The Design of Childhood by Alexandra Lange - "From building blocks to city blocks, an eye-opening exploration of how children's playthings and physical surroundings affect their development." (And the Free Universal Construction Kit is on page 67!)

Bunny with a Toolbelt Window of Wonders! This is a street's-eye-view window gallery, loaded with original characters from the books and playing card deck, an ever-evolving woodland scene, and more in Portland, OR.

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!

To Celebrate 10 Years of the Knoll Luxe textile collection, Heavy Eyes designed 2 displays featuring larger than life insects and plants made out of over 100 Knoll fabrics and wallcoverings.

Citroën has launched SEETROËN, the first glasses that eliminate motion sickness by recreating the horizon line to resolve the conflict between the senses that causes the affliction.

Emile Henry Modern Classics Pie Dish. Impulse bought this for strawberry cake (#63277) and have been loving it for pies, cakes, casseroles, and more!

The NOTCOT Strawberry Patch has been busy this year! And we've made this Smitten Kitchen Strawberry Summer Cake 3 times so far... it's so good with our fresh berries, we had to share it!

THIJS BIERSTEKER x WEVAL. CLAVILUX NEUE - The installation, consisting of 6 rotating lens structures, translates Weval’s warm layered electronic rhythms into a world of refracted light particles.

DOIY Sonora Cactus Juicer

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

Millie Lottie Eva Signature Food & Picnic Tote - lovely leather handles with double canvas base and a perfectly sized bamboo cutting board to fit in the bottom!

La Vaca Designhouse MinniDip "designer inflatable pools"

Gunner Dog Kennels. The only 5 Star Crash Test Rated travel crate according to the Center For Pet Safety. So many interesting, thoughtful, design details. (They seem like the YETI of kennels.)

Piano. Push. Play. is distributing pianos painted by local artists all around Portland again. May your summer be filled with spontaneous public jam sessions…

Ramen + Coffee lovers - Stasia Burrington makes some adorable pins and stickers of her cheeky girls and cats! (She also makes lovely illustrations and paintings!)

Anna Kincaide Paintings feature lovely ladies (often in little black dresses) with bursts of flowers over the heads...

A look at the design by Tandem Design NYC for Ocasio-Cortez's big win. FastCo Design "How the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaign got its powerful design"

Conos - wooden spinning tops inspired by seeds. Designed and manufactured by chilean designer/jeweler Nicolás Hernández.

H&M Round Metal Tray (Diameter 15 1/4")

The Remnants Table Series by Josh Carmody Studio is a clamp on leg system designed to inspire interior designers and architects to reuse the stone, tile and timber samples that are regularly thrown out.

H&M is launching furniture and lighting? Happy Interior Design Blog has a peek!

MISSIOO Luxury Ball Pits for kids... with optional slide!

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.

Batched & Bottled. Make ahead batch cocktails from brothers Max and Noel Venning of London cocktail bar Three Sheets. (Currently available in the UK, coming in Aug to the US)

Flexzilla Garden Hose with SwivelGrip. NOTCOT Recommended! Having been through so many hoses over the years, finally found this one to work the best (and great design details too!)

Dodgy Dogs! A card game illustrated by Jean Jullien, created by Yolky Games. Currently on Kickstarter (just backed by NOTCOT!)

STUDIOKCA Skyscraper (The Bruges Whale) - 5 tons of plastic waste pulled out of the Pacific Ocean, turned into a 4 story tall whale for the 2018 Bruges Triennial

Plate Recorder by artists Liat Segal and Roy Maayan, is a custom-built painting machine that etches sound waves, creating ‘ceramic plate records’.

Tiffany & Co has a beautiful Flora & Fauna collection of vases, bowls, and glassware.

Drucker Confident Armchair - classic colorful rattan in such a unique shape.

Moulin Roty Construction Stamps

Vogue has a video recipe with Lori A. Stern to make her lovely Flower Pressed Shortbread Cookies from #63251.

Lori A. Stern's signature Flower Pressed Shortbread Cookies. Her instagram is worth a peek too! (Flower pot pies, pastas, cakes and more.)

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.

Briki Vroom Vroom - adorable wooden kids toys and card/prints.

&me baby cribs are inspired by vintage cribs with a new modern twist. Made of coated steel and FSC Birch wood. And they even have matching mini cribs for dolls.

Manutti San Collection designed by Lionel Doyen is stunning in bench, lounger, sofa and hybrid seating modes.

Paulette et Sacha wooden toys with fabric wings/fins!

Charlie Crane makes beautiful bent-ply baby rockers, cribs, changing tables, and high chairs that can grow with your child... and the details of some of their fabrics are so fun too.

Bermbach Baby Bed LOLA - handmade rattan, leather, and wood crib. Stunning details.

Rowen & Wren Lumley Stem Vase - patterned brass lids and recycled glass bases.

Wine Game! An app to turn blind wine tasting with friends into a fun game. Pick a few bottles, have one person scan the labels and cover them, send friends the code to join the game, start tasting, and see how well you know your wines.

Creator (a culinary robotic company) in San Francisco has a robot making burgers to order!

Curbed LA "An illustrated guide to Los Angeles architecture: Get to know LA’s signature styles, from Craftsman to Googie" Illustrations by Monica Ahanonu.

New Drawings by Ben Tolman opens June 23, 2018 at the Jonathan LeVine Projects! (Showing 'Curious'.)

Parlor Coffee INSTANT is "Seasonally sourced and meticulously preserved with freeze-dried technology" - lately it seems like we've been entering a new era in instant coffee.

Vogue takes a look at the creative ways Caviar is being served across America... "Caviar Is Everywhere, Not Only for Special Occasions: Where to Eat the Ingredient of 2018"

60 m2 of illustrations were created for the lounge area of a wine bar in Antwerp, Belgium. The jungle illustrations were printed on textured wall paper. Illustrations were done by Xavier Segers, The Last Dodo.