Ultimate Factories on the National Geographic Channel takes a look this week inside Mercedes' largest factory in Germany where the sublime SLS AMG supercar comes to life.
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Made from spun aluminum, copper and glass, the lamps of Mathias Hahn's Lantern series finds its place somewhere between a floor lamp and a pendant lamp.
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FEATUREDA warming, golden roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious captures a week of culinary inspiration.
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You would have never found two geniuses so spiteful of each other beyond turn-of-the-century inventors Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison. They worked together—and hated each other. Compare their lives, achievements, and battles.
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Willem Dafoe stars in a new 90 second spot for Jim Beam, directed by Dante Ariola. The commercial, from agency Strawberry Frog, is meant to imply that the choices you make, make you.
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Amazing prints for Lego Star Wars created by young art director at the Sao Paolo Advertising School Escola Cuca.
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The last installment of BMW Documentaries 'Wherever You Want To Go' series looks at how far off 'the future' really is (hint - it's pretty darn close).
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Beautiful letterpress printed labels for natural balms and lotions made from beeswax and a few other selected ingredients. Made in small batches in Minneapolis by Angel Bomb Design.
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Carbon fiber knife by John Kubasek that folds up to the size of a credit card and can fit in a wallet.
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Corinne Vionnet's Photo Opportunties are formed from hundreds of snapshots of tourist locations found on the Internet.
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Amazing stuffed hamburger press from Williams-Sonoma puts a spin on the classic cheeseburger. Yum!
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Lorem Wine bottles designed by Alex Mascoda.
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Chattanooga Zoo's new baby snow leopard cub.
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Each year for the annual Winter X Games in Aspen, Target hosts their competing athletes at the Target Chalet. Design by Aaron Melander.
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FEATUREDInside Bender's head ~ the Futurama Complete Collection DVD set... some of the awesomest, silliest packaging ever, complete with a heart warming note.
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FEATUREDLooks like a few of you have already noticed... with nearly 900 pages here on NOTCOT.org, we had some fun and switched the page numbers to dots... with some fun rollovers and delays...
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‘Mothers’ by Martin Creed. New monumental work.
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The Albert Reichmuth wine shop in Zurich, Switzerland made from used wine boxes. Designed by OOS Studios.
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FEATUREDFuturama Season 5 DVD/Blu-ray have awesome graphics... check out the packaging details (and a peek at Dexter's Laboratory too)
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VIDEOMusic video by Bartholomäus Traubeck for Lux Repeat's 'Avoiding You', almost entirely made in Google Earth.
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pop up book illustrated and designed by nate coonrod. produced for nokia at Wieden + Kennedy NY.
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Hidden Heroes + Matter of Time | Eindhoven Designhuis
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FEATUREDLinkedin Infographic mapping my connections ~ fun! And i'm always curious to learn more about readers and link up with you guys too ~ Connect?
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Take and Give rings by Verena Schreppel show the continents of Europe and Africa made from gold plated silver and maple wood respectively.
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Michael Craughwell makes the world's biggest swords. Don't Panic contacted him to find out more. Interesting dude...
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Andrew Capener's A-1 Scrabble edition is a concept which revives the game of Scrabble using different fonts in an easily packable, high quality version of the popular board game.
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One fashion fairytale a month, in a dark and surreal atmosphere that recalls Georges Mélies's silent films. Add the tension of Gothic opera music and you get the 2011 limited edition calendar of Tejal Patni.
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DAP Studio designed a dreamlike cultural center, floating over the landscape of Ranica.
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'Livre à deux pages' puts together non-sens and hilarious quotes made by during conversations. One phrase and one picture on 2 pages.
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Pritzker laureate Thom Mayne lands in China with the Giant Interactive Group Corporate HQ, a complex building turned into a topography that blends with the landscape.
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Hotel Tonight App for iPhone ~ exclusive last second pricing on hotels in NY, SF, LA, and Chicago
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Check out the new electronic Follow Focus from Jag35 - Also pretty affordable!
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Fun look at the fingerprints left on iPads based on different apps...
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Beautiful inflatable jewelry by artist/metalsmith Jolene Carley.
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FEATUREDIt’s already the last NOTCOT.org roundup of February and the month ends with a fun, playful roundup, featuring real-life gnomes, dancers in the street and a face off between form and function.
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Three concept rooms stocked with the latest fashion, a book and record store and club space – all linked by an indoor forest and raw wood and orange acrylic, skeletal tunnel, London's LN-CC is a fabulously unique retail concept.
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Wooden owls by Norwegian designer Andreas Engesvik and the design company StokkeAustad.
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Audrey Kawasaki's latest print is coming sunday... the gorgeous "She Entwined"
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Highway #5 by Edward Burtynsky. An exhibition of photographs for the 2011 Prix Pictet photography and sustainability competition takes place in Paris at the Passage de Retz beginning March 17th.
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Giffi from Kuan-Ju Wu. New interactive construction kit! Don't miss the end of the video!
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Watch the creative guys at the Brooklyn based Furry Puppet studio bringing to life some traditional looking rod puppets for a new commercial.
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Crystallization: Fashion sculpture by London based Daniel Widrig Studio
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Glow in the Dark Screenprint on French Paper for Grace Potter & The Nocturnals 2011 Winter Wondertour!
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Recently unveiled in Paris, European luxury brand Hermès new furniture line Hermès Maison is going to feature re-releases of iconic pieces designed in 1924 by late French interior designer Jean-Michel Frank.
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VoltaDom by Skylar Tibbits - for MIT's 150th Anniversary Celebration & FAST Arts Festival - is an installation that populates the corridor spanning building 56 & 66 on MIT’s campus.
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FEATUREDEF Live the Language Ads. Beautiful mini films that will make you want to hop on a plane to go learn a new language, fall in love, and explore... Paris, Barcelona, London, and Beijing.
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Stunning London cityscapes by photographer Howard Kingsnorth. Recently featured in the Guardian newspaper.
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James Jean has an upcoming show entitled 'Rebus' at Martha Otero in L.A. on March 12th. Check out a behind the scenes look at what’s to come.
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To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the UK’s popular women’s glossy magazine, Krispy Kreme UK has teamed up with Glamour to create the exclusive Glamour Glaze doughnut.
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Whatami. New images of the project by starTT for MAXXI.
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Beautiful vases by glass artist Thaddeus Wolfe from his latest series, Inclusions.
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Core 77's photo gallery from the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2011.
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Ole Smoky Mountain Moonshine from Tennessee, cute packaging!
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VIDEO123Klan's 2011 design reel. Check out all of their latest work!
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Caffeine Nicotine magazine from John Wright Photography and Inventive and Co
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SOLVINDEN - Ikea's latest solar lighting - in animal shapes!
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Gerber Bear Grylls (from Man vs. Wild) Survival Series Ultimate Kit ~ fun survival kit built for hostile environments, may you never need to use it.
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The Art of Hand Lettering ~ lovely example about the digital hand letter process... and how it's the end product that matters
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AeroVironment's Nano Air Vehicle ~ hummingbird. DARPA funded robotic biomimicry for reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities in urban environments. See the videos!
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Common Good Home ~ products are safe, green and hard-working. Each comes ready to use in plastic bottles but also at NY in-store bulk refill stations. Bring in any clean bottle to refill or we sell screen-printed empty glass bottles.
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Awesome Hooky Monster on the Hooky Interactive site - and it has quite a mouth on it.
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Abandoned World War 2 Bunkers, a photographic series by Amsterdam photographer Jonathan Andrew.
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FEATUREDJun Ga Young’s ‘Whistling Sea’ at Kinectica Art Fair 2011 ~ check out the videos of this beautiful light installation in action
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FEATUREDInstallation 7: Video opened today at Scion Artspace LA. 10 artists made non-narrative films... everything from Life Coaching through gorgeous text on scenic imagery to people being unexpectedly slapped to huge balloon beings and more.
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Marian Bantjes 2011 Valentines day project.
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Slinkachu's new solo show Concrete Ocean will be held at Andipa Contemporary in London.
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Slideshow of the 2011 competition by The New Yorker to redesign their mascot, Eustace Tilley.
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Bends Chair by Alejandro Castelao is made of laminated veneer using the scandinavian wood bending technique. Only two pieces of wood used in production, which minimizes waste.
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Betty+Cash jewelry pieces are playful and kinetic for people with fiddle fingers or who had a Lego building childhood
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The project accommodates the headquarters of two companies in Paris – PONS and HUOT – with a self-cleaning glass roof. By Christian Pottgiesser.
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What could be cuter than baby screaming hairy armadillos?
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Gorgeous black and white imagery of a MIT design class shot in 1964 by LIFE photographer Fritz Goro.
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Six maps of United States river systems—London Underground style—by Daniel Huffman
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Are you happy with this? Pick one of the Stamps of Disapproval designed by Heather K. Phillips and start disapproving!
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The 3D Track by Subarquitectura includes a built-in hill.
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The Master Chart of Fashion Influence as New York fashion week comes to a close. The wall street journal unscientific charting of the New York fashion industry's ecosystem.
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In street art, stencil stands for repetition. But not for Sten & Lex, who, from their atelier of San Lorenzo in Rome, with Lancia TrendVisions shares their unique adventure in the world of stencil graffiti.
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Estoril Fashion Art Festival Invitation box set by MusaWorkLab.
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'Sliced' chair designed by Sami Callio. An easy chair made of bent wood and solid ash, inspired by a classic Windsor Chair.
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Moroso Award for Contemporary Art | Anna Galtarossa
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Google Street Art View from Red Bull and Loducca aims to document street art captured by Google Street View and create a searchable, multimedia map.
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Michael Riedel's "The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog" at the David Zwirner gallery. The pieces are massive linear collages created by copying and pasting the HTML code from websites that feature Riedel.
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Illusion lamp by Hareide Design for Northern Lighting hovers above the ground, challenging our perceptions of gravity.
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The Kraken Rum launches an super fun, gorgeous iPhone game app ~ The Kraken: The Simulation Application for Nautical Maneuvering!
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An engaging new learning environment for St Mary's Primary School, Victoria, Australia. Designed by smith+tracey Architects.
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Linje Espressomaker by Oystein Helle Husby.
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André Panisson visualized how the news of Egyptian president Mubarak's resignation spread on Twitter in real time.
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Sculpture by Alberto Parise and Giovanni Pasini that is made entirely out of paper courtesy of Polyedra. The piece will feature in an upcoming exhibition titled Italian Design is Coming Home.
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Core 77 covers the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 at the London Design Museum.
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The sound absorbing Träullit Hexagon Panels by Form Us With Love are made from wood, cement and water.
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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.
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FEATUREDGet inspired for your next escape with our weekly roundup from NotVentures.
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Brain Cube - Jason Freeny has sculpted a fully functional Rubik's Cube in the form of a brain...
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