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!

Soft Hercules by FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste), a bust of Hercules stool cast from foam rubber.

D.L. & Co's 12 Days of Christmas Candle Gift Set

"Project 991" was the top secret test for the new 2012 Carrera 911. Watch as the engineers rigorously test in South Africa and the Arctic Circle. Beautiful car in beautiful places!

Lineposters capture city maps with simple lines.

Limited edition series of Vesa Sammalisto alphabet prints. Letters introduced to characters. Fun. A personal study.

The Sky Scratcher for your discerning kitten offers 25 "floors" of corrugated cardboard.

New limited edition Paul Smith x Alien Workshop Skateboard decks.

Stephen J. Backman's artwork created from toothpicks. This is the white house created from a single toothpick.

Best Made Parade Lead for your stylish four legged friends.

Washington-based painter Tyree Callahan modified a 1937 Underwood Standard typewriter, replacing the letters and keys with color pads and hue labels to create a functional 'painting' device called the Chromatic Typewriter.

The Natural History Museum of Utah, designed by Ennead Architects.

Amazing baby giant anteater, one of a number of new arrivals at Vienna Zoo.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #11: Wejetset! They are giving away a jetsetter bundle of a Hideo suitcase, Qwstion Weekender bag, Jack Spade wax wear kit, an Incase iPad Case, Travel Chopsticks, an OhSo Toothbrush, and Universal Adapter

Air Clicker here designed by Yeon Su Kim, stripped of all the unnecessary components and connected to your smartphone via Bluetooth, you use your hand to take the photo, no camera required!

With the holiday season heating up, you can imagine that Amazon.com has lots of orders to fulfill. The amount of packages that their fulfillment centers have to manage these days is simply incredible.

The unveiling of FriendsWithYou latest creation, 'Inner Space, The Secrets Of The Unknown' at Art Basel Miami!

Photo-Set of famous Album Cover Locations found on Google Streetview. We have the original 'Pauls Boutique' (Beastie Boys), Eric Clapton's '461 Ocean Boulevard', Led Zeppelins 'Physical Graffiti-House' and many more. Enjoy!

A collection of typographic postage stamps from around the world.

Kinetic Poetry is digital wordplay. 313RGB invite the audience to shift meaning and narrative through a gesture reactive installation. Like Chinese, whispers phrases shift meaning and context with each gesture.

Audyssey Lower East Side Audio Dock Air ~ cute portable speakers that let you play music wirelessly over AirPlay from your apple goods.

Formal Collared Apron

Beautiful new box set of prints from Kai and Sunny

This is what happens when you soak Haribo Gummi Bears in Vodka for 5 days... apparently less like vodka infused gummi, more like gummi flavored super strong jello shot?

DSPTCH paracord camera wrist strap ~ cute alternative to the ones that come with cameras...

Australian telco Telstra has launched Androidland - a world-first store within a store that showcases the latest Android™ smartphones and tablets.

Fun Mr. Chocolate Moustaches by Spanish designer Diego Ramos at the Temporium Dezeen pop up shop!

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #10: Revolve Clothing is giving away an awesome Jack Spade Waxed Wool Tote!

Leather Guitar Picks by Corter - -made from American Certified Byproduct Vegetable Tanned Leather

Sporting the look of a home made device, the most recent collaboration between SUCK UK and designer Christopher McNicholl brings us a Cardboard radio, perfect for the environmentally savvy listener.

'Arranged World' (Le monde rangé) a poster by French artist Armelle Caron.

Gunshop has just wrapped a new reel featuring their live action+CG mix for Audi, Microsoft, Samsung, Sprint, Verizon and more.

BIG + Kollision + Schmidhuber & Partner team up to bring BIG’s vision of future urban mobility to life for AUDI at Design Miami/ 2011.

Dylan Rieder and Sammy Winter skating through the bright lights of Tokyo.

NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #9: Bittersweets NY gives away one of her amazing Silver Sword Necklaces and a pair of Silver Mano Cufflinks!

Amedas - White w/ Red Boots - This cute little dino-dude wearing boots comes from new sofubi makers Chima Group (who happen to be a husband and wife team based in Tokyo).

Artist Luis Urculo cleverly constructs models of well-known buildings using ordinary household items.

Coarse Casting Shadows - Loser Signature Edition -

Old Navy ThinkGeek playable tees! Guitar and Drum tshirts with mini speakers attached...

Field Notes seasonal 'Northerly' edition with silver ink and embossed cover.

Stunning photos of hydro power projects around the world.