Lékué Animal Cookie Puzzle Cutter - love the efficiency of this cookie cutter! Also check out their holiday sets with Christmas trees, snowflakes and hearts.

Soviet Playgrounds by Zupagrafika "documents the mass-produced, yet diverse play equipment installed in the communal spaces of socialist-era housing estates, such as rocket slides and earth-shaped climbers, spaceships and animal-themed ladders"

Alessandra Baldereschi "Animal Farm" collection for Ichendorf Milano. Lovely animal inspired glass pieces. Also take a look at the Desert Plants collection.

Pom Maker! Beyond making simple yarn pom poms, you can make adorable animals, houses, cars, ghosts, eyeballs, and so much more.

Great twitter thread from Rebecca Boyle sharing unique Social Distancing signage - love how many use animals to help people understand what 6ft/2m looks like.

Janod Spirit collection of animal racers made of wood, beautifully painted, and their springy necks let their heads bounce as you race around.

The Oriens Tarot Deck: 78 card animal themed tarot deck, that gives back to our rainforest! Designed by AmbiSun, Illustrator + Graphic Designer based in Melbourne Australia.

Oceánica Cerveza have stunning Uruguayan animal inspired branding and labels for their beer.

Kumi Mood - beautifully simple, painted wooden animal pull toys (with little creatures riding on the backs of the larger ones thanks to dowels!)

Nanami - Adorable animal nursing/hang out baby pillows in polar bear, whale, dog, and fox designs.

Coq en Pâte - animal illustration themed kids line from France. Fun, playful front and backs of animals on each outfit.

Dawid Planeta's imaginary animals are beautifully eerie.

Done By Deer - so much cute abstract animalness for baby toys, decor, feeding and more...

Nervous System Earth Puzzle looks incredible. It is based on an icosahedral map projection and has the topology of a sphere. This means it has no edges, no North and South, and no fixed shape. And it has 16 figure pieces shaped like indigenous animals!

Manus is a set of ten industrial robots that are programmed to behave like a pack of animals. Each individual robot shares the same central brain. So instead of acting in isolation, they have behaviors that ripple through the group as people walk by.

Bumpsters by Justin Worsley - adorable chunky wooden bumper cars with illustrated animal drivers

“Zoo in my hand”, a wonder-book by Inkyeong & Sunkyung Kim, published by Editions du livre. Zoo in my hand is an activity book that allows you to create 40 origami-inspired paper animals.

I Ended Up Here Bamboo Plates... fun illustrated animal plates by Dan Adams.

Throw some Side-Eye with these 90's vibe inspired T's by: all my friends are animals. A point of view expressed through character and style, an original collection by artist Studio Nicco. Printed & embroidered in New York.

Wands for Wildlife is an initiative by Appalachian Wildlife Refuge. "Old mascara wands are used to remove fly eggs and larva from the fur of wild animals. They work great because the bristles are close together."

Life size paper animals by Heavy Eyes for Theory Holiday Windows!

On Kotaku "People Are Making Cults and Prisons in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp" - Performance art of sorts? Manifesting out of weird simply programmed behaviors?

Another Studio Plant Animals - adorable creatures to adorn your houseplants. Made of brass.

Moxon Concrete Animals - Meticulously designed by Korridor in collaboration with MOXON, the concrete animal collection includes a Lion, Moose, Giraffe, Rhino and an Elephant. Made of concrete and fine ash wood.

Milk Barn Kids Newborn Gown + Hat Set. Adorable packaging for this collection with fun animal prints.

The Ark of Noah is a ring of animals with a changing profile made by toy designer Shlomi Eiger. The project is based on a traditional technique called "Reifendrehen” which is being used for creating small wooden animal toys.

Fire & Bone natural history jewelry - animal skull pendants, earrings, and cufflinks made from 3D scans of real skull specimens, 3D printed in high detail, and cast in bronze and silver using lost wax casting.

Artist Patrick Cabral is creating elaborate paper cut artworks of animals that are currently endangered and has been donating 50% of proceeds from these works to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

World For All Campaign - Beautiful optical illusion campaign for World for All Animal Care and Adoptions in Mumbai by McCann Worldgroup India, Mumbai. Photographer: Amol Jadhav. Retoucher: Pranav Bhide.

Skip Hop Bandana Buddies - our new go-to surprise for visiting babies. Adorable animals that squeak, crinkle, rattle, and more with a mirror they can peek into, various things to chew on, and even a removable bandana teether for your wrist.

Skip Hop Camping Cubs Baby Activity Gym. Perfect for those outdoor/animal loving parents! Complete with light-up firefly, turtle mirror, bear rattle and musical raccoon with wooden teether that plays “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Jellycat SnaggleBaggles - fluffy haired super soft stuffed animals

Urban Masquerade - A collection of laser cut wooden animal heads. A modern, humorist take on the traditional hunter's wall

Marc Martin's lovely animal illustrations and prints.

VIDEOJohn Lewis #BusterTheBoxer holiday advert. Who doesn't love animals... jumping on trampolines?!?!?!

FEATUREDThe Brushies! Finger puppet toothbrushes for kids 4 weeks to 4 years old that are shaped like animals (trex, pig, whale, monkey) that also star in their cute illustrated board book! Made of non-toxic food-grade silicone.

FEATUREDHappy Halloween! Bucky got dressed up as a Campana Brothers Banquet (Stuffed Animal) Chair.

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!

New animal series by Blank William. Stampede is a mix of horned animals with Nike shoes.

The Great Animal Orchestra - explore the soundscapes of the world, from the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska, United States to Acoustic Niches, Gonarezhou, Zimbabwe and beyond.

VIDEOFood History Part I from Papila. Did you know that the cooking of food changed our bodies? Did you know that we are the only species who consumes other animal´s breast milk? Discover the Food History project.

Animals Are Delicious by Sarah Hutt, illustrated by Dave Ladd and Stephanie Anderson. 3 foldout food chain books. Animals eat animals in this informative exposé of three animal food chains. Fun photo/illustrations.

Timber! Mountain Bike Bells - like a mini cow bell for your bike to warn people/animals when you're coming. Turn it on (aka release the internal clapper) and it will ring as you move.

PAPA Collection attended at Seoul Living Design Fair 2016. The Exhibition concept was 'Blooming Garden'. White animals & blossoms made a beautiful combination with pink color wall.

Froodles = fruit noodles (aka fruit roll up strips?) but check out the fun illustrated hipster animals on their packaging...

FEATUREDThe Vanimals of Jonas Claesson! Amazing mashups of illustrated creature/adventure mobiles complete with so many roof top tent variations. Also the cutest kids book, The Surfing Animals Alphabet. Love the Trifendertops!

FEATUREDMatthew Grabelsky UNDERGROUND solo show at Thinkspace Gallery is full of stunning surreal/realistic oil paintings of NYC subway riders reading magazines (and kid's books)... and all the males are animals!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Road Trip - 60 hours in SE California. From being surrounded by greenery and animals in a cabin on top of Julian, indulging in legendary pie, off-roading thru The Slot in Anza Borrego, discovering new beer and more...

Evo the elephant – A polished concrete sculpture by artist, Brandon Mike. Produced as reminder to act with kindness to All species, to live with love, and to treat animals with the respect they deserve.

New York Animal Gang Pillows by Jeremy Fish at Upper Playground!

Netatmo Presence - interesting idea in the connected home security camera space. Outdoor security camera with people, car, and animal detection, flood light, apps and more. Will be interesting to see how it is when it launches.

Oh Joy! for Target Home Decor/Nursery Collection is coming in Feb. The brass animals with party hats are adorable!

Kikkerland Animal Multi Tool designed by Studio Scratch. Includes flat head screwdriver, bottle opener, knife, wire stripper, file, phillips head screwdriver, and punch.

The new 'silhouette - sea' from bleebla - 5 modular cork profiles and 10 wooden animals to create playful sea habitats.

Done by Deer soft toys for babies/toddlers are adorable stripey animals - from elephants and anteaters to hippos, zebras, crocs and more. Elephant comes with a book.

Deep Creeps Mariana The Anglerfish & Chummy stuffed animals are magnetically attracted and glow in the dark!

FEATUREDFading Away by Charlotte Mary Pack - it was great to see this project of small ceramic animals and magnifying glasses again at designersblock 2015 - now with new pieces!

'In the Eyes of the Animal' by Marshmallow Laser Feast (aka Robin McNicholas, Barney Steel, and Adam Doherty) you experience the Grizedale forest through the eyes of animals via virtual reality in an awesome helmet!

VIDEOSculptor Beth Cavener creates stone sculptures of animals that capture human emotions.

Inspired by the vastness of the Arctic landscape, Arctic Beasts plate collection is a sincere tribute to iconic arctic animals and the unique whiteness and strength of world known Limoges Porcelain.

Swim with Otters! Nurtured By Nature in California lets you swim with otters and visit up close with other exotic animals.

Psychic Power of Animals – New Mural by Faith47 in Manhattan / New York.

Shiver House is a radical reinvention of the common Finnish Hut (mökki). The project is a kinetic 'animal like' structure which moves and adapts in response to surrounding natural forces.

BigStuffed Big Humpback Whale Stuffed Animal. Made of cotton jersey (top) and cotton faux fur (bottom). Small is 22" tip to tail, and Big is 29.5"

Turkish sculptor Selçuk Yilmaz just completed work on three new mask-like sculptures depicting the heads of a lynx, tiger, and fox.

Amezaiku - Gorgeously realistic animal lollipops!

Lovely double exposures of animals and their habitats by Andreas Lie.

VIDEOCanismo, a short film in which shelter dogs shake off animal-friendly paint by AKQA São Paulo.

Grizzly Bear photograph by Canadian photographer Troy Moth.

The "Good-looking Dog" ("Kakkoii Inu"), an oddly cube-shaped canine character from artist Seiichi Tanabe, has his own show at Tokyo's Parco Gallery X, with limited-edition goods on sale.

Archizoo: Architects & Animals, 27 Illustrations by Federico Babina.

Hello Kitty does cosplay in an exhibit showcasing Japan's regional charms, in collaboration with Tokyo's Fukoku Life Insurance Company, running through June 30.

Wooden Rocking Animals by Chan Wai Lim

There’s a new selfie trend catching on lately and it may be the cutest and happiest yet: the 'Quokka Selfie'.

Two Icelandic artists create hand-painted 3D prints of animal skulls, just incredible, and more amazingly, unicorn skulls!

VIDEOAndroid: Friends Furever. Ridiculously adorable advert of unexpected animal friends. Bucky, the NOTpuppy, pops up and can't look away from the TV every time it comes on. How about your pets?

Adorably absurd IndyPlush brings awareness to a lot of animals! They are stuffed with 100% recycled plastic bottles, using sustainable fabrics, and constructed in Los Angeles, CA. Interesting origin story as well...

BBC Life Story narrated by David Attenborough - another incredible look into the animal kingdom. Beautiful! The team spent 1900 days filming the series, in 29 countries across six continents and created 1800 hours of footage.

Mibo Animal Tea Towels - whether you keep them as tea towels or sew them into stuffed animals is a tough decision. Or you can use it as a tea towel, THEN sew it into a toy?

Walking cardboard animal kits from Kinetic Creatures.

Land of Nod Paleo Plush is a 44" tall dino! (There's also a huge robot with tools and a ballerina hippo) Designed by artist John Murphy. This is definitely the year of HUGE stuffed animals - like Costco's monster stuffed bear.

Bleebla adds a new 'Animal Box' to their collection based on the Sea theme - more 10 sycamore wood animals and an agglomerated cork puzzle-box to play with.

Farid Rasulov creates striking images by carpeting entire rooms with Azerbaijani patterns and adding stark white animal sculptures in his series Carpet Interiors.

Yamanekobo "Message From Field" high quality stuffed woodland animals that are made in Japan since 1985. (See the japanese site for even more pics and products) Love the squirrel, flying squirrel, and ducklings!

Wired on Europe's history of putting animals on trial.

Animals carry natural worlds on their backs in Wang Ruilin's Dreams sculpture series.

Architecture for cats. To raise funds for animal charity FixNation, LA based architects created a series of cat houses for a "Giving Shelter" fundraiser.

FEATUREDThe ANIMALS in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canda! We saw Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (the horns!), Elk (unbelievable rack), Mountain Goats (babies!), Black Bears (cubs!), Canadian Geese, and some monster crows.

Photographer Traer Scott's new book "Nocturne: Creatures Of The Night" featuring a host of nocturnal animals.

A baby Screaming Hairy Armadillo is born at Virginia Zoo.

VIDEOTurns out not all animals are a fan of drones. This ram knocked a drone out of the air, then chased the photographer, Buddhanz1.

Phase Transition by John Pusateri showing museum specimens as a real animal, symbol for it’s species, story of a particular animal, pile of bones and feathers and scientific notion and a hope for future survival.

Polar Bears are among the animals featured in the second Animals in Moiré series by Andrea Minini.

100 Days Project, drawing a new animal every day for 100 days, by Rob Turvey.

Eggpicnic's critically endangered animal fussball team for Arena Calcetto, site specific & interactive installation created by Archrival Sydney.

Zoo Zoom - from adorable animals in autos as alphabet flashcards to an A to Z PRINT! Perfect for kid's rooms... by Mike Yamada and Victoria Ying.

'silhouette - jungle' 5 modular cork profiles to create a wildlife habitat for 10 sycamore wood animals.

Playsam Wagonimals Toy Train Set - Three train cars, three animals each, and each animal belongs to a specific place in the wagon, denoted by the shape of its base. Designed by Steve Cozzolino.

'The Animal in Me' giclee print by the amazing Canadian artist Edith Lebeau.

Echidna! Eggpicnic Animals of the Dreaming, new handmade porcelain art toys in collaboration with designer Naomi Taplin. Celebration of Australian Aboriginal ancestral wisdom.

Bleebla 'Animals - Elephant' a big friend made in a fabric-lined soft and flexible polyurethane foam monobloc, to sit, lay or ride it!

Calligraphy Animals by illustrator Andrew Fox is a series of minimal animals drawn with only a few strokes of the pen.

Bleebla 'Animal Box - jungle' 10 animals made from sycamore wood to play with and puzzle-box made of agglomerated cork to arrange them.

Bleebla 'Stamp Box' with 10 animal-shaped woodcut stamps, made from sycamore wood.

Animals vs Sneakers, a fun photos series by Joseph Ford for Sneakers Magazine.

Life-Sized Drawings of Animals that Look 3D by Vancouver-based art student Fiona Tang.

Die große Zoo-Parade By Judith Drews ~ Fun new Animals, ABCs, and Counting kid's book from Gestalten.

Animal Instinct. The making-of geometric wooden animal sculptures for the Peugeot showroom by the Wood & the Gang: A French Designer & Maker Collective.

To celebrate the opening to the general public on April 12 the Zoological Park of Paris, with french agency ubi bene, go on with a guerrilla marketing campaign featuring open animal crates in the city centre.

Maxim Shkret used a combination of 3D and Photoshop to create his animal series titled Predators.

Smile! You’re on Animal Camera. Italian design firm Parson has created a new camera technology that will make you smile even if you do not know you are being watched.

Ben Foster's incredible geodesic animal sculptures.

Beautiful black and white portraits of animals by Lukas Holas.

EAR, artwork on the embankment along the A50, connects the two sides of the A50, making a human connection with service area for cars, people and animals.

FEATUREDPaper animals and playful prints from Mibo at Top Drawer including kids range with Coq en Pâte and "Save Our Species" range for raising awareness about endangered species.

Spiffing design project from Hungarian graphic designer, Norbert Mayer, called Animal Space Travellers celebrating the different species to have space travelled.

ModeMachine Prototype A.N.I.M.A.L.S. Automated Nuerally Integrated Mammalian Androids Living Symbiotically.

"Preserved" is a series of prints by Print Studio Shop documenting vintage taxidermy animals. The series further preserves each animal in print and tells the story of their present day existence.

Build's Animal A-Z posters - adorable illustrations!

VIDEORollin' Safari - what if animals were round? Fun trailer for ITFS 2013.

VIDEOYuki Ariga's stop motion Tissue Animals for a Japanese paper manufacturer, Nepia.

Animal Earth, The Amazing Diversity of Living Forms, celebrating animal diversity by Ross Piper, published by Thames & Hudson.

Wood and the Gand created Wooden animal sculptures for the Peugeot Show room on the Champs Elysees.

Zootechnical by Joao Loureiro. Space is defined around animal sculptures in their relation to the architecture. Specifically to further explore the "relationship between form and function of the architecture of public and private spaces."

Muybridge Pt_2 by The-T-Shirt-Issue, is a study set out to capture temporal change in 3D. The work leans on Eadward Muybridge's photography work in the late 1800s, with which he pioneered in the field of capturing animal and human locomotion.

Magnetic animals for holding your stray paperclips from QUALY.

Incredible photos from Nick Brandt of Lake Natron in northern Tanzania. The photos feature in his latest book Across the Ravaged Land, documenting the disappearance of animals in Eastern Africa.

Amazing animal/skeleton prints from Theo Jan. Above is a look at 3 of the 4 available.

VIDEOHonda's minivan has a built in VACUUM! Fun ads showing off the new feature... animal cracker stampede, candy, broken crayons, etc don't stand a chance.

New footage of the squid Grimalditeuthis bonplandi, which waves it's thing club-tipped tentacles, possibly to lure prey into reach of its more muscular tentacles.

KEK Amsterdam's Animal Wall Stickers (Forest + Safari) are adorable, especially their height charts!

Ecce Animal - A skull made of Compression molded Cocaine (street sourced) and Gelatin by Diddo.

A fractured view of animal husbandry by rash, llc. Cow Head is the first edition of the fractured husbandry series. Made of eps foam/abs plastic/ black acrylic/epoxy.

VIDEOCheetah vs Greyhound - World's Fastest Dog In Super Slow Motion by Earth Unplugged, films these extremely fast animals with high speed cameras, breaks down their movements, and how they achieve such speed.

Petit Collage World Map fabric wall decal ~ lovely colors and animals! 24" x 36"

Clickazoo is a colorful collection of foldable leather animals from Hermès, developed by Swiss designer Adrien Rovero Studio.

Suren Manvelyan has incredible close up looks at animal (and human) eyes... that's a llama!

New 'Explorers' series of drawings by artist Brian R. Williams shows famous explorers depicted as endangered animals from the region they explored.

Animal Stackers is a new kind of building block for boys and girls. These wooden blocks are designed to transcend divisive gender boundaries and encourage children to play together.

Barn yard friends constructed of storage crates have arrived from an overseas delivery.

FEATUREDSTIX by Not Another Chair/Colin O’Dowd. Turning found sticks into cars, planes, trains and animals from the farm and jungle thanks to dad-friendly diy staples like cable ties and tool kits!

'Animali Domesticki' outdoor benches by French designer Jean-Sebastien Poncet for Edition Sous Etiquettes.

FEATUREDNOTCOT.org roundup of the week ~ a look back at another inspiring week. Video droplets, animal wine bottles, food cut in half, the trash bag tent, the neoLucida, lego tats, land rover parkour, EPIC meat bars, kaleidescopic glasses + far more…

You seldom see a roundup of the sounds baby animals make... MarthaCelebrations Baby Shower Card – Animal Cries. Inside reads "Waaaaaaaa! (Your new arrival) Welcome, baby!"