Nice Room & Board Copenhagen Media Console to hang or place the plasma on... and discreetly hide the many game consoles, etc. New for 2008 you can get them open top, in various sizes/finishes.

That trucker! I love him! Amazing illustrations by Russian artist Merdanchik.

On gadgets worth adding to the travel list ~ Monster's Outlets To Go (i like the 4 vs the 3) are a nice one... particularly coupled with a travel adapter!

Strange ~ but bizarrely funny ~ for those who like LOLcats ~ there is a LOLinator that translates your page into LOL both visually and textually. Here's a reason to hug a designer today.

Selfridges is pleased to welcome the art of sculptor Richard Sweeney into the new season's window displays

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision

For me, a mac is *just* a tool, not a way of life. Apparently the mindeset profile for people who own a mac is really high in openness, superiority, perfectionism - and low in modesty and dogmatism?

Sean Marc Lee's "Neon Noir" makes LA look like a hard-boiled wonderland.

These animal electrical outlet covers are pretty cute ~ liking the sheep and elephant best. Best comment idea ~ someone should make skull and crossbones!

"I Am Not A Papercup" ~ Double walled porcelain cup with silicone top. eco-friendly and reusable. dishwasher safe. by Decor Craft Inc.

In light of the writers' strike... someone has created these awesome vintage-esque The Writer's Guild Strikes Matchboxes!

A very betautiful movie of a Anti Aids Campaign. Nice Work...

Miss KZ! The new QEE designed by Calliope Studios for high end store Kirna Zabete!

The tourist promotion group of Oita City (Japan) came up with this clever advertising campaign in the airport using this conveyor sushi idea to promote their fresh and yummy sushi.

Yet another beautiful villa in the Swedish archipelago. This time by Arkitektstudio Widjedal Racki Bergerhoff . It's like villa is built around the great view.

Blade heating radiator design by Peter Rankin
Photo: Luca Tessarin
Concept : Alberico Crosetta, Luca Tessarin

Artist Lee Woodgate has one of his brilliant illustrations featured on the cover of this week's London le Cool newsletter.

Great commercial by Adidas for the 2008 Olympics "Impossible is Nothing"

New apple leopard ad up on the nytimes.com home page.

The Hut in the Tree, a more modern version of the Too High Teahouse.....

a {handmade out of durable upholstery-grade vinyl, and lined with fuzzy, soft fleece} manila envelope for your macbook air (via craftzine)

+Beryll party at the Smart House tonight ~ truly one of the best event spaces in LA ~ this tristory loft space in Venice Beach is incredible architecturally, and i find new things to love about it every time!

Mini Karl Lagerfeld !

Adobe has just launched a viral video and a website to promote a new product. Everyone can leave an audio-video message on "I'm here bacuse of him".

POVevolving is sponsoring the upcoming photography exhibition by Cyril Helnwein, "Myths & Fairytales". Cyril agreed to give a little peek before the show opens on February 2nd in Los Angeles.

If you add NOTCOT.com, NOTCOT,org, TasteSpotting, and NotCouture Web Clips to your iPhone home screen you'll see the special icons we made!

The Korean artist Kim Joon has superb work of body paint using the human body as a canvas for a brilliant 3D effect.

The Anthony Family takes on a yearlong moleskine quest to get the family thinking creatively. Notice the Eames lounge limerick post also on the site, cleverly crafted from a catalog.

Reading books the way they should be read, nicely kicked back, is always a good thing. Stanislav Katz, designer in Latvia has some nice and playful designs and ideas, this being one of them.

Can you imagine if this Vans iPhone Finger Fracture game got made? You could pull some pretty crazy skateboarding tricks with two fingers and your multitouch iphone!

Yada ~ you have to check out the pics of their well designed CES booth that draws you right into it with its cool lights and mini. And then i was surprised by the affordable and minimalist bluetooth headsets +accs!

Just a tiny bit larger than a zippo ~ here's the latest in glossy tech from La Cie ~ the Tiny Disk which holds 30/40 GB and even has a cap/built in USB! See the close ups!

Maurizio Cattelan at Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
2 February - 24 March, 2008

So, they say a picture speaks 1,000 words. In Jan Socor's case, he's speaking whole essays.

Cute little printable, foldable paper birds. :)

Impressive synagogue by Peter Schmitz. I really like they way the windows are folded into the star of David and the levels in the ceiling.

The same "futurist vandal" who dyed the Trevi Fountain red (post #6753) today dumped 500,000 colored balls down the Spanish Steps in order to call attention to lies told by the Italian government.

The Slat House is a beautiful extension to semi-detached family home in Blackheath. Very nice skylights and concrete wall(s)!

New set of Photoshop brushes by Departika titled Beautiful Bugger, is now up for grabs.

Handmade from a single block of cedar ~ and wheels from mahogany... love these italian toy cars by To Be Us

A Measuring Gaggle ~ while hunting for the nesting black and white giraffe measuring cups, i discovered these bone china geese...

French designer JEAN-MARIE MASSAUD’s concept for a floating hotel, the glorious whale-shaped “Manned Cloud” promises to be a transcendent thing of beauty should it ever reach the clouds.

Konica Minolta lets us indulge our obsession with the Venus de Milo at their new Museum of Beauty - it's full of fantastic images of the sculpture made with a non-contact 3D digitizer.

Another variation for reusable bags ~ go felt with Illu Stration

This is an interesting excerpt from AIGA Paperbacks: U.S.A. An Exhibition of Covers (September 1959 /April 1961).

Designed by Philip Grushkin

Incredible film where - 3 graphic designers created D-Day on a shoe string budget for the timewatch program "Bloody Omaha"

Finnish artist Ilkka Halso depicts a future where nature becomes an attraction due to its rarity.