This week’s MoCo picks.

+ Huus og Heim Arkitektur’s 85 sq. meter Gunnar’s House. Via Below The Clouds.

+ …and RB ARKITECTUR’s Villa RBDVD mountain house, also via Below The Clouds.

+ MATEU ARCHITECTURE’s Coconut Grove house at Dwell Blog. “Mateu bought an unusually narrow plot shaded by towering oak and gumbo limbo trees in the Coconut Grove neighborhood.”. Watch the slideshow.

+ BGP Arquitectura’s Casa Luis Barragán renovation at Plataforma Arquitectura.

+ Tomer Ben-Gal & Isamu Kanda’s 1325 sq. ft. Colonial at Archinect and here.

+ Bring it on, Home Design Trends: Smaller, Closer, More Urban at Treehugger, “people are sick of commuting”.

+ Frédérique Morrel’s Re-Made in France one of a kind products made from vintage tapestries. Via the style files.

+ designguide.tv’s Farm Project video at Design Miami, “an improvised living space, filled with materials, animals, plants, and objects.”.

+ Zero and Orrefors Kosta Boda’s Light Shadows lamp, “Bulbs are sand-blasted with a range of patterns that project onto the wall, or onto a removable flat glass shade.” at Dezeen.

+ Philippe Starck’s Cross Digi watch for Fossil, “Features a cross-shaped display where the time is read vertically while the day and date information are read on the horizontal sides of the display”. Via storm from the east.

+ Martin Holzapfel’s modular desk and storage Bureau. Via Yanko Design.

+ The Amadana electric citrus juicer, “Since its small body requires less space, it can be used whenever needed.”. Via Appliancist.

+ La Métamorphose des Matériaux “features 60 emerging designers and artists who transform largely recycled materials into art” at Apartment Therapy.

+ Ettore Sottsass Lives On in Trieste Exhibition at UnBeige.

+ New work from Solv includes Lu-Be, a vinyl billboard chair in Solv’s signature style.

+ Modern Critter presents a human-friendly bent plywood cat scratcher can be hung or placed flat on the floor and is available in a wide variety of Velcro-backed carpet tile options.

+ His mother’s knitting inspired Kwangho Lee when he created the Weave Your Lighting. Rubber wires are knitted into lengths that range from 10 to 300 metres.

+ These limited edition fresh plate designs by Pierre Charpin were produced in Limoges for Craft and Bernard Chauveau.

+ Gabriela Gomes has a new collection of wool felt bags and purses at Planeta Clix.

+ Amy Tischer’s tea light holders cast playful and intricate reflections.

+ And Thomas Blotter sends us his Modern Art Table, which looks like a well-lit drafting table.

To kick things off in 2008, here are a few of the design-related New Year cards I received on January 1st (in Japan, all New Year cards are delivered on that day). Keep in mind that 2008 is the year of the rat, according to Chinese astrology, which explains the recurring motif.

To the left, a few shades of gray from Klein Dytham Architecture (KDa), to the right, from IMG SRC/NON-GRID/S2 Factory/Tagle. The smaller card pops out and acts as an invitation ticket for an event the companies have planned at the end of the month. More after the jump.

This week’s MoCo picks.

+ H Arquitectes’s hillside Casa 108 at Plataforma Arquitectura.

+ More of Neil Denari’s Alan Family House at noticias arquitectura, “The family have asked that 1,000 sf (93.00 m2) be added to the site in addition to the existing 1,000 sf house.”.

+ More of architect Peter C. Jakob’s prefab WeberHaus ‘Option House’, “Driven by a modern aesthetic and energy-efficient elements, Option is a fully functional, light-filled dwelling that delivers low-impact living in just 70 square meters of elegant and understated space.”. Via Inhabitat.

+ John Pawson’s B60 Sloop, “The project’s functional goal is to create the ultimate day racing yacht, built for recreational rather than competitive purposes, but with the highest levels of manoeuvrability.”. Via Dezain.

+ Being Object’s Reborn, “a set of bathtub and water faucet designs. The shape of bathtub was inspired from beans.”. Via Dezeen.

+ joe & josephine design collective show at Made at blogTO, featuring Caroline Arsenault’s Stick Collection brooches. Via designboom.

+ MoCo Loco contributor and designer Joey Roth’s modern take on the teapot, the Sorapot, gets an instructional video, “the teapot was designed to emphasise one of his favourite things in life – the unfurling of tea leaves.”. Via The David Report.

+ More shelter magazines closing their doors reports the Los Angeles Times, “Reader loyalty isn’t the cause.”. Via Land+Living.