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NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #32: Shawnimals! Here's a chance to win the special red Geeky Ninja ~ with ninja con badge and comic! Also stickers, buttons, and wee ninja comic!

an ode to the classical light bulbs... (pdf link)

For MTV Europe, We Love Our Work (Lerner Engelberts and Sander Plug) created "CDEFGABC", a vid where they play the 90s techno hit "No Limits" on a duo glass harp filled with multi-colour dyes.

The Indian Highway exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery sees new and established Indian artists reflecting on the changes occurring in their country.

Stefan Diez's 404 F Chair is made from molded plywood. Nice, simple form.

Gisele Ganne's DIVORCE jewellery are amazing!!! Madonna should get one!!

REX continues to propose unconventional building forms with their proposal for the Kunsthaus Zurich. David Chipperfield's proposal actually won, but I like REX's better...

Six designers, three Asian restaurants, twelve crumpled fortunes, twenty-four crossed fingers and one letterpress. A calendar by redblackbrown.

Project 7 - addresses seven critical areas of need in the world: Build the Future, Feed the Hungry, Heal the Sick, Help those in Need, Hope for Peace, House the Homeless, and Save the Planet. 50% of profits are donated to charities addressing these issues.

Cute typographic illustration by London-based Illustrator and Graphic Designer Lindsay J. Haynes.

Part 2 of 3 of the Big Picture's 2008 in photographs.

St Luke's the London advertising agency has created a website which allows you to throw snowballs with customised messages at your friends... don't spread the christmas cheer, throw it about!

Torch is a light bulb inspired flashlight from plusminuszero.

Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen designed the newly relocated Sun Valley Center for the Arts in Ketchum, Idaho. Inspired by Andy Goldsworthy, the building is designed to integrate into the woody surroundings.

Love Hatch's holiday promotional card - Jumping JAQK marionettes.

9 spectacular architecture projects for a pilgrims route in Mexico. Delicate concrete works over the landscape. Projects by Ai Wei Wei, Alejandro Aravena, HHF, Tatiana Bilbao and more.

Jean Dunand's new tourbillon orbital, sheer elegance, and we love the mechanical empty/full gauge on the side to tell you how much energy there is left in the mainspring.

New work from Raymond Pettibon at Regen Projects II in LA.

Put simply, Modern Tots bent birch rocker rocks, designed by sirch.

Photographed by Stacey Evans, a detail from Harriet Arthur's "The Waiting Room," one of the light-centered art installations included in the Dec. 12 exhibition, "Let There Be Light," celebrating the upcoming winter solstice.

Danish brand Mismo has made this great travel canvas bag for all those guys the don't want to carry a man bag.

The guys at College Humor have finally done it. With their popular online videos and internet humor, MTV has given them their very own show in 2009.

Custom crafted for a prestigious vintage guitar such as a Telecaster or Strat, the Clear Dice Connectors by Bullet Cable offer the ultimate high roller experience. Two (2) DIY connectors per gift box. Choice of angle or straight.

Studio Voortman & Girod created Ssstoell and Kkkrukk - a chair and stool designed to look like multiple iterations of the same object just repeated and slightly shifted - a comment on digital copying and pasting.

Pictures of MARUSSIA [ma:ru sja] first Russian GT supercar was presented in Moscow on Tuesday.

The iXi bicycle has a sturdy, lightweight aluminum frame that comes apart easily for stowing and transporting. Survival gear is also stashed right in the frame - tire pump, repair kit, even a rain poncho.

Takashi Murakami / Louis Vuitton for Manhattan - Monogram Multicolor

Fred Flare's Scuba Ski Mask makes me want to move where it snows.

Pacific is a nice and simple house model by Swedish Pinc House. A modern take on the 1930s functionalistic homes.

The Louis Vuitton caviar set...

Poor Design came up with several adaptations to the clothespin. My favorites are the Pencil and the Bedside Lamp.

A Charlie Brown Ad Agency. [Editor's Note - So GOOD! hehehe... ]

Casa 205, in the Spanish countryside. A beautiful wooden box, with a ventilated facade. The windows frame the surrounding landscape. I wonder how the building will age during time, becoming part of the landscape. By H Arquitectes.

A collection of vintage Christmas cards from the 60's.

Mitsubishi campaign "On/Off Road Technology", by BBDO Santiago.

Amazing work by NY based Korean artist Jinyoung Shin - Jinyoung has developed a very unique* style strongly influenced by Japanese manga look but with a very decay feeling, very interesting and intense...

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #31 ~ and its the final of our 5 Seagate Giveaways! Here is the Seagate FreeAgent XTreme ~ 1TB, nice and black, and does USB 2.0, FW 400, and eSATA!

Interesting umbrellas by Ofess - the 0%Graphic is simply black with one triangular color. But the best part of Ofess' umbrella line is the hard shell wine bottle type packaging that the umbrellas come in.

Charlotte X. C. Sullivan mixes ink with soapy water and allows the bubbles to dry on paper. I like how you can sometimes see the burst bubble.

Check out JJ Sulin's photography portfolio - full of interesting, off-beat photos of life in America.

Resofloor by Resopal

Terrain: loenhart&mayr designed a new Olympic ski jump in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The jump has three competition decks and a 100 meter, cantilevered track that is accessed by 332 steps or a diagonal elevator.

Wow - Julien de Smedt Architects' crazy proposal for the Mondri and Elano Hotel in Las Vegas. In most other locations it would be inappropriate, but in Las Vegas it is reminiscent of the big top circus tents and fits right in with Vegas' surreal architecture.