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!

Free Jeremy Fish Print with orders at Upper Playground ~ fun turtle/skull in a burger helmet/shell...

FEATUREDCycle Dog's 3-Play Turtle Dog Toy. Squeaker in the head, treats go in his belly, floats, and it's made from eco-last material from post consumer recycled rubber.

The Turtle Shell Wireless Boombox by Outdoor Tech adheres to IP5X standards, which means it's built double-tough to keep away dust, grime, water, and whatever else you'll encounter on the road.

FEATUREDMontage Laguna Beach Chefside Studio Dinner with a gorgeous view of... the kitchen! Soft shell crab with soba noodles, black truffle stuffed brie, Hudson Valley duck breast with bing cherries, and a fantastic blackberry tart!

Vanuatu's underwater post-office. Where sea turtles recieve postcards from their squirrel friends?

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Emile Henry Modern Classics Pie Dish. Impulse bought this for strawberry cake (#63277) and have been loving it for pies, cakes, casseroles, and more!

Vogue has a video recipe with Lori A. Stern to make her lovely Flower Pressed Shortbread Cookies from #63251.

Seed Phytonutrients are packaged in a "shower-friendly post-consumer recycled paper bottle" made by Ecologic. Apparently "The plastic liner is so thin—95 percent thinner than conventional bottles— that it collapses as it’s used."

Sorry I Have No Filter from Sagmeister & Walsh. Clothes, pins, totes, pillows, phone cases, etc that are an updated twist on their Still Nasty collection (#62016).

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

Post-it Extreme Notes! Water resistant, durable and writable. Made with ultra-strong Dura-Hold Paper and Adhesive. Sticks to textured surfaces and in tough conditions. Sticks in hot and cold environments.

Yolkels by Jason Freeny. A cheeky egg (what else) with a great personality! It comes with a white detachable shell that contains a little surprise inside~ Open it up and you'll find an adorable baby yolkel nestled comfortably with a pink pacifier in its mouth!

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

Fancy Panz - A reusable shell for disposable casserole pans "The convenience of disposable with the look of elegance"

The Casper Lounger - A Casper College Exclusive at Target. Interesting multipurpose piece. Includes collapsible shell, foam base, and elastic band make storage easy

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

INDOEK Wax Kit No. 2 – Resin Rock. Hand molded, poured & finished surfboard resin. The clam shell design is held together by rare earth magnets and fits most square shaped wax brands inside. Limited Edition of 30 in pearl, obsidian, and marble.

Chybik-Kristof Gallery of Furniture outside Brno-Vinohrady, Czech Republic. Amazing exterior shell made of their chair seats!

Skip Hop Camping Cubs Baby Activity Gym. Perfect for those outdoor/animal loving parents! Complete with light-up firefly, turtle mirror, bear rattle and musical raccoon with wooden teether that plays “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

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

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.

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!)

VIDEOHatching chicken eggs outside of their shell! Japanese students manage to hatch them in clear cups with saran wrap allowing you to see all of the development stages clearly.

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

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.

The Folding Boat Co. has been making collapsible kayaks for several years now. The boat has an inner aluminum skeleton with an outer shell. The boats are class 3 rapids ready and weigh only 20 pounds! The backpack they come in is roughly 1.5ft by 2.5ft.

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.)

Porscheplatz 911 Sculpture - Gerry Judah's latest car sculpture is between the Porsche factory and museum in Stuttgart. It features a brand-new 911 Carrera flanked by 911 SC Coupé and 911 2.2 Coupé classics on a lightweight steel monocoque shell.

VIDEODUELS - From Bruton Stroube, the creators of the Slo-Mo Booth (#54107) comes the sequel with a full back-alley set, 3 Phantom HD Gold cameras, and 6 racks of costumes and props and duelers fueled by 6 kegs of beer.

FEATUREDLIGHT L16 Camera - 16 cameras in one combine for up to 52 megapixel images, post processing depth of field control, 35-150mm zoom and more... and we got our hands on a prototype to see what's inside.

VIDEOApparently it will take 2 phones to watch yungjake's music video via snapchat... BOTH. Looks like a BFF necklace split in two?

MAD WORLD - The vehicles of Fury Road. Amazing series of illustrations from Scott Park inspired by Mad Max!

FEATUREDRESEARCH: Stacking + Totems. Since NOTCOT is where all my inspiration lives, here's the first (ever evolving) NOTlabs Research post as i dive back into the archives and around the internet on things i'm thinking about for experiments/projects!

The Good Twin Co. Pin + Post Cards! Cities, Horoscopes, and more little enamel pins mixed with 4"x6" cards you can give to a friend.

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?]

TÊTE DE BOIS Shell Collection Rubber Baskets-Vases made of Eva Rubber and handmade in Italy.

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.

Jellied Easter Surprise Eggs - Peel open the shell of the egg to find these treasures inside. Great project to do with kids.

VIDEOOne year later (#56963) after losing against the champion Timo Boll in table tennis, KUKA robot asked for revenge. See the different kind of challenge, for both, with the new and surprising set of rules.

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

An appetizer upgrade that is elegantly luxe looking, but pretty darn simple to pull off. Oyster on the half shell topped with wine-butter infused black soba noodles, uni and caviar.

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.

VIDEODisney Research BeachBot - this autonomous little turtle-bot will draw large scale images in the sand for you. (Definitely looks easier than what Land Rover just did!)

FEATUREDEnormous Concrete Cowries! 'Shell' by Melik Ohanian at Galerie Chantal Crousel spotted at Miami Art Basel. (Thanks, @GrayShape!)

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!

Mirage pavilion for Sziget Festival 2014, by Studio Nomad.

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

The Arrivals Women's Haring Poncho - Featuring a snap-back peak hood and laser-cut materials. Built from weatherproof poly-spandex shell and rubberized Italian twill made waterproof through heat-welded seams.

Modernica and Krink team up to bring a new color with a unique shimmer to a California design icon. Understated and neutral at first-glance, a closer look reveals the Krink Fiberglass Side-Shell shines in classic Krink silver.

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.

Celestial - An orb shaped desk lamp where the perforated outer shell of the shade folds back into the center to form a stem, gently diffusing light. By Artonomos.

Luke Miller Shell Crib crafted from laminated sycamore.

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

Heroes In A Half Shell: A TMNT Art Tribute Exhibition taking place at Nucleus Gallery.

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

ACRONYM J29B-WS - it can look like a blazer, but is stil made of "Windstopper Active Shell is windproof, water repellent, highly breathable, highly compressible, and ultralight to degrees previously impossible. Superfunktionalized."

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

EKOCYCLE Cube - latest 3D System Cubify 3D Printer that prints in post-consumer waste. Apparently each EKOCYCLE Filament Cartridge contains 25% of post-consumer recycled materials, using an average of 3 assorted recycled 20oz PET plastic bottles.

Whipping Post Military style leather duffel bag.

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

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.

The Science Cafe & Library in Chişinău, Moldova draws on the legacy of post WWI Parisian cafe culture, but focus on science and engineering is reflected in the sleek and modern design of Anna Wigandt.

FEATUREDHighland Park Cynthia Rowley Flask Bangle! A fun update to #54091! Even holds around 3 fluid ounces.

FEATUREDVertty ~ a new geometric take on the beach towel! Dreamed in Australia, Born in Portugal and seen as #55052 - here's an unboxing of the fun packaging and towel up close!

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

VIDEOFollow up for the post #56933: the Man vs. Machine (Timo Boll vs. KUKA Agilus robot) ping-pong match for KUKA Robotics.

Hikaru Cho's 'It's not what it seems' paints common foods to disguise them as other common foods.

Not Another Bill - Receive a surprise present in the post every month. A subscription service where the lucky recipient will receive a beautifully wrapped surprise present introducing them to great artists, designers and brands.

AREA, pretty modular storage designs from Anya Sebton for Lammhults.

Cards Against Humanity made a special House of Cards pack for Netflix... what's even more interesting is the look at how the pack came to be and what didn't even make it in...

Fun 2014 calendar from Nearly Normal featuring fruits made from paper.

Ice Glasses by Baku Maeda.

Designer Ben Wahrlich's Zig range of cabinets for Anomaly, features a criss-crossed hatched design derived from 2D drawings. Made from American Oak with concrete shell.

Vincent Fournier's Post Natural History explores the ideas of technologically enhanced wildlife, like a GPS tracking rhinoceros beetle and robotic jellyfish drone for transporting freshwater.

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

The Lounge chair Q1 by ODESD2 based on Richard Buckminster Fuller's spherical thin-shell structure.

Flower Shell - We've seen seed grenades, now you can fire seed shotgun shells with Flower Shell from Studio Total.

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"

VIDEOThe uCAT, a turtle-inspired robot for exploring dangerous wrecks.

Hundreds of tiny clownfish hatch at the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

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

Skip Hop Giraffe Safari Flip & Play Turtle

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

Jimmy Grants took six items from their menu and deconstructed them to their core elements.

Funny and clever street art from Toronto animator Aiden Glynn

Remember the audio recording program featured in #55047? Check out the rest of Sam Droege's incredible portraits of insects and other creatures from the USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab’s Flickr page.

Post is Post Swedish lines serving tray

The Antipode - The diffusion of the frozen coffee cube into the whisky gradually inverts the ratio of each of the drinks individual components, resulting in a glass where the taste balance constantly shifts and ultimately ends at the beginning’s antipode.

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

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.

Modern steel table with rubber dipped feet by Synecdoche.

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

In time for the holidays haircare line Kevin Murphy launches a set of travel sized minis. Designed by Container each comes with an eye catching 'lenticular' changing label.

Oooooh Wooster Collection turns 10 and has a anniversary show with Jonathan Levine Gallery! 10 Years of Wooster Collective: 2003-2013.

Carne Asada Fries! A San Diego staple (esp from cotixan's) gets posterized for this Gallery 1988s Comic-con special print from Eric Tan.

Cute story of J.Crew's new ballet flats - "Italian shoemaker E. Porselli occupies a tiny storefront in Milan. each week, ballerinas from nearby La Scala come in to pick up shoes on Wednesdays, when new shipments arrive."

The Maharam Shell Chair Project celebrates the 50th anniversary of Hans J. Wegner’s iconic Shell Chair in collaboration with Maharam.

Cast Cutlery is a minimalist design created by Japanese-based designer Oji & Design.

Minsk style: The new identity will begin to be implemented this summer.

Henry Hargreaves's photo essay "Burning Calories" literally sets caloric foods alight.

FEATUREDLoïc Bard Capside Lamps - faceted woody shell and colorful rope cord paired with an irresistible burst of color inside. And they work both hanging or sitting on a shelf!

The first nine stages of The Tower of Babel, a collaboration between artists Adam Toht and Jeff Konigsberg.

STOYN Ice-Cream is a design experiment in which the ice-cream is shaped in the images of several key cultural figures of the 20th century, each with a unique flavor.

Puntada Coffee Table by Agustina Bottoni

"2. The introduction of 3 types of Exclusively Fab products: Products Designed by Fab, Designer Collaborations, and Products Found by Fab." Interesting 5 Major Fab Announcements from the CEO...

Making of the Louis Vuitton - Yayoi Kusama Pop Up Store. The first carbon fiber shell applied to architecture, by Marc Fornes & THEVERYMANY.

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

Andrea Rekalidis' PiantaLà ~ lovely combo of metal fencing and a traditional white picket fence... perfect for plants to climb up.

Jasmin Lai's beautiful and adorable kite girl digital doodles - i hope they become something more!

Red Panda mural by the artist DAAS, part of the Kolor Kathmandu project in Nepal, to bring awareness to its endangered species status.

Kapil Bhagat's minimalist scientist poster series.

VIDEOA further look at SpaceTop, which we first saw in #46468, the transparent computer that allows user to reach behind to manipulate content. Designed by Jinha Lee with Alex Olwal, Hiroshi Ishii, and Cati Boulanger.

Playful ad campaign for a tattoo parlor in which would-be tattoo artists color in a QR code.

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

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

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

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