Molly Mutt Crib Mattress Dog Bed - "turn a hard-to-recycle crib mattress into a dog bed." Perfect as a cover for the old mattress to be a play cushion/fort component! (Pairs great with our Nuggets!)

Tito's In A Can... aka a 20$ empty reusable (screw top) can you can mix your own Tito's Vodka Hard Seltzers, etc in. Fun tongue in cheek campaign.

Slumberkins The Feels - a zipped up mountain full of 5 little Yetis that are SO incredibly soft. And while i laughed at the concept at first, it's become a lifesaver helping my then 2 year old understand the harder feelings and how to cope and self-regulate.

Tandem Shower by Boona. Recently been fascinated by this growing category of bathroom hardware upgrades/customizations for renters in a rainbow of playful colors. (i.e. sproos!)

Butter, Love, & Hardwork - These Baby Reveal Bottles are such a fun (+ delicious) concept. Smash the 100% chocolate baby bottle to get to the blue or pink LOVE chocolate covered cereal crisps.

"Your economy needs YOU to keep consuming" - Adbuster's "Uncle Jam" Canvas Bag is a nice cheeky reminder this time of year - which is extra weird with 2021 Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, + Christmas shopping being pushed so hard, so early.

Nostalgia hit hard with these Flying Toasters made out of CSS by Bryan Braun. Mesmerizing.

FEATUREDThe unofficial NOTCOT guide to parenting... aka collage brain dumps of products that have worked for us has continued @GrowAndExplore. Hard to believe the NOTkid is now 2!

Apple AirTags are coming ~ and Moment has some lovely mounts and cases for them. Hard shell (i.e. drones/bikes), silicone for curved surfaces, soft and stretchy for fabrics... and even a glasses strap.

FEATURED@GrowAndExplore is the NOTCOT Parenting/Toddler Experiment (on instagram, because i couldn't decide where to put it) See what products work for us or share your wisdom as we navigate this phase!?! This is hard!

The Diptyque Graphic Collection candle collection features hypnotic black lines that pull at NOTCOT heartstrings hard... the patterned backgrounds and animated gifs on the page are stunning! (Especially Berries!)

TORNADO! Our hearts go out to Nashville (our other home) and those impacted throughout TN. The devastation in East Nashville especially has been extra hard to stomach, but now it's time to clean up, pull together, and rebuild!

The Type Set Co Magnetic Letters ~ in a rainbow of colors, both serif and sans serif, and hard ABS plastic or soft foam.

Target : 20 Years of Design for All: How Target Revolutionized Accessible Design - THE BOOK! Along with the new capsule collection coming out to celebrate Target's 20 years of design collabs, there's a Rizzoli book!

Floyd Travel Cases on Wheels - Inspired by 70's Venice socal skateboard culture and Cadillac Wheels (a new soft polyurethane skateboard wheel in '73) these suitcases are a playful twist on hardshell suitcases.

Playdate is a new handheld gaming device/platform from Panic and Teenage Engineering! With that combo, you know the software, hardware, and design details will be even better in person! 4 years in the making, complete with a CRANK!

Panorama - Interesting hard shell roof top tent design by Jan Loss and Lukas von Rantzau on Kickstarter. What's really most striking are the images of it on that cherry red vintage Mercedes station wagon!

New York Times Truth Tote Bag by Everybody.World - made of 100% bull denim cotton featuring the NYTimes "The Truth is Hard" campaign we love at NOTCOT.

Astronaut - paintings by Scott Listfield! So excited for this new book with 232 full color pages measuring 9" x 12.25" featuring a debossed hard cover with a dust jacket.

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.

Away's Dwyane Wade Wine Case. This hardshell carryon includes two removable foam case inserts that carry 3 bottles of wine each and a limited edition color and palm frond fabric interior.

Popcorn Driven Robotic Actuators! By Steven Ceron and team at Cornell University.

FEATUREDSadly Norris Hardware, our local hardware store, is closing down after nearly 100 years... so we made an offer on this entire hardware aisle! Which is now moving into our NOTCOT workshop!

VIDEODisenchantment! Matt Groening's third animated series is coming to Netflix in August following the misadventures of a hard-drinking princess, her feisty elf, and personal demon.

WD-40 EZ-Reach flexible straw. Perfect for those of us who lost the straws regularly or have hard to reach spots. Always amazing how many different uses this has.

Lynea is a minimal plug lamp created by Los-Angeles based designers Human home. Lynea was created to be like hardwired lighting, but without the hard wiring. Cleverly using the outlet as an anchor, the lamp is easy to install and a beautiful addition to any interior.

Hardgraft Phone Card Card Combo (in dusty black and classic brown leather) a temping, sleek combo of phone case and wallet.

The Modest Matter Lander Planter - Porcelain and hard wood, self watering planter. Handmade in Santa Cruz California. Bringing life to living and work spaces in a simple, modern design.

Breaking Surface Table by Sophie Hardy. The table made from 63 layers of coloured paper and birch ply, represents and talks about the hidden potential and concealed beauty that she believe exists in the layering of a multicultural community.

The School of Hard Blocks is a set of 12 concrete alphabet blocks depicting the hardships of life. Things like divorce, dentists, hangovers, genocidal dictators, etc.

J.A.W Cooper: Familiars / Flora & Fauna / Viscera Three Book Hardcover Set in Slipcase (also available separately) Love her stunning illustrations and artwork.

Canadiano Designer Scaled Ruler Set. Made of laminated hardwoods, these minimal scales are a nostalgic take on an ordinary item.

Pretty Useful Co. Roll High or Die D20 Spinner Pin! 1.25" Hard enamel that really spins.

Corona LR 3460 Long Reach Cut 'n' Hold Pruner. NOTCOT's new favorite garden tool - cutter and grabber in one! Perfect for hard to reach precision trimming.

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

Hard Graft 1st Edition Travel Bag Classic. "A generously sized Italian leather and wool holdall that fully opens and luxuriously wraps around your clothes."

Topanga Corner Bar - CB2 in collaboration with Kravitz Design by Lenny Kravitz. Walnut and hardwood veneer over engineered wood.

The Leica D-Lux Explorer Kit. Interesting new features: Automatic lens cap flaps and the red "robust hardwearing cotton" carrying strap.

Tumi 19 Degree Collection - in aluminum and polycarbonate in black, silver, or copper. A hardshell luggage collection with ridges that seem hand carved, or twisted... complete with matching luggage tag and iphone cases.

Tiger Lights Creative! Fun pins and tees. "We know it is hard to be a creative woman in the world but our mission is to remind you never to doubt yourself and always believe in yourself" Project by Vivienne Fairey and Lola Roberts.

Mona VR flat packable phone headset. Superior luminosity with fire-hardened glass lenses, designed for easy fitting. Wrapped in a 100% cotton shell with adjustable headband.

VIDEOGoogle NYC lobby has an installation with 5880 arcade buttons as pixels! It uses AnyPixel.js - their open source software and hardware library which lets you use the web to create big, unusual, interactive displays out of all kinds of things.

Aesop Reverence Aromatique Hand Wash - An exfoliating hand wash to gently scrub hands. The ultimate hand cleaner after working your hands hard! Like a luxurious version of Fast Orange that you find in a lot of workshops.

Lamborn Hardware Mesa Sconce - Stripped to the bare necessities, Grey Hensey designed it to minimize manufacturing and maximize lumens. It mounts to any wall and offers a simple plug-in solution.

iKamper Hardtop One - "The World's First Expandable Hard-Shell Roof Top Tent" - A fascinating hybrid of pop top hardshell roof top tent and the shape of a more traditional flip open roof top tent.

Sophie Hardy's Breaking Surface Table.

SQUBE Pins by Ferg! In white and greyscale. They are 1" cloisonne (hard enamel) pins.

6 Flask Coffee Cold Brewer by Jonathan Odom - Fabricated at the Autodesk Pier 9 Workshop, this cold brewer combines 3D printed fittings, hard wood dowels, and lab equipment to turn the process of cold brewing into a performance.

DLX Trunk by UM Project is a steamer trunk for the modern traveler in bent aluminum and hardwood.

Discommon Bottle Opener - "Tactile and ergonomic, the body is painstakingly machined from aerospace aluminum, hand finished and hard anodized for a lifetime of use." Inspired by a bar of soap, and fits perfectly in the palm of your right hand.

San Diego Brewer's Guild Map - driving around San Diego it's hard to miss how many breweries, tasting rooms, and taprooms are all over. This map shows just how many there really are!

See Canyon small batch hard apple cider made in the Central Coast of CA - stunning packaging for their Premium Dry Cider. Love the owl label! (Photo from our @NOTlabs instagram)

Poritz & Studio Tool Boxes - handmade from reclaimed hardwood in walnut or teak, tool boxes with a smart stacking design (upper tray and lid slot seamlessly through the handle) and all fused with finger joints!

"Hardware Things: Killing, Reviving, and Owning an Amazon Dash Button" by Scott Vanderlind

Gent's Gingerale "soft drinks made the hard way" - from Lexington, Kentucky - great branding! Check out the instagram to see more.

FEATUREDThe Alabama Chanin Collection at Heath Ceramics - They describe it as “The point of intersection between stitch and clay." Stunning! Hard not to want the whole collection.

"The Embalmed Head of Oliver Cromwell: A Memoir" by Marc Hartzman. Cover art by Vi Luong. The book follows 300 years of history as Cromwell's head journeyed through England -- all told from the head's perspective. Now available in hardback.

Yield A-frame Shelving Unit - New italic bracket hardware system pairs with standard dimension wood dowels and planks to allow for a range of configurations.

Ride them or hang 'em - Doodah x Frank Schott Artist Series CONES [ limited edition of 100 boards ]

Adorable copper hexagon drawer pulls from Schoolhouse Electric

Exo Lighting Series - Flat geometric fins frame an integrated LED light source. Designed by Matthew Harding and Rowan Turnham in collaboration with Rakumba Lighting.

Dear Human Wallpapering - Moulded recycled paper and ceramic tiles. The tiles are as hard as board, light as cork, and can be printed or painted like paper. Other than their decorative potential, they have great sound absorbing qualities and are easy to install.

VIDEOThe Walk, an animated short by Art&Graft Studio.

The Couple Birdhouse by Toronto based industrial designer Reece Bennett. Constructed from steam bent hard woods and cord.

Mountain Hardwear's sleek, lightweight Ghost Whisperer Jacket - packs down into its own pocket, though it was rare when it wasn't on during our 2 week Alberta winter adventure. Kept us perfectly warm and super easy for travel.

Hard Graft Atelier Pop Up Leica Camera Case

FEATURED Duchess Bake Shop & Provisions in Edmonton have become quite the pastry destination. Provisions offers an impressive selection of hard to find baking ingredients, tools, and cookbooks. Take a peek inside, and at their new cookbook!

Table Leaf ntroduces an organic tabletop, shaped with an elegant design and handcrafted african sustainable sucupira hard wood, dualing a material dialog with hi-tech anti mosquito coatings and his impressive black lacquered tittanium smooth structure.

Forca Copper Hand Fork, made from reclaimed materials that combine copper, bronze, and a hardwood handle. Designed by Travis Blandford, handcrafted in Melbourne, Australia.

Seagate Seven Portable Harddrive - a mere 7mm thin and 500GB

Matthias Pliessnig is an artist and furniture designer specializing in steam bent hardwoods. His process from sketching and modeling to endless clamping is fascinating.

Glow powder mixed with clear casting resin fills the naturally formed voids in this Pecky Cypress hardwood, creating a unique and stunning table. Charging in sunlight, it emits a cool blue glow when in partial or complete darkness.

Metallic Balloon Letter Ornaments - It's been hard to miss the large inflatable version of these at parties, so it should be no surprise you can now get 3" resin minis for the holiday tree. Silver, Gold, Red, and Blue.

Hard Graft Trip Case and Notebook - A great multipurpose leather pouch that slips right on to a standard moleskine type notebook for all your pens, iPhone, plane tickets and more! Notebook wallet?

Restoration Hardware takes their Faux Fur to a new level this holiday season with dog beds, dog throws, and even dog vests.

Box Brew Kits - Brew like a boss. Handmade small-batch home-brew kits designed to make beer, wine or cider. Reclaimed wood available. Don't hide your hardware.

Forestbound - Forestbound uses exclusively found and salvaged textiles to create a line of durable, utilitarian tote bags. Alice Saunders, a Boston-based designer, puts great effort into hunting for well-worn historic fabrics and hardware throughout New England.

The Mission Workshop Black Camo series is constructed using MultiCam-black 500D Cordura in limited quantities. The bags are available in three sizes and are equipped with all black-metal Arkiv closures and hardware.

Hard Graft goes vertical for their Refresh Dopp Kit made of "über premium vegetable tanned Italian leather"

Diablo, compact hard-case clutch, distinctive geometric character and luxurious two-tone leather appearance. Handmade in Belgium.

A new kitchen tool called 'The Goose'. It is A Goose That Lays Golden Eggs. Golden Eggs are eggs that are mixed/scrambled in the shell to create scrambled/hardboiled eggs.

VIDEOPrinting Teddy Bears: A Technique for 3D Printing of Soft Interactive Objects. From Disney Research and Scott E Hudson (CMU HCI) - a process of basically computer controlled felting. Love the potentials of embedded hardware and articulation.

Mountain Hardwear Space Station (and the slightly smaller Stronghold) are amazing hemispherical dome tents! The Space Station has a 19ft diameter and is nearly 8.5ft high! The video of assembly is epic.

Bison Paddle Strop Razor Case is stunning ~ particularly liking the solid brass hardware!

Core Deco 'Pyramid Terrarium' takes indoor gardening to a new level of luxury and splendor. Constructed with 3 choice hardwoods: White Oak, Mahogany, and Black Walnut.

Craft Brew Box - Hand made growler carriers using reclaimed hardwoods to safely transport your brew!

Yuma Kano's Screw :) is a collaborative project with Komuro Manufacturing Co., Ltd. If you're going to make a proprietary screw that is hard to open, you might as well make it fun to look at?

Aether Cone speaker is hardware for streaming music services. It connects to your home Wi-Fi and music service of choice, but without the need for another device.

FEATUREDUnboxing the Mophie Space Pack for iPhone 5/5s. Extend your battery life and add 16GB or 32GB of storage which works like an external hard drive and more when paired with their Space app.

Magnetic Kitchen has a kickstarter for beautiful crafted designs lasered on to 7 ply hard rock maple USA skate decks. Have your own design lasered on to the deck!

'Bacon is a Vegetable, Coffee is a Vitamin' by R. Stevens is the latest Diesel Sweeties book! Secret pre order on both paperbacks and limited edition hard covers!

Pacemaker! From the gorgeous, portable music mixing hardware a few years back to the free iPad version that can mix iTunes and Spotify tracks even!

FEATUREDInside Wieden + Kennedy Portland - Since featuring it in '06, finally visited the pushpin Fail Harder piece, and roamed their 600 person HQ to share the creative energy + inspiration throughout! Too much to summarize, go see the pics.

LaCie Sphere USB hard drive designed by Christofle

FEATUREDYETI Coolers - beyond this hardcore line of coolers are some amazing design, branding, and packaging details. Here's a close up look at the Tundra 45, SeaDek, Bear Locks, Beverage Holder, and Rod Holder. And Bucky hops in...

Dixon Branded's Intersect is a series of wall hooks and shelves made from Ash and Brass. Installing with minimal hardware, the series utilizes this "intersection" of brass and wood to maintain a strong hold with the wall.

FEATUREDPrintstagr.am TinyBooks! Teeny tiny magnetic hard bound books filled with your instagram photos. We made some to document Bucky's first year... and they magnetically shut and stick to the fridge!

Hundreds of tiny clownfish hatch at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

VIDEOIt stars Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, James Harden, Steve Nash and Stephen Curry shooting three-pointers at nets outfitted with Christmas bells—producing an even more impressive musical performance, this time of “Jingle Bells.”

Lofty Bar Stool by 2point54, solid ash seat with powder coated steel legs, hardware-less. The TL Console Table made from white washed ash and four inch steel legs with metal insert.

Motorola's Project Ara, developing a free, open hardware platform for creating highly modular smartphones.

Keytags by Various Projects. While they aren't the hardest to make... i love the way the executed the idea! So fun to read through the excessive variety of words they've picked!

The London-based miniature installation artist Slinkachu has just popped up in Paris with a series of new works entitled "Why is it So Hard to Find a Job?".

Scientists take a closer look at the structure of the incredibly strong teeth of the Chiton mollusc.

KeyMe ~ an app that lets you take a picture of your* key and have it easily cut at a locksmith/hardware store/etc, and you can store the files digitally. Also a nice easy way to copy any keys (you can take off a keychain)?

Hard Graft's goods for your camera - Hold Camera Handle, Hang Camera Strap, and Box Camera Bag.

The No. 002: Modern Muskoka Chair by Hard Goods is made from thin cast concrete and an intricately welded base. You can also purchase the matching ottoman.

The Boxcar succulent planter. Plant with style. Made in the RDH shop in SE Portland, each Boxcar features grain-matched hardwood and is perfect for any window sill or table centerpiece.

Zero Halliburton goes Geo Aluminum for a whole new hardcase silhouette. The matte black is tempting...

FEATUREDRuffwear (one of our favorite dog brands!) had quite the woody booth at Outdoor Retailer. Take a peek at the dog mannequins, new colors/patterns, hardware details, and a peek at new products to come!

Superfront ~ it is hard to believe that these stunning furniture pieces are facades on IKEA shelving. Superfront sells front and side panels, legs, and handles to help you transform your IKEA pieces into so much more.

Dyson Hard! This "vacuum cleaner combines constant, powerful suction and wet wiping." No more mop needed...

Clothing can be tucked away behind the textile skins of these storage units by German designer Meike Harde.

FEATURED110% Play Harder Compression wear with lots of pockets to add ice packs for a portable/targeted ice bath. Smart packaging, where it all comes in the insulated reusable bag to carry your ice packs!

Schoolhouse Electric & Supply Co.'s Orbit 8 Chandelier. Handcrafted in Portland, OR.

Origami Knight is a boot concept that utilizes the traditional origami technique to allow the hard surface to flex. With the rest of the boot made of molded PVC plastic, the origami sections act as the flex points as well as adding character.

FEATUREDNocs NS2 Air Monitors ~ stunning sound and design ~ with built in AirPlay and coated in a soft touch rubber coating, these speakers are hard to resist. See the full unboxing and details!

Simple is hard to achieve. Yet, Manifiesto Futura does it perfectly with their new Taquería Canalla as they created the taco shop's branding, identity, interiors, and even chose the name.

FEATUREDThe Macallan and Oakley team up for The Flask - hardcore Oakley flask on the outside, The Macallan’s first-ever, single cask All American Sherry Oak Scotch Whisky on the inside. And amazing video with fun cars of them testing it.

Metal Bunny Bookends from Restoration Hardware Baby and Child

Fish and Car Hardboiled Egg Molds! Just boil the egg, peel, lock it in the mold, and drop in cold water for adorably shaped eggs!

Cute packaging for Hardegger's original Zurich Hüppen by Nadine Geissbühler.

Ants face a slippery slope when they venture onto pitcher plants. Scientists explore the tiny, precisely oriented hairs that are hard to climb up and create a slippery, wet film.

FEATUREDHHA TWI01 = Hardcore Hardware Australia Tactical Writing Instrument. Shaft constructed from 6000 series, non-reflective; black anodized aluminum, with a glass breaking tip!

Stackable Snowmen by fruitsuper design. Stack the 12 hardwood pieces to make 3 adorable snowmen that are different each and every time!

'Tree Furniture' bench by the designer Anton Alvarez with the American Hardwood Export Council.

Supergrau's Kloezze, firewood, is a pretty bundle of European hard and pinewoods that can be banded together to form a stool or sidetable.

Architects Smashit - "a growing video library of
architects smashing their models, the ultimate purge for any hardworking designer."

Papagio, a mechanical glass and bottle sweeper for hard-to-clean bottoms of bottles and glasses, designed by Hakan Gürsu/Designnobis.

The Nest thermostat got both a hardware and software upgrade today... 20% thinner, no more spinning dial on the top, more compatibility, and some new features (which will also roll out to existing Nest owners)

Hard Goods No. 010: Triangulum Fire Pit

Hard Goods is giving away a set of three amazing cast concrete cacti.

Wooden Peg Furniture is a minimalist design created by Netherlands-based designers StudioGorm. The concept was to provide as many configurations as possible with a set number of pieces, without the use of tools or hardware.

The American Hardwood Export Council has invited a group of students in product design at the Royal College of Art in London to design and manufacture a series of 12 chairs made from an American hardwood species of their choice.

Material Creatives bright new Little Nuffield cafe is hard to walk by. A finalist in the BEST awards...they think so too!

Foundation is a laptop stand made of concrete. There's space for a 13" laptop, a hard disk, cell phone and other gadgets. It's somewhere between architecture, design and geekery.

The Prismatoy is an interactive kinetic sculpture based on the form of a geometric solid called the Parallelepiped. Consisting of 72 individual jointed parts, the Prismatoy is fun to explore and hard to put down.

Hard to believe its real - the website of the Milwaukee Police Department, as created by Cramer-Krasselt, is so beautifully designed, at first i almost thought it was for a video game...

Robot Food's branding and identity for Sous Chef, a new informative online retail business, supplier of hard to find tools and ingredients for the home chef.

VIDEOHilarious Foot Locker Tear Away ad - "James Harden likes to keep his Approved Foot Locker gear fresh. Russell Westbrook tests the limits of that dedication"

Less Paul (2012) By Andrew Lewicki - baltic birch plywood, CDX plywood, hardboard, MDF, polystyrene, ABS, steel, various electric guitar parts

Jelly packaging uses the colorful product as part of the design, by Rosie Hardwick.

Hard Graft goes Carry On! With their new leather/felt suitcase!

The new Nike+ Training and Nike+ Basketball ~ new sensors track how hard, fast, & often you train and sync it to your iPhone.