Daft Punk Console ~ ever stronger our harder do it

great idea!!, tea bag lights! just dip it on water and light up any place, designed by wonsik chae

great fabric illustrations by brazilian artist lilia trizotto. nice colors too.

MOSLEY TRIBES is now creating interesting consumer stationary products ( The reinterpretation of a timeless classic). Mosley has created a black post it note pad. This pad comes with its own metallic silver Sharpie.

Futurama: Into the wild green yonder blu-ray/dvd here! Fun site to explore

Imse by Per Bäckström ~ a series of mirrored plates that can mount onto existing tiles to add a little something to the bathroom, etc.

Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 ~ also shock, freeze, waterproof!

NRJA: Reel for Latvian office No Rules Just Architecture, one of the 101 hottest architecture practices by Wallpaper. Cool video.

Artist Rob Dobi has released Series 8 of Fullbleed.org- eight new conceptual teeshirts ripe for the wearing!

Fun illustration work by UK-based illustrator and designer Simon Corry.

HDV photography of factory buildings has blossomed into a genre all its own.

Designed by Qb, a Philadelphia-based design firm, Fly Book Fly celebrates the simple gesture of an open book.

The Toy & Action Figure Museum ~ Wired's slideshow is great and they title it "Giant Midwest Mecca of Nerditude in Oklahoma"

Bleublancrouge and the Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) release the campaign Cigarettes Smoke People. Ads to fight tobacco addiction in India...

Up close with the beautiful Villainess Soaps Gift box that just arrived! The teeny tiny skulls were barely noticeable in the product shots before, and they are amazing! See all the goodies up close!

iSteamPhone - A steam punk exploded view iphone design, Da Vinci style. By artist Kevin Tong.

Charles Walker and Martin Self, profs of the Architectural Association in London, hold a competition for the design of a summer pavilion. The winning entry: "Swoosh," created by the Mexican student Valeria García Abarca.

Photoshop Adbusting in Berlin on billboards: Britney Spears, Leona Lewis and Christina Aguilera.

We just ordered the awesomest vintage Glögg bowl and cup set for our future batches of NOTGLÖGG! (or cider, or punch, or....) You can even put a tea light under to keep it warm!

Wow Villainess Soap is like the vintage pirate version of Lush... the packaging is pretty awesome, the naming even cooler ~ take a look at the clawfoot bathtub display too!

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #29 - Josh Rubin of CoolHunting and his dad (a 2nd gen glove maker!) have teamed up to create Freehands, gloves that keep you warm and let you have easy access to your fingertips for touch screens!

Brian's Tropicals shows you how to make the most incredibly mossy terrariums for tropical tree frogs! His basement setups for frogs an fish are mind boggling

Abbot Mead Vickers of BBDO has created three great new print ads for the V&A’s Museum of Childhood.

Nomad Light Molecule, designed by Maarten De Ceulaer. Another unique light design with the molecule atom shape where the light position is fully configurable - yes, you can change the shape of the light according to your taste.

Fantastic illustrations from Toronto based illustrator Antony Hare.

Oxo is giving away one of the large Candela Luau Lanterns! Rechargable, beautiful design, and incredibly bright and gorgeous for creating that perfect ambiance... I love the way it looks outdoors especially!

Adorable Felted Manta Rays Handmade in Nepal! From Branch (don't forget the NOTCOT coupon!)

Marketa Richterova's Carbon Collection jewelry makes carbon fiber look more like a robo-snake like organic structure...

this is a set of four text messages that i had kept around to the point that they became like artifacts. each message is rendered in braille on used audio tape stored in glass bottles.

the w house from alpha architects in kyoto japan: working up and down to save space the husband and wife architecture team created a seamless but ridged minimalist flow with one of the greatest staircases i've seen...

Even more interesting than the Classics iPhone app is the behind the scenes, where they designed every book cover and book layout just for the app!

toycyte.com and toy2r are giving away a huge pile of designer vinyl toysfor halloween, including some stunning dalek and kozik pieces!

Gatsby's latest hair wax product, Men's Non-no, almost as pretty as Japanese men themselves.

Mortimer Bust Candle by Thomas Grünfeld - love this sculpted candle of a bust. It would be perfect on top of a fireplace mantel.

Chilean architectural practice oficina de arquitectura designed this modular hexagonal canopy/furniture system for public spaces. It overlooks the Pacific ocean in Chile.

New Beautiful Giclee prints from Guy Mckinleys new show the "Tick and The Tock of Miss. Betty Pea" printed on acid free 308 gsm Hahnemuhle photo rag with printed using archival inks.

Tom Raffield's gorgeous Ash Pendant lamps feature a delicate steam-bent shade constructed entirely from locally sourced strips of FSC-certified English Ash.

Love the mountain top detail in Lanjaron Water bottles. Designed by Tridimage.

Limited edition poster from Samantha Hahn called I make Things!!

Beautiful... New promo for Mythbusters on Discovery Channel... produced by Motion Foundry Sydney...

Samsonite Black Label created a limited edition trunks with Swarovski. If you are up for something a little more loud, this is the way to go. Only 30 made!

"FEAR(S) OF THE DARK is a wildly inventive and visually dazzling collection of fearful tales by six of the world's most renowned comic and graphic artists."

I did similar explorations of city maps for my architecture thesis, but Lee Jang Sub has taken the idea one step further and turned his drawings into a set of products, titled the 'Complexcity Project'.

I loved Barbar as a kid and was pleased to hear about"Drawing Babar: Early Drafts and Watercolors," a new exhibit at the Morgan Library and Museum through Jan. 4, 2009.

Kevin Dart is doing some fantastic work with his old-school illustration style. He proves it can be updated too as with his colorful work for the Beijing Olympics.

Veuve Clicquot Sneak Peek at the Ice Cube, the push button instant cooling champagne bucket and specially designed flutes (2009 upcoming design collaboration with Porsche Design)