the strangely beautiful sea ranch chapel in california, designed by james t. hubbell.
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An interesting analysis of the colors used in the top grossing movies of all time, broken down by rating
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Hoesch Sensamare Komplettbad - the Complete Luxury Modern Bathroom.... dreaming and wishing i had this right about now.
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Sputnikk did this piece in Bolzano, Italy. EXIT THE SYSTEM!
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Studio 8 Design's gorgeous BREATHE poster with trees as lungs...
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CoolHunting points out BLACKLE today ~ the white on black version of google that SAVES ENERGY. yes, by not wasting brightness
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Presenting the General Carbuncle: one old Ford covered in 4500 toy cars
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Skull-a-Day: Designer Noah Scalin promises to design and blogs a skull every day for a year.
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The "Emir" lounge chair is a versatile "sofa for one" in natural materials. It hosts two good friends, or one person alone. Design Lars Urheim T16
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Travel without moving. Using the ear s can move heart ~ Sound Transit: SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography.
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Giant Grand Pianos washed up on the beach. The ulitmate piece of driftwood! Paal 5 by Florentijn Hofman
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Andrew English's wedding bands are delicately hand-engraved with the fingerprint of your partner and therefore completely unique to each couple.
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FEATUREDMimoco is announcing Core Series 2 ~ with nine new mimobots... and you can discover them through their scavenger hunt this week... and the first one is announced at NOTCOT! (click to learn how to win)
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FEATUREDPaul Smith and Triumph team up for an extremely gorgeous and characteristically colorfully patterned line of motorcycles.
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Wow. Sam Flores takes a sharpie to a fan who already has an INCREDIBLE tattoo of his work, and adds some gorgeous birds to it... while at an opening!
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it's the most creative way of playing the lottery. spontaneous art on lottery ticket by samowel
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warm and substantial floating cabinetry by philipp mainzer for e15 is offered in solid oak or walnut, and has no footprint.
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People Like U' new project - iPod Styles.
Pimp your iPod with designs from Chuck Anderson, Hejz, ElectricHeat, RA909 and more!
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Minneapolis-based artist Gregory Euclide's solo show, "I Have Been Remembering: Half-Lives & Half-Truths," is up in Seattle at OKOK Gallery - incredible use of BUBBLE WRAP!
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On silly monday videos to help the work day go by... Attus Apparel has gone and shot up more polos for sale - this time with mullet wigs - Check out round two of "Shot up shirts"
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Awesome retro transformers watch ~ where he really pops off the watch!
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Gaggenau's Lift Oven is coming soon and will truly change the way you cook!
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FabricPots from HOVA Design are the first plant containers made of waterproof breathable fabric. Available in two styles, Frusto (conical) and Silo, with patterns by Angela Adams.
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Xel is a bookcase designed by Luca Nichetto.
I love this irregular texture made by aluminium and glass.
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Quadrics Prototypes From Maxim Zhestkov (Russian industrial designer)
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limited edition collaboration to celebrate the 41st anniversary of arktip magazine and 1st anniversary of original fake store in tokyo, the magazine's embossed incase padded sleeve can be used for laptops after your done w the mag
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The new addition to the Akron Museum of Art by Vienna-based Coop Himmelb(l)au.
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Photographer Erwin Olaf and Marcel Wanders created this amazing photography for mooi's products. And that's only some of Erwin Olaf's amazing photography.
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Kick your shoes off and relax in a Pac-Man chair.
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Work by New Zealand artist Joe Sheehan. A fair share of his work consists of exquisitely carved greenstone (jade). Like this functional tape containing a recording of river sounds.
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Beautiful work by Andreas Shabelnikov - young digital artist and photographer from the Baltic States.
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This tiny wooden camera pendant from Korea is actually an mp3 player.
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For those that do not have the 98 Mio. USD available for the sculpture, there is now the Diamond Skull t-shirt series by Damien Hirst!!!
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For designers and other type addicts, Typografica.org just released a list of their 23 favorite fonts of 2006
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Tejo Remy and Rene VeenHuizen's tennis ball benches for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.
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The Ab Ovo Collection by William Emmerson. Ab Ovo, meaning 'from the egg' or 'from the beginning' is an evolution of style.
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Tanya Moller Jensen's ceramic boxes are fabulous. Not to be missed; her wall pockets and votives.
Check them all out!
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Sheep stool - designer: - Hanns-Peter Krafft, 1982 - materials: Real sheep-skin over a body of jute skin filled with wood shavings, with head and legs in solid wood. Ears are made of leather.
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Take a look at this incredible set of pins... layered and laser cut looking scenes and stories in animals
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Great piece over at Pingmag on Transformable Architecture... and the brilliance that is Hoberman
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Ceramic is the answare - "handled with care"
contemporary ceramic works - designersblock, shoreditch high street - september 19 - 23, 2007
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FEATUREDLatest Diesel Campaign is "Human After All" a futuristic look at how our basic issues will survive the future... from the pain of ikea building, to fights, to pancakes sticking to the ceiling... etc etc etc
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Incredible origami over at deviant art ~ love this koi - also check out the dragon, fox, stego, and marlin!
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Flocks makes single sheep sweaters, complete with the sheep's photo, bio and serial number.
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FEATUREDOur little NotCouture made NEWSWEEK!
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FEATURED3 and 5 kg dumbells the flintsones would have loved... carved out of Carrara Marble ~ Forever Young by Robert Stadler.
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A twisting strand of 216 LEDs suspended by a thin wire, that is Robin Carpenters Spiralight. That, and 1st prize winner at Lights of the Future 2006 awarded by the German Design Council
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Show studio is an online fashion broadcasting company committed to pioneering, live fashion media.
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Beautiful new Nike Vintage Running Site designed like an old runners magazine and the product new, but designed after the original 30 year old sneakers also looks great!
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Nice bracelet by the hungarian jewelery designer
Istvan Bajte. [Editor's note - sure its cool, but beware of myspace music]
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How strong is your coffee? Apparently the NOIR COFFEE CRAVEROLANIS ARGENTINA is THAT strong.
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Designer vs. Developer - it's LIKE Hot or Not....
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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!
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Secretive NYC organization LVHRD (live hard) publishes the 3rd issue of their interactive pdf MGZN with a cover by Paul Pope.
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More smart thinking for the Economist, by BBDO, New York.
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Make your own professional juggling balls using tennis balls and balloons. If you're a vagrant, hustle them on the streets for loot.
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Calikartel Magazine - A web magazine (blog) focusing on fashion, fashion photography and art direction. Quite lovely work here.
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Happy Pills - A sweet twist on packaging and branding from a small candy shop in Barcelona.
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Incase does their best attempt at outdoing Mr. Ives with the cleverly named "Protective Cover for iPhone".
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Belkin announces some new USB Hubs ~ my favorite is the multi-tasking clip on hub... keeps your cables in check AND does its USB thing.
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"Bullet Hole" - mixed media sculpture by Kentucky artist Charles Parker Boggs. This piece is part of a collection entitled "THE TROPHY LOUNGE: 9 channels of Charles Parker Boggs" showing at the gallery another year in LA. The show runs from July 13 - August 17, 2007
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Tomorrow only, Friday, July 13th, the MSN.com homepage will display the new Microsoft Office 2007 UI. Find the new Office navigation ribbon at the top and customize the page as though they were editing a document.
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Critically acclaimed furniture designer William Emmerson just unveiled his new collection, FLATBAR. This console demonstrates the unique intersection of modern transparency and utilitarian edge.
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FEATUREDRyan Frank's Grapple Hook Coat Rack is genius!
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Le Petit Bijou Boutique brings cute amigurumi style crocheted HIV viruses. $3.00 for every sale goes to a non-profit that provides clean water and blood to the Africa crisis
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FEATUREDOoooooh lusting after this crazy Logitech MX Air Mouse that is a hybrid mouse and remote!
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adidas got down with Japanese artist Yoshiaki Kaihatsu to re-construct track-tops from their fall/winter 08 seasons and present them in a "Pets of the World" collection.
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The black and white (and all black on the back) 5-pack of envirosaxs i just featured on NOTCOT.com are at Delight.com today! (SO perfect for eco grocery shopping bag alternatives, or just in the car)
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Soap in the shape of little hands. A bit creepy, but in the kind of way that makes me not able to look away. [Editor's Note: thanks to everyone who submitted this ~they scare me! & ilikesocks was first]
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Ninguins!! Scrapbook papers you can't resist - from bam pop.
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Choose your own adventure stencils on the streets of the Mission in SF.
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For the full official Wii Fit video ~ check out everything from yoga and dancing to soccer and hulahooping on the new wii balance board.
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GIANT Robot in the making. See how this cardboard robot is formed.
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Sony Design + Master Craft Lombardia
Italian Craftmanship and sony innovation.
Shown Here: Projection Table
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A timber house wrapped in a fabric skin by F-A-R Architects, with Cristobal Palma photographs featured in Plataforma Arquitectura.
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Placed outside of the White Cube Gallery Masons yard at 3.30 am on Sunday night in response to the Damien Hirst's "For The Love of God" diamond skull exhibition.
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The Onion's 1" pins are quite cute and amusing to me this morning as well.
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Brilliant Nalgene by the folks at The Onion. "I will never take this camping".
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Packaging idea for Reebok climbing shoes, by Mccann Erickson Mumbai.
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Pin-up clock... when the night falls.. the lady swings along ;-)
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#5117
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Everything that I own that is blue, red, white...
Beautiful colour compositions from Helga Steppan
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Not everyone wants an iPhone, but what about Tiffany & Co. iPhone jewelry complete with gems and iPhone icons? I call them iGems, and yes, they are just a concept.
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from the streets of barcelona. 'happiness is just aroundthe corner'...'too bad the world is round'. ah...life is delightfully cruel!
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Brad Ford used preserved jungle nymphs and stick insects to decorate the mudroom of the 2007 Hamptons Cottages and Gardens Idea House. I love the bugs, but not so keen on filling my home with dead stuff!
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"Avatar Machine" by Marc Owens - Mounted camera and HUD gives user a 3rd person view of himself, giving a Second Life feel to First Life. [Editor's Note: omg this is too funny. watch the video - genius!]
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new york artist chris silas neal combines hand drawing techniques with digital artistry, to create great illustrations.
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"3EyedBear has landed on earth as a pioneer to investigate conquering the earth. But don't worry, he spreads love not war!" Super-cute paperkit. Help spread 3EyedBear all over the world!
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Thank You - A brilliant advert for giving blood!
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Nintendo has introduced Wii Fit, a game which will work like Dance Dance Revolution and store measurements of your body and plot your fitness levels over time. Isn't the board chic?
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We are a group of anticapitalist militants, that we interfere in the fight for the subversion of the well versed order claiming the art as political weapon.
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Biagi's idea of the TAR collection was born during a visit to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. Check out the collection.
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Peter Buning's Sha-Do Lamp projects gorgeous shadows across your wall or ceiling.
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Photographer Cameron Wittig has a new site up featuring some fantasic images of a diverse group of artists and musicians from Andrew Bird and Tapes 'n Tapes to Chuck Close, Ed Templeton, Francis Ford Coppola and Ang Lee.
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