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

Hard Graft Atelier Pop Up Leica Camera Case

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?

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

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

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

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #5: Hard Graft is giving away one of their Back2Back Leather Bags ~ it's a 3 in 1: messenger bag - briefcase - backpack!

FEATUREDThere’s something about the way Hard Graft always manages to craft their accessories that brings an air of elegance and rugged simplicity in balance. We take a closer look at he extremely versatile looking Square1 Holdall in Driftwood.

Hard Graft launch new bags for fall including TheSquare1 Holdall, The Personal Pouch and a Dopp Kit.

FEATUREDHard Graft's 2Unfold Nero ~ third in the edition, this gorgeous laptop bag is now available in black!

Hard Graft's iMac Slipper.

Hard Graft Bill Folder wallet in grey ~ Made from one cleverly cut piece of leather it fits six credit cards (more once it’s worn it in a bit) and all your notes without being at all bulky.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Holiday Giveaway #18: Hard Graft! Chance to win one of the lovely leather/felt phone fold cases!!!

Phone case lust ~ the new Pocket Phone Case from Hard Graft ~ love when they bring back leather pockets on felt...

FEATUREDHard Graft Phone Fold Wallet ~ perfect for when you need to grab just your phone, some cards and cash... gorgeous details!

Hard Graft launches the shoulder macbook sleeve!

2GRAB iPad case from Hard Graft

FEATUREDHard Graft Tilt iPad Case ~ beautifully simple leather and felt sleeve for your ipad that is easily ROLLED to create different viewing angles!

Hard Graft Shoulder MacBook Sleeve! Beautiful.

FEATUREDHoliday Feature + GIVEAWAY! Here's a Day in the Life of Hard Graft ~ as well as a first look at their X-Sleeve combo that launched today! (And yes, a chance to win a set too!)

Designed for small digital cameras, the Hard Graft Base Camera Case not only protects your camera from bumps and scratches, it also features a clever leather handle to keep the case to your hand whilst you take the photos.

FEATUREDNOTCOT Exclusive first look at the Hard Graft 3Fold ~ this luscious leather bag can transform to hold your portfolio, laptop, or carry-on/overnighter goods!

Belkin Laptop Felt Tote ~ lovely! Reminds me of hard-graft a little, but do love the colors and handle!

Sporting Notebook Pocket - Finally! Hard Graft has taken my favorite element of their line of sleeves/pouches/etc and made a leather pocket that is like a notebook add on!

Oooh Hard-Graft Moleskine Pen Hold ~ deserved a post of its own... nice elastic/leather strap ready to play bookmark, pen holder, and more...

I'm rather addicted to the Hard-Graft felt with leather pocket cases for all my devices... the New High collection is lustworthy as well! Particularly this laptop sleeve + pouch ~ but also sleeves for kindle, laptops, moleskines and more...

FEATUREDHard Graft has some new leather/felt goods focused on my favorite pocket theme! See close ups of their new wallet and keyholder, as well as new laptop sleeve designs!

FEATUREDSneak Peek! The new Dapper Collection from Hard Graft (previously know as Working Class Heroes), brings back my favorite leather pocket on this series of Laptop, iPhone, and Kindle sleeves.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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!

LaCie Sphere USB hard drive designed by Christofle

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.

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?".

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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

Hard Goods No. 010: Triangulum Fire Pit

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

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.

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

Skateboard hard goods and packaging for kansas city based skateboard brand studio skate supply / ridefourever.com

The Kukje Gallery K3 building in Seoul designed by SO–IL Architects is covered by a chainmail mesh that diffuses the hard edges of the white cube.

FEATUREDYou have to see it moving - Ben Jones' installation at Avant/Garde Diaries: Transmission LA: A/V Club is a trip. It's like being sucked into an 8-bit racing game of a room... hard to walk around in!

Gunnar is chair with a hard maple seat made by Felicia Hung, RISD Furniture undergraduate student, while studying abroad.

Mika Barr for Talents Design: Geo. A new collection of decor pillows and poufs. Geometric shapes reminiscent of hard, angular materials – are the surprising result of promoting fabric to behave in a new manner.

VIDEOYou have never experienced Fashion and Beauty like this before! HARD is a Bookazine by german Design-Student Ruben Scupin which features interactive elements such as Pop-Up, lenticular images, stitching and much more.

Grady's Cold Brew ~ these bottles of coffee concentrate with fun packaging are addictively delicious (and hard to keep in the fridge this week) ~ each bottle makes 8 cups of iced/hot coffee.

'Work Hard and Be Nice to People' by Anthony Burrill. Beautiful limited edition prints on red.

Modular furniture, Shape and function by Sanjin Halilović. Four different elements, which together form one whole product (shelves), but when separated can function as a table, a chair, reclining chair for legs.

Muji's hard carry travel suitcase.

Hunch correlations are the result of millions of answers to Teach Hunch About You (THAY) questions. Based on hard numbers supplied by a diverse group of people all over the world, and captured in a beautiful infographic.

The new Goflex Seagate, a 500 GB wireless hard drive designed with iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users in mind.

FEATUREDA WHALE RODEO! and a black light lit aquarium of confiscated coral! It’s hard not to love the new campaign, Project Ocean at Selfridges. Check out the video of the rodeo in action too!

Brooklyn Hard Candy is the joint product of Danny Mowles and Nathan Panum. The candy comes in a variety of flavors in cute vintage style packaging.

Bassano Hard Soda, a vodka-based drink with great packaging from Dossier Creative.

Agent Anything brings together busy, hard working people and college students and helps them set up a fair trade of resources: a bit of busy people's money for a bit of college students' time. (Only in NY/NJ)

Common Good Home ~ products are safe, green and hard-working. Each comes ready to use in plastic bottles but also at NY in-store bulk refill stations. Bring in any clean bottle to refill or we sell screen-printed empty glass bottles.

Pendant Wired Lamp by Something From Us. The wire pendant lamp has a colored diffuser that not only softens the light but also the hard look of the lamp.

VIDEOIt’s hard to beat a good Rube Goldberg effect. By Synn Labs for Google Science Fair.

FEATUREDRocStor RocSecure drive ~ beautiful designs, feels great, and with keypads and pass keys to even get your computer to SEE the drive... my data has never felt so insecure.

Granny Tunes, a hand crocheted sleeve to soften up those hard tunes you love blasting so much.

Caramelo, a table collection inspired by colorful hard candies. These playful tables are strong, steady and fun. By Moises Hernandez.

Orishiki Suitcase is a wheeling case concept by Naoki Kawamoto with a hard, faceted shell. Sleek, functional, and anonymous, the exterior allows it to pass through the hubbub of global cities while protecting and concealing the interior.

VIDEOBonbon Macherei - great video about artisanal hard candy making in Berlin

Every issue of Playboy Magazine from 1953 - 2010 on a sexy portable hard drive.

FEATUREDWhen the world is your oyster, it can be hard to decide what to do and where to go next. Here are just a few inspirations from us at Notventures for your next escape.

Hard to improve on something as exquisite as the Audi R8 V10 but that didn't stop Anderson Germany from taking on the task. Racing Edition bathed in carbon fiber, red trim accents, boosted with horsepower and high-performance mods.

An iPad menu designed to fully replace the hard-copy multi-page laminated sushi menus commonly found in izakayas in Japan.

NYTimes.com has an article on Woman Who Hit Hard. It's about female tennis players and it is accompanied by some stunning pictures.

SWITCHKEY, flipper style key fobs from donnykennedy. Push button activated, key springs from the side like a VW...only fast and hard. Made in Canada, machined from billet aluminum.

The website for Bottega Veneta has a great page called " Hand of the Artisan". Really interesting to see all of the hard work that goes into their products.

Arctic Candy makes suger free hard candy with classic Norwegian flavors (cloudberries, lingonberries, blueberries and crowberries). Beautiful packing by Oslo based Neue.

This amazing piece of design by Graft of Berlin is stunningly beautiful. The clean, simple lines and striking angles give it a futuristic look, yet the walnut panelling juxtaposes a more classic style.

Hard-Core Cooler - Chow shows us Yeti makes coolers that can take a beating.

Ideal for contractors. HARD CASE protects your iPad from construction site hazards that would scratch or break an iPad in any other case.

Simon Birch, Hong Kong-based artist created "Hope and Glory", a mix of 20 different installations in a 20,000-square-foot space. One full-scale room is designed to look like a 3-D rendering, until you realize, wait, it's real.

Introducing a new case based on an old idea. BOOK is a hand made hard cover book jacket on the outside, with a sleeve tailored to the iPad on the inside.

Bookbound external hard drive by Swedish designer Linus Berglund.

Absolutely in love with the juxtaposition of the lacy, delicate lines with the hard black color on this nebula console from Arktura.

Designer Anthony Burrill rocks pretty hard with a series of instantly recognizable symbols and marks for Colette Paris. DANGER!

AllMyTweetsEver!... This little app from Pedro Sepulveda will allow you to do an "hard copy" of all your tweets so in the future you will be able to do a little trip to the social memory lane!

Josef Hoffmann's Kubus chair is 100 years old!
It's hard to believe that the Kubus armchair piece was designed in 1910, a true classic.

A nightclub with antique mirrors, marble bars, honeycombed walls, opulent restrooms and a 20,000 lit crystal chandelier? It's Vanity at Hard Rock Hotel, Las Vegas.

Smythson is one of the leading companies when it comes to high quality notebooks. They recently colloborated with Parisian artist André and French retailer colette to create a hard-bound black book. On the front youll notice an illustration by the artist with the word “METAPHYSIQUE”. The back youll find Andre’s signature logo as well as the rest of the parties involved. Available now at colette.

West Paw Design makes these recycled dog toys. Awesome colors and shapes. They guarantee that if it breaks, you get a free replacement and the old broken one is re-made into a new toy!

A modern take on a family heirloom, this ever-functional bench is hand built by Chadhaus in Seattle from sustainably harvested local hard wood, and finished with vibrant red low VOC paint.

This crazy modern egg-shaped mobile office pod has a kitchen, a bathroom, interior lighting, and several storage places! Designed and built by Belgian architecture firm, dvmA for xfactoragencies.

Sony's new Bravia NX model TV... i'm lusting hard after the way it so delicately balances in that groove in its simple stand... 1080p, wifi, widgets and all of course.

Beautiful looking canvas bag from Hickoree's Hard Goods. Great for an overnighter.

David Shrigley's Swan - the face is hand painted by the artist. This is a very hard to find artist multiple. Made of heavy cast polyurathane resin and initialled on the underside.

The new VIP pool suites at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas are complete. Local designer Mark Tracy, designed and oversaw installation of the four suites.

With its combination of symbolical and practical strength, it’s hard to think of a situation where this pendant would not have you covered. The bits sizes are based on actual screw bits, including an IKEA standard tool