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.

Sesame Street Cookie Monster Chase is an adorable twist on Pac Man, complete with pixelated Yip-Yips, Cookies and Veggies!

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.

In aid of street dogs. Tote Bag collection in collaboration between Berlin Dog Accessories brand Cloud7 and various great European illustrators. All profits go to neuter program of Bulgarian NGO Everydaystray.

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

VIDEOSesame Street x Game of Thrones and Westworld. Fun HBO crossover spots to teach kids (of all ages) about respect! Featuring Elmo and Cookie Monster.

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)

In From The Storm Brutalist Architecture Christmas Cards featuring The Barbican, Glenkerry House and Welbeck Street Car Park; all with a Dollydagger twist!

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.

Wikipedia x Advisory Board Crystals streetwear collaboration. 100% of the proceeds from this shirt go to the Wikimedia Foundation in their effort to support Wikipedia.

Bunny with a Toolbelt Window of Wonders! This is a street's-eye-view window gallery, loaded with original characters from the books and playing card deck, an ever-evolving woodland scene, and more in Portland, OR.

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."

“Broadway Bouquet” is a temporary floral installation created by Terrain Work at the intersection of Broadway and 24th Street for the NYC/DOT Car Free Earth Day event.

Synecdoche's bright blue Church Street Lobby installation of paneled aluminum bars with LED back lights. This canopy and wall piece is a lighting strategy with minimal intrusion that creates a striking graphic of patterned lines in the central corridor.

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).

"Sensing machine n°3" by swiss duo Nevercrew. Mural intervention realized at Le M.U.R., historical institution of street art in Paris

Kodai Iwamoto Design EX-PORTATION 2018 at Ventura Future. Stunning "Plastic Blowing Project" heats and blows PVC pipes like glass into vases!

IKEA SPÄNST Collection by Chris Stamp and Maja Ganszyniec. A streetwear inspired black and white collection including a basketball hoop, skateboard and sneaker rack, desk, clear sneaker boxes and more...

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.

Map on Table by Hasan Agar - London and New York City streets are laser cut into metal side table tops. Flat packed, simply screw the wooden legs on. Currently on Kickstarter.

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.

"Baring machine" new mural realized by swiss duo Nevercrew in Satka (Russia), for the Satka Street Art Festival.

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

Street Art Installation "Hands" by Octavi Serra - Barcelona- Spain

Treepedia by MIT Senseable City Lab - Treepedia aims to raise a proactive awareness of urban vegetation improvement, using computer vision techniques based on Google Street View images.

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

A Digital Street Art experience in the streets of Paris. Inspired by french poet Alfred de Musset: "The only true language in the world is a kiss", Julien NONNON projected onto the walls and buildings of the capital almost a hundred of couples kissing.

Progress shots from Charlotte Dutoit’s 2016 Unexpected gathering in Downtown Fort Smith, Arkansas. The immersive street art festival runs until the 11th of September 2016.

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"

FEATUREDNOTCOT Inspiration: Nashville + Project House Part III! House updates, street art finds, and lots of creatures and other surprising natural inspiration!

VIDEOAkinori Goto's 3D printed zoetrope is a beautiful study of human motion expressed in a sculptural object.

FEATURED@NOTlabs Inspiration: Nashville + Project House progress! All the random inspirations and mini adventures - from vintage bottles and turtles in the yard, to street art, shopping, Mac n' Cheetos and beyond...

VIDEOTiger Trading Co. - Singaporean Tiger Beer hosts a pop up shop in NYC on Canal Street amongst all the cheap chinatown vendors to show off 700+ high end designer goods from Asia.

Ordering Machine mural painting by Nevercrew for Grenoble Street Art Fest 2016 in Grenoble, France.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Inspiration: Nashville + Project House! A look at gorgeous sculptures, a stunning bar in an old boiler room, street art, tiles, surprising tools, bobcat vs doghouse, Bucky & Caleb, and so much more!

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!)

VIDEOO Street's "Roadliners" is a film about inspiration and craft, and the uncelebrated typographers of the road and a day in the life of Glasgow roadliner Thomas ‘Tam’ Lilley. So fascinating! And they had them make a font from it!

FEATUREDLuftgekühlt 2016 at the Modernica factory today - a few hundred air-cooled vintage Porsche coupes filled the parking lot, warehouses, and surrounding streets as well as a pop up shop of ltd ed shirts, posters, eames chairs and more.

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

Legend of Zelda Day on Google Maps! Adorable little streetview guy is now Link!

Libreria, a new book shop, printing press, and interdisciplinary community space, will open at 65 Hanbury Street, London, Feb 25, 2016. From Rohan Silva and Sam Aldenton, the founders of Second Home.

French street artist Le Sonneur sticks his arty red doorbells in the streets of Los Angeles and Venice. Open your eyes and follow those red ephemery poetic spots.

VIDEOLos Angeles 6th Street Bridge over the LA River is about to be taken down. Vashi Nedomansky has rounded up 11 of the hundreds of films that feature it.

After the success of his Urbain Safari in Paris, French artist Julien Nonnon decided to cross the Atlantic and offer a unique and a new experience of digital street art in Florida.

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!

Bold and colorful new mural by DAAS in Osaka, Japan. Produced for the Takatsuki Art Expo 2015

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.

Burning Dojo skate deck triptych by FAKIR. Limited edition of 30 by Last Concept Shop.

Anatomy in Black by Emily Evans is a sophisticated and educational coffee table book for anatomy lovers done entirely in black and gold. This gorgeous book contradicts everything an anatomy text has been —elevating it as a thing of beauty and prestige.

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.)

"Arabian Street Artists" Bomb Homeland: Why We Hacked An Award Winning Series on Heba Y Amin. Nice article on how set designers overlooked the content of graffiti when focusing on how things looked...

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!

Prada opens its first pastry shop with Pasticceria Marchesi on the luxury street Via Montenapoleone in the heart of Milan

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.

French street artist Le Sonneur who sticks some poetic and surrealistic bells in the city shows his work at Gallery Strip Art in Paris.

Stephen Powers + New York City DOT for “ICY Signs" - 30 different signs will be presented on various street light poles from Central Park at E. 72nd down to the Brooklyn Bridge.

'The Last Kiss' new mural in Ravenna, Italy, by street artist Pixel Pancho.

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 spatial installation ‘Urban Ant City’ by Dutch design firm STUDIO 1:1 is a living city map of Rotterdam. Hundreds of Spanish ants find their way through the existing street plan, gradually creating organic alternative routes.

London Map Side Table - A concept from Hasan Agar. The London street map and landmarks are engraved on a metal surface. It has matte beech triangular section legs and comes in three different options: black, white and watercolours.

Spanish artist Pejac created amazing street art in Tokyo on a recent Asian tour.

Illustrated 'Icons of Zürich' print transfers on wood allow the rough texture of the wood and transfer process to give an organic original result. No two pictures are the same, as this process is done by hand.

The ultimate Icon of Zürich are the beautifully maintained trams that roll up and down the streets, many Zürkers take pride in their regular tram, look out for future customised trams.

Psychic Power of Animals – New Mural by Faith47 in Manhattan / New York.

Natural Processes. Anatomically inspired self-portraits that 'captivate, by reverberating between the familiar and the odd, between the beautiful and the perverse.' By Billy Reynolds.

Elsewhere – recycled wood mural by Strook for Mechelen Muurt. The mural is placed on the side wall of an old furniture factory in Mechelen, Belgium. It’s made by piecing together discarded wooden planks, doors and furniture.

Giant pigeon street art from Super A.

IKEA Tempelhof receives artistic facade

Street art meets traditional Chinese art in the splashed ink works by Hua Tunan.

New from Street Artist OakOak.

Streetart meets Optical Illusions: Felice Varini unveils a Series of new anamorphic Pieces in Paris.

FEATUREDGoogle Maps now lets you Street View your way into Loch Ness to look for Nessie!

Museum of Chaildhood V&A - See the world through a child's eyes. A group of award winning illustrators created a collection of ambient street art, which shows how London looks when seen through the eyes of a child.

VIDEOCall Allen Ginsberg - April is National Poetry Month, this interactive street art meets poetry project is popping up all over SF.

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.

Joyful video about travels and paintings of the street artists duo Nevercrew. Artworks between 2014 and 2015 in Hamburg, Dublin, Cairo, Belgrade, Berlin, Winterthur, on a beautiful song by Bishop Allen.

VIDEOHundreds of beagle dogs folded from £10 notes released in London by life insurance company Beagle Street

Animated Mural / GIFitti by spanish Streetartist WEDO.

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.

Beautiful remodel of the Donmar Warehouse's Donmar Drayden Street by Haworth Tompkins.

Los Angeles-based streetartist RISK paints new Murals at Sylvester Stallone’s former Santa Monica Studio.

Liddy Scheffknecht's POP UP furniture is like a life sized pop up book!

New work by yarn graffiti artist HOTTEA in Hawaii for the POW! WOW! Festival.

Streetart: New Pieces by Etam Cru for POW! WOW! Hawaii 2015.

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.

Escif recently painted this interesting mural in Madrid, using pattern of a vintage floral wallpaper found in one of the apartments.

Invader is now in Africa where they just landed in Tanzania to work on an unknown project alongside with Vhils.

Le Sonneur is a french street artist who sets bells on doors along the streets. Those bells have the names of famous heroes of pop culture. And then you learn that Batman, Hannibal Lecter, Marty McFly and Darth Vader are among your closest neighbors.

VIDEOIn this Canadian Jeep Cherokee ad they transform a street in Vancouver into a forest and mountain river. They brought in a million pounds of boulders, rocks and sand, 80 trees, and even two wolves.

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!

Portuguese street artist Odeith with a series of anamorphic graffiti artworks that cleverly play with perspective.

Mirage pavilion for Sziget Festival 2014, by Studio Nomad.

Clean lines and sharp detail on these histological plates, cups & saucers represent the otherwise dirty job of digestion. Part of a unique range of fine china illustrating the anatomy and histology of the digestive system.

Grimshaw's Fulton Center in Lower Manhattan the new New York subway station and retail space.

Interactive 'Outings' Project – Bring Museum Art to the Streets.

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

Godzilla Card from Stencil - created with the use of pneumatic guns, laser cut stencils, and water based ink. A piece of street art that you can hold in the palm of your hand!

New Mural by Sainer und Betz from Polish Streetart Team Etam Cru in Rome, Italy.

VIDEOGoogle Streetview mounts the camera on a Camel! Explore Liwa with Google Maps from Google Arabia.

Streetart: FischersNetz Mural by Innerfields in Hamburg / Germany.

Yellow Submarine, an organic burger place in Zagreb, Croatia, with its periscope emerging from the city fountains, parks and streets.

Stunning bird murals by L7m.

Anamorphic Illusions by Street Art Collective Truly Design in Lausanne // Switzerland as part of Art on Science 2014, a public exhibition, focused on optical illusions.

Full Coverage of 2014 Nuart Festival's highly anticipated show, Tou Scene’s Ølhallene, where the world's most innovative street artists exhibit their indoor and outdoor works.

Post Club HQ is a subscription Postcard Print service! The August 2014 issue is "Use yer hands"

Penhaligon window display by Al-Jawad Pike as part of the RIBA Regent Street Windows Project 2014.

The cargo-like drawing machine by Fxstg to draw streets and canals of Amsterdam.

Beautiful Urban Interventions made on the streets, houses and abandoned places. By Raquel Schembri.

Street Art and Wall Murals by YZ Yseult.

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.

Capax Infiniti, new mural for the Forest For The Trees project, showing a ghostly-like woman with her back turned to us. By South African muralist Faith47.

Flash by studio weisschwarz - a new interpretation of neon. Glass tubes are handmade and filled with noble gases, giving the installations the unmistakeable glow we know from the streets of new york.

Dip Bench, rubber dipped feet with walnut wood top. Built to order by Synecdoche.

ROA recently stopped by North Africa to paint for the Djerbahood project in Djerba, Tunisia.

50 unconventional street signs, a public art project from the Dept. of Transportation, placed throughout NYC till the end of August. By artist and designer Ryan McGinness.

London-based street artist, SHOK-1 known for his ‘X-ray‘ murals, completed ‘The Consumer‘ in Hamburg, Germany. Shaped like the iconic game character Pac-Man, the artist’s clever take on our own modern day vices catches passerbys attention.

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

19 Foamboys by artist Niek Pullesto for Comme des Garçons, installed in Tokyo, Kyoto, Paris, London Dover Street Market and New York Street Market.

Rafael Gómezbarros 'Casa Tomada' installations showing huge ants on buildings all over the world.

Shipping Containers Turned Into Canvas - Rock Werchter music festival held in Belgium is hosting street artists to use group of staked shipping containers into canvas.

Spark Design Space in Reykjavik has opened the exhibition Urban Shape, a set of graphic maps based on Open Street Map data. Designed by architect Paolo Gianfrancesco.

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

"Take The Stairs" - Beautifully decorated and painted steps from all around the world.

Street Glory Mappers, event communication agency specialized in Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) launches a innovating concept of Street Marketing. We will now use a car as a dynamic display: Street Media Car.

Mentalgassi, a trio of young German street artists are currently visiting South America and Brazil where they linked up with Mundano to work on this new series of pieces.

The Making Of David Kind Luxury Optic Lenses - interesting to see how these high end Trivex prescription eye glass lenses are made.

Woodspot, table lamp composed of a base with a hood-like light diffuser, provides a focused glow reminiscent to that of a streetlamp, as seen in René Magritte’s 'Empire of Light' oil painting.