NOTCOT Gift Guide: Desk Toys & Stocking Stuffers ~ tons of fun picks to surprise and delight ~ just click the many many pictures to explore the products!

Tanner Goods introduces a new premium collection and the first piece up is this thick elephant print card holder. The leather is so thick, you can see it will last for years...

Googlephone unboxing! Hands on with my HTC G1 ~ i couldn't resist, so popped down and grabbed one at the T-Mobile store this morning

The Cluster table light is hand-blown in Brooklyn and measures 40cm in diameter. Designed by Lindsey Adelman.

Stanley Flask ~ love this flask, just saw it in person at the DWR Tools for Living in Santa Monica

Back Side Flip 360° by O-S Architectes - cardboard boxes with a golden lining - temporary installation at Hotel Saint-Côme in Montpellier, as part of the Festival des Architectures Vives 08.

Great insight into the process of the incredible up and coming artist , Brandon Friend. Video filmed in the studio with the Queens based artist during the completion of 2008 show : IF YOU'RE NOT ONE OF US, YOU'RE ONE OF THEM.

I just discovered i need a car mount for my camera... see how this incredible mini was shot... and how all the pieces come together

The wonderful lettering used in the complex Les Bains des Docks by Jean Nouvel is now a font available for download.

EyeCandy ~ USB Lollies that you hook up to your computer and really suck on... awesome packaging too... you have to read the site and articles to make sense of it!

Playful kindergarten architecture by Norwegian 70°N Arkitektur. Mobile walls holds toys and furniture, opening up the floor for active children.

The Eco Value Wood Bearbrick by Medicom Toy has been announced. Its a collaboration with "more Trees", a Japanese charity organization. Besides the fact that the proceeds go to charity, its also a beautiful toy!

Do these beautiful images from photographer Jason Tozer depict strange new alien worlds? No, something much more mundane

Nice wood work at the new building for productive services at the Morande Winery in Chile. By chilean wood master Martin Hurtado.

Austrian ceramicist Renate Hattinger unveiled her series of porcelain hearts and brains at Blikfang 2007 in Zurich last month. In Biscuit or Gold, you can order them at www. Pureaustriandesign.com. But look at her other work as well.

A painstaking stop-motion video made from coloured dice, with the numbers being used for subtle tonal variations. Music video for Fujiya & Miyagi's Ankle Injuries. Directed by Wade Shotter.

Lyndon Wade is a NY photographer who shoots for world’s most famous ad agencies, such as BBDO, makinġ ads for Nintendo, Sonic, Vox vodka and others

...cool jewelery from Kuukoru ("Moon jewelry") a goldsmith company located in Tuusula, Finland.

Fantastic new project by Levis and Japanese Medicom Toys company to be released in August. A special pair 0f 501 jeans with reflective features and a matching bearbrick toy. Super excited about this!

Stunning Photography from French born Photographer Arnold Pouteau. "I try to capture the Beauty of the simplest things through my Camera."

Woofy is a cable container dog designed by Gabriel Nigro for Normann Copenhagen. Woofy is your new friend and a personalised way to conceal cables. Launch party for Woofy in black is now!

A timber house wrapped in a fabric skin by F-A-R Architects, with Cristobal Palma photographs featured in Plataforma Arquitectura.

ShadeElaine posted these to NotCouture saying "The nicest fingerless gloves I've seen... cashmere with leather covered button. by 3.1 Phillip Lim" I think they might be iPhone gloves! (although they are named hobo gloves)

XL(AMP) - A giant thinking cap. Objet B'art

Hunters and Gardeners take note - Leatherman has branched out from the best multitools, to multitool-pruners just for you.

Yuko Kondo, a London based Japanese illustrator. Amazing and slightly surreal colourful graphic.

For the paper modellers, here's a bunch of models for your monster army... kinda reminiscent of the readymech series

Love this moon light by Habitat's 'Very Important Products for Kids' line. Not to mention all of their other "stellar" products for the home. designed by buzz aldrin.

Samsonite has an interesting idea here for travel tags,... not sure about how functional it is, but you twist it open and write on the inside...

Latest from Boomwave (used to be podstar?) ~ Bearaphims for your ipod... silicon - cute that you can use the angelic wings to wrap your cords... and even a cover for the wheel...

as you know i am slightly obsessed with cuffs. this Slitz design from Pia Walln combines sterling silver with comfy wool!

Make your own Fleece Dog, from bits of wool and actual hair from your own pet. I'm glad my dog is all metal and plastic...

Core77 reminded me that I missed Sydney's Sculpture By The Sea this year. Love the melted ice-cream truck

News bags, t-shirts and accessories of Loot By Stina B.

amazing how much money some folks have...from the neiman marcus holiday book, a space charter for you and 6 of your closest friends: $1,764,000.00

CosaFina Raw Collection, reminds me a lot of Chirstine J. Brandt at #741

I'd want a vespa just so I can wear one of these bamboo and leather inset helmets from INDIGOSNOW

Cmd-SIT stool, available in all the macbook colors, and is now for sale at DUENDE.jp

This Bean Dip shirt graphic also pulled me towards it enough it felt worth remembering

Check out these zipper pull necklaces by Vanessa Yanow - saw these over at Fabulist and Modish

Illustrations by Eugene Artsebasov.

Another Gabriel Urist "Custom Bling" piece - something about the gold pigeon is rather amusing. Winged Rats in Gold around your neck.

I've been up since 4AM because some penguins wouldn't render, and I'm currently finding this FOR DUMMIES generator funny. [Editor's Note - i should put this on the help page]

Swedese Libri ~ current obsession discovered at The Dock ~ modular leaning bookshelves with so many possibilities... see the pics!

The Design Director of the Obama campaign, Scott Thomas, has collaborated with artists and designers to create Designing Obama, a chronicle of the art from the historic campaign that you can buy.

'A Drop of Water' is a rain barrel that makes saving water really easy by providing a watering can that is automatically filled when it rains.