VIDEOThe Sanity of 'Madness' - animated video from The School of Life. There’s so much pressure on us to be always rational, calm and sensible: it’s time also to say a word about the essential normality of a little madness.

Handmade record display made of solid walnut with brass details by Japanese furniture maker Kai Takeshima in Montreal, Canada.

Art inspired by politics (reminiscent of the Obama inspired art shows) - HVW8 Gallery and Bernie Sanders 2016 Present “The Art of a Political Revolution” featuring both artists and musicians to inspire change throughout the nation.

French photographer Muriel Bordier captured creative and funny illustrated scenes of small figures lost in giant contemporary spaces such as swimming pools.

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.

Castor Sofa by Big Game for Karimoku - Beautiful and built with "a structure of elaborately joined Japanese oak wood holds soft but supporting cushions upholstered with high-quality foams and natural feathers."

Window Seat Please. A limited edition zine by Karl Hab sharing 10 years of window seat views. Reminds me of the NOTCOT "Operation: Window Seat" posts!

The United Nude Lo Res Car is part of the United Nude Lo Res Project. The Lo Res car shape came from lowering the 3D resolution of the iconic Lamborghini Countach, a Marcello Gandini (at Bertone) design from the early seventies.

Artist Eliza Frye gets in on the enamel lapel pins with three fun designs in her "Fight Like A Girl" Collection! (Fabulous Secrets, Witness Me, and You Gotta Be Fast) Featuring her takes on She-ra, Furiosa, and Jem.

The Gather Vases, designed by Sam Anderson for Good Thing, extend the process of arranging flowers to the vessels they are arranged in. Each vase’s unique proportion lends itself to a different kind of blossom or bunch.

Adidas Y-3 creates spacesuits for Virgin Galactic pilots! Y-3's all-in-one navy flight suit is made from a heat-resistant synthetic material called Nomex Meta Aramid, which is woven using a 3D-engineered pattern.

The Pan 999 set of cookware designed by Tobia Scarpa is the most recent stage on a course that the Milanese silversmith’s studio San Lorenzo has been following since 1970.

Brumm. One base, seven pieces, and endless (automotive) possibilities! It depends on your imagination! Carefully handcrafted pieces, made exclusively from natural beech wood.

VIDEOSavoir-faire: The Making of 'Dioressence' pumps - “A touch of color is enough to change your appearance,” wrote Christian Dior in his Little Dictionary of Fashion.

February 8th, 2016 kicks off the Year of the Monkey. The Aquamarine Fukushima in Japan has opened an exhibit featuring the rare Monkey Orchid to mark the occasion.

Powerball Lottery Simulator by Los Angeles Times is mesmerizingly fun to watch, and a way to help people understand statistics and exactly what those lottery odds mean as far as how much you spend vs how much you win.

VIDEOUgo Gattoni / Sybille’s bath - From the etching on the copper plate through the acid bath to the printing process in the press, discover the amazing know-how required in this ancient art printing process.

The hand-blown shape of the D&L Whisky Glass captures the sensory pleasure of taste and smell associated with a traditional whisky snifter and combines this with the versatile form and style of a classic tumbler.

The glass’s wide base maximises the surface area of a standard measure, funneling the aromas through the tapered body to the optimally sized opening. This reveals the whisky’s full character.

Antiroom II is a floating island on the sea of Malta, an unreachable surface from the ground, only accessible by swimming or by boat. By Elena Chiavi, Ahmad El Mad, Matteo Goldoni with students during the EASA Links 2015 workshop in Valletta (Malta)

VIDEOWe Humans. A beautiful scifi concept film about the last surviving crew member on a terraform colony set to Carl Sagan's speech from his book Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space.

Lamzac - an air filled hammock like seat that you fill by scooping it full of air! (Seems to be like a roll top dry bag)

Audi h-tron Quattro Concept - hydrogen fuel cell powered SUV concept that can take "only about four minutes to fill the tank, giving the car a range of up to 600 kilometers (372.8 mi)" Also laser and OLED lighting.

Volkswagen Tiguan GTE Active Concept - interesting Modular Tansverse Matrix (MQB) technology and off-roading with 4MOTION Active Control drive. It's a pug-in hybrid with 148hp gas engine with 2 electric motors.

Ferdeana Te Como - a ceramic venus fly trap!

Branding for the Office of Sigmund Fraud, a fake psychiatrist persona who held people still for long enough for our artist to draw them.

VIDEOIcehotel #26 - Luxury Suite 322 "The Great Escape" by Marjolein Vonk & Maurizio Perron - see the making of, and their incredible ICE SWINGS!

Pop Papers from Van der Pop - rolling papers packaged in a lovely black and white.

two.parts pendant fixtures made of 3D printed ceramic, illuminated with LEDs, and appear to enclose a mysteriously absent bulb. Designed by Christo Logan.

Egg Separator - a cute little handmade pot by Circles of Stone Ceramics

Netatmo Presence - interesting idea in the connected home security camera space. Outdoor security camera with people, car, and animal detection, flood light, apps and more. Will be interesting to see how it is when it launches.

FEATUREDCES 2016 Audi Booth - quite the 3D grid of chrome/mirrored square posts paired with color changing lighting this year.

BlueLounge Cableyoyo - an earbud cord spool with a magnetic center. Also works well for small cables. Happy 10th Anniversary, BlueLounge! This is their #TBT since 10 years ago at CES they launched with the first Cableyoyo.

A 101-metre slide winds down through this 55-metre high structure designed by Brno-based studio Fránek Architects on a mountain in the Czech Republic.

Wave City Coffee Table by Stelios Mousarris. Inspired by Inception, and made of wood, steel and 3D printed technology.

Fisher Price Think and Learn Code-A-Pillar - teach kids to code by attaching the motorized head/speaker and each body piece that represents a movement. Looks like USB connectors.

Solardome Geodesic Glass Domes for everything from greenhouses to rooftop getaways... pop up venues and more.

FEATUREDOh Sheep! Unboxing the Nextbit black sheep vinyl toy! Nextbit (of the Robin phone) has a cloud logo that was turned into a sheep mascot then made into an adorable vinyl toy...

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.

Every ACME product ever, in a cave. 126 rockets, gadgets, and explosives from our favorite desert coyote. Print illustration by Rob Loukotka (Fringe Focus).

Spinneybeck Tratto, meaning traction or stretch in Italian, is a unique screen made from stretched CNC cut Belting Leather held in traction within an aluminum frame. Designed by Emanuela Frattini Magnusson.

Capata Pyrenees' Lazysack "The Ultimate Sleeping Bag" is an interesting transformation of not just the usual sleeping bag to blanket... but also to PONCHO.

Eyeko Sport Waterproof Mascara and Eyeliner - there's a whole genre of makeup just for going to the gym and working out...

Nemo's Garden - i'm fascinated by this italian project for underwater greenhouses! Sergio Gamberini's vacation inspired research project the last few years.

Anaptár is a unique, informative poster calendar, which is a work of beauty and source of fascinating new discoveries. For 2016 Anaptár has versions adapted for Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, London, New York and Vienna.

"Understated and beautiful Vitra packaging by Swedish studio BVD" over at It's Nice That