Red Monkey Designs ~ these leather craftsmen in West Hollywood make some beautiful guitar straps, camera straps, watches and more... with great packaging! Here's an unboxing and some pics of the store!

'The Shack at Hinkle Farm', an ultra-minimalist getaway cabin built from off-the-shelf materials. I want one just like it!

German illustrator, Heiko, makes some gorgeous drawings!

Type Designer Oded Ezer has come out with his Biotypography 2 project. The main idea of the 'Typosperma' project was to create some sort of new transgenic creatures, half (human) sperm, half letter.

colourcode | paper toy | express yourself by matching colours

Located on a hill Villa RBDVD has a almost castle feel to it's simple Siberian larch exterior.

Posters and billboards are being targeted by a serial killer in east London. Behold “The Decapitator”!

YEBOMAYCU is a Paper T-Shirt contest, created by Marko Zubak. Download the template, and submit your own design to the weekly competition.

Why didn't I think to use video games for my high school projects? Designer Rob Marquardt was clearly craftier than me when he drafted this Atari 2600 joystick for his 1983 high school industrial arts class.

Negativity Refuse Bags ~ a new way to literally THROW OUT your ex, your anger, your baggage of any sort emotional or otherwise....

Nice logo on the Whiskipedia page.... yes thats the wikipedia of WHISK(e)Y

These are porcelain vases made exquisitely to look like supple leather. Imagine how unusual with flowers in them. Leather Vase $295.oo a piece.
Designer: Madieke Fleuren

A different color for everyday of the year. The 2008 Colour Calendar by Moritz Zwimpfer

Handcrafted wooden bicycle fenders for you. ~ fast boy bicycle fenders!

An intricate mask for construction site fencing, Camouflage by Iikka Airas and Markus Wikas is an artificial foliage to beautify scaffolding.

ever fall asleep on a train? chicago artist yvonne doll sneaks photos on the fly and has created a tranquil collection of portraits. Sleepy Urbanite.

Here's an interesting look at apple stock prices before and after apple keynotes for the last 10 years... Apple Keynote Index Fund

oooh nostalgia kicking in... The Official Nancy Drew Handbook: Skills, Tips, and Life Lessons ~ i used to go through these a book a day when i was a kid! Loved the old cover designs.

Hilarious You Tube on Chinese having English Names and vice versa ~ from Sexy Beijing (couldn't stop laughing through this one, even the faux sex in the city rip intro was cute) ~ ah Samanfar and Smacker.

I can't believe the size of this birthday candle, OR the beautiful box it comes in... the ultimate torch for embarrassing birthdays perhaps?

Seriously stunning work coming out of a Cape Town firm, "The Am I Collective"

Nameeks bathrooms are the epitome of simple luxury and escapist relaxation.

Toy Me gives us a sneak peek at their latest collection... particularly this silver scissor cuff that we're smitten with ~ you can wear it open or closed!

Straight from the less-is-more department, these bird bowls by Coe & Waito of Toronto. Simple, sweet.

Polaroid film composite 'confetto' from Patrick Winfield. Happy new year!

Ann Demeulemeester shop by Mass Studies

Obscene Interiors by South African artist Von Brandis. Removes the naughty bits in the foreground to focus on the interior design in the background.

Armrevolution is a new London based luxury men's brand of Arm Architecture (cufflinks). Made of the finest japanese steel, they have six designs, that are stunning with package design and a site to match!

Via Garibaldi 12 ,in Genova and 71 more concept stores around the world

J2 is a wood skinned house on a slope, located in Zagreb, Croatia. By 3LHD Architects.

And to be thorough, i couldn't leave you without your annual dose of TasteSpotting as well. 100 of the most delicious posts of 2007!

And from our first few months of NotCouture ~ here are 100 of the most popular posts from NotCouture for 2007! Mmmmm shoes, bags, and coats sure seem to be popular.

100 of the most popular posts of NOTCOT.org in 2007! Playing with my new toy, we're celebrating the close of 2007 with my first *automated* roundups to look back.

Think Tank designed by Renate Hattinger Keramik - Think Tank is part of the series Human Interior - Material: porcelain, gold plated, luster

Incredible body of work by Geraldine Georges

Wow, pleo dissection video... i would have done this had mine not been a review unit! Unfortunately this person really needs to learn how to speed up the frame rate... 23 min?!?!?!

Found it! The awesome HANDMADE intro sequence to Juno i was telling you about in #7894 by Shadowplay.

Glänta is a lamp designed by Johan Carpner. It's 1 meter and diameter and weighs in at 20 kg. It makes me want a bigger apartment so I had room to hang it.

Zune Arts has some of the best animated films and accompanying music I've seen in a long time. And all are downloadable along with wallpapers and icons.

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