Lobo tells the story of Levi’s 501 jeans...

After cutting the base off your favourite plastic bottle it can be screwed into this cast resin base to create a vase.

Complete image gallery from the completely redone Cans Festival in the Leake St tunnel, London.

bathroom tiling designs inspired by pixelizing art

Don't Ban the Can. New laws mean that if you are caught simply carrying a spray can, you can be fined up to $550. It's going to ruin Melbourne's graffiti culture.

Growth Series is made of ceramics combined with natural twigs. To be launched by Stanley Ruiz at A+: The Young Designer's Platform at Accent on Design, NYIGF - August 17-21, 2008.

Dress up your bare lightbulbs in colourful 'Bulbcaps'. Buy dozens and change them according to the mood.

Breathtakingly beautiful new ad by AB5TRAX for teh Toyota Prius, "Think Isaac Asimov meets George Jetson" ~ the car in a briefcase is here!

IDEO site redesign ~ first in 7 years!

My new business cards

michael koening designed the 'koenig table lamp'
for danish company morfoso.
it will be launched during the formland scandinavian design event august 15 to 18.

A compact office building in Santiago, Chile. The floor plan layout varies on each level, resulting on interesting interior circulations on which you can see the people across the building.

James Walton - interesting NYC artist with an upcoming show . I love the lines working with the images. I love how he doesn't give all the information. Something beautiful and sweet about these collages.

Can you believe the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are turning 25 years old next year?

Band uses a 5.25” floppy diskette as packaging for their CD, complete with sleeve for the floppy and a text based adventure game that pops up when you insert the CD into your computer.

Up for auction August 1st at 11:00 PDT is one of the hero Mattel Hoverboards used by Michael J. Fox in his most famous role as “Marty McFly” in the Robert Zemeckis classic 80s trilogy, Back to the Future.

Hype Type Studio has teamed up with the UK based illustrator and designer Si Scott, to produce a run of brand new prints.

"Big ideas come out of big pencils." Use your own personal pencil to draw all over this awesome marketing design site.

Pretty useful if you park your bike anywhere in the city centre and value the idea of it still being where you left it upon your return.

Some recent pictures from a never completed Niemeyer project in Tripoli (Lebanon) by photographer Cristobal Palma.

W Hotels recently opened a new location in midtown Atlanta, Georgia that features a techno glam modern design.

Free Range features over 3,000 graduates from across the U.K. End of May through the end of July at The Old Truman Brewery in East London’s Brick Lane district.

Thinking of expanding your house? Maybe you’ve been wanting to redo several rooms but don’t know exactly where to start? Take a look at the wonderful Mydeco 3D room planner for some insight.

Ooooh iLounge shares an upclose look at the new iPhone 3G's dock!

Have a look at the beautiful work of Angelique Houtkamp !

Milan Camper sales

Beautiful shots of London’s abandoned swimming pools.

The Illustrated Ape, Photographers of the Urban Apocalypse preview. James & Joe were invited to design this special one off photography issue.

Sneak Peek at Edwin Ushiro's first solo show "While Tides Guide You Back Home" ~ some beautiful pieces in here! And really a perfect summer's day captured.

The International Fauna Dossier describes a schaffas (Marcum-Schaffidius) as a gentle and un-aspiring creature of great mystery - this exhibition shows off 80 variations of this creature...

Gravishelf. system wich works without any hardware.

Awesome new vinyl figure designed by Michael Lau and inspired by 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Speak-er is a playful speaker design by Sherwood Forlee that puts the SPEAK back into Speakers.

a penguin flying... in the spot for washington's lottery...
everyone’s dreams can come true… created by Publicis in the West, Seattle...

NOTCOT is in the woods - with no internet or cell reception. If things get a bit quiet the next few days, its b/c i'm working on a log cabin in VT...

There's a yellow box with a string on it... naturally you pull it... out pops a porcelain cuckoo with a CONDOM for you. Susanne Hangaard's Cucoon

Awesome site for Doritos' new flavor. Beautifully done by Red Interactive

Pollution sensitive 'EPA Dress' by Stephanie Sandstrom wrinkles on bad air days via embedded sensors.

Tales from Earthsea from Studio Ghibli.

This is the first film for director Goro Miyazaki (Hayao Miyazaki’s son)

Oooh db clay has new super eco friendly designer wallets... in collection 3.1 there is a sweet grey on black version of their classic stampage print. [Code: notcot20 gets you 20% off]

"The Pink Panther"
Very clever ads from the advertising agency Cerebro Y&R out of Panama City, Panama and art director Alberto Weand.

DON'T SPEED| Action against using speed of walking tracks in Sydney.

The site Woosta*com has some gorgeously inspiring artist interviews on their site, Thomas Keeley is one of them but be sure to check them all out!

Behind the scenes of Bjork's 3-D masterpiece, Wanderlust.

Singapore Art Show outdoor campaign-check out the 3D posters

The Chomp campaign helps make it easy for kids to eat healthier with a new take on the lunch tray and veggie plate. [Editor's Note: super cute cardboard diorama veggie vids]