FEATUREDClift's Living Room playfully maintains the feeling of a hunting lodge, replacing stuffed animal trophies with a whimsical portrait series of a toy collection by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

handsome looking animal shoehorns by GOODY GRAMS who brought us animal shot glasses #12676.

FEATUREDpost 2324 came from Vessel's Animal Magic Exhibition, and it deserved a full feature of its own.

love stylized animal forms, so when i saw this piece on mocoloco, i just had to post it!

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

First recycling plastics and finally... recycled silicone! Oiko Design Office and Lékué are now able to incorporate up to 50% post-consumer silicone in the creation of new products.

Biocol Labs is the post-chemical pharmacy - cute, cheeky branding for these cures for whatever ails you. Reminiscent of Help! meds from a few years back.

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.

HUDS + GUIS!!!!!! I got sucked in with the Expanse post, but now i'm lost in the rest... there's something always so fun and inspiring about futuristic movie/tv scifi interfaces and tech.

Halfway between art and design, OOO My Design Studio presents Nomino Post. It’s a peg board storage system, which allows different compositions on the board and countless configurations to organize an decorate your home with a flare of optical art.

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

The State of UX in 2020 - From designing for the post-truth era to the rise of micro-communities, design as a team sport, invisible design systems, and more...

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!)

The Washington Post Magazine has 24 stunning covers about climate change

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.

bbhugme pregnancy pillow designed by Norwegian pre/post-natal chiropractors. It's multipurpose (full body, arm/back rest, rest ON your belly, nursing, newborn hangout) and adjustable (slide the silicone pebbles to adjust density and double as teethers)

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

The LAnd Magazine is coming soon! "The spirit of the alt-weekly is still alive in Los Angeles: A conversation with Jennifer Swann, co-editor of The LAnd magazine." in The Outline.

‘First Gear’ by London-based V2 Studios. The minimalist toys are also eco-friendly, using cork and plastic parts made from 100% post-consumer recycled high density polyethylene and 100% recyclable packing printed with soy based dyes.

Emile Henry Modern Classics Pie Dish. Impulse bought this for strawberry cake (#63277) and have been loving it for pies, cakes, casseroles, and more!

Vogue has a video recipe with Lori A. Stern to make her lovely Flower Pressed Shortbread Cookies from #63251.

Seed Phytonutrients are packaged in a "shower-friendly post-consumer recycled paper bottle" made by Ecologic. Apparently "The plastic liner is so thin—95 percent thinner than conventional bottles— that it collapses as it’s used."

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

Sorry I Have No Filter from Sagmeister & Walsh. Clothes, pins, totes, pillows, phone cases, etc that are an updated twist on their Still Nasty collection (#62016).

Kodai Iwamoto Design EX-PORTATION 2018 at Ventura Future. Stunning "Plastic Blowing Project" heats and blows PVC pipes like glass into vases!

Post-it Extreme Notes! Water resistant, durable and writable. Made with ultra-strong Dura-Hold Paper and Adhesive. Sticks to textured surfaces and in tough conditions. Sticks in hot and cold environments.

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

"This plant will never die!" card with a Fiddle Leaf Pin by The Good Twin.

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.

Olive & June Saturday Sandals - the perfect post-pedicure sandal you can tie a multitude of ways without touching your toes.

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 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”

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.

EDEN, Kinetic sculptures that celebrate natural beauty and balance by Agustina Bottoni.

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

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

Congrats to all the medal winning Olympians - female and male! Poignant post in Babe - "Congrats girl! Fiancé of former Miss California scoops his 25th medal: AKA – if we talked about male Olympians the way we talk about female athletes"

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.

VIDEOAkinori Goto's 3D printed zoetrope is a beautiful study of human motion expressed in a sculptural object.

IKEA PS Collection 2017! Dezeen gives us a peek at the preview - and this year is all about minimizing waste. They collaborated with 21 designers to create 60 products focused on "high design values at a great price".

Sight Unseen's Q&A with IKEA’s Head of Research on the Future of Furniture, Mikael Ydholm, is fascinating. Interesting insights into how they mine their global data, focus on feelings, and innovate. (It's a sponsored post, but still a good read!)

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.

VIDEOTurn any post or tree into a swing with the portable swing by Dutch brand Weltevree. Fun design and concept by Dutch designer Thor ter Kulve

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

Window Seat Please. A limited edition zine by Karl Hab sharing 10 years of window seat views. Reminds me of the NOTCOT "Operation: Window Seat" posts!

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.

In an effort to share great designs and designers with others, Jung Soo Park started creating pixelated interpretations of iconic designs from the history to post on Instagram with little nuggets of information about each piece.

ADA is an analog interactive installation, kinetic sculpture, and post-digital drawing machine by Karina Smigla-Bobinski.

The "Architect's Christmas Tree" version 2.0 - this time with the NYC subway map! The post includes instructions for you to make your own.

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

Nanan's Antifacto Urban Lights - made in Lille, France since 2012, these are amazing headlight creatures! Predecessors to the Lampsters in #60616

Utilizing old tractor headlights, a young architect and an engineer created 'The Lampster' - a fantastic lamp that looks like a little superhero robot. (Also see #60624.)

VIDEODUELS - From Bruton Stroube, the creators of the Slo-Mo Booth (#54107) comes the sequel with a full back-alley set, 3 Phantom HD Gold cameras, and 6 racks of costumes and props and duelers fueled by 6 kegs of beer.

FEATUREDLIGHT L16 Camera - 16 cameras in one combine for up to 52 megapixel images, post processing depth of field control, 35-150mm zoom and more... and we got our hands on a prototype to see what's inside.

'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!

VIDEOApparently it will take 2 phones to watch yungjake's music video via snapchat... BOTH. Looks like a BFF necklace split in two?

MAD WORLD - The vehicles of Fury Road. Amazing series of illustrations from Scott Park inspired by Mad Max!

FEATUREDRESEARCH: Stacking + Totems. Since NOTCOT is where all my inspiration lives, here's the first (ever evolving) NOTlabs Research post as i dive back into the archives and around the internet on things i'm thinking about for experiments/projects!

The Good Twin Co. Pin + Post Cards! Cities, Horoscopes, and more little enamel pins mixed with 4"x6" cards you can give to a friend.

3D printed tabletop planter for succulent or cactus designed by Emmanuel Carrillo. The 3D model is available for free. Glass top from ebay. [Editor's Note: Inspired by the Domsai of #21263?]

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!

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 first edition of the House Shelves is a series of wall-mounted shelves inspired by the post modern architecture in Palm Springs. The Walled Estates are designed to hold items that don’t necessarily have a home – such as keys, glasses and mail.

VIDEOOne year later (#56963) after losing against the champion Timo Boll in table tennis, KUKA robot asked for revenge. See the different kind of challenge, for both, with the new and surprising set of rules.

Liddy Scheffknecht's POP UP furniture is like a life sized pop up book!

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

Forest Loops, a sculptural playground in Hamakita, Japan by Suppose Design Office.

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?

A collection of paper cut-out models representing brutalist architecture of London from 1960s-1970s.

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?

Parable of the Polygons - an interactive post by Vi Hart and Nicky Case. Both fascinating from a usability/creativity perspective and from a content perspective as it helps illustrate Schelling's Dynamic Models of Segregation.

Maple Set, a Red Dot Design Award winner is now available for pre-order!

Walking cardboard animal kits from Kinetic Creatures.

The New York Oyster Map features 30 great places to slurp the freshest shucks in the city, curated by oyster expert and bivalve blogger Julie Qiu of In A Half Shell. There are also Diner, Burger, and Ramen Maps!

Mirage pavilion for Sziget Festival 2014, by Studio Nomad.

Leaf Beast. Baku Maeda turns dried magnolia leaves into creatures!

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.

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

Post Club HQ is a subscription Postcard Print service! The August 2014 issue is "Use yer hands"

A baby Screaming Hairy Armadillo is born at Virginia Zoo.

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.

FEATUREDNOTFZJ80 Project: Test Trip, Big Bear! First part is testing out camping. From popping the rooftop tent, annex, and awning, to cooking a few meals and curling up under the stars we explore dispersed and yellow post camping.

Dip Bench, rubber dipped feet with walnut wood top. Built to order by Synecdoche.

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

The Swings: An Exercise in Musical Cooperation from Daily Tous Les Jours inspired by their previous work 21 Balançoires.

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

A bold post-modern vertical fluorescent lamp, inspired by Gian Nicola's Gigante floor lamp (c.1981). All made with off the shelf items!

The Making Of David Kind Luxury Optic Lenses - interesting to see how these high end Trivex prescription eye glass lenses are made.

EKOCYCLE Cube - latest 3D System Cubify 3D Printer that prints in post-consumer waste. Apparently each EKOCYCLE Filament Cartridge contains 25% of post-consumer recycled materials, using an average of 3 assorted recycled 20oz PET plastic bottles.

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.

Whipping Post Military style leather duffel bag.

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.

Sandow's London Coldbrew Coffee. Beautiful images from DunneFrankowski.

The Science Cafe & Library in Chişinău, Moldova draws on the legacy of post WWI Parisian cafe culture, but focus on science and engineering is reflected in the sleek and modern design of Anna Wigandt.

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

FEATUREDHighland Park Cynthia Rowley Flask Bangle! A fun update to #54091! Even holds around 3 fluid ounces.

FEATUREDVertty ~ a new geometric take on the beach towel! Dreamed in Australia, Born in Portugal and seen as #55052 - here's an unboxing of the fun packaging and towel up close!

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.

Leonie Brailey's illustration of the sharks of Perth with proceeds going to the Australian Marine Conservation society.

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.

VIDEOFollow up for the post #56933: the Man vs. Machine (Timo Boll vs. KUKA Agilus robot) ping-pong match for KUKA Robotics.

Hikaru Cho's 'It's not what it seems' paints common foods to disguise them as other common foods.

Not Another Bill - Receive a surprise present in the post every month. A subscription service where the lucky recipient will receive a beautifully wrapped surprise present introducing them to great artists, designers and brands.

Ben Foster's incredible geodesic animal sculptures.

AREA, pretty modular storage designs from Anya Sebton for Lammhults.

Cards Against Humanity made a special House of Cards pack for Netflix... what's even more interesting is the look at how the pack came to be and what didn't even make it in...

Fun 2014 calendar from Nearly Normal featuring fruits made from paper.

Ice Glasses by Baku Maeda.

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

Vincent Fournier's Post Natural History explores the ideas of technologically enhanced wildlife, like a GPS tracking rhinoceros beetle and robotic jellyfish drone for transporting freshwater.

"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.

FEATUREDNOTCOT 2013 Holiday Coupons ~ More help on your holiday shopping for goodies for your loved ones... or a little something for you!

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

Drop Kicker - "Providing a healthy dose of pessimism" - a fun read, particularly this post about how "Kickstarter project creators like to quote people who summarize their words"

Hundreds of tiny clownfish hatch at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

Colourful, 2014 Letterpress Desk Calendar printed with 50-year-old vintage platen press, on 100% cotton, extra thick card stock.

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.

FEATUREDCycle Dog's 3-Play Turtle Dog Toy. Squeaker in the head, treats go in his belly, floats, and it's made from eco-last material from post consumer recycled rubber.

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.

The Monsters of Mental Illness, Illustrations by Toby Allen.

Minnesota architect Josh Lewandowski has started a blog where he'll post one meaningless architectural diagram every day for a year.

Soothe your post-Breaking Bad depression with the lighter side of chemistry. Designer Agustina Bottoni's Glow Set brews tea in a flask handcrafted from cork, turned wood, and borosilicate glass

Jimmy Grants took six items from their menu and deconstructed them to their core elements.

Funny and clever street art from Toronto animator Aiden Glynn