At 8:30 PM, Saturday 28 March 2009 is Earth Hour. Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. As part of increasing the awareness in Sweden dairy producer Arla is releasing a special edition milk carton.

Kaleidoscope mandala flash animation by artist Catherine Hubert. Please do enjoy!

HollerDesign will be exhibiting our SideTableVase, along with some of our other sculptures, at the New York Center for Art and Media Studies. The show will run until Wednesday, April 8th.

NOTCOT/CHROME GIVEAWAY! Two chances to win the Chrome Bag of your choice... i still love my old messenger bag from them ~ complete with seatbelt buckle/straps, secret pocket, and it's weatherproof!

A colorful skin with warm materials on both the inside and outside, creates a good ambient for learning at the International School in Oslo, by JVA.

For SXSW, Supra teamed up with Spin Magazine and Stubb's Bar B-B-Q on a Skytop sneaker. The color was inspired by their famous bbq sauce. The packaging is also beautiful, in a numbered wooden box. T-Shirt is also in the pack.

No stranger to NOTCOT, Diem Chau has a show at Fifth Floor. Of course her wonderful carved crayons and pencils will be on display as well! She is showing with Wendy Given.

Pentragram's new and impressive work for The Library Initiative includes brand new elementary school libraries with murals by designed by Maira Kalman, Christoph Niemann...

Official poster for Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are.

Italian "Tubes Radiatori" turn radiators into a piece of art.

Karim's package is taking position against hunger and is hopping to make consumer aware of the global disparity of the resources.

Christoph Niemann on "My Life with Cables."

Original signed Banksy Print for £0.01? Yes, its possible.

LOVE the "signage" made by Kiel Mead for Cool Hunting at the Winter Market in DUMBO

The new headquarters for Telefonica in Madrid feature an interesting glass skin, which acts a brise soleil to protect the buildings from the sun. By Rafael de La-Hoz.

Robot Vans by Aimée Wilder now on sale through the Vans website.

For taking notes, writing ideas, journal entries, or just plain fancy scribbling, premium leather brand, Valextra has these clean pergamena white notebooks.

Watch out Tesla! The soon-to-be-revealed Liv Inizio electric supercar has a scorching top speed of 150mph and a 200 hundred mile range.

Line Weights - Amazing sketchin' blog by several Bay Area designers!

In Icelandic fairytales trolls turns into stones in daylight. I don’t know if this sculpture from Gudrun Lilja Gunnlaugsdóttiris a troll, but it has certainly captured the magical and mystical spirit of Iceland!

Mmmmm and adorable branding as well ~ Fox Barrel Hard Cider!

Incredible new ad for Puma's L.I.F.T. shoe - a love story using video projectors. I don't know how they did this.

A round up of some of the most beautifully designed dumbbells or hand weights on the market.

ALL THE WRONG PEOPLE HAVE SELF ESTEEM is an inappropriate book for young ladies, or frankly, anybody else.... the video explains it all!

The Fawcett House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright sits on an 80 acre fertile farmland located in Los Banos, California. This historic ranch style residence built in 1961 is now on the market.

The Orphans’ is an art series by AT.AW. that involves adhering temporary paper drawings to enliven the urban environment.

Bangkok- Everyday use, everyone's life, from yesterday to nowadays is an window exhibit at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre by Anon Pairot. By only using yellow color's architape & regular tape, everyday use stuffs are wrapped and displayed.

Amazing photography of abandoned asylums, chemical plants and theatres by Rob Dobi.

Composition: Best spot in Denver for finding well designed items. Hard to find bags that will out last your laptop surely, and not to mention an awesome collection of design books! (And online store!)

A close up look at the new Saks WANT IT! Spring 09 campaign by Shepard Fairey's Studio Number One ~ Love it or hate it? Take a look inside the catalog, bags, and graphics...

Roadworkers Coffee Break by Erik Johansson (in his 2009 works)

Fauteuil " CECI N'EST PAS UNE BROUETTE " Indoor, by Philippe Starck

For photographer Leanne Eisen's series "Play" she reconstructs a brothel, a strip club and other sex trade sites in dollhouse scale, then photographs and enlarges those scenes.

Free I Love You cards!

"Wax and Wool Experiments" by Louise Loveridge; macro photography.

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center adds a new 32,800sf campus nexus for Parsons The New School for Design. The project designed by Lyn Rice Architects, integrates the new campus with the urban context of busy Manhattan.

Campbell's by Sergei Steblina.

Slanties. Ancient Inuit snow glasses return as iconic fashion accessory.

Check out this 300 hundred point buck by Carolyn Salas

Think Ireland is all about green? Check out the G Hotel in Galway with interiors by hat designer Philip Treacy.

Adrian Rayment, along with his father Ron, produce handcrafted metal wirework furniture at their studio in the seaside town of Ramsgate, England. Seen here is the Hero Chair and matching stool.

Stephen Sprouse is a legendary fashion designer/artist ~ and when he couldn't pay for his 1 month stay at Chateau Marmont in '91, he paid with fashion sketches! We have an exclusive look at 1 of the 6!

Check out the Louis 900 table lamps and
other *NEW works by Reddish studio

After the ready-to-wear edition of the bottle in 2008, by Jean-Paul Gaultier, Evian works with Baccarat to create five exclusive limited edition bottles. 5 unique bottles dressed transparently to evoke Evian’s best asset: purity.