Skull-A-Day's Noah Scalin was commissioned by Kenneth Cole to create an ornamental skull for a T-shirt this holiday season.

Macarons displayed in 'break glass in case of emergency' boxes, a dessert 'sushi train' and macaron wallpaper inspired by Willa Wonka, from Luchetti Krelle design for the new Adriano Zumbo patisserie in Sydney.

Grady's Cold Brew ~ these bottles of coffee concentrate with fun packaging are addictively delicious (and hard to keep in the fridge this week) ~ each bottle makes 8 cups of iced/hot coffee.

Sydney Shed by Richard Peters Associates.

FEATUREDHendrick's Most unusual 13th day of Christmas featuring wild haggis drumming’, three ‘Giant snails’ pretending to be French hens, a lone partridge in a cucumber plant and more!

A look at what the White House might have looked like.

From the cheeky folks that brought us Locher's ~ now there are Maude and Tilda's playful totes! And you can even choose the color of the bows...

VIDEOAnimated music video for Fleet Foxes' The Shrine / An Argument.

At the Danish Roskilde Music Festival, a temporary plywood dome installation, from architects Kristoffer Tejlgaard.

Chartball's complete prosports Twitterverse.

VIDEOIndiGo - the airline that brought you amazing on-time performance, hassle-free service, fabulous inflight snacks and always affordable fares - now introduces another category breakthrough: the world's first Runway Musical!

A visual history of Manhattan's grid.

FEATUREDMusical business cards, paramotors and lovely owls are all a part of this week’s roundup from here at NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOThis is a low-fi DJ Set made with cheap and fun recycled technology. The faster you scrath the fan, the faster your cassete will play!

FEATUREDIcebreaker has always had some pretty incredible surreal photography with their Ram-men, here's a peek at their new SS12 lookbook that came in playful flash card form.

The iPhone Lens Dial, a complete three-lens optical system for serious iPhoneographers.

A temporary intervention by the collective Stiftung FREIZEIT awakes the potential of an invisible public space under a bridge, in Berlin.

VIDEOCocktails at 8000 Frames per Second!

From the japanese paper tool shop guys comes ~ 1/100 Architectural Model Accessories Series Coaster
No.3 Savannah! (Also available in person at A+R In Venice Beach)

VIDEOSmithsonian 3D Digitization team just got back from field work in Chile. These are raw, uncut time lapses of us doing what we do. We will release more each week. Check it out before editors start editing.

Mezcal Mano Negra called upon Mexican branding/identity firm Sociedad Anonima to re-vamp their new bottles.

FEATURED Rüdiger Nehmzow’s Cloud Collection while like our "Operation Window Seat" ~ are actually taken out of an OPEN plane DOOR at 4 miles up over Brazil. The making of video is as fun as the pictures!

Modern applications of reclaimed materials with some unexpected ingredients (like a dash of airplane wing) is Denver's Fin Art.

Wooden phone with cube 'apps' made for the latest cover of Computer Arts magazine. A collaboration between Kyle Bean and Thomas Forsyth.

Brand Memory Game is a game about the knowledge of brands. The challenge is to find matching pairs of a brand, based solely on their characteristic colours and style elements and a short description of the brand.

FEATUREDA look at the nice simple, yet strong, shipping/packaging of the Kindle Fire

Mark Laita's breathtaking photographs of deadly snakes from around the world.

The Willo Collection is a surprising series of pillow pots for indoor - designed by studio LIBEL. with willo you can decorate your interior house and enrich the environment with new textures.

FEATUREDMalibu Farm Dinners ~ bringing farm to table as close as can be ~ you can explore the farm from the goats and pigs and chickens to the bees and flowers and organic gardens before sitting down to a gorgeous dinner outside!

William Doxford & Sons Ltd in Pallion, Sunderland UK made massive boats and engines. Check out these old school photos of the factory and engine making process from 1957.

The Morgan Library and Museum make the illuminated manuscript, Black Hours, available for perusal online.

Elegant black packaging for Dalehead by Kaleidoscope.

Mistletoe ~ cast in silver, gold, and brass Kiel Mead style

'IFO' (Identified Flying Object) by French artist and architect Jacques Rival lights up the sky by night and comes to rest on the ground by day, an art programme for the King’s Cross redevelopment.

VIDEOEndless Dance, slowmotion breakdancing on the beach.

The JawSaw is an electric chainsaw that tears through branches of up to four inches thick. Its jaw-shaped frame lets you hold wood firmly in place and shields your hands from potential accidents.

Richard Mosse's collection "Infra," on display at NYC's Jack Shainman Gallery.

Brooklyn Brew Shop's Beer Making Book: 52 Seasonal Recipes for Small Batches.

Surface to Air, an exhibition of new sculptures and photographs by artist Thomas Doyle at LeBasse Projects.

How can a static graphic image can express music? Here are some results of "basic graphic design" applied to the basic packaging.

Ministry of Type has a nice first look and thorough review of the new Wacom Inkling that finally started shipping...

Charley Harper + Todd Oldham + Fish's Eddy = an adorable series of trays, cups, plates, mugs and more covered with adorable Charley Harper Fish graphics.

JustDropt.com is a launchpad for fashion collections. Beautiful teaser film!

Just make a Crashed Ferrari Table when you crash a Ferrari next time.

VIDEOAllan Jones gives a TED talk on a map of the brain.

Great series of Soviet anti-alcohol posters.

VIDEOLovely Owl by Mr Nura-T.

Le Creuset cast iron trivets in their rainbow of colors...

VIDEOPause Fest has released fresh new opening titles made by Breeder & Radium Audio. There are nine other Pause ID animations created by various international artists on the channel as well.

Cinemascapes-Google Street View Edition by Aaron Hobson is a beautiful set of images found on Google Earth.

Beautiful natural play area with as much wildlife as children.

VIDEOThe Scion Surface Experience is a unique interactive installation for the 2011/2012 Auto Show season that enables exploration of the brand's product, racing and cultural affiliations in an unexpected way.

Amazing folding ukulele designed by origami master and 'maker of anything' Brian Chan. Lasercut from bamboo. Available as a DIY kit or assembled instrument.

Pendleton National Park Bottle

Flora Grubb Thigmotrope Satellite is a beautiful tool for creating vertical gardens. These steel Thigmotrope Satellites are designed to be screwed into a wall and hold tillandsia air plants

KamiMegane - PAPER GLASSES - "These glasses look like something you might wear to a party, but they are actually a very serious paper tool. Because of the 1mm holes, it's possible to focus your eyes without lenses."

How to create Tiny Planets with an iPhone.

Holga has a case for your iPhone 4 to turn it into that groovy shooter that you have been looking for.

Incredible ~ IDEA INTERNATIONAL'S
GOLD PLAYING CARDS - they are even sparklier and thinner than you'd imagine in person!

Tectonics 5.5 is a collection of suspended ceiling reliefs with amazing shapes.

VIDEO Stop-motion animation created with over 6,000 PCR-tubes and 30 plates.

George Gene Gustines, suggested a T made of Legos for the winter travel issue and this beautiful piece was created by Akinaga.

Great new playground in Sydney designed by ASPECT studios.

The stunning Kelowna House designed by David Tyrell.

Astronomers at Arizona State University have used NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to build this high-res topographic map of the Moon.

'Here & (T)here' is a new limited and numbered production of objects commissioned by Secondome Edizioni and made by the Fabrica gang.

Shigeru Ban's pavilion for Camper - popping up at all the Volvo Ocean Race Marinas! “This circular, visually airy structure is open on all sides and characterized by its imposing colonnade of recycled paper tubes."

Food meets network science... Researchers from University of Michigan pulled the recipes from allrecipes.com and mapped the ways in which the ingredients were commonly combined.

Love that PACT's latest Japan collection benefits Architecture for Humanity’s design and construction of a work-house for fishermen in the town of Shizugawa. Underwear for him and her and socks too ~ my favorite is this koi print!

Porsche to open West Coast Experience Center in LA between the 405 and 110 Spring 2012... it will also house the Porsche Human Performance Center, with a sport science laboratory to maximize personal fitness, wellness, and athletic performance.

FEATUREDUnboxing the Jawbone UP ~ the packaging even has a flap that lets you try on the size before you buy! Here's a peek into all the packaging, product, experience design details of the new bracelet that tracks your sleep, eating, activeness and more!

Pitched Roof House in Sydney by Chenchow Little.

Dokter and Misses' a-003DL [spike] by Adriaan Hugo.

VIDEOReebok and CrossFit set a new Guinness World Record with the world's largest 3D painting. ‘3D Joe & Max’ turn part of London’s Canary Wharf quayside into the longest and largest 3D artwork.

Attic, cute series of bird houses by Studio Chad Wright.

VIDEOThe idea is simple: what if you could control slot cars with the power of your mind? Mind Scalextric is an R&D project we developed at B-Reel that combines the latest technologies and lets people race together using their minds.

Kranen|Gille's Islands series inspired by the sea forts that were ravaged during WWII.

A look at the new McLaren Production Centre by Foster + Partners.

Bacon Candy Canes! Bacony, but with that traditional candy cane look.

Cool Hunting check out "Something I Ate" in NYC a seasonal event series celebrating delicious art.

The Toull Ar Soner House by Studi Urvois & Krt.

FEATUREDFirefly squid, grandeur in Bordeaux and underground hotels are all a part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

MAKR Swivel Studio Work Stools in White, Grey, and Black Powder Coated Stainless Steel with Black Walnut Seat.

Math Art: How to make an origami truncated icosahedron, pentakis dodecahedron & more...

Princeton University's 2011 Art of Science winners have just been announced. Some gorgeous images resulting from science and engineering research.

Chrome Citizen Buckle Bag - NIGHT Series - love the stealthy black in the day (down to logo and signature seat belt buckle) and it all goes reflective with light!

Refereed to as “the Detonator,” this bike of the future from Daniel Simon integrates science fiction style with all the abilities of modern technology.

These volcano maps from the Geological Survey of Japan are amazing.

VIDEOCool new MGMT animated video of Bauhaus cover "All we ever wanted was everything"

Belkin iPhone LiveAction Camera Grip and LiveAction Camera Remote!

700 million dollars and six years later, Russia reopens Bolshoi Theatre; an epicenter of Russia's culture and history.

Lee Minwoo's Alianoid Humidifier is a humidifier which was motivated from the mysterious look of an outer space robot.

Amazingly realistic, yet abstract, oil paintings of taped pieces of paper by Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard.

Design of open-source platform for the creative use of OLED (organic light-emitting diode). Designed by labme. OLED creates the largest installation in the world with 1400 provided by OSRAM

Studio Giffin'Termeer (Jess Griffin and Jim Termeer)'s 'Sugar Frames' at Tokyo Designers Week Container Exhibition 2011,

Owl and wolf skulls by illustrator Ian Williams.

VIDEOCommunion. A creative collaboration of Matt Pyke and FIELD. Hundreds of generative creatures are coming together in this hall-sized installation, to celebrate life in a massive communion.

Eugene is a great sleek armchair by the creative masterminds of e15.

VIDEOAs one of Japan's last remaining swordsmiths, Korehira Watanabe has honed his craft for 40 years while attempting to recreate the mythical Koto sword.

This is number 18 in a series of One-of-a-kind Keepsake Boxes designed for Fritz Hansen.

A new 24/7 self-service shop for Zerim-Liftan, an Israeli complex of flower shop and a special gourmet shop. The shop is made from simple milk baskets and some basic wood boxes and can be rearrange in just few minutes.

Beautiful holiday line from Darling Clementine.

The tire studded interior of the bow.berlin shop.

VIDEOThe WWF asks you to change the way you think about food.

A behind the scenes look at the Captain America vehicle fleet which was designed by the great transportation designer Daniel Simon!

VIDEOSparkhouse and Entrepreneur Magazine interview some of the brightest innovators all across the U.S.A.

A new modern (and colorful) take on the USA map. Each state is filled with a pattern drawn by Jennifer Hill. All 50 patterns are inspired by an imaginary vacation to a different locale. It is available as a poster or stretched on canvas and ready to hang.

FEATUREDProspector Co. has adorably packaged men's skincare goods ~ from beard oil and aftershaves to lotions ~ and a fun little tester pack of vials.

This Polargraph Drawing Machine takes a pen and uses it to draw in a singularly robotic way, with some grand results.

The world's most comprehensive mapping of Apple products, this print shows every computer released by Apple in the last thirty years, from the original Mac through the MacBook Air.

Indie Brand, the latest book by Anneloes van Gaalen, delves into the world of independent brands. With interviews and great photography of brands like Threadless, fritz-kola, WeTransfer and many more.

The Experiment is an innovative HTML5 game from Honda. Using physics principles the game challenges players to create a chain reaction by placing a set of objects in the correct sequence.

Impressive long exposure photography by American photographer Wes Whaley.

Debut covers of everything from The New Yorker to Vogue to Esquire.

Photographer, Greg Delves, directs this sexy video for B Brian Atwood's Spring 2012 collection.

ddpstudio has won Expo 2015 prize in the competition “The hand’s thought” sponsored by Bosch and patronised by Expo Milano and ADI with a new kind of watering device called "Rugiada".

Electronic Van Orlax is an incredible musical instrument and result of a collaboration between Monsterist Pete Fowler and David Cranner, creator of incredible electronic instruments and mechanical sculptures.

Gates is a croquet game for home use. It is designed by Romain Lagrange, and made by French and Swiss craftsmen.

Strange and sculptural ceramics by Japanese artist Harumi Nakashima at Nilsson & Chiglien Gallery in Paris.

Laboratory of food analysis by Lefebvre Lise and Morel Maxime.

VIDEOMusic video shot by Tim & Joe using a Kinect to create an underwater effect.

Scandinavian designer Maria Dahlgren has designed this range of homewares exclusively for Tate.

VIDEORitornell for Musicbox. Katharina Hölzl designed very special business cards, each of which provides a tailor made musical experience.

Makoto Azuma's beautiful uprooted bonsai.

Eye Pilot, the first optically controlled video game. The project is a collaboration between Damian Sommer, Drawing with Frames and Superbrothers.

Portal cookie cutters! Portal, Turret, Running Test Subject, Falling Test Subject, Companion Cube (the cube is 4 cooke cutters!)

VIDEOHeli Video productions use electrically powered helicopters to capture incredible footage around the island of Puerto Rico including the beautiful rain forest, EL Yunqu.

Beautiful illustrations by Gabriella Barouch.

Dutch designer Thomas Linssen of Studio Thol decided to take a slightly different approach to bathtub design with this armchair inspired tub.

Incredible--and almost eerily beautiful--photos of submerged cars in a Honda factory in Thailand due to the floods.

The Tenerife Centre of Dramatic Arts by GPY Arquitectos.

FEATUREDA fashion roundup from the stylish Notcouture.

Alexander McQueen Skull pochette - this silk pocket square is one of the very white Selfridges exclusives for the holidays.

Build and fly a paramotor (safely & inexpensively).

EELS 3D – projection mapping multiplayer game
is an R&D project developed at B-Reel London. A combination of various technologies into a game experience where players can control their virtual EEL projected on a physical installation.

FEATUREDGhosts of Gone Birds ~ in addition to the stunning artwork within this show, the branding ~ from logos to posters to information tags is so fun! "Raising a creative army for conservation" is something we can get behind!

A DIY Digital Lomography Camera with interchangeable lenses, handmade with brushed aluminum and black walnut by blueantstudio.

The Houl, a contemporary long house in Dairy, Scotland by Simon Winstanley Architects.

'POOL inc.' by Yoritaka Hayashi Architects.

Mathematical Art: How to create the Orderly Tangle of 4 triangles.

Carbon fiber Storm Trooper.

Silver coated Champagne cork pendant made by Feinschmuck.

At Artissima, with France Fiction, inside the Fabbrica dell’Inchiostro (Ink Factory)…

South Yarra house in Melbourne, Australia by LSA Architects.