On the LA Public Library turning 150, there is also an official poster by DKNG, featuring 150 books (there's an accompanying list of the must read classics on the site too!)

Luke Flowers Raised by Rainbows print at Gallery 1988 is an absolutely stunning piece filled with 150 references to books, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the LA Public Library! 16 x 20 inch signed open edition.

Jeff Soto Naughty or Nice Seeker Ornaments from Prints on Wood! 3"x3" wood prints

Mrs. Wordsmith - Stunningly fun, researched backed books, games, and an app to teach kids to read and write. Characters designed by artist of Madagascar. The Science of Reading reports are fascinating and there's a wealth of free resources.

DinoGlows! Dinosaur plushies that flip inside-out to reveal glow-in-the-dark fossils. Designed by Erin McGarry, artist and founder of Womple Studios.

Brendan Monroe 2021 POW! WOW! Long Beach Bandana

"Syngnathidae" print by Zoe Keller for Pangea Seed Foundation. Another stunning print by one of our favorite artists, for one of our favorite groups! Look at the detail! Those baby seahorses!!!

Peloton Lanebreak - looks like a cycling video game mashup of Rockband/MarioKart for those of us who can't stand the instructors... a nice alternative to Scenic Routes?

Stop Asian Hate - collection of printable posters at Huyen Dinh's site featuring artwork from Asian American artists (bit confusing with the flags on the site) Seen here - work from Huyen Dinh, Dan Lee, Joe Lee, Jin Kim, and Nhi Nguyen.

Sherwood Hockey Artist Puck Challenge! Fun inspiration to kick it off like this example from Alvaro Ilizarbe - Eat, Sleep, Practice, Play, Repeat. Also check out examples from Kevin Lyons and I <3 Stencils.

BLOB OPERA! This is the hilariously bouncy dose of happy we need this 2020 holiday season. From Google Arts & Culture these four AI blobs will sing christmas songs and you can grab and bounce them to sing anything you want!

Dodo Banana - adorable happy illustrated prints on these GOTS 100% organic pima cotton kids pjs. Favorites - Shapes, Ornaments, and Clouds! Collaboration between artist Alessandra Olanow and retailer/designer Fiona Montgomery.

United States of Letterpress is the latest limited edition memo book collection from Field Notes. Three sets of books feature covers designed and printed by nine letterpress artists and studios.

Rise Up. Show Up. Unite! Is a new campaign started by Jessica Hische and 20+ amazing artists. The instagram tag #RiseUpShowUpUnite is growing fast with lots of inspiring art.

PangeaSeed "Vote The Environment" Campaign - A global get-out-the-vote campaign that calls on artists and creatives from around the world to create artworks that inspire voters to cast their ballots with the welfare of the planet and people in mind.

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.

“Hellos Without Handshakes” is a new public service campaign to discourage the practice of handshaking as businesses across the country begin to reopen. It includes a collection of free, downloadable posters. Created by High, Wide, & Handsome.

Earlybird Claycup limited edition featuring the artwork of Nanami Cowdroy. Available in 8oz and 12 oz, Claycups are lovely textures ceramic reusable coffee cups!

Arthur and Friend's Karl Chair - adorable wooden cube chairs with two seat heights and can be flipped to be a table (or nightstand)

HOME! In celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day (April 22), HOME is the world’s first stay-at-home environmental mural festival. Register as an artist, and/or check out the line up of virtual programming.

Nucleus Portland's store is filled with artistic temptations... here's their new TRANSPARENT Meyoco pin, Brendan Monroe tote, and Drink & Draw Society pin!

National Geographic's April 2020 Earth Day issue features their first double cover - It's Nice That interview: "National Geographic’s creative director explains the Optimism vs Pessimism issue"

FEATUREDColoring Pages! They are popping up from many of our favorite artists these days to help destress adults or inspire/amuse kiddos. Here are some from Audrey Kawasaki, Pete Fowler, James Jean, Jacquelin de Leon, and perhaps more to come...

Australi-Aid has partnered with over 40 incredible artists to create a beautiful collection of postcards to support The Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors and Australian Red Cross.

Caña Magazine's "2019’S BEST CRAFT BEER ARTWORK" - As label art became the new record sleeve, craft beer aesthetics scaled new heights in 2019; for pop pickers with an eye for design, here's a countdown of the year in beer art.

Christophe Guinet aka Mr. Plant's "Tree Hug" is made from molds of the arms of local residents. Installation for Exhibition in Annecy / FRANCE from July 6 to September 15, 2019 for Annecy Paysages and l'Arteppes.

When You Think of Home is a creative project that enlists artists around the world to create unique posters to share their perspective of home. The posters benefit Acres of Love, a nonprofit that houses orphaned kids in South Africa.

Doug Aitken X Parley #1, #2, and #3 Special Edition Ocean Bag – Artist Series. These limited edition geometric tote bags each remove 20lbs of marine plastic debris, and are created from ~5 intercepeted plastic bottles (Ocean Plastic!)

The Make:Good Curiosity Cart is made from 35 layers of 12mm and 24mm plywood and provides exploratory and sensory play, alongside storage. Commissioned by Bow Arts and created for Lansbury Lawrence Primary School in East London.

Look Keys! Fun custom art keys featuring artists like Joe Ledbetter, Yoskay Yamamoto, Amanda Visell, Chris Ryniak, Robots Will Kill, Sket One, and many other NOTCOT favorites!

A look back... VOX Recode article By Jason Del Rey: "The making of Amazon Prime, the internet’s most successful and devastating membership program: An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever."

Raising Robotic Natives: Artefacts for generations growing up with robots by Stephan Bogner, Philipp Schmitt, and Jonas Voigt. Living Room Kill Switch, Robot Baby Feeder Toolhead, Dragon Costume for Industrial Robot, and "My First Robot" Book.

RoBOTL - Timberland partners with Giò Forma for this massive 6m tall installation made of recycled plastic bottles in Piazza XXV Aprile for Milan Design Week 2019. (Inspired by ReBOTL, Timberland’s new footwear collection)

Wow! Boooooooom x Thinkspace: ‘Seeing Red’ opens 3/30 and this 12x12 inch invitational curated by Booooooom is stunning! Take a look at the preview with favorites from artists like Audrey Kawasaki, Brendan Monroe, Fafi and more!

The Artek + Heath Collection is so lovely, especially the Tea Trolleys! Form-bent solid birch lamella frame, MDF wheels, rattan basket, and ceramic tile. Only 6 of each made.

Chrome Dino Set designed in New York by Andrew Bell for Google to celebrate 10 years of the Chrome browser! You recognize this cute pixel dino and cacti from when your internet goes out! Limited sets available to the public 3/11/19.

Good Ship IKEA by Mother London is a life sized version of the IKEA SMÅKRYP bath boat that can clean up 20kgs of trash from the waterways! The public is currently invited to remote control them in Deptford Creek, east London.

"When Basketball Inspires" runs Feb 8-10, 2019 in Paris. Stunning art exhibition by Trajectoire Studio featuring 30 artists. Particularly loving "Wireframe" by Town and Concrete.

Gizmodo 'Goodbye Big Five' article series is such a fascinating read! "Reporter Kashmir Hill spent six weeks blocking Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple from getting my money, data, and attention, using a custom-built VPN."

Dawid Planeta's imaginary animals are beautifully eerie.

USPS Military Working Dogs Stamps - designed by Greg Breeding with artwork by DKNG Studios featuring a German shepherd, Labrador retriever, Belgian Malinois and Dutch shepherd.

Beautiful Geometric Wooden Tray from Art of Play. Designed by Kenichi Mizushima in Fukui, Japan. (Also, they have great spinning tops - so many that are part of our NOTCOT collection!)

Target's new shipping boxes (launching holiday 2018) are adorable! They feature Bullseye, pulling up in a Target delivery truck; Bullseye scampering around the house; and Bullseye peeking out of a Target box.

In-Danger Book: Artists United for Wildlife Conservation is currently on Kickstarter. It contains over 100 unique artworks representing threatened and endangered creatures from amazing artists like J.A.W. Cooper, Kim Jung Gi, and so many more.

Kid Made Modern's Artist Books To Color In: Patrick Hruby - is filled with fun geometric illustrations of underwater creatures!

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.

Target launches Smartly - "Target’s Newest Owned Brand With Most Items Under $2" with over 70 products, and fun minimal, modern packaging graphics.

Inflorescence, a polished stainless steel sculpture for the Sciences Building at the University of Alaska Anchorage, uses sensors inside the building to adjust the color of the sculpture based upon level of activity in the building.

Design Legend David Carson and artist Thijs Biersteker created a brainwave controlled globe showing us that if we lose focus on climate change the world goes to shit.

Exhibited during the 2018 London Design Biennale, “Matter to Matter” interactive installation by Arthur Analts invites visitors to leave their own message or print on a large glass wall of condensation.

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.

BIGFOOT x Grassroots x Black Book Gallery capsule collection! An amazing blanket, pillow, pins, hats and more.

MAD Restores the Kiyotsu Gorge Tunnel with Artistic Spaces for the 2018 Echigo-Tsumari Triennale

Apple Piazza Liberty, including both a grand public plaza and a store below, opens in the center of Milan.

Yuri Suzuki's Sonic Playground at the High Museum of Art. It includes 6 interactive sound sculptures that manipulate sound depending on where you are standing, listening or speaking.

Piano. Push. Play. is distributing pianos painted by local artists all around Portland again. May your summer be filled with spontaneous public jam sessions…

Plate Recorder by artists Liat Segal and Roy Maayan, is a custom-built painting machine that etches sound waves, creating ‘ceramic plate records’.

Vogue takes a look at the creative ways Caviar is being served across America... "Caviar Is Everywhere, Not Only for Special Occasions: Where to Eat the Ingredient of 2018"

The Impossible Garden window installation features life sized salvaged leather flamingos. Designed by artists Heavy Eyes for Hermès, São Paulo, Brazil.

Papercuts - A unique set of playing cards, crafted by hand, through the delicate art of paper cutting by Suzy Taylor. An Art of Play Project!

JEM is an interactive public sculpture that senses your presence and responds with an ever-changing music & light symphony. Designed by ENESS. JEM can be found at Flowstate located in South Bank, Brisbane, Australia.

“Mixed Mediums” is an AR gallery installation for the launch of Google’s new Augmented Images feature for ARCore 1.2. This feature allows viewers to initiate interactive experiences from static artworks as one moves throughout the gallery space.

Throw some Side-Eye with these 90's vibe inspired T's by: all my friends are animals. A point of view expressed through character and style, an original collection by artist Studio Nicco. Printed & embroidered in New York.

Karl Lagerfeld X Yoni Alter. A stunning new spring- summer collection by the legendary fashion designer in collaboration with the London based artist.

The artist Fabian Gatermann transformed the metro station "Schweizer Platz“ in Frankfurt into a light installation called CityLightCharts. All amorphous light objects are created through algorithms and data like migration, raw oil, gold or rich/poor indices...

IKEA Art Event 2018 is starting to pop up in stores. Glass sculptures by artists like Coarse, James Jarvis, Joe Ledbetter, Junko Mizuno, Michael Lau, Nathan Jurevicius, and more!

Copenhagen Islands by Fokstrot. CPH-Ø1 is a small 20m2 hand made wooden platform with a linden tree at its centre. The first in a series of moveable, floating, public spaces free for people to explore and conquer.

Emerging Objects' Cabin of Curiosities in Oakland is covered in over 4,500 3D printed tiles! Planter tiles on the front make up a living wall of succulents, and the roof and sides are covered in Seed Stitch tiles.

Procedural Artwork for the MIT's most recent scientific findings (like Gravitational Waves) by Process Studio from Vienna.

Marmot with Bootle Porcelain Edition by Belgium Artist SWEETLOVE / Porcelain made in Limoges, France

Area Ware Aluminum Ruler designed by Allon Libermann and Hye Jin Ahn. It uses visual hierarchies of color and shape to articulate the process of measurement.

Linn Fritz is a Swedish designer and animation artist now based in London. Her works are deliberately surreal and dreamy.

Bureo Jenga Ocean - Each game is made from over 25 square feet of fishing nets proudly sourced through Bureo's Net Positiva recycling program. Artwork by Lake Buckley.

On adaptive UI, you might see a different movie image depending on your viewing habits on Netflix - "Artwork Personalization at Netflix" By Ashok Chandrashekar, Fernando Amat, Justin Basilico and Tony Jebara

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.

Apple Park Visitors Center in Cupertino is now open. In addition to the store and cafe, visitors can interact with the 3-D model of the campus which is brought to life by augmented reality.

ARC'TERYX Veilance durable, ultra thin casing leather goods - card wallet, billfold, and passport wallet. Slim, strong, and oh so sleek due to laminating instead of stitching the leather.

NYC Metro Cards featuring the work of Barbara Kruger!

Guinness Special Gilroy Limited Edition Cans - lobster and toucans! Over the years, Guinness has used so many great illustrations by British artists John Gilroy!

Back To Bits - Launched today! Retro SNES-inspired animated GIFS featuring more than 40 artists.

Create-Zine is an independent publication created to showcase some of the best talent in global illustration, printmaking, art, graphic design, craft, typography and art direction.

FEATUREDUnboxing the AbsoluteXtracts and Jeremy Fish premium limited edition FISH TANKS! Beautiful little fishy details and artwork through the packaging, cartridge, battery, velvet case and more...

“Boolean” And (bust), 2017 - Nucleo Piergiorgio Robino + Edoardo U. Trave. Welded, polished, bronze plates on vintage sculpture - 40 x 53 x 100h cm

Mandi Keighran is a London-based collage artist who creates cut & paste collages using old fashion magazines

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

The "About Us" Page of Every Digital Media Agency by Julian M. Stern on McSweeney's.

99U's The Future of Design (Part II) - interesting read on what 10 creatives predict is coming up in the world of design and how they will prepare for it.

Natalya Zahn shares the adventure of her Alaskan Artist's Residency thru a stunning travel-log. The bulk of this trip was organized by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) in conjunction with the Voices of the Wilderness Artist Residency (VOTW).

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!)

Newfields, a Place for Nature & the Arts in Indianapolis, IN has a great logo by Young & Laramore.

Drinkin' Smokin' & West Coastin': A Group Love/Hate Letter to LA opens tonight at the Think Tank Gallery in DTLA - and that's just the beginning of an epic month of events, installations, and quite the roster of artists.

The artists Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk "heating" the ruins of a Gothic monastery church in the city centre of Berlin with an 11-ton RADIATOR.

Artist/Illustrator Yaoyao Ma Van As captures all of our everyday joys and struggles so well in her personal pieces - often capturing moments you've probably forgotten experiencing too!

Demeter - the first of thirteen designs for a series called The Pantheon, by laser-cutting artist Gabriel Schama. On sale now. Limited edition of 25.

"You must practice being stupid" illustration by Sawdust for 2016 OFFF book Archetype.

PichiAvo is a Spanish based artist duo, composed by Pichi and Avo that together create graffiti design in the streets while mixing it with Greek gods.

Artist, Alexandre Echasseriau designed an interactive wallpaper using the Touch Board & conductive paint. developed a bespoke wall speaker and wallpaper which combined to create a decorative and functional pattern.

French artist, Louis Stimes, is hacking fashion magazines with hand drawn typography.

510, an art installation by dutch artist Jasper Niens, consists of 7000 unique parts. Its form is based on the shape of the Wendelstein 7x and is built as a irregular spaceframe invented by Niens.

New opart outdoor mural by mexican visual artist Gibran Julian

British artist Alex Chinneck has completed his latest monumental artwork entitled Six pins and half a dozen needles on Assembly London.

Environmental artist Steve Messam has installed three inflatable, fabric sculptures into the buildings and landscape of the Borders Sculpture Park at Mellerstain.

Gravity is a 3D sculpture installation by artist Detour, which revolves around the life and struggles of a full-time artist.

Lush Mouthwash Tabs - "After brushing, pop one into your mouth, take a sip of water to start the fizz, and then nibble and swish before spitting out."

THE THING Quarterly comes to an end with a final issue featuring a pair of cement bookends by LA-based artist Dave Muller and ONE LAST THING, a catalogue of every issue produced in this quarterly as the letter "I"

Process Studio's MONOLITH Generative Artwork for Raiffeisen Bank, Vienna. This permanent installation in a skyscraper in Vienna is visualizing the current building's energy consumption in an ever-changing, abstract artwork.

Night Cake Press Snack Time Collection! Fun kid-friendly sticker patches! "Products from this line will touch on themes like nature, exploration, adventure, and the arts... all with an emphasis on contemporary design and illustration."

How-to for the fun name tags for IDEO CoLab’s Perspectives event! Laser cut/etch acrylic, spray paint the backs, paint fill the text!

LA's Echo Park Cactus Store pops up in NYC. Surface Mag has a peek inside! They've built a temporary greenhouse and store on an empty Lower East Side lot sandwiched between two buildings.

Microchips, transistors, cables. Leonardo Ulian’s Electronic Mandala works are visual compositions with an electronic soul.

FEATURED1964 Supply Company - a new cannabis brand embracing artists like Jeremy Fish, Tristan Eaton, Katie So, Joe Wilson and Ben Tour for fun packaging artwork inspired by the strains.

Steven Harrington designed the cutest public skatepark complete with skateable sculptures in Long Beach, CA for the Dew Tour! Constructed by California Ramp Works. Harrington created a visual aesthetic for the entire event.

Nectar by Cuddly Rigor Mortis. Adorable hummingbirds hanging out on the green creature in this print on wood.

49 beautiful Button Badge Motif Prints were added to Stereohype's growing collection of Fine Art Prints featuring a selection of circular 7" artworks from their popular 1245-strong 1" badge collection by over 350 international talents (shown: Jeff Knowles).

The Poster Posse celebrates Wonder Woman Day (June 3) with a series of posters from various artists. (This one by Doaly.)

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.

Patty Carroll: the art of camouflage

At the 57th La Biennale of Venice, artist Claudia Fontes has unveiled The Horse Problem, a giant white horse within the Argentinian Pavilion.

Milan-based chef and artist Yujia Hu makes sushi in the form of miniature athletic footwear, otherwise known as "Shoe-shi"!

"Rent-Your-Own Rain Rooms Become Big Business in China" at Creators. Random International's installation, Rain Room is being copied for events in China.

On view until November 26th at the Ca’ Sagredo Hotel in Venice during Venice Biennale 2017, Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn’s new monumental sculpture features two large hands emerging from the Grand Canal.

Artist Patrick Cabral is creating elaborate paper cut artworks of animals that are currently endangered and has been donating 50% of proceeds from these works to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)

Artist Anish Kapoor‘s Descension – one of artist’s most viscerally arresting installations – has been unveiled in Brooklyn Bridge Park, marking the official launch of New York’s annual NYCxDesign festival. 

FEATUREDItalian Design Magazines, French Newspapers, Tech/Business Mags, bestsellers and new cookbooks in eBook form... How did i just realize how many can be read and borrowed online for FREE? NOTCOT inspiration overload!

SDR Traveller's D3 Traveller Duffel - designed not to draw attention and be ultra durable (made of Dyneema). This article at Gear Junkie about it is even more fascinating than the bag itself!

The Book of Everyone! A wonderfully curious celebration of someone you know. Customizable digital/physical books for your special someones, mother's day, birthdays, and more! Each page is an artfully designed, and most are customizable.

Doritos x Guardians of the Galaxy "Rock Out Loud" campaign will include a custom-designed, limited-edition series of Doritos bags featuring a built-in cassette tape deck-inspired player that plays the full soundtrack - just add headphones!

For Wienerberger’s newest annual report, Studio Process from Vienna designed custom made, generative artworks for the cover and to showcase highlighted success stories.

Portfolio of Luiz Zanotello, new media artist and designer.

On the occasion of 2017 Milan Design Week, artist Paola Pivi puts her famous feathered bears inside the windows of la Rinascente department store.

Beboe - the latest in luxurious (looking?) cannabis products. Launched by tattoo artist/entrepreneur Scott Campbell and Clement Kwan (of Yoox/Marley Naturals) the line includes a beautifully packaged rose gold disposable vape and tin of pastilles.

VIDEOStephanie Pender 3D Prints GLASS with Robotic Arms at Autodesk Pier 9. Her mix of glass blowing craft and artistry mixed with technology resulted in this glass fiber Fused Filament Deposition Modeling Printer (FFDM)

Birds of Australia by Eggpicnic is one of 10 new public artworks revealed by the City of Sydney set to change the cityscape.

Soylent had W+K Lodge to create an AI spokesbot, Trish. "Trish has a Bitcoin-based store, Soy Route, on the dark web, where Soylent aims to sell rare products including mystery-flavor Soylent, a beef-flavor kit and golden Soylent signed by the CEO."

ENESS brought Sonic Light Bubble, a large-scale installation to life for White Night Melbourne, Australia. This giant synthetic organism attempts to humanize lighting-based public art, attracting passers-by to engage and interact with its beauty.

The ABCs of Particle Physics from Symmetry Magazine (a joint Fermilab/SLAC publication) These adorable illustrations are available in animated and non-animated websites as well as pdf and board book!

Goula Figuera Studio Viride (from latin “green”) is a collection of experimental luminaries which bring together in a single object two elements which are very present in the domestic landscape: artificial lighting and vegetation.

VIDEOLumigraphie "Un Parfum d'étoiles" by French artist Bastien Carré is a luminous sculpture made of hundreds LEDs soldered by hand.

In his delightful digital art series called “Filling Spaces,” Federico Picci visualizes musical notes as solid form in order to convey how the immaterial splendor of a musical composition can suffuse an otherwise empty room.

The physical TWIST collection has been an incredible collaboration between many talents that grace the Pinch studio. From Marjorie Artieres who so cleverly took our concepts and created an evolving modular design showcasing the art of cocktail making…

'Three Words' by artist, type designer and calligrapher, Seb Lester. Exploring the profound and universal beauty of geometry

Shattered Light is a compelling wallpaper by Rollout, based on the imagery of artist Brent Comber. The original design is part of a collection of LED embedded wood light fixtures, inspired by the instinctive process of finding order within imposed chaos.

New tide mural by Mexican artist & illustrator Gibran Julian. (@gibravo1)

The Sicilian mural artist Gue has transformed a local basketball court in the Italian city of Alessandria into a colorful piece of art titled "Playground".