FEATUREDOccupyGeorge.com ~ brilliant stamps for 1$ bills that started during the Occupy movements~ is at Ars Electronica Fest's CyberArts 12 and you can stamp your own! It's especially awesome on the 2$.

Tower Glassware, minimalist design collection that celebrates the grace and elegance of water, includes glasses, carafe with filter, all hand made from borosilicate glass. By designer Sebastian Bergne.

Moncler celebrates their 60th anniversary with an original MonDuck comic

Fien Muller and Hannes van Severen created this piece of art for two. Its Bauhaus roots are obvious.

This is an an industrial object, a bee keeping system and small-scale architecture.

Buchi, a new line of wooden children's toys designed by Fumie Shibata.

VIDEOMaking of the 'On The Road' issue of Little White Lies. The impressive making of a magazine on a single scroll!

The Horse Marionette by Michaella Janse van Vuuren, an incredible 3D printed sculpture with movable wings.

Fenugreen, a company in Massachusetts, has invented FreshPaper, a sheet of paper made from organic material that inhibits the growth of bacteria, fungi and the like, making the food last longer.

VIDEOBeautiful timelapse of illustrator Patrick Vale drawing the view of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building.

Small robotic sculptures made from parts of old electronics by Anthony Oh.

The Measuring Square Scarf by Sebastian Bergne.

New framework table from Tom Strala.

Casa W by 01Arq in Huentelauquen, Chile.

Absolut Mexico is one of the best Limited edition packaging design created for Absolut Vodka. Mexican artist Dr. Lakra pays tribute to Mexico, representing three of the most important elements of the legendary Mayan culture

Removies - Movies With One Letter Removed

"Girls and Roses" by Lucas Lasnier, aka PARBO.

FEATUREDFrom the best luxury hotel suites in Las Vegas to the world’s scariest bridges, this week’s roundup from NotVentures has it all.

Google Doodle celebrates Maria Montessori's 142nd birthday, with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin discussing their experiences as Montessori students. [Editor's Note: NOTCOT's Jean + Justine are Montessori kids too!]

FEATUREDThe tiny mustache is all you need to turn a building into a face! Also in this latest post of NOTCOT inspiration from Linz - great typography and signage, set up F.U.C.K. project, toy cars i want, Ars Electronic lit up + more!

Just another exploration of George Perec's Specious Space of the page (Especes d'espaces). . . Book History Infographics from The Distopians.

Mexican design firm Golpeavisa designed the last cover of the magazine Clase Premier, using culinary objects!

VIDEOLava, poured onto ice. Great intersection of Earth Sciences and Sculpture.

Hole Measuring Tape allows you to draw straight lines and circles with precision, innovative with many facets to it. By Sunghoon Jung.

VIDEOKeita Takahashi's 3D pacman room, an immersive playable 360° of pacman! Shown earlier at New York's Museum of Art and Design during the Babycastles Summit.

Darrin Crescenzi of Nike redesigns George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones.

Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama's polka dot infused concept store at Selfridges.

The Cleat Chair from Tom Chung.

Pretty infographic of space exploration from JPL.

A pop up of Kings Cross in Discovering King's Cross: A Pop-Up Book from Cicada.

VIDEONightfall by Colin Rich a three minute tour of light through the City of Angels. Beautiful!

Thesis for an Italian pasta brand from student Yanko Djarov.

'Insurgency' by John Rainey at an exhibition of graduate projects of the Royal College of Art. A series of hybrid objects exploring the instability of identity in the fusion of real and virtual.

Edward Lear is most famous for his nonsense poems such as the Owl and the Pussycat. However, his first career was as an artist and painter of zoological subjects, and his work is being exhibited at the Royal Society Library.

The semitransparent PP Playing Cards from Muji are made from the same plastic as their PP storage.

Playful work from Dan Cretu integrates food with unexpected objects.

Beautiful blue installations from Tasha Lewis. Love the name of her blog too (Cyanotypology).

FEATUREDEisdieler: Verboden Lekker in Linz, Austria. My new favorite ice cream... delicious natural ice cream, handmade long black sugar cones, cheeky photography, minimal menu design, and an incredible ceiling you won't expect.

The Avocado Incubator by Andrew Mitchell is a pot specifically designed to look after your avocado seeds until they shoot. Just add water, a seed and patience.

FEATUREDPush a remote and this shipping container magically opens up into a bar! Solaris bar in the courtyard of OK "Offenes Kulturhaus" in Linz, Austria.

The Growth Table from Tim Durfee & Iris Anna Regn. This may be the coolest drawing table / crafting workstation I’ve ever seen. Of course, I may be a bit biased since it is so perfectly suited for my five children.

FEATUREDSneak Peek! The Free Universal Construction Kit from Golan Levin and NOTlabs' own Shawn Sims is now on display at Ars Electronica Festival in the OK CyberArts12 Exhibition opening tomorrow! See the full set and fun toy mashups!

Laurent Chehere's incredible series of flying houses.

FEATUREDSpitz Hotel, Linz, Austria ~ love the playful red burst of a star logo this designer boutique hotel uses on everything from the sponge in the bathroom to a cut out on the custom steel desk... take a peek inside our room!

Love this project from Julian Charriere and Julius von Bismarck titled 'Some Pigeons are More Equal than Others' that involved dying 35 pigeons in the city of Copenhagen.

Champagne and hot dogs? NOMA Veterans Serve Up Hot Dogs and Champagne at the New London Eatery Bubbledogs.

The Cardillo of Scampia, a giant street art goldfinch you can ride!

NYtimes take a first look at Coffee Collective’s new roastery and coffee bar on the ground floor of a century-old machinist’s shop on Godthabsvej, a 15 minute bike ride from central Copenhagen.

VIDEOProfile of Dublin clothing store Indigo & Cloth, their agency, and fashion magazine THREAD.

The Prismatoy is an interactive kinetic sculpture based on the form of a geometric solid called the Parallelepiped. Consisting of 72 individual jointed parts, the Prismatoy is fun to explore and hard to put down.

Black Cloud by Carlos Amorales. So many black moths!

Portuguese office Aires Mateus' (Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus) elegant contemporary contribution to the Venice Biennale.

FEATUREDThis week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Angry birds pig macarons, Dark Chocolate And Hazelnut Cinnamon Rolls and Vermontucky Lemonade.

VIDEOMaking of letterpressed Seea hangtags by Voila! Press.

The Wall Street Journal brings its global technology offering to London by popping up a cafe in the heart of Silicon Roundabout. It will host speakers from the world's best tech companies and serve WSJ coffee

VIDEOCute ad for Bundaberg Red from Leo Burnett Sydney directed by Psyop.

Activision's Call of Duty Black Ops II Care Package comes with a "Remote Controlled Quadrotor Drone and Stand"!!! as well as a bunch of other goodies.

Adam Glucksman creates 720 unique laser-cut business cards, each being a still from his short animation Vavohu, a beautiful exploration of cosmogenesis.

VIDEOMuscle Music Old Spice style with Terry Crews - "Watch me jam solo, then use the special interactive player to record your own remix. Go ahead, show me what you got!"

BrickBox modular shelving and storage system designed by Barcelona based Kazam Design is now available in the USA and Canada!

Wild piece of furniture #5012 by The Cloud Collective.

Grüne Erde Bettsofa Stefano ~ (even better in person!) This sofa turns into a double bed. love the minimal style and wood/fabric feel.

It's About Time! SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima Becomes the Rolex Protege Program's First Architectural Mentor

Elegant simple poster design by Maxwell A. Davis.

Leanie van der Vyver imagined the mobile lamp 'Trek'. This light source can indeed move and adapt to its environment through a simple system of buttons that allow tender and give shape to the power cable.

Gramercy Park Townhouse by Manhattan-based architecture firm Fractal Construction.

Stasia Burrington's new series of 100 little faces (or shrunken heads) in the making!

Face jewelry, to show that by allowing tears, it can brings out one's inner strength. In silver casting by Maayan Hod (photo by Ortal Ackerman).

Blue Claw Co - love their crab logo subtly on all of their bags!

Foundry is a research team at Mint Digital. This year they are all about exploring the value of toys and questioning why so many exist.

GeoGrafia's Flippable Globe "cube in dodeca" ~ this paper globe you can assemble yourself - "The reversible globe shows both simple outline of lands on one side (dodecahedron) and complex political borders on the other side (cube)."

Hard to believe its real - the website of the Milwaukee Police Department, as created by Cramer-Krasselt, is so beautifully designed, at first i almost thought it was for a video game...

The Stealth Electric Bikes. With a top speed of 45mph, this has to be the fastest, most bad-ass way to go Green. An electric bike that the Dark Knight wouldn't be embarrassed to use.

Frank Gehry for Facebook's new west campus ~ particularly interesting is the precise configuration of the desks...

Robot Food's branding and identity for Sous Chef, a new informative online retail business, supplier of hard to find tools and ingredients for the home chef.

Grün Eerde Farum Lights ~ a beautiful use of super thin Birch layered for natural, ambient lighting.

LALA Arts is about to release a series of limited-edition series of metal die-cast mini-billboards based on the Public Works project billboards going up around LA, designed by a select group of leading street artists and graffiti writers!

FEATUREDLAX-FRA-LNZ - the inspiration and amusement are in the details! A peek at unexpected travel snapshots, art, logos, exhibition set up and more - part one of Linz/Ars Electronica Festival adventures!

This built-in bunk bed & nook by Van Oud Hout makes great use of wasted space in a vaulted children’s room

A Studio Life by Grid, a series of illustrations outlining the typical life of the design studio, from essential tools and must haves, to thoughts, visionaries and revelations

FEATUREDWashable keyboards, water wigs and dynamite cupcakes all feature in this week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org.

Tu Wei-Cheng's atypical chocolate shop. A large-scale installation that alongside its pink walls and hearts contains chocolate hand grenades, soldiers, guns and other miniature chocolate arms and artillery.

Dutch Building ceramic necklaces. There is a necklace from every archetype Dutch building: farm, church, family house, canal house, flat, factory, and the mill.

Limited Edition Ugmonk 4th Anniversary Set. Each tee comes packaged in a flexible wood cylinder, accompanied by a letterpress block made from reclaimed Ginkgo wood. Only 200 ever made.

VIDEOWatch the ignition of an atomized spray of flammable liquid, recorded at 10,000 fps and replayed at 30 fps.

Austrian artist Manfred Kielnhofer's The Guardians of Time at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany. Uninvited, it is more of an occupation than an installation!

New Scientist and the Australian Museum's 2012 winners of the New Scientist Eureka Prize for Science Photography.

New Museum ABC in Madrid is one of the few spaces in Europe dedicated to contemporary drawing and illustration. Designed by studio Aranguren & Gallegos.

Grain Creative Pty Ltd's beautiful wine packaging for Wildfire Restaurant in Sydney.

Gorgeous design in the SHED 5 restaurant in Melbourne from Loopcreative.

With "Brick", young Dutch designers Leanie van der Vyver and Lars Zwirs devised a terracotta brick.

PostlerFerguson's clever packaging proposal for fresh fish.

GranTouristas, which is being presented as part of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture - it is an open system of knowledge acquisition.

Michael H. Rhode makes familiar spaces seem alien through an unexpected perspective in his "From Below" series.

8 to 30 September, 'Espace Wallonie' in Brussels will host the exhibition 'Homology'. Organized in partnership with Muuuz.com, this exhibition brings together the work of young Belgian designers through a selection of twenty everyday objects

The OCT Design Museum, designed by Studio Pei-Zhu, focuses mainly on fashion shows, product design, and conceptual automotive shows. The goal was to create a space that is surreal to the subject matter.

Fotodiox produces Canon 7D replicas in crystal. The beautifully detailed replicas are 2/3 life size.

B-OK, a bookshelf/divider by Marica Vizzuso.

VIDEOCelebrating the simple pleasures of life, the charming short "The Pleasure of" by Vitùc.

VIDEOiTypewriter by Austin Yang allows you to type on your iPad with a typewriter that has been specifically designed for the size and screen. A little slow, but still cool.

The Barking Bathhouse, an experimental spa and bar bringing everyday luxury and relaxation to Barking Town Centre for 8 weeks. Commissioned by Arts Agency CREATE and designed and produced by Something & Son.

World's Best Jungle Gym. Newly constructed from massive fallen eucalyptus trees, it's an art installation —and a play structure at Marin Country Mart mall in Northern California.

Stunning photograph of moths in flight by Steve Irvine.

"Hubble's Hidden Treasures Revealed" - a look at some of the amazing photography winners... Stunning!

FOLDS is 3D angular sculpture by David Mesguich and Valentin Van der Meulen that shows the transformations of the faces associated with life and death.

FEATUREDUnboxing the HTC One S ~ current phone favorite over at NOTCOT! Also, take a peek at some of my favorite UI details! The world clock is beautiful!

VIDEORobot Chef that makes sliced noodles is appearing all over noodle shops in china...

A tour of Arion Press, a typefoundry and limited edition book press, in the Presidio of San Francisco, California.

Adorable Firefox for Android video ~ great illustrations in this animation!

Tim Tadder's Water Wigs photo series - bald men + water balloons = amazing water hair styles

VIDEOAIRarm - Inflatable Robot Manipulator Arm (AIR = Advanced Inflatable Robotics) by iRobot for DARPA

Korean toy artist Coolrain's Dunkeys series of monkey characters celebrating hoops and sneaker culture. MINDstyle brings them into production vinyl in both 18” and 5” forms.

London-based designer Po-Chih Lai invented STAIR ROVER – a skateboard that could easily roll down the stairs.

Autostadt, a theme park in Wolfsburg, Germany, with the new Porsche Pavilion, designed by HENN Architekten.

Psy's Gangnam Style! The Atlantic has a great article on "Gangnam Style, Dissected: The Subversive Message Within South Korea's Music Video Sensation" (AMAZING music video)

Adelaide-based artist, Emma Hack, is a skin illustrator, photographer and sculptor.

Alex & Chloe geometric bangles in thin sterling silver

The Owl, the Lion and the Elephant get some wheels! Wooden toys for Skip Hop by Sandra Isaksson.

Salih Kucukaga designed these cute hot beverage cups for Dripp Coffee.

Reebok's Fit Hub Experience ~ a store and crossfit gym in NYC just opened (following their Russia, Korea, and Dubai ones) Interesting to see more and more sportswear gym spaces opening.

Natalya Zahn's latest are adorable illustrations of salamanders - from eggs to full grown! Also a nice illustrated lesson on lung breathing vs cutaneous respiration (breathing through your skin - no lungs!)

Beautiful Harvest Pavilion from Vector Architects, a shelter to wash and prepare crops during the harvest at a farm in rural China.

Porcelain Fortune Cookies by Aleksandra Pollner & OBJECT.

FEATUREDNOTlabs helped SubStudio laser cut/etch her wood frames for Brevity Jewelry's NYIGF Booth! See the making of, as well as the finished booth!

Black & Decker is going MODULAR with their new power tool - Matrix tool system consists of main unit containing a handle, motor and battery, to which the user connects: drill, impact driver, oscillating multi-tool, jigsaw, sander, router and circular saw.

The Hut Pendant Light a beacon of light and shape, which directs our gaze upwards, pointing us home. From Australian based Under.

Evernote + Moleskine for a special "smart notebook"... I like that it cleans up scribbled pages for digitizing... also interesting.. the smart stickers it can recognize? (why not have special scribbled notations?)

FEATUREDPictorial Webster’s: A Visual Dictionary of Curiosities By John M. Carrera now comes in a POCKET size! Nearly a quarter of the size of the original, here's a peek inside!

Great new series from Thomas Allen called Beautiful Evidence that creates artwork from old encyclopedias.

A visit to the studio of stencil master Logan Hicks.

Paolo Gianfrancesco has released a set of graphic maps based on Open Street Map data. The series is still in development and will soon cover all the European capitals.

VIDEOJessiva Wise's excellent TED talk 'How fiction can change reality'.

FEATUREDMetroDecks - nyc MTA subway cards upcycled into playing cards. Each card is hand screen printed, and sets are encased in beautiful letter pressed packaging. Face cards have nyc inspired designs!

Brussels designer Benoît Deneufbourg drew this little wooden peg edited by Normann Copenhagen. Sober and simple in design, it consists of three pieces of oak intertwined like the wood framing.

In light of the Pen Type-A/Torr situation #49788, here's a great must read from Core77 - their series "The Design of Design Patents: What Every Designer Should Know About Protecting Your Work"

Why rock on a horse when you could have a Rocking Zebra from Newmakers! Check our their facebook page for rocking gorillas, pandas and more!

Michiel Cornelissen's Happy Bird and Merry Bird earring and necklaces

Mirco Pagano's graphics and video made from CDs for a piracy campaign

This week’s roundup from NotVentures includes everything from LA’s hottest tables to Bora Bora escapes.

Phaidon's Concrete ~ add this to the list of books we're looking forward to!

FEATUREDBeautiful packaging, branding, and use of patterns for the new minimal Skora running shoes.

VIDEOInsane in the Chromatophores! A closeup look at squid chromatophores set to Cyprus Hill's Insane in the Brain.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia designed and fabricated the Endesa Pavilion. Optimally oriented for the charging of solar cells, with no direct sunlight in summer. Prefabricated in chunks and assembled on site.

FEATURED3D Printed Interlocking Cubes ~ one made of cubes and one of dodecahedrons! Mesmerizing desk/fidget toys... see the details and the unboxing of my Shapeways order.