Presenting the General Carbuncle: one old Ford covered in 4500 toy cars

Skull-a-Day: Designer Noah Scalin promises to design and blogs a skull every day for a year.

What is 2000 years old, weighs 5000 tons, and still creates an ethereal moving disc of light each and every day? Gorgeous Pantheon pics and more ~

The "Emir" lounge chair is a versatile "sofa for one" in natural materials. It hosts two good friends, or one person alone. Design Lars Urheim T16

Travel without moving. Using the ear s can move heart ~ Sound Transit: SoundTransit is a collaborative, online community dedicated to field recording and phonography.

Giant Grand Pianos washed up on the beach. The ulitmate piece of driftwood! Paal 5 by Florentijn Hofman

Andrew English's wedding bands are delicately hand-engraved with the fingerprint of your partner and therefore completely unique to each couple.

Mimoco is announcing Core Series 2 ~ with nine new mimobots... and you can discover them through their scavenger hunt this week... and the first one is announced at NOTCOT! (click to learn how to win)

Paul Smith and Triumph team up for an extremely gorgeous and characteristically colorfully patterned line of motorcycles.

Wow. Sam Flores takes a sharpie to a fan who already has an INCREDIBLE tattoo of his work, and adds some gorgeous birds to it... while at an opening!

it's the most creative way of playing the lottery. spontaneous art on lottery ticket by samowel

warm and substantial floating cabinetry by philipp mainzer for e15 is offered in solid oak or walnut, and has no footprint.

People Like U' new project - iPod Styles.
Pimp your iPod with designs from Chuck Anderson, Hejz, ElectricHeat, RA909 and more!

Minneapolis-based artist Gregory Euclide's solo show, "I Have Been Remembering: Half-Lives & Half-Truths," is up in Seattle at OKOK Gallery - incredible use of BUBBLE WRAP!

Smoosh your contacts into your iPhone.

On silly monday videos to help the work day go by... Attus Apparel has gone and shot up more polos for sale - this time with mullet wigs - Check out round two of "Shot up shirts"

Awesome retro transformers watch ~ where he really pops off the watch!

Gaggenau's Lift Oven is coming soon and will truly change the way you cook!

FabricPots from HOVA Design are the first plant containers made of waterproof breathable fabric. Available in two styles, Frusto (conical) and Silo, with patterns by Angela Adams.

Xel is a bookcase designed by Luca Nichetto.
I love this irregular texture made by aluminium and glass.

Quadrics Prototypes From Maxim Zhestkov (Russian industrial designer)

limited edition collaboration to celebrate the 41st anniversary of arktip magazine and 1st anniversary of original fake store in tokyo, the magazine's embossed incase padded sleeve can be used for laptops after your done w the mag

The new addition to the Akron Museum of Art by Vienna-based Coop Himmelb(l)au.

Photographer Erwin Olaf and Marcel Wanders created this amazing photography for mooi's products. And that's only some of Erwin Olaf's amazing photography.

Kick your shoes off and relax in a Pac-Man chair.

Work by New Zealand artist Joe Sheehan. A fair share of his work consists of exquisitely carved greenstone (jade). Like this functional tape containing a recording of river sounds.

Beautiful work by Andreas Shabelnikov - young digital artist and photographer from the Baltic States.

The Sky network's ad for soccer broadcasts aims to raise the number of female viewers. That's all fine and good but where can you buy those shoes?

On a hot summer weekend, what could be more appealing than this watery couch, part of an ad campaign for Piscine Castiglione, a swimming pool design firm near Milan.

This tiny wooden camera pendant from Korea is actually an mp3 player.

For those that do not have the 98 Mio. USD available for the sculpture, there is now the Diamond Skull t-shirt series by Damien Hirst!!!

For designers and other type addicts, Typografica.org just released a list of their 23 favorite fonts of 2006

Tejo Remy and Rene VeenHuizen's tennis ball benches for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

The Ab Ovo Collection by William Emmerson. Ab Ovo, meaning 'from the egg' or 'from the beginning' is an evolution of style.

Tanya Moller Jensen's ceramic boxes are fabulous. Not to be missed; her wall pockets and votives.
Check them all out!

Sheep stool - designer: - Hanns-Peter Krafft, 1982 - materials: Real sheep-skin over a body of jute skin filled with wood shavings, with head and legs in solid wood. Ears are made of leather.

Take a look at this incredible set of pins... layered and laser cut looking scenes and stories in animals

Gorgeous work by Christian Ward

Great piece over at Pingmag on Transformable Architecture... and the brilliance that is Hoberman

Ceramic is the answare - "handled with care"
contemporary ceramic works - designersblock, shoreditch high street - september 19 - 23, 2007

Latest Diesel Campaign is "Human After All" a futuristic look at how our basic issues will survive the future... from the pain of ikea building, to fights, to pancakes sticking to the ceiling... etc etc etc

Incredible origami over at deviant art ~ love this koi - also check out the dragon, fox, stego, and marlin!

Flocks makes single sheep sweaters, complete with the sheep's photo, bio and serial number.

Our little NotCouture made NEWSWEEK!

3 and 5 kg dumbells the flintsones would have loved... carved out of Carrara Marble ~ Forever Young by Robert Stadler.

A twisting strand of 216 LEDs suspended by a thin wire, that is Robin Carpenters Spiralight. That, and 1st prize winner at Lights of the Future 2006 awarded by the German Design Council