Ryohei Yoshiyuki is a Japan based product designer. His work is involved in many conceptual ideas such as this "Bread Palette".

Daniel Bjugård Photoetched Christmas Card made out of 0.2 mm hardened steel made in collaboration with Mikroponent AB - see it assembled!

cho hyung suk: modernatique furniture colection. I love the fusion of black walnut and white and colored ash.

HP Envy100 e-All-In-One ~ seriously, its so pretty and sleek it is like a magic box. That happens to print, scan, wirelessly connected with apps, makes toys, and even prints what you email to it! Reusable bag packaging even! See the unbox.

MTH residence by aat+Makoto Yokomizo Architects

East to West gift kits by Aesop - stunning packaging design! Each gift kit is dedicated to the captivating streets in which Aesop's signature stores are situated.

Currently spotted in Chicago and San Francisco, MINI family pack. Now with added adrenaline, by Butler, Shine Sterm & Partners.

The Resolution Generator is a state of the art program that creates accurate, personalized New Year's resolutions.

TK&A Architects put their heads together to wish their friends and clients a happy holidays

English designer-maker Selina Rose uses cutting-edge technology to create intricately cut felt homewares and bespoke interior surfaces.

Casa Grelha by FGMF among the awarded projects for the Brazilian Premio Asbea Arquitetura.

Susan Kare's classic Macintosh icons as prints.

Modern Times - sci-fi movie from UK-based art director BC2010 - Breathtaking sci-fi short made 'with no money, just a little time and a lot of passion' and a behind the scenes look at how it was done.

Madrid by Mawa Design is a frosty looking pendant lamp. Over 200 unique glass-pieces break the light in various ways, the blue LEDs make it look like ice.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #28: ISO50 is giving one lucky reader a super bundle from the shop: a choice of tshirt, a choice of thermal shirt, a choice of giclee, the Tycho Past is Prologue cd, and a Past is Prologue poster.

Cologne Oval Offices by German architecture firm Sauerbruch Hutton look especially seasonal in red and green.

The Absalon's works at his first solo exhibition, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin.

J-Tea boutique by Atelier Waechter.

Michael Wolf's Tokyo Compression series captures crowded commuter trains.

Google Lab's Body Browser lets you look inside the human body. You can look at different layers of the body and even interact with different organ systems.

Andreu Zaragoza's packaging design for Herokid, a clothing brand by Robert Roman.

Cthulhu Santa illustration, just in time for the holidays.

Porsche design Bobsleigh

Clever Christmas video made using a bunch of iPads from the team at Torchbox

Crazy Old Christmas Ads

Spin Table by Tomoko Azumi

Murakami Versailles ~ The once in a lifetime event was captured in the following book.

TIME/LIFE: Science/Library - A Revolution in a Quiet Room… A look at Dan Funderburgh's amazing retro science inspired exhibition in Barcelona at the Vallery.

Music Roamer adds another dimension to music map sites, by not only providing suggestions of similar artists, but also allowing you to listen to music directly on their site.

Porsche Baby 911 Speedster - too cute for words.

Awesome post-modern Gingerbread "Palazzo" in the Acura Season For Reason ad!

Ooh updated KORG iMS-20 app for iPad

Interesting modern cat shelf/toy...

Cabin Vardehaugen in Grøttingen - Norway by Fantastic Norway Architects

Beautiful seaside house in Japan by Yasutaka Yoshimura Architects.

Holiday Alibi - Wanna get out of all those random holiday shindigs and awkward family dysfunctions? This site let's you do exactly that. Just pick an email-able alibi from: jury duty, to volunteering at a nursing home, to being “detained” at the airport.

Entertainingly tactile letterpress & sticker biz cards, fittingly for a branding firm focusing on food and beverage clients: Stir.

By stirring a stone in a pool of olive oil, we give the illusion that it is dissolving and producing a flavoured sauce.

Cocktail lounge, Yucca Lounge, opens in Shanghai at Mansion 26F in Sinan Mansions.

Prosthetic Arm with functional design lets amputees pinch again

Nick van Woert his latest: Poor Me, a marble impregnated resin bust covered with polyurethane plastic - Awesome!

Movember is over, but you can celebrate the moustache all year with Most Wanted, the 2011 Moustache Calendar.

VoicePrints from Toronto is The Image of Sound. VoicePrints allows anyone to turn their unique voice into a custom, one of a kind work of art.

Cuore di pietra presents a Public Art project for the city of Pianoro.

The refurbished Gronigen Museum on the Verbindings Canal designed by Alessandro Mendini with Philippe Starck, Michele de Lucchi and the Coop Himmelb(l)au group.

Cool concept by artist Jim Darling portraying aerial panoramas in a series called, "Windows".

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #27 comes from Belkin! Chance to win a Belkin Flip Blade for iPad and a Belkin Conserve Valet!

Yeta Log Cabin from Lab Zero.

Gift Guide: for the Jetsetter on the Go! Fun, surprising mix of luxe and playful goodies!

Megan Geckler's installation at the Wexner Center for the Arts , Columbus, Ohio. Called 'Spread the Ashes of the Colors' the installation is constructed from interlacing strips of flagging tape.

Paul McClelland (PM custom) makes some beautiful pieces of furniture.

Christoph Niemann's awesome photo set using cookie dough to make us smile and think as he wishes everyone a happy new year!

In Belgium, AABE Erpicum & Partners has renovated and restored a suburban home into a modern and minimalist villa built around a pool of water.

Georgi Djongarski a bulgarian designer, which makes I-gloobox for vagabonds. tent that can house mangled is made of thick fabric, which is connected together with a band attached to the aluminum folding.

Renovation plans for 'The Great Rock' at the Budapest Zoo by Atelier Peter Kiss.

What I Saw Today ~ a collection of daily sketches of "cool stuff guys wear" by designer Richard Haines

New York City's first re-design of sidewalk sheds since the 1950s, besides being aesthetically pretty, creates wider sidewalk area for pedestrians, and reduces construction impacts on businesses.

VideoLAN has a special christmas greet in it's desktop player this year. I was surprised! Open it up and see for yourself...

Latest roundup looking back on another week of inspiration here at NOTCOT.org! Here are my favorites!

Eno & Normal Studio's Plant Label Stakes - you pop them out yourself!

Antrepo's last project is about simplicity and They try to find alternate simple version for some packages. Almost every product needs some review for minimal feeling.

Awesome PAPER GUITAR!

For the 10th edition of The Annual Year in Ideas, the New York Times Magazine has created a special cover allowing smartphone users, to interact with a QR Code made of balloons.

Oprah book pick 'A Tale of Two Cities' by Charles Dickens prompted a Penguin Classics cover redesign. But there was a gorgeous repackaging by Jim Tierney that didn't make the final cut for the newly published edition...

Parisian artist Ludo's latest ad subversion: a take on Benetton's classic line.

Better Days Tattoo Parlour was established in 2009 in the fine arts district of Santiago, Chile. BDT introduces us to their artists and gives us a look inside their studio. The owner, Nico Acosta, also shares why he loves being a tattooist.

At-Home Macaroon Maker - Macaroons made easy with this machine, which pops 'em out in original and animal-shaped varieties.

Matthew Palladino is in your art radar soon before you know it! Very original vision with witty elements that makes you feel uncomfortable yet comfortable.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #26: our friends from MOR are giving two lucky readers: a Dear Mr. Partrdige Gift Set, or a Soap Opera Gift Set!

Recently worked on MTV Music Meter, a new music discovery site that utilizes an algorithm developed by EchoNest to rank the top 100 emerging artists. The site works by tracking artist's social media buzz through twitter, blogs, and news feeds.

French company, Art & Toy, has created these stunning limited edition Lomoges Porcelain Potamus Anarchy figures in black and red editions - a collaboration between Frank Kozik & K.Olin Tribu.

This planter box is made of plastic are reproduced, so as to reduce environmental pollution, especially pollution of the soil. (more...)

Artists show their nerdy love for the original Star Wars trilogy in a trio of new posters he created for collectible art house Mondo.

PicTarot ~ in iPhone and real world forms from Pictoplasma! Every card illustrated by amazing artists you probably know and love!

Cute Mercedes-Benz holiday video...

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #25: Skip Hop! They are giving two lucky readers: a Night and Day Discovery Toy, a Friendly Forest Mirror, and Zoo Bookends.

A new building for the faculty of law at Beijing University, by Kokaistudios.

Google Nexus S | Ninja’s Unboxing 2

Self-taught painter and renowned British ‘street’ artist Adam Neate has a new exhibition at Elms Lester Painting Rooms. With a very distinctive style, his ’3D’ paintings look like a modern remix of Dali, Bacon and Picasso.

Graze customers in the UK found this amazing cardboard cut-out reindeer ready to build in their delivery this week.

"DOUBT" a book by TAXI Advertising + Design, Strategy Magazine's Agency of the Decade.

In Paris, the DesignPack Gallery made installations of christmas trees and other decorations only made with plastic bottles

Knock Knock Self Inking WTF?!?! Stamp

A third domino video by Jared Lyon. This time interpreting the events in TRON through glowing dominoes.

IKEA LILLABO Toy vehicle

Footstickers - Independent graduation project at Nike EMEA By: Frieke Severs

Graphic design office Pentagram has a 35-year-old tradition of producing a non-holiday-themed booklet for the holidays. Check out some amazing examples from their archives.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #24: A+R ~ the gorgeously minimalist David Turpin & Native Union’s Moshi Moshi MM03 Bluetooth Cellphone + VOIP Handset!

NEW!!! Wieden+Kennedy's Official YouTube Channel featuring icons, illustrations, and mantras from the agency and its culture. Art created by David Trujillo from holadavid.com

Beautiful iPad guitar amp App. Interaction Design by Jonas Eriksson, a Designer from Sweden.

We had a holiday party last weekend at the warehouse and perhaps the centerpiece of the event (and certainly the item that attracted the most attention) was our 7 foot tall Christmas tree made entirely of green books!

Morris Arboretum’s Tree Adventure exhibit Out on a Limb, designed by Metcalfe Architecture & DesignSuspended 50 feet above the forest floor this network of walkways (450-feet in length) provides a bird’s eye view of the forest.

«You can solve any task, but you should see it first…»
Calendar - Illusion from Vladislav Novikov-Barkovsky (Red Richman Creative Studio)

volcanic chair is a chair made from molten volcanic rock that is formed into a unique and unusual chairs. want to know the original?

Ryan Mason is a tattooist in Portland, OR. He obsesses about basketball & says he’s determined to set foot on every continent and swim in every (reasonably safe) body of water in the world.

Create your own Christmas Star—
Download the cut-out sheets as pdf

This December Rimowa is reintroducing that iconic 1950s corrugated case as part of a limited-edition series appropriately labeled 1950.

Are you a Mixology Master? Take our Liqurious Quizzes over at The Master of All Skills challenge we've made with DonQ!!! (See our fun watercolors in the quiz!)

Casa in Puglia: the architect Pietro Pichler renovated a fascinating masseria in the province of Lecce.

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