NYTimes slideshow on container gardening. A blessing for those without any outside space, and they don't have to be ugly either!

I just stumbled upon Low-Rise (2006) by Peter Root. a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic.

Headspace: On Scent as Design, a one-day symposium from Parsons, MoMA, IFF, Seed, and Coty on the conception, impact, and applications of scent with leading thinkers, designers, scientists, artists, perfumers. March 26th.

BBC slideshow of superpredation (predators hunting predators) by owls and eagles. The most dramatic photos are staged, but nonetheless capture the idea!

These sealpelts looks so cuddly! Somewhere between a blanket, coat and sleeping bag? Designed by Vík Prjónsdóttir and made entirely of Icelandic wool.

Neverend Clocks: Kitsune Noir today launched the first in a new series of laser-cut birch wood clocks, featuring decorative patterns by Dan Funderburgh in collaboration with the Montreal-based design/build shop Furni.

I love the new work from Dolan Geiman. His spring collection features driftwood, old cola boxes, and screen printed woodpeckers.

This North American river otter pup is one of three new arrivals at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. Too cute!

Wonderful NYTimes slideshow featuring a 4,500-page tome, "The Histories of Animals," published by the Swiss physician Conrad Gessner in the mid-1500s.

We've had a week full of artwork, animals and architecture here on NOTCOT.ORG. Here just a few of the posts that have caught our eye.

Berlin-based artist Hans Hemmert (famous for his work with balloons) threw a party where guests wore shoe-extenders to make them all 2m tall. "Level" (1997) was part of the Personal Absurdities show at the Galerie Gebauer Berlin.

I first saw Stephanie Posavec's work in Sheffield. It's great to see her work picked up here by Information is Beautiful!

French architect Jean Nouvel will design this year’s (2010) Serpentine Gallery Pavilion!

Studio Efra's thin-slab concrete furniture called Olithas. The name comes from a combination of the Spanish word for wave (Ola) and the Greek word for stone (Lithos).

Sneak preview of 'the castiglioni effect', a show that Italian furniture company, de padova didi gnocchi, in collaboration with studio museo achille castiglioni, curates this exhibition of achille castiglioni's work.

German designer Konstantin Grcic added a container series for magis. A plastic drawer unit swivels out from a vertical pole to open. This 360° container is available with five or ten drawers and comes in various colours.

engineers at osaka city university recently exhibited a small robotic fish powered by an equally small fuel cell. this little device could be used in future marine rescue and survey missions.

An interview with designer Frank Chimero

You can download and print these cute CD and DVD cases designed by Tomoko Suzuki from Canon.

Hublot's "Liberty" is a pocket watch in the form of a bullet. Constructed with a titanium bullet head and black aluminum base, they are equipped with a roller display.

iPhone font. The font created from 540 iPhone Apps and too much free time. By Urikane.

Tabasco Hangover Headquarters: a special-edition food truck serving a Tabasco-infused menu by Laurent Tourondel of BLT Market. Opens today parallel to the Charging Bull on the east side of Broadway in downtown NYC, 12-2.

Grasshopper: a range of metal garden furniture designed by Dutch designer Wieki Somers for French brand Tectona. The collection consists of two tables and a chair made of steel and aluminium, powder-coated in light green.

Magis will present the new 2010 collection at the next Milan furniture fair. Pieces include this 'Sparkling chair' by Marcel Wanders using blow moulding for PET.

A chat with Richard Joseph of Joseph Joseph on their unique line of home and housewares from Core77.

OLOMOUC, CZECH REPUBLIC — Radim Kralik, wife Barbora Kralikova, live in a modern concrete box on top of a 1943 grain silo, a stark contrast to the neo-Gothic spires that dominate this small city about 175 miles east of Prague.

Wallpaper has a great series of their favorite Fashion Week invites from all the A/W 2010 shows.

The Kinetic Sculpture made from 714 metal spheres, hanging from thin steel wires attached to individually-controlled stepper motors at the BMW Museum in Munich.

Curious how this ancient Chinese table game became such a smash among American Jews that it evolved into a Jewish game. “Project Mah Jongg,” opens at the Museum of Jewish Heritage on May 4 and continuing through December.

Synthetic Aesthetics seek participants for a project on synthetic biology, design, and aesthetics.

Dog breeds as typefaces.

I love this map of London from Herb Lester Associates. The map charts the most pleasant and civilized places, around London, for a secret liaison, a sneaky skive or an out-of-the-office very-important business meeting.

Swiss watchmakers Hublot's F1 King. The watch is based on the King Power model, with everything blacked out for a sleek, matte look. Only 500 numbered items will be on offer before Hublot unveils its next Formula 1 edition.

Great illustration for Wired Magazine's cover story:The Future of Money. By Aegir Hallmundur over at The Ministry of Type.

Cute illustration 'Finite' by Patrick Hruby.

The GigaPan Epic Pro will be out in April. This device helps capture gigapixel panoramas by taking hundreds or thousands of individual images.

DESIGNING SLOW LIFE Conference 24-25 March 2010 in Lahti brings together international experts of design, service design and wellness to talk and develop services with main theme of better, slower and more meaningful life.

new OXO wine bottle foil opener. just squeeze this metal Pac-Man around the top of a bottle, spin and presto, foil removed.

Ever wondered about all the keyboards that didn't make the cut? There were a lot more options than QWERTY, like the 1887 Automatic, 1906 New American, 1893 Blickensderfer and many others.

Uamou is moving studios! To celebrate, she's put on an event with Mori (RxH) and released 4 new fortune cat babies on black sparkle vinyl, tons of Uamous, 4 new heads, Large fortune cats, and a Vinyl Boo.

Underskin, a human subway map, by Sam Loman.

Victor Churchill Butcher in Sydney isn't your standard butcher shop. Fascinating approach captured by The Cool Hunter.

Nick Tassone's wonderful series of posters of Stephen King films and novels.

Visitors at the Zurich Zoo witnessed a zebra going nose to nose with an open-mouthed hippopotamus. Apparently it was cleaning the hippo's teeth!