VIDEOShanks FX on creating the cosmos for PBS, using a sheet of glass, dust for stars, food coloring, water and milk to stunning effect.

VIDEOFrom the Revolution Design House shop in Portland, Oregon, comes the Boxcar planter. Behind the scenes of hand-made modern design. Love what you own.

FEATUREDRam Trucks RAMBOX! On brilliant design details, love these hyper-functional, locking, lit, drainable storage compartments - perfect for everything from gear, tools, ice/drinks, and people?

FEATUREDHomesickness Fighting Tech! With some of these products and apps today, it's tough to feel homesick when you can see, interact, and control so much even when away from home!

VIDEOStephen Fry explains the history of computer thinking in a 5 minute animation.

VIDEOPhotographer Thomas Senf and light specialist David Hedinger turned ice climbing in Eidfjord, Norway, into a work of art.

VIDEOByaku, a swimming polar bear cut from paper by Nahoko Kojima.

VIDEOWanmock, a hammock for dogs from Torafu Architects that incorporates some of it's owner's clothing.

VIDEORube Goldberg fun in the debut ad of GoldieBlox, encouraging girls to build and engineer their own contraptions.

FEATUREDUp close with the Mercedes-AMG Vision Gran Turismo concept full size model that was created for GT6! Stunningly surreal to see a car designed for a video game life size...

FEATUREDA peek inside the world of Mercedes-Benz R&D's new HQ in Sunnyvale, CA. Fun design details, 114 Nest thermostats, Nook clocks in 3D printed frames, and a peek at where they are going with Pebble, Google Glass, and more.

FEATUREDStay Classy ~ says the mysterious crate that arrived on my doorstep... check out what was inside! A weeks supply of coffee, a USB sugar cube, and an invitation from Ron Burgundy to join his new game...

VIDEONorwegian animator and sound artist Per Byhring explains how particles originating from deep inside the core of the sun creates northern lights or aurora borealis.

FEATUREDHappy New Year from Krug Champagne! Adorable surprise arrived this morning with a beautifully illustrated card... and fun packaging!

VIDEOBrent Rose drops an egg in some left over cryogenic fluid.

VIDEOMercedes-Benz AMG Vision Gran Turismo - designed specially for Gran Turismo 6.

VIDEOBertrand Lanthiez projects lights across wool threads to create an audiovisual installation.

VIDEOLuigi Prina's beautiful flying ships, captured by Blinking City and photographer Gianluca Giannone.

VIDEOThe Sylvestre Glass Ornament by Caroline Ziegler & Pierre Brichet. The blown glass Christmas ornament was created for the Centre International d'Art Verrier (CIAV) glass museum and workshop in Meisenthal, France.

VIDEOGrems x Ninjaz. Street Art in Paris.

VIDEOIt stars Kevin Durant, Derrick Rose, James Harden, Steve Nash and Stephen Curry shooting three-pointers at nets outfitted with Christmas bells—producing an even more impressive musical performance, this time of “Jingle Bells.”

VIDEOThe project, called Long Distance Art, incorporates satellite feeds and robots, acting as an extension of the artist’s hand around the globe. While Kiessling himself was drawing and painting in Vienna, the robots physically mimicked him in London and Berlin.

VIDEOMark Wagner's Money is Material from the Avant/Garde Diaries.

FEATUREDAudi Clean Diesel Day! Audi takes over a whole gas station, giving you a personal pit crew and more... free tank of diesel, Handsome Coffee, green juice, detailing, etc in Santa Monica today.

VIDEOMIT's tangible media lab unveil the inFORM, a surface that three-dimensionally changes shape, so users can interact with digital information in a tangible way. inFORM can also interact with the physical world around it.

FEATUREDAesop always has fun holiday gift set packaging ~ this year it's retro-typographically themed!

FEATUREDSurprise package from Motorola with an illustrated pop up box around a Moto X and a little red hat!

VIDEOThe Creature Collab consists of a series of limited-edition hand-painted puzzles and magnets by designer Jonathan Dorthe and artist Tyson Bodnarchuk.

VIDEOCheck the new video of a piece in Cork done by Vhils. Amazing mix between cityscapes and portraits.

VIDEOYuki Ariga's stop motion Tissue Animals for a Japanese paper manufacturer, Nepia.

VIDEOMasashi Kawamura and Kota Iguchi's music video for Japanese band SOUR's Music Is Life created using rotating CDs.

VIDEOMaking of the 2013 John Lewis Christmas ad.

FEATUREDBeautiful baby octopus my dad just sent pictures of! And it was merely the size of a dollar coin.

FEATUREDA breathable tea room from Camellia's Tea was one of many highlights at the 2013 Experimental Food Society Spectacular.

FEATUREDA meadow of sugarpaste flowers billowing in the wind created by Rosalind Miller Cakes. Another delectable treasure from the Experimental Food Society Spectacular.

FEATUREDDwell has launched a STORE! And in their announcement package, we couldn't stop playing with the cardboard packing materials by ExpandOS! You can build quite the structures with them too...

FEATUREDBeautiful pieces from Linlin & Pierre-Yves Jacques at the 3D Print Show in London. The intricate pieces cast gorgeous shadows across the room.

FEATUREDHūs, a flatpacked 3D printed birdhouse from design consultancy Saint H and rapid prototyping bureau Digits 2 Widgets.

FEATUREDAether Apparel's new Los Angeles Outpost has a commercial freezer set to 9 degrees in it so you can properly test the jackets even when it's 80 degrees outside! Here's a peek into the new store in the front of their HQ.

VIDEOThe Beauty of Mathematics by Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux.

FEATURED5 different perspectives to find when traveling to a new city!

FEATUREDInspiration: Nashville! Our latest discoveries ~ from Headquarters Coffee filled with delicious localness, to Peter Nappi's stunning boot store, Bang Candy's Boozy Caramels, the Marathon Motor Car building filled with creatives and more.

VIDEO"Let's Build" - Heartwarmingly fun LEGO ad!

VIDEOOrchid a series of flower-inspired paint formations from Fabian Oefner.

VIDEOBruno Ribeiro AKA NOhista and Collectif Coin artistic director Maxime Houot's beautiful installation of illuminated balloons, Cyclique.

VIDEODarren Pearson's light painted skeleton skates and dances its way around the city in Light Goes On.

VIDEOA stop motion pumpkin lobotomy by pumpkin carver Chris Soria, illustrator Jason Smith and Joe Vaughn.

FEATUREDAdventures in Seattle ~ a peek at our views from the Sheraton downtown...

FEATUREDChrome goes stealthy black with the BLCKCHRM editions of three of their bags. Love the use of U.S. Coast Guard rescue raft material, Hypalon!

FEATUREDHands on with the 3Doodler - a handheld 3D printer.

FEATUREDThe Equil JOT Smartpen! Instant gratification for sketching and note taking that shows up right on your iphone/ipad. It's somewhere between a Wacom Inkling and Livescribe 3. Here's a look at the design details and packaging.

VIDEOLeslie Garcia's Pulsu(m) Plantae asks what plants would say if they could speak.

VIDEONASA releases footage of the sun's Canyon of Fire during late September.

FEATUREDIn Pursuit of Magic ~ fun stencil/mini spray can set to spread a little magic around, and join the IPM movement around the globe.

FEATUREDW Hotels bring the Alps to London with Republic of Verbier, 17 days of alpine themed fun ahead of the December 1st launch of W Verbier in the Swiss Alps, complete with a gondola, furs and fireplaces.

VIDEOThe Deep, a playful stop motion film by PES using mechanical toys to create an underwater world.

VIDEONando Costa's "The New America", a short animation in which every frame was created by laser engraving its unique artwork onto a solid block of maple.

VIDEOStudio Swine's Can City, a system where Catadores (waste collectors) can use free metal and free fuel to produce an endless range of individually crafted aluminum items.

VIDEOHonda Illusions, An Impossible Made Possible is a commercial filled with optical illusions for the European launch for the new CR-V 1.6 Diesel. The making-of video is amazing!

VIDEOMaking the all-new Mac Pro is a short film released by Apple highlighting the fabrication process for making their newest pro tower.

FEATUREDGhosts of Gone Birds, the book is officially published today, documenting the first four exhibitions and the ideas behind the project. We joined the launch last night to celebrate the release and got a preview of the new book!

VIDEO"Water Rock", a rock version of Pachelbel's Canon composed of 700 samples of dripping water recorded from the riverhead in Kumamoto, Kyushu. Created by Morihiro Harano and Mori Inc for Sony.

VIDEOScientists take a closer look at the slow, galloping gait of dung beetle.

VIDEOUtterly mesmerising series of photography from Shane Black as he makes a roadtrip across America, taking in 32 states and 13 national parks.

VIDEOLiquid Alchemy — The Art of Baileys Chocolat Luxe - Beautifully complex luxurious rube goldberg machine of sorts...

VIDEOUnbounded Robotics has unveiled the UBR-1 Robot, a manipulation platform designed for robotics researchers and businesses. The robot arm can be programmed to do various tasks and respond to the environment.

FEATUREDInspiration: SEATTLE! A weekend exploring Seattle. Delicious food, incredible coffee, endless apples, so many craft brews, a peek in the Boeing factory, a look inside the Rem Koolhaas Library, timelapse vids, and more inspiration.

FEATURED5 Steps To Explore Like A Local ~ a peek at how we approach diving in to a new city at NOTCOT!

FEATUREDBoeing Factory Tour in Everett, WA just outside of Seattle is a definite must see in person when in the area. The sheer scale of the space and the planes and the factory in motion is mind blowing.

FEATUREDStunning solid carved wooden chairs and geometric solids by Aleph Geddis found at Totokaelo in Seattle, WA.

VIDEORedbull releases POV footage from BASE jumper Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking leap from a balloon some 24 miles off the ground, which took place last year.

VIDEOTextbook delivery by drone? Flirtey teams up with textbook rental company Zookal to use hexacopters to deliver studying materials.

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.

FEATUREDThe Best of Mercedes-AMG. We spend 2 days on the tracks of Willow Springs with 41 AMGs... doing 150mph in the SLS black series, exploring the desert with the G63, peeking at the late night garage repairs, and more!

VIDEOCrystal Infusion - Inside the molding of a Hydroflex Skateboard.

FEATUREDA pair of Mercedes-AMG C63 507 editions (sedan vs coupé) donut duel in the California desert during the Best of AMG at Willow Springs.

VIDEOElement went to test their Wolfeboro jackets on the arctic island of Spitsbergen, home to the world's northernmost miniramp.

VIDEOThe foldable Bloom safety helmet from Toyo Safety.

VIDEOMapping the Matterhorn with SenseFly drones.

VIDEOAn utterly breath taking video of professional Parkour free runner, James Kingston, shot from a point of view perspective.

FEATUREDIt's London Cocktail Week, celebrated in style with a Surrealist Supper from The Clove Club as part of Hendrick's Carnival of Knowledge. A most unusual evening complete with disembodied hands for bartenders, a horn of plenty and more!

VIDEOA fun trailer for the upcoming cookbook, Mast Brothers Chocolate: A Family Cookbook, due out October 22nd!

VIDEONuance by Marc-Antoine Locatelli captures the movements of a street dancer with an orb of light.

VIDEOCool Hunting goes inside the Hot Wheels Design Studio to take a look at their process, designs, and a new injection molding machine allowing you to make hot wheel cars on the spot.

FEATUREDIKEA Lillabo Toy Cars - modular and made of wood and plastic. Designed by Henrik Johansson.

VIDEOBaloica is a temporary sound installation set at the old Convento das Dominicas in the city of Guimarães. A swing set was set up at the entryway of the convent and transformed into a musical instrument.

VIDEOMesmerizing video of giant bubbles popping from Shanks FX for PBS.

VIDEOExploding jellies from Bompas & Parr. A fun video exploring the making, molding and explosion of jelly.

VIDEOBanksy's "Rebel Rocket Attack"

VIDEO"Portrait Robot" is a project by three students form l'école nationale supérieur de création industrial in Paris. An ABB robot, using a black marker and the Microsoft motion capture Kinect, draws the image of the user as he pauses.

VIDEOBoston Dynamics has unveiled WildCat, their newest all terrain robot capable of reaching 16mph on different terrains.

VIDEODoris Sung uses responsive thermo-bimetals to create 'breathing' architecture that heats and cools in reaction to its environment.

VIDEOThe Central Limit Theorem explained adorably with rabbits and dragons illustrated by Shuyi Chiou.

VIDEODesign Is One Movie Trailer ~ story of Lella and Massimo Vignelli. Throughout their career, their motto has been, "If you can't find it, design it."

VIDEOPenguin NAVI - Tokyo's Sunshine Aquarium has an app that helps visitors find them by following the Augmented Reality GPS Penguins, which were motion captured!

VIDEONissan Nismo Watch ~ smart watch that syncs to your performance car. Awesome packaging - allen wrench built into the box to unscrew it all... rubber coating from scraping the tire rubber off the track...

VIDEO98 year old Hal Lasko creates incredible pointillist artwork in Paint.

VIDEOGreat ideas are everywhere. See what inspired the LG G2's OIS Camera.

FEATUREDHighland Park teams up with The Meat Hook in Brooklyn to create a delicious Highland Park 15 Whisky infused Jerky!

VIDEOA behind the scenes look at Box, Bot & Dolly's short film which documents a first-ever live synchronized performance using 3D projection mapping, robots, and actors.

VIDEOA new visualization of Antonio Gaudi's Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona shows the final steps to completion in a 3D animation.

VIDEOWacom demos the new Cintiq Companion and Companion Hybrid at Core77

FEATUREDA first look at After Life, an exhibition of poignant portraits of extinct and endangered species from Sean Dooley, which opens at the Horniman Museum and Gardens this Saturday.

VIDEOJaguar with Trunk Animation created a film that evoked the ethos of their new all-aluminum technical architecture, the foundation of the stunning new C-X17 sports crossover concept vehicle – without actually showing the car itself.

FEATUREDOakley Factory Pilots' Der Fliegende Fish took flight in the National Red Bull Flugtag. Love the angler fish design.

FEATUREDMike Calvert Triptique of Surf Inspired Prints for UNIS LA

FEATUREDA look behind the scenes of Café Grumpy in NYC as they open their latest in the fashion district. They've come a long way since 2005 - delicious coffee, pastries, fun logo, and more - all transported in a Ford Transit Connect!

FEATUREDLexus brought us to Las Vegas for some Lexus ISF Drifting Roulette with pro drifter, Ken Gushi behind the wheel. Even though we didn't win, it was quite the site to behold... video, pics, and more.

VIDEOThe films take a completely new and unexpected look at whiskey, venturing under the surface into the rich golden world of The Glenlivet Alpha.

FEATUREDA letterpress studio from Society of Revisionist Typographers - SORT popped up inside Fortnum and Mason for the London Design Festival.

FEATUREDNike Studio Wrap 3 in 1 "shoes" are an interesting concept with fun packaging and nice design story.

FEATUREDA look at Tent and Superbrands 2013 at the Old Truman Brewery, complete with axe table legs, conveyer belts, constellations, woody kids bikes, installations and more.

FEATUREDOur look at Worldscape, from Atmos Studio, at 100% design. The flat-packable table seats 80 diners around a relief map of the world and is created from CNC cut plywood.

FEATUREDMoney from Hyundai Card at designjunction, an interactive installation introducing pretty new metal credit cards and an interactive exhibit where tapping the cards prints informative receipts about the project.

FEATUREDDesign Is Everywhere at the V&A Museum - 3D Printed Gun, door of pinwheels, mesmerizing glass baubles of a chandelier, ferrofluid skull, Moleskine sketch inspirations, beautiful magnifying glasses, and more...

FEATUREDMicroagriculture in your own home? Bringing hydroponics, algae tubes and more into the kitchen at Farm Kitchen at 100% Design. Amazing installation designed by mette.

FEATUREDOne of my favorite lecture spaces within 100% design this year was Paperspace designed by Studio Glowacka in collaboration with Maria Fulford Architects.

VIDEOKinetic and interactive wall installations that react not only to wind currents from the Sapporo train station, but also human movement, by Berlin based artist Jerzy Goliszewski.

VIDEO3-Sweep: Extracting Editable Objects from a Single Photo is a research project that creates 3D forms from a 2D photo with a simple interaction.

FEATURED24 hour clock! THE THING QUARTERLY Issue XX - by Tauba Auerbach in collaboration with Assembly Design. (Thank you, Levi's Made and Crafted for the surprise!)

VIDEOThis video by TUBE, showcases the process behind every pair of Deck Specks, sunglasses made from recycled skateboard decks.

FEATUREDA look into London Design Week 2013's Top Drawer - fun finds!

VIDEOStunning short by Keiichi Matsuda for Veuve Clicquot, exploring the history of the maison with a tour of its remarkable 24km of underground cellars in Reims

VIDEONOX allows visitors to shut down the entire interactive facade of the museum during Ars Electronica Festival 2013 - Total Recall.

VIDEOSUNSET from cento lodigiani - a beautiful series of black/red animations of final sunsets...

VIDEOA life sized video game was created for the new Lexus IS Hybrid - From the passenger seat, tablet control the car's path, which is projected in an airplane hangar, then driven by F1 driver, Jarno Trulli.

VIDEOThe 2013 APA Show 'Titles' Directed by James Curran.

VIDEOSusie Sie films lycopodium powder on a stereo speaker in Cymatics.

VIDEOTunnelblick – A constricted circular tunnel-like field of vision.

VIDEOAnimation by Golden Wolf for the UK Design Council highlighting the value of good design for small businesses.

FEATUREDCONTAINER! Issue #1: HOT&COLD is here and it's not your usual magazine. This one is quite the magical styrofoam box of wondrous themed art pieces - all specially produced in limited edition for CONTAINER!

FEATUREDDETAILS! Shu Uemura always has such gorgeous packaging. Today's inspiration comes from their Shu Uemura Art of Hair Essential Drops. Shaking up the green and clear only to watch it separate again doesn't get old.

FEATUREDA peek inside the new Summers Juice & Coffee (and sandwiches + pastries) in Williamsburg, Brooklyn as well as a look at their conversion from a 50 year old boedga! Fun, chill, surf decor including reclaimed wood fence to herringbone ceiling!

FEATUREDAdventures with Butler Blue 3 (aka Trip!) and the Blue Mobile Ford Transit Connect in Indianapolis, IN. this feisty bulldog is living the life, and we dream up some future transit mods for this famous mascot!

VIDEOBunjil's Wings is a new massive kinetic sculpture created by ENESS, Australian-based art and design collective.

FEATUREDHow to Make The Ultimate Egg Sandwich over at the freshly opened Summers Juice and Coffee in Brooklyn. Between the special bun is a spiral of sriracha, avocado, bacon, and a fried egg filled with cheese.

FEATUREDUp close with the Ignoble Rutledge Travel Wallet and Sternwood Card Wallets - they are more like super minimalist, grayscale, zippered pouches with a multitude of uses!

VIDEOThe Sony QX10 and QX100 are new lenses with built in image sensors that clip to and communicate wirelessly with your smart phone.

VIDEOHonda's minivan has a built in VACUUM! Fun ads showing off the new feature... animal cracker stampede, candy, broken crayons, etc don't stand a chance.

VIDEOLisa Frank ~ first on camera interview? Love it or hate it, it's inspiring to hear about how it started, seeing the warehouse where there's one of everything... things used to be airbrushed and hand painted!

VIDEO"Powered By Pizza" fun ad from Domino's about the startups, creativity, and more that are pizza powered!

VIDEOA video of the most beautiful lumigraphies of the French artist Bastien Carré.

VIDEOBalance from Within by Jacob Tonski, is a 170-year-old sofa which uses an internal robotic mechanism to balance precariously on one leg.

VIDEOTime Tilings by Pablo Valbuena is a set of four site-specific video projections on tiles. The simplicity and speed of the animation creates a mesmerizing effect.