Microscopic life shines in the 2011 Olympus BioScapes competition.

The new Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art by Preston Scott Cohen.

Jon-Kyle's beautiful musical spectrum analysis.

Nathan Bestwick's MiiMii manual pepper grinder, a new designer startup success story!

The most successful snowboard documentary ever made, The Art of Flight hast released a limited pop up, photo book. It is a testament to modern print technology.

Pre-order your Gerber Apocalypse kit, complete with 7 Apocalypse Survival Tools including Gator Machete, Camp Axe, Parang and more.

A typography project inspired by the arctic and Stacie Cassarino's poem, Northwest.

Honey-Bourbon Toddies, El Diablo Chocolate Truffles and flaming strawberries are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

Try on making your own espresso cup via Shapeways 3D printing ceramic. A project by Aminimal Studio, Mary Huang, and Alan Hudson.

Combine your photography with Cartolina's vintage imagery to create unique, one of a kind postcards with the new Cartolina Postale iPhone app. Printed and mailed directly from your phone.

Normal Studio offers his designs in this fun take away box.

Nice little video of a scary night at the AIAIAI HQ ...

Esdi, Brazil & Latin America's first design school, (listed in Newsweek's Top 60 Design Schools in the world) launched its First Ever Collective Playing Card Deck, limited edition of 300!

Stik Graffiti from East London.

Interesting ball point pen paintings by Shane McAdams.

'optimARes' is the first iPad2 application that allows us to interact with virtual models of airplane seats directly in the real physical space using AR (Augmented Reality) technology.

Skull-A-Day's Noah Scalin was commissioned by Kenneth Cole to create an ornamental skull for a T-shirt this holiday season.

Macarons displayed in 'break glass in case of emergency' boxes, a dessert 'sushi train' and macaron wallpaper inspired by Willa Wonka, from Luchetti Krelle design for the new Adriano Zumbo patisserie in Sydney.

Grady's Cold Brew ~ these bottles of coffee concentrate with fun packaging are addictively delicious (and hard to keep in the fridge this week) ~ each bottle makes 8 cups of iced/hot coffee.

Sydney Shed by Richard Peters Associates.

Hendrick's Most unusual 13th day of Christmas featuring wild haggis drumming’, three ‘Giant snails’ pretending to be French hens, a lone partridge in a cucumber plant and more!

A look at what the White House might have looked like.

From the cheeky folks that brought us Locher's ~ now there are Maude and Tilda's playful totes! And you can even choose the color of the bows...

Animated music video for Fleet Foxes' The Shrine / An Argument.

At the Danish Roskilde Music Festival, a temporary plywood dome installation, from architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard.

Chartball's complete prosports Twitterverse.

IndiGo - the airline that brought you amazing on-time performance, hassle-free service, fabulous inflight snacks and always affordable fares - now introduces another category breakthrough: the world's first Runway Musical!

A visual history of Manhattan's grid.

Musical business cards, paramotors and lovely owls are all a part of this week’s roundup from here at NOTCOT.org.

This is a low-fi DJ Set made with cheap and fun recycled technology. The faster you scrath the fan, the faster your cassete will play!

Icebreaker has always had some pretty incredible surreal photography with their Ram-men, here's a peek at their new SS12 lookbook that came in playful flash card form.

The iPhone Lens Dial, a complete three-lens optical system for serious iPhoneographers.

A temporary intervention by the collective Stiftung FREIZEIT awakes the potential of an invisible public space under a bridge, in Berlin.

Cocktails at 8000 Frames per Second!

From the japanese paper tool shop guys comes ~ 1/100 Architectural Model Accessories Series Coaster
No.3 Savannah! (Also available in person at A+R In Venice Beach)

Smithsonian 3D Digitization team just got back from field work in Chile. These are raw, uncut time lapses of us doing what we do. We will release more each week. Check it out before editors start editing.

Mezcal Mano Negra called upon Mexican branding/identity firm Sociedad Anonima to re-vamp their new bottles.

Rüdiger Nehmzow’s Cloud Collection while like our "Operation Window Seat" ~ are actually taken out of an OPEN plane DOOR at 4 miles up over Brazil. The making of video is as fun as the pictures!

Modern applications of reclaimed materials with some unexpected ingredients (like a dash of airplane wing) is Denver's Fin Art.

Wooden phone with cube 'apps' made for the latest cover of Computer Arts magazine. A collaboration between Kyle Bean and Thomas Forsyth.

Brand Memory Game is a game about the knowledge of brands. The challenge is to find matching pairs of a brand, based solely on their characteristic colours and style elements and a short description of the brand.

A look at the nice simple, yet strong, shipping/packaging of the Kindle Fire

Mark Laita's breathtaking photographs of deadly snakes from around the world.

The Willo Collection is a surprising series of pillow pots for indoor - designed by studio LIBEL. with willo you can decorate your interior house and enrich the environment with new textures.