Adorable You and Me notecards from Chronicle Books. Designed by enormouschampion.

UCSD Researchers Create Living 'Neon Signs' Composed of Millions of Glowing Bacteria, E. coli 'biopixels'.

Here's a beautiful project to start your year from Stockholm-based photographic duo Inka Lindergård and Niclas Holmström.

Zadok Ben David's Blackfield installation at the Tel Aviv Museum consisting of a field of cut steel Victorian botanical illustrations.

Paul Smith's The Isle Of Man Stamp Collection, a compendium of stamps and postcards to commemorate the London 2012 Olympic Games for the Isle of Man Post Office.

Peter Zumthor's Steilneset Memorial in Vardø, Norway.

Almedahl's beautifully patterned Scandinavian textiles.

Renault commissions a musician, a chef, a fashion designer and a product designer to give their take on the Twingo's interior.

Beautiful Ice Typography installations by environmental artist Nicole Dextras. Their ephemeral quality emphasize the collective physical and psychological experience of flux and change.

Not Just A Label with NOUIO makes 3D (red/blue style) clothing...

Karin Akesson Sweet Dreams Pillow cases - birdies say 'Tomorrow something wonderful will happen' and 'Tomorrow will be a great day'.

Love the Girl told by Fabq.

The 24 Hours of Nürburgring Experience is Drive TV's 1st video. See what really happens at the world's most grueling and epic sportscar endurance race.

3M Whiteboard Eraser for Permanent Markers and Whiteboards - these are amazing and magic eraser like ~ just saved my whiteboard (just add water!) from super old residue...

The Sugar House bar serves craft and classic cocktails to thirsty Detroiters.

The Joanneum Museum extension in Graz, Austria by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos and eep architekt.

Blinking City stencil. Pattern based on a collage of several Hutong neighbourhoods of Beijing, stenciled onto a wall of a dilapidated courtyard house in Xianyukou district, located in the core of the city.

Teresa Wozniak's fun new year's resolution poster.

Get a free Shepard Fairey #OCCUPY Sticker from the folks at Stickerobot.com

"Good Design is a tough Job" – Germany's graphic design agency Strichpunkt gives you 20 theses about good design in this absolutely gorgeous book.

Amazing custom Munny Set by Huck Gee for a private collector. Introducing the Sushi Chef and Octo Samurai. Makes me think of Andrew Bell's Sushis.

DesignBoom asks designers about their New Year's Resolutions!

On gallery shows to watch for ~ Thinkspace's ‘Picks of the Harvest 2012’ is coming March 3rd, and this teaser pic of Scott Listfield 'RV Dusk' is awesome!

DAMN GOOD ADVICE (for people with talent!) - How to unleash your creative potential by america's master communicator. by George Lois looks like it should be a fun book.

Sounds intriguing: IKEA to switch from wooden palettes to cardboard ones!

An ABC memory game with beautiful fonts. Play with your kids, and inspire them. No comic sans here!

A peek back at 2011 NOTCOT.org style in 100 of the most popular posts...

Daniel Bjugård designed this great pop-out and assemble greeting card/ornament for awesome watch makers, MB&F! Photoetched aluminium card where their battle-axe-shaped rotor transforms into a Christmas tree ball.

WOW. Yayoi Kusama's Obliteration Room in the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane... a fully furnished COMPLETELY WHITE room... and then little kids are given thousands of colored dot stickers to go nuts with...

Elizabeth Frison's Furoshiki inspired bread packaging for Bread Kingdom.

Present&Correct's Cut Out Number Calendar.

'Centre d’accueil du Pôle International de la Préhistoire' in Les Eyzies de Tayac by W-Architectures.

Augmented Structures v1.1: Acoustic Formations / İstiklâl Caddesi. An interdisciplinary art and architecture project

Parasite module for the spatial occupation - Parasite 2.0 Lab

Multifunctional lyinglandscape.

Incidence installation by Patrick Bérubé at Montreal's Gallerie SAS. Beautiful installation that looks like just a small toy boat on the gallery floor until you notice that the wood has been modified to mirror the wake behind the ship.

The Party Hat in art. 16 contemporary painters and sculptors, from Jeff Koons to Kathi Olivas, incorporate the party hat into their works.

Bubble in Paris, the new champagne bar in Hilton Arc de Triomphe hotel's garden.

London based Cathy Azria creates art for the fireplace. This one is called Bonfire.

Creating structures which are recognizable, not through form, but through new lifestyles. 'New Memories' by Studio Up.

VRZ 1. is a track bike frame with 3d printed stainless steel lugs glued together with carbon fiber tubes. Allowing quick custom frames and you can change the geometry easily since the lugs are software generated.

A year of NotVentures! So many beaches and mountains and cities to explore ~ here are 100 of the top posts from 2011! Excited to see what 2012 will bring!

A choice collection of dazzling international mid-century shop window displays from the 1950s and 1960s.

On the balcony of Hotel Avalon, Gothenburg, you can find these horses from Moooi, designed by Front. In the winter they have a nice warm throw.

Wieden + Kennedy take Honda off the grid in a street-view style online exploration.

Painting by Numbers, a poster show at London's Transport Museum includes inforgraphics about the London Underground, like this poster from 1923.

Revolver shelf system design by Henny Van Nistelrooy. Made out of wood and steel.

The Topographic Projections and Implied Geometries Series by Jim Sanborn.

An infographic on Santa's carbon footprint.

The 2012 Times Square New Year's Eve ball is set to dazzle with more than 32,000 LED lights!