Tumi presents their exclusive editions of A Hedonist's Guide to eight international cities including Paris, London, New York, Milan, Dubai, Buenos Aires, Berlin and Tokyo.

A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.

The holiday season approaching years, I surfed the web to find you some creations for your creation of Christmas 2009.

We Feel Fine becomes a book! An Almanac of Human Emotion to be exact ~ by Sep Kamvar and Jonathan Harris

Science Blogs ~ love their icons for each category

The Complete Guide To Google Wave ~ some help to navigate the confusion!

mono and blu dot partner to create the Real Good Experiment. November 4 and 5, 25 Real Good chairs will be placed on the streets of NYC, free for the taking. Where will they end up?

The "Type Chess Set" was created out of an old type tray and blocks of type. Each piece hand carved and represented by the first letter in their name! And even colored in black and white by the residue of ink left on top of the type.

Ed's your friendly educator for all things paper, printing and design. He's here to help designers take more responsibility for ensuring that their projects are as green and sustainable as possible.

A one-page-preview for the much awaited book: Graphic Design Referenced, by Byrony Gomez-Palacio and Armin Vit.

New from Nexus director's Smith & Foulkes for HP new printer. Nice and colourful animation.

Inspiring Interview with Kathryn Elyse Rodgers on how to succeed in the fashion illustration industry.

Nice infographic looking at average internet speeds and costs around the world

Ninite ~ it could change the pain of installing windows! Helping you batch install lots of the web apps you have to track down the latest versions of an install each time...

Skulls Unlimited create non existent and hard to find skeletal structures such as this centaur made from half horse half human remains

The Karim for ALLOY collaboration has resulted in the development of eight innovative metal tile ‘cells’ designed to change the ‘face’ of metal tiles.

Mondrianum is a Mac plugin that allows users to access Adobe Kuler (#2214) for all applications and works like a system-wide color picker.

As a self-promotional piece for Marilyn & Sons, we decided to collate all the Friday lunchtime recipes we'd cooked over the year, and turn them into a handy 72-page cookbook.

Phaidon Press released 3 books about the history of product design. "Pioneers" starts with the early days, "Mass Production" shows the new possibilities in the last century and "New Technologies" shows brilliant design up to today. Must have!

The talented author & artist of The Art of Wooing: An Email Tale of Modern Courtship is teaching mixed media classes at Hands on 3rd, a very cool new spot in LA that functions as a public work space for artists at all levels.

It’s the 10th annual DesignThinkers conference focusing on the role of design in shaping business, society and the future health of the planet. Join us in Toronto on Nov. 3rd and 4th to gain new perspectives from some of the industry’s leading innovators.

Hillman Curtis has those stunning films interviewing design legends... is it any surprise the packaging on the dvds is adorable?

Dining with Technology is a re-emergence of bringing technology to the Dinner table. Designed in the style of the early black and white televisions, DWT enables usb powered objects to be connected and operated without being connected to a computer.

Amazing national geographic infographic to zoom around on and explore "Fifty Years of Exploration" showing where we've been in space...

The Life on White projects aims to photograph as many animals as possible against plain white backgrounds

CMYK broadens their audience and appeal with a fresh overhaul of the magazine (due out in November). Here's a preview of a redesigned cover...

AIRSHIP J-AIR-01::After 10 years of the beginning of the research, ovo design studio will implement a new model of the project developed by the architect and designer Luciano S. Araujo

Awesome collection of do not disturb signs...

Designer Juan Carlos Pagan releases three new nudie posters advertising up-and-coming type foundry "Naked Type" - built around the exploration of the percieved humanistic qualities of typography.

Italia Design Field School is an intensive study of leading design + innovation. Undergrads dedicate 1 year to the project. Each year contributes to a LEGACY project.

The London College of Communication is hosting an exhibition in association with The British Postal Museum and Archive titled "Designs on Delivery: GPO Posters 1930-1960..."

An amazing gallery of vintage random inventions we learned to live without

Cool annual of the pioneering cohort of the California College of the Arts' new Masters program: MBA in Design Strategy. Interesting process, design thinking, social and sustainability practices...

Google has made every page of every issue of Life magazine, from the mid-thirties to early seventies, available online, advertising included.

Brand spanking new Pantone iPhone app called myPantone – capture and extract colors from photos and snap to the closest Pantone Color, as well as get color inspiration & color schemes from these Pantone color system libraries

I’d be one fit lady if I’d follow this New (Media) Workout Plan. Made me smile. [Editor's Note: what should we do everytime we open NOTCOT? Hmmmm]

Shiny new portfolio site for Ben the Illustrator launched yesterday. Full to the brim with colourful, optimistic illustrations sure to set your heart a flutter! enjoy!

Monkee Design Interviews James Clyne, a film conceptual illustrator having worked on the last Transformer movies and the upcoming flick "The Avatar." He talks about breaking into the movie design industry and much, much more.

As a follow up to 'Tone Matrix,' Andre Michelle now offers audio tool, which combines multiple audio machines to simulate a full DJ set up. You can then output the songs to your hard drive!

The Waterwall Fatboy is a 650g rainwater tank! Waterwall Designs is committed to sexing up the tank industry, one Fatboy at a time...

Founded by artist Ryder Ripps, Internet Archaeology is a project that “seeks to explore, recover, archive and showcase the graphic artifacts found within earlier Internet Culture. Classic, worth a look!

Impressive new Website of Screenagers, a Multimedia Agency from Vienna, Austria.

It should come as no surprise that lots of iPhone users are downloading lots and lots of apps to their phones. What IS surprising is that Android app downloads aren’t that far behind – and that, in some cases, the iPod Touch leaves both phones in the dust.

Review of a must-have book for any product designer: Manufacturing Processes for Design Professionals

Oooh helvetical now takes on Google Calendar ~

MOMA's Paola Antonelli interview by Tom Bieling (Design Research Network) - relationship between 'making' and 'thinking', interesting new role for the designer between 'problemsolver' and 'sensemaker'. The Problem Maker!