Selfridges is pleased to welcome the art of sculptor Richard Sweeney into the new season's window displays

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

For me, a mac is *just* a tool, not a way of life. Apparently the mindeset profile for people who own a mac is really high in openness, superiority, perfectionism - and low in modesty and dogmatism?

Sean Marc Lee's "Neon Noir" makes LA look like a hard-boiled wonderland.

These animal electrical outlet covers are pretty cute ~ liking the sheep and elephant best. Best comment idea ~ someone should make skull and crossbones!

"I Am Not A Papercup" ~ Double walled porcelain cup with silicone top. eco-friendly and reusable. dishwasher safe. by Decor Craft Inc.

In light of the writers' strike... someone has created these awesome vintage-esque The Writer's Guild Strikes Matchboxes!

A very betautiful movie of a Anti Aids Campaign. Nice Work...

Miss KZ! The new QEE designed by Calliope Studios for high end store Kirna Zabete!

The tourist promotion group of Oita City (Japan) came up with this clever advertising campaign in the airport using this conveyor sushi idea to promote their fresh and yummy sushi.

Yet another beautiful villa in the Swedish archipelago. This time by Arkitektstudio Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff . It's like villa is built around the great view.

Blade heating radiator design by Peter Rankin
Photo: Luca Tessarin
Concept : Alberico Crosetta, Luca Tessarin

Artist Lee Woodgate has one of his brilliant illustrations featured on the cover of this week's London le Cool newsletter.

Great commercial by Adidas for the 2008 Olympics "Impossible is Nothing"

New apple leopard ad up on the nytimes.com home page.

The Hut in the Tree, a more modern version of the Too High Teahouse.....

a {handmade out of durable upholstery-grade vinyl, and lined with fuzzy, soft fleece} manila envelope for your macbook air (via craftzine)

+Beryll party at the Smart House tonight ~ truly one of the best event spaces in LA ~ this tristory loft space in Venice Beach is incredible architecturally, and i find new things to love about it every time!

Mini Karl Lagerfeld !

Adobe has just launched a viral video and a website to promote a new product. Everyone can leave an audio-video message on "I'm here bacuse of him".

POVevolving is sponsoring the upcoming photography exhibition by Cyril Helnwein, "Myths & Fairytales". Cyril agreed to give a little peek before the show opens on February 2nd in Los Angeles.

If you add NOTCOT.com, NOTCOT,org, TasteSpotting, and NotCouture Web Clips to your iPhone home screen you'll see the special icons we made!

The Korean artist Kim Joon has superb work of body paint using the human body as a canvas for a brilliant 3D effect.

The Anthony Family takes on a yearlong moleskine quest to get the family thinking creatively. Notice the Eames lounge limerick post also on the site, cleverly crafted from a catalog.

Reading books the way they should be read, nicely kicked back, is always a good thing. Stanislav Katz, designer in Latvia has some nice and playful designs and ideas, this being one of them.

Can you imagine if this Vans iPhone Finger Fracture game got made? You could pull some pretty crazy skateboarding tricks with two fingers and your multitouch iphone!

Yada ~ you have to check out the pics of their well designed CES booth that draws you right into it with its cool lights and mini. And then i was surprised by the affordable and minimalist bluetooth headsets +accs!

Just a tiny bit larger than a zippo ~ here's the latest in glossy tech from La Cie ~ the Tiny Disk which holds 30/40 GB and even has a cap/built in USB! See the close ups!

Maurizio Cattelan at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2 February - 24 March, 2008

So, they say a picture speaks 1,000 words. In Jan Socor's case, he's speaking whole essays.

Cute little printable, foldable paper birds. :)

Impressive synagogue by Peter Schmitz. I really like they way the windows are folded into the star of David and the levels in the ceiling.

The Slat House is a beautiful extension to semi-detached family home in Blackheath. Very nice skylights and concrete wall(s)!

New set of Photoshop brushes by Departika titled Beautiful Bugger, is now up for grabs.

Handmade from a single block of cedar ~ and wheels from mahogany... love these italian toy cars by To Be Us

A Measuring Gaggle ~ while hunting for the nesting black and white giraffe measuring cups, i discovered these bone china geese...

French designer JEAN-MARIE MASSAUD’s concept for a floating hotel, the glorious whale-shaped “Manned Cloud” promises to be a transcendent thing of beauty should it ever reach the clouds.

Another variation for reusable bags ~ go felt with Illu Stration

This is an interesting excerpt from AIGA Paperbacks: U.S.A. An Exhibition of Covers (September 1959 /April 1961).

Designed by Philip Grushkin

Incredible film where - 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the timewatch program "Bloody Omaha"

Finnish artist Ilkka Halso depicts a future where nature becomes an attraction due to its rarity.

Rumor has it .... SPORE is coming... and EA is now launching it simultaneously for mac and pc in 2008!

A house/studio for a brazilian architect in Sao Paulo, by MMBB Architects. A concrete cube that stands on a delicate structure for an outstanding effect.

Ice Cube ~ a project out of hamburg asking you to all join in and add some ice...

The Secjo vanity is a wild combination of a full length leaning mirror, with working sink (faucet and basin) as well as electrical lamp. Not yet available but in production. By Alta Marea of Italy.

Signalnoise - The art of graphic designer James White - Flickr

The echo park time travel mart. Need a day , a week, a year then come here. One of five stores of the 826 project .

Handpresso ~ bicycle pump + expresso packet + hot water = expresso on the go? The nice design coupled with the hilariously suggestive french couple in a movie theater ad makes it worth checking out.

Engineering is the new Design. There is something amazing about a complex mechanism, especially when its function is so simple and elegant. Presenting...a blood quill pen.

UPDATED! Dan got us some hands on shots of the MacBook Air ~ close ups of all the tiny details i was curious about ~ like the power adapter connection and the ports, etc...

LIVE from macworld ~ and it ain't pretty... Here are a few pics on how insane macworld is currently, and how bad it was this morning for regular people trying to get into the keynote. Quite the sea of humanity.

Great post and video at the Pentagram blog about their latest redesign of Dairy Today magazine... its incredible what a glam portrait cow covermodel each month can do.

Crazy one use credit card sized microscopes... available in 5 packs of x500 and x1000

Liking the look of Stelton's Super Charger designed by Designit~ many have tried various charging pot designs, but this stainless + plastic with a slit is grabbing me the most.

One Less Desk ~ an interesting super minimalist desk design from Heckler ~ particularly for the mac fan boys, but the idea of two thin desks like this for various configs is pretty sweet if you're not into desk space

So there it is ~ popping out of a manilla envelope ~ the macbook air. but EVEN CUTER? The actual music video of yael naim's "new soul" that is used in their ad

A medal/pin to "celebrate the memories of endless epic battles, infinite high scores and numerous blistered fingers." Console Wars I pin by Super Mandolini

1selfmeter: elastic ruler for emotional measurements.
A "subjective ruler" to take measures with mercy and irony.

Napkin produces freeze-dried towel and t-shirt. It could be a cool gadget.

Elegant and stylish lingerie. The lacemaker is a new Argentinian brand with some impressing designs. [Editor's Note: beware, its hard not to crack up at the music]

Ross McBride's computer tower faces concept gives PCs a personality.

I feel like hanners on gongs tonight. Brain... no... worky. but big apple keynote tomorrow bright and early, are you anxious? Is your apple sense tingling?

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future. Interesting gallery of Braun products compared to products from Apple.

The Design Museum announces its choices for Designs of the Year - some obvious, some pretty quirky

Gin & Tonic... a room full of it... as FOG. This is the art exhibition of Marti Guixe in 2004 for Gat Fog in Casco.

I spent a bit of time on Seletti's website, thanks to e-cool's post #8098. Their World Dinnerware series includes some of my favorites: New York, Tokyo, Venice, Rome, Paris and London.

Dwell studio's bedding line for kids has grabbed me with their adorable animal motif!

Ready to be part of the Design Police? With their DIY stickers you can attack.. um i mean critique any and everything in your path.

Mr Clement's Petit Lapin figurine is finally available. Love their cozy yellow and orange scarves, but what's the story behind the letter and the knife?

a peek inside the floating world of designer toys

Paul Hollingworth's We Love to Build Series of transmutable architecture.

In all honesty, who HASN'T been inspired by legendary Stan Lee? A large group show at Gallery 1988 pays tribute to him and his many comic book heroes that can't be missed!!!

Rare glimpse at Henri's walk to Paris. A children's book with Design and illustration by Saul Bass.

Jacques Rougerie is one of the most interesting architects I've come across. He has drawn space stations, sea vessels and underwater habitats. His work is like straight out of a cartoon!

New campaign created by McCann Erickson Brazil for telephone company Tim.
Illustrated characters by Seagull Flys inspired in Toy Art, very nice!

New York intimates retailer Catriona MacKechnie explains the do's and dont's of buying lingerie - a visual guide to matching lingerie types to body types.

the hidden potential in the cultured activity of sticking chewed bubble gum under the chair ( a shared work with adi meirtchak)

Davone unveiled Rithm at CES, yet another designer loudspeaker. This one uses danish design and lovely woods to emulate furniture more than tech audio. Available in various woods.

canadian artist gordon halloran creates large scale abstract installations using ice as his medium. his largest installation to date will be coming to chicago's millennium park in february!

On bizarre upcoming ad campaigns... victoria beckham... for marc jacobs... in the ultimate packaging campaign? she comes out of bags and boxes?

Genoco design for "quick order" - iphone/ipod touch application to order starbucks drinks without having to wait in line.

I bet you didn't realize that the Squeezebox Duet Remote has an SD slot, headphone jack, speaker, IR transmitter, accelerometer , flickr browsing, clock.... in addition to being able to stream your music (even sirius) via wifi

Sanyo built an ark to save us all from the tide of carbon polluting energy sources. The Solar Ark, a unique, ark-shaped, solar photovoltaic power generation facility.

Night skating was never this obvious before. Security will notice you coming from a mile away, they'll be blind by the time you get near them though, so it's all good. Photon Light Boards

New portfolio of the french artist iLK. Graphic design, illustration, photography, paint...

Awesome new Nike Air Force 1 commercial for the Australian market. Made by Christopher Riggert.

Paperstand is definitely cheap solution making the notebook ergonomic tool for everyday work.

the hall of taste. A colourful -hand painted!- statement in House of Bols, Amsterdam
(design by: ...,staat, photo by: Joachim Baan)

Ridiculously cute claymation video with a little monster guy for the Weepies "World Spins Madly On"

StrangeCo's new Vivisect Playset ~ 8 blind box creatures from a slew of our fav artists that are the perfect characters for that desk you spend too much time at... here is my favorite, The King Of Deadbeats!

Lima 7192's glass rings are quite the work of art ~ so simple and subtle yet impossible to turn your eyes away from.

Vintage Dansk Quistgaard cast iron candle holder at modcat.com

Alyssa Monk's paintings of water and human's are quite stunningly done.

The debate for animal sculptures is on! My favorite is Deborah Butterfield. Bronzed sculptures give the illusion of driftwood.

One of Americas most gifted artists. David Lenz, First prize winner of the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2006, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian institution

Fixed gear affectionados take notice. Cog Magazine is here!

Adidas Original presents a collaboration with Diesel - a denim line. The denim comes in several colors and washes and features pretty subtle Adidas branding. Lets see how this venture will go!

366cm's Square is a heat sensitive hot plate that is a subtle gloss black tile or resembles the hot orangy red glow of a stove burner!

Export to World is a creative workshop which takes virtual objects from Second Life and transforms them into tangible papercraft objects. Mmm, virtual donut.

"What has not been done by using rapid prototyping technique? My answer is making sounds." - Noisy by Jun Murakoshi - via Gizmodo.