LAUFBAHN will let you ski in circles forever!
via SwissMiss

AMP is a universal active speaker for laptops and other music sources. The AMP refers to the time before transistor radios, when radios were still looked upon as pieces of furniture.

Artist Adam Stennett new exhibit, "Use Only As Directed" celebrates pharmacology. The new show will feature 5 paintings and new video work.

Christine and Justin have posted some new wants for sale, including "to hear a good joke." The price? Email them the best joke by October 5th.

Medusa - Light design
Solar autonomous floating lamp for swimming pools.
Design by DI Enrique Goldes

Posted before on NOTCOT, but now it's released: Pixelmator! Image editing for your Mac. You can download a demo and try it yourself.

Lire di sapone” is a silicone mould to create fragrant soaps with the looks of italian old coin.
design by Francesco Castiglione Morelli and Cristina De Agostini

Desk lamp "Shadow hunter" from Aleksey Belyalov.

Acca Kappa's line of luxury goods to pamper yourself with make beautiful use of various woods ~ and have even launched a 100% biodegradable line of products made of a cellulose that is extracted from cotton.

Awesome emergency accommodation with sophisticated social concept by Felix Stark.
Stunning!

New work by Mulheres Barbadas!

A thing of beauty, the DaVinciAudio Labs Luxury Edition Turntable. This 24k gold plated model will run you $41,250.

UPDATE ~ added images of the packaging/displays for the Target Dominique Cohen Collection.

In recognition of the release of Halo 3, a highly anticipated video game by Microsoft and Bungie, MIT hackers adorned the John P. Harvard statue, in Harvard Yard, with a Spartan helmet.

Oooh! Design's Wrinkle Bottle really helps this whisky show off its age.

The Uber silver laden Leatherman. Never to be used for actual work, but a great piece of art. Adrian is a genius!

Glue Glue Design's "Respect Old School" ~ putting the ability to fight back in the hands of cane users to go forth and stamp the world with RESPECT.

After tallying over 10 million votes, the public has decided to send Barry Bonds' controversial home run record breaking ball to Cooperstown branded with an asterisk.

"Instead of getting fried, the Sony G-series will be able to EXPEL water out of the rear of the laptop, and if there is simply too much water to get rid of the machine can shut itself down to prevent permanent damage."

Visible Pinball Machine ~ the images are breathtaking! Neptune Beach Amusement Museum

Here's a nice idea that seems to have been designed out of necessity ~ Crutch Tote.

Yoshitomo Nara's "I Think Therefore I Am A Dog" is coming up for auction at Sotheby's Oct. 12. I think therefore I love it!

Yoshitomo Nara's "My Sweet Dog" wooden pulltoy: handcrafted in France, i.e. lead-free and beautiful.

How I'd Sink American Vogue: Scott King has some radical re-design ideas for the fashion mag

“Ché Men’s Magazine. Let us keep on dreaming of a better world.”

Have you ever thought about playing croquet in the streets? Designer Alice Kaiserswerth made it happen in cooperation with Adidas. Nice

I have mixed feelings on the idea that airlines have me repackaging everything to travel.... but Muji having bottles perfectly sized certainly helps ease the annoyance.

Irina Blok's packaging design for the SF ZOO. They make me want to buy three things to get the three bags to display together!

Where do pins that come to NOTCOT go? Well for the last year or so they have gone here... and become their own piece of inspiration for me...

Designer Julian Lwin pays homage to the Moka Express (the world's most famous espresso maker) with his Dr. Octagon Espresso Table and Chairs.

CyFi ~ instead of cycling with headphones... how about wireless speakers?

minnesota artist colin johnson has created the most astounding collage, currently offered as a print in a limited edition of 50 pieces.

Lacoste and Kidrobot got together not only for a sneaker collaboration, but designer eBoy designed toys to go along with the sneakers. Love the tennis guys with the oversized crocodile on them!!!

Absolutely gorgeous book of images body explored in our Solar System from Mercury to Neptune. Includes very recent mission images as well as re-worked images from old missions so that even old images are new.

Clever use of GoogleMaps as the web page of design duo James&Joe. And I love their I<3MY MUM T-shirt.

You can always count on ATYPYK for a clever design pun. Learn The Basics [via SwissMiss]

Mateus Acioli has an incredible new design & illustration portfolio. Check it out.

I love the way this umbrella lamp glows. "Umbrella Lamp provides a spectrum of lighting possibilities, from soft, reflective illumination to a brightly focused reading lamp."

Annie Vought painstakingly cuts the script text out of letters and notes. The result is an incredible tapestry of letters, lines, and shadows created by pinning the work up for display.

Really puts meaning to "one man's trash is another man's treasure." Tim Nobel and Sue Webster take piles of trash and make art into them... but sometimes the art isn't apparent until you see it in a different light.

video installation and making of's by Work In Progress

Grandburo is an awesome t-shirt and design store recently opened in Providence.

Help a child. Buy a laptop and get one free. [Editor's Note: you remember the OLPC ~ well apparently sales have been disappointing, so they are doing a buy one, send one to a child program in nov, $400]

Still Room Studios Modern Design Deck.. prints and paintings.

To make a donation, you needed to remove a form from this cardboard slipcase. When you slid out the form, the image on the cover changed: a child was magically removed from the street and placed in a safe home.

designed by asaf jacobs, israel.
portable book shelf, for a limited number of books. lets say a wheelbarrow for books