NOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #22: Nau! the eco-chic line is giving away a $500 Gift Certificate!

Clic Gallery's "Line Up: Rigging Knots and Glimpses of a Master Class" focuses on Philippe Petit, who not just a tight rope balacing act, but also street juggler, lock-picker, sketcher and bullfighter.

Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design, an exhibition in Chicago.

The Cool Hunter explores some designer cooking schools including this one, the Sydney Seafood School.

Large scale, custom designed and fabricated 3D printer at Grass Roots Engineering!

The manufacturer AK47 presents the wood rack or magazine racks FLEX - whose design is signed Ivano LOSA.

Back From Kathmandu. Ok Go organizes an 8.5 mile musical parade through the city of Los Angeles, while using the route to spell out the words Ok Go from an aerial view (Range Rover’s Pulse of the City app).

Genrocks' Filmography 2010 ~ an incredibly edited/timed masterpiece mashing up 270 films of 2010!

'continual chair' by cal poly architectural student David Lee, a beautiful and different style of chair, unique and extraordinary. entrant in the 2010 Vellum furniture competition

Project Reindeer - A herd of 8 reindeer you can get to know via web cam, GPS tracking, videos... and each is attached to a Gap discount that we all get depending on how challenges go each day?!?!

Glenn and Justin Lamont from LifeSpaceJourney, have designed a set of milking stools and matching table with shaped spun metal tops.

"Imagination Meets Engineering" - Incredible Audi A7 Sportback advert ~ an x-ray kaleidoscope of nature meets engineering madness that is absolutely mesmerizingly set to Basement Jaxx’s ‘Dracula’

Evolutive Means exhibition at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture as part of ACADIA 2010 LIFE in:Formation

Sweet, savory and stylish, it’s another roundup from the ever tasty Tasteologie and Liqurious.

typographic Super Fighting Robot 'Mega Man' by Josh Mirman

Blend Design Quote Hooks

Supersonic! Tribute to Concorde.

3-in-1 iPad Camera Connection Kit

Vintage Edition Scrabble

The world as lit up by facebook friends vs the world lit up at night ~ Facebook data infrastructure engineering team intern, Paul Butler's Infographic!

Dutch writers Willemijn van Herwijnen and Anneloes van Gaalen wrote a book which features failures and design by the likes of Stefan Sagmeister, Atypyk and more.

Murdock is a London based chain of Barbers and Gentleman’s stores with a classic modern identity that Atwork developed in close cooperation with Murdock owner and founder Brendan Murdock.

Life After Corkage Bar Stool + Ottoman by Phase Design. Vinyl-coated threaded polyester mesh filled with twelve-hundred recycled wine and champagne corks.

Holiday Giveaway #21: Baxter of California is giving one lucky reader a “Flammable” Wood Gift Box! Three candles in a stunning box!

Paper tatoos. New tattoo inspired work by Jacob Dahlstrup. Using a tattoomachine like a pen on heavy watercolor paper creating a three-dimensional line by dissordering the paper structure.

Melissa + Zaha Hadid giant boot created by Casa Darwin, now at Die Neue Sammlung, Nuremberg, Germany.

Dubbed the Allianz 4000 hybrid sweeper, the world’s first hybrid street cleaner has a 6.7 liter diesel engine and two 12-volt lithium-ion batteries that helps save an estimated 40 to 45% fuel over its diesel-only counterparts.

A warehouse converted into a loft in Dusseldorf, Germany, by Belgian architects AABE Erpicum & Partners.

Carsten Höller's Soma at the Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin runs until February 6th, 2011.

The words Make This Better appear in Ripper's valley, Windsor, Ontario as part of an ongoing series of temporary installations from Broken City Lab.

Adorable 2011 calendars from Etsy seller story by mia include this great chair calendar, an animal calendar and more.

Mexico's Micheline Print Boutique has a sophisticated, neutral color palette and an equally beautiful brand identity, packaging and literature, courtesy of designers Anagrama.

The Celsius X VI II LeDix, part pocket watch, part cell phone?

We, the students of Batch 81 from The One Academy of Communication Design are proud to unveil to you our final exhibition that comes with the theme of Curio.

From @fineartrec, a series of posters where each designer was asked to represent a musical genre using one element and one typeface (stating the genre). Above, Leterme Dowling's "Urban".

Kelly Reemsten's amazing oil paintings ~ a juxtaposition of party frocks and simple tools... like chainsaws, bolt cutters, axes, monkey wrenches, dish gloves and more!

Beautiful, simple, and powerful new iPad Portfolio App for photographers, designers, directors, editors, and more. It was actually designed by a photographer who needed a better portfolio app than anything that was available.

Awesome Martell ads ~ almost picture in picture the way they play with "The same pleasure since 1715" ~ see the other ad, as well as close ups!

Ishihara by Yoav Brill - A short film about color blindness.

Another gorgeous week has passed and this week’s roundup is full of stunning images of lustworthy products, breathtaking scenes and overlooked minutia.

Video: SDO Observatory Captures Another Beautiful, Gigantic Solar Storm.

Kiehl's and KOONS launch party for their new collaboration... a look at the NYC launch and the delicious Momofuku delights, including Crack Pie bites and Cake Truffles!

Easy-to-Grow Mushroom Garden from Back To The Roots

Stefan Sagmeister's newly redesigned website gives you real-time video of the office - a growing web trend amongst designers.