Finally got around to seeing Juno ~ and its one of my favorite movies this year, the real world/animation intro is great, and the design details awesome. I also can't stop listening to the soundtrack.

Belvedere Vodka commercial directed by Terry Richardson, stars Vincent Gallo and music by RZA

Quick shoutout for a place to go and get inspired on this final day of 2007 ~ my friends over at the fabulist have such a beautifully inspiring site and its been filled with so much GREAT music to listen to while you work!

Shigeru Ban and Dean Maltz has drawn and furnished a house for Houses of Sagaponac. The house is based on a unbuilt Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe brick country house.

Art Lebedev studio always has fabulous wallpapers in various resolutions incorporating their bar code. This one is perfect for today! New Champagnes By Den Poddubny. Happy New Year NOTCOT!

incredible custom ambigrams by artist tiffany harvey. this is definitely tagged for next year's gift list.

A refreshing take on eco-friendly furniture design. Landfills are the new green. Restores by Max McMurdo

Q-BA-MAZE it was on the gift guide ~ and i got bored tonight and put one together thats about 5ft tall... its an interesting twist on the old school 3d wooden marble mazes!

Ronen Kadushin's "thinology" design using painted sheet steel, forcing by hand the steel to form a 3D object, creates pieces with precarious grace.

JK Keller made a series of American Sign Language hands out of match books.

Solitary Arts is the product of Geoff McFetridge and Yong-Ki Chang - with a mini skate store and tshirts, decks, stickers, buttons, and more! Love the Drifter logo.

Green Lady + The Nerve collaborated for this adorable cotton canvas turtle pillow

Seiko Japan's new Discus watch uses a series of continuously spinning aluminum discs to tell the current time.

A collection of photographs from IDEAS magazine (from Barcelona 1936). The collection highlights the vintage typography and lettering throughout two issues.

Will Ashford manages to recycle words ~ pages of emerson becomes artworks filled with doodles and highlights ~ bringing out beautiful images you didn't even realize could be there

Matteo Thun's Pluviae : The shower head at the end of the shower curtain rail.......simple and ingenious.

gorgeous ceramic room dividers from italian tile company naxos have a mid-century modern aesthetic.

In a new advertising campaign, Mini Cooper reminds the public that they're supporters of the Rome Film Festival. Among several clever Mini homages is this one dedicated to Alfred Hitchcock.

These Book "shelves" are wall mounted picture frames. 3 different styles, all beautiful. Produced by Presse Citron and designed by Clotilde de GRAVE and Didier CHAUDANSON. size: 40x32x8.5cm

On more reusable bag options ~ Porter has some fun collabs in nylon, cotton, leather, etc

Apple is over 30 years old... Insanely Great Tees has a "Timeline" tee!

The kindle's been reverse engineered, only to reveal some cool google maps tricks, like faux gps and fun stuff like a picture viewer and minesweeper. All on the free CDMA cellular data service. Sprint wont be happy.

Beautiful/depressing/funny portraits of the real-life people who spend their days dressed as celebrities and movie characters on Hollywood Blvd.

Australian architects keep coming up with great prefab houses. Jean-mic Perrine and his Perrinepod is no exception!

Incredibly beautiful animation by Cory Godbey found over at Zune Arts entitled "Le Cadeau du Temps" ~ and a beautiful message as well!

Liquid Image ~ digital camera for stills and vids built into a diving mask for all your handsfree underwater imaging needs. Can you imagine the other possibilities? I came up with a few.......

Rob Sheridan created demented winter wallpaper that shows a snowman as a sacrificial alter.

Logo Lounge has a great roundup of Logo Trends of 2007 ~ like dna, crests, flora, eco, bursts, bands, shrinking dots...

Mercat Restaurant in Santiago de Chile, by 01ARQ. A reconversion of a 60s house, organized around a glass strip envolving the central patio.

A short animation about two competing societies done in a cool silhouette style.
There are more to come.

LOVE this "Let's Eat Cake" painting from Brandi Milne's “Sugar & Silence” show! She paints some really cool octopi in her works

Here is one of the beautiful new pieces from Stella Im Hultberg's Thinkspace show "snow angels"

Rome's Fendi store is decked out in formal attire this holiday season!

You would be amazed what beautiful prints you can make from placing a set of pantone pens with nibs gently resting on a ream of paper for a month... daniel eatok ended up with 73.

Tile Tattoos! A nice variation to the wall stickers ~ cute way to spruce up tile bathrooms, kitchens, etc? by mibo

Vivid Audio will unveil this new bizarre shaped loudspeaker sound sytem, the G1 GIYA at next week's CES in Las Vegas. Suggested price? A measly $54,000. USD.

Toastvertising ~ a fully animated advert that was toasted slice by slice for each frame... see the making of, as well as the video for the Book of Spam.

A minimal house located along a slope. The rooms adapt to this condition, unified by a stair. With this configuration, cross ventilation across the house is made possible. By H Arquitectes.

Daniel Edlen makes acrylic on vinyl paintings that bring out the artist's portraits from their records... and it turns out i knew him as a kid! (worked for his parents) ~ and the videos of the making of are worth checking out

three dimensionl lighting system , size 4x4 meter
kabriha decoration - Israel

Grocery stores are usually not famous for good architecture. Austrian MPREIS is the exception that confirms the rule.... Great exteriors and interiors!

A new urban intervention at skate ramp by SpY

Puma's Urban Mobility range teaming up with the Serpentine gallery = a $1400 instant art gallery filled with artists goodies, and this gorgeous shiny brainy bag

Beautiful Ketubah by Oded Ezer. (I love the cut away script)

HELP! In looking ahead to 2008, trying to figure out where to be and what to cover ~ any ideas to add to the list? any interest in sponsoring an event we MUST be at?

I wish I had found these a month ago! Oye Modern has Sterling spray can pendants with a teeny, shakable paint paddle inside. Also worthy of note are the turntable pendants with real vinyl records. Great, detail-oriented craftsmanship.

The light-emitting plastic that make up the airLUCE lamps gives the lamps a interesting shape and almost eerie glow.