Interstellar 2007 in Los Angeles on July 7-8. Street Art / Tee-Shirts / Designer Toys ... perfect for notcot fans

FEATUREDIt's been rough ~ i must admit i don't handle not being able to share designer goodness here well! But we're working on it, so bear with us, and/or help?

Dutch designer Klaartje Daamen's attractive new product: Floris, a wood flooring system that does double duty as tables, chairs, and benches.

Very nice illustrator and motion artist on this 2006 reel. Mix of vector images from Chico Jofilsan's work!

Dot Action 2: pixelated glory and the reason I can't remember today's Moral Philosophy lecture.

Alberto clotheslines. Even better once the birds settle on that beautiful plastic tree.

"I am getting married. But not to you, to the man of my dreams.." This and other 3D wedding invitations from Meric Kara

Kawari Dama - is a string of beads made from coloured sugar with lover beads inside. --- its about the enjoyment of slowly sucking the beads and the unexpected find of a concealed preciousness

FEATUREDGolden Wedding pills - with names engraved - then you take them with vodka... and a few hours later... you hunt for them?

i don't know anything about the search engine, and you know, i don't really care because there's a goofy red zeebra that jumps around and that basically takes care of everything.

Local Celebrtiy's Respect Your Mother tee is just what you need for Earth Day coming up this weekend.

Moo is now doing Notecards ~ square cards that can stand up nicely (i can just imagine printing out all my fav notcot.org posts)

A Nice Set: 34 artists from around the world were invited to design one of a kind sets of slip mats for a touring exhibition and book which would explore the way visual art and music hang together.

Amazing guide as to how professional illustrators go from sketch to vector illustration.

This can't even come close to the Sex Toy for your Dog (see image #3928)... but this Alessi Condom Box is still one of the sleekest ways to play it safe.

Bath plug designs you don't see every day.

FEATUREDLucifer - brilliant matchbook design... you shake a match out and as you pull it out it lights - also from Feel Addicted

Rebecca Walker's Jewelry is inspired by the earth around us, and at the same time manages to maintain a feeling of elegance.

Sex Toys for your DOGS. Hotdoll, by Feel Addicted.

Jim Woodrings fantastical and inspirational Moleskine pop-up book

A candle made from a simple bulb. It can be so romantic for a late dinner with your girlfriend

Also from Keetra Dean Dixon ~ a blanket thats as comforting textually as it is physically... "Everything Will Be Ok"

FEATUREDDropped by I Am 8-Bit tonight at Gallery 1988 on Melrose ~ pics and more on .com

Cleverly titled "Disbelief" t-shirt I just purchased on Threadless.... Clever because it reads "OMG NO WAY" in case you haven't figured it out yet.

Blood puddle pillows. By Keetra Dean Dixon. Lots and lots of other fun projects on her site.

Shot in 12 hours ~ discontinued ~ is a short film made for the 2007 NYC Film Race. [Editor's Note: fortune telling scrambled eggs!]

Blacklist (a spinoff of the brilliant PsyOp) has a fantastic showreel, and a georgeous Ambigram as a logo

ChristopherConte's robotic insect sculptures reminded me of the work of Mike Libby's (#2463)

This curiously designed rubber food covering - which looks like a pig is trying to force its way though - is enough to give your children nightmares.

Very pretty use of type and a Bob Dylan song to boot

Tjep's love heart will be produced and sold by Moss NY. For typography lovers

Girls and Octopus on a swing. The art of Fuco Ueda

NEL's Irak carpet is shaped like the country and covered in little felt men-in-arms. Booth A-4 at the Salone Satellite for those of you at the Milan furniture fair

Motionreel of studio Gretel. Elegant and nice colours by Greg Hahn.

FEATUREDAfter #3909 - needed to feature Take Away Shows - "You meet a band. You take them outside, in the streets, and ask them to play there, shoot the movie in one unique shot, whatever happens."

Blackwood Distillers from Scotland have come up with the idea to produce world's most expensive vodka. It gets gem filtered and costs from $ 70.00 up to $ 1,060,000.00.

"Paths are made by walking" In order to determine whether the above phrase was actually true, we kept running in a park for 5 days.

All we did was take the Shins for a walk in the streets of Paris, on a sunny afternoon. Oh, they played, they played well, and gave us an hour of pure and simple enjoyment. [Editor's Note: Take Away Shows - WOW!]

Milan Design Week kicks off in a few days ~ and our money is on Big Chief to keep us up to date on what can't be missed.

" Our first Toy. Designed by Higone and Codel. COMBO is the 1st place winner of the ULTIMATE TOY DESIGN COMPETITION" Adorable design...

Samsung get really creative with how your computer should look... fascinating 3 concepts to check out

the diver in me has fallen for this Abyssal print by Sub Studio - gorgeous 8"x20" silkscreened print

The Ring - Porcelain fruit dispenser designed by Joung Myung Lee from Germany

Culture, art and experimentation for free. That's the balde. A basque-english speaking magazine.

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

As far as bomb dropping pigeons in tee's and flip flops go - this :phunk studio x Pixie LeiGong is pretty sweet

Call for Skateboard Art - the poster for this competition is beautiful