Phaidon 1000 Design Classics comes out in October 2022 - a revised version of the iconic massive yellow 3 volume set.

"Introducing Aperture Desk Job — a free playable short made for the Steam Deck, set in the universe of the modestly popular Portal games." Coming from Valve March 1!!!

Sun Science USPS Stamps - images from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory

Muji Silicone Cutlery Case... interesting idea for alternatives to disposable cutlery. Also an option if you have to carry kids utensils with you...

Kosas Take The Site Home Kit - samples of nearly all of their products in so many colors. In a pandemic world where make up sampling in store isn't what it was, this is a lovely idea. And get the cost of the kit back as a credit towards a future purchase.

Go Clean Co. (and their store Bleach.Pray.Love) have been more helpful than i'd like to admit through a year of pandemic homebodying and learning to clean more efficiently with the NOTtoddler. (The instagram stories + handbooks are key!)

VIDEONineteen Eighty-Fortnite #FreeFortnite ad recreates Apple's iconic "1984" ad, only Apple is the one to rebel against. Will be interesting to see how Epic vs Apple/Google stores will play out...

InkMeThis Dual Point Seam Ripper with hand turned acrylic handle. Each seam ripper has two ends, one smaller and one larger, that pull out and store neatly inside the handle. Handmade to order and there are 19 acrylic choices.

Mattel 'Thank You Heroes' collections of superhero (doctors, nurses, delivery drivers, EMTs) and 'Community Champions' set of Little People (a doctor, a nurse, an emergency medical technician, a delivery driver and a grocery store worker)

WE LOVE LA is a growing collection of limited edition tshirts supporting LA partners by Family Industries

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

Teenage Engineering x IKEA's Frekvens collection of modular electronics is just arriving in stores... and they have celebrated the launch with a lot of 3D printable frekvens hacks!

James Jean Year of the Rat pin set launches this Lunar New Year. Limited edition of 1000 sets of 3 pins. Stunning little floral rodents!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Baby List! For those who have asked what has worked for us. Pregnancy - 4 months with regular updates. [Made this list an Amazon affiliate storefront, because we've been using Amazon Prime a lot for the convenience during exhaustion!]

Illustoria #9 is the first issue to be published by McSweeney’s. The periodical “for creative kids and their grownups” includes storytelling, crafts, comics, interviews, recipes and more with contributions by illustrators from around the world.

Nanami - Adorable animal nursing/hang out baby pillows in polar bear, whale, dog, and fox designs.

Hurley x Clark Little Collection - great school of fish print on the phantom board shorts, quick dry body suit, tshirt, and a hat.

New York Times Map of Every Building in America, and Map of Every Building in Your City (LA, NYC, SF, Boston, Dallas)

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.

VIDEORaspberry Pi has opened it's first retail store in the Grand Arcade in Cambridge, UK. Peek inside with the video.

Woven Triangle Bag - MoMA Exclusive. The sturdy, distinctive handle is woven using a Taiwanese traditional one-thread weaving technique. Made of cotton canvas and Italian vegetable-tanned leather.

James Jean Traveler Print is coming soon - "For our holiday release we are offering Traveler, a signed and numbered time-limited edition of giclée prints." So many stunning details on this one!

Brendan Monroe x Raised By Wolves Pendleton Blanket Special Collaboration

Jacquelin Deleon Plant Life Sticker Pack - 6 stickers ranging from 1.7" to 4.7" printed on glossy transparent vinyl stickers

Design for Children: Play, Ride, Learn, Eat, Create, Sit, Sleep book by Kimberlie Birks coming from Phaidon in Oct 2018.

Playge X Prometheus Design Werx Stealth Sqube Embroidered Patch (with velcro back) by Ferg!

Pangea Seed 'Love Sharks' T-Shirt

USPS Dragons Stamps - beautifully illustrated by Don Clark of the Invisible Creature Studio and there's even a 24 page pop up book!

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

Sebastian Maluska Nest Tent - a lightweight pop-top roof top tent inspired by sailing materials. The ladder is stored in a fabric pocket under the sleeping surface.

FEATUREDSadly Norris Hardware, our local hardware store, is closing down after nearly 100 years... so we made an offer on this entire hardware aisle! Which is now moving into our NOTCOT workshop!

Apple Store in Cotai Central, Macau by Foster + Partners. A glowing cube with pockets of bamboo!

Jacquelin de Leon Plant Life Tote (in light and heavy weight)

Barebones Living Harvesting & Gathering Bag - Unique drop out bottom makes quick work of emptying the harvest. Constructed of weather- and water-resistant waxed canvas and complete with a removable liner.

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!

Designed by CLAP Studio, “Little Stories” is a bright and colorful kids concept store in Valencia, Spain.

Our Top 100 NOTCOT.org posts of 2017! What a strange year it's been... HAPPY NEW YEAR! Can't wait to see what 2018 has in store for us.

FEATUREDApple Store Offline Exclusives at Apple Park and One Infinite Loop Stores in Cupertino. Both have a different selection of Apple goods from t-shirts and mugs to totes, cards, baby onesies, notebooks and more.

The Bitter Southerner (great read!) has a General Store... with fun stickers and tees that say everything from All Y'all to Bless Your Heart, Abide No Hatred, Collards & Cornbread and more...

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.

SKALL - Titanium Lanyard Skull Beads from Ferg

The Objects That Power The Global Economy by Quartz. "You may not have seen these objects before, but they’ve already changed the way you live." Looks like a beautifully graphic, story filled book.

VÈLO7 designed by Modelina Architekci. "We are crazy about bicycles!" Stunning store design.

Nike Gakou Flyknits come with rubber stencils so that you can customize the logos and placements yourself.

Ace & Tate's Eindhoven Store. Frame has a great look inside the unique store - check out the surprising eyewear displays.

Blue Bottle Cold Brew Bottle & Perfectly Ground. Designed in collaboration with Hario, this comes with a built-in filter and dishwasher-safe silicone lid.

Farewell, Dijital Fix! Another beautifully curated store is closing... this one at the end of July after a great decade long year run!

Be Brave Delicious Design League enamel lion logo pin!

Jacquelin de Leon's Greenhouse Print. From her solo show from June 2017, about growth. The original piece is a large 18x24" watercolor illustration on wooden panel (which goes on sale 12CT July 3!)

The NYTimes Truth Ad now as a Truth Text Poster and Kid's Variant in crisp, clean, black and white.

Delicious Design League's gig poster for Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds has the best monster and colors!

m/f people is a new minimal unisex lifestyle store from Greg Alterman (behind Alternative Apparel and Juice Served Here) currently selling unisex fashion, skin/body care, and expanding into much more.

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.

Design without waste. R16 is both packing material and elegant luminary. Designed by studio Waarmakers, it is their homage to the beautiful and versatile cardboard material.

The “Hail Safety” T-shirt is back! Designed by Will Bryant with OMFGCo for ADX. (Also available as a sticker!)

Pocket Hammer Handle + Wrist Brace. A new addition to the Pocket Shot Slingshot for even more stability and power.

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

RAD Lands! (Respect. Appreciate. Defend.) is like Captain Planet + Yo Gabba Gabba, teaching kids about making good food choices and taking care of nature from Chipotle, The Magic Store (the team behind Yo Gabba Gabba), and Discovery Education.

The new Obscura Shop in St. Augustine, FL is a retail store and rotating art gallery by the designers of YIELD.

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."

Converse Custom x Grotesk Chuck '70 High Tops. Super fun characters in blue on white and white on blue.

High Society Collection Puzzle Ring. These 4 unique rings only fit together one way. Available in solid bronze, 24K gold plated bronze, silver with brass top, or solid sterling silver.

Oregrown - great designs from Brian Steely for their patches, hoodies, candles, stickers, enamel camping mugs and more. Part Oregon farm-to-table cannabis company/dispensary and part clothing/accessories store.

KitKat will celebrate the opening of a new specialty store in Ginza, Tokyo, by introducing a limited-edition Kit Kat Sushi set.

Pretend Store by Fuzzco has the cutest State Bird Pins! Of course i'm biased towards California's adorable quail! (But that Cardinal is amazing too... and together they are so cute!) Hope they make all 50 state birds.

'Forest Folks' paper installations for the display windows of the new Hermès store in Dubai, designed and handcrafted by Zim & Zou.

Valextra's Via Manzoni, Milan boutique by Snarkitecture! Wallpaper has a nice look inside the stunningly white space.

Known for her site-specific installations woven in yarn, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota has created a wave above which 150 boats float through Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche department store in Paris.

Built By Family Shelf Brackets - Made of 1x3/8" bent steel in blackened finish, with magnetic screw hole cover. Ready for a 1x12" or 2x12" board. (Also love their 3 dog logo!)

Loop D'Loop Stained Glass - Edition No.2. Artist Vicki Turner and maker Flora Jamieson collaborate on a collection of ocean-inspired contemporary glass panels for Feist Forest.

Kraken Rum: the pool float! The Kraken Store is still filled with impressively illustrated/branded products, including even a pool float!

Happy Interior takes us inside The GIR Store in Belgrade. I can't stop staring at these amazing huge wooden pots on huge modern looking push carts. Imagine wheeling your huge trees around as they need light?

Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard. Bluetooth 4.0 and palm rest covered in two-tone grey mélange Alcantara.

Odd Petals Safety Pin Tee. Take the safety pin symbol larger than life. Purchase includes a donation to one of the following groups: Black Lives Matter, Sacramento LGBT Community Center, Dakota Access Pipeline Donation Fund, ​Planned Parenthood.

Tesla Solar Roof - with solar tiles of various designs that will convert sunlight into electricity stored in the Powerwall 2.

Minimal 2 Storey Planter, dodecagon-shaped container by designer Kunsik Choi based in Malmo, Sweden. A series of wooden planters, inspired by the wooden barrels used for Swedish herring.

The Jason Markk flagship store in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles - drop your sneakers off with their Sneaker Care Technicians, or hop into the JM Throne.

FEATUREDThe Original Bon Puf Cotton Candy now has an online store! The deliciousness is spun with organic sugar in flavors like Champagne Sparkle (edible glitter!), Pop Puf (pop rocks!), Sugar Cookie, Mango and more. Here's an unboxing...

ZenBunni Biodynamic Chocolate - fun interview at Mind Body Green with Zen and Bunni Nishimura about their surprising chocolate story from Topanga to the world, mud lined Venice store, creative approach to business and more!

Cobogo Bricks! Worked into the walls, shelves and floors at the new Aesop Sao Paulo store by the Capana brothers.

Ivy Muse - this Australian shop has some interesting powder coated steel plant stands and hangers. Their concept store ‘Botanical Emporium’ looks lovely!

Diesel Sweeties Enamel Pins! It's fun to use learning for evil!

Diesel Sweeties "We Are Not ALL Jerks" pixelated USA Flag t-shirt

Sonos opens a store in SoHo, and Design Milk has a look inside the store's funky tiny home like spaces.

Balloon Pin House, great place to store map or noticeboard pins. Miniature balloon cluster of 300 individual pins float above a tiny rooftop.

HUF Cactus Prick Pin

Isla from Hatch Furniture fuses classic mid-century styling with modern cnc manufacturing techniques. Isla can be customised with coloured accent drawer pulls and interiors.

Burton Beeracuda and Double Barrel version. Like a yoga mat bag... but built just to hold beer (or any other canned beverage) and one on the strap.

Animals Are Delicious by Sarah Hutt, illustrated by Dave Ladd and Stephanie Anderson. 3 foldout food chain books. Animals eat animals in this informative exposé of three animal food chains. Fun photo/illustrations.

Stadler Design Studio imagined a new concept for a kid's restaurant in the heart of Paris.

FEATUREDCompartes Chocolates - bars on bars on bars at their Brentwood, CA store. A close up look at the packaging and unique deliciousness like Campfire S'mores, Let Them Eat Cake, and Donuts & Coffee bars and more!

MVRDV has completed the new Chanel flagship store in Amsterdam with a replica façade made entirely out of glass.

FEATUREDThe Hot Cactus Store of Echo Park in Los Angeles is 350 sqft filled with cinder blocks and an amazing collection of rare cacti (+ pots!)! Be careful where you step... it's a surreal place with a great story!

Diesel Sweeties Zaggy Starbucks Mug - pixelated David Bowie goodness!

The Pocket Shot slingshot now has attachments to shoot ARROWS.

"A Piaggio Ape Covered in Green and Converted Into a Flower Shop" on Spoon & Tamago. This adorable setup is selling flowers at the Ginza flagship store of Italian luxury brand Fendi.

The Zoological Times Table by Wondermark (available in poster and 1000 piece puzzle form)

Bioattic - Specialty plant store in Auckland. Lovely feature from Happy Interior Blog.

43einhalb Sneaker Store "Life is too short for bad coffee!" mug. Black gloss 43 logo on matte black mug.

FEATUREDWonderboo Luxurious Swedish Dog Food - with quite the branding, packaging, concept store... and adorable Piaggio Ape Food Truck! (in addition to a Land Rover Defender)

De Balkonie - a lovely plant store in Amsterdam. Great peek inside from Urban Jungle Bloggers.

SQUBE Pins by Ferg! In white and greyscale. They are 1" cloisonne (hard enamel) pins.

Handmade Cherry 'Wren' Snack Cup. Inspired by the British Bird and studio guest, the Jenny Wren, Feist Forest and Miscellaneous Adventures collaborated to make a small flock of 10 using sustainable and native cherry.

Decor8's 'Conversation with Daniel Rozensztroch at merci Paris' - great read about Holly's day with Merci's Artistic Director and a lovely peek into the store (a NOTCOT favorite!)

Rebecca Price Store and Pour Storage Jars with wood lids. Love how they efficiently nestle together on your counter top!

Oreo Wonder Vault that popped up in NYC... open the Oreo, pull the lever, get a Filled Cupcake Oreo before they hit store shelves! Weber Shandwick was the lead activation agency on this, in collaboration with Iontank, 360i, The Martin Agency and Carat.

Artecnica Bouquet Light by Tord Boontje. A collection of twenty diverse floral and bucolic elements that can be arranged in any desired composition just as one would when making a bouquet of flowers. Made of PP and PET.

Monument Valley (the beautifully iOS game) Vinyl Soundtrack 2xLP. Music by Stafford Bawler, OBFUSC and GRIGORI. Features exclusive new artwork. Includes digital soundtrack (code comes w/ vinyl)

Foxglove - whisky bar/speakeasy in Hong Kong. You enter through the umbrella store into the world of the possibly fictitious wealthy adventurer, Frank Minza... designed by NC Design and Architecture.

Benetton Home Collection of patterned mugs, cups, coffee cups, and bowls are a product of the Fabrica Design Studio - specifically Marlene Wolfmair from Austria, Federico Floriani from Italy and Vidit Narang from India.

Juniper Books Ernest Hemingway Signature Set is a beautiful green collection that would pop on any bookshelf.

The San Diego Zoo turns 100 this year! 1916-2016! Their microsite highlights what an amazing century it has been. This year will be filled with special events, and their store has a special centennial collection as well.

FEATUREDAleph Geddis' hand carved wood totem for Filson flagship store in Seattle is a towering 18.5 feet tall! Absolutely stunning depictions of a wolf, owl, raccoon, falcon, and bobcat. See more pictures and a peek at the making of.

AO MATU poster on 210g paper with wild and flora illustrations designed by Nastya KFKS. See more of the series in the KFKS Store.

American Science & Surplus. Est about 1937. Wow. What an online store of randomness and their print/pdf catalog is pretty mind blowing as well. You can fill many a stocking with so much fun and usefulness here!

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.

Diesel Sweeties Pixel Skull and Android Scarves!

Jun Ong's Five-Storey Star Installation pierces the structure of an unfinished building in Butterworth, Malaysia.

Adventure 16: 52 Hikes, A Hike-A-Week In A Jar Kit! A DIY Kit for LA and San Diego Counties in store.

Aesop's Taxonomy of Design microsite looks at their unique stores around the world, designers behind them, the objects in them, and more.

"The Masses Are Asses" mug from Goodhood

The City Works intricate illustrations of London cityscapes including many landmarks makes for fun poster/wrapping paper, cards, notebooks and more.

Typehype - A store in Berlin devoted to Type. A typography lover's dream everything from posters to cushion covers and chocolate in your favourite type faces.

Anything Ceiling Hoist - Save space and store your obstructive objects off the floor. The ceiling hoist uses a pulley system to easily move heavy objects, and its auto lock mechanism ensures the system will not accidentally release.

Brendan Monroe super limited edition Field Notes notebooks for XOXOfest 2015... a few are available at the field notes store!

FEATUREDA peek into the Multiplex at the Old Selfridges Hotel, a fun London Design Week pop-up “immersive, multi-sensory department store” from Tom Dixon and Wallpaper.

Lifta - A minimalist desk organizer designed with three goals in mind: lift your computer to the proper ergonomic height, offer a place to store peripherals, and keep your desk tidy. Available in 3 wood options.

Adafruit gives us a peek inside the pop up LittleBits Store in SoHo!

Japanese studio Moment design inflated Bao Bao, a temporary retail store for Issey Miyake inside a historic department store located in Tokyo's Nihonbashi district.

Wishbone Design's 3-in-1 Wagon - It's a car, kart, and wagon. We couldn't stop playing with it in a store the other day - it goes from a wagon, to a wagon the kid can steer, to a car they can steer and power with their feet like the flintstones.

Good Fucking Design Advice Swag Bag - "Stickers, pencils, tattoos and more. A unique collection of GFDA tools for fun and productivity." Perfect for the designer who has everything.

Wallpaper* has launched a STORE! Freshly opening online today.

Happy Camper! The great Camp Brand Goods graphic slogan is now on an enamel mug. Just added to their online store! (finally!)

Domenic Fiorello Homestead Hook - Made of American Walnut and Brass. Beautiful use of bent ply!

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.

NYTimes looks at the Presidential hopefuls' swag shops... Hillary Clinton and Rand Paul are definitely getting the most creative with theirs.

FATTOBENE - Italian Every Day Archetypes. Fatto Bene means well made, and this is a collection of classic Italian products (store in progress).

Cards Against Humanity Science Expansion Pack - "a pack about the hit system of knowledge known worldwide as “science.” We wrote it with Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy) & Zach Weinersmith (SMBC)."

Epicurean Cutting Boards - from kitchen eco-friendly cutting boards to BIG GAME Cutting Boards - perfect for your tailgate! And you can even get one that breaks down into pieces to store. (Maybe the NOTFZJ80 Project needs one?)

Jogging, new concept-store in Marseille, housed in an old butchery, keeping a nod to the trade, where butcher hooks flirt with designers glasses!

Sam Larson (aka Steel Bison) has amazing Geometric West Stickers! Love the geo fox, bison, bear and mountains!

Come, sit, and fucking conquer. Grind X GFDA Mug.

Indy Plush has the cutest whale shark and hammerhead shark tshirt graphics!

The Loft, pop-up store in Amsterdam dedicated to design and home furniture.