Smart social commentary in the form of nicely designed doppelgangers and a free online comic.

Magnus Larsson's beautiful plan to re-landscape the Sahara with a bacterial "Green Wall."

Toyo Ito´s new tower in Barcelona. A sinuous tubular skin wraps this irregular building for the FIRA exhibition center. The 114m tall tower is expected to be completed during 2009.

Spanish designer Jordi Milà has created the WisdomTree bookshelf.

‘A House‘ has been designed to achieve an ‘A’-Building Energy Rating, with a particular emphasis on the use of passive systems. By FKL architects.

Hilarious modern "chariot races" were staged today in Rome's Circus Maximus in honor of the city's 2762nd birthday.

the 'iced' word given + the icy bottle appearance looks so mysteriously cool... Designed by Marc Praquin, the icy prototype ended up not being produced because of cost factors.

Lens Align!

Lenny Kravitz photographs portraits of his influential friends for Vogue Russia, the collection is titled, "Paparazzi Paris, 2008."

Ok, 4:30am giddy to find out from a reader that Mark Hoppus reads NOTCOT and blogrolled it... which leads me to get distracted by the fact that TokiDoki is prototyping customizing his signature fender basses...

Vintage Beer packaging.

Glowacka Rennie redesigned the women's amenities at the Victoria Albert Museum, London. Swiss artist Felice Varini painted an installation after.

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.

glasses for those of us that have always wished to be a freckled red-hed ~ from Kiel Mead

amazing bridge near dublin, by explorations architecture + buro happold

The Neal Creek Residence, designed by architect Paul McKean, is a vacation home near Hood River, Oregon.

First collaboration of illustrator Stevie Gee and Death Spray Custom.

8,140 cardboard tubes with a total length of 10 kilometres and a weight of over 18 tons were stacked to form a single wall.

Really like the prints that artist Evan Hecox created for the new Ace Hotel Palm Springs. They hang in the rooms and can be purchased at the hotel.

Art Rotterdam's intimate, convivial 10th edition drew good crowds and lots of collectors with recession-friendly prices. Here are some of the works.

Eerie, disturbing work from New York-based photographer Alison Brady.

Photos of the mysterious Coraline Dunks!

Paramount and Sony announced that principal photography has begun on live action Tintin feature 'The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of The Unicorn', director Steven Spielberg, producer Peter Jackson, shot in 3-D motion capture.

Schulz's Beethoven: Schroder's Muse ~ an incredible sounding exhibition at the Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa ~ a chance to LISTEN to the passages in old Peanuts comics that appear above schroder ~ they aren't random!

Blow up sheet metal:
An interview with Oskar Zieta, architect at the CAAD-professorship at ETH Zurich.

Ooooh my Alex & Chloe order came, and couldn't resist showing you closeups of some of my favorites as well as the awesome black on black packaging! Also take a peek at their latest t-shirt collection!

Revolutionary LED bike lights from MonkeyLectric. They're not only providing outstanding visibility at any speed but creating amazing color patterns on your spinning bike wheel.

::Short:: Viking Hat for kids ~ too cute, what better way to keep your head warm while pillaging?

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #12: Elsewares is giving away one Nooka Glow Zub Zen H watch! The one that was originally made in a batch of 15 just for Kanye West... it Glows In The Dark!!!

Photos Caleb Charland! “Demonstrations” combines my scientific curiosity with a constructive approach to making pictures. I utilize everyday objects and fundamental forces to illustrate my own experiences.

The San Francisco based design house, Office collaborated with 826 Valencia, a non profit tutoring center for youth, to reinvigorate its pirate supply storefront.

MOD proposal for the shop house in Singapore... The facade as connector

Rock Band 2 game modifier screen - enter in the original Rock Band unlock code - Red, Yellow, Blue, Red, Red, Blue, Blue, Red, Yellow, Blue - *poof* Rock Band 2 song list is all yours...

Boundary-pushing installations and sculpture from American artist Benjamin Jurgensen. The only thing better than the works themselves are their titles...

The Kooples ~ a fun new parisian line that's a bit london rocker meets saville row with a parisian twist... and beautifully simple stores with fun shopping bags!

Here's a smart and environmentally friendly design for simple, easily-deployable emergency housing - accordion origami style!

Veuve Clicquot night one surprised us with an incredible dining experience on the water ~ the views, the food, and the champagne were divine... and the details of this boat will blow your mind.

A bit early for winter design... But, the Orgel lamp by Swedish WIS Design is a modern take on a classic window lamp design that can be seen in more or less every window during the dark Swedish winter.

Westford Hill Distillers - Best of Show in Packaging Design -- Los Angeles International Wine & Spirits Competition.

BMW: Gina Light, Body made out of cloth

beautiful example of an "arrow in flight". the video puts the artistic process into a context of it's own and independent of the final product.

Making of the new PIXAR picture book for the WALL-E Film.

Norm 03 steel. New lamp from Normann Copenhagen

I was inpsired by the sketchbooks of Laure Volume, specially how she starts from a picture detail, and then keeps going from there

The Desktop Wallpaper Project this week is happy to feature Rey Ortega, an amazing illustrator from Toronto. His wallpaper features a fox being chased over the rooftops by ninjas!

NOTConcept 001 ~ Part 2! We took the many ideas form last week a step further, and are exploring the concept of modular "smart jacks" for grilling/heating, and the suspended outdoor grill!