FEATUREDThis week’s roundup from NOTCOT.org includes tiny robot sculptures, muscle music and lava on ice.
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Chameleon clock for IOS shows the time, but blends into your environment by using the camera on the back of your device.
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Nimrat Brar's concept and design for pop-up event Coffee Talk promoting idea sharing over coffee among the graduate community at Pratt Manahattan's 7th floor gallery.
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As part of the festival Archi <20 in Muttersholtz - France, architects Bastien Saint-André and Maxime Lang designed this prototype of circular housing.
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Food design: Watch Gallery of Sweet Creations by pastry sculptor and patissier Ayako Kurokawa from Brooklyn bakery Kuroiwa.
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Dust The teddys R.B.S. IV “open helmet version”, is limited to 10 pieces. Each figure is a unique item painted by the artist. Both toy and box are designed and produced by Dust.
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Los Angeles based artist Geoff McFetridge has an upcoming solo exhibition titled 'Around Us & Between Us' at Ivory & Black Soho in London.
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Tauba Auerbach's RGB Colorspace Atlas, a beautiful book of colour.
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Tamborem - The vintage rowing stool. Design by Andreu Carulla
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This clock is made out of 60% recycled PET. The PET felt allows a single-step production, offers sound dampening properties and provides a non-obtrusive aesthetic. Designed by Sebastian Herkner for LEFF amsterdam.
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Broadbase's retro redesign of Tala bakeware.
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Phone. Wallet. Keys. Sunglasses. Keep all your essentials on this small floating shelf with a magnetic underside.
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Songboard London, multisensory interactive installation, at the entrance to King's Cross Station, allows users to create their own songs by turning and pressing a series of buttons. Great project from students at Central St Martins.
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Interesting range of hanging planters from Mister Moss. One even holds a flowering quince!
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Hope you love your neighbors! Reece Terris created this pedestrian bridge between two neighboring homes!
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Cadena + Asociados Brandin's lovely branding and packaging for Casa del Agua, an artisan bottled water.
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VIDEOHyper-matrix by Jonpasang for the Hyundai Motor Group Exhibition Pavilion is a dynamic vertical wall made of thousands of cubes.
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BIG's Bobby Car Baby Potty with a working horn! On interesting ways to potty train, this one tries to make it fun by turning it into a little car - perhaps the horn shouldn't work unless they go? (Hack a sensor inside?)
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The Food Guide tea towel: Our nutritional food chart gives everyone a little help in the kitchen, as well as being a handy 100% premium cotton tea towel!
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FEATUREDMammoth Rock Climbing Holds! MAMMUT! Inside the store in Linz, there's more of the adorable mammoth logo than online - it exists as stuffed toys, mugs, and even rock climbing holds!
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Storable Coat Rack by Bram Vanderbeke: A coat rack, completely storable in a metal box. The various connecting pieces can be assembled in different ways. So it is possible to adjust the rack to the location where it will be placed.
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FEATUREDBlack Ice Crame Cones of Eisdieler: Verboden Lekker in Linz from #49907 ~ we had to know more, so went back again, and took pics of the crazy menu filled with more unusual pics!
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Boxy is beautiful! Take a look the House in Quinta Patino, Portugal - The living wall is unreal!
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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$.
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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.
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Moncler celebrates their 60th anniversary with an original MonDuck comic
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Fien Muller and Hannes van Severen created this piece of art for two. Its Bauhaus roots are obvious.
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This is an an industrial object, a bee keeping system and small-scale architecture.
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Buchi, a new line of wooden children's toys designed by Fumie Shibata.
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VIDEOMaking of the 'On The Road' issue of Little White Lies. The impressive making of a magazine on a single scroll!
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The Horse Marionette by Michaella Janse van Vuuren, an incredible 3D printed sculpture with movable wings.
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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.
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VIDEOBeautiful timelapse of illustrator Patrick Vale drawing the view of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building.
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Small robotic sculptures made from parts of old electronics by Anthony Oh.
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The Measuring Square Scarf by Sebastian Bergne.
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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
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"Girls and Roses" by Lucas Lasnier, aka PARBO.
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FEATUREDFrom the best luxury hotel suites in Las Vegas to the world’s scariest bridges, this week’s roundup from NotVentures has it all.
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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!]
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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!
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Just another exploration of George Perec's Specious Space of the page (Especes d'espaces). . . Book History Infographics from The Distopians.
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Mexican design firm Golpeavisa designed the last cover of the magazine Clase Premier, using culinary objects!
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VIDEOLava, poured onto ice. Great intersection of Earth Sciences and Sculpture.
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Hole Measuring Tape allows you to draw straight lines and circles with precision, innovative with many facets to it. By Sunghoon Jung.
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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.
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Darrin Crescenzi of Nike redesigns George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones.
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Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama's polka dot infused concept store at Selfridges.
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Pretty infographic of space exploration from JPL.
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A pop up of Kings Cross in Discovering King's Cross: A Pop-Up Book from Cicada.
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VIDEONightfall by Colin Rich a three minute tour of light through the City of Angels. Beautiful!
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Thesis for an Italian pasta brand from student Yanko Djarov.
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'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.
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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.
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The semitransparent PP Playing Cards from Muji are made from the same plastic as their PP storage.
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Playful work from Dan Cretu integrates food with unexpected objects.
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Beautiful blue installations from Tasha Lewis. Love the name of her blog too (Cyanotypology).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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Laurent Chehere's incredible series of flying houses.
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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!
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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.
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Champagne and hot dogs? NOMA Veterans Serve Up Hot Dogs and Champagne at the New London Eatery Bubbledogs.
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The Cardillo of Scampia, a giant street art goldfinch you can ride!
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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.
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VIDEOProfile of Dublin clothing store Indigo & Cloth, their agency, and fashion magazine THREAD.
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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.
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Black Cloud by Carlos Amorales. So many black moths!
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Portuguese office Aires Mateus' (Francisco and Manuel Aires Mateus) elegant contemporary contribution to the Venice Biennale.
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FEATUREDThis week’s delectable roundup from Tasteologie and Liqurious includes Angry birds pig macarons, Dark Chocolate And Hazelnut Cinnamon Rolls and Vermontucky Lemonade.
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VIDEOMaking of letterpressed Seea hangtags by Voila! Press.
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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
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VIDEOCute ad for Bundaberg Red from Leo Burnett Sydney directed by Psyop.
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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.
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Adam Glucksman creates 720 unique laser-cut business cards, each being a still from his short animation Vavohu, a beautiful exploration of cosmogenesis.
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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!"
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BrickBox modular shelving and storage system designed by Barcelona based Kazam Design is now available in the USA and Canada!
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Wild piece of furniture #5012 by The Cloud Collective.
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Grüne Erde Bettsofa Stefano ~ (even better in person!) This sofa turns into a double bed. love the minimal style and wood/fabric feel.
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It's About Time! SANAA's Kazuyo Sejima Becomes the Rolex Protege Program's First Architectural Mentor
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Elegant simple poster design by Maxwell A. Davis.
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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.
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Gramercy Park Townhouse by Manhattan-based architecture firm Fractal Construction.
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Stasia Burrington's new series of 100 little faces (or shrunken heads) in the making!
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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).
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Blue Claw Co - love their crab logo subtly on all of their bags!
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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.
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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)."
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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...
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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.
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Frank Gehry for Facebook's new west campus ~ particularly interesting is the precise configuration of the desks...
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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.
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Grün Eerde Farum Lights ~ a beautiful use of super thin Birch layered for natural, ambient lighting.
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