FEATUREDRecycled Wine Bottle Roof ~ cut wine bottles are nested to create a glass catenary rooftop that creates beautiful shadows at the Venice Biennale.

FEATUREDAl Aire in the Spain Lab set up at the Spanish Pavilion in the Venice Biennale. This plant growing structure is built to optimize resources, lead the roots right where you want them, and you can have a floating garden anywhere!

FEATUREDMercedes-Benz's latest artwork, Aesthetics S ~ this time there is a relief sculpture coupled with projection mapping to bring it to life! (It will take you from previous S models to the design process to tease the new form)

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes tiny robot sculptures, muscle music and lava on ice.

VIDEOHyper-matrix by Jonpasang for the Hyundai Motor Group Exhibition Pavilion is a dynamic vertical wall made of thousands of cubes.

FEATUREDMammoth Rock Climbing Holds! MAMMUT! Inside the store in Linz, there's more of the adorable mammoth logo than online - it exists as stuffed toys, mugs, and even rock climbing holds!

FEATUREDBlack Ice Crame Cones of Eisdieler: Verboden Lekker in Linz from #49907 ~ we had to know more, so went back again, and took pics of the crazy menu filled with more unusual pics!

FEATUREDOccupyGeorge.com ~ brilliant stamps for 1$ bills that started during the Occupy movements~ is at Ars Electronica Fest's CyberArts 12 and you can stamp your own! It's especially awesome on the 2$.

VIDEOMaking of the 'On The Road' issue of Little White Lies. The impressive making of a magazine on a single scroll!

VIDEOBeautiful timelapse of illustrator Patrick Vale drawing the view of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building.

FEATUREDFrom the best luxury hotel suites in Las Vegas to the world’s scariest bridges, this week’s roundup from NotVentures has it all.

FEATUREDThe tiny mustache is all you need to turn a building into a face! Also in this latest post of NOTCOT inspiration from Linz - great typography and signage, set up F.U.C.K. project, toy cars i want, Ars Electronic lit up + more!

VIDEOLava, poured onto ice. Great intersection of Earth Sciences and Sculpture.

VIDEOKeita Takahashi's 3D pacman room, an immersive playable 360° of pacman! Shown earlier at New York's Museum of Art and Design during the Babycastles Summit.

VIDEONightfall by Colin Rich a three minute tour of light through the City of Angels. Beautiful!

FEATUREDEisdieler: Verboden Lekker in Linz, Austria. My new favorite ice cream... delicious natural ice cream, handmade long black sugar cones, cheeky photography, minimal menu design, and an incredible ceiling you won't expect.

FEATUREDPush a remote and this shipping container magically opens up into a bar! Solaris bar in the courtyard of OK "Offenes Kulturhaus" in Linz, Austria.

FEATUREDSneak Peek! The Free Universal Construction Kit from Golan Levin and NOTlabs' own Shawn Sims is now on display at Ars Electronica Festival in the OK CyberArts12 Exhibition opening tomorrow! See the full set and fun toy mashups!

FEATUREDSpitz Hotel, Linz, Austria ~ love the playful red burst of a star logo this designer boutique hotel uses on everything from the sponge in the bathroom to a cut out on the custom steel desk... take a peek inside our room!

VIDEOProfile of Dublin clothing store Indigo & Cloth, their agency, and fashion magazine THREAD.

FEATUREDThis week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Angry birds pig macarons, Dark Chocolate And Hazelnut Cinnamon Rolls and Vermontucky Lemonade.

VIDEOMaking of letterpressed Seea hangtags by Voila! Press.

VIDEOCute ad for Bundaberg Red from Leo Burnett Sydney directed by Psyop.

VIDEOMuscle Music Old Spice style with Terry Crews - "Watch me jam solo, then use the special interactive player to record your own remix. Go ahead, show me what you got!"

FEATUREDLAX-FRA-LNZ - the inspiration and amusement are in the details! A peek at unexpected travel snapshots, art, logos, exhibition set up and more - part one of Linz/Ars Electronica Festival adventures!

FEATUREDWashable keyboards, water wigs and dynamite cupcakes all feature in this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOWatch the ignition of an atomized spray of flammable liquid, recorded at 10,000 fps and replayed at 30 fps.

VIDEOCelebrating the simple pleasures of life, the charming short "The Pleasure of" by Vitùc.

VIDEOiTypewriter by Austin Yang allows you to type on your iPad with a typewriter that has been specifically designed for the size and screen. A little slow, but still cool.

FEATUREDUnboxing the HTC One S ~ current phone favorite over at NOTCOT! Also, take a peek at some of my favorite UI details! The world clock is beautiful!

VIDEORobot Chef that makes sliced noodles is appearing all over noodle shops in china...

VIDEOAIRarm - Inflatable Robot Manipulator Arm (AIR = Advanced Inflatable Robotics) by iRobot for DARPA

FEATUREDNOTlabs helped SubStudio laser cut/etch her wood frames for Brevity Jewelry's NYIGF Booth! See the making of, as well as the finished booth!

FEATUREDPictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities By John M. Carrera now comes in a POCKET size! Nearly a quarter of the size of the original, here's a peek inside!

VIDEOJessiva Wise's excellent TED talk 'How fiction can change reality'.

FEATUREDMetroDecks - nyc MTA subway cards upcycled into playing cards. Each card is hand screen printed, and sets are encased in beautiful letter pressed packaging. Face cards have nyc inspired designs!

FEATUREDBeautiful packaging, branding, and use of patterns for the new minimal Skora running shoes.

VIDEOInsane in the Chromatophores! A closeup look at squid chromatophores set to Cyprus Hill's Insane in the Brain.

FEATURED3D Printed Interlocking Cubes ~ one made of cubes and one of dodecahedrons! Mesmerizing desk/fidget toys... see the details and the unboxing of my Shapeways order.

FEATUREDKickstarter Nightmare and lesson to all designers - the successful Pen Type-A kickstarter project has an UNBELIEVABLE new kink in its story - Torr Pens! (And there's a ridiculous james bond parody video.)

VIDEOGhostly international presents paper engineer Matthew Shilan.

VIDEOMusical artist Alfred Weisberg-Roberts, aka Daedelus, performs on stage in front of this kinetic sculpture with tiled mirrors. This is a sneak peak into his stage setup for future performances.

VIDEOMaster Bladesmith Bob Kramer on the creation of kitchen knives in Seki City, Japan.

VIDEOThe science behind that wet-dog shake. Science and slow-motion mammals shaking themselves dry.

FEATUREDThis week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Bacon & Eggs Chocolate Candy, a Slow-Motion, Gravity-Defying Dessert and The Summer Hoedown.

VIDEOA demonstration of Aerofex's Tandem-Duct Aerial, a hoverbike using a ducted-fan.

FEATUREDRealitat's Microsonic Landscapes - 3D printed visualizations of their favorite albums... "Each album’s soundwave proposes a new spatial and unique journey by transforming sound into matter/space: the hidden into something visible."

VIDEOKiefer Sutherland's Dynamite Cupcakes, how real men make cupcakes.

VIDEOStanford's autonomous racecar is a Audi TTS named Shelley and can go 120mph on California's Thunderhill Raceway.

FEATUREDThe world’s deepest swimming pool, an animated history of LEGO, and a camera it can capture light travel this week at NOTCOT.org!

FEATUREDBen Long creates incredible animal sculptures out of scaffolding!

FEATUREDNew Shayk Light by Amanda Betz for Artecnica - inspired by Mosque Sheikh Lotfallah in Isfahan

VIDEOHilarious Foot Locker Tear Away ad - "James Harden likes to keep his Approved Foot Locker gear fresh. Russell Westbrook tests the limits of that dedication"

VIDEOA documentary on Janne Saario, an Element skateboarder turned landscape architect that reveals the important concurrence of urban skateboarding, rural nature, and their convergence.

FEATUREDThere's a house on top of the engineering building! Fully furnished and with an adorable little garden next to the Dean's office at UCSD! Fallen Star by Do Ho Suh... see the hummingbird we found up there too!

VIDEOSea Otter stacking cups at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium

VIDEOLandscape Abbreviated by Nova Jiang is a kinetic maze consisting of modular elements with rotating planters, which form a garden that is simultaneously a machine.

FEATUREDTed Baker London takes us inside their Grand House opening in NYC ~ dining table setting along the register, tea sets on the ceiling, jello lighting hanging down… gears in motion, maids and butlers, scavenger hunts, photobooth, and more!

VIDEOA pretty visualization of the motion of the solar system by Nassim Haramein and The Resonance Project Foundation.

VIDEOResearchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a camera that captures images at one trillion frames per second, so fast it is capable of detecting light travel!

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NotVentures features escapes to Angkor Thom, Corfu, Barbados and more.

VIDEOGorgeous look inside England's Moulton Bicycle Company by WellPlastic Films.

VIDEOFlight Forms is a project that simulates drone flight with robotarms at the Sci-Arc Robot House. The flight behaviour of the quadrotor is used to program the motion logic for the 6 axis robotarm.

FEATUREDFrom our Free Universal Construction Kit, to the Solar Sinter, to Ideogenetic Machine that puts you into a comic, to beautiful animation and more... Ars Electronica Festival 2012! Here are the projects we're really looking forward to!

VIDEOLEGO celebrates its 80th birthday with an animated short of its history.

FEATUREDMONSTERS!!! Amazing super furry yeti like creatures in the F/W12 ad campaign for Mulberry... also take a peek at these Wild Things inspired guys on the catwalk, in the pool, as cupcakes and more...

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes underwater aircrafts, water light graffiti and robotic Olympic cameras.

FEATUREDFollowing the great Montessorium Apps - comes two board books, Letter Work & Number Work, which incorporate the sand paper letters and numbers we start with in Montessori! Fun illustrations too!

FEATUREDA peek at the sultry masked ladies of Miss Van's Wild At Heart solo show at Copro Gallery + the Citizens of Humanity collab tee given away at the opening.

VIDEOOyster Ring - Dhani Sutanto puts the RFID chip and antenna from an Oyster Card into a resin ring.

VIDEOMIT’s Robust Robotics Group makes an autonomous robotic plane and demonstrates its capabilities by flying through a parking garage at over 20mph without hitting anything.

FEATUREDTed Baker London unleashes Maids & Butlers to clean up NYC! From polishing subway poles, ironing maps, cleaning the bull on wall street, pouring tea for chess players, singing with the naked cowboy, poop scooping and much more! See the vid!

VIDEOThe Stellar Console Table by Jake Phipps is inspired by the natural attributes of amethyst geodes. 900 individually sized and angled mirror sections create an optical dispersion that breaks down the light and the surrounding environment.

VIDEOThe _para_meter is a mobile device created by the innovation lab of Milla & Partner. The _para_meter will allow visitors of IdeenPark 2012 to connect with the digital world.

VIDEOPorsche Museum Secrets Part 1 and 2 is a story of a special project by Porsche to preserve the origins of the company and some of the most exciting and beautiful cars from its past.

VIDEOMeet Rick Klotz, the mastermind behind the new graphic tees collection by American Apparel.

VIDEOJohn Smedley: representing Great Britain. Follow the journey of a jumper from thread to finish in the oldest manufacturing factory in the world.

VIDEOA collaboration between British Electronic duo the Chemical Brothers and Crystal's three minute animated sequence for Velodrome.

FEATUREDDirty Burger (& Dirty Breakfast) pop up in a back alley behind Soho House, London. For now, London's latest burger joint is on the move, popping up across the city, but is getting ready to open a more permanent home at the end of August!

VIDEOThe Evolution of GT-R from Nissan is an inspiring story of a small group of engineers competing in the the Nürburgring 24 hour endurance race.

VIDEOThe Baffler! iPad app by Chris Yates is the digital version of 15 of his amazing puzzles. Each of his physical puzzles is unique and made by hand, and now you can race the clock putting them together on your iPad.

FEATUREDExploring the Gobi Desert, the wilderness of Antarctica and private safari lodges are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

VIDEOMassimo Banzi, the creator of Arduino, shares a behind the scenes experience into what speaking at TED Global is like. (From what you get in gift bags, to where you can stand, to the hotel room and more!)

VIDEOVW teams up with the Discovery Channel to make a custom Beetle shark cage. The car drives on the floor of the ocean via propellers and is an awesome underwater advertisement for VW.

FEATUREDBeautiful birds in awkward positions, photographer Todd Forsgren captures birds traps in mist nets (think spiderweb fences) for research.

VIDEOThe Water Light graffiti system by Antonin Fourneau, a surface made of thousands of LED illuminated by the contact of water.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Star Wars Thai Tea Ice Cream Sandwiches, Butterbeer jelly shots and Sriracha Rooster Sauce Lollipops!

VIDEOWatch a time lapse video of an ethereal glass landscape, Networktopia, being created over the course of 2 days in the Chrysler Museum Hot Shop. Beautiful piece by Kim Harty.

VIDEOGocen is a handwritten notation interface for musical performance and learning. The device lets you interpret written musical notation and play instruments simultaneously by converting the written notes into a playable sound.

VIDEOFound the Shader Printer at Siggraph... lasers activate thermochromic ink, allowing the designer to color and draw on any 3d shape, and freeze it to erase and start over! Imagine the custom toy/commitment-phobe possibilities!

FEATUREDBotanicus Interacticus by Disney Research at Siggraph. Turning plants into interactive sensors, demonstrated by their beautiful booth, letting you caress, grab, and poke their plants, creating visualizations in the magic mirror.

VIDEOAura is living interface that uses plants to control a lamp inside. Developed by german based designer Viktor Kölbig.

FEATUREDFlying penguins, media camouflage and the dynamics of sport all feature in this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

FEATUREDUnboxing of the iPad/iPhone charger/desk lamp by Philippe Starck for Flos. The D'E-Light is now available in a beautiful matte black!

FEATUREDToy Hack! This Project Squadt K11 Boomer by Ferg is now a functioning spy camera! The latest from NOTlabs, see the making of and video of it in action.

VIDEOBeautiful patterns formed by droplets of alcohol in oil as a result of hydrodynamic instabilities resulting from the velocity and density gradients between the liquids.

VIDEOWatch the making of the Pressed Chair by Harry Thaler for Moormann.

VIDEOThe Stone Spray Project by IAAC students Petr Novikov, Inder Shergill and Anna Kulik and is a robotic arm that 3d prints sand with a special water and adhesive mix.

FEATUREDChocolate Bars! Delicious, artisanal chocolate bars... and the stunning packaging to go with them! A super round up ~ please add your suggestions too!

FEATUREDA roundup of fasion’s finest from NotCouture.

VIDEORacing In Slow Motion IV is the 4th in the series. The details that the video reveals are amazing and offer a whole new view on the world of racing.

VIDEOThe $9 Cardboard Bicycle was created by Israeli designer Giora Kariv. He explains his prototypes and how they are made in this video from his shop.

FEATUREDThe mini radio controlled MINIs at the Olympics ~ deliver/retrieving a single hammer, discus or shot or two javelins. All the details from BMW, and times we've spotted them on tv!

VIDEO2yr old Emma had a condition called arthrogryposis, which meant she couldn't move her arms. So researchers at a Delaware hospital 3D printed a durable custom exoskeleton with the tiny, lightweight parts she needed.

FEATUREDHighlighting the absurdity of some Yelp Reviews ~ here are actors reading them! Hilarious.

VIDEOThe Walls Have Ears, pretty typographical murals surround Hackney Wick (not far from the Olympic Park). Great work from the folks at Bread Collective, based out of East London.

FEATUREDIce cream cupcakes, homemade peanut butter cups and the blue spruce are all part of this week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

FEATUREDCartoon Network turned 20 ~ and this insane poster rounds up SO many characters in one image. Can you find them all?

VIDEOArduino-Controlled Plotter Prototype from Pietro Leoni of Carlo Ratti Associati.

VIDEOFlikli captures the Olympics in 8-bit with their 6-Bit Games!

FEATUREDPencil-tip elephants, a Louis Vuitton waffle maker and Victorian optical toys are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOCloudy is the newest short by artists Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III of Friends With You. Warning...the song will get stuck in your head.

VIDEOLight Form by Mathieu Rivier is a surface with multi-touch visualizations. The result is a simple, yet powerful interaction with the 3d surface.

FEATUREDBlackout at the Tate Modern! Exploring the surrealism galleries at the Tate by the light of Olafur Eliasson's Little Sun, a solar powered lamp that brings light to those without a reliable source of electricity (and great excuse for light graffiti!).

FEATUREDParaNorman box 18/49! First time having to exhume a ZOMBIE ~ see the full unboxing of this creature from the upcoming LAIKA film...

VIDEONike's 'Find Your Greatness' ad campaign is all about London, just not the one you might have in mind. Clever Olympic (yet non-Olympic) ad.

FEATUREDEscape to Cocos Island, French alpine lakes and the rooftops of Chicago with this week’s roundup from NotVentures. To find out more about each destination, click on its individual image.

VIDEOTime lapse of me customizing a munny [Editor's Note: Amazing what you can do with an x-acto knife]

VIDEOThe Associated Press brings robotic cameras to the 2012 London Olympics. Developed by Fabrizio Bensch and Pawel Kopczynski the 11 high-tech rigs will enable all new shots from this years games.

FEATUREDExploring the role of design in sport, and the relationship between design, performance and function. 'Designed the Win' opens today at London's Design Museum. Here's our preview of the exhibition!

VIDEOPopFab, a multi-tool for the 21st century consisting of is a computer-controlled motion platform and means of attaching various toolheads. By Ilan Moyer of MIT's Little Devices Lab and Nadya Peek of the school's Center for Bits and Atoms.

VIDEOALO Exposed + Sara Blake—A New Drinking Experiment. New York artist/ZSO, Sara Blake only had two hours to create improvisational art from what she felt.

FEATUREDPina Colada yoghurt popsicles, homemade peanut butter with chocolate chips and almond nougatine spoons are all part of this week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious.

VIDEOGunther Holtorf and his wife have been on a 23 year road trip in a Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon. They have traveled over 500k miles around the world and photographer David Lemke joins them for a section of their journey.

VIDEOMaisie Broadhead is known for her fine art photographic parodies. She and Broadhead directed a video to be hung next to the 1844 photographic print by Hill and Adamson that it references.

FEATUREDFun gift set from Zubrowka vodka featuring beautiful illustrations, apples and bison grass!

FEATUREDNOTCOT Istanbul inspiration + amusement from the touristy Blue Mosque and Ayasofya to leeches and albino peacocks to shopping + museum finds to the wedding on the bosphorus and boat ride to cafes, tiles, graffiti, and so much more…

VIDEOExperimenting with a Stereoscopy, a 3D technique from the early 1800’s, Shwood Eyewear explores some of Oregon’s blissful hideaways in mesmerizing fashion for its new lookbook!

FEATUREDA watermelon exploded by rubberbands, transparent solar cells and an art library on wheels are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

VIDEOStunning time lapse photography taken from the International Space Station at night.

VIDEOShort video portrait about the candy shop Pärlans in Stockholm. They produce candy based on a recipe from the 30s and 40s, concentrating rather on quality than quantity.

VIDEOWallpaper* chocolate, by Marou and Rice Creative.

FEATUREDEmel Loves Istanbul (& Paris!) ~ Artist, Emel Kurhan's adorable city guides read like a scrapbook of insider favorites to discover... beautiful limited edition by Jotun.

VIDEORubber bands vs Water Melon. Another amazing video from The Slow Mo Guys.

FEATUREDMajestic New Zealand’s Alps, sunshine in the Balaerics and diving in the Maldives are all part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

VIDEOCadillac has taken its new car, the ATS, on an adventure all around the world. Here's a video of the journey. 1 part adventure series, 1 part gear head show.

FEATUREDOperation Window Seat LAX-IST ~ amazing views as we came into istanbul! (Also some fun turkish airline safety card graphics...)

VIDEOThe design shop Breakfast made an electromagnet dot display for TNT's launch of Perception. You can solve anagrams like the show's main character interactively ~ wave your arms/body to clear the letters!

FEATUREDThe House Hotel Galatasaray, Istanbul ~ a peek into our room in this late 1800's mansion turned into boutique hotel by Autobahn. Pod showers, chandeliers, mixture of patterns, flying birds and more...

VIDEOLittle Boxes. Joelle Aeschlimann of ECAL has created these beautiful music boxes for the iPad.

VIDEOA beautiful tilt-shift look at Spain by Joerg Daiber.

VIDEOInstruments of Robot Repair, a company that specializes in producing music and sounds. In this video, they demonstrate 180 different musical instruments.

VIDEOThe Rhythm Pendant Light by Arik Levy for CREA.

FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Blue “Crystal Meth” rock candy, black bottom pie and the Champs Élysées cocktail.