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.

Toccata by Optical Arts (and the making of clips) is filled with completely mesmerizing slow motion destruction (and in reverse at times!) set to Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor.

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

"Wind in the Willows" David Attenborough narrates this stop motion advert for the Wildlife Trusts. Directed by Tom O'Meara and Matthew Day at new London based production company ROWDY.

VIDEOIsland by Max Mörtl & Robert Löbel is an adorable stop motion & 2D animated short sharing how "On a small island a bunch of exotic creatures run across each other."

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.

Citroën has launched SEETROËN, the first glasses that eliminate motion sickness by recreating the horizon line to resolve the conflict between the senses that causes the affliction.

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."

Uplift: A spiralling solar sculpture to soothe the soul by Tom Lawton. Powered by the sun, Uplift's relaxing motion creates a calm, never-ending spiral that's mesmerising to watch as it flows and you unwind. You can also interact with it using the magnetic wand...

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.

Move music with Wave. Wave by Genki Instruments is a ring that lets musicians control music with the motion of their hands. Photo by Studio Fræ for HA Magazine.

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

VIDEOThe Great British Bake Off Trailer by Blink brings baking to life with adorable stop motion animation and singing!

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

Adult Swim Singles 2016 - the graphics! (especially in motion!) In addition to downloading the music - you can also purchase the artwork as prints, tees, and more.

Copper in Motion: interactive sculptures for the EMC2 Hotel’s lobby, by Larose Guyon.

VIDEORaphael Vangelis uses stop motion to animate symbols for loading in his short "Analogue Loaders".

Jelle Reith Compass - a wearable compass. A magnetometer finds the direction the user is heading and the suit responds to that data. Magnets and Electromagnets generate motion in the fabric, making the direction of the magnetic north clear.

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

VIDEOAs part of Art in Motion exhibition in Beirut, french firm Atelier YokYok and sculptor Ulysse Lacoste have teamed up with art and architecture students from Beirut to create the Paper dome.

In preparation for the 'Expedition Collection' the Malle London team set out on a 10,000 mile (37 day) expedition across the North American continent with the motto ‘Design, Destroy, Redesign & Deliver’ - design in motion!

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

The motion graphics of Galeries Lafayette : ACTE 1 "Bandes Originales" will mesmerize you! Gorgeous work from MADA MADA, Antonin Waterkeyn, Louis Boulloche, and Nicolas Lichtle.

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.)

Feltmark Ellum is a highly efficient, battery powered light that can be placed anywhere and illuminates when you need it thanks to motion detectors.

The Martian - UI Screen Graphics.

VIDEOAnouk van de Sande "Print In Motion" - Moire effects in fashion... even more enticing and mesmerizing that in print. As beautiful as her pictures are, you have to see the video to get the full effect!

VIDEO"Beauty of the Lopp" is an animated concept music video based on audiovisual loops. It is the graduation project of Berlin based Motion Designer Felix Neumann.

ALAN, the first affordable modular animatronic robot kit. Designed by Hollywood make-up effects artist Will Huff, ALAN is a 1:1 human scale robot head and shoulders measuring 16 inches tall, provides 5 axes of motion, and is made of off the shelf parts.

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!

VIDEOAn Instant Guide to Making Coffee - beautifully animated piece from &Orange Motion Design. From pour over to chemex to french press, areopress, vacuum pot, and moka pot.

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.

NASA's Orbit Pavilion sculpture, on display at the Intrepid Air, Sea and Space Museum in New York, creates a visual impression of swirling motion to accompany the movement and sounds of space satellites.

RAD Rollers are "relief in motion" - Interesting modular massage therapy system of rounds, rollers, rod, helix, and block. Super intrigued by the RAD Helix. [p.s. use code: "NOTCOT" for free shipping!]

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?]

VIDEOEndless Gravity by Alex Soloviev with mesmerizing footage of jellyfish in motion.

The Running Rabbit Bracelet is inspired by Italian Futurist. The idea was to record several phases of movement in wave-like trails on one surface. The Running Rabbit Bracelet looks to capture the beautiful rabbit running in motion.

Hand carved and made of heavy crystal, the underside of this revolutionary vessel features a slightly beveled design- allowing the glass to spin like a top with kinetic motion when twirled.

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.

Light painting with your shoes. Orphe contain motion sensors and 100 serially-controlled color LEDS.

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.

VIDEOSimon Beck's Snow Art in motion in Banff National Park.

VIDEOas·phyx·i·a from Maria Takeuchi and Frederico Phillips - a mesmerizing video using 2 Kinect sensors to motion capture a choreographed dance piece. The data is then manipulated digital to create the end result.

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.

Frame by Frame by Frame is a site dedicated to dissect the great work of motion designers - frame by frame, to learn their craft secrets and get inspired.

Imperial Motion Reflective Vector Windbreaker Jacket - i kind of want to run around taking flash photos with one...

VIDEOMercedes-Benz F 015 Luxury In Motion Research Vehicle - a preview of how the self-driving car of the future could become a platform for communication and interaction.

Project Nourished by Kokiri Lab. A gastronomical virtual reality experience. With an Oculus Rift VR headset, utility sensor fork, and Leap Motion sensor you can feast without the calories.

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!

VIDEOAmazing Japanese Fried Shrimp commercial/video - the machine they concoct is incredible in slow motion. DOCOMO's 3 Second Cooking spot promotes the speed of their Full LTE service.

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!

A beautiful collection of agates, whose intricate patterns can be modeled using fractal functions modulated with Brownian motion algorithms.

Mirage pavilion for Sziget Festival 2014, by Studio Nomad.

Type Motion, over 240 examples of typography being used alongside the moving image, some familiar, some rare, all outstanding artworks in their own right. The exhibition features an archive of clips dating from 1897 to present.

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

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.

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.

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

General Electric has created a wonderful 3D model of a jet engine that anyone can build themselves with a 3D printer. It is complete with moving parts and a cutaway design so you can see everything in motion.

VIDEOFireworks exploding in slow motion from The Discover Slow Down.

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

Arcus Motion Analyzer is a marriage of wearable activity trackers and gesture recognition devices.

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.

Ridge Kitchen is a collection of porcelain tools for the kitchen. Made from a material true to the landscape of the kitchen, the surface conveys use through pattern and motion.

Whipping Post Military style leather duffel bag.

VIDEOBeautiful use of string in this stop motion music video for Moving On, the next single from James by Ainslie Henderson.

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

VIDEOStunning winner of the 2013 Nikon Small World in Motion contest, a 3D reconstruction of a 10 day old quail embryo.

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!

VIDEOLittle chicks' first attempt to fly in slow motion for this PETA ad - cute until the end.

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

VIDEOIncredible watching the way a dog's tongue scoops water when drinking... the slow motion is fascinating.

VIDEOZX Concept - Interactive installation concept using projection mapping & Leap Motion to explore color & sound in a three-dimensional space. Uses sight & sound to define the limits of an intangible interface.

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.

Double exposure in full psychedelic motion for the new Peach Kings music video.

Ice Glasses by Baku Maeda.

VIDEOBeautiful advert for The Americans with a timelapse motion video of the husband and wife in bed as they create the sickle and hammer with their movements.

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.

VIDEOA slow motion video captures the collapse of a soap bubble in contact with a cold rod.

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

Blake Fall-Conroy's Minimum Wage Machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 5.7 seconds, £6.31 an hour, the UK minimum wage.

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.

VIDEOLeif Ristroph and colleagues at NYU create a 4 winged robot whose motion is inspired by the movement of jellyfish.

Porsche Design Shake Pen Twist ~ "With a breif wrist movement, it is ready to write. Repeat the same motion and the refill "disappears" into the barrel, which is aluminium milled into twist shape."

Mormorion lamp, just like the Smoky Quartz crystal it is inspired by, produces a show of light and darkness when it interacts with its surrounding. Must be seen in motion in the video.

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

VIDEOYuki Ariga's stop motion Tissue Animals for a Japanese paper manufacturer, Nepia.

VIDEOA stop motion pumpkin lobotomy by pumpkin carver Chris Soria, illustrator Jason Smith and Joe Vaughn.

VIDEOThe Deep, a playful stop motion film by PES using mechanical toys to create an underwater world.

FEATUREDBoeing Factory Tour in Everett, WA just outside of Seattle is a definite must see in person when in the area. The sheer scale of the space and the planes and the factory in motion is mind blowing.

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.

VIDEO"Portrait Robot" is a project by three students form l'école nationale supérieur de création industrial in Paris. An ABB robot, using a black marker and the Microsoft motion capture Kinect, draws the image of the user as he pauses.

VIDEOPenguin NAVI - Tokyo's Sunshine Aquarium has an app that helps visitors find them by following the Augmented Reality GPS Penguins, which were motion captured!

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

The Galerie Perrotin art gallery in New York City is introducing a kaleidoscope of eight mighty polar bears brightly colored and feathered. They have been frozen in motion, jumping, flying, brawling, snoozing.

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

Los Angeles artist Jeff Frost scours the planet looking for abandoned buildings, dead trees and other beautiful desolate places where he can execute his stop motion and time lapse photography.

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'.

VIDEOCheetah vs Greyhound - World's Fastest Dog In Super Slow Motion by Earth Unplugged, films these extremely fast animals with high speed cameras, breaks down their movements, and how they achieve such speed.

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.