trippy skull poster from julien notter and sebastien vigne at at-elier for the maison d'alleurs.

Barneys goes green this holiday season with some great typography throughout their campaign and a hilarious video with Creative Director Simon Doonan and Fashion Director Julie Gilhart.

An enviable collection of vintage Type Foundry Specimen book covers

new website of product design students of israel's leading design academy "bezalel". play with it, surf throgh the categories, comment, enjoy!

The denim brand G-STAR RAW’s interior design team took a vintage steel canal ferry boat and refitted it into a wicked cool looking party boat that you can rent. Located on the Amstel River.

LOOTone is one of the best and most established graffiti artists in Japan.

This new video technology let's directors swap out the intricate textures of cloth long after actors have left the set.

Left of Center. This great ad for Il Manifesto, the Italian Communist newspaper, leaves no doubt as where on the political spectrum this publication falls.

Gift Guide Day 28 - For Creatives - aka my collaged page of goodies that i either own or crave that are both amusing and useful?

Birds series are a design graphic work by S7S using GRÖNÖ lamp.

Branchement wine decanter lays down some very visible test tube like roots.

Farewell Pixelsurgeon. It was a great 7 year run, and you'll be missed!

SWIMS ~ these modern galoshes give you a classier way to keep wearing your fancy shoes while running off to go puddle jumping.

Joey Roth's long awaited Sorapot teapot is finally available for preorder!

And the five WINNERS of the Great Indoors Award 2007 are ..

The Black Plague causing bacterium, "Yersinia Pestis" has invaded the Land of the Traditional Paisley necktie, forming the mutant strain, Plaguesley.

That octopus girl is Audrey Kawasaki! and behind her is Amy Sol! and that's luke chueh in the bear... Art Army returns to LA and this time takes on some of our fav artists

I can't get over that one of the main selling points of the Branche Beauty Sleep Silk Pillow cases is "prevents wrinkles by minimizing morning facial creases"

"Tokyo Noodle" is a project to photoshoot a girl eating Ramen noodle in the middle of Tokyo. Just that simple.

Day 29 of the gift guide is all about some of the most eco-friendly, let luxurious feeling wallets (with great packaging, so they look great as gifts) by db clay... there are even 500 one of a kind wallets!

UPDATED! I just found a video of Bryan demoing all of the tests in the Oakley O Lab! It really is even cooler to see it in video ... shooting balls at glasses on dummy heads at high velocities, playing with lasers, etc.

While the advertising world has been busy debating whether the latest Sony Bravia spot, Fallon in London has slipped out another spot for Sony online, this time for the brand’s new Walkman digital media player.

Francis Ford Coppola has released his Wine By The Glass. Packaged in reusable, recyclable PETa glasses molded after his favorite trattoria glasses. Enjoy fine wines everywhere.

Art Asia Pacific sent a custom lego set to notable Asian architects. I almost want to order a box of the neutral grey bricks from myself.

Jung von Matt mixes Architecture and Typography for IKEA.

A prefab house in the middle of a very greenish enviroment, in Ecuador by local architects Jose Maria Sáez and David Barragán.

Interactive Christmas lights on London's Regent Street courtesy of Nokia and Wieden + Kennedy

Catherine Ledner became fascinated by the idea of using wallpaper patterns in animal portraiture. Her new book, “Animal House", makes for one of the prettiest nytimes slideshows yet.

Porsche Design's latest and largest airport store opens in Frankfurt ~ jetsetting is a must to keep up with all these airport "malls".

A poster on a hand dryer to communicate hotness. Made by McCann Erickson, Thailand.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull, repetitive, anti-social, highly-stressed, narrow-minded, out-of-condition, sickness-prone boy. So true. Howies tee.

The pendant symbolizes global warming which is threating our homeland and raising the sea level. It's just like a drop of tear wrapping the globe. Concept design by Tao Ma

NOTCOT Gift Guide Day 30 - Thanksgiving, in addition to food, that means dealing with family, food comas, + heinous traveling... so here are gifts to help with relaxing, amusing, and surviving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! For all those who need some food inspiration ~ check out the thanksgiving related finds of TasteSpotting

Young New York photographer, David Field, developed this style over a year ago, but I was recently intrigued by some of his new pieces... great fashion photography as well

Give me a CORTADO !!! 2/3 coffee + 1/3 milk coffee cup. Design by Ignacio Pilotto

Next step for the Keyport is sending in keys... so they can cut perfect keyport keys for your all in one keyfob! Curious what they send you?

Called SOUND, Visionaire 53 has five 12 inch vinyl picture discs packaged inside a dome case. Each issue includes a MINI clubman vinyl killer record player: A battery operated toy car that acts as a portable record player. 4,000 made.

Daniel Eric Weiss is a photographer for photography's sake, snapping portraits and landscapes all around Manhattan with a friendly eye and a hometown sensibility.

Dazed & Confused/Diesel are running a competition for a photographic or artwork submission to be featured on a billboard in London and in the Diesel Kings Road store.

Vert has designed a flat packable MALLET ~ for all your playing, cooking, working needs...

i teamed up with my spray paint and stencil and started getting some snail mail ready to go... so calming to take a screen break and get dirty doing something *real*

Third version of the endless, senseless, collaborative book, Write Something

For everyone that has been asking about what the music on the NOTCOT Gift Guide is ~ here is some info to catch you up on what Burst Labs has put together!

The Dyson DC-16 video game gun like dustbuster now comes in a limited edition purple Issey Miyake version!

WiiLightsaber!!! aka "Wii Light Sword"

Yes please! Original rotary-dial phones, Bionic-Manned into cell phones. All you do is add a SIM card. Real rotary dial, real old-school bell. The best part? The battery will run it for 5 days!