VIDEOFormlabs launches the FORM 2 SLA 3D Printer!!! Bigger, better, and smarter with space for bigger prints, a more powerful laser, automatic resin system, sliding peel mechanism, wifi connections, mobile alerts and more!

FEATUREDdesignjunction presents ‘A Child’s Dream’ in partnership with vitra! 21 designers/architects take on the Eames Elephant in amazing ways - see the herd!

FEATUREDNew Obey Giant (Shepard Fairey) Earth Crisis mural in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

FEATUREDRESEARCH: SWINGS! Having far too much fun looking at swings for NOTlabs... can't believe i've found over 100 on NOTCOT.org alone...

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!

VIDEODomino's AnyWare - Apparently Domino's is overly embracing every tech driven way to connect with them and order pizza as easily as possible... be it emoji text, tweet, smart tv, connected car, smart watch, voice and more...

VIDEOAn Instant Guide to Making Coffee - beautifully animated piece from &Orange Motion Design. From pour over to chemex to french press, areopress, vacuum pot, and moka pot.

VIDEOThe Bouroullec Brothers designed the Serif TV for Samsung - a beautifully framed work of art! Works just as well on its thin feet as it does on a shelf.

VIDEOSculptor Beth Cavener creates stone sculptures of animals that capture human emotions.

FEATUREDGrids & Guides Notebook (in red!) - a peek inside the 8 various grid/textures and the surprising dividers filled with random info you just may need.

VIDEORejuvenation Woodpecker Door Knocker cast in brass. Based on a 1950s, made-in-Portland original - twist the knob and he pecks!

VIDEOMaker Series: Artisanal Firewood - This Is That. This Is That profiles Smoke & Flame, a Vancouver artisanal firewood company that is selling bundles of kindling for $1000. (Hahahaha...)

FEATUREDNOTlabs Roland CNC Experiment! Andrew Bell's Skull in foam then walnut... as amazing as the final product is, various steps of the process would be fascinating sculptures too!

VIDEOTactile Wood textile skins by Tesler + Mendelovitch - absolutely mesmerizing to see how these can bend, flex, twist, and transform.

FEATUREDInfiniti's "From Pencil to Metal" uses YouTube's 360 video play back to bring you right into the design of QX30 concept car - from sketch lines to digital modeling to clay to reality!

VIDEOBallantine and Open Space Agency (OSA) designed a 3D printed zero gravity 'space glass' for whisky! The videos and ideas are so fun - maybe i'll have a dram in space in my lifetime.

FEATUREDNASHVILLE, TN is changing SO fast, that as frequently as we pop over there, there's always so much newness! See everything from coffee soda and the new amphitheater to stunning murals, workshop/studios, and more!

VIDEOCalifornia Inspires Me: Rashida Jones by Jack Cunningham. A beautifully animated piece looking at 70's socal life!

VIDEOSix chapters about the people of Bali by Brandon Li. A cultural journey filmed over a month of living on the island.

FEATUREDInfiniti's "From Pencil to Metal" uses YouTube's 360 video play back to bring you right into the design of QX30 concept car - from sketch lines to digital modeling to clay to reality!

FEATUREDBulls Bay Saltworks - great sea monster/lighthouse icons for the branding of this sustainable, small batch, South Carolina sea salt company by inspiring couple, Rustin and Teresa Gooden. They even have margarita salt.

FEATUREDThe 72U Venice Pop Up Park! When is a fence not just a fence, and a mural not just a mural? When they transform into TABLES that open into the park! NOTCOT helped 72U bring this park to life - see the making of and launch party!

VIDEOCharming animated advertising spot for British bakery company The Fabulous Bakers telling the stories of pineapples, cranberries and bees.

FEATUREDThe Leatherman Tread in person! This customizable wearable multitool bracelet can do everything from screwdriving to bottle opening, sim card popping, glass breaking, attaching sockets and more! And it's TSA/Disneyland friendly...

VIDEOClever ads for Quickdraw Animation use YouTube annotations to show the power of imagination.

VIDEOémile is a writing machine using the Baudot code. By translating the bauds (/ˈbɔːd/, unit symbol Bd) into moving objects that are being sent over physical tracks, a simple computational process of 5-bit binary information transmission is illustrated.

FEATUREDWhat's inside the Cards Against Humanity Design & Science Packs! The design pack is SO colorfully illustrated (and NSFW)

FEATUREDExploding Kittens (+ 30 and up NSFW deck) are here! The ridiculously successful Kickstartered card game from The Oatmeal, Elan Lee, and Shane Small has arrived - see the unboxing! (Complete with 'surprise thingie' in the packaging)

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.

VIDEOKFC Sound Bite Record Tables in South Africa. Interesting interactive piece to share local music through tables. Place you elbows on the table and your hands on your ears to listen!

VIDEOFIND YOURSELF OUTSIDE from Avocados and Coconuts for HipCamp. "A short to celebrate the outdoors. No soundtrack. No voice over. Just production sound, sweetened here and there." You'll hear everything differently next time you camp!

VIDEOMeg & Tom Gallery Proposal. Short video of how a bunch of designers pulled off a surprise proposal.

VIDEOForever 21's Thread Screen by Breakfast NY - more interesting is looking behind the scenes. There are 6400 wooden spools that seem to have colored strips rotated on them acting like pixels to show off Instagram images.

FEATUREDLaser cut interlocking wooden boxes - a new alternative to wood crates? And they can easily turn into coffee table or kid's play tables upon unboxing! Fun packaging from Front Runner Outfitters for their vehicle drawer systems.

FEATUREDNOTFZJ80 Adventures - heading off grid to Taylor Creek and Lake Isabella, CA. Getting away from screens to head into the woods for a camping break with the NOTCOT Land Cruiser.

VIDEOThe Electric Samba project goes on a long road trip to Lake Havasu with Tesla battery pack to extend the travel range, in this DIY home made Volkswagen.

VIDEOURBANCAMO - Short timelapse video captures the fun that artists DAAS and Nao had while creating this colorful abstract mural in Osaka, Japan.

VIDEO‘bad box’ integrates emerging technologies, digital tools, and traditional craftwork allowing creatives to showcase proposals effectively both digitally and physically.

VIDEOA mesmerizing timelapse of the flowering of Echinopsis cacti.

VIDEORio 2016 Olympics Torch expands! Designed by São Paulo studio Chelles & Hayashi

VIDEO(Moving) Bicycle made of tractors at the Tour De France!

VIDEO101.86° by Thomas Vailly and Laura Lynn Jansen. A magical light that changes colors as you layer and rotate various pieces.

VIDEOWoof Washer 360 hose attachment for dog washing. It's been making the rounds as gifs, but i didn't realize it was real!

VIDEOVisualizing the toll of WWII. The Fallen of World War II from Neil Halloran.

FEATUREDMonoFrame Glasses by Parsha Gerayesh of RCA’s Design Products are glasses whose frame is formed from a single material. They borrow techniques from spring manufacturing.

VIDEOBakers are mad scientists! The Chemistry of COOKIES - Stephanie Warren.

VIDEOA dance with hot glass, seen through a thermal camera. Shot as a means of testing theories of hot glass working temperatures and presented as an artistic expression.

VIDEOLexus' latest innovation is a hoverboard.

VIDEOEndless Gravity by Alex Soloviev with mesmerizing footage of jellyfish in motion.

FEATUREDThe Fuzzy Logic Project by Marta Santambrogio. This lovely project explores how traffic noise might create music, with individual vehicle sounds coming together to create a moving orchestra, from traffic jam to jam session.

VIDEOCoda, a short animation from And Maps And Plans.

VIDEOFormlabs announces TOUGH RESIN that you can now 3D print in - and even more fun is this amazing rube goldberg style video they've made to show it off! I've watched it a few times over already...

FEATUREDCumbuca Chic Ceramics - Priscilla Ramos of São Paulo, Brazil sculpts these beautiful Capybara, Anteater, Fox, tiny Bird planters and more. Honestly, I didn't even know i wanted a capybara planter till now.

FEATUREDCapri Blue Cloche Candles - they smell lovely as candles, but i'm more excited to use them for succulents! The bases are perfect little pots, and the conical glass cloches are gorgeous.

VIDEORemote controlled painting clouds in the performance realized by Nevercrew & Chromeo for the Volvo Art Session 2015 in Zurich.

VIDEODenali. I don't say this often, but you have to see this video. The story of photographer/adventurer, Ben Moon and his dog, Denali. The story. The imagery. The perspective. Wow.

FEATUREDNOTlabs Inspiration: Jurassic World at Target. Dinos! Succulents! Legos! Woody CNC'd planters (yes, Plant Experiment #1 in action + the making of...) See what gets us excited, designing, and playing!

FEATUREDMade by NOTCOT: Plant Experiment #1 is a limited edition trio of walnut planters. Every piece is CNC milled from a single block of walnut and hand-finished in Los Angeles at NOTlabs, our design studio. Bonus - they are Lego®-compatible!

VIDEOBeautifully executed video educating about the power of saving your files to Dropbox. Animation created by Buck in LA.

VIDEONIVEA Sun created a handcrafted, custom-made billboard and transformed the ocean floor into a spectacular reminder.

FEATUREDNOTlabs Unboxing! The Roland MODELA PRO II MDX-540S Desktop CNC Mill. The latest tool in our workshop - join us as we unbox the two palettes and get to know this machine and its software the next few months...

VIDEOComputational Couture explores digital fashion with 3D modeling and computation-based approaches. An algorithmic approach loops through design and fabrication by laser cutting and 3d printing the design and production of a garment.

FEATUREDGateway Camping Gear! It's the latest genre to follow Glamping and Athleisure... and REI's new evrgrn collection fits perfectly. Bright, happy, playful, instagram-ready camping gear that transitions easily from apartment/patio to mountain!

FEATUREDInspiration: Clerkenwell Design Week 2015! A look at everything that caught our eye.

FEATUREDWhat happens when plants get legs? Research into some fun options... perhaps for a project to come...

VIDEOBells & Whistles. A short film by Lernert & Sander & creative agency ...,staat for Vector Watch.

FEATUREDElement x Jeremy Fish Summer Collection - a great collection of zipper creature skate decks and an incredible animated video!

VIDEO"Almost a Dodo" - a digital campaign by NBS for NGO Alternativa Terrazul that aims to attract people's attention to a serious matter - the preservation of endangered species.

VIDEORefil is launching 3d printer filament (ink) made from old car dashboards with an installation that shows how to make things right.

VIDEOWhat happens when you combine particle physics, optical illusions and NASA Voyager recordings ? this...'Particle Man'.

FEATUREDThe latest NOTlabs project in progress - redwood rolling gate and bench/top to our large triangle planter... as well as a few new tools and a garage shop update!

VIDEO'Alice’s Adventures in Paperland with Moleskine' Directed by Rogier Wieland, these videos were made for Moleskine to show their Alice in Wonderland Limited Edition Notebooks.

VIDEOAdventurous video showing an „analog“ way to mark the visited places from all around the world. By Bold Tuesday.

VIDEOAntarctica by drone captured by Kalle Ljung.

VIDEOSeb Lester hand draws iconic logos with stunning calligraphy.

VIDEOFrench artist JR creates a walker in New York City for the New York Times magazine.

VIDEO"Cooking Up A Storm" a blustery short film from the folks at Bruton Stroube Studios. Creators of "Breakfast Interrupted."

VIDEOInflated Egos - A fun interactive installation for the General Election where your tweets can inflate and deflate the heads of UK party leaders.

VIDEOCanismo, a short film in which shelter dogs shake off animal-friendly paint by AKQA São Paulo.

FEATUREDLotus Belle Tents - they look part "normal" tent + part yurt + part inflatable. And even more incredible is how spacious it is, how easy it is to assemble, and the adorable illustrated instruction sheet!

FEATUREDMercado Sagrado Malibu - a relaxing weekend of chill life music, delicious treats, happy folks, horses, ducks, and more... and a marketplace under the oaks and inspiring art and geometric structures.

VIDEOSem Dono Beer is a collaboration between Bamberg Brewery and charity Adote um Focinho, created to encourage pet adoption.

FEATUREDLoopholes designed by Fermetti & Oskar Vermeylen for Atelier Belge - currently smitten with this clean, simple, modular wall panel system!

VIDEOBass Pro Shop has moved into the Memphis Pyramid - complete with 28 story freestanding glass elevator, gators, bowling, hotel, waterfowling heritage center, Berretta gallery, Mississippi River boat launch... and more.

VIDEOThe Audi TT Brochure Hack. An augmented touch-based experience: using conductive ink, the brochure becomes an interface, letting you explore Audi's new Virtual Cockpit.

VIDEOAcoustruments by Disney Research is a passive, acoustically-driven interactive control for hand held devices. Ultrasonic pulses pass through an enclosed tube where subtle changes are sensed and used as an interface.

FEATUREDGoogle Maps now lets you Street View your way into Loch Ness to look for Nessie!

VIDEOThe Walk, an animated short by Art&Graft Studio.

VIDEOHoli Colors - The Film - Flysurfer Kiteboarding

VIDEOHop On, a campaign to encourage cycling by Cycling Canada using riderless bikes with incredible visual effects by Alter Ego.

FEATUREDMissing Milan - i've been going through thousands of instagram pics to see what i've missed! Here's another dose of fun inspiration from the last week.

FEATUREDAn Instagram view of some of the fun at Milan Design Week 2015!

VIDEOFREE PIXEL, designed by Carlo Ratti Associati for Artemide, explores a future where LED emitters can work as single, liberated units which use a power-supplying magnetic support (in this case moved by robotic arm)

VIDEOOctographer - Sony New Zealand sets up an octopus to take photos of humans with the Sony Cyber-shot TX30.

VIDEOCOS x Snarkitecture for Salone del Mobile 2015. Snarkitecture transformed Spazio Erbe in Brera to create an immersive translucent cave.

VIDEODuring Sunken Ripples at Glasgow Film Festival, audience members can interact with the sphere to control the jellyfish creatures on the IMAX screen. Small interactions on the sphere ripple out into huge proportions in this playful installation.

VIDEOCall Allen Ginsberg - April is National Poetry Month, this interactive street art meets poetry project is popping up all over SF.

VIDEOMusic video for the band Sizarr. Reallized with multiple laser-scanners

VIDEOThe Mill Chicago helps everyone #getupsidedown for Dairy Queen's new blizzard campaign!

FEATUREDPatagonia Worn Wear Tour kicked off yesterday. Peek inside the Worn Wear Rig - a biodiesel ‘93 Dodge Cummins D250 fitted with salvaged redwood wine barrels and sewing machines inside and the surprising follow truck!

VIDEORay Collins, an Australian photographer, first picked up a camera in 2007, took photos of his friends surfing, to relax after long shifts working in a nearby coal mine. Did not take long to shift focus from surfing to waves.

FEATUREDLeef iBRIDGE - hands on with this little lightning to USB mobile storage device that is perfect for transfering/sharing files between iPhones, iPads, and computers. You can even shoot pictures right to it, or play videos/music off of it.

VIDEOGrant Thompson's newest video, 'How To Turn Styrofoam, Into Solid Aluminum' explains how to use a lost foam casting technique to create solid aluminum prototypes.

FEATUREDFlor de Lis Restaurante, Cayala, Guatemala City. A modern take on traditional Guatemalan ingredients and flavors bordering on molecular gastronomy. Delicious food and stunning plating all tucked away in a city within a city.

VIDEOHundreds of beagle dogs folded from £10 notes released in London by life insurance company Beagle Street

FEATUREDVETTAL Cottage by Patricia Urquiola - a lovely day bed structure with so many configuration options.

FEATUREDBuster & Punch Buster Bulbs are designer LED bulbs unlike any other. We get up close with them at their launch! Their metallic sheen make them as beautiful when off as when on, and the light focuses below and diffuses all around.

FEATUREDThe Laguna Lodge is tucked away on the lakeshore of Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. Only accessible by boat, it's an eco-oasis of relaxation on 100 acres of nature preserve with a delicious locally grown, organic, vegetarian restaurant on site.

FEATUREDWOW. Pingüi the penguin mascot of Flor de Lis Restaurant in Guatemala City! His origins lead back to our epic Puma Penguin Army! And i found out (and met him) thanks to our @NOTlabs Instagram while we were in Guatemala.

FEATURED7 days of epic Guatemala adventures in 50 instagrams - the latest NOTCOT expedition and an awesome celebration of our Tasteologie editor's super Pi Day wedding!

VIDEOTime-lapse of the hyper time-intensive illustrations by French artist, Guillaume Cornet. Watch 75 hours of work in under 2 minutes.

VIDEOCaptives #B04 by Quayola, carved by robots. The works is an interpretation of Michelangelo’s unfinished series Prigioni (1513-1534) in EPS.

VIDEOA journey inside Hang Son Doong, the world's largest cave, by both ground and air by Ryan Deboodt.

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.

VIDEOVideo by Design Agency Tether Inc. in Seattle, WA RedBull Soapbox Sasquatch story.

VIDEOBeautiful video of Brian Grubb winter wakeskating.

VIDEOThe Dulux Colourless Future campaign by BBH London.

VIDEOBlok Knives, leather and handmade knives...

VIDEODigital Arabesques by Miguel Chevalier are beautiful projected interactive installations.

VIDEOSimon Beck's Snow Art in motion in Banff National Park.

VIDEOAn incredibly detailed embroidery by Lauren DiCioccio comes to life as the centrepiece for London agency Antidote's campaign for Royal Ascot, one of the most prestigious events of the sporting, social & style calendars.

VIDEOas·phyx·i·a from Maria Takeuchi and Frederico Phillips - a mesmerizing video using 2 Kinect sensors to motion capture a choreographed dance piece. The data is then manipulated digital to create the end result.

VIDEOAudi's 'The Drones' advert is a fun satirical look at... packaging drones attacking in the style of The Birds?

VIDEOAn exploration into adidas' partnership with Major League Soccer as they partner up to create the new 2015 official match ball

FEATUREDHA! Stock photos to promote the movie Unfinished Business! Twentieth Century Fox and iStock by Getty Images have created a set of 12 stock photos featuring the cast - Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, and Dave Franco.

VIDEOWilly Lastra – an Argentine artisan and his passion for blown glass, creating at any cost.

VIDEOMe and My Moulton - A film by Torill Kove which was nominated for an Oscar this year. The shorts are hilarious! In "5 Sure Signs Your Parents Were Architects" - you can easily swap architect for modern design lover.

FEATURED 11 days in 100 Instagrams - our Alberta Winter Adventure all in one big page! From Edmonton/Calgary finds to Ice Climbing, Dog Sledding, luxury hotels, delicious treats and more...

VIDEOStencilBox founded in Barcelona, it is designed by and for graphic artists in response to the need for conservation of the stencil that enables mass reproduction of a graphic work.

FEATURED Canada Parks has had great logos over the years. Found these (and more) on a wall of their logos at the Cave and Basin National Historic Site.

FEATUREDOperation Window Seat: YYC-LAX. It was stunning to fly into LA along the coast... and time to put some NOTCOT/LA rumors to rest!

FEATUREDIce Climbing Ice Screw as an Apple Corer! Combine that with a spiralizer for apple ribbons and a twist on Alice Water's apple tart for my delicious Apple Ribbon Galette!

VIDEOA walk through the monoprint process inside the Portland, OR studio of Illustrator Amy Ruppel.

FEATURED Tucked inside a red barn in Calgary, you'll find the new Livery Shop. All things Camp Brand Goods, Coutu Kitsch, and lots of other fun local goods. Also, loving how comfy and well cut their tees are. (Yay, Bison + Happy Campers!)

VIDEONASA's 3D visualizations of Saharan dust crossing the Atlantic Ocean. These sands carry nutrients like phosphorous which effectively fertilize the Amazon.

VIDEOGlass Brain visualizes real-time source-localized activity recorded via EEG.

FEATURED Dog Sledding! Driving a dog sled for the first time was incredible, especially around Spray Lakes, Canmore! See videos of them in action, as well as close ups of the adorably lovable dogs of Snowy Owl Sled Dog Tours.

VIDEOFor the music video for French Cola by Itoa, film maker Kim Pimmel focuses his macro lens on hydrophilic polymers, quinoa, ABS plastic, instant coffee, acetone and more.

FEATURED Ice Climbing! I can't believe I just ice climbed up that frozen icy wall in Johnston Canyon in Banff National Park. See what our first intro climb was like with the legendary Barry Blanchard of Yamnuska Mountain Adventures.

VIDEOMarine biologist Colin Foord and musician Jared McKay's Coral Morphologic, a film that looks at the similarities between Miami's subtropical coral reefs and the City itself.

VIDEO250 prepared ac-motors, 325 kg roof laths, 1.8 km rope, an installation from Zimoun at the Knockdown Center NYC.

VIDEOSchoolhouse Electric & Supply Co take you inside their factory! See where all the stunning lights and more come from...

FEATURED The Prairie Creek Inn in Rocky Mountain House, Alberta is a luxurious bed & breakfast. Peek inside their Aspen Tree House which feels like the perfect log cabin in the woods! We even curled up by the fire pit while it was snowing!

FEATURED Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep so dramatically posed in the snow in front of the frozen Abraham Lake in Alberta. How could we not stop when these guys are walking across the highway and hopping the barrier?