Love these concrete animals from Ivanka. They looks like stone age toys!

International Cephalopod Awareness Days, a five-day celebration of more than 700 sea creatures that make up this class of animals. Wired Science share some of the weird traits that make octopodes and squid loveable.

FEATUREDBreathtaking portraits of the birds of The Suncoast Seabird Sanctuary by Bob Croslin capture the striking beauty of these animals.

FEATUREDJeremy Fish's latest show, Wild Kingdom at Rotofugi ~ i love the animals that look stuck in boxes!!! Also fun totem like skull prints!

Birds&Eggs designed by Hakan Gürsu for children above the age of 5, it is a universal toy that children from different cultural backgrounds learn and discover living animals while also designing their own birds.

Stunning watercolours from the Austrian painter Aloys Zötl’s Bestiarium, a series of exquisite paintings of various animals undertaken from 1831 through until his death in 1887

Yang:Ripol's Flat Zoo, cute animals created from layers of wood.

Illustrator Ping Zhu's delightful animals.

A new archetype of Oceanography cage inspired by marine animals designed by 360. The cage performs measurements in the marine environment to over 4000m depth

Cool Hunting explore the animals of Art Basel.

Public service poster for SIED, depicts millions of animals forming a Cross section of a Tree, conveying deforestation is cutting down everything. by JWT New Delhi.

RoboSpider, just one of Wired's menagerie of robot animals.

The world's first 'Monsterist' illustrator chats to Don't Panic about cosmic yacht rock, creating artwork for the Super Furry Animals and his new range of collectible toys.

Rare Species exclusively on Ilmgold are a playful and unexpected twist by Studio Laura Strasser

School-Garden-to-Zoo: A completely unique Garden-to-Table program involving students raising food for zoo animals and in turn becoming hooked on the food themselves.

Tokyo Zoo Project for the Sony Nav-U ~ animals were mapped out as routes and you can ride them throughout tokyo!

VIDEOJoseph Mann's music video for Keaton Henson's song Small Hands. Beautiful puppetry by Jonny & Will and a stunning handmade forest and animals! Produced by Blink.

Live ticks become the first animals to be observed under a scanning electron microscope while alive.

David Boni's stunning Noble Animals series.

Outsiders, an interesting project from Atelier Volvox that turns stuffed animals inside out.

'Oritsunagumono', Takayuki Hori’s incredibly beautiful x-ray origami animals.

The Scale of the Universe by Cary Huang takes you from the edge of the universe to the quantum foam of space-time. Along the way you will see molecules, animals, countries, and galaxies; all putting you in your scale. Awesome!

FEATUREDNew 2012 woody creatures by Karl Zahn for Areaware - adorable dovetail animals and stackable crocodiles!

Incredible animals captured in BIC pen by Sarah Esteje.

Jeremy Kool creates amazing origami animals that look very realistic.

FEATUREDCorkers - pushpin like add ons that turn your wine/champagne corks into fun animals!

Broken Geometry Animals are made up of sketched polygon faces, then translated into 2D vectors rather than a 3D model.

Great series of endangered species in plastic by Ryo Shimura.

The Telegraph Review of the year 2011: animals feeding and fighting. Amazing series of photos.

Jean-Francois De Witte edited a series of photographs creating characters & animals out of dishes, spoons, forks and cups. Brilliant.

Can you see it? Cute folded Origami animals.

The 2012 Studio on Fire desk calendar! This year the theme is the Positive Apocalypse, featuring include brain-feasting zombies, a yeti, transfigured animals, Earth being devoured and a rainbow explosion.

This print of Burrowing Animals tells some amazing tales regarding the animals that live underground. Prairie Dogs build themselves an elaborate burrow that includes nurseries, listening posts, look out stations and toilets.

Braille handrail system to help visually impaired ‘see’ animals at the zoo.

FEATUREDZoom Zoo Alphabet Flashcards by Dreamworks Illustrator, Mike Yamada. Adorable animals in retro futuristic cars ~ a la Richad Scarry.

'Social Animals' - A project designed by the young designer Collin Velkoff that explores the interactions between humans and their objects.

FEATUREDModerne Wood Animals, designed by Linnea Gits and Peter Dunham exclusive for DWR - Fox, Bear, Horse, Deer, and Bull

Into balloon animals? Shiny Koons' style? Kidrobot has a new 3" blindbox series - POP! Super Shiny Minis.

Working with industrial resin clay, acrylic and other suitable materials, Michihiro Matsouka fuses machinery with animals creating fantastic sculptures.

More hybrid animals! By Nicholas Di Genova.

Bizarre composed animals by Fredrik Odman.

Menagerie, a new book of beautiful photographs of animals by Sharon Montrose.

Adorable Hungry Animals Stencil Set

Renaud Marion's attraction series captures wild animals and their attraction to the public.

Little Darlings print series from Sharon Montrose featuring gorgeous baby animals.

Roylco has some fun x-ray flashcards ~ animals, insects, body parts and more!

KarshHagan created Social Animals to help their client, American Crew, make the most of their redesigned social media channels.

Bon Matin Les Squelettes 3D-Plakat - Humans and animals cavort in three dimensions on this art print using florescent green and magenta.

Heaven McArthur seems to have a deep connection with animals, photographing them in a way no else can. An Annie Leibovitz of the four legged variety!

VIDEOMercedes-Benz: Stayin’ Alive Advert ~ the animals rejoice and dance when they don't get hit...

Tel Aviv based artist Maya Landman lovely aquarelle and mixed media works. In her words: 'The essence of my work is the acceptance of human variation through the appreciation of the imperfections in nature and animals.'

Classic vintage games cleverly mashed up with art history by Aled Lewis where an 8bit Indiana Jones crusades through The Persistence of Time and more.

These incredible sculptures are the work of Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre who deftly extracts the most delicate anatomical forms of humans and animals from common objects.

Cats on scanners make beautiful digital art. Distorted fur. Polycythemiac paws. Glitchy heads. ART!

Criteroos: Mix. Match. Print. An app for kids to learn the names of various animals by Clement Mok.

Tree of Life poster by Gary, Aaron and Khairul shows the rings of a tree composed by tiny animals. From degree.

New Scientist's roundup of regenerating animals.

Surrey, England-based photographer Kim Taylor captures animals in his garden using a process called locomotion. It shows a creature’s ability to move from place to place in impressive detail.

FEATUREDCrazy rollercoasters, tiny grains of sand and two-headed animals are all part of this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

Life's gallery of two headed animals.

Mafia Animals by Nick Rudnicki.

The first published sketchbook of Mattias Adolfsson. 160 pages wort of robots, dragons, animals, characters and the odd baroque darth vader. And if you order by June 1st, you'll get it signed with a small doodle!

Revital Cohen's Life Support project explores what it would be like if transgenic assistance animals might serve as as life support ‘devices’.

FEATUREDPreview of Jacub Gagnon's latest paintings ~ Petite Lap Giraffes and Tea, anyone? Amazing animals meet object paintings that will mesmerize! (Also see the making of!)

My Zoo by Martí Guixé, a series of gigantic animals made of cardboard, all white, for Magis. The children will be able to sit on them and color them, but also go inside them. The whale will be eight meters long, enormous!

Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo introduces its new identity and theme 'More Wonder, More Wild' by Phinney Bischoff Design House.

Danielle van Ark's The Mounted Life series captures stuffed animals in storage, behind the scenes of 33 museums across Europe and North America.

In case you're in need of some Winning, Tiger Blood or Head explodin', check out this amazing Charlie Sheen desktop by Skinny Ships, Young Jerks and The Big Animals.

Gifts from the NHM shop to accompany their Sexual Nature exhibition include cute mugs and teatowels with silhouettes of mating animals.

This takin is just one of many animals captured on camera traps that you can view online at Smithsonian Wild's gallery of 201,000 camera trap images from around the world.

The first in a series of limited edition prints of animals made from vintage letraset type from Portland artist Marcus Fischer. A portion of the proceeds will go to a related charity.

Don't Panic asked Kate MacDowell about dead animals, baroque aesthetics, and bugs crawling on people's faces.

ABC Expedition introduces children to letters and animals as told through the voice and humour of explorer Captain Alistair J.Wallace. Populated with lively animations, funny sayings and all wrapped up in a design friendly package.

FEATUREDWilde Dieren/Wild Animals By Rop van Mierlo. Beautiful. Odd. Book of wild animals! See the video of how the images are made... mesmerizing.

dwellstudio puzzle - wooden stacked animals

Zoo! Creatures Of Curiosity is a beautiful 110 page hardback cover book - featuring a scientific journal of make believe animals illustrated and drawn by artist Karl Addison - written and researched by Jennifer Weitman.

The ‘Hungry Animals’ ( aka the whale that ate the elephant which ate a hippo which ate a turtle which had eaten a bird ) is a stencil set and small puzzle.
A tiny story of big animals eating small animals, all in the shape of a toy.

National Geographic has made a list of the Ten Weirdest New Animals of 2010. This unidentified purple octopus is one of 11 potentially new species found during a July deep-sea expedition off Canada's Atlantic coast.

from french designer/artist Mathieu Miljavac. making art from 'naturally expired' animals creates some of the chicest and artistic displays we've ever come across...

“Totem Animals at Play.” - Written by Tara Hogan, INK+WIT

New Penhaligon's Christmas gift collection by jkr brings to life anthropomorphic animals through eccentric English decadence.

A capuchin that directs and creates her own films ~ Oedipe, her first film, has even been accepted by the Clermont-Ferrand film festival in France.

Parapluesch - Stuffed Animals with Mental Disorders? Paranoid Gator, OCD Hippo, Multiple Personality Sheep/wolf, and more...

Turner Pocock Cazalet launched their quixotic collections of racket sports and wild animals at the Wallpaper Collective

An awesome, new print by Brendan Wenzel called Wildlife of Vietnam, that benefits the Jane Goodall Foundation. The print features endangered animals from Vietnam's wildlife.

Balloon Animals - This time we blew it. This summer the city of Eindhoven asked La Bolleur to make something happen in the city centre.

Seashell x-ray photos arranged to make animals from Jim Wehtje.

neozoon is a collective of female street artist that create wall art using old fur coats. the installations up cycle second hand furs cut into silhouettes of animals.

Uber cute animals made out of ribbons with perfect packaging from Ribbonesia.

Four cities in the UK now play host to giant sculptures of various animals. Is this proof that the UK is finally going to the frogs?

Beautiful new work by ceramic artist/photographer Sarah Hauser, influenced by the role of animals and nature in everyday life.

Beautiful anthropomorphic illustrations from Matthias Seifarth. This whole series of animals has a very unique style.

These Aquatic Caecilians at Tennessee Aquarium are born with frilly, external gills, which detach from the animal’s body shortly after getting its first breath of air from the surface. Incredible video as well as photos.

This anglerfish is among the many bizarre, ancient species discovered and rediscovered by Australian scientists while scouring the depths of the Great Barrier Reef.

New Memory Game for Kids with Watercolor and Ink Illustrations by New York based Designer Senem Oezdogan.

Michael Golan's packaging designs for Anima, which creates organic care products for animals

I caught PatrickGeorge's 'A Filth of Starlings' in a shop window. Such gorgeous illustration capturing groups of animals. His other book, 'A drove of bullocks' looks pretty amazing too.

Silhouette File produced by Plastic Art are unique and fun document folders.. Sweet animals change into skeletons when paper is put inside.

Rui Alves developed this series of colourful stools that can be combined with each other to creative furnitures. It looks like a bunch of wild animals interacting with each other and you don't need to be a kid to love the bright look.

Artist Addison's first installation of Zoo! Creatures Of Curiosity on the Urban Streets of Berlin. Zoo is an art installation of animals that never were. Bring wildlife back from the imagination.

Wes Thomas's laser cut business cards feature pop-out animals that can be quickly assembled to make a desktop buddy.

Oscar Ciutat created a stunning photoseries about animals in zoos. It's the amazing depth in the eyes of the animals which makes 'Caged' so wonderful.

Broken dreams 2010: Wall lamps, glass and steel by Campana Brothers includes 3 new projects with Venini, a chandelier of tiny glass animals,chandeliers of figures based on Brazilian dolls, and glass sculptures with rattan.

Images from Belgian-artist Roa's solo show at Factory Fresh, Brooklyn. Huge spray-painted animals with skeletons & vascular systems exposed.

Detail of 144 paintings of animals either fighting or doing something even more naughty for upcoming show "THE THINGS WE DO" Helen Eady, Marcia Pitch, Elizabeth Zvonar, Cindy Loehr and Karen Ostro.

Designed by 70F Architecture, this Petting Farm in Almere, Netherlands is a wooden box with no doors but six shutters, two for the public and four for the animals. A square version of the sheepstable?

On window display animals ~ Puma had the Penguin army... now Thomas Pink has BULLDOGS!

Frédérique Morrel creates one-of-a-kind products made with vintage tapestries: poufs, lamps, trays, but also life-sized animals... Strange encounters in Milano.

This lungless frog is one of 123 new species just discovered in Borneo. The WWF provides a report on the island's rich wildlife.

Illustrator Jane Mount has a great series of books (and creatures and animals).

Really striking animals made out of LEGO to raise awareness about endangered Species.

A new 5 color screen print for all you science enthusiasts out there in the universe. Atmosphere, for kids, parents, friends, lovers, aliens, and animals.

FEATUREDSandy Vohr's makes the awesomest leather animals! In the form of bookends (which every kid's room needs!) as well as paperweights and more!

"We are animals" is an incredible typeface by Pogo.

A campfire challenges you to tell tough stories and it keeps wild animals away. The Prairie campfire of Maandag meubels hits the bull's-eye. The shape indicates where your logs are well placed.

Wonderful NYTimes slideshow featuring a 4,500-page tome, "The Histories of Animals," published by the Swiss physician Conrad Gessner in the mid-1500s.

FEATUREDWe've had a week full of artwork, animals and architecture here on NOTCOT.ORG. Here just a few of the posts that have caught our eye.

In her first solo show at the Hespe gallery, the wonderful and whimsical work of Amberlee Rosolowich combines children and animals in illustrative oil paintings that appeal to both young and old.

Belgium-based Roa is a street artist known for his graffiti animals, as seen in this hypnotic time-lapse video detailing his recent project in East London.

Fiero Animals creates spectacular images through the creation and manipulation of digital images through the blending of photo compositing, 3D and illustration.

INKINK is a design collective from Eastern Europe, and one of its illustrators, Ooli, has created this series of illustrations depicting several Crystal Animals.

Eric Cai Shi Wei has designed popsicle sticks in the shape of endangered animals to raise awareness for the WWF China.

Handcrafted wooden toys of recently extinct animals.

Poster artist Clinton Reno has started a new series, pairing emboldened animals with their transportation vehicles of choice. Typical of his style these pieces are a great mix of bold lines and intricate textures.

Hommu minni launch the ‘learning’ collection: Eco-chic wall stickers that help your little ones learn, for example, the animals.

Tronic directed and animated this spot on the loss of nature in our increasingly man-made landscape. I AM shows a bleak future, where animals, now a recent memory, are constructed from detritus. This is their plea to us.

'Marguerita' film, directed by Henrique Faria and produced by Easy Filmes, is part of the Marguerita Pizzaria campaign, created by Animalamps agency. The best pizza of the worlds. Based on Ed Wood work.

Renovation of the zoological park in Vincennes, France. The zoo’s landscapes are designed by TN PLUS Landscape Architects, its buildings by Parisian architects, Beckmann N’Thepe. Gorgeous!

The Life on White projects aims to photograph as many animals as possible against plain white backgrounds

Walton Ford’s paintings of wild animals combine the austere mastery of New England-style naturalism with a dark sexuality and satirical humor.

Harmonizing water, vegetation, plants and even animals, this is a true ecosystem self-regulation that requires virtually no maintenance. Discover french designer Paul-Louis Duranton amazing work !

Photographer Richard Barnes reveals the artifice and strange beauty of animals in a natural-history museum.

Need a little something to do on a rainy day? How about folding 100 photo realistic paper origami animals? These Rasperas (rasterized peramodels) from japan are downloadable paper crafts.

Truly magnificent monotone photographs of Africa's Big 5 and other African animals by Nick Brandt. View his portfolio called 'A Shadow Falls'

Nacho Gil's, "The Animals" are a series of abstract illustrations that take an ancient concept and make it fresh again. It's like seeing wildlife through a new set of eyes.

A bunch of videos that show the world from the perspective of several animals, including an armadillo, a wolf, a scorpion, a sheep, a bison and a house fly.

Table linen Pantheon gold by Studio Job woven in the Dutch Textile museum. The pattern includes animals, airplanes and fantasy symbols. Finest quality damask set with artistic modern design will look great at any festive dinner table.

Murano blown glass animals with small spots of coloured glass and goldleaf. Design by Ferro Lorenzo Murano.

A set of 8 monsters and animals temporary tattoo.

for his self initiated project car designer nils poschwatta imagined 'creature guard', an institution that protects endangered animals and any kind of organism that needs help.

more amazing alphabet animals made from vintage letraset transfers on the daily art blog, dustbreeding.com

Vintage suitcase are transformed by “Vintage Renaissance” into a wonderful beds for those jet-setting animals in our life. The pillows are custom-made as well as the legs that are chosen with style.

Boston Dynamics make robots that run, climb and swim just like animals. It's unnerving.

The incredible work of Australian paper artist, Benja Harvey, who has made portraits, animals, fashion magazine pop-ups and 3-D food.