iampacked.com ~ exactly as it sounds ~ sharing pics of what people are packing... as well as their name, age, location, occupation, and destination... and what's packed of course!

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

FEATUREDGrilled Cheeses! Little Bear, in the Los Angeles Arts District, serves up a fantastic quartet of sandwiches to go with their selection of Belgian style ales. Smoked salmon, stilton with apples, ale braised brisket and bacon!

Just in time for Valentine's Day 'Closer' print by the artsy duo behind London-based Mr Four Fingers. Heartwarming for those of us who are true lovers of anatomy in art.

Heart of the Bag: a bag in a bag by Demoiselle Française.

VIDEOThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by Moonbot Studios.

VIDEOUsing dye to visualize the movement of jellyfish. From Katija & Dabiri.

Some crab species burrow homes into sandy beaches. When large colonies of crabs are active, they can form unintentional but intricate and beautiful patterns.

At the helm of this 35 foot long camera is photographer, Dennis Manarchy, who is traveling around the US taking portraits of everyday people in all 50 states. The detail in the eyes alone is said to be 1,000 times greater they anything ever shot before

VIDEOA year's worth of disposable coffee cups. By A.H!

Antics Ant Blocks! Each set contains images of ant hills, a queen with her eggs, and a spider, the ant's nemesis.

Core77 has an early look at two new IKEA LED Pendant Lights ~ VASTER and KLOR

XX Shelf by Japanese designer Naoya Matsuo is held together by colored straps that are fixed with push-buttons, an unusual choice for a furniture.

PopSci visit The Plant, Chicago's first vertical farm.

Honeycomb chair is a high chair made of bamboo. The bamboo is bent to form a strong honeycomb structure. By Ching Chi Huang.

Arkiteturacycle - by Stéphane Pinto, a nice storage unit to showcase your bicycle...

The Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art located within the heart of Tel Aviv, is a freestanding concrete and glass building designed by Preston Scott Cohen.

Hybrid Design creates a unified experience for all Nike Inc. worldwide brands, consolidating all corporate and media pages into a single web portal.

We've reduced out fat intake, but obesity is still thriving. The verdict is that it's not fat's fault. The culprit storing fat on our bodies is really carbohydrates. Check out this infographic from Massive Health.

VIDEOYosemite HD was a collaboration between Sheldon Neill and Colin Delehanty. This particular series of time-lapse clips is strikingly beautiful.

VIDEOTadashi Kawamata has a new installation 'Under the Water' at the Kamel Mennour gallery in Paris.

Bunpei Yorifuji's illustrated history of Japan.

Rebecca Ing captures the beautiful collision of two liquid jets of sugar syrup at a low rate of flow (left) and high rate of flow (right).

The Flutter collection from Loveramics, designed by Peter Ting, features the surreal introduction of flowers within the silhouette of hummingbirds, having them fly across plates and feeding from flowers.

Schematics : A Love Story, by Julian Hibbard, "a sparse, meditative, and enigmatic narrative embroidered with found schematic diagrams".

The recent solar flare made for some amazing Auroras. Check out this collection of photos from the recent phenomenon.

The Tipsy glasses by Loris&Livia make you feel as if you've had one too many before you've even had the first.

VIDEOA look inside the B&H conveyor system, the efficient NYC system that takes items you pick up in one part of the store directly to the checkout for you. Awesome to see where all our camera goodies come from.

Plumber bookshelves : Great industrial and adaptive design by Stella Bleu design.

FEATUREDJapanese Dark Chocolate Kit Kats ~ they taste far better... and the packaging is adorable! There's even a twitter looking to back to one of the variations in here...

The Tiffin Lunch Kit by Lorea Sinclaire.

FEATUREDThis incredible creature is the Flamboyant Cuttlefish, one of my favorites at the California Academy of Science's Steinhart Aquarium. These stunning cephalopods are both beautiful to look at and fascinating to watch.

Product by Design open the doors to their new creative studio, in a big green building in Bristol.

VIDEOCarnegie Airborne Observatory video of Amazon tropical forest structure and biodiversity showing incredible detail.

Photographer Martin Schoeller went to the 'Twins festival' in Ohio and photographed twins gathered for the National Geographic Cover Story about genetic twins.

Office building in Nantes, France by Forma6 Architects.

Bruce Lowell makes some amazing things out of LEGO, like this rather realistic KitchenAid.

FEATUREDFill-in-the-blank resolution pin + mini sharpie make for a fun new years card from our favorite button makers Busy Beaver Buttons!

SuperUber brings Super Pong to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Full Windsor QuickFix Rear Mudguards fold flat to fit in your bag and just clip on to your bike.

Time lapse orchid bloom. Don Dennis captured the Neomoorea irrorata orchid blooming by photographing it 9,211 times for 33 days and 30 minutes.

Resistance is futile, bottlecaps. Meet the Yeti Tarpon Beverage Entry Tool.

A 'Blue Marble' image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA's most recently launched Earth-observing satellite - Suomi NPP.

Super cute steel first aid kit box from Best Made.

Researchers have discovered a unique visual attribute called image defocus that jumping spiders use in attacking and catching prey, proven in part by spiders jumping with deadly accuracy in green light, but fumbling in red.

Beautiful new covers for the twelve Picador paperback reissues.

FEATUREDShark-filled water slides, cherry blossoms and craft cafes are all a part of this week’s roundup from NotVentures.

A gabled house cantilevered over the edge of a 7-story building, the latest from Korean artist Do Ho Suh.

Clear for iPhone by RealMac Software finally brings some clever looking UI to the daily To-Do list. The pinch and split is awesome.

Mimobots go Einstein - The first in a brand-new series of MIMOBOT flash drives from Mimoco honoring iconic figures in history, "The Legends of MIMOBOT Series"

Judy Chicago re-staged her 1968 performance installation 'Disappearing Environments' at the kick-off party for Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2012. 37 tons of dry ice were used, along with flares for dramatic effect and to assist melting.

The new University of Oregon alumni center is the school's front door. Second Story's media installations fuel soaring dreams and invigorate appreciation for the history that defined this innovative institution’s culture.

The Illy Café has brought up the Illy Shop as the temporary shop located in Milano. Situated in Galleria San Carlo around the Duomo. Architect Caterina Tiazzoldi was the designer and architect for this commercial design.

Deloitte 2012 Technology, Media and Telecommunications prediction infographics.

A testament to real luxury: The Tiffany Suite at The St. Regis, New York.

Catty super models Smeagol and Zizzles are taking the internet by storm.

Take a first look inside Quebec's amazing new Hotel de Glace ice castle!

Knots have been tied for thousands of years for fun, use, decoration and now as a pillows.

The New York Public Library Labs presents Stereogranimator, a tool that turns their amazing library of stereographs into GIFs and 3D anaglyphs.

VIDEOStill Life by Scott Garner is a tilt sensitive painting that changes the 3d scene accordingly. This is a refreshing and clever take on the classic still ife.

Delicious 1970s illustrated advertising posters and more for Olivetti typewriters in Italy.

FEATUREDWe take a macro-eye view of some of the incredible creatures at the California Academy of Sciences.

VIDEOThe Windows of Opportunity (WOO) Project, a collaboration between General Motors Research and Development and the FUTURE LAB at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel.

Kazakhstan's gorgeous new subway system, 23 years in the making.

Hyperakt rebrand Teachers as part of a challenge from WNYC's Studio 360.

VIDEOGLOBALedit App for Surface at NRF 2012. Great digital light table.

Gorgeous infographics for Norton Sociology by Kiss Me I'm Polish.

Fascinating new research on the golden mole, the only iridescent mammal may have evolved the iridescent hairs to streamline the moles or repel water, rather than attract a mate.

VIDEORobot by Jim Henson was a short made for The Bell System in 1963. Originally it was created for a seminar on Data Communications, now it's just a gem.

A sneak peek at Pop Chart Lab's 'Cosmology of Classic Cocktails'.

VIDEOEver wonder what would happen if you put a watermelon in the microwave? Or a lightbulb? Or a champagne bottle? We slowed it down for you so you wouldn't miss a thing. Real explosions...just not in real time.

The urban drift desk organizer designed by Rob Southcott.

VIDEOBeautiful timelapse of Argentinian Patagonia by Ignacio Leonardi.

Canvas tote bag created in collaboration between Bushmills Irish Whiskey and ACL - perfect for holding two bottles...

VIDEOThe Shrewbot, a whiskered robot developed by the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in conjunction with the University of Sheffield's Active Touch Laboratory.

Davis Murphy places casts of rhinos in unexpected places.

VIDEOEvery second, one hour of video is uploaded to YouTube. That's 24 hours every 24 seconds... or a decade every single day.

Beautiful Okolo Mollino Book and paper models.

Feather sculptures by Kate MccGwire.

Penguin's new edition of Kama Sutra with letterform illustrations by Malika Favre.

The Live Screen by Danielle Trofe is a sculptural, self-irrigating vertical planter system that is comprised of tiered, organic-shaped pods that can house many different forms of vegetation.

The Pirate Bay launches physibles category for 3D printable objects.

VIDEOBandai use Aurasma 3D AR technology to let children play with its Thundercats toys without having to open the box.

4 meter long scarf and cape. The largest items ever to be embroided out of pure spider silk. The yellow is a natural hue of the spiders silk. Took over a million spiders and over 4 years to make.

On the occasion of the release of Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace in 3D, the restaurant chain Quick launch the JEDI Burger, DARK Burger and of course the DARK VADOR Burger... Unfortunately only in France.

Doug Wheeler's trippy light installation at the David Zwirner Gallery in New York, is the closest thing to floating in a cloud. All sense of depth perception is lost upon entering the space. Very cool.

VIDEOThis 3D printed record (for Fisher-Price clockwork record player) plays Portal's "Still Alive" ~ made with Processing, printed at Shapeways - video proof it works!

Decurate's interview with To Hold ~ fun to see their cute air plant living minis, wearables (earrings!), even suction cup shower plants...

VIDEO'The First cycle' New stop motion animation by Niels Hoebers, made for Fashion designer Borre Akkersdijk. Visualising a creative production process of his latest fashion line.

Konstantin Achkov's 'Puzzles for Living,' a series of chairs made of lasercut beechwood parts and assembled like a three-dimensional puzzle.

VIDEOArchetype by Aaron Sims is a no-budget sci-fi film about a combat robot that goes on the run after malfunctioning with vivid memories of once being human. These graphics are stunning and the story is brilliant!

VIDEOThe Inflativerse, a mobile planetarium developed at the University of Nottingham designed to inflate in 5 minutes and house realistic light projections of the night sky.

Back Up Japan, topographic stools and table by Soichiro Kanbayashi.

Cuboluce bedside lamp, designed by Franco Bettonica and Mario Melocchi in 1972, now part of the permanent collection at the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Since the creation of the bin in 1939, Vipp has become synonymous with quality products for the kitchen and bathroom. Now Vipp is launching one of its most sensational product-developments with a radical reinterpretation of the kitchen. So adorable.

'La Stanza dello Scirocco' lamp by Mario Trimarchi for Alessi.

VIDEO'Listen to Your Hands'; a desk by Sanghyeok Lee which has just won second prize in the [D3] Contest during the IMM Cologne 2012.

'A painting of a Chinese Puzzle Ball' is a work by artist Piers Secunda where he sculpted a Chinese Puzzle Ball from floor paint. It features in a new exhibition at Edel Assanti

VIDEOSoundMachines - An instrument for performing electronic music , developed by "The Product", a Berlin-based design studio

FEATUREDThis week's roundup from here at NOTCOT.org includes carnivorous caterpillars, cartographic illustrations, solar flares and more.

Spanish artist Cristina Barbero believes that everyone should have their own protected space and illustrates this in her glass jar installation.

A look inside the Volkswagen parking lot towers at Autostadt.

FEATUREDOur sundew has just about finished its insect prey, but you can see the whole process in time lapse through this clip from the Life of Plants.

Alan Sailer's incredible photography of exploding foods.

'An Uncle's Guide to London', an illustrated map by Deanna Halsall

Elegant minimalist calfskin lanyards from Alice Park.

FEATUREDOur favorite Geometric Lighting Designs - everything from design classics to modern designs to futuristic living concepts! Love how many of these start flat packed and are fun/easy to assemble into large pendant lamps!

IKEA launches new marketing campaign for its annual sale, transforming its iconic flatpack boxes into home furnishing.

FEATUREDCES: A peek into Belkin's new logo, their two story vintage modern home setup of a booth at CES, the new WeMo system to control your home via app... and even a peek at the house Belkin started in!

An insanely cool species of gliding lizard in Indonesia looks like a (tiny) flying dragon!

Nova Arctica is an architectural study developed by Joseph Battistelli and Eric Boyer of an offshore urban landscape as an answer to the constant melting of the
Arctic sea ice.

These symbols, and their symbolic meaning, Sound, Energy and Loop, come from reasoning about the Feedback (Larsen) constituents.This minimal and extremely clear connection of the Treble Clef , the Ying Yang and the Infinite is questioning their origins.

Recycling meets Art - The suspended light “Beute“ is made of corrugated board. Each light is unique.

Alexander Chen's 'Conductor' transforms the iconic New York subway map into a real-time, interactive string instrument.

Christoph Proessler's "Bolid" is a next generation tractor concept for large scale farms.

VIDEOYou have never experienced Fashion and Beauty like this before! HARD is a Bookazine by german Design-Student Ruben Scupin which features interactive elements such as Pop-Up, lenticular images, stitching and much more.

FEATUREDMy carnivorous plant caught a mosquito on its own! Fun to see how it tightly curls up around it...

The C/Z House by SAMI arquitectos is tucked into the hillside of a Portuguese island.

Organ Jewelry by Anna Szabó made from concrete.

VIDEOBoardwalk Empire VFX Breakdowns of Season 2 by Brainstorm Digital is mind blowing. The show's visuals are amazing and once you have seen this, you will know why.

VIDEONiagara Falls in Motion, beautiful footage by Matthew Wartman.

Joel Cooper's incredible origami.

VIDEOA look at the creatures under the Sea of ​​the Canary Islands in Winter by Rafa Herrero Massieu.

Wouter van Buuren's stereographic projections.

VIDEOVera Wiedermann's dreamtime alarm clock powered by water

Big Drip by Daniel Arsham at OHWOW gallery in LA.

VIDEOBeautiful underwater footage of endangered West Indian Manatees in Florida.

One Darnley Road's packaging for Pavilion Tea.

"I am the master of my fate and captain of my soul." This inspirational typographic artprint illustrated an extract from Invictus poem written by William Ernest Henley in 1875. Available in both French or English by Eva Juliet.

VIDEO2ballz, a new android game that is just like the old school pong but way more challenging. Be careful - it is addictive!

Lexon's Mini Totem, a tower containing everything you need for the office, tape, container, USB Hub, and a clock. Only thing missing here is a stapler.

VIDEOPortrait of the Ghost Drummer from Odaibe uses 3d drum stick tracking to make an elegant motion graphic. The result is simple, but pure awesome.

VIDEOTime lapse video documenting the process of creating the SLS AMG GT3 tape mural at the Mercedes-AMG Private Lounge Affalterbach. Having seen this in person, it's still mind blowing to see the process.

Check out the Diesel Farm, where their vineyard produces wine, olive oil, and grappa. The tilt-shift intro is also pretty awesome.

FEATUREDGiveaway!!! Ice Cube celebrates the Eames Limited Edition Poster. You've probably seen the video circulating as part of LA's Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival happening right now, here's a chance at the poster.

The Ampersand Collection is a limited edition package of 10 Original 9x9 prints from 10 aspiring designers around the interwebs.

FEATUREDA fun reminder of Chandelier Creative's Summer Surf Shack in Montauk... Limited edition HONEY from their 20,000 little honey bees. Fun packaging, of course!

'Manton de Manila' by chilean/spanish team gurmornin- A logo-shawl which represents Madrid's identity made of a whole alphabet of logos.

The First Flyphant exhibition in the world.

Charlie Alan Kraft's rolling out a bunch of handmade and hand painted one of kind wooden monster's on wheels.

VIDEOIncredible NASA footage of a recent (January 19), M2.6-class Solar Flare which created an Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejection.

12" Laser cut paper Eiffel Tower model that assembles without glue, tape or fasteners. Design was based on the original plans.

Ron English's Fat Tony ~ Sugar Frosted Fat...

VIDEOShort documentary on some imagery used by internationally recognized street artists FAILE, a Brooklyn-based collaboration between Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller.