Medea vodka is a single-distilled wheat-based vodka from Holland but what makes it distinctive is a bottle with a programmable LED display that can hold up to six different messages each with 255 characters.

Autarchy, a propositional installation by Studio FormaFantasma, envisions the objects of a community. Italian broom maker Giuseppe Brunello and French bakery Poilane were invited as collaborators.

Romanian studio Square One have completed a clothing store, Entrance, in Bucharest with pointy display stands and a network of black electrical cables.

Jásztej: wonderful packaging for this Hungarian dairy company.

Three free smartphone apps to help Milan Design Week visitors find their way around: Interni FuoriSalone, FUORISALONE.IT, and DesignIT guide from i Saloni, the COSMIT show at the Fiera exhibition centre.

L.A. bookstore Family and Absolute puts on a month-long extravaganza of art, music and literature. Set in a pop-up space in NYC's TriBeCa neighborhood, Thirty Days NY features a host of daily festivities.

Great images of sake barrel packaging from creative roots.

Check out the selection of the latest drinkable delights over at Liqurious.

Some of our latest posts here at NOTCOT.org. This week’s picks include stunning architecture and interiors, some playful items and a bit of tech.

Engadget takes a look at various news iPad apps, where both UI and pricing remain up in the air, raising questions of whether these apps are really better than iPad optimized sites.

Core77 unboxes the iPad. Great to see every detail for those of us too far away to get our hands on one... yet!

I love this spring table from Stockholm designers Tb & Ajakay. The table is a collaboration with Karl-Johan Hjerling and Karin Widmark to create a table, where layers of the plywood top appear to burst apart and curl around one end.

Great packaging for the DeKalb Farmers market by Bert Bacchus.

A selection of a few of the latest posts over at Notcouture, featuring stylish dresses, shoes and gorgeous accessories.

Breed Retreated by Frederik Roije is a great architectural hen house.

"Cornered" by James Laurie, London helps you trap household pests even when they're in a corner!

A selection of this week’s posts, capturing a bit of the adorable, stylish, playful and bizarre.

Emeco's new version of the Navy Chair, made of recycled Coca-Cola bottles. Great ad campaign showing the chair encased in a one-ton block of ice created by ice sculptor Duncan Hamilton and photographed by Peer Lindgreen.

The NYTimes has released their latest T Magazine, the Spring 2010 Travel issue.

This is a nice packaging approach from Ryanna Christianson a recent graduate from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point. She created a six pack of Norsk Øl which is based on the Scandinavian Nisse.

This poor seahorse seems to have been the victim of a confused cuttlefish. The cuttlefish has actually laid its eggs on this seahorse off the coast of Spain.

Mathias Bengtsson's Paper Chair will be part of the Danish Crafts Mindcraft show in Milan next month. 12 works by Denmark's most talented craftspeople will be shown at Zona Tortona, Spazio Vuoto, 55a via Savona.

Kevin Cantrell's proposed rebrand for Swedish based Acne Jeans focuses on Acne’s iconic name by incorporating crops and using a stark black and white color palette.

Back to a classic 20th century design desk calendar. Timor has been in production by Danese since 1967. A clever design combining great style and ease of use, the Timor is a great example of form & function by Enzo Mari.

Michihiro Matsuoka's steam punk sculptures from stone clay and acrylic paint.

A very cool concept from industrial design student Andrew Kim for square coke bottles. Not only is the simplified branding fantastic, the square bottle is beautiful, and clever use of space.

Per Brolund's "Joyride" is a great car. The set consists of 10 pieces of plywood, 3 aluminum tubes, nylon rope that serves as a "wheel" a few pins to hold the ring and keep everything in place and 4 wheels with rubber tires.

UK designer Cat Davison creates jewelry made from 100% recycled vintage records, 'heat the beat' manages to be both original and sustainable. Fantastic nautilus and octopus!

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.