Stunning new collection of puzzles from Brainstorm Puzzle Co. Finally a California one! And fun ones for Mushroom lovers, Foodies, Campers, and more!

Advent Calendars! That fun mix of elaborate packaging and graphic design to house tiny surprises... Food52 has a particularly good selection this year. Seen here - La Maison du Chocolat, Lady M, Maison Boissier, and Chapon.

IYKYK & If Not, Now You Do - new zine from The Infatuation looks interesting. This "limited-release zine for people to learn about foods they may not know about and also instill pride and excitement in those who do." First issue is about Cha Chaan Teng.

Yummy Toddler Food's Zucchini Carrot Banana Raisin Muffins have become a delicious, healthy staple for the NOTtoddler (and adults!) - definitely recommend using white whole wheat flour, raisins, and making them full sized (bake time 18 min).

Illustoria #9 is the first issue to be published by McSweeney’s. The periodical “for creative kids and their grownups” includes storytelling, crafts, comics, interviews, recipes and more with contributions by illustrators from around the world.

Future Food Today: A SPACE10 Cookbook has launched! It promises a collection of delicious and sustainable recipes and a tangible vision for what the sustainable kitchen of tomorrow may look like. (SPACE10 = IKEA’s future living lab)

Food Fortunes - a foodie twist on tarot cards by Josh Lafayette.

Weleda expands their super popular Skin Food (a NOTCOT fave) into a line of products - from the original cream, to a light version, body butter, and lip butter.

FoodHype! It's hard not to keep clicking "next article" to see what foodie madness it will generate next... and so many seem far too believable.

Millie Lottie Eva Signature Food & Picnic Tote - lovely leather handles with double canvas base and a perfectly sized bamboo cutting board to fit in the bottom!

The Missoni Family Cookbook from Assouline looks so FUN. It's filled with colorful patterns and textures tucked beneath and around all the delicious looking food!

100 Most Jewish Foods by Tablet Magazine - fun interface where you "Spin the table and click on dishes to discover more."

FEATUREDBreville Sous Chef Food Processor. We've been amazed + impressed with this in the NOTkitchen (So had to share!) The mini bowl and large main bowl as well as the adjustable thickness slicer + box full of tools have been magically efficient!

FML: Why millennials are facing the scariest financial future of any generation since the Great Depression.
By Michael Hobbes on HuffPost Highline. Fascinating read with a lot of food for thought + great scrolling illustrations.

The 2018 Whole Seed Catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. "The preeminent resource for amazing heirloom/open-pollinated seeds, as well as cutting-edge information for and about the pure-food movement."

Beautiful photography by NY Mag's Bobby Doherty featured on a new site for Supernatural Kitchen's plant-based food colors & sprinkles!

Designer Pie is the next food trend? Interesting read at GrubStreet "High-Design Pie Is Instagram Food We Actually Love" highlights the instagram pies of @lokokitchen.

Bobby Martin is behind the Shoe Your Food Instagram. His obsession with details drives every pairing he creates. He creates a food pairing based on the color wave of some of his favorite shoes!

The Grand Central Market Cookbook: Cuisine and Culture from Downtown Los Angeles! Founded in 1917, and revamped to become an epic modern food hall, this book promises the secrets behind so many delicious favorites.

Amy's Drive Thru - a new vegetarian fast food concept from Amy's that you often find in the frozen section. Adorable branding and super cute instagram feed.

Square Mixx - Interesting read in LA Weekly "A New Koreatown Food Court Brings South Korea's Most Popular Chains to the U.S." Fascinating concept and business model!

LATimes "The guy who brought you Umami Burger wants to reinvent PB&J" - A look at PBJ.LA coming to Grand Central Market from Adam Fleischman (of Umami Burger and 800 Degrees) which will have gourmet Uncrustables?

FEATUREDPatagonia Provisions! Unboxing, tasting, and a detailed look inside some of the growing offerings from Patagonia's food collection to help feed people well and repair the food chain.

Cloud Eggs are the latest instagram food craze? Whip up the egg whites like meringue, bake it, add the yolk back in, and bake it a bit longer. (Pic by instagrammer @kristifarinelli)

Appart_ partnered up with HelloChurros! to create a unique brand universe that could represent the brand values and captivate the hearts of the most demanding Bangkok foodies. Full branding, packaging and interior design services.

Food 52 "How to Make Pickled Eggs in Every Natural Color & Flavor Under the Sun" - Dye them pink with beets, yellow with turmeric, and blue with red cabbage!

Food52 Stacked Porcelain Planter by Chen Chen and Kai Williams. Fun design where the saucer disappears into the design!

RAD Lands! (Respect. Appreciate. Defend.) is like Captain Planet + Yo Gabba Gabba, teaching kids about making good food choices and taking care of nature from Chipotle, The Magic Store (the team behind Yo Gabba Gabba), and Discovery Education.

Porcelain Waffle Trivet by Candy Relics in Portland, OR at Food52

thankyou. Baby Modern Cloth Nappies and Disposable Nappies. In addition to their food, water, and body goods - their baby line has the cutest packaging and black and white diaper designs.

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.

The Food52 Thanksgiving Menu Genie! A fun recipe-chooser/wizard survey like page (with lots of pictures) to guide you through Thanksgiving menu planning. [FYI don't accidentally hit the back button or it starts all over.]

Food52 wonders "Can We Trust the Cooking Methods on the Back of the Bag?" for brown rice, quinoa, beans, and soba. Fascinating to think about the user experience and universal nature of box instruction writing!

BIOVESSEL uses food waste to power a micro ecosystem within your kitchen.

Salmon Sisters - Homer, Alaska. Fun lifestyle brand from two young Alaskan fisher-women. Lots of great graphics celebrating salmon and Alaskan wilderness. For every sale, they donate a can of wild Alaska salmon to the Food Bank of Alaska.

Tasting the elusive raindrop cake and FoodGal's other adventures eating through Richmond, BC in 48 hours. [Editor's Note: THE DIM SUM! Mmmmm...]

Everytable! "At This New Cafe In An L.A. Food Desert, Healthy Food Will Be As Cheap As Fast Food: People who don't have time to cook—and don't have $15 to drop on take-out—now have a nutritious option for dinner." Good read at FastCo Exist.

VIDEOFood History Part II from Papila. Did you know that the expression honeymoon comes from the Roman tradition of leaving honey for newlyweds to boost their energy? Did you know that oranges were originally green?

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.

(Not)Recipes! Fun app from the folks of Food52 to share off the cuff cooking - after all some of the best dishes don't follow precise recipes! [p.s. Liking it for more than their app name!]

Local Roots - interesting LA based shipping container produce farming ideal for urban food deserts.

FEATUREDWonderboo Luxurious Swedish Dog Food - with quite the branding, packaging, concept store... and adorable Piaggio Ape Food Truck! (in addition to a Land Rover Defender)

"The Peak Oil Myth and the Rise of the Electric Car" - great animation (and food for thought!) from Bloomberg Business in their "Sooner Than You Think" series.

Cave Foods - Hand Crafted, Gluten Free, Primal and low in sugar performance bars with great wooly mammoth packaging! They come in vanilla, chocolate, and coffee flavors.

LAist "We Tried The Food And Butterbeer At The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter" - a full look at drinks and food of The Three Broomsticks and Hog's Head pub within Universal Studios Hollywood's Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Porterlight Bicycles X Deliveroo - The takeaway start-up giant Deliveroo asked Porterlight Bicycles to develop the ultimate high capacity cargo bike for hauling hot food around London.

Egg Separator - a cute little handmade pot by Circles of Stone Ceramics

Topo Designs Dinex Mugs! 8oz double-wall insulated mugs that are made of ozone-safe urethane foam and perfect for hot or cold foods and beverages. Stackable, lightweight, and dishwasher safe!

Prometheus Design Werx Versa Bear sets! Perfect stocking stuffers for camping, toiletries, etc. TSA carry-on approved, food grade, 2oz, silicone, adventure & travel squeeze bottles. (25% off through Cyber Monday with code PDW25)

Makers & Merchants - first spotted at Top Drawer, you can now buy it all! If only all food was as amazingly packaged as everything they make. The products are sourced, selected, made and crafted together.

FEATUREDBritish Museum of Food opening in London’s Borough Market! Take a peek inside the latest wondrous by Bompas & Parr... it's unlike what you'd imagine - from a pink butterfly room, to a massage chair filled theater, menu display and more.

FEATUREDHalloween = Food with eyes over at Tasteologie. Here are 25 examples to make yourself of get inspired by to invent even more foodie creatures!

Vice Munchies new video series - Food Hacking Japan with host Simon Klose exploring the intersection of food and tech. The first episode visits a Japanese researcher who shows us how to use virtual reality to make a cookie taste like five different things.

Smoker by Francesco Sillitti is a tool designed for cold-smoking, made ​​entirely of ceramic, which allows us to flavor different types of food.

Splatter painted french macarons - so easy to make with edible food paint!

Paco Taco! Scott Tolleson’s newest foodie character made his debut at STGCC over the weekend. Produced by Pobber.

Panda Express "Orange Chicken Love" campaign (complete with food truck) has some interesting swag. Nice graphics on tees, totes, sunnies, wallpapers and more.

Anty Gin - from Nordic Food Lab and the world’s first gin tailor, The Cambridge Distillery. Over 6000 Formica rufa have been foraged and preserved with the essence of approximately sixty-two wood ants in each bottle.

Ippinka Surface Scraper removes food stains, grime, and even ice from smooth surfaces. Its unique design is tough on dirt, but does not cause any damage to the surface. It's made from a patented resin that does not promote the growth of mildew and bacteria.

Cantilever no-mess stainless flatware floats above the table, improves hygiene, reduces mess, putting some distance between what touches food and what rests on the table.

"Have we reached peak juice?" - Nice article on Racked examining the over saturated cold pressed juice market. Interesting to see where some think they can grow (food!) and why others are starting to disappear.

Beautiful Artisan Roast in Stockbridge neighborhood, in Edinburgh. As they say, a place to relax and enjoy Coffee + Flowers.

Oyster Dish by Francesco Sillitti is created to taste one of the most delicate and precious shellfish, which always in the collective imagination, is one of the finest and aphrodisiac food; the oyster.

Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant contacted conceptual design studio Lernert & Sander to create a piece for a special documentary photography issue about food: 98 unprocessed foods cut into extremely precise 2.5cm cubes aligned on a staggered grid.

Foodography is an integrated experience in Tel Aviv, built around a meal inspired by Carmel wines, and featuring a special food photography workshop, using each course of the meal to teach diners lessons about the aspects of smartphone food photography.

Chef Jacques La Merde is an amazing instagram that is ALL about the plating... of junk/processed foods! (Yes, those are Hot Pockets with Hidden Valley Bacon Ranch spheres.)

CJ Hendry’s 50 Foods in 50 Days Gourmet Experience in Melbourne.

FEATUREDFlor de Lis Restaurante, Cayala, Guatemala City. A modern take on traditional Guatemalan ingredients and flavors bordering on molecular gastronomy. Delicious food and stunning plating all tucked away in a city within a city.

For the holiday open house at FRONT, food + art collective Thought For Food designed an edible art installation, A Winter’s Tale - an edible art installation featuring a popcorn blizzard and a twirling tree with hanging caramel apple ornaments.

Food Typography by Utah-based artist Becca Clason.

5 Everyday - a simple app that gives you 5 things to do in LA everyday - Art, City, Food, Music, and a Wildcard. From Silver Lake Band YACHT.

VIDEOThe invisible made visible. Infectious bacteria from vegetables, dishcloths and chopping boards grew into a genuinely dirty campaign with simple tips to prevent getting infected and food poisoned.

Designed by the architects Antonio Girardi and Cristiana Favretto, Jellyfish Barge is a floating agricultural greenhouse producing food without consuming land, fresh water or energy.

The Real Apple Store opens in London's Borough Market in celebration of Apple Day.

Prepara Evak Collection - Push the handle down into the glass container to automatically remove the air. Food-safe-glass and stainless contact your food.

Greek creative team Mousegraphics implements a packaging design for Foodscross’s new line of thyme-based honey, and its a packaging that realizes the very synthesis of elements that typifies the honey.

FEATUREDAfter seeing stores filled with Japanese Wax Food Models for displays and the varying quality/realism. It's incredible to see this video of how they are made! Trippy.

VIDEOEver seen a volcano erupt in slow motion? What about one made of food? With the help of British food director, Carl Warner, we created a video for the Chili Con Queso burrito that overflows with flavor and originality.

Photographer Shantanu Starick is bartering his way around the world, trading his photography for food, shelter and transport in a project called The Pixel Trade.

Food art from Anna Keville Joyce & Agustín Nieto.

Burger King Japan created the "Kuro" burger, also known as the black burger.

FEATUREDHighlights from the 3D Print Show in London, including printing with plants, printing food and more.

Sticker campaign for the new Fast-Food Restaurant chain Grrrilla by Spritz Creative.

Catherine Chalmers' Food Chain photography project showing the circle of life...

FEATUREDOld Mucker Fertilizer Tea Bags - basically manure and other plant-food in recycled coffee bags that you steep and feed your plants with.

Modular: tray with 20 individual magnetized compartments, mix and match for any meal. The perfect solution to food presentation monotony. Designed by Josiah Jones.

Fascinating to see so much Fashion going the way of the food truck these days...

Invasive Species, from invaders to food! Great photo series from Christopher Testani, food stylist Michelle Gatton, and art director Mason Adams.

Mellow, the new way to cook sous-vide. Wireless smart control, ability to keep foods at refrigerator temperatures, to make life easier, and to have great food every day.

Box South is a new monthly subscription service that delivers some of the best southern artisan foods directly to your front door.

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

Patrick Jouin ID presented the food truck CHOUX D'ENFER by Alain Ducasse & Christophe Michalak...

Cuddly Rigor Mortis "I'm Not Hungry" Show at Gallery 1988! Adorable creature (+ food) filled art on wood!

Carcass, an entire fast food kitchen carved from birch and maple wood by Roxy Paine.

Apparently you can now take free tours of the Sriracha Factory - it's a new 650,000-square-foot factory in Irwindale, CA.

FEATUREDInspiration: Portland, OR! A peek at our adventures and some of the fun food, shops, donuts, street art, and more that inspired us! Also, what's up with #PDXcarpet?

Your favorites about a city into a custom pillow! A pigeon, vespa, that favorite food truck, or the statue of liberty, great way to treasure a memory or celebrate an inside joke.

By 2023 we are all going to be eating bugs as part of our regular diet, if Copenhagen’s famed Nordic Food Lab has its way.

Chef Roy Choi's "L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food" is quite the read ~ from his adventures exploring the grittier sides of LA to his 87 Blazer to jewelry sales to culinary school to the Kogi Taco Truck and so much more along the way...

VIDEOShanks FX on creating the cosmos for PBS, using a sheet of glass, dust for stars, food coloring, water and milk to stunning effect.

”René Redzepi: A Work in Progress“ is a collectible set of three beautifully designed books: a cookbook; a personal journal written by Redzepi; and a pocket book of candid, Instagram-style snapshots featuring the influential chef and his team.

Functional set highlights the value of the quality of olive oil as an independent food. Container for olive oil consists of an applicator in the form of a ball for controlled dispensing and smearing oil on the bread on the principle of a roll on.

FEATUREDA breathable tea room from Camellia's Tea was one of many highlights at the 2013 Experimental Food Society Spectacular.

FEATUREDA meadow of sugarpaste flowers billowing in the wind created by Rosalind Miller Cakes. Another delectable treasure from the Experimental Food Society Spectacular.

Made using hand cut stencils and a coffee based food grade dye. Printing concepts by John Mohr and Alex White.

FUET magazine is a biannual publication for food lovers and magazine collectors.

Selectapas, set of five ceramic tableware pieces for serving finger foods, each with a special utility.

FEATUREDInspiration: SEATTLE! A weekend exploring Seattle. Delicious food, incredible coffee, endless apples, so many craft brews, a peek in the Boeing factory, a look inside the Rem Koolhaas Library, timelapse vids, and more inspiration.

Chomp, a series of food-chain puzzles from Mirim Seo.

A couple of carts designed to hold food, drinks and their seasonings. Designed by Andreu Carulla studio for +Vilar Restaurant

Great identity work for Food Throttle by Dennis Adelmann & Carolin Wanitzek.

Glow-in-the-dark roads, childbirth training kit in a back pack, and spicy paper that keeps food fresh, among the winners announced for the world's biggest design prize, the INDEX: Award.

Students from RTU International Architecture Summer School in Cēsis, Latvia designed a temporary library and book exchange clad in recycled food packaging.

Rorschah series by Esther Lobo offers a unique perspective of foods.

FEATUREDBaileys Chocolat Luxe combines Belgian chocolate, Irish whiskey, and cream, which marbles beautifully with water... Here's a peek at the launch with Bompas & Parr filled with Culinary Alchemy, marbled foods, chocolate and rhapsodomancy!

Hyperlocal Market, an online food exchange platform by UK-based designer Kayleigh Thompson that encourages local food sales by connecting urban growers/makers with local retailers and consumers.

The Makers of Things documents the work and workshops of the Society for Model and Experimental Engineers. From experimental tinkerers to woodworkers and librarians, brought together in South London.

You can make that coffee 100% sinister by adding these amazing skull and cross bones sugar cubes to your cup.

Ad Tempus, the conversation between food, design, and diner. Following the temporality of restaurant menus, Ad Tempus is designed to adapt and evolve using 3D printing as a manufacturing method.

Food in my Beard plate series by designer Phil Jones.

Alacran showcases their all matte black tequila bottles in a video titled 'Big Bang'.

Stefan Fuertbauer's great new photo series of Viennese wurstel diners and the Viennese fast food culture.

A three-story shipping container beer garden/mini-mall/food court is now open for business at South Street Seaport.

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

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…

'Remèdes' food containers by the French designer Amaury Poudray for the Granville Gallery.

VIDEOFirst Taste ~ a fun video of kids trying foods for the first time in slow motion by Saatchi & Heckler

Cut Food by Beth Galton - Creative and dynamic photos of food cut in half.

Jon Hopkins' Immunity Soundtracks: series of stunning microscopic images.

LA's Natural History Museum turns 100! They are going to have Nature after dark with a discussion about Mars Curiosity rover, food trucks, garden tours, DJs in the Mammal Halls, and outdoor shows with DEVO and GZA/The Genius in concert!

Pasta collection, the series of iconic furniture inspired by the symbol of Italian food.

How to make perfect chocolate bowls with a balloon.

FEATUREDPeeking inside the Whole Foods Earthling Ambassador ~ beyond the tech guts, he has a heart! And we couldn't help making him sing...

FEATUREDWhole Foods says Happy Earth Day with a TALKING Pineapple Armadillo "Earthling Ambassador" made of ceramic and electronics that just arrived... see the video of him in action.

Foodie Garden Kits designed by Noted with illustrations from Joel Holland.

BLACK COW is the world's first vodka made from cow milk. This is the brain child of Jason Barber, a farmer from Beaminster, Dorset.

3D printed food by Janne Kyttannen. Not for eating...

Fruit leather tangrams: play with your food with these edible puzzles.

The Twin Cities Candy Company develops high-end food products for corporate gifts and boutique shops, with eye-catching, easy-to-display packaging that highlights the gourmet ingredients.

Whisky Tornado - an imbibable column of whisky vapor, part of Feed Your Mind: The King’s Festival of Food and Ideas at King’s College London. By food designers Bompas & Parr.

Designgoat created an entirely new dining experience using molecular gastronomy to form food in new ways - then designed a completely tool set to eat it with.

VIDEOTo promote the Brooklyn Brewery and Slow Food USA's MASH tour, filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Paul Trillo, created a stop motion tour of the borough using over 3000 still photos in under 60 seconds.

Love this collaboration between Atelier Food and Petter Johansson Art Direction And Design (PJADAD).