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.

NOTCOT 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.

Here'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.

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

Sense 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!

NOTCOT 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.

A 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.

choreoBots: 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.

NOTCOT 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.

Holiday 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!

A 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.

Rob 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.

Mister 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!

An 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.

Hand 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.

NOTCOT 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.

Build 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.

Chocolate 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.

Stunning 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.

The 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.

Tegu (the magnetic wooden blocks) now have WHEELS! Launching this month is the mobility series with magnetic wheels.

A video explanation of Modernist Cuisines's ultimate burger... full of single orientation ground meat, engineered cheese, a cryofried patty and more.

Angry Blue's Weapons of Mass Creation posters

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #12: Kidrobot Black gives away two of their sold out limited editions - The Goddess by Doze Green (1/200) and The Deek by Jeff Soto (1/150)

Cool Hunting found the resurrection of two creations from famed American architect-inventor Buckminster Fuller, whose futurist designs decorated the Palm Lot in Miami during art basel.

Ryan Snook's Yeti At Night

Projection Mapping a Lamborghini: One of the world’s most elite (and expensive) cars recently became a canvas for the creative whims of the techie minds at The Media Merchants, a technology-driven production agency based in Vancouver.

The new cloak bag has arrived. Protecting your DSLR from thievery and giving you the opportunity to take the shot.

A theater in Genoa, Italy turned to Ikea to furnish the sets of two operas.

"Head Study 1", a beautiful new limited edition print from Jason Thielke.

Masai Komoto's Sketch, a playful final project.

Harry is a rubber ducky for the modern home. Made from injection molded silicone.

Wald aus Wald by Takashi Kuribayashi, an interesting installation at the Hong Kong Arts Centre.

Place au changement: an interview with the Collectif ETC. The story about the project of the French Collectif ETC directly from their words.

Domenico De Palo designed Strappo - a washbasin that merges with the surface where installed...

Landscapes created out of foodstuff and shot by the german photographer Hartmut Seehuber.

Berlin's Friedrichstrasse welcomes Oukan 71, a boutique that is fashion/art, showroom/shop, with a tea room and restaurant.

The SkyLight is a sleek, minimalist adapter that connects smartphones to microscopes and spotting scopes. The smartphone camera can then capture photos and videos for uploading, e-mailing, and sharing on the web.

Laptop in a laptop! Well tiny new 13" Intel Acer S3 Ultrabook in a bigger laptop certainly makes for a fun unboxing! Also lots of laser etching from the plastic box, to screen, to the cover of the ultrabook! See stack with macbook air too!