Art Director and Writer team duo Jon & Adam post unproduced ideas daily for people to steal.

Japan Brand Pop-Up Boutique! Open May 18 – 30, 2009, the Japan Brand Pop Up shop features Japanese design items in every price range, from $7.50 incense to a portable tea room worth $18,000.

The Japan Brand Pop Up Boutique was inspired by the Japan Brand exhibit which showed in Tokyo & Paris before coming to NYC. By popular demand, products from the Japan Brand exhibit will be for sale in the US for the first time, two weeks only, exclusively at Felissimo Design House.

Products for sale include everything from unique home décor to fashion accessories, stationery, one-of-a-kind textiles, cookware, beautiful fashion pieces and lacquer ware products in every shape and color.


Felissimo Design House
10 West 56th Street, New York City

Open to the public
May 18 – 30, 2009
11 AM – 6PM (Closed on Sunday)

First-day shoppers will receive a free gift with purchase!

The first project to be built by Norwegian architects Snohetta in the US: the Wolfe Center for the Arts in Bowling Green, OH. Love how the green roof integrates with the street level, similar to the Oslo Opera they just finished.

Last minute gift for your mom! By David Horvitz.

Designed by Katsuyuki Fujimoto Architect & Associates, Oy House in Kyoto, Japan has this courtyard in the interior with an open street view allowing nature and its present to paint the house, as though it's a blank piece of canvas.

Posters, porcelain, paper toys, cross-stitch, street art, screen prints, linocuts, tattoos and dolls from artists around the world collected for First Thursday Beard Art. Bonus: a beard giveaway.

Adidas created a free downloadable guide to Berlin’s street art.

mog.com is a recently re-vamped music blog site that hopes to be the huffington post of music. The design balances visual ga-ga with neutrality, while eschewing the masculine in-yo-faceness of other music websites. Check out the little fuzzy guy at the bottom!

Some cool street murals from London-based artist Tom Blackford, aka Inkfetish.

Stefan Strumbler uses traditional cuckoo clocks and gives them the graffiti street art treatment turning them into pop influenced art pieces.

FEATUREDCharacters ~ not your Sesame Street Letter of the Day for sure ~ these eerie letters are found abandoned from old signage and the finnish company, Characters turns them into LED lighting ~ gorgeous photography!

Celebrating the launch of the new Food2.com site, a party in Food Network's test kitchen at Chelsea Market. One of the highlights of the site is its original video content, including the new series, Kitchen Conspirators...

la mosca (previously featured as #14064) do some gorgeous infographics . their recent feature on designboom brought them back to mind and they merit another mention!

The Ellington Orchestra performed at the the 125th Street subway station at St. Nicholas Avenue in Harlem and on a special A train for the 110th anniversary of Ellington's birth.

Legendary street artists Logan Hicks and Broken Crow are taking over an abandoned bank in Brooklyn for a 3-day art extravaganza that will be the first major exhibit for both in New York.

Nice ad and type for Mercedes-Benz Bas Plus. "The first brake that reads the street" by BBDO Düsseldorf.

The Mypressi Twist is a portable espresso machine with a pneumatic engine! [Editor's Note: Remember #8130 the Handpresso?]

Portsmouth Creative Movement, FarkFK and Stickee take part in a Street Art Blitz on Portsmouth Streets.

The 'New York Street Advertising Takeover' project happened over the weekend, with 120 illegal billboards in and around NYC being white-washed and then painted over by about 80 different artists.

Seward Street Slides (& Corwin Community Garden) - San Francisco, CA. First opened May 21, 1973. Fun for big kids too!

Street Art: Recent finds in Harajuku & Shibuya

The Bacone: A bacon cone filled with scrambled eggs and country gravy topped with a biscuit.

Belvédère (2008) - This seat or rather perch is on the borders of urban areas where the view should be raised. Wink to the referee or lifeguard chair, to the observation post for hunting, it offers to the pedestrian a new viewpoint/

The Comme des Garcons Black Shop comes to Dover Street Market London and for the occasion they created three giant Bearbrick toys for the window, standing 210cm (6.8 feet) tall.

Primitive forms and natural rocks smoothed by water have inspired the design of the lamp Sasso. Design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

toyo ito recently transformed this facade in barcelona spain, inspired in la pedrera from gaudi that lies across the street

The Coca-Cola Refresh Recycling Bin is a new twist on the traditional recycling container. Made entirely from post-consumer recycled PET soda and water bottles, it showcases the exceptional design potential of recycled plastic.

Brazil-based Titi Freak paints the streets of Osaka with brightly colored Koi fish, which seamlessly coincide with Japanese culture and landscape.

Spore gives a touch of originality and lightness to the location. Design by Massimo Iosa Ghini.

OKKO is as versatile as a birdfeeder can get coz it can either be hung from the ceiling in a balcony (if you have such luxury) or be placed on a post in the garden.

Peter Marigold makes these tables using scraps leftover leather from Fendi production.

Alcoholic Architecture is a bar offering timed tickets for a “breathable cocktail” of gin and tonic mist. Realized by Bompas & Parr, of Scratch'n Sniff Cinema and Flavor Tripping Party. [Ed. Note: #8113 did this in 2004]

Miso is an illustrator that has been working as a street artist for 5 years, combining fine art approaches to wheatpasted and painted works on the streets. So nice!

Amazing video post-production by Takafumi Tsuchiya on Caelum soundtrack.

Shinichi Maruyama captures the mixing of water and ink with high speed photography.

VIDEOAIG executives have it in for them with this "EASTER AIG HUNT" stencil piece by street-artist ABOVE.

In reference to #20490, I have a sneak peek at all three Gatorade Tiger animated commercials for you here. Two that haven't even aired yet! Plus bonus behind the scenes footage!

Wooster has a great piece on "Sally's Beautiful Blue Wall" ~ and the controversy of street art...

Great new Barbie Sculpture for the window display of Dover Street Market in London, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the doll.

Online IS the real world (isn't it?) ... my guest post of a rant over at the Small Business Marketing Guide/DIY blog... how do you approach taking brands online?

An interesting house in Cyprus by Armon Choros Architects. A concrete volume enclosing a central space devoted to water. Cool pool!

Oooh Hard-Graft Moleskine Pen Hold ~ deserved a post of its own... nice elastic/leather strap ready to play bookmark, pen holder, and more...

New Project by photographer Anthony Dickenson. His unique look over Londons Oxford Street and surrounding area.

SP Architects designed this 'Pickles & Chutney Pavilion' with 3,000 mason jar lids hanging from the ceiling, and the jars creating the walls.

FEATUREDOCTOPUS ROUNDUP!!! 36 octopi posts rounded up in one easy spot ~ inspired by #20344

Cute little clip of a 8-bit meets real life via stop-motion water slide extravaganza.

Street artist D*Face took his protest of the G20 Summit digitally with a series of billboards. Question is are they paid for or hacked?

The well respected + loved family run graphic design trade publication, Communcation Arts magazine, celebrates their 50th anniversary. Through the years the publication has observed vast changes in the industry, challenges...

Sesame Street gets a kaiju-style makeover from Japan's RealxHead. Big Bird, The Count, Oscar, Cookie Monster and Elmo will never be the same...

Daniel Piker shows the possibilities of the transformation of objects through the art of origami.

A time lapse video of stills from google street view, crossing the golden gate bridge. Gives a fun impression of what it would be like to sit atop a street view car as it drives.

Monsieur Qui or in English Mister Who is a French illustrator / street Artist. His fashion illustrations are beautiful and you can find them all over the Parisian walls

“Mathematics” Art Print by Phil Lumbang ~ and a fun video of the super cute print going up in HUGE form along a street...

MIT's SENSEable City Lab monitors tourists via Flickr, creating visual representations of their presence, showing their travels and interests.

A conversation about coffee stains, architecture, and street art with San Fransisco's Kelly Ording.

Canadian Earth Science Postage Stamps from 1973.

Armon Choros Architects have designed the Chalkidos Street Residence in Larnaca, Cyprus.

LU∞ is a collection of hand blown Murano chandeliers.
It shapes within a square, perfectly natural power balance.

Believe it or not, Sesame Street will be 40 this year! To celebrate they have some special guests but not everything will be aired. Here, Elmo and Gervais in some hilarious outtakes that are not for kids!

Amanda Levete does more beautiful work for Corian...

Studio HOF is a laboratory of ideas aimed to gather its members' designing experiences and to explore themes and style of contemporary architecture with an experimental approach.

Fox Johnston Architects designed this house in the Mosman neighborhood of Sydney, Australia.

The Orphans’ is an art series by AT.AW. that involves adhering temporary paper drawings to enliven the urban environment.

The Sci Fi Channel attempts to become more mainstream with the anticipated launch of a new name and rebranding.

A project is beeing studied to put Nintendo and Montana together and lauch the Wii Spray Console. This would be a blast for all of us "virtual" street artists.

Brand new website from portuguese street-artist Target is finally online. Filled with stencils, posters, and other related works from the artist.

Finally ~ a Monocle shop for LA, and nice and westside in Brentwood... Opening April 6th at 225 26th Street, Suite 19b

Seattle street artists take over a condemned building in the University District.

Danish architects PLOT designed this cool youth center, converting a run down factory into a base camp. This answers the question "How do you create something that even street kids would find cool?"

Die Post Ist Da!: The Return opening on Friday, March 13th @ Intoxicated Demons in Berlin is a follow-up to the last years ultra-successful show with the addition Angry Woebots, who joins the original lineup of ARO, HYP, and Morten Andersen.

Beautiful new works from artist Shannon Bonatakis (as featured in post #5211) show at Rivet Gallery.

A hotel gift shop in the form of a vending machine - selling high-end luxury items and design & cultural symbols instead of the expected t-shirts, toothbrushes and souvenirs.

Daily street number from 1 to 356 by Zsutti.

VIDEOA new short film from VFX master Bruce Branit. This short film was shot in just one day. Post production took two years.

Luca "Bean One" Barcellona is an amazingly talented calligrapher, based out of Milan, Italy, with roots in street art culture, a true guru of hand-drawn letters

Sam Webber works predominantly in ink, water colour, and acrylic, which is then scanned and finished in photoshop. his works are meticulously detailed to create focus on certain elements, broad and generous in others. [Lots of new stuff since #1126]

As a complement to #19325, you can see the other not yet released photos of Barbie with Italian model Baptiste Giabiconi as Ken taken by Karl Lagerfeld here.

SYNTHe is an urban green roof in LA developed by SCI-arc professor Alexis Rochas and his students.

MOSLEY TRIBES is now creating interesting consumer stationary products ( The reinterpretation of a timeless classic). Mosley has created a black post it note pad. This pad comes with its own metallic silver Sharpie.

Sure, the Web has made many aspects of our lives easier, but it’s also complicated a few things—specifically, how we date, flirt and meet potential love interests.

PepsiCo caved into consumer pressure and is reverting back to their earlier Tropicana design. The 'hated' new branding sparked much conversation in the design community. But should designers have thought more carefully about what they wished for?

Droog ~ the Soho store opening Thurs!!! 76 Greene Street between Spring and Broome

Gregory Euclide's relief paintings are unconventional to say the least! I've never seen anything like them. [Editor's Note: his older works were seen as #984]

Street artist ABOVE just updated his website after a 24-month hiatus. This street artist has so many interesting concepts, and mediums and stories to tell. Make sure to check out the Travel Photo section as well.

A drifter in the subway carrying an old paper bag gave designer, Ramon Middelkoop, the idea for this beautifull leather bag. He named it 'My Paper Bag'. [Ed. Note: Reminds ms a lot of Porter's #7874]

Jeff Soto is a visual artist from California who started out as a graffiti artist, and still is an active participant in street art.

Suit Up - Custom playing cards show featuring nineteen Australian artists from Street Art, Comic, and Illustration backgrounds.

Badass prosthetic leg for a bicycle messenger/street artist by Jordan Diatlo for Ecko Unltd. The prosthesis responds to the amputee's physical and emotional needs to feel whole again.

Another street art intervention in Portugal.

Untho, italian streetwear brand, is proud to announce an art collaboration with the street-artist: Obey!

The Simpsons debut their first television episode in HD, including a freshly tweaked intro on February 15th, 2009.

Target has commissioned Alexander McQueen to create a high fashion collection at a street-smart price. It will be launched on March 4th ~ and Nitrolicious has a great sneak peek of the Blythe doll models!

Using Topobo, created in the MIT Media Lab by Hayes Raffle and Amanda Parkes, is like building a Lego robot you program with your hands!

Kilian Schindler has made a series of furniture’s for outside use; a garden chair made simply with metal wires, a lamp pavilion, and a shelf for your garden products.



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Urban Research in Seattle: stickers, street art & tags.

An amazing series of highly stylized trailers for the new Street Fighter 4 game. Each trailer is more a work of art than an advertisement... stunning!

Competition to redesign a character from Street Fighter IV for an official fan art poster. Win a PS3, SFIV and other Capcom games, as well as having 100,000 free copies of your design printed and distributed.

A notebook/sketchook that transforms all your doodles and notes into street art.

VIDEOYouTube Street Fighter: YouTube's premier video game, totally interactive game in which YOU play.

Trippy video of William Wegman's Weimaraners baking bread. From the Sesame Street vault. God I love that show!

CB3 is an interesting mixed use development in Hanoi, Vietname, designed by ICE HK. Three towers tied at the top, with an active street level. Construction is set to be started in late 2009.

Fun guest post from the ladies of Design Glut over at Core77 ~ with the brutal truth and top finds of the NY Gift Fair 2009!

Since debuting at Design Miami in December, the Ikedome is set to travel to a series of events during 2009. Designed by Marc Newson, it draws influence from his Fondation Cartier "Bucky" installation.

The Viva Street building in Republica Dominicana features a nice cladding system, when combined with variable LED lighting, come nightfall, turns this building into a dynamic object.

No words, just images. Each post is a theme. Leslie Miles has an amazing eye...

Monument to the Keyboard ~ Thats some impressive concrete street art found in Ekaterinburg, Russia!

Artist Leslie Mutchler's Hothouse is a post-apocalyptic greenhouse/campsite installation featuring a Le Corbusier model made of repurposed paper.

365 Budapest is a photo project of Hungarian art director Zsolt Molnár. Through beatufully composed photos he tries to show the typographical diversity of street numbers in capital city, Budapest.

post-it notes left to their fate in public places daily

T-Mobile killed it with this guerrilla style campaign filmed at 11am on Thurs 15 Jan 09 Liverpool Street station, London. Cast some hundred people dressed in normal work attire, passing through the rail station...

Boot I by Pixel Pancho, from street art to international concept store. Amazing limited edition robot-pop-pot.

FEATUREDFirst look at Manifest Hope: DC ~ the art is pretty incredible ~ in this post you can see an overview of the art, the space, and the madness ~ here's shepard fairey touching up the piece on stage before opening!

Washington Post's Philip Kennicott has a great article looking at the Obama portrait by shepard fairey ~ and the subtleties and what it may say about things in the long run...

#18114 ~ here's the developer site with hilarious 'outakes'!

Last chance on winning 4500$ of Nvidia/CS4 goodies! Here is the final of the three contests from Nvidia with NOTCOT, Core77, and Behance

Street Art by Stencil Terrorists, Portugal.

LA street artist, Buff Monster will be releasing a small number of the long-awaited 10-inch Teddy Troop figures. The production quality is amazin!

Website of portuguese street artist Mr.Dheo.

Copenhagen has been recovering the waterfront with a series of projects. This public bath by JDS+BIG (former PLOT) invites citizens to use the fresh waters, amazing result! (see #17148 also)

funny, you could see shaz madani's window installation in london as an answer to ebon heath's typographical ballet, posted in #17782

Amazing Urban Warning sign.

Installation by Chris Burden for the LACMA on Wilshire Blvd. in...LA. The effect of the 202 restored cast-iron street-lamps is magical.

The anticipated Royal Mail British Design Classics stamps will be available January 13th. But, the Royal Mail has also announced that they will release a new stamp series every month of 2009, including a series on Post Boxes, Darwin, and Mythical Creatures.

Spanish designers Luzinterruptus have completed a guerrilla lighting installation in a Madrid street. Lamp Shades!!!

VIDEOJoanna Peacock performs a guerilla fire street art show at the closing party of Mutate Britain.

Designboom's xmas post is too cute not to share ~ santa party!!! by chris haughton

The Yellow Treehouse Restaurant in New Zealand is now finished. We previewed this in #16207

Judith Seng's body of work embraces and highlights flaws and imperfections - her Hide and Show Clothing framework turns your clothing into part of the furniture's aesthetic.

Also by Amore for Svegro (see post #17205) - great packaging for herbs/greens inspired by potted plants.

A project from Polaroid and Moleskine, where you will be able to post your journals filled with Polaroid Pogo prints. POGOLAB.net

The Tag Tree Project. 100's of tags sent across the world. 200 artists. Customize. 1 tree to hang. Flickr Group. Organized by MyDogSighs a UK based street artist.

Ever wondered what the internet sound like? Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin's magnificent "Listening Post" takes permanent residence at London's Science Museum.

VIDEOPost graduate service designer Lauren Currie takes a dozen balloons to a park in Edinburgh asking people to tie them to their favourite thing.

FEATUREDThe Xylocopa Young Mad Scientist Laser Etched Wood Alphabet Blocks ~ in person! I even took pics of each letter so you can see up close how fun the illustrations are! Original found in #16975!

An "artistic intervention in Google Street View" brought to you by Pittsburgh. Staged street view scenes range from a marching band to a medieval sword fight.

The V building facade of the VM Houses, featured in #10709, is a small disappointment when seen for real.

Park, Set and Match by Jorge Mañes. -- I love this type of mischief, taking over the parking lot in the name of tennis

Taxi series, shot recently in Tokyo,New York, Shanghai,Hong Kong- all presented 'as shot' with no post production or cropping. Shot on Hasselblad medium format film & digital capture, all handheld.

Holiday season on Main Street is not complete without humble animals and bales of hay, the l.a.Eyeworks stores on Beverly Boulevard and Melrose Avenue turns up the volume on a stable of seasonal sentiments.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #22: Fleet Street Scandal is giving way a full set of their 4 amazing Yuki-7 Posters! Retro espionage style with an adorable super heroine!

Street art in Sao Paolo - the 6emeia project uses mostly storm drains for their creations in transforming the daily life in the city.

Japanese design team, Tibori Design, have an awesome blog called Dotter Dotter where they post 8-bit inspired pieces of 3D art from classic Nintendo games.

No stranger to NOTCOT - (#9132 & #12017) - Liz Wolfe has two limited editions available just in time for the holidays... just released today...this is 'Bunnies in Blood"

“Airside” series, photographer Richard Mosse captures the disaster-response training practice of setting life-size model airplanes on fire. Mosse’s pictures demonstrate that, in a post-9/11 world, an image of aircraft on fire, for any reason, can stoke fear.