i know i posted the corrugated cardboard dividers before...but this laptop case is so awesome, it deserves a post on its own.

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.

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.

Koko Cardboards Super Heroes Play House - minimal cardboard doll house that you can fill with their matching furniture. (Seems like fun inspiration for a laser cutter project...)

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.

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 Washington Post Magazine has 24 stunning covers about climate change

lebird - love the simplicity of the packaging with the wooden bird set into corrugated cardboard, tucked into a bright yellow sleeve.

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)

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."

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.

VIDEONintendo Switch LABO! Amazing variety of (customizable with coloring) cardboard add ons for the Switch coming 4.20.18.

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

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

Design without waste. R16 is both packing material and elegant luminary. Designed by studio Waarmakers, it is their homage to the beautiful and versatile cardboard material.

MagPi Magazine Issue 57 comes with a free AIY Projects Cardboard Voice Kit. Add natural voice interaction to projects with this exclusive Google kit.

ZIGPACK - Cardboard wine bottle carrier. European Product Design Awards 2017. Design by Facil

Melt London Children's Milk Chocolate Golden Egg and Coral Egg. Fun packaging with the minimal cardboard bunny egg holder.

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

Ernest Packaging + Fender guitar partner to make a playable cardboard guitar

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"

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!)

HELIX: cardboard shelter for contemplation. By Ootroe Studio.

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

iCrave puts their own spin on Google Cardboard and developed icravetour.com to immerse users into imaginative worlds created by their studio.

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!

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.

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.)

'Kampini' is the new cardboard toy from german company Kickpack. They are specialised in developing inventive cardboard products.

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.

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!

Tony Hawk rides a cardboard skateboard in the latest installment of the Cardboard Chaos video series.

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?]

Art collective Pink Intruder has realized a pavilion made with cardboard tubes with a metallic appearance atop a mosaic made of 96,000 wooden pieces in the heart of Valencia.

Studio Arhoj Ghost Light - "The little Ghost is hand cast and glazed in transparent porcelain and comes in its own printed cardboard box." Love the box graphics too!

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!

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

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

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!

Cardboard, a no-frills enclosure that transforms a phone into a basic virtual reality headset.

Mirage pavilion for Sziget Festival 2014, by Studio Nomad.

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

Zoobotics ZURI is a programmable robot made from paper and grey cardboard.

Kenworth 50th Anniversary in New Zealand, with special centerpieces for the celebration dinner. Yep, rad, mini models of one of their trucks... x85 of them, hand built.

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

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

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.

Stunning cardboard-made 'business army knife' by New Zealand designer Anthony Cole.

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

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.

Whipping Post Military style leather duffel bag.

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.

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!

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

FEATUREDEspresso Smith's Whiskey Barrel Coffee (and Chocolate covered beans) are even more fun in person. Stunning packaging ~ from the cardboard box to the wax sealed bottles... take a look at all the details!

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.

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.

KD Daruma (KD = Knock Down) ~ the classic good luck daruma goes flat packed in laser cut cardboard and plywood versions.

This is the Wish Catcher… a magical and decorative build-it-yourself cardboard icosahedron.

VIDEOMaking the Berlin Boombox. A tour to various production facilities around Berlin. Our local manufacturers put all their knowledge and passion into the creation of this cardboard ghettoblaster.

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.

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

Build Your Cardboard Robot by Nubie Modern Kids Boutique.

First came the Scratch Maps ~ now there's a pop up cardboard Scratch Globe! Scratch off all the places you've been...

Zimoun’s Cardboard Headphones made with cotton balls and dc motors.

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.

FEATUREDDwell has launched a STORE! And in their announcement package, we couldn't stop playing with the cardboard packing materials by ExpandOS! You can build quite the structures with them too...

Polygonal cardboard-made wolf part of Li'l Red Riding Hood installation by Cazapapeles.

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.

Krabhuis, a scratchable cardboard house for cats.

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

Remember the audio recording program featured in #55047? Check out the rest of Sam Droege's incredible portraits of insects and other creatures from the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab’s Flickr page.

Post is Post Swedish lines serving tray

The Antipode - The diffusion of the frozen coffee cube into the whisky gradually inverts the ratio of each of the drinks individual components, resulting in a glass where the taste balance constantly shifts and ultimately ends at the beginning’s antipode.

And "Old Factory" made of Cardboard for your cat! BY KEK Amsterdam... one of many fascinating cat creations.

MoMA PS1 brought colonial times back to New York City with their post-apocalyptic 'artists colony within a museum'.

Japanese Architect Shigeru Ban has designed a cardboard cathedral for the earthquake ravaged people of Christchurch in New Zealand. Intended as a temporary structure, the building can stand for up to 50 years.

Poler x Stumptown Camp Coffee collaboration. 2 Enamel Mugs, AeroPress Kit, Porlex JP-30 Burr Grinder, Custom Bag, and a 12 oz bag of Holler Mountain Coffee.

FEATUREDNetflix's Orange Is The New Black show is pretty fun... and they've taken it to the next level with PRISON RECIPES! From pad thai to cheesecake to tamales and more... fun graphics, great concept.

Modern steel table with rubber dipped feet by Synecdoche.

FEATUREDPoke! Our simple recipe that we use with fresh salmon and tuna!

For a quick weekend project, designer Alejandra Castelao has made a upcycled DIY Lamp out of cardboard boxes and beer bottles without any adhesives or glue.

In time for the holidays haircare line Kevin Murphy launches a set of travel sized minis. Designed by Container each comes with an eye catching 'lenticular' changing label.

Oooooh Wooster Collection turns 10 and has a anniversary show with Jonathan Levine Gallery! 10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003-2013.

Carne Asada Fries! A San Diego staple (esp from cotixan's) gets posterized for this Gallery 1988s Comic-con special print from Eric Tan.

Chipster by pstypelab design studio wraps up your iPhone in a neat one piece cardboard case.

Cute story of J.Crew's new ballet flats - "Italian shoemaker E. Porselli occupies a tiny storefront in Milan. each week, ballerinas from nearby La Scala come in to pick up shoes on Wednesdays, when new shipments arrive."

A theater made of recycled paper, bamboo, and cardboard designed by Studio Andrew Todd to be exhibited at the World Stage Design 2013 in Cardiff, Wales.

Cast Cutlery is a minimalist design created by Japanese-based designer Oji & Design.

Minsk style: The new identity will begin to be implemented this summer.

Henry Hargreaves's photo essay "Burning Calories" literally sets caloric foods alight.

The first nine stages of The Tower of Babel, a collaboration between artists Adam Toht and Jeff Konigsberg.

STOYN Ice-Cream is a design experiment in which the ice-cream is shaped in the images of several key cultural figures of the 20th century, each with a unique flavor.

Puntada Coffee Table by Agustina Bottoni

"2. The introduction of 3 types of Exclusively Fab products: Products Designed by Fab, Designer Collaborations, and Products Found by Fab." Interesting 5 Major Fab Announcements from the CEO...

&Bros' Compleated Cardboard Light - love the flat packing and assembly!

Process shots from the Mama's Sauce letterpress studio as they smushed up some cards for Bandito Design Co.

FEATUREDLaser Cut Cardboard Icosahedron-based Building Set! Laser Challenge #5 is here ~ and we had far too much fun constructing icosahedrons and crazy landscape like structures!

FEATUREDNOTlabs Laser Challenge day 3! The Hook Light is a speed project made of left over cardboard and wood scraps and laser cut to notch together with a plumen inside.

FEATUREDLasercut Cardboard Hexagon Tiles! Day 2 of the NOTlabs Laser Challenge... exploring the possibilities of laser cutting cardboard, hexagons, tiles, stencils, and more...

Kartoni's I Like To Kick is a flat pack foosball table made of cardboard and sustainable wood, includes a smartphone cradle and has its own app...

Andrea Rekalidis' PiantaLà ~ lovely combo of metal fencing and a traditional white picket fence... perfect for plants to climb up.

Jasmin Lai's beautiful and adorable kite girl digital doodles - i hope they become something more!

Red Panda mural by the artist DAAS, part of the Kolor Kathmandu project in Nepal, to bring awareness to its endangered species status.

Kapil Bhagat's minimalist scientist poster series.

VIDEOA further look at SpaceTop, which we first saw in #46468, the transparent computer that allows user to reach behind to manipulate content. Designed by Jinha Lee with Alex Olwal, Hiroshi Ishii, and Cati Boulanger.

Playful ad campaign for a tattoo parlor in which would-be tattoo artists color in a QR code.