FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #16: Dead Zebra is giving away 10 Android Mini Special Edition Toy Soldiers by Gary Ham, or a chance to win the Love the End Print Set AND a Android Toy Soldier!

FEATUREDWhispers flocked wallpaper collection by Marcel Wanders for Graham & Brown

Esteemed designer Valentino houses his archives in a 10,000 square meter, white-walled virtual museum, now available for download.

After moss graffiti, the british artist Anna Garforth aka Sporeborne created some typographic biscuit.

Here is a bourbon I created, designed, and packaged. The Kentucky bourbon is inspired by the the bootleg runners during the prohibition era. The packaging includes shot glasses, coasters and key chain tags.

Eliza's Frye's new book Regalia contains eight comics that "are all love letters."

Odd Fauna, maker of Beast Sculpts, is making a super adorable toy series for Villain's new app, Lil' Birds!

Dimensions is a sonic adventure game (iOS) by London-based startup RjDj, designed to "enhance reality rather than distract from it". Unlock Dimensions, collect Artifacts and defend yourself from the Artifact-stealing Nephilim.

Hong Kong’s Causway Bay is the new home to one of the country’s most contemporary and avant-garde fashion shops. Shine, designed by Architect Nelson Chow.

FEATUREDThe official video from Microsoft has been released! They explore the innovative Tag: We're It art installation by artists Lisa Kaselak and Lee Billington

FEATUREDRobots invade the kitchen again! The Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group at Technische Universität München have encouraged them to take over the world of popcorn and salami sandwiches!

New Sea-Spirit Bone Carving Pendant by New Zealand artist Tim Jepson of Studio Tapu

Spanish artist ARYZ has left an amazing new wall in Lisboa.

Matthew Picton creates sculptural maps of cities using books about them.

Stacie Bloomfield from Arkansas created this lovely owl calendar for 2012.

Light decorative metal panels 'MePas' by Caino Design.

VIDEO9Caribou filmed the relocation of bighorn sheep in Nevada - an adventure involving helicopters, shotgun-launched nets, a great deal of vertigo and some very quick sheep! All with a rocking soundtrack!

'Rosace' blown glass tea set by Margaux Keller for VCU Qatar and Fabrica.

Between Worlds; a look at the Bergdorf Goodman holiday windows from a new perspective. Stunning photos by faucethead creative.

Habitat Design's series of Bodega Bird Chalets.

New York based photographer Dale May's 'LEGO Wars'. A series of photos crafted in archival acrylic to emulate the glossy quality of the toy subjects.

Adorable black cabbies and doubledeckers for your Christmas tree. Love these London ornaments from Michelle Mason.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #15: Nervous System gives away two of their lovely 3D printed jewelry pieces: Cellular Pendant and Subdivision Cuff

Awesome Marvel illustrations by Dennis Menheere.

Jack in the Box by 45Kilo is a tool-furniture, it allows you to create flexible and structured working conditions. It can be a lighting object, something to load mobile phones or both.

VIDEOHere's the most badass video you'll see today. It's Ice Cube giving a tour of modernist building design in Los Angeles, where he actually studied architectural drafting before breaking out as a gangsta rap star in the 1980s.

Here's to the crazy ones. Gorgeous letterpress poster.

FEATUREDQuirky secret bars, top spots for ice skating and tropical getaways are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

VIDEOSense of Flying.What´s it like flying down a mountain at 250 km/h? Espen Fadnes - The World’s Fastest Flying Human Being 2010 - teamed up with Project Managers Goovinn to communicate the experience of flying.

Terminal 2 at the San Francisco International Airport just became the US' first airport to achieve LEED Gold certification - check out exclusive photos at Inhabitat.

The 2012 Studio on Fire desk calendar! This year the theme is the Positive Apocalypse, featuring include brain-feasting zombies, a yeti, transfigured animals, Earth being devoured and a rainbow explosion.

The complete set of drawings for the Norman Foster-designed Apple campus have been released!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #14 Photojojo! So much photography fun to win! The bundle includes a Fujifilm Instax 7s Camera & Film, Black Canon Camera Lens Mug and Photo Fabric Dye Kit

Macro Cell Lens Band, a sturdy band with a built-in macro lens that lets you turn your cell phone into a macro.

Beautiful wooden house by Schlyter/Gezelius Arkitektkontor.

Zoe Garred's Fleet Ribbon Ornaments, made from delicately bent plywood.

Beautiful and functional wood joinery in Ontwerpduo's Joints.

Mantis desk by Samuel Wilkinson for Case.

VIDEOA ride down the α77 Roller slide in Kanagawa.

Intersection magazine collaborates with Louis Vuitton on a Soap Box and a Bike Polo.

The Bloomberg Pavillion by Akihisa Hirata opened up at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo!

Coordinate furniture collection from Praktrik are not just great pieces of furniture, but also puzzles to assemble, relying on interlocking pieces.

The Steel Wood Table by Thom Fougere is a flexible table and storage unit suitable for any room in your home.

VIDEOchoreoBots: a tangible music visualization platform by Charles Doomany and Luke Kambic via CMU.

Christmas Tea, designed by Mint - Maja Matas, Kresimir Miloloza, Jozo Matas.

An indoor RC blimp, built with a balloon

Now you can own your own set of Ninja Stealth Black Throwing Knives.

"Helvetica and the New York City Subway System: The True (Maybe) Story" by Paul Shaw.

SnowXu foldable snowshoes. The most portable full-function showshoes. Light, compact and easiest binding of any snowshoe. When folded a set is smaller than a yoga mat bag (bag is included). Easily fit 2 sets on a single pack.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Favorites: a gift guide of sorts ~ things i really use, love, and find worth spending on lately...

Evolution: The Natural History of Animal Skeletons, Stripped Down, a beautiful book by Patrick Gries and Jean-Baptiste de Panafieu.

FEATUREDHoliday lighting can be taken to quite the extreme if you find the right neighborhoods... Jackson explores some areas of LA and finds some pretty impressive setups!

Picture Alphabet Keyboard Stickers by Christopher Monro DeLorenzo.

James side table is a multi functional furniture. It has a small storage space, and a tabletop which also serves as a tray. It is always at your service, hiding small objects, serving drinks or functions as a small table. Design by Gridy.

Alejandro Chavetta collages are constructed with a combination of vintage paper and digitally altered images.

Beefeater London unveil new packaging for their holiday season pack.

SOME SEA ANIMAL OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST - a print inspired by the marine life that is found in the Pacific Northwest. Including jellyfish, sea cucumbers, sea urchins, etc.

Unseen pleasure, David Benmussa's tribute to Joy Division & Peter Saville.

Inkjet printed paper shoe by Julie Von Der Vellen.

The horizontal lines are distorted by the squares, so that they appear crooked. The effect caused by this perception is based on Zöllner illustration published in 1860. An now it became a modular shelf called 180 from cuatros cuatros.

ROKBRAND launches line of tees with hand-cut hangtags from vintage album art and guitar picks!

FEATUREDA roundup of fashion’s finest from Notcouture.

Lunchbox Car. Drive it across the table and take a pitstop to have a sandwich. Without playing with your food of course..designed by Ramon Middelkoop and Chris Koens for Invotis Orange.

VIDEORob Ryan makes beautiful paper sculptures in the latest ad from Victorinox.

Mercedes-AMG Holiday Story Creator ~ a madlibs style story maker to taunt your friends with...

Eggpicnic's new toy collection Carmelita, Altiplánico, Aguayo and Poncho. Handmade resin toys dressed 100% in hand woven horse hair in collaboration with Marcela Sepúlveda, artisan from Rari, Chile.

VIDEOMister Handsome ~ a film by Jason Wishnow. Fun and slightly dark comedy exploring what happens when you move back home with the parents... and rekindle things with your imaginary friend.

Perth Zoo welcomes a baby echidna (a puggle!).

Razer Blade ~ new laptop from razer ~ 17" 1080p thin aluminum body ~ and a lcd backed touchpad with programmable graphic buttons (whether for gaming... or photoshop, etc?) - all black with green backlighting...

Barbie as re-imagined by the beauty collective Bleach London. Includes nose ring, tattoos, and hair crimper!

FEATUREDAn unbox of the adorable new Geneva Sound System XS bluetooth speaker, alarm, radio in the retro-esque clamshell case. Also a side by side with the Jawbone Jambox and Logitech Mini Boombox.

A step by step tutorial showing how you can make one of these lovely, garden-filled terrarium ornaments of your own.

Small but great. There may be not that much storage space in this lovely sideboard by Nachacht but it looks just perfect.

Making of the Typeforce Exhibition Catalogue cover.

Box for the Birds, flatpack birdboxes that are part of the Michael Oliveri Studio.

VIDEOHand drawn music video created by Katarzyna Kijek and Przemysław Adamski for We Cut Corner's "Pirate's Life".

It might only be a little car but the Nissan Leaf can use its battery to power a whole house with electricity.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #13: Ghostly International is giving away the amazing AIAIAI TMA-1 Headphones and The Ghostly International Complete Essentials Collection!

An Austrian home, covered in Astroturf, with stairs reaching to the sky! Just one example of an amazing collection modern & creative architectural stairs.

The essence of team-work and the fundamental quality of friendship are the inspiration in form, construction and name for designer Mark Bendow´s sideboard "Friends".

Cute swingset jewelry, the Snapshot collection by Yael & Tal.

VIDEOBuild your own gingerbread geodesic house with our dome template and easy to follow instructions including recipes for gingerbread and icing. Template is laser cut and scored for easy assembly. It's fun. It's festive.

PowderJets wooden snowboards - Each board is hand built in our southern Vermont shop, using FSC certified maple & poplar, laminated with fiiberglass & a strong & clean bio resin.

A violin made of carbon fiber!

Lotty Lindeman has worked as an independent designer from her studio in Eindhoven. Lindeman works on products with craftsmanship and sense of material and her design work is modest and shows a refined eye for detail.

Artist John Baldessari has plastered a fake $100,000 bill on a billboard along the High Line.

Versus, a kinetic sculpture/sound installation by David Letellier.

Pentagram's Luke Hayman created a guide to design hotspots in NYC based on Massimo Vignelli’s classic 1972 map of the New York City subway.

FEATUREDChocolate Mustaches, backyard offices and a bust of Hercules you can sit on are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

Love the branding and packaging on the Lewis Caroll Tea Collection. Designed by Neha Hattangdi.

BBC infographic showing every death on every road in Great Britain between 1999 and 2010.

Create your own Minecraft cubic coolness for real with Minetoys and Shapeways bringing your avatars to life.

"Wraps + Flatdesign" at Spazio Subalterno1 Milano.

VIDEOStunning basejumping footage shot in Norway.

The two bookshelves presented at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, by the Israeli designer Chanan de Lange, are made with recycled school desks from the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Tel Aviv.

Great interiors by Vonsung for Viet Hoa Mess, a new grill restaurant in London.

'Deserto' is a blown glass vase shaped like a drop by Marie Dessuant for Fabrica.

What happens when a two dimensional QR-code is transformed into a three-dimensional structure? This is the question that German designer Elena Belmann asked herself before she created this wooden QR stool.

Simply replace any standard light bulb with our innovative AudioBulb Wireless Speaker Light Bulbs to add rich, full-range audio and bright light to any room—no installation required.

FEATUREDThe amazing night photography of Jan Leonardo Wöllert and his technique: LAPP - Light Art Performance Photography. Amazing what one can do with choreographed light and a long exposure.