A number of artists etched away the flesh of the subject to reveal these awesomely macabre skulls. Hobo nickel carving remains a popular hobby today and it even has a society.

The PalmShower by Dometti is a high-tech shower with misting system, chromaterapic lights, integrated sound system, all can be managed with an iPhone application.

New York Illustrator Yoko Furusho live in Barcelona at the store Ikiru.

Search by DRAWING! And google correlate will find a graph to match...

'Re-Thinking Progress: The Circular Economy", a video from the Ellen Macarthur Foundation.

Parthenocarp installation from Ronald van der Meijs. Interesting project with tones created by strings controlled by growing cucumber plants. The cucumbers form a "slow driving piston", guiding a mechanical 'finger' along the string as they grow.

The LOVERAMICS' Tripod collection, designed by Simon Stevens, is a modern multipurpose kitchen and tableware concept. Each piece stands on three feet for stability and functionality.

The beautiful Dalton Eastern Curve Garden in Dalston, London. An unexpected urban green space situated on a former railway line.

Alpha Box and Dice make with the awesome Australian wine with labels by MASH Design...

Meet the Cube house, designed and built by Tom and Yumiko Virant of Virant Design.

TOOOL Emergency Lock-Pick Card!

The new OXO Egg Beater - a modern take on an old classic. Clean and simple design.

Hello_world! is a documentary about open-source software by Ultra Lab that covers opeFrameworks, Processing, and Pure Data. The video is full of amazing artists, many of whom are all over NOTCOT!

'We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge' - John Naisbitt . This tee is a salute to the author of Megatrends, and public speaker in the area of futures studies.

The Cube Project is a 3x3x3 metres house in which one person could live a comfortable, modern existence with a minimum impact on the environment.

Making of Graffiti Lovers Markers.

Urban Camper Lighting is the most recent work of Chieh-Ting Huang shown at London design week 2011.

Knock Clock, 48hours design project created at CIID's Summer School 2011 during 'Physical Prototyping' week, taught by Massimo Banzi.

Nerf Glow Darts Refill Pack ~ in a ghostly white with glow in the dark tips, and stickers to make the shafts glow too...

The Art of Beer ~ perusing the beer section of Whole Foods is always a graphic design/packaging feast for the eyes... so many fascinating labels! Take a peek at a few that jumped out today! (And an octopus cube.)

Loop Barstool inspired by the opening petals of a flower, by Meg O'Halloran Design.

The anteater shaped Arikui table lamp.

Scott Campbell and filmmaker Casey Neistat make their own makeshift tattoo gun.

Herbst Architects recently completed the Pohutukawa house, a beautiful home under the trees in a New Zealand forest.

Extraterritoriality, a visualization of all the airports of the world and the flights that connect them by Miku Dixit.

Dalston’s FARM:shop is literally a farm in a shop. Once a derelict store, it is now a shop/cafe/meeting place and farm all in one, complete with a backyard polytunnel, aquaria, hydroponics, and rooftop living chickens!

'Loop' is a new shelving unit for Parisian firm Petite Friture, designed by Amandine Chhor.

Christopher Nolan isn't sparing any expenses, Check out Batman's new and improved bat cave built in a soundstage in Los Angeles!

This is possibly the first Digital 3D Rendered Film, made in 1972 by Ed Catmull, the founder of Pixar, and Fred Parke with Robert B. Ingebretsen.

Refined geometric form dressed in unpretentious materials. Corrugated cardboard shade and steel socket housing. The Hex Light from Von Tundra.

Tovolo Pie Molds ~ These contraptions make pie crust cutting and pie filling a breeze for hand held pies!

The most important wine book in the world is... a comic

Get ready for the weekend, with a roundup of travel inspiration from NotVentures. This week’s roundup includes picnics in Portland, emigrating to New Zealand and the undiscovered charms of the Antilles!

One of the latest works from Canadian designer and Design Academy Eindoven graduate Lukas Peet, this hanging pendant loop light is currently in the prototype stage.

Researchers from University of Michigan harvest wing energy from a green june beetle to power its mind control circuitry.

Japanese designer Yukihiro Kaneuchi recently released this elegant new piece of work called 'Sand'.

Pure Data read as pure data is an audio visual trip through the back of the binary code, and its hidden qualities: structure, logic, rhythm, redundancy, composition...

Gear Patrol x Onia Limited edition Amaury Board Short ~ hand delivered and unboxed in a 2012 Nissan GT-R. Take a peek at the design details of both, as well as the "High surf warning around current location.”

Kniggerich is a placemat which shows the user how to behave during a formal dinner. It is not only a educational device, but points out how strict some rules are. Enjoy your meal.

Lamy's Safari Charcoal Collection made from matte charcoal ABS plastic, features a comfort molded grip and a flexible brass clip.

WikiHouse, an Open Community project that puts you in the driver’s seat. Design and construction. It unleashes the opportunity for anyone to realize their own vision of architecture.

Joe Fenton is currently working on the graphite layer of an 8ft x 5ft masterpiece. Check out his progress before he adds ink and acrylic.

Ceramic Apple Sculptures created by Brazilian designer Lisa Pappon for Bull & Stein.

Costume National Aoyama Complex (CNAC), the new flagship store of the 'Edgy Chic' Italian fashion brand, recently opened and features work by Ryuki Nakamura and Patrick Blanc.

Sleek designed wooden furniture by German 'carpentress' Denise Mierisch.

Internet_Erosion is a sculpture produced from 24 hours audio analysis of the Internet's background noise. [Art Of Failure - 2011]

How to calculate lifetime value, an infographic from KISSmetrics.

These Karmi tea canisters are by Japanese firm Shoshen of Yamanka, who have developed this series of wooden containers for your kitchen and table.

Jan Henrik Hansen materializes music into sculpture and architecture using a unique digital technique that he has been developing since 1999.

Slope is an occasional desk for the home from Jenk Design Office. The angled top gives a more ergonomically correct working surface.

Beautiful renovation of the Vega-Sicilia Wine Cellars by Salasstudio.

Gorgeous concrete lamp by Komat from Berlin. This piece is produced by a workshop for handicapped people.

Jellyfish lamps are a project which came about through the obsession of its creators, British designer Tristan Cochrane and Argentinian art director Paula Benvegnú. BBC documentary 'The Blue Planet'.

Micro Vegetable Gardens at Cairo.

Zinc match dispenser - just tape in the strike bit from a box of matches to the insides and you can strike away to your hearts content.

Made In Polaroid Art Exhibit. 50 of Polaroid's famous fans create 50 works of art with Polaroids.

The Aston Martin One-77 stars in new episode of NatGeo's Megafactories. Great video and photo gallery of their assembly.

Strain : A Family Game of Competitive Bioengineering

Elefante Naranja by Javier Requejo.

EARTH TO DISK [ART OF FAILURE - 2011] is a project that uses the earth elevation data. The height informations of the globe are analogically transposed on a 12 inch record.

The Holy Family Shrine in Gretna, Nebraska designed by BCDM Architects.

BOET is a new stool by the Swedish studio Note Design Studio.

Big Scale Sand Artworks by Jamie Wardley from England. “Time is a big challenge when you’re working on a beach, you have about six hours from when the tide has gone out before it comes back in again."

Pocket Sock Dryer, not much larger than can of soda, dries socks with warm stream of air in just a few minutes. Mechanism with fan similar to a hair dryer, but stronger. Designed by Kamil Laszuk.

Branchline Bike Furniture by Quarterre

Close your eyes and imagine a squadron of sci-fi robots, old school TV sets and flying squirrels. Now you have a taste of bRainbow.

Nice Heritage graphic tee from Arbor Collective ~ this ARTIST SERIES graphic is by Joel Woodman and printed on Bamboo/Cotton blend

CableKeeps give your dull white transformer some personality and added utility. They secure your USB docking cable to Apple power adaptors used with iPads, iPhones, & iPods so cable & charger stay together.

Stanley Nineteen13 Carbonated Drink Bottle ~ A neat way to keep your drink both cold and sparkling on the go.

The evolution of the web. Based on a static infographic created by mgmt. design and GOOD in 2010. By Hyperakt, commissioned by Google Chrome.

'Cardinal' art installation by Marion Robert and Laurent Gongora for Horizons Festival in France.

In the Amsterdam office of graphic designer Hansje van Halem we find this old cabinet. Every 2 months an artist is invited to fill the cabinet.

Awesome pixel camera stickers!

XTEN Architecture's Nakahouse juts out of the lush Hollywood hills like a giant sculpture.

The Eyeo Festival intro video ~ a visual feast showing who's who of the "most creative coders, designers and artists working today, and shaping tomorrow" ~ beautiful vid by Puny Entertainment.

We just made NOLET's Silver Champagne Sangria ~ A delivery of fresh champagne grapes makes for an exciting afternoon and cocktail!

Chanel - Shade Parade. A special performance starring Le Vernis de Chanel. Nail polish on display like you've never seen before...

Going Solo - by Studio Botes. A sweet stopframe animation. Business advice from designers around the world.

Illustration by Alexander Wells.

Michelangelo Pistoletto, installation view, Serpentine Gallery, London.

Les chiens isolés by CRCR. A beautiful short film, dark, but beautiful animation and twisted story.

The K2 digital radio tower from Revo, a sleek desktop radio tower.

Fauna Friends - Japanimals, brand new poster set, four limited edition screen prints on French 'Red Hot' 100lb. paper. Perfect for a kids room or the kid in us.

3013 installation at London's Architectural Association.

Don't Feel Sorry For Yourself: a new web project for those who are feeling sad and want a little tough love.

"Water from Air" Working with water mists are a source of water harvested from the 60's in Chile. This project seeks to open up an area for reflection about the presence of fog unconventional territories.

David Bowie's song, 'Space Oddity' illustrated into a children's book by Andrew Kolb. Free PDF version of the book available.

Founder's Card ~ the latest membership program filled with deals for travel, business, and more that Founders/Entrepreneurs can take part in... and the card is a hefty milled metal one...

Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House in LEGO form! It will be the tenth addition to LEGO'S Architecture series.

'44:53', a family home in Yokohama by Future-scape Architects.

Flying Man Jeb Corliss' Latest Leap.

Love the mix of old and new. The iVictrola is an iPad stand/speaker that merges your iPad with an antique Magnavox phonograph horn with two pieces of American walnut.

A closer look at the Fendi x Maserati GranCabrio.

UFO or building? Spanish rtist Rafa Zubiría's photos depict captivating fictions.

Ducktaping the phone to a sign post and then pressing record, Scott Campbell experiments using canon fuse glued to plywood, with a small pipe-bomb strapped to the back

The 'TJ Evolette A' Font-family with its seven weights is ready to use. Moreover it is available free of charge for student projects, and the specimen-poster/booklet is for free (if you buy 2 weights)

In Warsaw, a pop-up shop by Super Super - Hanna Kokczyńska, Jacek Majewski, and Inside/Outside - Agnieszka Kuczyńska.

Helen Lundeberg’s 1965 Blue Planet in 'Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Paintings and Sculpture 1950–1970' at the Getty Center.

Filmmaker Dewey Nicks presents the culmination of his year-long project for the Women’s Tennis Association’s Strong is Beautiful campaign.

BookNotes, Notecards featuring drawings & paintings of books, for the book lover in all of us.