The new project on Baghdad by Antonio Ottomanelli and Giovanna Silva will come to the exhibition SAO PAOLO CALLING in March. Antonio Ottomanelli tells us about it from the beginning in a series of posts; here is the second one…

We skipped the gingerbread men this year and decided to make some cookies a little closer to home. City dwellers will be familiar with these gingerbread bodegas.

There’s a DJ in the bedroom. And oh look, clothes on display in the closet. The appetizers are served in the kitchen, the drinks in the living room. But is it a hangout or a real home? It’s Casa Clementina, in the Monti district in Rome.

A 3-D portrait of Albert Einstein that transforms into a portrait of Marilyn Monroe! 'Conversation' a 3-D printed shadow casting panel installation by Drzach&Suchy.

Rare lens-shaped lenticular clouds over West Yorkshire.

VIDEOLara Crystal, from Casey Dunn’s Invertebrate Zoology (Biol 0410) course at Brown University, tells the story of how anglerfish find, and keep, a mate

The Siajo Clinic located in Shinjuku, Tokyo by Aida Atelier.

Bridgestone Airless tires, currently in the concept phase, have spokes of thermoplastic resin that support the rubber tire: so they don’t go flat, don’t puncture, don’t blow out and are 100% recyclable.

Fade Away 1 performs a twitter search for the term "Fade Away" and uses an ultra violet laser diode to write these tweets on a phosphorescent surface. They eventually fade away.

Maya Shleifer’s “In The Train” doodles.

Tether, a flexible plastic rod to stabilize your glasses as they go through the dishwasher.

Orlogin, Ben Broyde's grandfather clock inspired series of clocks.

A path in the forest by Tetsuo Kondo. Beautiful walkway situated in Kardiorg Park, an urban forest, 15-minutes' walk from the Old City of Tallinn.

Jason Hull's vintage camera nightlights.

VIDEOEthics for the Starving Designer, a social project promoting the dialogue on ethics and responsibility within student and professional visual communicators.

Incredible book sculptures by Guy Laramee.

Designer Cameron Booth transforms the US highway system into a subway style map.

N H D M designed the Library Machine, to store the multimedia archive for the Nam June Paik Art Centre in the city of Yong-In, South Korea.

The Mikoto Bamboo knife block from Ekobo is an elegant way to keep your knives in order.

VIDEO“Little Shining Man”, a kite with 1700 3d printed connectors, carbon fibre rods and cubenfibre aerospace fabric. Conceived by Heather and Ivan Morison, designed by Sash Reading, engineered and fabricated by Queen & Crawford.

FEATUREDStunning simple little film around the making of an alternative christmas ginger jam sponge cake. It's a gingerbread house on top of a cake!

More new work from ever-toiling Nendo; this time, it's a quirky new souvenir product for the Cup Noodle Museum in Yokohama, Japan.

“Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990” is on show at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A review by Pietro Rigolo.

Beautiful new site by Mike Kus, animated using CSS3. Cutting edge, beautiful web design for a young app design team in England.

Take a gander at Autoban's new CIP lounge for Turkey's national airline, Turkish Airlines, which has just opened at the Ataturk Airport in Istanbul.

With the help of photographer Andrew B. Myers The Hive created a series of limited edition cards in honour of five inventors and their seasonal inventions.

Zeus Jones built a great new web app for Scotch Whiskey tastings called 'Proof' just in time for the holidays. Along with the free app, check out the custom packaged bottles and boxes.

The Rethinking Radiator by Rochus Jacob is a modern and more efficient way to warm up your living room.

PetPeek is a transparent plastic window that allows your best friend a view of the outside world.

The simmINN Flight Simulation Center in Stuttgart, Germany designed by architect Boris Banozic.

'Ville vs. Vélodrome' series by illustrator Guilherme Henrique.

New Winter Solstice infographic design by BrainstormOverload - download the free holiday card version.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #27: Fred bundle of Yum Bots, Letterpress Cookie Cutters, Dream Light, Food Fighters Toy Soldiers, a Doomed Crystal Skull Shot Glass, a Gym Glass Sports Bottle, Paper Airplane Door Stop, and Dishplay Gloves!

Spiraling home, the Toda House by Kimihiko Okada in Hiroshima.

VIDEOThis is an impressive vertical interactive dance performance! 2 dancers with bungee ropes fly and 2 depth cameras track them, a system on processing send real-time generated visuals to specifically touched point by the dancers.

FEATURED"As Above, So Below" stunningly beautiful projection mapping by Light Harvest at the DUMBO Art Show - including stop motion animation, and the suspension of over twenty performance artists from fly wires at sixteen feet off the ground.

StudioIN's corporate gift, a 2012 Apocalypse wine.

Beautiful home farm extension in Gloucestershire by De Matos Ryan.

Zachary Abel's mathematical sculptures include this Paperclip Snub Dodecahedron.

Towards the Italian Alps to discover the 5 star Alpina Dolomites Gardena Lodge & Health Spa - a haven for hedonistic and demanding fans of winter sports ...

Puxxle, the pixel puzzle by Yoyo.

The Institute for Computer-Based Design and the Institute for Structural Engineering and Structural Design, University of Stuttgart have collaborated to create this Research Pavilion - introducing biological patterns and formations into architecture.

FEATUREDGet cooking for the holidays with classic holiday eggnog, cheesecake gingerbread bites, candy cane popcorn and more from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Domino's Pizza Hero - Rise through the pizza making ranks and become a Pizza Hero with the new Domino's Pizza game for iPad.

Eyebombing is the act of setting googly eyes on inanimate things in the public space. Ultimately the goal is to humanize the streets, and bring sunshine to people passing by.

VIDEOThe Lexus Fashion Workshop: Four fashion designers create wearable art out recyclable car parts.

NaughtyBox is a playful device that represents ambient sound with physical movement. By putting four tiny magnetic cubes inside the box and singing, the cubes dance and bounce in response to the sound.

ART+COM from Berlin created an elegant Kinetic Logo for Deutsche Bank

Creative Applications Network names the Best and Most Memorable Projects of 2011.

VIDEOink&paper. In 1929, the Los Angeles City Directory listed 42 letterpresses and 17 paper companies in Downtown. Now there are only two.