Pizza Hut brings back the 90's basketball hoop pizza boxes and mini basketballs for March Madness. Nostalgia is in full force...

The Standard and NYC design practice Jumbo have reinvented "pool noodles" as giant inflatable macaroni, farfalle, shells, rigatoni, lasagna, tortellini, and ravioli! And they are packaged to look like pasta boxes.

Hidden Valley Ranch introduces a Ranch On A Branch (a la elf on a shelf) boxed set, complete with book and fridge looking packaging.

IKEA x Swedish House Mafia OBEGRÄNSAD Bag. For anyone who likes the super useful IKEA bags and blacked out goods... this is my favorite from their collab. A 13.75" cube of a bag that fits records perfectly (but also cake boxes and so much more!)

Penco Bullet Ballpoint Pens - in brass (with adorable orange gift box) and light, colorful ABS plastic versions.

Amazon's gone full Chinese New Year with this 2022 Year of the Tiger gift card in red envelope.

High Garden Tea now has lovely sampler gift packs. Based in Nashville, TN. NOTCOT's favorite tea shop! Their Detox and Dreams tea have been a staple in our pantry for years!

California Cowboy Out of Pocket Pouch for your phone is made of signal blocking fabric for those with no self control. Features three fun velcro patches.

Paddywax Flora Collection of Diffusers have glass vessels with a brushed gold metal plate that turns into the perfect bulb/seed vase! (My avocado seed would be perfect in this!) They always have such lovely simple designs with gift worthy packaging.

Eliqs Mother's Day Beer and Rosé offerings - the packaging is everything! And for the ultimate gift, Mother's Day Garden Party lets you "add a photo and custom text to our design to surprise Mom with the drink she deserves."

NOTCOT favorite phone/tablet stand for vidchats and toddler video viewing. I love this cheap little plastic phone/tablet stand so much, i've bought 4 for us and as gifts so far! We use it on the kitchen island, tables, couch, inside forts...

BRIK! A brick to smash open... to find a box with a knife inside... as well as a code to see if you win a second more valuable knife. (Sold out, but could inspire some interesting DIY gifts?)

IKEA x LEGO = BYGGLEK collection! It contains two sets of buildable storage containers and a set of specially curated Lego bricks.

Cliques are wooden peg dolls in such cute packaging! Each has three elements that are held together with tiny magnets to mix and match and come in house-shaped boxes that can be customized with beautiful backgrounds.

Guerilla Tacos in DTLA has an Emergency Taco Kit! (Complete with 30 eggs and toilet paper) As restaurants and business have to adapt to survive COVID-19 chaos, it's time to get creative.

IKEA x Pizza Hut Säva table - on surprising collaborations, IKEA Hong Kong has created a limited edition table that is a giant version of those tiny "pizza savers" that come in pizza boxes.

Little Liberty Filled House of Gifts Christmas Stocking 2019 - three adorable stockings from Liberty London filled with a great curation of goodies!

The 2018 Engineering Gift Guide from Purdue University! After reading so many gift guides online, with so much of the same stuff... this is still one of the most inspiringly, unique ones out there!

Finnish Baby Box (for those of us who can't get the govt subsidized finnish maternity boxes) has a cute Moomin Edition box filled with 33 essential baby products including a moomin graphic bed box with mattress.

Inside the 2018 Finnish Maternity Boxes by Kela - a gift from the government filled with products to get you started, including a box that doubles as a bed. Amazing to see how they've progressed since 1938.

Target's new shipping boxes (launching holiday 2018) are adorable! They feature Bullseye, pulling up in a Target delivery truck; Bullseye scampering around the house; and Bullseye peeking out of a Target box.

AWAY Minis are back for the holidays - tiny versions of their suitcases (like first/biz class rimowa minis!) - now even in aluminum. They come empty, or filled with their essentials, beauty, or grooming sets.

Glass For Good Hand Wash by method - limited-edition created by method in partnership with SFMOMA. Refillable 9 oz. bottle made from glass, topped with copper-toned hand pump, and filled with a violet noir fragrance. Beautifully gift packaged.

Aesop always has such beautifully packaged holiday gift sets - for 2018 the theme is The Atlas of Attraction in collaboration with Iris van Herpen.

The inaugural Bark Park is coming to East Nashville (McFerrin Park) starting Sept 8, 2018. From the BarkBox folks (subscription dog boxes, to exclusive toys, to popping up in places like Target) this is a dog obsessed hangout for dogs and their people.

IKEA SPÄNST Collection by Chris Stamp and Maja Ganszyniec. A streetwear inspired black and white collection including a basketball hoop, skateboard and sneaker rack, desk, clear sneaker boxes and more...

Paper Cliché : 8 Years of Thinking “Outside the Box”

VIDEOTHE RED STAIN (La Macchia Rossa) by Francis Ford Coppola Winery. Young American brings a red-stained shirt to the dry-cleaning business of an elderly Italian couple, and they wonder how it came to be... chess boxing? affair? Beautiful intriguing film!

FEATUREDThe NOTCOT Amazon List ~ if you're still last minute holiday shopping from your couch, here are some (mostly prime) inspired gift picks that i have + love, have gifted, or played with + want!

Made Here PDX - the ultimate made in Portland, OR gift shop!

FEATUREDUPDATED NOTCOT Collection Of Stuff For People!!! There's no need for labels or categories. Just amazing things we love, want, or think about gifting... (Now with more stuff!)

Away has made Mini Suitcases (in 10 colors!) to house a range of Holiday Gift Sets! They work best as super gift cards price-wise. The mini suitcases look similar to mini Rimowa and Samsonite's you'll find in some first/business class flights.

Lumi Holiday Gift Guide 2017 - the perfect combo of guaranteed beautifully packaged gift and ultimate humblebrag (since they are all Lumi packaging clients!)

Côte Nail Polish Traveler Gift Sets - adorably tiny nail polishes, perfect for travel touch ups or manicures.

Blackmarket Bakery has Thanks Shortbread Cookie Pies! Fun Thanksgiving idea.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Collection Of Stuff For People!!! There's no need for labels or categories. Just amazing things we love, want, or think about gifting... I supposed you could call it an impromptu gift guide of sorts?

The Design Files has gorgeous photos of this Eco House in Western Australia of Tanya McKenna, Peter Chadwick and Henri the boxer. The greens they chose (paired with the whites and wood and plants) are just stunning.

Maileg Baby Toys - my favorites are "My First Bunny" and the linen Gantosaurus. Both have great gift packaging! The dino egg is a great detail.

Target Hearth & Hand with Magnolia (the home and lifestyle brand of Chip & Joanna Gaines) is pretty cute for holiday gifting. Even a land cruiser looking cookie cutter! As well as fun wooden kids play sets, nice matte black kitchenware, and lots of green plaid.

The Good Hurt Fuego Hot Sauce Set. Great packaging with the sticks of dynamite look.

We Are Knitters x Oeuf collection of adorable knitting kits for baby sheep and bunny blankets, onesies, hats, and booties... but you have to knit it yourself! (Start now for holiday gifts?)

FEATUREDIKEA Vinter 2017 Gift Wrapping has great patterns from super fun gnome/elf/santa folks to adorable woodland creatures! (Even though it feels too early for the holidays, it made me smile!)

Canadiano Designer Scaled Ruler Set. Made of laminated hardwoods, these minimal scales are a nostalgic take on an ordinary item.

Oliver Sweeney x Talisker Limited edition ‘Made by The Sea’ Gift Set. The boots have a unique flask pocket complete with 2oz etched sterling silver flask, the sole includes a piece of cask wood, and there's a compass built in as well.

Bumbleberry Farms Honey Cream Gift Set - Lovers’ Leap Sea Salt Caramel, Squirrel Crazy Maple, Molten Lava Spiced Chocolate and Sticky Buns Cinnamon. Fun packaging and labels.

Robert Gordon Australia Mini Hug Me Mugs are adorable and packaged in such fun milk carton shaped gift boxes!

Box Appetit - Black+Blum Lunch Box Book

Seeds in glass vials in laser etched wooden boxes. Unique packaging by Humboldt Seed Organisation.

Miss Jones Baking Co. - beyond the organic baking mixes and frostings, they have cheeky text sweatshirts and fun gift sets. Bakers gonna bake! Move fast & bake things! Bake it easy! Bake it off! Let them get baked!

Wormhole Ring by Polygonal Encyclopedia. 3D Printed Bling for the Science Fashionista or a Galactic Gift for your Astronomer.

Iwona Przybyła Branding and Packaging for North + Ice. Great faceted bag and boxes, coupled with a great viking inspired logo.

Bee Raw Varietal Honey Flights. Vials hand-corked and sealed with bees wax, then packaged with a beautiful, handcrafted oak block in signature gift box.

The Everleigh Bottling Co. Martini, Negroni, Manhattan, and Old Fashioned. This lovely gift packaging is inspired by vintage perfume for cocktails to go. Designed by The Company You Keep.

Caavo "All your home entertainment, unified." A neutral device with voice remote that connects your streaming, set top boxes, game consoles, etc into a single device. Its interface allows you to search all your favorite apps, live TV, DVR, and more.

FEATUREDThe NOTCOT Ever-Growing Gift List is still growing! Take a peek to get your holiday shopping inspiration flowing! Currently up to update #13!

Godiva The Box that Keeps Giving - cute packaging concept designed to be gifted 4 times.

Absolut Elyx Gift Set - with Felix, the Elyx Copper Gnome.

Aesop's 2016 Pursuits of Passion Holiday Kits! "This year’s Gift Kits honour six naturalists long revered for their writing, illustrations, boundless curiosity and history-making discoveries." Beautiful illustrations and animations on the product pages.

Commodity Goods Try At Home luxe kit includes all of Commodity's 10 premium eau de parfum unisex fragrances.

Bliss Mobil - intriguing luxury expedition vehicles built into steel frame, all in one boxes with solar panel tops that are easily detached and shipped. They can be mounted a variety of trucks (like unimogs!)

FEATUREDIlluminature! Amazing new book by Carnovsky that allows readers to explore various natural environments with red (day creatures), green (plant life), and blue (nocturnal creatures) lenses. Perfect holiday gift book for kids.

Zoocchini Narwhal Baby Rattle - what an unexpected (and adorable) creature for a baby gift!

Neiman Marcus Christmas Book 2016 is here (already!) - with a throwback to 1970's Pessimist/Optimist gift. In 1970 the pessimist could get an Ark (animals and all) in 2016, it's a mattress with built in fireproof lock box!

Vanmoof Bicycles found that delivery services treated tv boxes far better than boxes that clearly contained bicycles, so they printed tvs on their boxes. The idea was so popular, they now sell the boxes (with a free bike.)

Dovetail Press - looking to take the book and gift set model to a new level with Host, Brew, and Buenos Nachos! Dovetail is a new kind of publishing company that pairs impactful books with original products - like cutting boards, cheese graters, and more.

FEATUREDFlexible Plan Pack-Your-Own CSA Farm Boxes from Green Door Gourmet in Nashville, TN and a peek inside their incredible farm shop. Love the idea that even travelers can jump in and try their fresh produce boxes (and pick their own!)

Damien Gilley + Revolution Design House present The Boxcar One Artist Series. Limited Edition Boxcar Planter Set, made in Portland, Oregon.

This HTeeML tote bag by The Incumbent Agency is a great gift idea for UX, UI and web designer. Best viewed in Firefox or Chrome.

Mer Sea & Co. Soaps come wrapped in handkerchiefs! Fun packaging concept that makes for a lovely gift presentation.

Sticker Face - upload a picture, and they'll help you cut it out and make stickers (in so many sizes!) of them. ultimate gift/silly decoration for just about anyone.

FEATUREDUnboxing the Kleenex Facial Cleansing collection - fascinating branding/packaging for this new line extension. The refillable boxes have some surprises... see all the details up close.

One Thousand Thank Yous is a hanging installation made from 1000 gold anodized aluminium gift tags. Each tag is engraved with a message from an organ donation recipient to their donor. It will be installed in the atrium of Gloucestershire Hospital.

FEATUREDEaster Chocolate design and packaging research binge last night... here's a look at some of the amazing options for 2016.

See's Candies St. Patrick's Day Potatoes - See's Divinity filling is hand-shaped and enrobed in creamy milk chocolate, then rolled in a blend of cinnamon and cocoa-powder, topped with pine nut 'eyes.'

Teak Flamingo Picks by Be Home. Handcrafted in Thailand.

Polka Dog 3-Pack Surf & Turf Set. A trio of dehydrated cod skin, chicken, and haddock skin treats for dogs and cats (Bucky loves them!) The graphics and packaging are lovely. Each are in large clear plastic tubes inside the gift box.

Sugarfina has fun packaging - acrylic cubes (large and small) filled with surprising candies and chocolates that can be gifted alone or in "bento boxes". [Image from our @NOTlabs Instagram]

FEATUREDThe Ultimate Valentine's Day Chocolate Gift Guide! Stunning packaging, beautiful chocolates, surprising combinations, and shapes (like frogs, lovebugs, oysters, champagne corks and more!)

Eyeko Sport Waterproof Mascara and Eyeliner - there's a whole genre of makeup just for going to the gym and working out...

Boxcar Coffee Roasters in Boulder, CO has a mesmerizing way of making coffee: The BoilerMakr: their special high altitude process! Sprudge has a great break down of how it works.

Joe's Kansas City BBQ - a mind blowingly good BBQ experience that was worth the wait on our road trip. Fun packaging (and the perfect gift/souvenir) for their BBQ Sauce + Fry Seasoning gift pack.

Haeckels Perfumes have beautiful etched/cut out slide-top wooden boxes

SeaVees Essential Escape Kit - A California Getaway Bag! Includes Gift Card (for a pair of your choosing), Apolis Beach Towel, barbarian Days book, Byrd Soap On A Rope, CA-64 Hat and Tote, Sticker, and Greetings From California Postcard!

Clara Hanging Flower Vase... perfect addition to take that wine bottle gift to the next level! Made of glass by Hofland.

FEATUREDGlossier - a close up look at the Limited Edition Mask Duo and Phase 1 Set. The packaging and attention to detail is fantastic. Inspired by chocolate boxes they make it all look and feel so... special!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Gift Guide: Coffee Roaster Merch! Where delicious coffee meets beautifully designed graphics/merchandise ... there's so much! Ideas for your design loving coffee aficionado?

FEATUREDNOTCOT Beach Blankets & Towels Gift Guide! Some of my favorites as well as a few i'm tempted to gift (or buy myself!)... ideas for laying out at the beach, having a picnic, being cozy camping or just by the fire (outside or on the couch!).

Anekdote is a themed gift guide, with well designed products handpicked every quarter. Here you will discover secret finds, compelling stories and refined lifestyles.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Packaging & Pampering Gift Guide 2015. Here's a collection of special holiday beauty sets for him/her that have lovely packaging - from beautiful illustrations to fun form factors and more.

Aesop's Holiday Maps of Light Gift Kits for 2015 are here! This year the packaging/graphics are themed around modern day constellations - and as usual, a lovely color palette.

Cards Against Humanity Eight Sensible Gifts for Hanukkah... it's holiday time again! So get your gifts for $15 and watch/listen to the ridiculous video... this may be the last time they do it?

IN.SEK Design Ball & Chain SQR Box Set - An original piece from the Chain Gang series with copper, steel, and blackened chain connecting two boxes. Consider it a relationship metaphor or just a sexy place for your prized possessions.

Riva Aquarama Model Boat - a simplified wooden model . "Made in Italy. The surface of the Aquarama boat is perfectly shaped and designed to the smallest detail, with no glue or any other fastener is used in its assembly."

Bee House Salt Boxes from Japan. Colorful stoneware bodies with hinged Japanese Cypress lid that absorbs moisture and prevents clumping. Holds a whopping 16oz.

Poritz & Studio Tool Boxes - handmade from reclaimed hardwood in walnut or teak, tool boxes with a smart stacking design (upper tray and lid slot seamlessly through the handle) and all fused with finger joints!

Virginia Melnyk builds a temporary playground of bamboo and fabric. Using parametric generators to organize the fabric and bamboo boxes. The design offers a nondescript way for children and adults alike to play, encouraging more creativity and imagination.

The Collar Stay Punch lets you turn old credit cards, gift cards, and other pieces of plastic into collar stays.

FEATUREDLaser cut interlocking wooden boxes - a new alternative to wood crates? And they can easily turn into coffee table or kid's play tables upon unboxing! Fun packaging from Front Runner Outfitters for their vehicle drawer systems.

The Boxcar Bench from Revolution Design House. Designed and handmade in Portland, Oregon. The latest in the growing Boxcar series.

VIDEO‘bad box’ integrates emerging technologies, digital tools, and traditional craftwork allowing creatives to showcase proposals effectively both digitally and physically.

Beautiful alphabet illustrations based on beasts, birds, sea life and robots from Love Letters Art. High quality prints and hand drawn single letters perfect in a nursery or children’s bedroom and make a special gift to be treasured.

Korridor Design Pyramid Boxes in COLOR!

Goods & Services Flash Holiday Gift. Taking a cue from medicine-show claims of the past, a tongue-in-cheek wine label that touts the seasonal benefits of “Doctor Pauptit’s Wonderful Winter-Weather Warmer,” from curing frostbite to alleviating credit-card debt.

Hand-wrapped labels and custom boxes for Krampus and Nicholas (red and white) holiday wines.

Italian manufacturer Bloc studios showcasing their first collection of marble objects at Milan Design Week '15. Boxes, trays, a table and more.

Juniper Ridge Wilderness Perfume Gift Packs - fun regionally themed sets with nice packaging.

Cursor and Thread has a nice bow tie gift box designed by Ooco Design - love seeing the packaging design and iBox custom dies behind it all.

The new controversial Gift Horse by German artist Hans Haacke has been unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square.

OFFSET BOXES & TRAYS. This project is a series of geometric wooden trays and boxes of different sizes and shapes.

A gift set of chocolate bars made by Ocelot Chocolate. Awesome packaging and flavor combinations, plus they're all natural and organic.

100 years of flip books, from advertising premiums tossed in boxes of cereal to quasi-porny publications.

Aesop always has a fun packaging theme for their holiday gift sets and 2014 is all about The Guild of Artisans - featuring materials on each label.

Ursa Major Holiday Gifts are coming packed in the cutest hand-dyed, screen printed "Happy Trails" gift bags!

Pallarès Solsona Cleaver - Boxwood handle & Stainless Steel. Crafted by Pallarès-Solsona in Solsona, Spain. An QUITOKEETO exclusive.

Bush Smarts Coffee Kit. A simple gift kit for brewing cowboy-style coffee in the backcountry. Beans included are roasted 3-5 days prior to shipping.

In Paris, France, the agency Spray Architecture imagined the premises of Thai boxing club "La belle Equipe".

BIERFILZ Origami Modular sculptural felt vessels + wine cooler/bag. The perfect X-mas decoration and gift, by Illu Stration by Mary-Ann Williams.

Your Work is a Gift, a new collection for The Luxe Project by MOO, designed by James Victore, with 10 different Victore aphorisms including: Feck Perfuction, and Your Ego Can't Dance.

Box Brew Kits - Brew like a boss. Handmade small-batch home-brew kits designed to make beer, wine or cider. Reclaimed wood available. Don't hide your hardware.

FEATUREDHands on with the limited edition Nike Flyknit Puzzle Box by Ryan Gander in collaboration with The THING Quarterly. This wooden puzzle box is inspired by nature, flyknits, japanese puzzle boxes, and the Fibonacci sequence.

VIDEOSuspended Cardboard Boxes Installation by Zimoun & Hannes Zweifel at Mannheimer Kunstverein.

FEATUREDThe Uncommons store in Calgary, Alberta. A must stop, i'm blown away by how much good local design is there in addition to a lot of NOTCOT favorites. Fun art, edibles, accessories, gifts, and more. See what caught my eye.

Le Parcel announces their 2015 packaging system. Tampons, chocolate truffles & a gift shipped monthly to your door. That time of the month has never looked so good.

Sand packaging by alien and monkey, sand-made packaging re-establishes ritual of discovering a gift and the concept of sustainable packaging.

Cava Blossom Brut bottle design, turning the gift of giving upside down. By Packlab.

Bee-Hive, developed to give the bees a room which is easier to heat on cold days, to save their energy for health and brood. Beekeeping for beginners. By Sascha Akkermann.

Target Bobblin' Bullseye Bobble Bot Gift Card - this HexBug powered gift card toy will wander and wobble!

Small things matter. Product Design students at Parsons the New School for Design partnered with Areaware, challenging students to design an inexpensive, point-of-purchase, “impulse buy” gift item.

The Concept Roadster is BMW's newest motorcycle concept and has 125 horsepower, 1200cc boxer twin-cylinder engine, and a tubular space frame.

The School Of Life's Tool Kit For Life Boxsets1 and 2 are filled with everything from "How to Connect with Nature" to "How to Develop Emotional Health"... "How to Age" to "How To Find Fulfilling Work" and more!

Agency Survival Kits by Phoenix , a Montreal Creative Studio - Available in fun sliding top wood boxes in Overtime, Power Outage, and Presentation sets.

Cut on a CNC router from a half-sheet of plywood in less than an hour, the Zip Tie Lounge Chair stitches together with 44 zip ties in a matter of minutes.

Sara Landeta paints beautiful birds on the backs of medicine boxes.

Markus Wendler was hired by Porsche to shoot this sexy new Boxster GTS campaign in Spain and Portugal.

Just spotted this customized U-Haul Boxman toy at the cashier when i popped in yesterday. Apparently you can customize it with tons of stickers that are included.

Brutherford BOOM SPLAT ~ Manufactured by Brutherford in NJ, USA including hand silk screened boxes with artwork from the amazing Tamara Petrosino.

FEATUREDSimplethings has fun messages inside their pie boxes! The tiny cutie pie boxes say "life is short. enjoy the simplethings." and the simple pies box says "you make good decisions."

Bloom & Wild delivers bouquets of flowers in flat boxes that fit through mail slots!

If any unexpected flames of love start flickering in Paris for Valentine’s Day today, the Cupid-shot lovesick fools will be ready....In case of love at first sight, break glass!

FEATUREDKraken vs Cupid ~ for Valentine's Day, Londoners can gift inky black roses and a bottle of Kraken Rum from the Think Ink Florist!

Left Field Labs' Music Drop - adorable 3D printed music boxes with the tune of your choice, and you can watch them streaming all the prints.

London-based graphic art label and online boutique Stereohype added new themed button badge gift boxes to their range including 'Art' containing seven hand-picked gems by Lunartik, Happypets, USOTA and Gregori Saavedra.

Unstuff Gifts - "Gift ideas that aren't more stuff."

Cards Against Humanity's 12 Days of Holiday Bullshit - these videos are kind of amazing. Each one shows what they sent to the 100,000 people who paid $12 for 12 gifts over 12 days.