Crazy renderings of MVRDV's winning proposal for the city center of Gwanggyo, a Korean town, which incorporates greenery into the buildings.

Australian architect Richard Cole designed the Bluff Farm House, which is located in the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales, Australia.

photographs of poinsettia greenhouses outside of austin in seguin, texas. really beautiful, and neat to see the nurseries getting ready for the holidays

TAG commissioned designs from a set of diverse celebrities for the packaging of their body spray - Ami James incorporated classic tattoo artwork into his design while Jay-Z's speaks more about luxury with a faux (?) reptile skin covering.

Grab your waders, Venice is flooding! Great series of images from The Big Picture.

Zoran Konjarski's conceptual project for beer bottle design - “My concept to the bottle graphics were to move away from traditional beer graphics, and make the bottle design differentiate in the market by taking on an extreme modern and minimalist design."

Galactic Mail : Fedex vs UPS. Produced by The Mill.

Judge a book by its cover? Please do! Nice series of covers by Lucy Davey for Colin Cotterill's books about the Lao coroner Dr. Siri Paiboun. Awesome books by the way...

Pangea Organics ~ plant the holiday packaging and grow a SPRUCE TREE! Oh, and they are also offering you a 50% discount (friends & family, but you're friends now!)

great new wood flooring by Parador - inspired by an old warehouse

Beautiful poster for The Shins & Vampire Weekend concert by Kevin Tong

A little bit of potty humor and bad puns from Baxter of California ~ the men's grooming line is including these silly, yet cleanly designed, matches with all orders this holiday season!

Napkin art by Christophe Niemann in the NYTimes today is smashing, and drawn in coffee!

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #17: The 3rd giveaway from Seagate, here is the FreeAgent Desk in a whopping 1TB size and usb 2.0!

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo's Melting Men installation. Must have been complicated to make and install...

Of the countless trains running on Japan’s 12,000 miles rail network, a few are decorated with images of anime and manga characters, colorful ads, and designs by notable artists

Love the crazy interior courtyard of Fundo Izaro, designed by Martin Hurtado Architects.

Fantastic illustrations from Toronto based illustrator Antony Hare.

The Book Design Review posts the covers of some of the best designed books of 2008.

To celebrate Barbie’s 50 year anniversary Assouline just released a $500, 128-page tome chronicling the iconic doll’s glamorous history, called Barbie, by Yona Zeldis McDonough.

Love this print by Jon McNaught of a monster walking through a town - I like that the lit houses are opposite what I expect them to be - rather than a trail of destruction the monster leaves a trail of light.

Lee Moyer's prints and posters harken back to yesteryear, but his contemporary humor shines through. Be sure to check out the Spidey print and Melville poster.

First Lomography store in South America opened in Santiago, Chile. The store really represents the heart of Lomography, creating a very friendly, simple and creative atmosphere using everyday elements to decorate this Lomographic world.

Our friends at Design Glut are having a "Big Monday" contest... literally! Photo contest with their *free* tree topper!

Best Buy has nailed it with this video ~ Gifting is about the unboxing and experience of gifts ~ not just what you get! I LOVE this idea of giving someone a GPS and then having them use it to find the rest!!!

Colorful nesting bowls by Joseph Joseph.

Acoustica's QuietWeave is light, strong, thin and most importantly, cuts noise. Lets you have a $1000 acoustic door for a mere $5. Made from organic material. Brilliant!

Found audio site features pre-recorded answering machine greetings from the 80s!

Fascinating gun in garter tattoo ~ sources unknown....

30 chocolate pills to take in case of emergency!

Quirky jewelry by Natural Historie - love this cloisonne deer on a strand of pearls.

Islands is a series of sculptures showing miniature snapshots of life. Isolated pieces of land, that look like they were wrenched from the earth by some force of nature, are floating through nowhere.

Japanese architecture Shuheu Endo strikes another amazing project with Rooftecture, a house built on a small strip of land on a hill facing the sea.

And.... here's the link to this years awesome Core77's 77 gifts under $77 gift guide! Some very fun stuff, most familiar, some hilarious... now i want 30 lbs of dum dum pops for $54

I could never see practically using this, but it would be an amusing camera accessory... Opteka Hot Shoe Three Axis Triple Bubble Spirit Level for Digital and Film Cameras (found on the Core77 Gift Guide!)

Antonio Carusone just launched The Grid System, an ever-growing resource site on the topic of grid systems and anything associated to it.

An impressive sports centre in Bakio, Spain by ACXT

Stunning fashion photography by Michael Creagh for the Spring 2008 Susana Monaco Catalog.

The appropriately titled "Gluttony" lamp by designer Luis Luna. Finalist in the "house party" competition by designboom. I would eat under this...

Jonathan Ball's Power Up Mushrooms poster is adorable!

LifeRemains, by Netherlands based designer Ruud Havenith, brings life to the rigid skeletons that everyone knows from biology class and the museum.

A Danish furniture manufacturer is re-introducing this molded plywood chair that was designed by Grete Jalk in 1963. Only 300 of the originals were ever produced.

BBC Big Mic in Berlin Station

The simple sentiment on this card from b designs pretty much sums it up. Love it. (Deserve it.)