Clever use of GoogleMaps as the web page of design duo James&Joe. And I love their I<3MY MUM T-shirt.

Marica from WhyNot? found this gorgeous zipper ring, designed by Liron Braker, and winner of the ITS YKK award.

Stressed day ~ and on brilliantly packaged masks worth every destressing penny ~ i'm fully backing the vials of blue and cloth pellets of the Skyn Iceland Cool Therapy. (yes i posted it on com a while back)

Camilla Engman was invited to decorate a pair of (RED) Converse Shoes.

Shoes as architecture. The conceptual collection by Gil Carvalho. Alloy, leather and elastic metallic thread.

The bulky spacesuit is about to be replaced by the bio-suit, a form-fitting garment that looks straight out of Courege's Fall-Winter Collection from 1968

Andrew English's wedding bands are delicately hand-engraved with the fingerprint of your partner and therefore completely unique to each couple.

Flocks makes single sheep sweaters, complete with the sheep's photo, bio and serial number.

Can you really make purses from recycled soccer balls? German company Abteil did it and other recycled designs

Going through NOTCOT archives for NotCouture ~ just rediscovered these gorgeous necklace vials by Izik Levy that hold the fresh flower of your choice.

Momabomba handbags are made from recycled first-grader homework, filled with lettering and other exercises.

LOVE&LOVE from Project Design Roma are gorgeous wedding rings, available in boy+boy or girl+girl version.

Dopies are the unfortunately named but very cool looking love child of a pair of crocs and ancient wooden tibetan sandals.

Fun handbags from Barcelona-based fashion designer Alyona. I like her Yoshi character who seems to be a cross between The Little Prince character and a dinosaur.

Danish designers and twin sisters Rikke & Line Cleven Jensen make jewelery using a secret method to print enamel on silver.

Interstellar 2007 in Los Angeles on July 7-8. Street Art / Tee-Shirts / Designer Toys ... perfect for notcot fans

A.I. Animal Instinct shirt, perfect for robot dog owners like me.

Death to Helvetica Tee: Get spat on by people in black skivvies with this response to the prevalence of Helvetica.

this is what happens to a purse after the brilliant designers from Boblbee Japan are done with it.

The Internal Watch is encased in leather, rendering it non-functional as timepiece.

Jenny Dutton's serpent shoe

Streetwear from RADIOACTIVE found while in Kuala Lumpur. My favorite is this shirt with the overstitched monkey on it

Japanese backpack from ISABURO 1889. Love the different strap options.

Miss Bibi is the monaco designer who does the stunning miniature weapons and luxe goods as jewelry... and we have some shots of her latest exhibition at Colette.

Sadly, these Pantone Universe Totes are only available in Japan at the Loft and Franc Franc Store...

Recycled textile handbags by Luisa Cevese, for the list :-)

Nail extensions in exotic wood veneers by Nanna Natural.

one of my favorite Mojizu characters is now available as a tee.

Jacket made entirely from ski gloves by Martin Margiela (seen in ID)

The sole bag from plus minus zero reminds me of the leather version in #939 (which came first?) [Editor's Note: this one did!]

KitchenFloorBags are made from kitchen floor pvc. sadly I think they are using new panels rather than recycled floors.

Jun Konishi skull-teddy pendants

Google is ruining everything T-shirt

The Charlie Brown t-shirt made me smile...

This ring from the Gothic Torrent collection by Catherine Bysheim, is stunning. In fact, there's lots of great jewelry from independent designers on this site, appropriately called Love2Have. www.love2have.co.uk

STAMPS , cool little mashup of a watch and a limited edition stamp. sold in packs of 2.

Apfeltasche. Yet another felt laptop sleeve for your MacBook

Hussein Chalayan's robotic transformer dresses at the Paris Fashion Show

Printed sterile masks from Tokyo based Samira Boon

Love the diamond in the V. Created by MEHEM an anonymous Japanese designer and sold via Colette. Also worthy is his gun and knife rings.

OK, enough rings already... This one is from Susanne Kleem, seen on CarrotBox, the ultimate blog of rings.

Another ring from Daniel Chiquet. I like his work on tension, reminds me of the puzzles we saw earlier on notcot

More rings. These are created by Daniel Chiquet, who must have been an architect in a past life

Atypyk strikes again with Rock'n Roll