I love oilily, and their new artist collaborations. This one is done by Linn Olofsdotter, a Swedish artist.

Perfect for notcot + tastespotting, the cooking/designing objects. The bread knife is also a ruler, and the board has a chopping side and an x-acto side.

fromthe "Street Art Sweet Art"collective in milan. check it out before april 7th at Pac (Padiglione arte contemporanea).

great laser cut skatedecks from refill seven.

Blue and Green LED alarm clocks from I.D.E.A.

Tony Deifell really gets those gears turning in your head when he asks 'Why do you do what you do?' It's a simple question that just doesn't really seem to have a simple answer. May be you could even take a spin at answering it...

BBC Interview with Junko Mizuno ~ most fascinating part is seeing her collection of toys that she needs for inspiration... from Popples to My Little Ponies!

Chiaki Murata's HONO LED Candles actually react to wind and can be turned off by blowing on them.

If you want to see green design... go to the BP Helios House GAS STATION... reminiscent of the futuristic views of yesterdays its quite the site to behold late at night.

Knowing how much you kids like the print+cut+make toys... here's another adorable one... from Big Chief

Direct link to the NOTCOT Gallery - Junko Mizuno pics from last nights opening.

For all the pictures from the Heart Throb opening at the Merry Karnowsky Gallery ~ featuring the works of Miss Van and Junko Mizuno

Scans of the Princesas of Miss Van, limited postcard set from last nights opening.

Installation by Carsten Holler with intertwining slides at the Tate Modern, London.

Sketchfighter is a game designed to look just like those little doodles of spaceships you used to make in the margins of your notebooks in school. Brilliant!

Nathan Sawaya is a Certified LEGO Professional which means he builds things out of Lego for a living. Here's his lifesized Han Solo in Carbonite sculpture.

notCOT puns aside... found Dropps on the treehugger ads ~ and the eco friendly, Dissolvable, Ready-to-use, Organic, Premeasured Packet ~ was an interesting design...

Tenebrionid Beetle - Living Beetle Jewelry. The next trend in tiny creatures that celebrities carry around with them.

need more sites to read this weekend? Stefano Ricci over at Elmanco, has put together a ridiculously extensive list of sites to check out...

Louisa Bufardeci has created a series of embroideries showing 1 min phone conversations and anti war speeches... stunning.

We seem to share a lot of obsessions with Boing Boing ~ how great is British designer Nick Foster's portrait of them

The Waiting Light. 2002 by kris harzinski "Perhaps it will make waiting less mundane. At the very least, it will give you something to talk about with the person standing or sitting next to you."

Quick little saturday morning rant ~ on social shopping... some of the awesome thisnext/notcot users... and an end to the thisnext badges on notcot.com.

Ethics Girl : Higher Quality, Lower Impact. Great new tee from the environmentally conscious, Howies*.

Miki Tanaka's Rhinoceros Beetle Necklace

Also from Anthropologie's spring line... love this Gardenia Carry-All

Tastespotting makes me want to cook... and learn to essentially design with food... and these aprons from Anthropologie would be perfect to do it in!

summer76 has a nice post at coolhunting about hearing all sides before giving in to the magical politician powers of gore... "The Great Global Warming Swindle" from brit channel 4 is interesting.

alchemi is in search of discarded incandescent bulbs that have been exchanged for Compact Fluorescents (CFLs).

dianne y. cheuk put together her monologue of psychedelic mushrooms, women, and flowers, and water colors. Mushroom Girls Virus - in a silk fabric bound cover by die gestalten. beautiful.

Jeff Koegel's paintings tackle the landscape, hybridity, simultanaity, and transformation in the most beautifully disorienting way

The Eye Project from Japan's KDDI makes a stylish way to share mobile video and pictures with everyone on the web.

I may be looking for a tennis racket... and just noticed this porsche design one. Pretty... "The structure of the material creates the ideal balance of stability and lightness: 85% carbon, 15% Kevlar."

aneta grzeszykowska & jan smaga are a duo from warsaw who put together images of an apartment looking from above, somewhat in a "plan" format. awesome details.

a series of portraits by second-life photographers Eva and Franco Mattes.

design*sponge featured Submarine Channel, devoted to particularly memorable movie title sequences.

I had no idea the usps was so into star wars... or that they wanted the world to know they had jedi powers. Apparently for the star wars 30th anniversary, they are putting out R2D2 mailboxes...

French inventor Lucien Gambarota and Wharton grad and entrepreneur Doug Woodring are bringing clean, sustainable energy to the gym using good old-fashioned manpower.

York Mints (the peppermint patties in a mini bite sized ball) ~ has limited edition tins by designers like Nicole Miller...

Aaron R. Thomas created this plexi DJ spinning table complete with Louis Vuitton trunk for the Golden Globes! Just one of his many fun acrylic designs!

A Swarovski Studded Refrigerator in black or aluminum. Kitchen Bling? Hmmmm.... by gorenje

Reporters Without Frontiers map of the world countries where internet usage is controlled by the government.

"CANDY, The GIRLPOWERSHOPPING Issue,
is now online and ready to download and enjoy!! This issue is dedicated solely to some of the best female talent on the surface of this little planet we call home!"

thomas paul for paul smith plates. i especially love the one with the tree, and its roots.