Everything Bagel Grilled Cheese from Melissa Weller on Tasting Table!

FEATUREDHow to Make The Ultimate Egg Sandwich over at the freshly opened Summers Juice and Coffee in Brooklyn. Between the special bun is a spiral of sriracha, avocado, bacon, and a fried egg filled with cheese.

Boska Holland Toasta Bags ~ the perfect way to make a grilled cheese in a vertical toaster

FEATUREDThe anatomy of a good grilled cheese, homemade mint chocolate bars and a sip of cherry moon, are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

FEATUREDA video explanation of Modernist Cuisines's ultimate burger... full of single orientation ground meat, engineered cheese, a cryofried patty and more.

FEATURED The Pie Hole ~ Downtown Los Angeles's newest pie shop just wants to "do right by the pie." They have a cute shop full of a great selection of rotating handmade-from-scratch seasonal pies... and one filled with mac and cheese.

FEATUREDWhen the "World Famous" Malibu Inn says "Vintage mood. Epic food." they kid you not. The menu contains everything from deep fried pickles and pb&j, to smack and cheese and growlers of beer for the table...

FEATUREDBeer Belly ~ A new Los Angeles gastropub in K-town featuring all Southern California craft beers off the wall culinary creations like mac n beer cheese and deep fried twinkies.

FEATUREDProsciutto Tower ~ Melon, prosciutto and chunks of Parmesan cheese in a cleverly presented twist on prosciutto e melone at the new Mr. C in Los Angeles.

FEATUREDCheese is Alive. Nurture it! ~ Formaticum's Cheese Paper aims to keep it that way a little longer with some fun packaging and great graphic design. Includes video of the cheese paper in action!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Favorite places! A peek at the adorable avocado fries, shot sized bread bowls of ceviche, delicious shrimp grilled cheese, and pretzel burger ~ at 3 Square Cafe & Bakery, Venice Beach.

FEATUREDPeeking inside LA's Grilled Cheese Truck ~ and a look at their truck, branding, and the food itself (from tomato soup shots to dessert grilled nutella/marshmallow/banana)

The Grilled Cheese Truck now roams LA ~ amusing design... curious how the food is.

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.

FEATUREDGrilled Cheeses! Little Bear, in the Los Angeles Arts District, serves up a fantastic quartet of sandwiches to go with their selection of Belgian style ales. Smoked salmon, stilton with apples, ale braised brisket and bacon!

FEATUREDAncient Sidr Honey ~ Collected from hives in the mountains of Yemen, this amazing honey is just one in the vast collection of honeys and cheeses that we tried in The Loft at Montage Laguna Beach.

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.

Sandwich Bench by Goncalo Campos

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.

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

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)

"A Second Look at the Tuna Sandwich’s All-American History" By: Mari Uyehara in TASTE. Fascinating read on how canned tuna came to be, and the role of Southern California and the Japanese immigrants.

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.

FEATUREDMax's Sandwich Book by Max Halley + Ben Benton of Max's Sandwich Shop in London is as beautifully designed and illustrated as it is mouth-watering. Here's a peek inside and a quick flip thru.

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.

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

The history of Peanut Butter & Mayo Sandwiches in Garden & Gun. A depression era creation with lots of variations. (This came up recently at NOTCOT and we had to find out more!)

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

Bon Appetit recipe to make Cured Egg Yolks! Finely grate cured egg yolks over soups, pastas, or salads as you would a hard cheese.

Papelaria x Colette Carnet Croque Madam and Croque Monsieur ~ fun sandwich shaped notebooks

Alison Jackson Cheese Tools. They play on the manipulation of a single flat sheet of metal through a combination of folds, to create a functional and intriguing piece of cutlery

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

Uncommon Goods Cheese & Crackers Board - Made of solid maple. Nice detail of milled out grooves that make your crackers lean perfectly.

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.

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!)

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

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.)

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!

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.

Hungry Eyes NY has ramen, taco, bao, fried chicken sandwich, burger, and donut pins/stickers with googly eyes.

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?]

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!

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!

FEATUREDThe Oregon and Northern California Coast - our road trip home lead to fun breweries, stunning coastline, driving on the beach, hiking down to a Redwood Grove, the Tillamook Cheese Factory, IPA beer jellies, and more!

Tillamook Cheese Factory in Tillamook, OR - stumbled upon it on our road trip and it is surprisingly fun and inspiring - from the factory to the store to the displays and history... the website has great graphics and a fun video too!

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.

Pes is kickstarting his next stop action film, Submarine Sandwich, and the video itself is already mesmerizing! Additionally, he's even offering his first limited edition 5" sub TOY as one of the rewards.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Hester and Cook's Octopus Serving Papers ~ perfect under your cakes, cheese plates, etc...

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.

The Monsters of Mental Illness, Illustrations by Toby Allen.

Black + Blum Sandwich on Board Set ~ cute cutting board design built into this sandwich box!

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

Loops & Cheese is a 3D printed sculpture by David Hsu that tries to keep the end of your cables off the floor.

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.

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

Green Cheese Cheesemaking Kit is a beautifully packaged, great and simple introduction to fresh cheese cheesemaking. No fancy or specialized equipment needed!

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.

Modern steel table with rubber dipped feet by Synecdoche.

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

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.

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."

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Strawberry Rhubarb Cocktails, Chocolate & Peanut Butter Cannolis, Grilled Artichokes with Crab Filling and more.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Strawberry Margarita Jello Shots, Korean Bibimbap, Individual Cheese Fondues and more.

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.

A look at a range of business cards that also double as cheese graters.

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...

Fun set of 100 bamboo sticks "for nibbles, parties, vegetable skewers, cheese, fruit etc."

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

Peppersprouts' (ART)isan Cheese Markers made of laser cut acrylic that you can use a dry erase marker on. Cute packaging too.

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.

Artist Klari Reis' newest Petri dish art blog will post a Petri dish painting everyday in 2013.

VIDEO“A Million Times” is a new project by humans since 1982, a large scale version of their previous project featured in #51115.

VIDEOHow To Tie a Bow Tie by Hickorees is a stop motion animation walking you through the steps of how to master this tricky tie. The animation is clever too.

Laser cut 3D poster by himHallows to advertise a group exhibition based around paper lanterns.