Crasset. A new movie theatre in Saint Germain des Prés - Paris.

Urban Outfitters Corporate Campus, designed by Meyer Scherer & Rockcastle transformed four dilapidated historic buildings in Philadelphia’s Navy Yard, into an award winning adaptive reuse headquarters.

Developed in response to a brief set by Alain Berteau to rethink the coat rack as an object type, Patrick Seha's 'Piano' for Belgian label Feld turns an everyday object into a sculptural piece.

Mad Men print collaboration between Print Mafia and Hero Design Studio

Photos of Geoff McFetridge - The third installment of an ongoing series entitled Portraits of an Artist by photographer Lou Mora .

"Les Lalanne at Fairchild," the largest outdoor exhibition of works by French sculptors Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne in the U.S.

Tiny Plane Spotting! A new variation of our favorite Operation Window Seat? They are so amazingly small in a sea of clouds!

Gift Guide! A random plethora of super fun crazy stuff for creatives ~ This one is all about unexpected goodies for those creative folks in your life!

Fitness via Samsung TV Apps ~ an exploration of ideas and ways TV apps can turn into their own workout! Get creative!

Comprised of 50 ceiling-mounted, LED devices that emanate from a mechanical arm, pushing light through the custom-cut Swarovski crystal lens, Troika's installation at Design Miami is delicate, elegant and exquisite.

UVP just unveiled an installation by Jenny Holzer that streams across the façade of a theater in Syracuse, NY on an LED curtain. It features 272 aphorisms from her series: Truisms, and Survival.

The Norwegian/Sweedish brand Håkki has added wax to their collection. Håkki became really famous for their print t-shirts a couple of years ago,and have a unique stile on their products and interior!

Axes are a trend? Then you have to check out Uncle Pimpy's Axe Palace! Awesome restoration and re-hafting.

UNESCO is featuring an incredible exhibit of satellite images of the ravages of climate change
at the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP16). Shown above: a satellite image of glacial recession in the Ilulissat Icefjord.

Sea Ark Sheep is a curiously flexible font whose playful appearance belies its chameleon character. Featuring crazy open-type features, it's an incredibly unique typeface.

Switch is unloading sweet schwag & gifts for the 12 Days of Switchmas...whether you choose to grab an item for FREE, bid on an auction item or simply give to charity, 100% of the proceeds go to Independence Center, St. Louis.

Distortion Candlestick by Areaware. A traditional candlestick form is distorted through a 3D rendering program, rapid prototyped, then cast.

Munich La Roca shop in Barcelona by Bailo+Rull ADD arquitectura displays shoes on conveyor belts.

If you’re sick of hearing Frank Sinatra tell you that he wants to be a part of it, or Alicia Keys gushing about how these streets will make you feel brand new, then rejoice – here’s an alternative musical history of the Big Apple.

Cafe/House in Akiyama by Makoto Yamaguchi design.

Every issue of Playboy Magazine from 1953 - 2010 on a sexy portable hard drive.

Pillars of light designed by Swedish artist Florian Kynman made of corte steel.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #7: Normann Copenhagen ~ gorgeous lamps to light up your life!

The language of water. A beautiful and moving stop-action video by JOHN GRANT.

Miss Bugs are a street art duo who specialise in cutouts. This image shows an obese grotesque figure modelling the positives of Mcdonald's. It is a pardoy of both McDonalds and the Fashion Advertising

Artist and Landscape designer Paula Hayes expands upon the classic terrarium with these SciFi indoor garden installations, currently on show at MoMA.

Simple and minimalist concrete house was designed by Chinese architect Atelier Zhanglei. All walls, roof and facade is made of concrete.

The last Clemens Behr's installation at Beuth University in Berlin.

CoolHunting goes on set with Aston Martin as they shoot a trio of 90s videos in Lisbon.

Exclusive limited–edition Bill Amberg BlackBerry Bold 9780 smartphone in yellow.

These swiss army axes come in two sizes.

Engraver José Cruz Guillén Peña in action shows the Pepite engraving method.

The Last Newspaper exhibit at the New Museum, New York from October 6, 2010 – January 9, 2011.

Balloon bench by Japanese designer, Satoshi Itasaka. "This bench was visually inspired by the feeling of floating that the main character felt in the French movie, Le Ballon Rouge".

Collaboration between Steph. Cop and the K.Olin Tribu company. K.Olin recreated the original ARO (ANALYSE REFLEX OBSESSIONAL) of the Imaginary Friends, in Limoges porcelain.

Giant Transformers Optimus Prime ice sculpture.

A slide show of beautiful Earth images selected from NASA satellites.

Sheep stool for Green Furniture Sweden by Rimgaile Samsonite.

Starbucks 12 Days of Sharing ~ a fun and unique sponsorship here on NOTCOT.org ~ with fun goodies popping out from behind some of the posts!

Limited edition laser etched iPad. Designed by Wieden+Kennedy & ILoveDust. Love the metal brief case too!

Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century- a new book by Carl Schoonover.

New vortex bottles by O-I for MillerCoors.

Steam Roaster by Compeixalaigua Design Studio.

The QR cloud project in Amsterdam by Golfstromen.

Tokujin Yoshioka's store design shows off the work of designer Issey Miyake.

Podium 1 jewellery store in Paris with interiors by Artbureau I/1.

Sunset Boutique in Hollywood by patterns studio.

Take a sneak peek at Design Within Reach's Spring 2011 collection, including Elan, a bentwood outdoor collection from Axel Enthoven, Jean-Pierre Geelen and Alain Denis.

Shop Pedal, the first community bike shop in the dangerous and beautiful Tijuana.

Victorinox SwissChamp Hardwood Knife featuring a very nice exotic wood exterior.

Eco Pocke My Hashi. Cute reusable chopsticks in a great case from Idea International.

There’s lots to love about this week’s NOTCOT.org roundup which includes great packaging, new gadgetry, stunning illustration and more.

MAGNET TABLE by London based designer Amy Hunting.

Modern cedar fence by artisan at Dioxua in Portland, OR. Small scale architectural projects with lasting impressions.

American artist Andrew Smith resides in Lehi, Utah, a small town outside slat lake city where he crafts unusually complex and colourful kinetic sculptures. This one is called; "driving force"

Dutch designer Floris Wubben presents his No. 3 Bench. Corrugated propylene draped over a natural wood surface with lacquered metal rods.

The new graphics by Studio LoSiento.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #6: Supermarket! A bundle of designer goodies from around the world! See all the giveaway details with how to comment for a chance to win!

Pseudo Suede Studios creates a new motion graphics music video for the song Fool's Quest from the Rowan Converse album, Break Failure.

BlackBerry Empathy Concept Phone by Art Center students Kiki Tang & Daniel Yoon