Xylocopa's Young Mad Scientist's First Alphabet Blocks come in packs of 5 blocks (covers all 26 letters), each engraved with an illustration depicting a different mad scientific discipline.

NOTCOT.org shoppable roundup of goodies from the last few days!

UNIQUE Los Angeles ~ over 200 indie designer vendors under one roof! Dec 13th and 14th ~ check out some we liked from the list ~ and we're also giving away 10 pairs of tickets!

The IKEA create the"World's Biggest Rack" to promote the new catalogue.

Super cute stop motion animation of the Pecanpals by Noferin. I cant believe these are made from wood. Beautiful packaging too.

Dictionaraoke - Dictionary Karaoke!!! Audio clips from online dictionaries sing the hits of yesterday and today. The fun of karaoke meets the word power of the dictionary.

Fun, retro-style candy wrappers designed by Brittany Pickrem for Sugah! Confectionery & Ice Cream Shop in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Toronto’s Resistor Gallery will open their latest exhibition, entitled “Domovo”, tonight. Featuring all-new work from artists Marek Colek & Pat Schewchuk, also known as Tin Can Forest.

At the first glance, the Snowmobile appears to be a frowning, angry, snow scooter with an aggressive stance, and with an impressive presence.

Roy Doty’s legendary annual Christmas Cards. The highly imaginative collection, dating back to 1950, features puzzles, contraptions, and other creative twists.

Didi Dunphy's Products for Modern Convenience is like bringng a hip playground into your home. See saws, swings, indoor skateboards and more are fun and functional.

An interesting article on the history behind studio logos

Danish furniture manufacturer Gubi is cooperating with six designers, architects and artists. The result is five one-of-a-kind designs that are exhibited in GUBIs showroom in Copenhagen until December 23rd, 2008. Seen below are three of the exhibits.

New TV spot for Rexona: Toys. "Makes bacteria totally harmless", showing bacterias just like toys and teddy bears.

Audi 1939. Beautiful and beautifully scanned sales brochure.

Belgian chocolatier makes a chocolate 45 rpm record! I wonder if it first stops playing or becomes to gross to eat...

Painter Tim O'Kane's hyper-realistic still lifes are always unexpected and sometimes not a little erotic...

Located in Scottsdale, Arizona is the Bradley Residence designed by Michael P. Johnson.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway 20: StrangeCo is giving away a toy bundle for all ages: - Mr. TTT - Rainbow + Julie West's Limited Edition Bumble & Tweet Tree Edition + TokiDoki's Captain Coco

Beautiful Tetris bracelet by Sylwia Calus. There's one on sale in her Etsy shop for $70, but it's reserved for someone else. (Typically Etsy artists will create more of an item by commission.) I bet she could make a terrific Tron bracelet.

Japanese Artist Fumie Sasabuchi reworks the pages of fashion magazines and deconstructs the perception of a perfect physique while playing a lot with the subject of death

Xmas Cheat Sheets! The idea is that you print one out for your other half and get them to fill in the their vital stats, then go out shopping with confidence that you’ll buy the right size and they’ll fit come Christmas day.

A grow your own wine rack kit to delight any DIY, gardening, or wine enthusiast.

The photography of Kim Boske, "decay can be very slow."

Gold and the holidays seem so natural together. This set of gold glazed bowls by a talented Parisian duo would make an excellent holiday gift for that person who seems to have everything.

Sofia Coppola directs the new Miss Dior Chérie fragrance commercial. Very dreamy.

The HoundRound dog exercise wheel. A giant hamster wheel for dogs!

"Make Yourself" is a very cool + colourful new promo spot for PUC by Santiago-based design/animation shop DAf.

This website shows all of the different recreated illustrations of Alice & Wonderland. Very inspiring.

Kim Rugg's alphabetized newspaper front pages meticulously compiled with a razor, steady hand, and plenty of patience.

ORIGAMI... a beautifull video of the Kihachiro Onitsuka, the creator of ASICS brand...

Artism is an independent organisation aiming to create a book bursting with artists/graphic designers work which will be sold to raise money for the National Autistic Society charity through the use of Art.

300.000 million pesetas are alredy in the spansih pockets. And now is the time to use them again. Try to find some in this cool website. Nice mix photo-treatment and analogue techniques.

House numbers by type designer Andrew Byrom

Fisker Automotive's eco-friendly plug-in hybrid, 'Karma', revealed.

Loving the new Greenfuz Toy from artist Will Sweeney.

Sleek aluminum kaleidoscopes by Japanese artist Tomoo Hosono. Inside are non-colored pieces which produce saturated patterns of changing color through the scientific phenomenon known as birefringence. (Japanese text)

David Choe, New York City, an amazing artist, illustration, advert, art ! I love it !

IDEA: A Christmas tree that ran solely from a potato battery. We realized that would have to be a huge-ass potato so we made it digital- and to keep it in the spirit, we made it a yam-ran-Christmas greeting.

Versace has just released a collection of tiles called Stone Palace.

Nixon is shortly releasing an awesome set of headphones, in both ear bud and classic over the ear style.

What bad economy? Tom Ford is introducing an $18 soap on a rope 'Cleansing Bar' that is scented with Tom Ford For Men.

Innovative and environmentally friendly packaging for Newton Running.

For part of La Blogotheque's brilliant "A Take Away Show" video-concert series, Vincent Moon filmed an absolutely amazing acoustic session with Fleet Foxes inside an abandoned wing of Paris' Palais Royale.